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"You mustn't say things like that. Our Suìsuì is perfectly healthy."

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Shen Baili obediently did as Xie Liuzheng said, then linked arms with her aunt and wheedled her.

"We'll all stay healthy and live to a hundred."

Shen Baili had never forgotten that Xie Tingsi's brush with death remained unresolved, though his medical checkups over the past few years had all been normal.

Xie Tingsi was in excellent shape. He caught the occasional cold, but he had no serious illnesses. His kidney function was good. He couldn't have been healthier.

Then... why would Xie Tingsi end up with one less kidney?

Would he have an accident, or... would he donate it willingly?

Xie Tingsi had escaped the greatest crisis of his life. As someone on the fringes of the plot, he shouldn't face a similar accident all over again.

So it was highly likely that Xie Tingsi would donate his kidney to someone important to him.

Uncle Xie? Eldest Brother? Aunt Xie?

...Or perhaps the biological mother of his eldest and second brothers, whom Shen Baili had never met? Ms. Lin, who had given up everything for love and settled abroad with her first love?

Xie Tingsi tilted his head and reached out to pinch her cheek. "What are you thinking about? You look so absorbed."

Shen Baili reacted quickly, picking up his question as though nothing were amiss. "Where we should go this afternoon."

For now, she pushed her worries aside. There was no point fretting over what might never happen.

She would deal with whatever came.

Shen Baili wasn't afraid.

The sun slowly dipped from its place overhead.

Shen Baili and the others fed antelopes, then enjoyed afternoon tea in the evening light as they watched a magnificent equatorial sunset.

The scenery was as