Ye Qingqing opened her account; the account holder's name was hers, and the rest was blank.

She smiled, put the household registration booklet into her bosom, but after thinking for a moment, she put it back.

These past few days, Ye Zhiguo has been handling the household registration transfer, and he often takes out his household registration book. If she takes the book away, Ye Zhiguo will find out very quickly, which will alert her.

We must not alarm Ye Zhiguo yet; we need to come up with a foolproof plan.

I'll ask Lu Mo tomorrow if he has any good ideas.

Ye Qingqing sighed regretfully, then opened Ye Zhiguo's household registration book again, flipped through it casually, and put it back without much interest. There were two marriage certificates, one for Ye Zhiguo and Xu Yali, and the other for him and Shen Yanhong.

In the photo, Xu Yali has cut her hair short to ear length, her expression is blank, and her eyes are calm, while Ye Zhiguo is smiling happily, looking smug.

Ye Qingqing's eyes welled up with tears. Her mother was so young back then, but she was clearly unhappy, as if she had been forced into it.

Moreover, she is no longer a child, and she can tell at a glance that her mother doesn't like Ye Zhiguo at all.

If she didn't like Ye Zhiguo, why did Mom marry him?

And he would often think of Ye Zhiguo?

Ye Qingqing couldn't understand it more and more. Ye Zhiguo was a contradiction, but now she found that her mother, Xu Yali, was even more contradictory.

If only Mom were still here, I could just ask her!

Ye Qingqing sighed, glanced at the marriage certificate again. The marriage date was December 15, 1977. She only glanced at it before closing the marriage certificate and preparing to put it back in the safe.

But suddenly her heart skipped a beat, and she took out the marriage certificate again and glanced at it once more.

December 15, 1977.

Ye Qingqing took out her household registration booklet, which showed her birth date: July 6, 1978.

In other words, her mother and Ye Zhiguo got their marriage certificate, and she was born less than eight months later.

Lin Shufang said she was born before she was eight months old, which means that her mother was already pregnant when she and Ye Zhiguo registered their marriage.

Could it be... that her mother got married because she was pregnant?

In later generations, it was common to marry because of pregnancy, but in the 1970s, it was considered extremely immoral. If people found out, they would be condemned to death. No woman would dare to defy the law.

Considering Xu Yali's blank expression in the marriage certificate photo and her sullenness after marriage, Ye Qingqing had a guess.

Perhaps Ye Zhiguo used some means to get Xu Yali pregnant, and Xu Yali was forced by social pressure to marry Ye Zhiguo, which is why she and Ye Zhiguo treated each other with cold indifference.

The more Ye Qingqing thought about it, the more she realized it made sense, and she felt disgusted, as if she had swallowed a fly.

If this guess is true, then she is the product of coercion, holy crap... what has she become?

Ye Qingqing frowned, put the marriage certificate back, and then took out the document, which Ye Zhiguo still kept in the safe, without knowing what it was.

The document was just a single sheet of paper, very thin, with a bright red stamp on it.

Ye Qingqing first looked at the date at the bottom: October 20, 1979, which was after she was born.

The signature is from the **Section of Pingjiang Municipal People's Government (I won't specify the department).

Ye Qingqing suppressed her suspicion and looked at the beginning of the document, which read 'Document Regarding the Return of Property Confiscated from Gu Nianci Before Her Death'.

Who is Gu Nianci?

Ye Qingqing was even more confused. It was the first time she had ever heard this name. Her heart pounded again, and her throat felt dry. She had a gut feeling—

There must be a big secret in this document.