After tossing so much in the middle of the night, Su Jingyang only managed to fall asleep when the sky was pitch black. He slept very heavily, and when he woke up, he found a pair of powerful arms hugging him from behind.

When he was about to turn over, his ears picked up a familiar voice saying in a low tone: "I heard that someone's sister-in-law was very fierce."

"Fuck off." Su Jingyang stabbed him with an elbow. The reason why he said that was only to exert authority, who wanted to be that little boy's sister-in-law?

Su Jingyang said, "I'm his uncle!"

Su Jingyang's meagre strength had no effect on Rong Ci, Rong Ci smiled and kissed his cheek, he patted him on the shoulder and helped him up, "Alright, Uncle Su, it's getting late, so wake up and eat something."

Su Jingyang washed up and had breakfast in the dining room. He ate and listened to Rong Ci's words, only to realize that Rong Ci had already personally investigated last night's matter. Rong Xia confessed everything, saying that the cutting of his hair wasn't planned, he didn't want to cast an evil curse but instead wanted to threaten him later and force him to leave Rongcheng.

Su Jingyang shook his head after hearing, the child really thought his problem was his innocence. He took another mouthful of porridge before saying: "What's the use of him doing this? Does he think I can be threatened to leave by him so easily?"

Rong Ci said, "Yes, he underestimated your ingenuity. He walked into that one."

"Are you taunting me again?" Su Jingyang rolled his eyes at him. Rong Ci saw that his porridge bowl was empty and gave him a little more, he then touched his head and said with a gentle smile: "I'm praising you, you were so vigilant. If you want to continue maintaining the prestige of the City Lord's wife, then you shouldn't be afraid of anyone."

"As it should be."

Su Jingyang ate a piece of shortbread, glanced at his face several times, and couldn't hold back the urge. There was a hint of suspicion in his eyes. He lowered his voice and asked him, "Are you really sure Mrs Ru didn't instigate him? I heard Rong Hua say that this woman had harmed you before. I was afraid that she instigated the child to do bad things."

Rong Ci shook his head and said confidently: "It's not her. She doesn't dare repeat the same tricks now, otherwise, it'll be on her son's life."

Su Jingyang still looked unclear and serious, guessing what Rong Ci must've done, but he didn't continue to ask anymore. It was all connected to the mysterious magic skills of the Rong clan. "What are you going to do with the kid?"

Su Jingyang I thought that Rong Ci would consider it as the momentary ignorance of the child's mind and that he would be released after being locked in a room for at most two or three days, but who knew that he would order Rong Xia to be detained from the inner palace to a dark prison, to be fully imprisoned for three months!

Su Jingyang was a little dumbfounded. Although Rong Ci wasn't very eager with Rong Xia, he still regarded him as his younger brother, but now he wanted to put the ten-year-old Rong Xia in a dark cell.

Rong Ci looked at his somewhat unexpected expression, grabbing his hand and asking, "Soft-hearted?"

Su Jingyang hurriedly shook his head, "No, I'm just a little surprised. After all, you said yourself said that your father owes Mrs Ru a great favour, I thought you would..."

Rong Ci stared at him and said: "According to Rongcheng's law, one should take legal responsibility for one's actions after the age of ten years. He dared to attack you last night and I only let him stay in a dark prison for three months, this is already a small punishment and a big admonition."

Su Jingyang looked at him for a long time and suddenly pulled the stool towards him, sitting in front of Rong Ci, blinking his eyes, curiously asking: "Rong Ci, you... can you tell me what your father owes Mrs Ru? Why could he tolerate her giving birth to another person's child? She tried to kill you, yet he also forgave her."

Rong Ci's eyes paused quietly for a moment, and he did not answer. Su Jingyang waved his hand: "Forget it if it's inconvenient to say."

"There's nothing I can't say to you." Rong Ci touched his face and sighed lightly, he then said: "To tell the truth, my father is a duo. He gave birth to me with my other father."

Su Jingyang's eyes widened, this... was really unexpected.

"Because the patriarch's ability is much stronger than duo or women, we can better supplement the energy of Wuqun Mountain, so for the past two hundred years, the seat of the City Lord had always been passed on to men. However, my grandfather only had one child, that is, my father. He worried about him and knew that his succession to the throne would cause dissatisfaction and turmoil among the people, so he used the excuse of practising poisons and asked him to wear gloves ever since he was a child, covering up the mole on the palm of his hand. Later, my father became pregnant with me and married Mrs Ru to trick people's eyes and ears."

