Who Was That Woman Just Now?

Ah!~

Before they even entered, anguished cries rang out from inside the house.

The expressions of all three changed instantly.

"Don't come in. Wait outside."

Ice Empress looked tense. After leaving those words behind, she rushed into the house.

Ye Han stood stiffly, with only one thought in his mind: I'm going to be a father.

Bibi Dong, however, was filled with shock, with only three words in her heart: Is it her?

At that thought, she hurriedly shook her head, trying to cast it from her mind and force herself to calm down.

But the pounding of her heart, beating faster and faster, only made her more flustered.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Han would have noticed the abnormalities of those around him immediately. But at that moment, all his thoughts were focused on the person inside the house. How could he spare any attention for anything else?

No one knew how much time passed before a clear, resounding cry suddenly startled the tense and dazed pair awake.

Ye Han turned his head, his face filled with delight, as though he had not yet woken from a dream. A foolish grin spread across his face as he looked at the woman beside him and said in shock and joy, "Dong'er, I'm a father! Did you hear that? That's my child! Hahaha!~"

As he spoke to himself, the smile on his face rapidly widened. Suddenly, he scooped up the woman's petite body, kissed her hard on the cheek, and said, "Hahaha, I'm going to be a father."

The moment he finished speaking, he rushed into the house with the woman in his arms.

"Qingxin, you've worked hard."

Ye Han set down the woman in his arms and looked tenderly and lovingly at the woman lying on the bed, whose face was pale and whose forehead was still beaded with sweat.

A mother rose in status through her son. The woman Xue Er had traded four Soul Bones for had not truly entered his heart until this moment, finally gaining a place within it.

"I'm fine!"

Ye Qingxin shook her head. Her eyes held a maternal tenderness that did not suit her age as she looked at the little one beside her and softly asked, "Have you decided what to name him?"

Ye Han looked at the wrinkled, red little rat and could not help frowning. "Why is he so ugly?"

In his impression, weren't babies all pink and tender, like porcelain dolls?

Besides, with such excellent genes between Ye Qingxin and himself, how could they have produced something like this?

"Cough, cough, cough!~"

Ye Qingxin's face darkened at his words, while Ice Empress coughed repeatedly.

"Newborn children are all like this." Snow Empress punched Ye Han helplessly.

Ever since Ye Qingxin became pregnant, Snow Empress had begun cramming everything she could about babies.

To her, Ye Han's matters were her matters. Thus, she had personally taken charge of caring for Ye Qingxin and delivering the baby.

By now, she could practically be considered half an expert when it came to babies.

After saying that, Snow Empress bent down and gently picked up the infant.

At that moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on the swaddled baby, following his every movement.

Suddenly, Ye Qingxin froze. Her gaze shifted away from the child and toward the breathtaking young married woman beside Ye Han, who appeared twenty-six or twenty-seven, with a pale face and hollow eyes.

"Mom!~"

The sound had only just left her lips when she forcibly swallowed the rest of the word.

The bond between mother and daughter ran deep. As if sensing something, Bibi Dong turned around. Their eyes met, and in that instant, all was silent.

Bibi Dong opened her mouth, yet she did not know what to say.

She regretted it.

Why had she gone mad today?

Why had her daughter ended up with this man?

Why?

Though she did not wish to admit it, the pale woman lying on the bed was still a piece of flesh that had fallen from her body. She carried half of Bibi Dong's blood.

During the time Ye Qingxin had been missing, Bibi Dong had judged from the clues gathered in the search that she had likely been kidnapped and might already be dead. Yet she had never imagined that Ye Qingxin had been right beneath her nose all along.

Seeing that she was still alive brought Bibi Dong joy, but what Bibi Dong could not accept was that she had given this man a child. How was Bibi Dong supposed to kill him in the future? And she had no...

Thinking of what she had done today, ripples suddenly arose in Bibi Dong's usually cold and merciless heart, as still as Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice. An emotion called shame and indignation quietly began to grow within her.

To achieve her goals, she could stop at nothing. She could even use her own body, but she had never imagined being with her daughter at the same time.

Two flushes of red suddenly rose on Bibi Dong's pale cheeks. Feeling guilty, she did not dare meet her daughter's eyes.

Ye Qingxin sighed.

At that moment, she had a thousand words she wanted to say to her mother, but her mother still "hated" her as she always had, unwilling even to look at her for another moment.

"Come, come, let me hold him."

At that moment, Ye Han and the others were all focused on the little one. No one noticed anything unusual.

"Can you handle it?" Snow Empress looked at Ye Han with some concern.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Han would certainly have flirted shamelessly in response to Snow Empress's question.

But at that moment, he merely nodded seriously and impatiently reached both hands toward the swaddled infant.

"Slowly. Be careful. Don't use too much strength."

Snow Empress slowly handed the swaddled baby to Ye Han, carefully reminding and guiding him on what to do.

At last, the baby safely fell into his hands.

Ye Han looked at the little fellow in his arms, whose eyes were tightly shut, and let out a slight breath. He felt more exhausted than after fighting a battle.

But it was worth it. Looking at the little fellow in his arms, the feeling of their blood connection made Ye Han like him more and more. One moment, he asked Ice Empress whether the baby's nose looked like his; the next, he asked Snow Empress whether the baby's mouth looked like his. He was as happy as a child.

In the end, Snow Empress and Ice Empress pulled Bibi Dong away, leaving this space for Ye Han and Ye Qingxin to be alone.

"Qingxin, what do you think we should name our child?"

Holding the child, he sat at the bedside and rested Ye Qingxin's head on his thigh. His gaze was gentle as he spoke softly.

"Mm! You can decide." Ye Qingxin said.

Her mind was now filled with the image of Bibi Dong being led away by Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

If she had not heard wrong just now, Ye Han had introduced her as the fourth. In this household, Snow Empress and Ice Empress called Ye Qingxin Third Sister, while Bibi Dong was the fourth. Ye Qingxin understood the relationship between them perfectly well, but she did not dare think about it. She even deceived herself, insisting that she must have heard wrong.

"Alright, then I'll choose."

Ye Han looked out the window. Just then, a ray of morning sunlight rose.

Ye Han's eyes lit up. "A day's plan begins in the morning. Morning represents vigorous life, a new day, and limitless possibilities. Let's call him Ye Chen!"

Mm!

Ye Qingxin nodded without objecting.

Ye Han held the child, his eyes full of joy.

In his previous life, although he possessed a vast fortune, he did not have a single true friend, much less family or descendants. That had always been a regret in his heart.

But in this life, he had everything.

"Ye Han, just now... who was that woman just now? What is her relationship with you?"

Ye Qingxin hesitated for a moment before finally voicing the doubt in her heart.

"Her? I'll tell you once you've recovered." Ye Han said.

Ye Qingxin was not Snow Empress or Ice Empress, and she had just given birth. Ye Han did not intend to tell her about Dong'er yet, lest she start overthinking things.

PS: Brother Spring Breeze, and all you brothers, don't mess around! I'm writing a proper novel, and you're reading it properly. What's with all this exciting or not exciting nonsense? As for mother and daughter or whatever, what's that? I don't understand. Do you?

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