"Sang-sang, it really is my daughter, Sang-sang!"
Madam Jiang hurried over to Ning Sang-sang, her face brimming with excitement. Ning Sang-sang stood up, but before she could speak, Madam Jiang swept her into her arms. "Sang-sang, at last, you've come home! For these thirteen years, there hasn't been a moment when I wasn't thinking of you."
Tears blurred Madam Jiang's vision as she spoke. After thirteen years of waiting, her daughter had finally returned.
Ning Sang-sang didn't know what to say, so she simply patted her back, offering silent comfort. In her previous life, she had been an orphan and had never known familial affection. In this life, however, she had spent thirteen years growing up sheltered by love. Now she had returned to her birth family and found more people who genuinely cherished her. Suddenly, Ning Sang-sang felt that transmigrating here had truly been a stroke of luck.
"My dear, don't be sad. What matters is that Sang-sang is back," Ning Xiaotian gently comforted her from beside them.
Ning Chengxiao watched quietly from the side, inwardly breathing a sigh of relief. Sang-sang was back. From now on, their family would enjoy a happy, fulfilling life.
Madam Jiang held Ning Sang-sang and cried for a while before finally releasing her and looking her over carefully. "Sang-sang, have you been well all these years?"
"Mother, I've been very well. I haven't suffered, so don't worry."
Hearing her call her "Mother," Madam Jiang felt profound joy spread through her heart. How wonderful-her daughter still acknowledged her.
Bai Xinrou was deeply unhappy to see Ning Xiaotian and his wife focusing all their attention on Ning Sang-sang. I really picked the wrong time to visit the Duke of Ning's Residence today. Still, since I'm here, I can't leave empty-handed.
Madam Jiang gazed lovingly at her daughter, feeling that she could never get enough of looking at her. Her precious daughter was beautiful from every angle.
Just then, soft sobbing sounded. Madam Jiang instinctively turned toward it. When she saw Bai Xinrou crying beside her second son, her face darkened at once, and she scolded him. "Who gave you permission to bring her into the residence?"
She truly disliked Bai Xinrou. The woman had such a petty, small-minded air that she could never be presented in proper society, and she had no sense of shame whatsoever. She had climbed into her second son's bed while he was drunk. Madam Jiang would never allow a woman like that to marry him.
Ning Chengxiao said earnestly, "Mother, Xinrou and I truly love each other. Please let us be together. Xinrou is already carrying my child."
Madam Jiang's expression grew even uglier at that. Before she could speak, she heard her daughter say:
Carrying your child, my ass! Second Brother, you're still a virgin! The baby in Bai Xinrou's belly belongs to her lover, Lin Shijie. She's making you the sucker who takes over someone else's mess!
Ning Chengxiao: "!!!"
Hearing such a bombshell out of nowhere, Ning Chengxiao fell apart inside and let out an inward groundhog scream. Aaaaaah!
Ning Xiaotian shot his second son a disdainful glance upon hearing that. What an idiot. I, Ning Xiaotian, do not have a son this stupid.
Madam Jiang was stunned by the unexpected words-not because of what they revealed, but because her daughter hadn't opened her mouth, yet she could hear her voice.
"Mother, what's wrong?" Ning Sang-sang asked in confusion as Madam Jiang stared dazedly at her.
Madam Jiang came back to her senses and hurriedly said, "Nothing."
No sooner had she spoken than she caught a look from Ning Xiaotian. He was signaling with his eyes for her not to let on. Madam Jiang instantly realized that her husband could hear their daughter's voice too. Keeping her expression unchanged, she turned to Bai Xinrou. "You say you're carrying my son's child. What proof do you have?"
Bai Xinrou said softly, "That night, after the second young master got drunk, he..." She stopped there, covered her face, and began to cry.
Second Brother slept like a dead pig after getting drunk. What could he possibly have done to you? You were the one who teamed up with your lover to get him into bed, then climbed in beside him and stripped off his clothes to make it look as though he'd slept with you. The next morning, you even put on an act in front of him, pretending you couldn't go on living after losing your chastity. Just like that, you successfully made Second Brother, who saw you as his pure, unattainable moonlight, into the sucker left holding the bag.
What an idiot!
At that, Ning Xiaotian cast another disdainful look at his second son. "You certainly do me proud."
Ning Chengxiao was utterly devastated. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that the woman he loved could be so calculating.
"I'll have the kitchen stew some extra pig brains for you later, to nourish that brain of yours," Madam Jiang told Ning Chengxiao, her face full of disdain.
Ning Sang-sang couldn't resist adding her own opinion. "Second Brother, love is a light-so cuckold-green it makes you glow."
Aaaaaaaaah!
In the midst of his breakdown, Ning Chengxiao couldn't help letting out another inward groundhog scream.
Silence fell over the hall. Seeing Ning Chengxiao's awful expression, Bai Xinrou hurriedly put on another understanding act for him. "Second Young Master, since your family opposes our being together, let's just forget it. I'll raise the child in my belly on my own. You don't have to take responsibility."
What a joke. The baby in your belly isn't my second brother's in the first place. What responsibility does he have to take? But Bai Xinrou has him so utterly bewitched right now that he won't listen to anyone. Even if someone told him the child she's carrying wasn't his, this colossal sucker of a second brother wouldn't believe it.
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