I see! Su Jingyang asked: "Does she know?"

"Naturally, she agreed to be the City Lord's wife and negotiated with my father. She wanted to have a child of her own and my father agreed, but she had to wait for me to turn ten years old before she could give birth. She made a blood oath with my father that she won't reveal this secret in her lifetime, otherwise, she'll die instantaneously."

Su Jingyang finally understood completely, he frowned and thought for a moment, "But looking at it, their transactions benefitted each party, why does your dad feel that he owes her? And she even wants to kill you, obviously she wants her son... wait, wait, wait, wait!!!"

Su Jingyang suddenly felt that something was wrong. He patted his head suddenly, and after thinking about it, he stared at Rong Ci and asked: "You just said that your father used the arts of poison as an excuse to wear gloves to cover the mole on the palm of his hand since he was a child..."

This mode of operation is so familiar! ! !

Su Jingyang took a breath, "Could it be that Rong Hua's not a she? ? ?"

Rong Ci flicked his forehead, and smiled: "You figured it out just now?"

Su Jingyang looked incredulous, "My mother." He was deceived for so long! ! !

Su Jingyang wanted to think back on it but still couldn't find any flaws in Rong Hua's performance. Some duo's Adam's apples were rather vague, and Rong Hua happened to be one of them. In addition, his voice was indistinguishable from male and female, which made it difficult for people's suspicions to arise. The most important thing is that... he's a beauty with big breasts! How could this be faked! Su Jingyang's admiration for Rong Hua rose a little bit!

After listening to logic and science, Su Jingyang knew the reason why Rong Hua had to pretend to be a woman—because the saint of the Rong clan was the child to be born at the exact time the Grand Wizard had calculated. But Rong Hua, the heavenly saint girl, turned out to be a duo. The wizard repeated his calculations several times, but the designated person was no other than Rong Hua. They had no time to worry, so Rong Hua was taken into the palace and treated as a female. The child was raised and disguised through the Old City Lord's methods.

Su Jingyang could only sigh: "It's so difficult being a duo. You have to pretend to be either a man or a woman. According to what you said, Rong Hua should also know your father's secret?"

"He didn't know before, he just thought that my father did that kind of martial art and merely took the opportunity to learn from him. However, I think he should've guessed it a long time ago."

Su Jingyang received too much information, it took a long time to digest it all. After sitting for a while, he couldn't wait to run and find Rong Hua to play, but Rong Ci grabbed him and told him: "You can't find him at this time. He's gone for Full Moon Villa after several times now."

He and Xu Mei missed each other several times, Rong Hua was also quite curious. After returning from Wuqun Mountain, he was invited to go to Full Moon Villa to play. He wanted to play there for a while and didn't plan on coming back until at least a month.

Su Jingyang gave up, he went out to accompany Ling Li and left. After hearing Li Yin say that Ling Li was recovering very well, Su Jingyang was also greatly relieved.

After Rong Xia was put in a cell, Mrs Ru ran to the elders again and cried out. Those old guys were the most softhearted, and a dozen or so ran over to see Rong Xia. They babbled to let Rong Xia go or give Rong Xia a lighter sentence, after all, the child didn't cause any major trouble.

Rong Ci was cold and unreasonable. He turned around and added another half a month to Rong Xia's prison time. Mrs Ru, who had originally planned to go to Su Jingyang to talk, immediately retracted into her temple and no longer dared to make trouble.

It was just ten days, because of being too scared in prison, Rong Xia fell into a serious illness and was carried out.

Su Jingyang went to see him with Rong Ci, and the bear child was burning and twitching, a really scary sight.

Rong Xia was unconscious for two days and two nights and didn't wake up. Su Jingyang was actually a very vengeful person, but his heart wavered after he saw him become so pitiful after being ill. If he went back to that dark cell, he might develop a big problem in the future. After thinking about it, he said to Rong Ci. "This is a good lesson for him. Let's pardon his next few months, lest your elders say you're ruthless and cruel, disregarding brotherhood. However, if he still dares offend me next time, he shouldn't expect me to be soft-hearted then."

