Mother's Kindness, Daughter's Filial Piety: The Pure Version of "Battle Joy" Unearthing the Dusty Past...

Hospital.

"Hehe, I really am a genius, hahaha..."

Du Wanyi had completely turned into Venom, her laughter incredibly arrogant, further stimulating the eldest miss who was lying on the hospital bed and about to wake up.

Ding dong.

As Ye Cheng's next message came through, the Venom-like smile on Du Wanyi's face vanished.

"Madam, won't you get beaten to death by the eldest miss for doing this?"

Du Wanyi: "???"

At a visible speed, the Venom smile on Du Wanyi's face stiffened and disappeared. Her eyes were full of disbelief, her face covered in astonishment and shock.

You've got to be kidding!

She had disguised herself so well, how could she be seen through so easily!

Damn it!!!

She would never admit to such a thing!

Don't mess with me!!!

The one logged in now is Uchiha Du!

"What Madam, I don't understand..."

"Madam, I took a screenshot. I'll show it to the eldest miss later."

Du Wanyi: "..."

Fuzakeru na yo (Are you kidding me)!!!

At this moment, Du Wanyi became the most pained person in the world, and then... she changed her face at the speed of light. Tap, tap, tap. Holding the eldest miss's phone, she replied to Ye Cheng's messages while deleting them, tap, tap, tap...

"Don't force me to beg you. Just pretend tonight never happened, otherwise..."

Squatting by the bed, Du Wanyi suddenly saw an extra shadow on the black area of the phone screen.

Du Wanyi: "..."

A bit uncertain, she took another look...

Yeah, she didn't see it wrong, it was Little Hanhan.

When did she wake up?

"Give it to me." Shen Qinghan's voice was calm, tinged with weakness, as her hand reached over to grab it.

NO!!!

Du Wanyi's face turned pale with fright. She desperately hid the phone behind her back while frantically operating it, continuously deleting all the messages she had sent to Ye Cheng earlier, destroying all the evidence.

"Little Hanhan, you are sick now and need a good rest. You can't get out of bed, be a good girl..."

"Give it to me." The eldest miss's tone was firm, her eyes locked firmly on her phone, not giving a certain evil old lady any chance to operate. If she looked away for even a second, the phone would be gone!

The eldest miss climbed out of bed and pounced on Du Wanyi. The mother and daughter wrestled together.

Of course, Madam Du was responsible for wrestling, and the eldest miss was responsible for hitting. Together, it was wrestling and hitting. Hmm... very reasonable.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

"Give it to me."

The eldest miss's tone was calm, much softer than usual. In her current state, it felt like she couldn't even beat Sister Lin, but even so, she still didn't forget to throw punches!

Du Wanyi's HP -1 -1 -1... She was about to be beaten into a meme, but even so, she still refused to hand over the phone.

Kidding, she knew what was at stake. If their Little Hanhan saw the messages she just sent, she would probably be beaten to death...

Impossible, absolutely impossible. She wouldn't hand it over no matter what!

Inside the room, the mother and daughter wrestled together. Du Wanyi was still showing off. She had no other skills, just a thick health bar and innate super armor. She took the skills head-on without changing her expression and continued to delete the chat history...

Outside the room, in the corridor.

The short-haired woman, who was still squatting there drawing circles, seemed to hear some noise. A question mark appeared above her head as she perked up.

"Mistress, did you hear any sound?" the short-haired woman asked in confusion.

Brother Doudou, who was also squatting next to her, planning how to backstab his big brother, perked up and listened carefully... It seemed like it, right?

There really was a sound coming from inside the room. The two looked at each other, their hearts skipping a beat.

"Oh no!"

The master and servant hurriedly got up and ran towards the ward, seeing clearly the bizarre scene inside.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

"Give it to me," Shen Qinghan said.

"No, Little Hanhan, I don't know what you are talking about..." Du Wanyi pouted, pretending not to understand, and then frantically operated the phone.

Delete, delete, delete... HP -1 -1 -1.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

"Give it to me."

The eldest miss didn't say anything, just kept throwing punches.

Shen Ming: "..."

Short-haired woman: "..."

The stalemate lasted for a while. Du Wanyi finished deleting all the messages on the phone and finally handed it over, but she still acted very innocent.

"Eh, whose phone is this? Why did it fall on the ground? Little Hanhan, see if it's yours?" Du Wanyi gasped in shock.

Shen Ming: "..."

Short-haired woman: "..."

The Madam was stubborn to the bone right now. Even in this situation, she still refused to admit it. As expected of you!

Just like that, the eldest miss got her phone back. However... the chat history on the phone had been wiped completely clean. There was nothing left. Oh wait, there was still a question mark sent by Ye Cheng, asking what was going on on Du Wanyi's end and why she had stopped talking.

Shen Qinghan narrowed her eyes. Holding down a certain naturally evil old lady with one hand, she pressed the voice button with the other and sent a message to Ye Cheng.

