Chapter 400

While Li Zhuiyuan was admiring this painting, Li Lan shifted her gaze toward the outside of the floor-to-ceiling window.

She had no intention of capturing anything on the young man's face; she knew clearly that her son would not make such a low-level mistake.

However, upon noticing that Li Zhuiyuan had the movement of getting up to leave his seat, Li Lan spoke up:

"They need me to go home once and see them."

Li Zhuiyuan did not stop his movement, continuing to stand up, while speaking at the same time:

"I will arrange for someone to pick you up."

Li Lan had already lost the "necessity" of returning home; the "they need" she spoke of referred to Li Weihan and Cui Guiying.

Perhaps, for Li Lan, this was a gift thrown in as a bonus after sending out two apology gifts.

If Li Zhuiyuan needed it, she could go back and make the young man's grandparents happy.

Of course, she could also go herself.

But the consequence of her entering Siyuan Village without authorization would be being casually beaten to death by someone unknown.

She was not afraid of death; at the very least, for this current body, whether it died or not actually did not matter.

"Arrange for someone to pick me up, you are not going with me."

"Are you saying you want me to accompany you in acting?"

"If it were like that, your grandparents would be even happier."

"Although I do not live at my grandparents' house, I often bring gifts to visit them and accompany them to chat for a while. I consider myself to have already fulfilled my obligations."

"If it were before this incident, I might have cooperated with you in acting a scene to make them happier and more satisfied, but after this incident, I am unwilling to do so again."

"Why? Acting is the simplest thing for you."

"Because this would make me unhappy."

"Unhappy?"

"I need to take care of my own emotions."

"Your... emotions?"

Li Lan seemed to have heard a huge joke, and she indeed laughed, but no sound came out. She wiped the perfectly moist corner of her eye with her fingertip:

"Should I say congratulations to you, son?"

"Li Lan, I do not care whether you ultimately succeed or fail; these two results are meaningless to me."

The reason you are still able to sit here now is that I need you to confront it, thereby giving me more time.

You should understand that any choice made under non-absolute rationality will instinctively make us feel pain.

But as I suffered through the pain, I discovered that I had already become a bit accustomed to it.

Sometimes, I even miss this feeling; it can remind me that I am still a human.

Especially in front of you, I am more prone to having this impulse.

You say you are my mother, you feel you can utilize me and step on me; but I am also your son. When a child faces their own mother, it is easier to be unscrupulous.

Therefore,

If you appear in front of me in this way again next time, then I..."

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head to look at Qin Shu, who was standing at the door with his five senses closed.

"I will put down all rationality, go out to sea to find you, not hoping to solve that great turtle, but only to destroy you."

Li Lan picked up her coffee and took a sip.

She could hear that this was not a threat; this was a statement.

People like them dislike such madmen the most, because madmen do not have logic in their actions and cannot be deduced.

Now, her son was a madman.

He really would do this, abandon everything, and perish together with her.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the telephone in the room, picked up the receiver, and dialed a number.

Soon, Zhao Yi's voice came from the other end:

"The one surnamed Li?"

A strange number from the Nantong area code calling him, it was easy to guess who it was.

"Come to the Nantong Hotel, Room 909, and help me pick up someone to bring back to the village."

"The one surnamed Li, what do you take me for, your driver or your butler?"

"External team."

The other end of the phone suddenly fell silent. After a while, there were a few coughs.

"Fine, anyway, your people are all still lying down, so I will help you once. However, who the hell is it that is worth you, the one surnamed Li, personally assigning me to receive?"

"My mother."

Zhao Yi: "..."

This time, the silence was even longer.

Zhao Yi, who had come back to his senses, put the receiver to his mouth and began to roar in a crazy rage.

After cursing fiercely, he discovered that the one surnamed Li on the other end had long since hung up the phone.

In the hotel room.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to Qin Shu's side and patted the back of Qin Shu's hand. Qin Shu restored his five senses and turned to follow the young man as he left.

Walking out of the hotel, they sat on Qin Shu's motorcycle.

"Xiao Yuan, going home?"

"Uncle, go to the department store."

"Mm."

After arriving at the department store, Li Zhuiyuan selected some maternal and infant supplies.

Actually, these things were basically useless at the bottom of the river. The Bai family ladies of past generations surely had their own unique ways of giving birth, but just like many local specialties that no one would like to eat once they left the local area, they still had to be sent; it was not appropriate to go empty-handed.