Su Jingyang noticed that the child on the bed moved when he finished speaking. He turned his eyes and looked over, only to find that Rong Xia woke up some time ago, he was already staring fiercely at him with those wet eyes.

"Big villain! Even if I'm locked up for the rest of my life, I won't ever need your kindness!"

Su Jingyang said, "Is that so." Su Jingyang turned his face and said to Rong Ci, "That's what he said, for the rest of his life. Fulfil him this, lest it is a waste of my kind intentions."

Rong Ci hugged him into his arms and sneered: "Alright, just as he wishes."

The face that was still aggressive at first immediately pressed its mouth and started to shed tears after hearing this, it finally turned into a howling cry, like he had been previously wronged.

Rong Ci didn't listen to Su Jingyang's exemption of all punishments for Rong Xia, but changed the detention to a place with a better environment, changing the remaining three months to only one month. Su Jingyang thought to himself, one month was fine, and it was the bear child who was recuperating.

After Su Jingyang heard that Rong Xia was slowly getting better, he didn't go to see him again. Ling Li could now walk on the ground, and Su Jingyang stayed with him the most. He chatted with him, teased Ah-Xuan, and didn't feel bored at all.

Time passed quickly, when Su Jingyang suddenly noticed something moving in his stomach one day, he was taken aback.

He listened to Ling Li say that he was now four months old, it was normal to have fetal movements, yet Su Jingyang still felt weird.

Before, he just felt something bulge in his stomach, but now he truly realized that there were indeed two lives in his stomach, it wasn't an inanimate thing... he felt very complicated.

As the child's months grew, Su Jingyang's belly became more obvious. His clothes changed to more relaxed styles, walking with his stomach upright wasn't as easy as before. Moreover, he recently felt that he would grow hungry very fast and would eat six or seven meals a day. In addition, he would wake up countless times at night, he couldn't sleep well at all. He always gets dizzy and weak during the day. In short, it wasn't painful like before, but was more uncomfortable and boring.

He thought that after the morning sickness was relieved, he would be able to live peacefully and blissfully, but reality hit him head-on.

When Su Jingyang learned from Ling Li that there would be various other reactions in the later stages of pregnancy, he immediately laid stiffly on the bed. His eyes closed, "It turned out that pregnancy's actually so hard..."

He really didn't understand all of this before. He just referenced from his circle of friends, this friend's family gave birth to a baby, and that colleague's family gave birth to a baby again. He thought it was quite simple.

Sure enough, everything was simple because it didn't fall on me.

Now that he was only four months in, he'll gradually have to endure the days to come. Su Jingyang held his stomach and wanted to lie down in bed to sleep to death.

Two days after Rong Xia's punishment was lifted, Rong Hua finally returned. Su Jingyang thought he would have a good time, but for some reason, he was very irritable. On the day he returned, he almost killed someone in the street.

After hearing the news, Su Jingyang and Ling Li, whose body had almost recovered, met together to see Rong Hua.

Rong Hua, with messy black hair, laid leaning on the couch in his coat, with a few empty hip flasks poured on the side of the couch. the room was full of the smell of alcohol permeating his body.

Su Jingyang was so disgusted by the strong smell that he almost vomited again. Ling Li hurriedly opened the closed windows of Rong Hua's room to let him breathe, and brought him soup with his own hands.

Rong Hua had always liked to eat what Ling Li had made, but this time his face looked ugly and he said that he had no appetite and couldn't eat it. In the end, the soup was all drank into Su Jingyang's belly.

Seeing Rong Hua's frowning brows, Su Jingyang asked him strangely: "What's wrong with you, Rong Hua? Is it possible that you had a conflict with Xu Mei this time?"

Su Jingyang thought that the two of them would become very good friends. How could he know that Rong Hua would be like this once he came back?

"No, he's very good, very good..." Rong Hua recalled something, his expression was dazed, suddenly, he became irritated and ruffled his hair with his hand. He said: "This time I went to Liyang and met a lunatic."

"——Lunatic?" Ling Li and Su Jingyang were both surprised, Su Jingyang said: "What lunatic?"

Rong Hua thought for a while, he looked at Su Jingyang with cold eyes, frowned, and said, "It seemed like the who said you pushed him into the water before and framed you, the one that came back from the dead, he was called... Hao, am I right?"

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