Chapter 1 Life Swap 1

(Alternate universe + early 2000s)

Ji Huaizhi came into this world as an infant.

He woke up in the arms of a woman wearing a maternity hat. She was also surprised that he woke up suddenly, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he was just looking around curiously without crying.

Her expression showed some pain, perhaps because her wounds hadn't healed yet after giving birth.

They carefully carried Ji Huaizhi to the bed next to them, and Ji Huaizhi turned his head and saw a child next to him.

Then you hear the woman muttering to herself, "Why is she sick? She finally gave birth to a boy."

Why is my life so unlucky?

After wiping away her tears, the woman picked up the baby next to Ji Huaizhi.

"What are you doing?" The man's voice startled the woman.

Ji Gangqiang just witnessed his wife swapping his younger brother's child with his own eyes.

He asked angrily, "What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

"Gangqiang, don't be angry. I'm doing this for our family!" Feng Li comforted him. "I had no choice. I don't want to live if I don't do this."

"You can't switch my son with my brother's son for the sake of our family."

Ji Huaizhi listened quietly.

The two kept their voices down during the argument.

Feng Li's expression was obsessive: "I didn't, don't talk nonsense. This is my son. My son was born perfectly healthy. It's Sun Qiaoji's upright son who is sick."

Ji Gangqiang wanted to snatch the child back, but Feng Li stopped him with a single sentence.

"Haven't you always longed for a healthy son? Don't you want one?"

“Gangqiang, I’ve already had three children. The first two were daughters, and I finally had a son, but he has congenital heart disease.”

"Think about the expensive medical bills in the future, can we afford them? Besides, the doctor has said that I can't have any more children."

Ji Gangqiang fell silent and looked at his biological son on the hospital bed.

Seeing that his expression softened, Feng Li continued, "This is your brother's first child. They can have more children in the future."

"Don't forget, Sun Qiao also said before that if she had two children, her brothers and sisters would have someone to take care of them."

"So it's okay, it doesn't matter whether the child survives or not, we have a healthy son."

Ji Gangqiang remained silent.

Just then, Ji Gang rushed in to check on the child and saw his elder brother and sister-in-law arguing.

"Brother, sister-in-law, what's wrong? Did you have a fight?"

Feng Li wiped away her tears: "Your brother thinks it's too expensive for me to give birth in the hospital, and he wants me to be discharged as soon as possible."

Ji Gangzheng's expression was disapproving: "Brother, that's not right of you. Your sister-in-law just gave birth."

Ji Gangqiang looked at his younger brother's face and turned his head away: "That costs money too. Your sister-in-law thinks that she's done for after having a son, and that she can finally raise her voice at me."

"Try to control your stubbornness!" Ji Gang was too lazy to say anything to him.

Anyway, he's just a half-brother.

So there's a significant age difference between them.

"Son! Your mother is finally out! She scared your father to death! Your mother almost lost half her life giving birth to you!" Ji Gang was picking up his son.

He frowned as he spoke; something seemed off.

He was in such a hurry that he didn't pay much attention to his son, so he asked his sister-in-law to watch over him while he waited for his wife in the delivery room.

Fortunately, my sister-in-law and my wife's due dates were only one day apart.

They can also help keep an eye on things; he definitely can't manage alone.

Seeing his expression, Feng Li immediately asked, "Is Sun Qiao alright?"

"She's out of danger, but she still needs to be hospitalized for observation. However, my son won't be able to eat his mother's food anymore." She said, her face showing heartache.

The child is so young.

Feng Li hugged the child tighter: "It's okay, I have milk, I just fed him."

"Why don't we take him back? I'll feed one or two, it's all the same to me. You can stay here and take good care of Sun Qiao. You can't possibly manage to take care of both her and the child."

Ji Gangqiang didn't say anything, but his palms were sweating.

She was afraid that her younger brother had just figured something out.

"No need, my mother-in-law will be here soon. I'll be much more relaxed when she arrives." Ji Gang smiled, though he hadn't expected his sister-in-law to help.

He's held a grudge against me for being so calculating when we were at home.

