Xu Manzhi understood what Ye Qiqi meant.

She wanted to say: I can't live anymore. Since it's already like this, let me become you, let me die on the land where you live, so that I can live cleanly from now on.

Earlier, when Ye Qiqi approached her, she asked her a question.

“Sister, haven’t you thought about changing your identity? I grew up in the countryside, and no one in the capital has ever seen me. If you go to the Ye family as me, I guarantee no one will recognize you.”

Xu Manzhi, however, did not take it seriously at the time.

She didn't take it seriously at all.

In her view, that was a joke and impossible to achieve.

But at this moment, Ye Qiqi reached out and grabbed her wet hand. Pain overwhelmed her; she was dying: "I want to stay in Lin Garden, to watch over you, you and your brother-in-law... the child..."

After saying that, she breathed her last.

Xu Manzhi wailed in agony.

She never imagined that one day, a complete stranger would wholeheartedly protect her like this.

That shouldn't be done.

That shouldn't be done.

"Woof—"

"Meow--"

Big Yellow and Little Black also fell down, their bellies slashed open, all because Xu Manzhi made them stay by Ye Qiqi's side at all times.

He coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Xu Manzhi had a slight stomachache.

In an instant, maternal instincts were triggered.

She disregarded everything else, hiding all the corpses in her spatial storage and retrieving the poison. Amidst the raging flames, she struggled to hold Ye Qiqi as they entered the inferno.

Even if you are extremely unwilling, the change is unexpected.

Despite the excruciating pain in her heart, she finally hid the badly burned Qiqi in the closet... and hung the glass beads around her neck on her chest.

Big Yellow and Little Black stayed behind as well.

There was also the photo frame that Ye Qiqi used to reunite with her, which she buried underground.

When she escaped the fire, she took the face-changing pill that Hei Hei had given her, and only then did she leave with a new face.

Just then, the Ye family arrived.

She was picked up.

I can never repay the kindness of the Ye family.

During those dark years when she was unconscious, even though she was heartbroken and devastated, she couldn't speak, couldn't tell them that Xiaoqi was gone, that Xiaoqi had been beaten to death...

She got to know Zhou Meng because Ye Qiqi told her little by little in order to get closer to her, and even showed her photos.

The thought of the tragedy between the two of them made her even more grief-stricken.

She recalled every detail of that night countless times, and regretted it countless times. If she had known it would turn out this way, she should have recognized Xiao Qi earlier and let her go back to reunite with her lover, so that the tragedy that followed could not have happened.

...

As Yan Lin listened, tears streamed down his face.

His heart was breaking, and he was in unbearable pain: "It's my fault, it's my incompetence, it's my worthlessness. If I had discovered your health problems earlier, if I had found out you were pregnant earlier, you wouldn't have had to face this alone."

After saying that, he frantically pounded his head.

Xu Manzhi hugged his arm.

She shook her head: "No, if you had found out earlier, the baby might not have survived."

Not to mention anything else, given Yan Lin's anxiety for her, he would definitely take her to the hospital for a check-up and let her rest and recuperate with Dai Chunying...

Then there's absolutely nothing we can do.

She could have easily escaped on her own... Xiao Qi was an exception...

Yan Lin looked grief-stricken.

Regardless, he was not involved, failed to protect his wife and children, and caused them immense suffering, a loss he could not make up for in his later years.

Xu Manzhi threw herself into his arms: "Don't think nonsense. Just take good care of the child from now on. I don't want to do anything. I just want to be a hands-off parent."

"……good."

Yan Lin knew his wife was trying to comfort him, but the facts were undeniable, and he could only do everything he could to make amends.

"What, aren't you curious about my strange behavior and the Thunder Cloud Pearl? You haven't asked me a single question," Xu Manzhi suddenly asked.

Yan Lin shook his head.

He tapped her nose and said softly, "So what? My wife is outstanding in every way. Of course, she has her own ordinary qualities and abilities. I believe in you, love you, and respect you. Those things are not important; they are just minor things that add to the beauty."

Something is better than nothing.

Husband and wife are one, what is there to doubt or mind?

Xu Manzhi was utterly shocked.

She never expected this man to be so magnanimous.

"Then let me ask you, when the higher-ups investigated the Xu family's spies, did they catch such a person?" she asked.

Yan Lin shook his head.

He said, "The higher-ups have already suspected it's a mistake, and the mission has been stalled. Maybe there's no such person at all."

No, there are.

Xu Manzhi looked certain.

"What, you mean—" Yan Lin's eyes widened.

This is the real game-changer today!

Xu Manzhi affirmed, "The mysterious person who helped Jiang Pengyue back then has not shown his face yet. He is a real person and the mastermind behind the operation to kill my sentry."

"How did you know?" Yan Lin asked.

Xu Manzhi teleported out an iron plaque from her spatial storage. It only had a begonia flower pattern on it and nothing else.

Yan Lin took it and examined it over and over, but didn't find anything wrong with it.

“This should be a key. After I woke up, I dug out the body of the sentry from the space. After a careful examination, I found it in the shoe under his feet. There was also a piece of fake leather on the sole of his foot. After peeling it off, there was a string of numbers. As long as we decipher it, we can find out this mysterious person,” Xu Manzhi said.

Heihei was going to untie her, but until then, she could temporarily enter the space.

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