I just want to live a good life

Chapter 396 The Child of the Ying Family

Su Nuan felt like she was stuck in a dream and couldn't get out.

This dream was very strange. The protagonists were a man and a woman she didn't know.

The woman seemed to be the man's mistress. The man wanted to bring their child home and raise him under the name of his legal wife as his legitimate son, but the woman was not willing to do so.

The man talked for a long time and the woman finally agreed to let him take the child away.

Before leaving, the woman pulled the child aside and gave him some detailed instructions, asking him to listen to her in everything.

Later the man took the child away, but as soon as they left, the woman was killed and hanged on the beam.

Su Nuan watched all this happen in front of her eyes until a dog suddenly came into her sight and faced her face to face. This frightened her so much that she screamed out. Only then did she realize that this was not her dream, but a little girl's experience of a terrible thing.

The sound startled the killer, and he turned around to look in Su Nuan's direction. The moment Su Nuan looked into the killer's eyes, she felt her scalp tingling.

The killer's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"She" quickly fled the scene, and when she stood up and ran, she realized that she had been lying in the dog hole.

Su Nuan felt like she was running desperately in an alley, out of breath, with a killer chasing her relentlessly. Just as she was about to be caught up by the killer, someone suddenly shouted "Second Miss" at the entrance of the alley.

“The dream ends here.”

Su Nuan finally opened her eyes.

"Wake up, wake up."

It’s the third brother’s voice.

But the first face Su Nuan saw was Mu Yunting's.

The other party was looking at him anxiously.

Seeing her wake up, Mu Yunting seemed relieved. He said nothing, but stood up and gave his seat to Liao Xinyi.

Behind Liao Xinyi stood Doctor Yao.

Su Nuan's gaze passed over these people and finally fell on the third brother Xia Changze.

"Third brother, did I like to crawl through dog holes when I was a kid?"

Several pairs of eyes looked at Su Nuan at the same time, with expressions of confusion and surprise, but Xia Changze was the only one who looked surprised.

"Little sister, did you remember something?"

Su Nuan wanted to nod, but her head felt heavy, so she had to speak: "I seem to have crawled through someone else's dog hole."

Dreams shouldn’t be that real. Su Nuan guessed that the “dream” just now was a memory of the original owner, Xia Qingyan.

Xia Changze glanced at Mu Yunting secretly, and seeing that the latter had no special expression, he felt a little relieved.

Which lady from a noble family would do such a thing as crawling through a dog hole? He was afraid that the Crown Prince would dislike his younger sister because of this.

"Third brother, come on, tell me, did I often climb other people's dog holes when I was a kid?"

Xia Changze nodded awkwardly and added, "You were still young at that time, about seven or eight years old. You didn't climb through someone else's dog hole to do anything bad. You just wanted to rescue a child. I heard that the child was often locked in the room by his mother and would not go out, so you went to 'do justice'."

This behavior was very Xia Qingyan, and Mu Yunting's mind suddenly emerged with those pages of paper filled with Xia Qingyan's great achievements.

"Who is that person?" Su Nuan asked.

"I don't know. I had to go to the academy to study during the day and couldn't go out with you. I only heard you talk about it occasionally. But I remember that the family you mentioned was named 'Ying'."

As soon as these words came out, Su Nuan felt as if a thread had connected in her brain.

Her last name is Ying, so that must be Ying Shu. She is the same age as Xia Qingyan, and they are most likely childhood playmates.

But later Ying Shu was taken back to the Xun family by Xun Yu, and they never met again. Then there was a fire in the Xia family's old house, Xia Qingyan was frightened and fell seriously ill, so she forgot about Ying Shu and many things that happened before.

This makes sense. Ying Shu did not forget Xia Qingyan and came back to find her when he grew up.

Su Nuan tried hard to recall the scene of her first meeting with Ying Shu. At that time, he was severely beaten up for helping Mu Yunxi get rid of the guards, and Su Nuan stepped forward to help.

He was certain that "Xia Qingyan" would save him, so he helped Mu Yunxi on purpose and got beaten on purpose.

But he didn't expect that "Xia Qingyan" no longer remembered him.

While Su Nuan was reminiscing, Liao Xinyi took out several extremely thin silver needles from her head. At the same time, Doctor Yao was taking her pulse and examining her.

"Brother, how are you doing?"

Liao Xinyi looked at Su Nuan's belly and asked Doctor Yao.

Doctor Yao shook his head slightly and replied, "No problem."

Both of them seemed to be relieved, but Su Nuan's heart was in her throat. Could it be that these two people had already told Mu Yunting about her pregnancy?

She immediately looked at Liao Xinyi and she gave her a smile, as if to reassure her.

"Concubine Xia, how do you feel about the acupuncture Xinyi just gave you? Did it relieve the pain?"

Doctor Yao asked.

"It feels much better now. It doesn't hurt as much as before."

Su Nuan's gaze passed over Doctor Yao and fell on Mu Yunting's face. She suddenly felt a little guilty.

She didn't know how Liao Xinyi persuaded Doctor Yao to agree to keep the matter secret, but she knew that Doctor Yao was taking a huge risk by agreeing to keep her pregnancy a secret. If something went wrong on her part and the Crown Prince found out that she had deceived him about the offspring, Doctor Yao would be the first to be implicated.

While Su Nuan was grateful to Doctor Yao, she was also thinking about how to protect her and her brother and sister to the greatest extent possible so that they would not be implicated by her.

She was worried, and suddenly heard Mu Yunting say, "So Ying Shu is the child you rescued?"

Although there may be coincidences in the surnames, the surname "Ying" is not common in Nanzhao Kingdom. Moreover, Ying Shu is of similar age to Xia Qingyan and disappeared inexplicably. With just a little thought, one can connect Ying Shu with the child of the Ying family that Xia Changze mentioned.

Su Nuan was open about her relationship with Ying Shu. She used him to make money for herself, and learned about the relationship between Mu Yunting and Xun Zheng through him. Now she hated him for keeping a spy by her side. It can be said that she did not have any feelings for Ying Shu at all.

However, when she met Mu Yunting's distant gaze, Su Nuan still felt a tightness in her heart.

"Yes, he is the child of the Ying family, but..."

Before Su Nuan could finish her words, Mu Yunting had already turned away.

Su Nuan looked at the door that was shaking from being hit so hard, and felt a moment of pain in her heart.

But it only lasted for a moment, and soon the sourness was replaced by dissatisfaction.

Mu Yunting was about to marry his childhood sweetheart, but he was angry that she had been the host of his childhood playmate for a few days without her knowledge.

What a double standard he has.

"Little sister, I will go explain to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Don't worry, I will definitely not let him misunderstand."

Xia Changze said this and was about to walk out.

"Don't go."

Su Nuan shouted and stopped the man.

"If he likes to misunderstand, then let him misunderstand. I am an innocent person and there is nothing to explain."

In fact, Mu Yunting regretted it after he slammed the door and walked out, but he didn't want to go back because of his face. While hesitating at the door, he heard Xia Changze's words and immediately had a better impression of him.

But after hearing Su Nuan's words, he tried his best.

It was wrong for him to slam the door and leave, but she refused to even try to comfort him.

Thinking about what he had done for her that night, Mu Yunting felt like a fool.