After five years of a cold marriage, I can no longer hide the child I secretly gave birth to.

Seeing Xie Jia leave, Xu Meng jumped off the carousel.

Seeing how beautiful the night view was, she took off her phone and watch, wanting to take a nice picture of her mother.

I can open the camera, but I can never find the right angle.

She squinted, trying to find the right angle, as she backed away.

Just then, a screeching sound of brakes rang out, and by the time she reacted, the car had already come to a stop, barely missing her leg.

Her breathing was disordered.

Inside the car, Zhou Yanci was jolted forward by the sudden braking. He raised his handsome eyebrows and heard Uncle Liu's apologetic voice.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou, I didn't expect that little girl to suddenly rush out; it looks like she bumped into someone..."

Fang Qing was sent abroad to handle business matters, so Uncle Liu is driving him today.

Zhou Yanci's breathing became heavy. He opened the car door, got out, and walked forward.

Under the incandescent light, sat a little girl with a deathly pale face and two tear streaks on her cheeks.

That girl isn't...

"Are you alright?"

Zhou Yanci immediately went over, picked her up, and checked her over.

When Xu Meng saw it was him, she shook her head slightly.

She was just frightened; she wasn't injured.

Where is your father?

Letting the little girl out alone in the middle of the night, Zhou Yanci subconsciously looked around for Shen Jun's figure.

He has irresponsibly left the little girl alone in an unfamiliar place twice.

Xu Meng shook her head.

Knowing that she couldn't speak, Zhou Yanci didn't press her further, and then noticed that her body was trembling.

I don't know if it was the cold or the fear.

He then carried the little girl to the car.

After settling into the back seat, he instructed Uncle Liu to turn on the heater.

He opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of water, warmed it in his hands for a moment, opened it, and handed it to Xu Meng.

Xu Meng noticed his little detail, and her heart instantly felt warm.

She took the water and drank a sip.

Uncle Liu looked at him hesitantly, "Mr. Zhou, should we take the child for a medical check-up? Or should we contact her guardian first?"

Zhou Yanci looked out the window.

His eyes were dark and deep.

"I contacted his father."

Xu Jiaojiao had Shen Jun's contact information. He opened his phone and was about to call her when Xu Meng suddenly handed him a notebook.

There were a few words written on the notebook.

I don't have a father.

What does this mean?

Isn't Shen Jun her father?

Zhou Yanci looked out the window again, but no one came looking for Xu Meng.

He had no choice but to instruct Uncle Liu, "Drive back to the manor first and have the family doctor examine her."

"Yes."

Without hesitation, Uncle Liu stepped on the gas and drove onto the asphalt road.

The car was quiet for a moment. Zhou Yanci turned to look at her. "Uncle isn't a bad person. I'll take you home to see a doctor first, and then I'll contact your parents, okay?"

Xu Meng wanted to go with him to see if the woman who had ridden in the car with him that day was really his wife, so she nodded and went with him without any hesitation.

I also sent Xie Jia a text message.

...

When Xu Daikui rushed to the carousel where Xu Meng had gotten lost, Xie Jia had already searched for a long time.

She was sweating profusely and apologized to Xu Daikui with her head down, "I'm sorry, Daikui, I lost your treasure. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have been so greedy and had to buy that stupid milk tea. You can hit me or scold me..."

Xu Daikui was extremely worried and completely lost, only muttering, "How could it be lost?"

Her Mengmeng has always been clever and quick-witted, so it's impossible for her to get lost unless she encounters some unavoidable danger and is captured and unable to escape.

"Jiajia, let's go to the police station to report this." She pulled her along.

Xie Jia nodded hurriedly, "That's the only way. But the police won't come out if someone has been missing for less than a day. We can only check the surveillance footage here."

Xu Daikui had no one to turn to; the only person she could think of now was the police.

The two took a taxi and rushed to the police station. Just as they were about to enter, Xie Jia's phone rang. It was a text message from Xu Meng.

[Aunt Jiajia, I'm at a friend's house. I'll stay with him for a while, then I'll send you my location. You and Mom can come pick me up then.]

friend?

Xu Daikui snatched the phone and saw that Xu Meng was still using the phone with the male character next to her.

What male friends does she have?

It couldn't have been Shen Jun who answered; if he had, he would have contacted her.

"Mengmeng, whose home is this?"

She typed a reply urgently, but after a few minutes there was no further response.

Seeing that Mengmeng's face had turned pale with anxiety, Xie Jia quickly patted her shoulder to comfort her, "Mengmeng has always been very smart, maybe she really is her friend. Don't be too anxious, let's wait a few minutes, if she doesn't reply, we'll think of something else."

Xu Daikui was still not entirely at ease.

Especially since Xu Meng can't speak, if she were to be abducted by human traffickers, this text message could very well be a smokescreen used by the traffickers to buy time before they actually kidnap her.

She pulled Xie Jia along, "Let's go to the police station to check the surveillance footage."

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Daikui was completely dumbfounded when she saw that Xu Meng got into that familiar Maybach.

It was Zhou Yanci who took Mengmeng away.

...

Zhou Family Manor.

Zhou Yingying was playing with Ni Bao when she suddenly saw her second brother, who hadn't been back for several days, enter the room carrying a beautifully sculpted baby.

She gasped in surprise, quickly put down the dog, and ran over. "Second Brother, whose child is this?"

After asking the questions, I noticed that the child's eyebrows and eyes looked somewhat like Xu Daikui's.

She paused for a moment, then realized that Xu Daikui looked somewhat similar to Xu Jiaojiao.

They were born to the same father, after all.

She quickly changed her tune, her tone indignant, "This is the child you and Sister Jiao Jiao had abroad?"

Zhou Yanci glanced at her coldly.

Realizing she had misspoke, she immediately shut her mouth and carefully examined the little girl again. "But she just looks so much like..."

"She's shy and doesn't like being watched. Go upstairs and sleep with her."

Zhou Yanci was usually not talkative, and his expression was never pleasant whenever he saw her. Although Zhou Yingying's heart was already burning with gossip and she didn't want to go to sleep, she didn't dare to openly refute him.

Reluctantly, she walked over and picked up her dog, Ni Bao. Zhou Yanci then came over, patted the spot where the dog had sat, and then placed Xu Meng on the sofa.

While he wasn't looking, she quickly and secretly took a picture of Xu Meng.

Once back in her room upstairs, she locked the door and immediately sent the photos she had just taken to the Zhou family's group chat of relatives and friends.

She knew that her second brother never read group messages and always kept them muted.

So she can chat with him about crickets all over the group without him noticing.

After posting that photo, not wanting to miss out on making things worse, she immediately typed a line of text below it.

[Quiz with prize: Who does the child the second brother brought back resemble?]

The aunts and uncles in the group immediately started guessing.

Wen Ya-yun and Zhou Ni-ting, in particular, were startled awake when they saw the photos.

Their son, the iceberg, has become successful.

Have they already secretly conceived a granddaughter for them?

That's impossible! Who gave birth to it?

Within moments, hundreds of messages flooded the group chat, causing quite a stir.