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

Nan Zhi responded softly, "It's...it's fine."

She paused, then stated the truth bluntly, "No, but Grandma probably doesn't want to see you."

Ignoring the car window, Lin Wan reached out and grabbed Nan Zhi's wrist, feigning guilt in her eyes: "Xiao Zhi, it's Mom who has wronged you. I will definitely make it up to you in the future."

"I will take care of my grandmother in her old age and see her off when she passes away. Please let me in to see her. Also, there is something else I want to return to you."

Nan Zhi stared at her quietly, her heart filled with doubt.

She couldn't recall leaving any of her belongings in the hands of the two members of the Nan family, except for one long-forgotten old item that suddenly came to mind.

Is it still there...?

After hesitating for a moment, she finally relented and tacitly allowed Lin Wan to follow her into the villa.

Stepping into the living room, Lin Wan saw Liu Xinlan sitting on the sofa and hesitantly called out in a low voice, "Mom..."

Liu Xinlan saw her pause for a second before letting out a cold sneer, her eyes surging with anger and resentment that had been building up for over a decade: "Don't call me Mom, I can't take that responsibility."

"Back then, you abandoned your elderly mother and your own daughter, devoting all your attention to Nan Jianhai. All these years, have you ever remembered that you still have me, your mother who gave birth to you, and your infant child crying for milk?"

"Your father passed away early, and I raised you all by myself with great difficulty. In the end, I still have to raise your newborn child."

"I must have committed murder and arson in my past life, and in this life I gave birth to a daughter like you who comes to collect her debts!"

"Do you still remember the harsh words you uttered when you insisted on leaving with Nan Jianhai?"

Lin Wan lowered her head slightly: "I...I remember."

"Then say it again yourself." Liu Xinlan's gaze was fixed on her.

Lin Wan froze.

Back then, her mother strongly opposed her marrying into Nanjianhai, wanting her to stay in the county town and live a stable life. She had a big argument with her mother about this and said countless hurtful things to the old woman.

Liu Xinlan looked at her, the last glimmer of hope in her heart completely extinguished: "Back then, I stopped you. You said Nan Jianhai was different from others, that he truly cared for you, and that you only felt a sense of belonging by his side."

"You even said that no man had ever treated you like that before. You stated unequivocally that you would never regret it."

"You stormed off with him because I refused!"

"Jianhai did treat me well before..." Lin Wan subconsciously defended herself.

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xinlan interrupted him sharply: "If you truly love me, you should love everything about me and cherish the daughter you gave birth to with all your might."

"But the couple disliked that Zhizhi had a natural stutter and were afraid of disgracing the Nan family, so they left the child to me to raise and instead adopted a daughter."

"That Nan Zhizhi, she's still studying abroad, right?"

Lin Wan's face turned deathly pale, and she hurriedly retorted, "I didn't abandon Zhizhi. I've been sending you living expenses all these years."

You dare to bring up such a small amount of money?

Unable to bear it any longer, Liu Xinlan raised her hand and slapped Lin Wan hard across the face.

The crisp sound echoed in the living room. She spoke coldly, "Zhizhi is bound by filial piety and cannot lay a hand on you, but I have no such scruples."

"Do the math yourself. Those two sums, totaling less than 20,000 yuan, are they enough for Zhizhi's food, clothing, and medical care over the years?"

"I can tolerate your unwillingness to raise Zhizhi yourself, but you abandon your own daughter and then diligently adopt other children!"

"I cannot accept this."

Lin Wan covered her burning, swollen cheek, her ears ringing, and protested tearfully, "Mom, what does this have to do with Zhizhi?"

Nan Zhizhi was the child she had suggested adopting years ago. She lived abroad most of the year and only returned to China during holidays. Nan Zhi had never met her.

Nan Zhi stood upstairs listening, only now realizing that she had an adopted sister she had never met, and an indescribable sadness welled up in her heart.

Seeing this, Jin Si Nian quickly reached out from behind and gently pulled her into his arms. His broad hands gently pinched her cold little face, and his voice was low and full of heartache: "I knew I shouldn't have let her in. Hearing these upsetting things will only make you feel bad again."

If she's unhappy, the baby in her belly will be unhappy too.

Therefore, Zhizhi cannot suffer any grievances throughout the entire pregnancy!

Hearing Jin Nian's comforting words, Nan Zhi raised her wet eyes to look at him, stammering softly in rebuttal, "N-how could I...be so easily unhappy?"

Kingsman thought too highly of her.

After hearing this, she felt not only saddened but also somewhat amused...

Jin Si Nian assumed she was just putting on a brave face, so he gently kissed her slightly cool cheek, not wanting the jarring argument downstairs to disturb her and the two babies in her womb any longer: "Let's not listen to these upsetting things here. If we keep listening, the babies in our bellies will start to get upset."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took Nan Zhi's hand and half-embraced her as they walked towards the bedroom.

"Wait...wait a minute."

Nan Zhi was still thinking about the things Lin Wan had said she would return to her, so she followed him out of the living room reluctantly, her steps faltering.

Downstairs, only Liu Xinlan and Lin Wan remained. Liu Xinlan glanced at the various gift boxes on the ground, her eyes filled with indifference: "You might as well stick to your word and continue to be mean to Zhizhi."

"No matter how good you are to her now, she won't remember a single good thing you did for her."

Lin Wan bit her lower lip tightly, still refusing to admit her mistake, and instead argued: "I do owe Zhizhi, but now that she has married so well, I deserve credit for it!"

"If I hadn't acted as a go-between, how could she have married the Second Young Master Jin?"

"You really know how to pat yourself on the back," Liu Xinlan spat at her with disgust, her tone full of sarcasm. "What matchmaking? In my eyes, you're just using your own daughter to climb the social ladder. What's the difference between that and selling your daughter?"

"Having followed Nan Jianhai for so many years, I haven't learned anything else, but I've certainly mastered the art of being shameless."

"Si Nian is willing to marry Zhi Zhi purely because he values ​​her gentle and kind nature, and it has absolutely nothing to do with you."

"You longed to be the Jin family's mother-in-law, but Si Nian never acknowledged you as his mother-in-law. He and Zhi Zhi were of one mind, and he protected Zhi Zhi in everything."

After all, Jin Nian was distant and cold even towards his own biological mother, so he would never give Lin Wan any face.

A barrage of accusations rained down on her, and Lin Wan, knowing she was in the wrong and unable to refute them, could only change the subject: "One day you'll understand my difficulties, little idiot?"

"I want to see her."

Liu Xinlan coldly curled her lips, her eyes filled with disappointment: "Understand you? I could never understand how you could bear to abandon your own daughter and live alone."

"No matter how difficult things were back then, I never thought of abandoning you. You didn't follow me in any way."

Lin Wan was too lazy to argue with Liu Xinlan anymore, so she shouted loudly upstairs, "Xiao Zhi, Mom has something very important to give you, come down quickly."