Late at night.
There were faint rustling sounds in the courtyard.
Even during pregnancy, when I needed plenty of rest most of all, I still retained a cat's intensely vigilant instincts.
In the darkness, a dangerous red glimmer flickered in my eyes.
With a swish, I opened my eyes. Without a moment's hesitation, I flipped out of bed.
What the hell.
Who would sneak into my cave abode in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?
Could there be some little mouse making trouble...
Muttering my guess, I didn't wake any of the babies and hurried out of the room.
In the courtyard.
A girl in a white dress was holding something like a watering can, diligently watering the Ginkgo Tree, which had already grown over five meters tall.
The water she poured did not seem ordinary either. It was the same color as highly concentrated milk, and white mist occasionally spread from where it soaked into the roots.
What had once been an ordinary Ginkgo Tree of unremarkable height had been lavishly watered with the milky liquid until it was nearly giving off the rosy glow unique to Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
As I watched the girl sneakily watering the tree in the courtyard, I was utterly dumbfounded.
I had already seen Ye Qingxian.
Naturally, Ye Qingxian sensed my presence as well.
Faced with the bewildered gaze of the young girl standing there blankly, the girl's body stiffened slightly. The arm holding the watering can trembled too; clearly, she had never expected to be discovered.
This was not her first time watering it.
Because she was in her Junior Sister's cave abode.
She had never once spread out her divine sense, nor had she unleashed her terrifying five senses. She had kept her reactions at the level