After buying the things and coming out, Li Zhuiyuan had Qin Shu drive him to the riverside.

The young man knew that Qin Shu had a great regret regarding the Bai family town below.

Therefore, this time, Li Zhuiyuan reminded him in advance:

"Uncle, she is pregnant."

Qin Shu revealed a bitter smile and nodded.

Li Zhuiyuan pulled out a piece of yellow paper and flicked it; a faint flame ignited, and the young man threw it into the river.

His newly recovered body was still weak, and even this simplest operation was completed with some difficulty.

Soon, a water curtain appeared on the river surface. The water curtain gradually receded, revealing the figure of that Bai family lady.

She was in red, her lower abdomen bulging. Compared to the softness she presented in the past, today she appeared more solemn and grave, with a hidden majesty.

She bowed to Li Zhuiyuan.

The bitterness on Qin Shu's face disappeared, leaving only a smile.

"Pay respects to..."

A sharp glint flashed in Li Zhuiyuan's eyes.

Before the other party could finish speaking, the young man spoke directly:

"Take her down."

Qin Shu reached out his hand forward, pointing toward the riverside.

The Bai family lady, who was halfway through her bow, only felt her body instantly imprisoned, and then her whole person was restrained by a terrifying force and fiercely thrown toward the riverside.

"Bang!"

A pit was smashed out of the pebble ground by the riverside by her.

Wisps of chaotic aura overflowed from her body. When she wanted to struggle to crawl up, Qin Shu's left foot lifted slightly and then lowered a distance.

"Hum."

This Bai family lady's body stuck completely to the ground, the disguise on her body disappeared, her appearance changed, and her belly deflated.

She looked in horror at that foot of Qin Shu's that had not yet completely landed. She knew clearly that when that foot landed, she herself, whether it was this body or her soul, would be annihilated along with it.

She could not understand; the man in front of her was indeed strong, a point she had also experienced two years ago, but only two years had passed, why could he become so terrifying?

Li Zhuiyuan: "Where is she?"

Bai family lady: "The family head's fetal breath is unstable, so she is recuperating in the town, it is not suitable..."

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head away.

Qin Shu let his foot fall.

"Slap!"

This Bai family lady's body exploded directly. The range of impact was not large, compressed within this pit, along with her soul which also began to burn. Wisps of small black and white intertwined flames rose up in the pit, and as the river wind blew, they immediately dissipated.

Actually, Qin Shu was not stupid.

If he were stupid, he would not have been set up and besieged like that when walking the river back then, and still be able to kill his way out alive.

It was just that under the foil of the people in the house, Qin Shu appeared like a piece of wood.

Like this kind of silent tacit understanding, even if A You were placed here, he would have to hesitate for a moment before this foot landed.

Something had happened in Bai family town.

To put it realistically, he had come personally. Even if the one at Liangliang's house really had a problem with her body, as long as she could still move, she would have forced herself to come out to meet him.

To take a step back, even if it were really so severe that she could not move, she could have spoken directly and would never have sent a subordinate to disguise herself as her to come out and cope.

Li Zhuiyuan saw through this Bai family lady, who had disguised her appearance and even disguised a pregnant belly, at a glance.

There was only one reason for this situation, which was that the power structure of Bai family town had changed.

Without any accident, the fuse for this change was still himself.

In the eyes of Bai family town, the pressure that had shrouded Nantong for the past two years was created by the Long Wang gate behind him.

That day when Qing'an fell into the underground, the pressure disappeared and the typhoon struck. Even the people on their side thought that a great catastrophe had descended. When he let his partners leave, even his partners thought he was going to sacrifice himself to preserve them.

This was even more so from the perspective of the forces below. In the eyes of Bai family town, how was this not a round of "dynastic change"?

The one at Liangliang's house had always relied on borrowing his tiger skin to suppress Bai family town while opposing tradition herself.

When the tiger skin was "torn off" and the backer "collapsed," the internal contradictions of the town could not be suppressed and ushered in an outbreak.

Besides this, there should also be the reason of fearing that they were once nominally affiliated with him and fearing suffering liquidation, so they made a cut early.