"Send me the screenshot of what was just sent..."

Du Wanyi's heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly started to struggle, shouting at the top of her lungs, as if she had suffered some massive grievance.

"Nooo, Little Chengcheng!"

The mother and daughter continued to wrestle together, but they moved from the floor earlier to the bed now. The old rule still applied: Madam was responsible for wrestling, and the eldest miss was responsible for hitting.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Du Wanyi's HP -1 -1 -1...

Shen Ming: "..."

Short-haired woman: "..."

After a long silence, Brother Doudou from the door god duo standing at the door finally spoke: "Xiaolan, are you hungry? I'm a bit hungry. There seems to be a noodle shop outside. Let's go, the Mistress will treat you to a meal."

He had submitted and accepted his title of Mistress. He was no longer arguing with the short-haired woman. This situation was simply not something the two of them could get involved in.

If they went over, they would just get beaten up.

Short-haired woman: "..."

"Thank you, Mistress..." The short-haired woman nodded. In the end, the master and servant walked out of the hospital and sat in the noodle shop outside to eat. It was the middle of the night, and they hadn't eaten yet.

Eating was more important.

As for inside the room.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Du Wanyi's HP -1 -1 -1...

...

Meanwhile.

On the other side of Dahai City, in the academy hospital.

Ye Cheng fell silent as he looked at the continuous voice messages coming in. The eldest miss's questioning, the Madam's begging for mercy, and the familiar thump, thump, thump. It was back, all the familiar things were back!

Silently, Ye Cheng turned off his phone and closed his eyes. He pulled up his little blanket and folded his hands over his chest, looking as if he had passed away peacefully.

"It must be a nightmare." Ye Cheng lay flat on the bed, a smile of relief on his face.

If it wasn't a nightmare, why would such a terrifying thing happen?

He had just stayed up too late, and now it was time to sleep.

Closing his eyes, he started to rest. A few seconds later, Ye Cheng's tightly shut eyes suddenly snapped open, filled with terror: "No way!"

"Cough, cough, no, that doesn't seem right... Cough, cough, still missing something? Cough, cough... Ah, that's it!"

Ye Cheng began to "show off his acting skills" in the hospital room. After coughing a few times and finding the right feel, he sent a voice message to the Eldest Miss, starting with his classic battle cry.

"Cough, cough... Eldest Miss, my head is so dizzy, and my body hurts so much. I can't hold on much longer, I need to sleep now."

"My phone is in the second drawer of the left nightstand. The battery is at 88%, and the passcode is..."

Ye Cheng didn't want any blame to stick to him. After delivering his "good boy going to sleep speech," he completely washed his hands of the matter and tossed his phone into the aforementioned second drawer of the left nightstand.

He even gave away the passcode.

Tomorrow, the Eldest Miss could look through whatever she wanted. Meanwhile, he hadn't offended Mrs. Du either. It was killing two birds with one stone...

It all depended on who got to the phone first tomorrow. The rest was none of his business. Madam, I've done you a solid; I just hope you don't drag me down with you when you die.

Ye Cheng closed his eyes, stretched out his legs, and simply passed out.

On the other end of the phone, the mother and daughter were still "grappling." The object of their struggle, the phone, had now been tossed aside, turning the situation into a pure, unadulterated "brawl."

It looked like the Eldest Miss wanted to beat a certain old hag to death before continuing the conversation...

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Du Wanyi's health bar -1 -1 -1...

...

Lin Baizhi's villa.

First floor.

"Da Huang, do you want me to introduce you to a little sister? She's very pretty..."

While frying sausages for Da Huang, Nanny Wang was trying to coax him into "mating." In just this short amount of time, Nanny Wang could tell that the dog their mister had brought over was definitely no ordinary local mutt.

It was just that her level was too low to understand Da Huang's true identity. Look at those expressive eyes—how could he be a normal local dog?

Well, actually, Da Huang really was a purebred local dog. In Ye Cheng's words, this kind of dog was the fiercest when it came to eating crap!

Unfortunately, Da Huang didn't eat crap. He ate spicy strips, grilled sausages, scallion pancakes... and he loved drinking iced black tea.

Da Huang yawned and continued eating the sausage in his bowl, showing no intention of paying attention to Nanny Wang. Nanny Wang still didn't give up, continuing to mutter about finding him a mate while frying more sausages...

Second floor.

The father and daughter were somewhat awkwardly staring at each other in the room.

Lin Tianxiong was embarrassed because the bedroom door, just as his daughter had said, hadn't been locked at all. Yet, he had kept ramming himself against it... sigh.

How humiliating.

His brain must have been impacted lately by all those TV dramas and brain-dead short videos. His subconscious thinking had skewed; who said a closed door was necessarily locked?

Also, who said a room door could be barged open just by using force? His old bones were about to fall apart, and the door still hadn't budged an inch.

Naturally.

All the doors and windows in the villa were made of alloy and solid wood, boasting top-tier quality. It wasn't completely impossible to break them open, but the person capable of doing so shouldn't have the surname Lin; they should have the surname Du...

