Ye Yuning quickly came downstairs. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Qin Jinchuan looked at her; she was only wearing a thin hospital gown!

The corner of his mouth twitched. When Ye Yuning approached, he couldn’t help but ask, "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

The weather in Turanxi was, after all, indescribably cold. One would feel cold even wrapped in a thick down jacket, yet she had run out dressed like this.

"All the clothes from yesterday are dirty," Ye Yuning said.

Only then did Qin Jinchuan realize that when he had seen Ye Yuning last night, she had been covered in blood. At the time, Xiao Linye had been practically out of his mind. Fortunately, the blood wasn’t hers!

She was certainly capable, to have beaten the other party to such an extent in that situation. Qin Jinchuan now somewhat understood Xiao Shuo’s misery. Her combativeness was this intense even while pregnant. If she hadn’t been pregnant, wouldn’t she be even more ferocious?

"We don’t have much time. Let’s go," Ye Yuning said.

"Where to?" Qin Jinchuan asked.

"I’ll tell you in the car!"

Saying this, Ye Yuning headed straight out of the hospital’s main entrance.

Qin Jinchuan was momentarily stunned. Watching her shiver the moment she stepped outside, a flash of anger ignited in his bewildered heart. He strode forward, quickly taking off his own coat and wrapping it around her.

After they got in the car, Qin Jinchuan turned the car’s heater to maximum, while Ye Yuning took out her mobile phone.

"What’s going on with you?" he asked in a low voice.

Ye Yuning glanced at him. Qin Jinchuan’s expression was grim. Ye Yuning didn’t know what was wrong with him, nor did she have the mental energy to dwell on it. She quickly found a location on her phone, opened the map, and handed it to Qin Jinchuan. "Go here."

While waiting at a traffic light, Qin Jinchuan glanced at the address. "Nanwa Mountain in Southwest Province?"

Ye Yuning nodded.

"Wait, you..." Qin Jinchuan started.

"Qin Jinchuan, I must keep this child. Will you help me this time?"

Qin Jinchuan was baffled. What? What in the world was happening? He looked at Ye Yuning in bewilderment. He didn’t know what Ye Yuning and Xiao Linye had discussed when they met, so he had no idea what she was thinking now.

Seeing his silence, Ye Yuning’s breathing grew heavier. She took a deep breath. "If you’re worried about this affecting your friendship with Xiao Linye, you can drop me off up ahead."

"What’s the situation?" Qin Jinchuan asked, still confused.

Clearly, Qin Jinchuan still hadn’t understood what Ye Yuning meant. But she left the hospital so late at night... Did she deliberately send Xiao Linye away from the hospital? In an instant, Qin Jinchuan seemed to piece something together.

He asked calmly, "Are you trying to hide from Xiao Linye?"

"I have to keep this child!" Ye Yuning insisted.

Qin Jinchuan fell silent.

She has to keep it! he thought. Now, he really didn’t understand. How had it come to a question of whether the child could be kept?

"What are you saying?"

Seeing Qin Jinchuan’s confused expression, Ye Yuning grew somewhat impatient. "Can you help me or not?"

"Help? Of course, I’ll help!" He just had no idea what had happened; it was all rather baffling.

Hearing his response, Ye Yuning finally let out a sigh of relief. She mounted her phone on the car’s holder, and they set off towards Nanwa Mountain.

After an hour of driving on the highway, Qin Jinchuan finally pieced together what had happened from Ye Yuning’s intermittent explanations.

It turned out that since the previous night, Xiao Linye hadn’t really said much to Ye Yuning. Apart from admitting he was the father, he had said nothing else. And Ye Yuning, with the uproar about his and Qi Mulan’s wedding at its peak, had completely misinterpreted Xiao Linye’s reason for being there. She believed that Xiao Linye, intending to eliminate potential complications before his marriage, wanted to get rid of the child in her womb.

Qin Jinchuan listened, aghast. After listening, his scalp tingled with disbelief.

He couldn’t blame Ye Yuning for jumping to conclusions. After all, his wedding to Qi Mulan was imminent. And since Xiao Linye had said nothing beyond acknowledging the child was his, it was natural for Ye Yuning to feel threatened.

Afterward, Ye Yuning’s voice grew increasingly choked. "I already left Upper City, yet the Xiao Family still refuses to let me go."

Qin Jinchuan listened, his eyes darkening. He knew why Xiao Linye was currently in Turanxi, but for the moment, he felt no inclination to enlighten Ye Yuning. Although he had indeed contemplated stepping back after Xiao Linye appeared, recalling Xiao Linye’s previous stubbornness, he suddenly felt that just letting him take Ye Yuning back would be letting him off too easily. Besides, were the Xiao Family’s affairs even settled? Upper City was in chaos, and he was well aware of the Xiao patriarch’s methods. If he took Ye Yuning back now, knowing the Xiao patriarch, the child in her womb wouldn’t be a shield; it would be her death warrant.

"Upper City is in turmoil right now, and the Xiao patriarch would love nothing more than to flay you alive and dismember you!" Qin Jinchuan said coldly. He had received news that the Xiao patriarch was making covert moves. Although the previous night’s incident was unrelated to the patriarch, his recent actions here made it clear to Qin Jinchuan that the old man had no intention of sparing Ye Yuning.

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuning’s brow twitched, and her breathing grew labored.