The typhoon had just passed, and the rats under Bai family town did not dare to rashly come ashore to check the situation, or, in their eyes, it should be that he had lost. After all, the formation that day was so terrifying, and when he appeared by the river, the rats below should have been completely panicked.

They did not expect that the one who won in the end was actually him.

If time allowed, the internal factions of the town should have been able to complete a new integration. The person presiding over the liquidation and cutting would be liquidated and cut, and then everyone would push the one at Liangliang's house back up to let her continue to take care of the overall situation.

Blame him for coming too fast.

Because Li Zhuiyuan planned to call Liangliang after sending the gift to ask about the teacher's condition and express his gratitude to Liangliang.

The reason he was able to wake up, besides that broken straw mat and the great-grandfather's blessing, Liangliang also helped greatly.

The young man had long since noticed the extraordinary nature of Liangliang. After all, there was a period of time when Liangliang could help him connect the river water like his own great-grandfather; although when they first interacted, the young man did not seek this.

However, it was also fortunate that when Liangliang returned to Nantong from Jin Ling this time, because he had matters and responsibilities in his heart, he learned from Yu and passed his own door without entering.

If he had come to the riverside and jumped down like before, in all likelihood, he would not have been able to float up.

Under the river water, there were black water weeds floating.

Below this, there were still several Bai family ladies observing the situation.

Qin Shu's crisp killing should have deeply shocked them, making them forget to dive and leave for a moment.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his chin.

The young man's habit was that in formal occasions, especially when he needed to command himself, he would be as concise as possible with his instructions and would not use the title "brother," nor would he call him "uncle" at this time.

A family head should have the appearance of a family head.

Qin Shu spread his arms, palms facing upward, and slowly raised them.

Two evil dragons emerged from Qin Shu's arms.

On the river surface in front of the young man, it was calm and tranquil.

But under the river surface, fierce torrents had already taken shape, sealing the area in the first instance, and then proceeding to strangle.

Before long, on the river surface in front of Li Zhuiyuan, sets of retro clothes of various styles floated up.

Qin Shu was trying his best to make up for his regrets; he was showing off his skills.

Not only did he have to kill the people, but he had to kill them exquisitely and cleanly, like eating a shrimp; the shrimp meat entered the mouth, but the shrimp shell had to be kept intact.

What made Li Zhuiyuan feel surprised was that when the evil dragons appeared on Qin Shu's body, the black dragon spirit in his own body showed a kind of fear, but within this fear, it also revealed a touch of greed and longing.

Qin Shu was the one who took a different path in the "Qin Family Dragon Observation Method" and walked out of the status-based dragon;

The one on his own body was a black dragon remnant in the true sense.

The two actually did not count as the same species at all, yet they brought their own natural attraction.

The dragon spirit wanted to supplement itself.

If Qin Shu were his enemy, and Qin Shu were defeated and captured alive by him, then it would indeed be possible to use Qin Shu's flesh and blood as well as his status to cultivate the dragon spirit in his own hands.

The dragon spirit was trying its best to conceal this impulse, fearing that it would anger the young man.

Li Zhuiyuan was not angry; there was nothing to be angry about, this was the instinct of the dragon spirit.

The young man walked into the river.

Qin Shu followed up.

"Xiao Yuan, your current body is not suitable for going into the water. Let me go down alone. Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion this time."

Li Zhuiyuan stopped his footsteps, looked at Qin Shu, and replied:

"But this time, I don't want to have a sense of proportion."

Because Liangliang had invested too early back then, Bai family town was able to be preserved, and because that one was pregnant, it had to become a historical legacy problem in Li Zhuiyuan's eyes.

He had wanted to solve it but really could not find a way to start. Now it was good, it had turned its own belly up.

If he did not take this opportunity to use a reasonable excuse to fiercely clean up this group of white rats, was he really going to wait for them to complete their internal integration again, and then that pregnant Liang's wife would kneel before him to beg for mercy for the entire Bai family town?

Qin Shu: "Good, we will go down together."

Before coming, Qin Shu had not expected at all that the soy sauce bottle he failed to hold well back then would actually have a chance to come again.

Li Zhuiyuan continued to walk forward.

Qin Shu followed by his side. Although the river water still flowed around the young man, it no longer formed substantial contact.

When the water surface submerged his head, there was no feeling of suffocation, and breathing was very smooth.

On Qin Shu's body, the kind of gills that Li Zhuiyuan had seen on that night two years ago appeared again.

