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

"Where...where did that thing go?" Nan Zhi asked, filled with doubt and grievance.

She clearly remembered that she had been clutching the pregnancy test in her hand, waiting for him to come back so she could see it. When she woke up, her palm was empty; the pregnancy test was gone.

Jin Si Nian frowned and pondered, then gently comforted her, who was lost in thought: "It probably fell somewhere by accident."

He pulled her closer, his coldness dissipating, and asked gently, his voice serious and earnest, his eyes full of remorse: "When is the next prenatal checkup?"

"Zhizhi, I'll go with you."

"From now on, I will accompany you to every prenatal checkup."

Nan Zhi subconsciously shook her head in refusal, stammering, "No, no need, I can... I can manage on my own."

"You still have to go to work and handle company matters."

These words instantly made Jin Si Nian's face darken, his eyes filled with guilt and stubbornness, his tone firm and unyielding: "I can always find the time to accompany my wife and my unborn child to prenatal checkups."

"Do you want me, the biological father, to completely miss out on all of my two babies' growing up stages?"

His throat tightened, filled with regret: "Zhizhi, I've already missed three months. Must I keep missing out forever?"

He invoked his father's identity, speaking earnestly. Nan Zhi instantly lost her confidence to refute him, lowered her eyes dejectedly, and could only nod in relentless agreement: "Okay, alright."

"The next prenatal checkup is the Thursday after that."

Jin Si Nian lowered his gaze to tease her, his voice light and tinged with amusement: "How many 'zhi zhi's'?"

Nan Zhi's face fell slightly, and she sighed in disappointment, correcting him in a low voice: "Two, two."

The black sedan came to a steady stop outside the courtyard of the detached villa, and Jin Si Nian carried the person out of the car.

Pushing open the front door of the villa, the atmosphere in the living room was tense and stagnant, filled with a somber atmosphere.

Grandma Jin sat upright on the main sofa in the center, her face cold and dignified. Jin Jingwen stood quietly beside her. Aunt Qing had been asked to leave, and the atmosphere was so oppressive that it was suffocating.

Nan Zhi froze, instinctively loosening her grip on Jin Si Nian's sleeve, a sudden panic gripping her heart.

Grandma, who was usually gentle and kind, had a cold and stern look in her eyes today, and her aura was intimidating. She was clearly furious.

She timidly looked up at the man beside her. Jin Si Nian turned his head and looked back, giving her a calm and reassuring look, indicating that she should not be afraid.

"Kneel down!" Grandma Jin shouted in a deep, stern voice, leaning on her sandalwood cane.

Nan Zhi's body trembled, her knees went weak involuntarily, and she was about to kneel down to apologize when Jin Si Nian suddenly grabbed her wrist and held her firmly.

He looked down at the flustered and helpless girl, his voice low and firm: "I'm not telling you to kneel down."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Si Nian released her hand, his posture upright but without hesitation. He knelt heavily on both knees in front of Grandma Jin, his cold and noble face losing all its arrogance, leaving only complete obedience.

Nan Zhi was completely stunned and stood there, at a loss for what to do.

Her mind was in turmoil. Her grandmother was usually gentle and doting on her, and had never been so cold and strict. She had never seen her like this before.

Nan Zhi felt uneasy. Had her grandmother also made her kneel down?

The next second, Grandma Jin turned to look at Nan Zhi, her cold and stern expression instantly softening into a gentle and kind smile, her tone tender: "Xiao Zhi, go upstairs to your room and rest first."

Nan Zhi frowned, her gaze fixed on Jin Si Nian kneeling on the ground, her heart filled with worry.

Jin Si Nian looked up at her, a roguish yet reassuring smile playing on his lips. His brows relaxed, indicating that she should go upstairs without worry.

She glanced nervously at Kingsman, who stood silently to the side, secretly hoping that her older brother would speak up to help Kingsman.

After a moment's hesitation, Nan Zhi responded softly, clutching the hem of her clothes, and slowly stepped up the stairs, looking back every few steps with trepidation.

