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

Jin Si Nian held Nan Zhi in his arms, and they snuggled together on the beanbag chair.

Nan Zhi was engrossed in playing a coloring game on her tablet, while Jin Si Nian looked at the simple and childish game and felt inexplicably jealous.

But he didn't dare take the tablet from Nan Zhi's arms, so he could only keep feeding her cherries.

"Zhizhi, could you please stop letting Pei Jingzhi come to our door so casually in the future?"

Nan Zhi looked up at him, puzzled. "Why...why do you always have such a deep prejudice against him?"

Jin Nian stubbornly replied, "I simply don't like him."

"Coincidentally, Jingzhi doesn't like you at all either."

"Who cares if he likes me!" Kings said, his voice slightly agitated. Just as he finished speaking, his cell phone suddenly rang urgently in his pocket.

He answered the phone, his voice flat: "What is it?"

Fu Ting's panicked and anxious voice came through the receiver: "Si Nian, has Xuan Bai come looking for you?"

"He's gone, and I really don't know how to explain it to Brother Mo."

Fu Ting was so anxious he was about to cry. "His situation is special; he has autism. How could he suddenly run away by himself?"

"If something happens, I don't know how I'm going to explain it to Brother Mo."

Nan Zhi tilted her head slightly and heard the commotion over there; her heart jumped into her throat.

She remembered the last time she saw Mo Xuanbai, he was always staring blankly at the same spot, silent, and subconsciously clenching his wrist. Something was definitely wrong.

However, she didn't ask any further questions.

Jin Si Nian reassured the other party in a deep voice: "Don't panic. Have you searched the Mo family's old residence?"

"Xuan Bai didn't come here. Try contacting Shen Yanchen and asking what's going on."

"Oh no, they all said they didn't see it."

"We're doomed!"

After hurriedly finishing his sentence, Fu Ting quickly hung up the phone and went out to search.

Nan Zhi looked up at the man beside her: "Is...is the person lost?"

Jin Nian nodded, stood up, grabbed his coat, and prepared to go out to search: "This isn't the first time he's run away without permission; it's happened before."

"It's so late, are you really going out?" Nan Zhi asked subconsciously.

"Yes, we have to go find them."

"Mo Xuanbai has severe autism. He is easily startled when he is alone. Searching for him by a large number of strangers will only stimulate him."

Nan Zhi also stood up: "I...I'll go with you..."

Before she could finish speaking, Jin Si Nian interrupted her directly: "No, you're pregnant, you can't be running around in the middle of the night."

Nan Zhi instantly threw a tantrum, sat back on the sofa, pursed her lips, and remained silent.

Jin Nian bent down to ask for a farewell kiss, but he didn't get one.

She's throwing a tantrum!

He said with a helpless, tense expression, "Are you deliberately throwing a tantrum, making me worry about you all the time even when I'm out?"

Nan Zhi turned her face away and refused to answer.

Jin Si's expression darkened further as he patiently pleaded, "It's late and the roads are dangerous outside. Why don't you stay home and wait for me to come back?"

Nan Zhi puffed up her cheeks in anger, looking like a pufferfish.

So cute! ˶＞ᗜ＜˶

Jin Si Nian sighed inwardly, reminding herself that she was pregnant and that if she was in a bad mood, the baby in her belly would also be restless.

We have to go along with her!

In the end, he compromised and gave in: "Alright, go change into a thicker coat, I'll take you there."

Nan Zhi immediately grabbed her coat and put it on, ready to leave.

Jin Si Nian helplessly pulled her into his arms, and whispered to himself with a self-deprecating laugh, "I must be crazy to take a pregnant woman out to cause trouble in the middle of the night."

"This is ridiculous!"

Nan Zhi raised her head and earnestly explained, "I... I can also help keep an eye out for people."

"I'd be grateful if you didn't cause me any trouble, let alone offer any help."

Nan Zhi reached out and gently tugged at his collar, annoyed, before he added to the chaos.

It was still raining when Jin Si Nian brought Nan Zhi to the Fu family to meet up with Fu Ting. Fu Ting immediately frowned when he saw Nan Zhi's pregnant belly: "Are you crazy?"

"Your sister-in-law is pregnant, and you still bring her out."

Jin Si Nian turned to look at Nan Zhi, who was curiously observing her surroundings, and sighed helplessly: "I don't want to either, but if I don't bring her along, she'll keep throwing a tantrum at home. What can I do?"

He quickly composed himself and got to the point: "Let's not dwell on that. Where might Xuanbai go?"

"Have you informed Brother Mo?"

Fu Ting shook his head frantically, his eyes filled with fear: "I haven't... I don't dare to say that Brother Mo entrusted Xuan Bai to my care, but I lost him. I really don't know how to bring it up."

"We have to tell him. As his older brother, he knows Xuanbai's thoughts and habits best." Jin Si Nian's tone was calm, then he continued, "When did you realize he was missing?"

Fu Ting completely lost his composure, his voice trembling: "The surveillance footage shows that he climbed over the wall and ran out of the yard around 7 p.m.

"I searched the entire house inside and out, and contacted all my acquaintances, but no one has seen him."

Jin Nian stared at him and pressed, "You didn't lock him up, did you?"

"How could I dare?" Fu Ting waved his hands repeatedly. "Most of the time, Xuanbai is alone and isolated by himself. These past few days, I've even moved my work home to be with him."

"It's good enough that he doesn't lock himself up."

Jin Si Nian gazed at the endless rain outside the window, his expression turning serious: "This is troublesome. The entire S City is so large; finding an autistic patient who deliberately avoids crowds and is easily stressed is extremely difficult."

Nan Zhi's gaze was drawn to a dimly lit room on the first floor, and she subconsciously stepped over there.

The room was spotless, but the snow-white walls were covered with scratches of varying depths, which were particularly glaring.

"Sister-in-law, what brings you in?" Fu Ting and Jin Si Nian quickly followed her in upon seeing this.

Nan Zhi looked at Fu Ting and asked softly, "This...this is where Xuan Bai lives?"

Fu Ting nodded: "That's right."

"Could he...he have a habit of self-harm?"

Fu Ting gave a wry smile and replied helplessly, "Does biting yourself count?"

"Yes, it is." Nan Zhi replied softly.

She had previously accompanied her grandmother on a home visit to the countryside and met a family with an autistic child.

The parents had no interest in taking care of the child and kept him locked in a closed room all day, ignoring his cries and screams.

My grandmother came to visit, but the noise was so loud that it was impossible to communicate, so she reluctantly opened the door.

The moment the door opened, a pungent odor hit you, mixed with excrement and blood, making it hard to breathe.

The room was a complete mess, with the walls covered in scratches, far worse than the room in front of us.

The child's body was covered in wounds, either from hitting himself hard or from biting.

After listening to her recollection, Jin Si Nian gently placed his hand on her shoulder, worried that she might have a miscarriage.

"That's why we're especially worried about Xuanbai. On rainy days, the open and noisy environment outside can trigger his stress, and if he loses control, he could easily start hurting himself again." Fu Ting's expression grew increasingly anxious.