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

A sudden "beep" sounded as the line went dead, and Nan Zhi decisively hung up the call, not wanting to hear his voice anymore.

The phone screen suddenly went black. Jin Si Nian froze on the spot, pressing his fingertips hard against his throbbing brow. He was filled with urgency—he just wanted to get back to Nan Zhi's side immediately.

His mind was in turmoil, and he dialed Kingsman's number almost without hesitation.

Kingsman was visibly exhausted, with a mountain of work piled up at the office. He glanced at the caller ID—his younger brother—and answered casually, "Feeding?"

"Brother, I want to go back." Jin Si Nian's voice was full of anxiety, his knuckles gripping the phone tightly, his tone almost stubborn, "I have to leave now, I don't want to stay here anymore."

There is no child here; he cannot be seen or touched!

Now Zhizhi is ignoring him. Something terrible must have happened for Zhizhi to ignore him.

It's worse than before, absolutely terrible!

Kingsman frowned slightly upon hearing this: "What happened? Has Old Liu made a lead?"

"No." Jin Si Nian's throat tightened, his mind filled with the image of the silent pregnant woman at home. "Zhi Zhi ignores me, doesn't reply to my messages, and deliberately doesn't answer my calls."

"You go to Qingshui Village by yourself this time; I must go home."

Kingsman listened with a mixture of helplessness and amusement: "Did you upset your sister-in-law again?"

Jin Si Nian's eyes reddened slightly, looking aggrieved and helpless: "I have no idea what I did wrong."

"She was perfectly fine, but suddenly she started ignoring me. She's pregnant, and I was already reluctant to leave her. We've only been apart for less than a day, and she won't talk to me at all."

"She won't say anything; she must have been wronged."

"I want to go back. I already told my brother I didn't want to come anymore, but she's ignoring me now!"

"Si Nian, you can't go back halfway now. Lao Liu's matter involves Dad's car accident back then, and it can't be put on hold." Jin Siwen patiently comforted his brother who had lost his composure. "Just stay here for two more days."

"I'll take some time tonight to go over to Zhizhi's house and ask her for you. Don't act impulsively."

"I'll ask for you, your wife should listen."

Jin Si Nian calmed down a little, but still repeatedly urged, "Then you must persuade her to call me back."

After some tugging, he finally managed to calm his emotionally unstable brother down. Kingsman hung up the phone and wearily raised his hand to his forehead.

There's no one in his family who can give him peace of mind.

The Kings of the past were calm and composed, indifferent to everything. When did they become like this?

It seems that spending every day with Nan Zhi softened his personality, and his heart and eyes were filled with that little girl.

Judging from his tone just now, he was almost red with anxiety. He lost all composure simply because his pregnant wife wouldn't answer the phone.

This is so annoying! Going to work is already so annoying!

In Qingshui Village, Jin Si Nian, accompanied by his doctor, found the old, dilapidated house where Lao Liu lived alone.

Pushing open the door reveals the interior: Old Liu talks to himself all day, sometimes talking to thin air, sometimes laughing for no reason, his behavior is completely insane, and it is obvious at a glance that he is not deliberately pretending.

Jin Si Nian knelt down in front of Old Liu and asked in a soft voice, "Uncle Liu, do you still recognize me?"

Old Liu just shook his head blankly from side to side, his eyes unfocused, unable to recognize the person in front of him at all.

Jin Si Nian sighed softly in his heart. He was still young when his father had the car accident and did not spend much time with Lao Liu. His impression of Lao Liu was already vague, and he could only barely match the face in his memory.

An aunt from the village who was watching nearby took the initiative to speak: "Old Liu suddenly went crazy a few years ago. At first, his memory just got worse and he would forget things in the blink of an eye. But it got worse day by day. The doctor at the village clinic saw him and said he had meningitis."

Upon hearing this, Jin Si Nian turned his head and gave the psychiatrist beside him a knowing look, then turned to his aunt and asked, "Auntie, do you remember how he came to settle in Qingshui Village in the first place?"

Qingshui Village is mostly inhabited by locals who have lived there for generations. Old Liu appeared out of nowhere all alone, without any relatives or friends. He must have attracted attention back then. Everyone in the village knows each other well, so it's impossible that no one noticed him.

After thinking for a long time, the aunt slowly said, "He was from out of town. When he first came, he was dressed smartly and had an air of sophistication that no old man in our village could compare to him."

"He bought an abandoned old house from the village chief and has been living there alone ever since. He is a man of few words and honest and upright character. In the blink of an eye, almost ten years have passed."

ten years.

It's been ten years, hasn't it?

Jin Si Nian silently noted the time down in his mind, then continued to ask, "In these ten years, have any strangers come to the village specifically to look for him?"

The aunt hesitated and shook her head: "I can't say for sure, it's been too long."

"He has lived quietly in the village for so many years that we have almost gotten used to his presence. We almost thought he was originally from our village, so we didn't bother to pay attention to whether outsiders came to look for him."

Jin Si Nian's brows were tightly furrowed, his mind filled with a multitude of doubts.

What exactly happened back then?

Are they all car accidents, or are they man-made disasters?

He turned to his aunt and asked, "In these ten years, has Old Liu never taken the initiative to contact his family?"

"No relatives have come looking for him?"

He remembered that back then, Lao Liu was already married, and his youngest daughter was still young when his father had the accident.

But after frowning and thinking for a long time, the aunt shook her head and said she couldn't remember any relevant information.

A sense of powerlessness instantly enveloped Jin Si Nian.

Having traveled a long way to Qingshui Village, hoping to uncover the truth about the car accident from Lao Liu, they found that he was delirious due to meningitis and couldn't get any useful information out of him.

With no leads found, and Nan Zhi, who was pregnant and staying at home, still sulking and ignoring him, refusing to answer his calls and messages, he truly lost both his wife and his army.

He suppressed his frustration and instructed the accompanying doctor to go inside and give Old Liu a thorough brain examination, while he went out into the courtyard alone for some fresh air.

As soon as I stepped out of the courtyard, several village children who were playing in the mud curiously gathered around me.

Jin Nian reached into his pocket and pulled out a few fruit candies, which she had slipped into his pocket when he accompanied Zhi Zhi to her yoga class.

She took it with her to eat...

He handed out candy to the children and asked softly, "Do you recognize me?"

The little boy leading the group unwrapped the candy and shook his head: "You're not from our village. In the last two years, some outsiders dressed like you, in decent clothes, have been coming here."

"Out-of-towners?" Jin Sinian keenly grasped the key point and leaned down to ask, "Are they all the same group?"

The little boy nodded, a candy in his mouth: "Yes, sometimes I come alone, sometimes two or three people come together."

Jin Si Nian's heart sank. Just now, Aunt Cui insisted that she had never seen any outsiders come to see Lao Liu, and the two statements were completely contradictory.

"The auntie here said she has never seen any outsiders."

"Of course Aunt Cui wouldn't know," the little boy mumbled, chewing on his candy. "Those people always come at night. Once, I got up to pee in the middle of the night and saw Uncle Liu's house with the lights on, and there were several people talking inside."

The walls of houses in the countryside are thin, so they can't block out any sound.

A cold glint suddenly appeared in Jin Si's eyes. Perhaps it wasn't a car accident back then.