Free Web NovelChapter 24: Chapter 24: The Sky Has Fallen
"No, you have to go find Song Yan. If something happened to your brother, it’ll be a disaster." Mrs. Bai urged her. "I’m sick with worry. Hurry up and go find Song Yan—"
Bai Siqi grumbled, but she was no match for Mrs. Bai who, frantic with worry for her son, yanked the blanket right off her.
She knew she wouldn’t be getting any more sleep, so she got out of bed—
Song Yan was pleasantly surprised to see Bai Siqi show up so early in the morning.
"Honey, what are you doing here?"
Bai Siqi immediately shot him a glare, suppressing her anger. "Didn’t I tell you to stop calling me your wife? As far as anyone knows, we’re divorced."
Song Yan pursed his lips.
Bai Siqi was sleep-deprived and irritable, in no mood for sweet talk. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
She got straight to the point. "By the way, my brother didn’t come home last night. My mom’s worried sick, so you need to go look for him."
Song Yan nodded as soon as he heard her. "Okay!"
He’d planned to go find that guy last night, but the three kids had been crying their eyes out.
One of them even had a fever.
His sister couldn’t calm them down, so he had to do it himself.
That’s why he hadn’t been able to get to it.
"Okay, I’ll leave it to you, then. I’m going now." Hearing a child crying hysterically inside, Bai Siqi knew she couldn’t stay any longer.
’Otherwise, Song Yan would definitely make her go take care of the kids.’
And that was exactly what he was thinking. freewebnσvel.cøm
The child was sick; he’d hoped that Bai Siqi, as their mother, would at least go take a look.
But she was already walking away so quickly that he didn’t even get a chance to ask.
The moment he went back inside, he was confronted by his resentful sister, who was holding one of the children. "Brother, was Bai Siqi just here? Why didn’t she come in to see her own child? Is she deaf? Couldn’t she hear how much the baby was crying?"
Song Anxiao was seething with rage.
It was all because of the stress of looking after the children.
She hadn’t slept a wink last night. And then there was Bai Siqi, their *actual* mother, who knew perfectly well how hard the baby was crying but didn’t even come in to try and soothe them.
It was infuriating.
’I’ve never seen a mother act like that.’
Song Yan couldn’t stand hearing his sister speak about Bai Siqi that way. His face darkened. "That’s your sister-in-law."
"Pah! Sister-in-law, my ass! She’s divorced you, so what sister-in-law? And another thing, these are *your* children. Even if you’re divorced, she’s their mother! She can’t just wash her hands of them."
"People who know the situation know I’m just their aunt. Anyone else would think I’m their mother!"
Song Anxiao was absolutely livid.
She was still a single woman! Why should she have to raise their three children for them?
And it wasn’t just the three kids—she also had to care for their paralyzed mother. She couldn’t stand being in this house anymore.
’Song Yan couldn’t tell her that he and Bai Siqi were only pretending to be divorced.’
’Much less what Bai Siqi was planning.’
"It’s been hard on you lately. Here’s twenty dollars. Take it."
He pulled twenty dollars from his pocket and handed it to her.
Song Anxiao: ...
Still, she silently took the money.
Then she went back to soothing the child.
Song Yan pinched the bridge of his nose.
Then he turned and left.
It wasn’t until noon that he finally arrived at the Bai Family’s home, a grim look on his face.
Mrs. Bai had been worried sick about her son. The moment she saw Song Yan, she asked, "Well? What happened?"
Song Yan pursed his lips before delivering the grave news. "Chunsheng has been arrested."
"What? Arrested? Impossible! How could my Chunsheng be arrested?" Mrs. Bai was stunned, unable to accept it.
"I asked around. This situation might be serious. Chunsheng was arrested last night. The most important thing is, he confessed. He admitted to giving Wang Ergou twenty dollars to push Fu Mingxue into the river."
"They both confessed and implicated each other."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Bai looked as if she were about to faint.
Standing nearby, Bai Siqi’s face also went pale. ’Will he implicate me, too?’