At that time, Li Zhuiyuan did not have enough knowledge and thought it was to better adapt to the underwater environment, which caused his body to change.

But in reality, this was a manifestation of the "Qin Family Dragon Observation Method" being practiced to an extremely high level. Even the current Runsheng could not achieve the degree of opening the air gates to such a fit, or even adapting according to environmental changes.

Qin Shu on that night was indeed in a high-configuration low-operation state.

One big and one small, walking under the river.

The boy last time could only watch the motorcycle and clothes by the riverside; this time, the young man walked at the very front.

As they walked, the underwater scene around them began to retreat rapidly; it was Qin Shu who had accelerated.

Soon, the archway of Bai family town appeared in Li Zhuiyuan's line of sight. Those two strings of lanterns of different colors were still hanging there, bringing a repressive and eerie atmosphere to this town.

Under the archway, three Bai family ladies of different ages stood.

The status of the Bai family ladies could not be distinguished by age, but they could be ranked by the luxury of their clothing.

These three, in Bai family town, definitely did not have low status.

Although they stood there motionless, the irregular water ripples constantly rippling around them showed the anxiety and uneasiness in their hearts at this moment.

The person who went up to disguise and the person sent up to observe had not been able to return to pass on the news, which could not help but make them feel uneasy.

Soon, their hearts became quiet, quiet to the point of deathly stillness, as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

The young man's personal arrival, as well as the terrifying existence who had once almost single-handedly beaten through Bai family town following behind the young man, all made them feel a horror like Mount Tai pressing down on their faces.

Before Li Zhuiyuan could walk up to them, these three Bai family ladies immediately knelt down to welcome him.

They were all figures who had become spirits from old age; at this moment, they had already begun to desperately draft their excuses.

On their stiff faces, beads of cold condensed water also appeared.

The young man very considerately did not make things difficult for them; he did not stop his footsteps and continued to walk forward.

After arriving under the archway, the barrier belonging to Bai family town here would not make people feel uncomfortable under the water.

Qin Shu's figure disappeared from behind the young man.

The next moment, he appeared in the position where one of the Bai family ladies had originally knelt.

As for that Bai family lady herself, she was directly smashed into pieces.

Runsheng's style was indeed like his master's.

In addition, the stereotype of "crude martial artist" for the Qin family, which was always on Grandmother Liu's lips, was really not groundless.

The complete shrimp peeling on the shore earlier was just an occasional exquisite disguise.

The Qin family, after all, were the Qin family.

The habits in their bones could not be changed.

The Bai family lady beside her was gone directly in this way, making the makeup on the face of the Bai family lady kneeling in the middle crack like cement boards and fall off from fear.

When Qin Shu's gaze looked at her, she instinctively raised both hands, and black mist rose around her body. It did not look like an attack, did not look like a defense, and did not look like resistance. Perhaps she herself did not know what she was doing.

She was like a cat that had been frightened, unconsciously baring fangs and brandishing claws.

Qin Shu reached out one hand, and the evil dragon on his arm raised its head slightly, revealing a bit of ferocity.

The black mist dissipated in front of this hand. As for the attack from the soul level, it was directly ignored by Qin Shu.

Qin Shu's hand reached the top of this Bai family lady's head almost without any obstruction.

His fingers bent downward. This action, which looked like head-patting, actually had no interest in her head.

Along with the fall of this palm, this Bai family lady's head began to deform and twist, and then it was her neck, followed by her chest, arms, all the way down.

This scene really looked like twisting a dough twist.

One circle after another, one round after another.

Perhaps it was Qin Shu's subtle mastery of power, or perhaps this human-like yet non-human body of the Bai family lady had its own special nature; every time you felt it had been twisted to the critical point, it could actually continue to be twisted.

Compared to the big scenes Qin Shu had experienced, this little bit in front of him really did not count as anything.

You must know, he had just fought with that great turtle.

Finally, the true limit arrived.

"Bang!"

In the corpse that had been dead for too long, there was no longer much fresh blood, so what exploded was not blood mist, but a ball of dust, carrying a putrid aura so thick it made one nauseous.

The third Bai family lady ran away.

Qin Shu raised his head and looked over.

Invisible fluctuations were released from his body. Under the Yin-walking perspective, one could see an evil dragon roaring fiercely, wrapping around the third Bai family lady and rolling her back.

