Your Highness, your wife doesn't want you anymore!

Jin Nian's eyes were swollen with anger: "[There's no reason why, you'll never see him again anyway.]"

Nan Zhi asked, puzzled: "What do you mean by that?"

Kings replied: [The literal meaning!]

Literally, Nan Zhi didn't think much of it and just assumed that he was restricting her personal freedom and preventing her from going out, which was why she couldn't see him.

Nan Zhi angrily retorted: "You won't let me out; this is imprisonment!"

You bastard!

Jin Nian: [Zhi Zhi's insults are so witty!]

However, I haven't imprisoned you. You can go anywhere in the house, anywhere in the backyard.

【Child, locking you in bed or confining you to a room is true imprisonment.】

He was too good to Zhizhi, actually allowing her to move around the house freely.

He's still too kind!

Nan Zhiqi laughed and said, "Isn't this just a disguised form of house arrest?"

I'm calling the police to arrest you!

Jin Si Nian shamelessly stated the facts: "Child, no one in S City dares to arrest me!"

Besides, I didn't do anything wrong.

It's just that I love childishness too much.

Love is not wrong!

Nan Zhiqi was so angry that she trembled all over, and her stomach felt a little uncomfortable. She forced herself to calm down.

I haven't taken folic acid yet.

You should definitely take folic acid!

On the other side, Jin Si Nian was looking at a long string of chat logs, feeling quite pleased with himself.

Zhizhi talked to him a lot today and replied to every single one of his messages.

Nan Zhi went upstairs to her room and took out a folic acid bottle from her bag.

I gently poured out two pills, tilted my head back, and swallowed them with warm water.

After taking her medicine, she glanced sideways and her gaze fell on the vitamin tablets quietly placed in the corner.

She hadn't eaten that thing in a very, very long time.

Actually, she doesn't eat it every day after buying it; she eats it for three days and then forgets about it for one.

After confirming my pregnancy, I stopped eating altogether; I didn't dare to eat.

They're all covered in dust.

Nan Zhi glanced at the date; it was less than two months away. She just didn't know if she could eat it.

Ask Jingzhi; he's a doctor, so he should know something.

Nan Zhi sent a photo to Pei Jingzhi: [Jingzhi-ge, can I still take this vitamin while I'm pregnant?]

The reply came almost instantly: "Sure, you can take Vitamin D. Azhi can buy a bottle of prenatal vitamins; take some of both."

Nan Zhi nodded: [Understood]

She unscrewed the cap, poured a pill into her palm, and before she even ate it, she felt that the medicine looked familiar.

I didn't think much of it; I assumed all pills were the same long and thin.

I put it in my mouth and took a bite, but the taste was wrong.

It's not that it's wrong, it's just the taste of the vitamins she took before.

But why does it taste the same as the folic acid she's taking now?

Nan Zhi vomited, took out the folic acid bottle from her bag and poured out one tablet, then poured out another tablet from the vitamin pill bottle.

It's exactly the same!

The taste is right too.

What's going on?!

The speculation arose that someone had replaced her usual vitamins with folic acid.

Nan Zhi felt a chill run down his spine. Who else in this family could do such a shameless thing besides him?

Aunt Qing has no reason, and she wouldn't do it.

Mrs. Jin and the rest of the Jin family would not agree to this; they would rather she leave as soon as possible and would not want her to give birth to the child.

Who else but Kingsley?

But Nan Zhi couldn't understand why he would do that.

She clearly said she didn't like children, but now she's changed her medication.

Or perhaps he wanted to get her pregnant within the next few months so she could have a child with him.

Squeeze every last drop of value from her.

Has he gone mad?

Nan Zhi dared not think that he had fallen in love with her or that he was reluctant to let her leave.

This is nonsense from Nan Zhi, and it's impossible.

She didn't think that way.

Nan Zhi glanced at the bottle of vitamins that had been sitting idle for so long, a cold glint flashing in her eyes. She simply raised her hand and threw the bottle directly into the trash can.

Jin Si Nian wanted to keep the child and remove the mother, but since he was so calculating, she might as well remove the father and keep the child.

Of course, there's another possibility: the vitamin D and folic acid she's taking might taste the same.

Jin Si Nian came home unusually late today, arriving just in time for dinner.

The dishes and chopsticks in the restaurant downstairs were all set out, but Nan Zhi's seat was empty, and she hadn't come down yet.

Nan Zhi deliberately hid upstairs and refused to come downstairs to eat.

She wouldn't let herself go hungry, especially since she had two babies in her belly.

I secretly ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon and even sneaked into the kitchen to eat something, so I don't feel hungry at all right now.

She just wanted to use this opportunity to protest out of spite.

Jin Si Nian controlled her too strictly. She had to report when she went out, her whereabouts had to be tracked in real time and videos were sent regularly, and she even had to explain the details of the people she was with.

No detail is too small!

Even though it's just a relationship where she's kept close by him, she's being controlled like a real couple, even more so, which is completely abnormal.

At the dining table, Jin Si Nian looked at the empty seat beside him, his brows furrowed, and asked in a somber tone, "Where is she?"

"Why aren't you coming down for dinner?"

Aunt Qing bowed slightly and replied truthfully, "I've called her upstairs three times already, but the young mistress said she has no appetite and refuses to come down to eat."

Jin Nian instantly saw through her thoughts; she was throwing a tantrum and deliberately going on a hunger strike in protest.

In the past, Nan Zhi was docile and timid, and would never dare to sulk or act out like this, let alone use not eating as an excuse.

He felt both angry and heartbroken, thinking that she didn't cherish her own body at all, but his strong-willed and stubborn nature prevented him from giving in.

He will not budge an inch on this matter.

He wouldn't allow Zhizhi to go out unless she agreed to report to him.

Jin Si Nian picked up his chopsticks and coldly ordered, "Don't leave her any food, not even a single drop."

Aunt Qing shook her head inwardly, hoping that the young master and young mistress would not quarrel again later.

Upstairs in the bedroom, Nan Zhi's ears twitched as she clearly heard Jin Si Nian's steady footsteps approaching step by step.

Her heart tightened, and she immediately reached out to turn off the room light, pulled the blanket over most of her body, closed her eyes, and pretended to be asleep.

A moment later, the door was gently pushed open.

Jin Si Nian slowly walked to the bedside, leaned down and kissed her lips in the dim light coming in from the window.

Nan Zhi was so frightened that she suddenly opened her eyes wide and subconsciously raised her hand to put it against his chest, frantically pushing him away.

After a long while, Jin Si Nian slowly released her, lightly licking the corner of his lips with the tip of his tongue, his voice low and husky with certainty: "I knew Zhi Zhi was pretending to be asleep."

Zhizhi is terrible at pretending to be asleep; she doesn't look like one at all.

His eyelids were twitching; it was obviously an act.

Nan Zhi was seething with anger, so she simply turned her back to him and refused to pay him any attention.

In the dim light, Jin Si Nian gazed at her stubborn back, his tone hardening as he asked, "Why aren't you eating?"

Nan Zhi still ignored him.

The man cursed under his breath, "Damn it!"

Here we go again, resorting to passive-aggressive tactics.

She never liked talking to him to begin with, and if she started giving him the silent treatment, she would talk to him even less.