Chapter 5: The Reborn Son

The babies grew quickly. In the blink of an eye, they were five months old—chubby and fair, crawling around the cake shop. Many customers, when they came to buy cakes, would always stop to play with the three babies.

The eldest was very aloof. No matter how others tried to make him laugh, he wouldn’t smile. He was unlike the second and third babies, who were lively and active. Jiang Banyue had been curious from the start, observing her eldest son for a few months, and had a bold guess in her mind, though she wasn’t sure.

One night, after closing the shop, Jiang Banyue picked up all three babies and carried them upstairs. The second and third babies were laughing and drooling in her arms, while the eldest turned his head with an expression of disdain.

“Haha!” Jiang Banyue laughed as she watched, lowering her head to kiss all three babies. She returned to the bedroom and placed them on the bed, pinching the eldest son’s cheek.

“Huai Jin, you’re the big brother. Watch over your little brother and sister while Mommy goes to the bathroom.”

Jiang Banyue turned to leave, and Jiang Huaijin, seeing his younger brother lying on the bed, happily chewing on his toes and drooling, rolled his eyes and turned his head away. He grabbed his little sister, who was trying to climb off the bed, and before he could stop her, Jiang Huairou bit him. He was caught off guard and fell on the bed.

“Jiang Huairou, get up! You got your drool all over my face!”

Just as Jiang Huaijin finished speaking, he froze, staring blankly at the figure standing at the bathroom door. Jiang Banyue had finally confirmed it—Jiang Huaijin had been reborn.

“Huai Jin, can we talk?”

“Mom…” Jiang Huaijin lowered his head, remaining silent. Jiang Banyue didn’t speak either. She walked over, bent down, and gently picked him up.

“Baby, you are Mommy’s most precious little one. I know you must have suffered a lot. From now on, if Mommy is here, I will never let anyone hurt you!”

Jiang Huaijin cried in grievance, his whole-body trembling as he lay in his mother’s arms.

“Mom… Why did you only appear now… Why didn’t you come sooner…”

“I’m sorry, baby, Mommy came late!”

Jiang Banyue thought about how, in the book, her eldest son had been killed by a car, his body lying on the ground, blood flowing everywhere, and the pain in her chest tightened unbearably, making it hard to breathe.

Mother and son hugged each other and cried, scaring the second and third babies on the bed. Jiang Banyue quickly set Jiang Huaijin down and went to comfort the other two babies. After waiting for them to fall asleep, she and Jiang Huaijin moved to another room to talk.

“Mom, in my last life, I was deliberately run over and killed. After I died, I didn’t reincarnate. I kept drifting in the human world, watching Huai Rou get framed and sent to prison, and seeing my sister being tricked into a miscarriage. I won’t let them get away with it!”

Jiang Huaijin’s eyes burned with intense hatred. Jiang Banyue tightly hugged him, heartbroken.

“Who… Who did this? Was it Liu Juan?”

Jiang Huaijin shook his head, uncertain.

“I’m not sure, but it probably was her.”

Jiang Banyue hesitated before asking, “What about your father? What happened to him later?”

“He…” Jiang Huaijin closed his eyes in pain as he recalled something.

“He was betrayed during an undercover operation and killed!”

“What?!” Jiang Banyue couldn’t believe it. Wasn’t Shen Yunhe the male lead? How could he be dead? What was going on?

She couldn’t believe she had been reading a fake book.

The Shen family hadn’t had a good ending, and she felt like this was part of a conspiracy aimed at the Shen family. But the Shen family was just an ordinary family. In the book, there were no enemies targeting them.

The Shen family lived in Shanghe Village. Grandpa Shen was a retired soldier, Father Shen was a truck driver, and Mother Shen was an ordinary housewife. Shen Yunhe had joined the army at seventeen and had worked his way up to the position of regiment leader.

Jiang Banyue saw her son looking downcast and quickly picked him up, softly comforting him.

“Don’t think too much, baby. It’s time to sleep now. Mommy’s here.”

“Mm.” The child yawned and closed his eyes, quickly falling asleep.