After the divorce, my ex-husband and son lined up to pursue me.

Chapter 52 Became a Father
Ruan Muhuai watched, his Adam's apple bobbing uncontrollably.

His fist was clenched tightly, and the veins on his knuckles were clearly visible!
He was about to call for a nurse, but his cell phone rang first.

"Mr. Ruan, I have only done a preliminary and rough investigation of Song Nanqi."

It is illegal to investigate other people's information without authorization. Tao He only used his connections to inquire and find out a little bit.

After a short pause, Tao He continued, "I don't know his family situation, but his father works in the Medical Security Bureau and his position should be quite high. It seems that Deputy Director Song is his father. His mother is a leading professor in the field of medicine and has been teaching at University A. He himself, like you, graduated from an Ivy League university."

Ruan Muhuai gave a curt "hmm" and was about to hang up when Tao He said, "Um... Mr. Ruan, Song Nanqi clearly has an extraordinary background. Someone like that shouldn't... do anything too outrageous, right?"

The implication was that he was advising Ruan Muhuai not to target Song Nanqi.

Moreover, Tao He was well aware that President Ruan did not like to make things difficult for others. Even the sudden request for him to investigate someone was a one-time occurrence, something that had never happened before.

Ruan Muhuai looked at Song Nanqi, who was still clinging to Jiang Xia in the ICU and constantly trying to please him. His gloomy gaze was like that of a lurking tiger, almost as if he wanted to torture him to death.

"Heh, that's not necessarily true." Ruan Muhuai chuckled and hung up the phone.

Some guy surnamed Song, who seems to have appeared out of nowhere, is already trying to steal his girlfriend!
Ruan Muhuai thought for a moment, then pulled up Pei Li's WeChat on his phone. Pei Li was also his childhood friend.

Does anyone in our class know someone named Song Nanqi? Could you ask him for me?

After sending the message and not receiving a reply, Ruan Muhuai put away his phone, called a nurse, and went to change into his protective suit.

When he finally entered the intensive care unit, he heard Jiang Xia's light laughter.

She had a beautiful smile. Even though she was still ill and her appearance was somewhat unwell, her slightly upturned lips and the two dimples that appeared were as sweet as green mountains after the rain, or like a watercolor painting.

Beautiful beyond compare.

Ruan Muhuai remembered that for the first two months after their marriage, he and Jiang Xia were always lukewarm towards each other and did not communicate at all, just like those who were forced to be together by their parents in ancient times.

They were distant yet polite to each other.

They're not like friends, much less like a couple.

Until that night, when he returned home late from a business trip, Jiang Xia was watching a movie in the dark room. She was watching a tragic and tear-jerking movie, but she ended up laughing while crying.

That smile somehow captured his heart.

As he froze, he also realized what was happening and had Jiang Xia pinned beneath him...

After that night, Nguyen Nguyen Trieu came into being.

After that, he almost never saw Jiang Xia laugh again, especially not like that, a genuine and involuntary laugh from the bottom of his heart.

But now!

Jiang Xia could actually smile like that in front of someone surnamed Song!

Ruan Muhuai instantly felt a surge of evil fire rush into his heart and lungs, burning him so badly that his heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys all felt unwell. He quickly walked to the bedside and shoved Song Nanqi away, asking, "Jiang Xia, what are you two talking about?"

The voice, muffled by the mask, sounded even colder.

Jiang Xia looked at him blankly, blinked slightly, and then smiled comfortably again, "I won't say... sister, father!"

She immediately hugged Ruan Muhuai, burying her face in his chest like a child, and said happily, "Daddy! It's so good, you're here..."

Caught off guard by becoming a father, Ruan Muhuai was still completely bewildered: "..." "You..." he began, puzzled.

Song Nanqi suppressed the corners of his lips that were turning up, stepped forward and pointed to his brain, explaining, "Her mind is not clear right now, her memory is confused, and her cognition is muddled. She thinks her name is Xinxin."

So you mistook him for your father?!

After Ruan Muhuai figured it out, his expression darkened further.

But he quickly retorted to Song Nanqi, "And what about you? Who did she mistake you for?"

"Anan." Jiang Xia looked up, as if introducing Song Nanqi, and then said to Ruan Muhuai, "This is Anan, Dad, he is... a good friend!"

Ruan Muhuai: "..."

So they mistook him for someone else.

When it was Song Nanqi's turn, he not only called her by her affectionate name, but also treated her like a good friend!

“A good friend?” Ruan Muhuai had no choice but to comply, and even leaned down slightly to gently rub Jiang Xia’s head: “But Dad thinks you don’t need a good friend. Dad is enough. Let your good friend go and don’t come back.”

Song Nanqi remained silent, pursing his lips, and sneered, "Really? So petty? And you're the president of the group."

With his phone already vibrating in his pocket, Song Nanqi leaned down and said to Jiang Xia, "Xinxin is the best girl. I have to go take care of something first, and I'll come see you later, okay? Don't sleep all the time, promise me, okay?"

Jiang Xia nodded obediently and smiled at him, "Okay."

Song Nanqi reached out his hand, wanting to hold her finger, and Jiang Xia also reached out her hand, but Ruan Muhuai grabbed it. He glared coldly at Song Nanqi: "Get out! Don't force me to do anything in front of her!"

Song Nanqi withdrew his hand, straightened up, squinted at Ruan Muhuai, his defiant gaze revealing a storm, but ultimately said nothing more and turned to leave.

With the eyes and ears of the troublesome person finally gone, Ruan Muhuai sat down beside the hospital bed, helping Jiang Xia to recline properly. "Why do you feel like I'm your father? I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Xia had already started pushing him.

“Mom said that I’m all grown up now, I can’t…” Jiang Xia paused, as if many words were stuck in her head, unable to be expressed through her mouth. She frowned in frustration: “I can’t… I just can’t…”

Ruan Muhuai knew she was still sick and couldn't take anything too seriously, so he quickly moved to a chair further away. "Okay, I'll stay away from you, but you still haven't answered me. Why do I feel like I'm your father?"

Moreover, as far as he knew, wasn't Jiang Xia an orphan?
Before getting married, she told the old man that she had no parents and had grown up in an orphanage since she was a child.

How come she still has memories of her parents in her dying childhood memories?

"So it's you." Jiang Xia remained stubborn, holding the hand of the person in front of her: "Dad, sister..."

She paused again, stumped.

Ruan Muhuai's puzzled gaze narrowed: "You have a younger sister?"

Did she lie from the beginning and have a family?

But they've been married for seven years, so why hasn't she contacted her family or had her family look for her? Besides, having family isn't something that can't be said, so why did Jiang Xia lie before?

What else is hidden here?

(End of this chapter)