She fell to the ground. Having completely despaired and collapsed, she began to scream:

"I am guilty, the family head is..."

Qin Shu stepped on her face.

"Boom!"

The street surface trembled.

Everything about this Bai family lady turned into slurry and seeped into the cracks of the bluestone slabs that paved this town street.

When Li Zhuiyuan walked over, there was no one kneeling to block the way in front.

The young man continued to move forward.

The worst situation he had worried about before was that the one at Liangliang's house had already died.

But the young man felt that this possibility was minimal. It was not to say that these rats really had any long-term consciousness; even if they had a little, they would not have been so confused and rushed to take sides.

They regarded ordinary people as ants. In the eyes of an existence at the level of the great turtle, how were they not the same?

Wanting to destroy you, it was only a matter of whether it was convenient or not; they were too lazy to investigate the details of standpoint and implication.

Moreover, even if the great turtle succeeded this time.

The target the great turtle wanted to kill was only himself. They rushed out to rebel; even if he were no longer there, Bai family town would not have a good end.

Substituting into their thinking mode, they would not be in a hurry to execute their previous family head, nor would they move that child. They would be naive, as if preparing to offer a treasure, to present the "scapegoat" representing the past well and completely.

Therefore, the one at Liangliang's house should have been controlled.

On both sides of the town street, there were old-style houses.

In the past, the doors were open, and a Bai family lady would sit in the main hall inside; closed doors meant that it was empty inside.

This time, when the young man walked past, a series of dense door-closing sounds came.

Probably, they still thought that it had nothing to do with them and could still stay out of it. No matter who ultimately had the final say in Bai family town, they were still Bai family members.

But Li Zhuiyuan was here to cut off Bai family town, under the banner of rescuing that one, but he had no intention of pushing her back to the top position at all.

The young man was not here to set things right; he was here to solve it once and for all.

Qin Shu entered the houses one by one. The movement of breaking the doors was suppressed by him and could not be transmitted. After entering the house, solving the Bai family lady inside was also easy.

There was no sound. On the entire town street, there was only the sound of footsteps made by the young man walking.

But this slaughter had already begun.

The Bai family ladies all buried their heads in the soil like ostriches. Under Qin Shu's constantly flickering figure, it looked like an ironic silent comedy.

For Qin Shu, this was also saving trouble. He was not worried that this group of Bai family ladies would attack him in a group; he was not afraid back then, let alone now. He was more worried that they would flee in all directions and add trouble to himself.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the Bai family ancestral hall in the center of the town. The young man stopped his footsteps.

He was not in a hurry to go in, giving Qin Shu more sufficient time to deal with it.

He did not delay too long either. Qin Shu's figure returned behind the young man.

This meant that it was all solved.

Except for this ancestral hall, in the entire Bai family town, there was no one surnamed Bai left.

Li Zhuiyuan lifted his foot and walked onto the steps of the ancestral hall. Qin Shu reached out from behind and broke open the ancestral hall gate, which carried a seal and restriction, from the air.

Although it was only a shallow experience, as of now, it could not even be called a difficulty, but Qin Shu found that he enjoyed this feeling very much.

If the Qin family were still the Qin family of the past, his mission would be like this, following the family head or the core descendants of the family's future, paving the way for them, cutting through thorns and thistles.

Like the heavy burden of the past, for him, it was really a bit of a duck being driven to the shelf, at least that was what he thought himself.

Moreover, although he had been taught by the mistress since childhood and was sent to light lamps and walk the river and handle various errands after becoming an adult, he had really never had an experience of acting so freely by the mistress's side like this.

Xiao Yuan was truly suitable for this position.

A leaf falling is a sign of autumn. Qin Shu believed that Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, and A You, when accompanying Xiao Yuan to walk the river, must also be carrying joy.

There were still quite a few restrictions remaining in the ancestral hall.

If Li Zhuiyuan were in good health, these would not count as anything. Now with Qin Shu's protection, there was no need to worry at all.

Thinking back to Liangliang, as an ordinary person, he was actually able to stumble into Bai family town all the way, then stumble into the ancestral hall, and finally crawl into the coffin she was lying in.

In this world, where were there really princes who entered by mistake? There were only princesses who pretended to be asleep on purpose.