Du Wanyi: I want to fight ten of them!!!

Eldest Miss: Thump, thump, thump...

Du Wanyi: I quit, boohoo...

Lin Baizhi's embarrassment was even easier to understand... She simply hadn't moved past the awkwardness from the hospital. When she said she didn't want to live earlier, it was only because she was dying of embarrassment.

She didn't actually want to die.

She had lived such a miserable life before, but after meeting her brother, she never thought about dying again. Her life was given to her by her brother; how could she selfishly go and die all by herself?

She still had to bear her brother's children and become a virtuous, gentle, and considerate wife. How could she die?

She could not fall!

She hadn't won over her brother yet; she absolutely could not fall!!!

Stand up, stand up, Lin Baizhi! Your brother is yours, he will be yours every night, every day you can...

"Dad, I'm fine now. I just encountered some unhappy things today, but I'm okay now." Wrapped in her blanket on the bed, Lin Baizhi took a deep breath and spoke in the calmest tone she could muster.

She had adjusted her mindset; she would be invincible!

Of course, this was just the rhetoric poor Sister Lin used to hypnotize herself. She had to think this way; otherwise, she would literally die of embarrassment...

Lin Tianxiong was still a bit worried, but seeing that his daughter didn't seem to want to discuss what happened today, he couldn't keep pressing her. He had encountered this kind of situation before.

The best solution was to let her have some quiet time alone to process everything.

Although he believed his daughter was outstanding and wouldn't do anything extreme, but... what if?

In a daze, his thoughts drifted back to many years ago. If he hadn't remembered that he still had a daughter wandering out there, he might not have survived and would have long since followed his beloved wife in death.

He had figured things out now, but for him back then, if he hadn't held onto the obsession of taking care of and finding his daughter, he definitely wouldn't have made it over that hurdle.

He had passed his hurdle, and now it was his daughter's turn to face hers.

"Alright then. But skipping meals is bad for your health. Come down and eat something in a bit, and Dad will take the opportunity to chat with you about Little Cheng."

Subconsciously, Lin Baizhi wanted to refuse her father. Right now, she just wanted to turn into a maggot, go nowhere, and hide in a dark corner... But upon hearing her dad mention the brother she constantly yearned for, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

"Okay, I'll come down in a bit..." Lin Baizhi shrank further into her covers and agreed.

Lin Tianxiong breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that he would actually need to use this tactic.

It was just that doing so made him feel a bit sorry toward Ye Cheng... However, her finding out was only a matter of time anyway. Ultimately, they would all be one family, and a family shouldn't keep secrets from each other.

He was going to tell her!

"Daughter, actually, over all these years, Dad and Little Cheng have always been in contact..."

The moment Lin Tianxiong opened his mouth, Lin Baizhi scrambled out of bed. Not even bothering to put on her shoes, she grabbed her old man and started dragging him downstairs.

"Hurry, let's go, let's eat! We can talk while we eat!" Lin Baizhi was thrilled!

She had actually suspected this, but her dad had always stubbornly denied it, claiming they had no contact. Now... he was finally talking!

She wanted to know so badly!

Lin Tianxiong: "..."

Lin Tianxiong smiled bitterly. A grown daughter can't be kept at home. Wait, no, it seemed even a young daughter couldn't be kept at home either; when she was little, she clamored to leave with someone else. Sigh... the sorrow of an old father.

"Daughter, slow down. It's cold tonight, put a coat on first or you'll catch a cold... Slow down, I'll tell you everything, don't rush, sigh..."

"Hurry, hurry up, Dad..."

...

Meanwhile.

On the other side of Dahai City, in the Du family's private hospital, the ward had quieted down and was pitch black.

Two incredibly even sounds of breathing rose and fell in the room.

Because she was sick, the Eldest Miss had fallen asleep once again. Of course, expending a lot of energy elbowing a certain inherently evil old hag earlier was also a rather important factor.

Now, she was tightly hugging that certain old hag...

This was to prevent Du Wanyi from rushing to the hospital in the middle of the night to swipe Ye Cheng's phone.

Du Wanyi truly enjoyed this tranquil moment. She hadn't had an opportunity like this ever since her daughter had grown up a bit...

"There, there, Hanhan..."

Du Wanyi softly hummed the lullaby she used to sing to coax the Young Miss to sleep when she was little. It had no specific lyrics, just a beautiful, soothing, and peaceful melody... Her eyes brimmed with a tender, maternal love.

In her sleep, the Young Miss's tightly knit brows relaxed. Her embracing arms subconsciously tightened their grip as she snuggled deeper into the softness...

Outside the door.

Having just returned from dining out, the master and servant stood at the entrance, staring at the tightly shut door of the hospital ward in awkward silence.

"Madam, are we still going in?" the short-haired woman asked uncertainly.

Shen Ming: "..."

Might as well just crouch in the corner and draw circles on the floor...