Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

A piercing roar pierced through the thick soundproof glass, making the table in the visiting room vibrate. Gu Yanchen, the man who used to have a meticulously styled hair and maintained his domineering CEO demeanor even when in jail, was now like an enraged caged beast, his hands gripping the telephone receiver tightly, his knuckles turning pale from the excessive force.

His bloodshot eyes were wide open, almost splitting open at the corners.

"She loves me! She only loves me! We swore an oath in the lavender fields of Provence! She even dared to break me out of prison, how could a woman like that betray me?!"

Gu Yanchen's voice was hoarse and broken, carrying a sense of despair after his beliefs collapsed.

"Twenty-eight days! I've only been here for twenty-eight days! How could she be two weeks pregnant? Who is it? Which bastard took advantage of this? I'm going to kill him! I'm going to tear him to pieces!"

The two prison guards standing to the side exchanged a glance and shook their heads helplessly. One of them stepped forward, tapped the back of the chair with his baton, and warned impatiently, "0721, control yourself! This is a detention center, not a film set for your melodramatic performances. If you continue to shout like that, your exercise time today is canceled."

"Letting out for fresh air? How could I possibly be in the mood for that?"

Gu Yanchen slumped back, his body sliding down the chair like a skeletonless lump of mud. He covered his face, his shoulders trembling violently, and suppressed sobs escaped from between his fingers: "My heart is dead... The outside world... is too green..."

Meanwhile, the municipal public security bureau is overseeing the hospital.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant, mixed with a unique, oppressive sense of gloom.

Lu Jingyan stood in the corridor outside the ward, holding the newly released ultrasound report in his hand, his expression as cold and unyielding as a block of ice. Behind his glasses, his eyes quickly scanned the data on the report, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.

The size of the gestational sac is consistent with the characteristics of a two-week pregnancy.

This is not merely a piece of gossip about a wealthy family; it is also a serious legal procedural issue. According to relevant provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law, pregnant women are not subject to detention or coercive measures. This means that if Shen Youchu is indeed pregnant, no matter how serious her crime, the police must grant her bail pending trial.

This is incredibly ironic for a serious criminal who has just escaped from prison.

"Captain Lu, we've found out."

Su Xiaoxiao walked over quickly, carrying a tablet computer. Her face was full of confusion and disbelief. "I retrieved all the surveillance footage from the detention center over the past month. It was 360 degrees without blind spots, 24 hours a day. Shen Youchu was in a single cell. Apart from female guards bringing her meals and routine checks, no male had any contact with her."

"I also checked the schedules and movements of all male prison guards and staff."

Su Xiaoxiao paused, then lowered her voice and said, "Captain Lu, there really are no suspects. Unless... unless this child popped out of thin air, or split off from herself."

Lu Jingyan closed the report, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

No male contact?

In his mind, the "crime radar" was operating at low power, scanning the entire monitored area. The system interface was as clean as a blank sheet of paper, without any red alerts indicating corruption within the police force. This meant that this was indeed not a case of police officer misconduct.

"Conceived in the air? Does she think she's the Virgin Mary?"

Lu Jingyan adjusted his glasses and handed the report to Su Xiaoxiao. "Come on, let's go in and meet this 'medical miracle'."

In the ward.

Shen Youchu lay on the pristine white hospital bed, her face so pale it was almost transparent, looking so fragile she seemed ready to shatter at the slightest touch. She gently stroked her flat stomach with one hand, but her face didn't show the fear of a prisoner; instead, it radiated a strange, almost fanatical, maternal glow.

"Shen Youchu".

Lu Jingyan pulled up a chair and sat down imposingly beside her bed. Without any pleasantries or preamble, he said, "The medical report is in, confirming a two-week pregnancy. Now, we need your cooperation in the investigation: who is the father of the child?"

Shen Youchu's body trembled slightly.

She turned her head, and her large eyes, which were always filled with tears, were unusually bright now, as if burning with two flames. She bit her lip and stubbornly shook her head.

"I can't say."

"Can't you say?"

Lu Jingyan leaned forward, his powerful aura instantly enveloping the hospital bed. "Ms. Shen, you may not understand the situation. You are a convicted prison breaker, and the father of this child is a key figure in your case. If he is an outsider who assisted you with your pregnancy, he may be suspected of unauthorized visitation or even more serious crimes."

"No! He's innocent!"

Shen Youchu shouted excitedly, her voice shrill, "This has nothing to do with anyone else! It's a gift from heaven! It's...it's a miracle!"

"A miracle?"

Lu Jingyan looked as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. He pointed outside the door, "Do you know what state Gu Yanchen is in right now? He's in the hardened criminal ward questioning his existence, feeling like he's been cheated on. What you call a miracle is the greatest humiliation to him."

"Yan Chen... he'll understand."

Shen Youchu's eyes flickered for a moment, then were replaced by fervor. "The moment he sees the child after it's born, he'll understand! This is the fruit of our love, a testament to heaven's感动 (moved/touched) by our true feelings!"

"madman."

Lu Jingyan mentally defined this woman.

Trying to reason with someone who's hopelessly in love and suffers from delusions is a complete waste of time. Since you can't get an answer from them, you'll just have to find it yourself.

He stood up, his gaze sharp as lightning, instantly locking onto the bag of personal belongings that Shen Youchu was tightly guarding on the bedside table. It was the bag the nurse had found among her underwear when she was admitted to the hospital, and it hadn't been registered yet.

"If it's a gift from heaven, why are you so concerned about this bag?"

Lu Jingyan stretched out his long arm with lightning speed and grabbed the transparent evidence bag before Shen Youchu could react.

"Give it back! That's my lucky charm!"

Shen Youchu screamed and, ignoring the IV needle still stuck in the back of her hand, lunged forward like a madwoman to snatch it.

Su Xiaoxiao reacted quickly, grabbing her shoulder: "Stay still! Don't move!"

Lu Jingyan ignored Shen Youchu's cries, put on white gloves, and opened the bag.

Aside from some odds and ends, the most eye-catching item inside was a porcelain vase about the size of a palm.

The bottle has an antique design, or rather... incredibly rustic. It's covered with some red, twisted symbols that don't look like proper Taoist cloud patterns; they look more like the grotesque scribbles used to seal away evil spirits in horror movies.

Lu Jingyan held the bottle up to his eyes, squinted, and tried to make out the tiny, almost invisible seal script characters on the bottom of the bottle.

Those few words were written crookedly, exuding a strong air of a charlatan:

The divine medicine of Guanyin who grants children.

"A miracle drug?"

Lu Jingyan shook the bottle, and several dull thuds came from inside. He uncorked the bottle, and a strange smell instantly wafted out. It wasn't the pleasant fragrance of Chinese medicine, but a pungent odor mixed with cheap fragrance, burnt plastic, and some unknown hormone.

He poured out a dark, unappealing pill and rubbed it in his palm.

The touch from my fingertips was rough, greasy, and even crumbly.

"Is this your 'destiny'?"

Lu Jingyan looked at the so-called "miracle drug" in his palm, then at Shen Youchu on the bed, whose face was pale and whose eyes were darting around, and a cold, mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"Miss Shen, you don't actually believe that eating a few of these unregulated products will allow you to sense the universe and reproduce asexually, do you?"

"Or did someone tell you that eating this will allow you to conceive a 'dragon child'?"