Inside the ancestral hall, several figures wanted to fly out.

They were a bit smarter; even if they were inside, they knew the situation outside was not right and the young man was not coming with good intentions.

But because Qin Shu broke the restrictions with brute force, only breaking those that would block the two of them and not completely destroying the place, the restrictions above the ancestral hall were still there. These several Bai family ladies failed to successfully leave the ancestral hall from above and all fell down after being blocked by their own restrictions.

It was originally a simple matter of hitting flies. Now that the flies had fallen on the table themselves, it was even simpler.

Qin Shu's figure flickered constantly, appearing in various positions and completing various handlings.

Considering that the one who was pregnant should be inside, to avoid disturbing the fetal qi, he acted more decisively and silently this time.

Finally, before Li Zhuiyuan stepped into the main room of the ancestral hall, Qin Shu's figure appeared inside one step ahead.

Inside, there was a large red coffin placed. On the coffin, a Bai family lady was locked in mid-air by iron chains.

It could be seen that her state was not very good, but it did not reach the point of having any big problems.

The areas where her neck and limbs were locked by the iron chains presented a clear black-blue, which meant that she used her main power to protect her belly.

Besides this one at Liangliang's house, on the four pillars beside, there was also a Bai family lady tied to each, who should be her last loyalists, who were unwilling to betray even if they knew they had been overthrown.

Li Zhuiyuan walked under the iron chains.

Qin Shu glanced at Xiao Yuan. Seeing that Xiao Yuan did not signal, he was not in a hurry to take action to break the iron chains and set her free.

"This servant is guilty... this servant is incompetent..."

When she saw the young man walk in, she knew that the matter had already been settled.

Failing to maintain the stability of Bai family town and ultimately leading to her being overthrown was her responsibility.

Li Zhuiyuan nodded and responded:

"Mm, you are incompetent."

Long-term pregnancy caused her strength to decline severely, losing the reliance of military suppression; coupled with the fact that this typhoon did indeed catalyze the explosion of contradictions, but her biggest mistake was that she did not carry out internal cleaning in time when she had the conditions to pull the tiger skin.

Because she was not cruel enough, wanting to preserve the continuation of Bai family town's inheritance while also wanting the male infant in her belly to be born healthily, which was equivalent to doing things that violated the traditions of Bai family town.

She lowered her head, her face full of guilt and apology, but she still added a sentence timidly and fearfully:

"It is all this servant's fault... it is this servant who failed to discipline them well..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's okay, I am here."

"Fortunately, you are here..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "All those who betrayed you are no longer in this world."

After hearing this sentence, her complexion became more and more grave, and her eyes also revealed panic and uneasiness.

She understood the subtext of the young man's sentence.

All those who betrayed her—if one deliberately expanded the scope, then all the Bai family members outside the ancestral hall at this moment, were they not all her betrayers?

Her peripheral vision swept over Qin Shu, who was standing behind the young man.

She had once perceived his aura; he was already incomparably terrifying at that time; at this moment, he made her not even dare to give birth to the thought of peeping.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Next, you can reorganize and build a Bai family town well again."

A miserable smile appeared on her face, and she shook her head, saying:

"This servant... does not have this ability... and even less has this spirit... please forgive me... this servant failed to manage Bai family town well for you... Bai family town will no longer be able to become your help."

Li Zhuiyuan took half a step back.

Qin Shu first habitually raised his hand, then decided to walk up, grasping the iron chains and breaking them one by one, setting her down.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Then what about them?"

The young man pointed to the four Bai family ladies tied to the four pillars.

"For the sake of this clan leader who lost power, they did not hesitate to remain enemies with the group outside. Actually, they can already be considered to have betrayed Bai family town."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Such a good town, just wasted like this, it's a pity."

"Clouds rolling and clouds relaxing, tides rising and tides falling, is originally a kind of nature, and even more so, fate." The woman reached out to stroke her belly. "Cannot be too greedy. This servant now only hopes to be able to watch him be born healthily."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Liangliang is a good person."

"This servant knows. This servant just did not do things well, but this servant does not feel that her choice was wrong."

"Mm."

Qin Shu raised his hand and pointed four fingers from the air, breaking the bindings on the four Bai family ladies one by one.

They were all seriously injured and fell to the ground, but they still struggled to crawl toward the woman.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze focused on the four of them and scanned them once.