Inside the delivery room, there was no more frantic knocking on the door, and Ye Yunniang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah...hiss...Mother, Mother..."
"I am here."
Cai Damei walked over to Ye Yunniang and took her hand.
"Mother is here, don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
"Mother... if something happens to me, the children... I'll have to leave them to you... Ah—"
Ye Yunniang was in so much pain that sweat poured down her face.
“You should take care of your own child. I’m not going to help you. I’m so old, I can barely take care of Shushu. How could I have the energy to take care of all four of them?” Cai Damei refused outright.
"Mother... ah... answer me, grant my request," Ye Yunniang pleaded, her voice trembling.
She felt her consciousness fading.
"Promise me, Mother, promise me..."
"If you want me to promise you, you have to live a good life," Cai Damei demanded.
Ye Yunniang couldn't hear Cai Damei's words clearly, she just kept saying, "Promise me, promise me... the child..."
"Yunniang, don't sleep! Yunniang, wake up!" Cai Damei shouted.
Hearing something amiss from the sound outside, Jiang Mingzhe rushed into the house despite being stopped.
"Yunniang—"
Ye Yunniang could no longer hear the shouts, so she went to a house that was empty all around.
There was no one inside.
Suddenly a familiar figure appeared at the window.
"mother?"
There was no response.
"Pan'er?"
No, not exactly.
"An'an?"
"mediocre?"
No, it wasn't. So who could it be?
"Jiang Mingzhe, is that you?"
The other party moved.
Ye Yunniang breathed a sigh of relief, "Jiang Mingzhe, you actually scared me."
I opened the window and saw the other person's face.
"Brother Jun!" Ye Yunniang screamed in despair.
"Brother Jun, what are you doing here? Weren't you dead? Where is this place?"
Li Jun didn't speak, but looked at Ye Yunniang with tender eyes.
Then, he reached out and pushed.
Ye Yunniang felt her body sink.
Then a sharp pain shot through my body.
"ah--"
"Wow……"
"She gave birth. She gave birth."
What happened?
Ye Yunniang wanted to ask, but her head started to feel dizzy again.
Ye Yunniang returned to the empty room.
I walked quickly to the window and opened it.
"Brother Jun? Where are you? Come out! Mom and I miss you so much!"
Ye Yunniang called out several times, but Li Jun did not come out.
Ye Yunniang tried to climb out the window, but something blocked her way.
I can't even reach my hand out.
Ye Yunniang could only look around the house.
The room was empty, with no items that could prove where it was.
Ye Yunniang leaned against the window, bored, waiting for Li Jun to reappear.
Tired, Ye Yunniang drifted off to sleep.
In her daze, Ye Yunniang heard someone calling her name.
"Yunniang, Yunniang has abandoned me and the child. Yuanyuan has just been born and cannot be without a mother. Yunniang, Yunniang..."
The voice was very sorrowful.
Ye Yunniang felt a little uncomfortable listening to the voice.
She felt as if she had forgotten something.
What have we forgotten?
"Yunniang".
“Brother Jun.” Ye Yunniang stood up. “Brother Jun, you’ve finally come to see me.”
"Go back." Li Jun was very direct, telling Ye Yunniang to go back.
"Brother Jun, don't you miss me and Mother?" Ye Yunniang didn't want to leave.
Having finally met Li Jun, she wanted to talk to him as much as possible.
"I got pregnant after you left, Brother Jun."
It's a son, and his parents named him 'Pan'er' (meaning 'longing for your return'). Ah..."
Ye Yunniang wanted to say something more, but Li Jun pushed her again.
I used a lot of force this time.
Ye Yunniang lost her balance and fell backward.
Ye Yunniang waved her arms, trying to grab something to stop her body from collapsing backward.
But it was no use; her body continued to fall downwards.
During the process, Ye Yunniang also heard what Li Jun said.
"Yunniang, take good care of your mother and Pan'er, and take good care of yourself too."
The feeling of falling made Ye Yunniang suddenly open her eyes.
With a stubble beard and moist eyes, Jiang Mingzhe said, "Yunniang, you're awake."
Ye Yunniang raised her hand.
Jiang Mingzhe took Ye Yunniang's hand and placed it on his face.
"You've lost weight."
"Eat a little more and you'll be back." Jiang Mingzhe held Ye Yunniang's hand tightly.
"Yunniang, I almost lost you. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you get pregnant and have a child."
Ye Yunniang remembered that she was giving birth.
"child?"
“Yuanyuan, your mother is taking care of him. He’s doing well,” Jiang Mingzhe had just finished speaking.
Cai Damei came in carrying her child.
"Yunniang is awake."
"Mother." Ye Yunniang tried to sit up, but her body was weak and she had no strength.
"Don't move. The imperial physician said you need to rest in bed." Jiang Mingzhe pressed down on Ye Yunniang.
Ye Yunniang remained still, her eyes fixed on the child in Cai Damei's arms.
“Look at your son.”
"Son?" Ye Yunniang looked at Jiang Mingzhe in confusion. How could it be a son?
“You might have been mistaken in your dream,” Jiang Mingzhe explained.
"What if they gave you the wrong baby?"
Cai Damei patted Ye Yunniang on the shoulder, "What nonsense are you talking about? You gave birth at home, with so many of us surrounding you. How could you possibly have been switched at birth? In broad daylight, you must be seeing things."
"This is really a ghost story." Ye Yunniang thought of Li Jun she had seen and wanted to say something. But when she glanced at Jiang Mingzhe's haggard face, she swallowed her words.
"I must have been mistaken in my dream."
Ye Yunniang grasped Jiang Mingzhe's hand. "I'm hungry."
"I'll go to the kitchen and give the instructions." Jiang Mingzhe got up and left.
Cai Damei placed Yuanyuan next to Ye Yunniang.
“Yuanyuan, this is your mother,” Cai Damei said to Yuanyuan.
Yuanyuan looked at Ye Yunniang and grinned.
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