Huo Zhendong entered the ward, and Bai Xinmo frowned slightly and asked, "Was it Xiao Yan who was talking to you just now?"

Huo Zhendong nodded.

Bai Xinmo frowned, glanced at her slightly disheveled husband, and suddenly felt a pang of heartache.

Perhaps I'm just being paranoid.

“Zhendong, you’ve worked so hard these past few days…” Bai Xinmo held his hand: “I’ll talk to my mom about having her go to the Huo family to take care of you and Jiaojiao, what do you think?”

Huo Zhendong refused, but gently tucked the blanket around her: "You just need to rest and recover in the hospital. You don't need to worry about these things."

He held Bai Xinmo's hand and said, "I only realized how important you are to me after you left home."

"Xinmo, you must get healthy, for me and Jiaojiao."

Bai Xinmo was deeply moved.

However, shortly after returning home, Huo Zhendong called Li Xinyi and asked her to take care of his daughter.

After Li Xinyi came to the Huo family, Huo Zhendong no longer had to bother Huo Jiaojiao with getting dressed and combing her hair every morning.

Li Xinyi herself is very shrewd. She did not enter Huo Zhendong's life immediately. Instead, she subtly and gradually infiltrated his life through various details.

Ironing his suits and tidying his clothes instead of Bai Xinmo were minor tasks; later, she helped him organize things at the Huo residence.

Bai Xinmo is in poor health and there are some things she can't do, but Li Xinyi can.

For example, picking up Fok Chun-tung after he's drunk and taking him home, then personally cooking him a strong hangover soup, or going to attend Fok Chiao-chiao's school sports meet...

However, after only half a month, under Li Xinyi's management, Huo Zhendong and Huo Jiaojiao were living a more normal life than Bai Xinmo had before at home.

At least the father and daughter no longer have to worry about their wife and mother's unexplained illnesses.

Meanwhile, Huo Zhendong and Li Xinyi's relationship and status have gradually become closer.

...

Bai Yan looked at the message sent by the private investigator and felt that the time was about right.

So the next day, he brought gifts to visit Bai Xinmo.

It happened to be the weekend, and Huo Jiaojiao was also in Bai Xinmo's hospital room, watching cartoons on her tablet.

Bai Xinmo looked at her daughter with a loving smile: In this world, besides her husband, her daughter was her greatest love.

Looking at this heartwarming scene, Bai Yan placed the gift on the table and said something that wasn't so heartwarming.

"Sister, didn't you say before that after you passed away, I would marry your husband and become Jiaojiao's stepmother?" Bai Yan asked.

Bai Xinmo frowned, wondering why Bai Yan suddenly brought this up.

"Didn't you say you didn't want to?"

"Besides, don't you have Zhou Shenglin?"

Bai Yan lowered her head and peeled an apple, then started making up a story: "The Zhou family wants to have children to carry on the family line. I am a sterile person. If I want to have children, I might as well raise Jiao Jiao for you."

Huo Jiaojiao quietly raised her head. Although she was only in first grade, she understood everything that a child her age should know.

When she brought it up herself, Bai Xinmo became somewhat skeptical: "You really think so?"

"Sister, look at you. Didn't you force me before? Now that I'm willing, you still doubt me?" Bai Yan said with amusement.

Bai Xinmo glanced at her daughter and hesitated before asking, "You really don't want to have children?"

"I really don't want to have a child with my brother-in-law," Bai Yan said.

Bai Xinmo thought for a moment: "If you want to be open-minded, of course I'm willing, but you have to promise me one thing..." Even if Bai Yan says she doesn't want to have children, it won't work, unless she can't have children.

But before she could say it, Huo Jiaojiao, who was standing to the side, became scared.

"I don't want my aunt to be my stepmother!" Huo Jiaojiao shouted.

Bai Xinmo was both soft-hearted and troubled: "Jiaojiao..."

"I want Sister Li to be my stepmother! I want Sister Li!"

Huo Jiaojiao shouted, "Sister Li is good to me, I like Sister Li. Mom, I want Sister Li to be my stepmother, Dad and I both like her!"

"I don't want my aunt to be my stepmother! My aunt scolds my dad! My aunt is bad!"

Bai Yan looked coldly at Huo Jiaojiao in front of her.

bad?

The original owner of this body in her previous life was not bad to Huo Jiaojiao at all.

I've raised her with great care for five years, spoiling her like a little princess.

But after Li Xinyi arrived at the Huo family, she quickly won her over with a few words. Together with Li Xinyi, she framed the original owner for abusing her and fabricated a series of evidence, causing the original owner to leave with nothing.

Li Xinyi then told the original owner the truth about everything right after her divorce, leaving the original owner utterly devastated and ultimately leading to her death in a car accident.

Huo Jiaojiao has never done anything wrong in her life, so she wouldn't directly harm a child... As for Li Xinyi, she will give her a choice.

Bai Yan gently curled the corners of her lips, as if she were playing an interesting game.

"What Sister Li? Who is Sister Li?" Bai Xinmo questioned her daughter.

Huo Jiaojiao said, "Sister Li is truly amazing! She's so kind to me!"

"She braids my hair every day, and she also makes pretty crowns for me to wear!"

"Who is Sister Li?!" Bai Xinmo shouted.

Finding a stepmother for one's daughter after one's own death is one thing, but for one's daughter to look forward to a stepmother in front of her father is quite another.

Huo Jiaojiao was frightened by her ferocious appearance and didn't say anything for a moment.

"I'm asking you, who is Sister Li?" Bai Xinmo pressed her shoulder, forcing her to answer.

With a cry of "Wah!", Huo Jiaojiao cried, "Mommy is so scary! I want Sister Li! I want Sister Li!"

Driven by anger, Bai Xinmo slapped her daughter across the face!

Huo Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears, shouting even louder for Sister Li.

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