As soon as the girl's slender figure completely disappeared around the corner of the stairs, Grandma Jin's gentle smile vanished, replaced by a chilling aura.

She raised her hand, and swung her cane down heavily, slamming it hard onto Jin Si Nian's back.

A dull pain swept through his body. Jin Si Nian's shoulders trembled slightly, he groaned, his teeth clenched tightly, his eyes lowered, without uttering a word of explanation or pleading.

"When did you learn to be so despicable!" Grandma Jin's chest heaved with anger as she sternly rebuked her, "You're deceiving innocent young girls, and even fooling this old woman like me!"

"When you brought Xiaozhi back to the Jin family, you told me personally that she was your wife. I trusted you, cherished you, and treated her well!"

"In the end, you lived together for three years, but you didn't even have a marriage certificate!"

"You tormented her for three years with just a contract."

The cane slammed down again, striking the man's back with even more force: "You've really grown up, using money to keep girls in check and toying with their true feelings."

"Say it! Do you know you're wrong?!"

Jin Si Nian straightened his back, his palms pressed against the cold floor, and endured the dull pain as he spoke in a deep voice: "Grandson knows his mistake."

His mistakes were not getting a marriage certificate back then, not telling Zhizhi his feelings earlier, and being arrogant and stubborn in the past.

Let him suffer all this time!

"The three-year contract is expiring. According to the original agreement, are you planning to let Xiaozhi leave?" Grandma Jin asked.

"I won't let her go." Jin Si Nian raised his eyes, his gaze firm and unwavering, showing no sign of backing down. "I never intended to let Zhi Zhi go, especially since she's carrying my child now."

"Does she like you?"

Grandma Jin's eyes widened in anger, her words sharp and accusatory: "Did you ask her if she truly wanted to stay by your side and live a good life with you?"

"Are you taking advantage of your child, constantly pressuring and confining him?"

"Our Jin family has been upright and honest for generations, and our descendants have always been honorable and upright!"

"How dare you use such methods to coerce a girl and commit such despicable acts!"

Kings Nian pressed his lips together and fell completely silent.

He didn't know how to agree, and he didn't dare to ask.

He knew that Nan Zhi's compromise today to get the marriage certificate and stay was not out of her own free will to fall in love with him, but only for the sake of the child in her womb and the child's household registration.

Silence is the most straightforward answer.

Grandma Jin looked at his lifeless silence, utterly disappointed, and sneered coldly, "If I were Xiao Zhi, I wouldn't like you either."

A dull ache spread through his back, so numb and swollen that he could barely lift his back. Jin Si Nian looked miserable and sighed helplessly, "Grandma, what you said really hurts."

In just a short time, he had already been hit more than a dozen times with his cane.

His grandmother used to dote on him the most. Even if he caused trouble in the past, she would only scold him gently and would never punish him with a stick. But now she shows no mercy at all.

He didn't say it hurt!

Grandma Jin glared coldly at her grandson kneeling on the ground, then raised her cane again and slammed it heavily against his back.

Ultimately, it's because you're useless.

"You've spent three whole years together, and you still haven't managed to make Xiaozhi develop even the slightest affection for you." Her tone was cold and hard as she made a decision immediately. "Here's what we'll do: for the foreseeable future, I'll take Xiaozhi to Jinlong Bay and look after her myself."

Jin Si Nian's heart tightened suddenly, and he immediately and resolutely refused, his attitude firm: "No, I don't agree."

"This is not up to you to decide," Grandma Jin said firmly. "Xiao Zhi is carrying the Jin family's child and is very delicate. I will take her in and take good care of her."

Jin Si Nian knelt on the floor, his back still ramrod straight, refusing to back down an inch: "If you want to stay, I'll go to Jinlong Bay with Zhi Zhi."

"No, you are not allowed to set foot in Jinlong Bay."

Jin Si Nian gritted his teeth, adopting a stance of stalemate: "If you won't let me come along, then you can forget about taking Zhi Zhi away."