"I also called my mom, and she's coming to help, so it's fine. As for food, my son will just have to make do with formula."

Ji Huaizhi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the baby would be fed formula.

I was terrified.

They might dare to feed him, but he wouldn't dare to eat it.

"Mom's coming over? Who's going to take care of me during my postpartum period?" Feng Li frowned, unhappy.

Ji Gangzheng's lips turned down: "Sister-in-law, you forgot? I told you at home that my mom would take care of Sun Qiao this time. My mom took care of your two previous children during their postpartum period."

Don't be ungrateful and cause trouble again.

His meaning was quite clear; he was referring to my mother.

Your older brother is just your stepson, your stepmother-in-law. You are my own son. Don't you understand which is more important?

Feng Li gave an awkward smile. She was already feeling guilty because of the child, so she was unhappy but didn't dare to argue.

"You're right, I just forgot."

"I'll have Ji Jiao take care of me during my postpartum period."

Ji Gangzheng didn't say anything, nor did he mention that Ji Jiao was still a child and needed to go to school. He was just afraid they would try to take his mother away. He said goodbye, picked up the child, and left.

Feng Li breathed a sigh of relief.

Ji Gangqiang is also one of them.

The two exchanged a glance, and Feng Li spoke first: "He didn't notice, that's great."

"This is too easy to detect; those investigations will uncover..."

Feng Li was displeased: "Stop talking! Our son is fine. Hurry up and get me discharged so the doctor won't say anything inappropriate later. Remember, the one I have in my hands now is our son!"

Ji Gangqiang pursed his lips and looked at the baby in his wife's arms. He stopped arguing; the baby had already been replaced, and there was no point in saying anything more.

He just wants a son. They can still have children, so they can have another good one later.

The couple were in a hurry to be discharged from the hospital, but when the doctor came to find them, they were already gone.

Ji Huaizhi started to feel sleepy after finishing his milk powder, and he is currently being held by his grandmother.

Grandma Sun frowned as she looked at her grandson: "Why are the baby's lips turning purple? Did the doctor say anything?"

Ji Gang was pouring chicken soup for his wife: "The doctor didn't say anything, so she should be fine."

"As long as everything is alright, that's all that matters. Some babies were born with purple skin, but as long as our baby is healthy and chubby, that's all that matters." Sun's mother was immersed in the joy of the new addition to her family.

Before going to sleep, Ji Huaizhi mentally instructed the system to heal his body.

Then, while sleeping, he absorbed the memories of the original owner's previous life.

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Ji Gangzheng and Sun Qiao fell in love on their own and had a son after their marriage. Sun Qiao suffered greatly during childbirth, spending a long time in the operating room.

It was at this time that the original owner's biological mother, Feng Li, swapped her younger brother's and sister-in-law's children.

The doctor said that the original owner had a weak breath after birth and found that he had abnormal heart sounds. After examination, it was found that he had patent ductus arteriosus.

Ji Gangqiang and Feng Li never expected that their son, whom they had been waiting for so long, would have a heart condition. After seeing that his wife had switched his brother's child, they acquiesced.

Ji Gangzheng and Sun Qiao were unaware of this.

It wasn't until after the child was discharged from the hospital that we noticed his lips were turning purple and his breathing was becoming rapid. We went back to the hospital for another checkup, and that's when we discovered the problem.

The couple felt sorry for their child, that such a tiny baby had to suffer so much in the hospital.

The doctors at the hospital found it strange that the baby with congenital heart disease was the child of another couple, so how could their child also have congenital heart disease?

Thinking about how anxious the couple was to be discharged from the hospital, and then checking and finding that the two pregnant women were in the same ward, I felt something was wrong.

He mentioned to Ji Gangzheng, "Your situation is indeed rare, but the day before your wife gave birth, the hospital also found out that a newborn had congenital heart disease, which also happened to be patent ductus arteriosus. What's more, you were in the same ward."

"It's a pity they were in such a hurry to be discharged that we still don't know how the child is doing."

The doctor's eyes held a deeper meaning, almost as if to say directly that your son had been switched.