Xu Youyou left Grandma Wu’s office and was a little absent-minded all afternoon. Her little mind was thinking about why Grandma Wu was unhappy and when her mother would come back. She was obviously a three-year-old baby, yet she was thinking more seriously than an adult.

Even when a few children wanted to invite Xu Youyou to play together, she refused.

The little one was thinking about major life events and was not in the mood to play house.

Xu Youyou actually knew in her heart that the other kids didn’t want to play with her and only wanted to ask about the adoption.

Mr. and Mrs. Zhou were bound to be seen entering and leaving the premises, and why else would a middle-aged couple appear in the orphanage?

In addition, Xu Youyou was called away, so the older children would understand after giving it some thought. Why else would they ask Xu Youyou to play with them when they never did so before?

Humph, if you don’t want to play with me, I don’t want to play with you either.

Anyway, I have Mom. She will play with me and tell me stories!

However, Xu Youyou knew not to express these thoughts, so she imitated the appearance of adults she happened to see on TV and gave what she thought was a very mature reason for rejection.

But the reason she gave drew a laugh from the aunt who was watching over them, causing Xu Youyou to have one more question to think about.

Aunt, what are you laughing at?

Adults were so difficult to understand!

Xu Youyou shook her head and let out a deep sigh. The two little pigtails on her head swayed along with her movements, like two restless foxtail grasses with a hint of spontaneity in their fur.

Aunt: “……” So cute, I want to touch it.

Fortunately, before the sun went down, 5874 returned with good news.

〖Tomorrow! I’ll be able to come and see Youyou tomorrow~ Are you happy?〗

If 5874 had a physical body right now, it would definitely look like it’s raising its nose up to the sky in arrogance.

It originally thought that it would take at least two or three days to handle all the stuff. Unexpectedly, under its superb acting skills, the police officers were so moved that they almost cried and immediately took people to do blood tests, check information, and so on.

The quickest proof would be available tomorrow morning, but all documents would probably take the day after tomorrow. At most, 5874 would be able to formally transfer Xu Youyou to Xu Wenyin’s household registration book.

After all, they were mother and daughter!

And knowing Xu Wenyin’s eagerness to see her daughter, a policeman kindly said that someone would contact Grandma Wu tomorrow morning to explain the situation, and then the mother and daughter could meet. If possible, Xu Wenyin could take the child away the day after tomorrow.

Things went smoothly beyond 5874’s imagination. Sure enough, it was right to choose the identity of ‘Xu Wenyin’.

The only problem now was the period it could take a form.

This body of 5874 was imitated by the system to simulate a real person. Whether it was DNA, appearance, and so on, it’s exactly the same as Xu Wenyin. With the technological level of this society, there’s no need to worry that it would be found out, but maintaining its body requires energy.

The higher Xu Youyou’s favorability towards it, the more energy 5874 could get.

But after all, Xu Youyou was still young and the source of favorability was somewhat dishonest, so the energy it received was naturally reduced.

For now, it could maintain a form for two hours, fifteen minutes, and thirty-two seconds. Once this time was exceeded, ‘Xu Wenyin’ would magically disappear, which wouldn’t only scare people, but would definitely allow the rules of the world to discover it!

So those two hours were precious and it has to make good use of every second!

Fortunately, the two hours could be split and be used within a day, so it didn’t have to use up the time all at once. However, time couldn’t be accumulated. If it didn’t use everything within a day, it would be gone.

“Really?!“

As soon as Xu Youyou heard the news, her cloudy face immediately turned sunny. She was so much happier than when she ate the big chicken legs yesterday.

〖Of course it’s true. When did I lie to you?〗

5874 completely forgot that it had told a big lie yesterday. 〖I have magic. Just wait until I come to see you tomorrow, Little One. Then the day after tomorrow, I’ll take you to eat delicious food^[1]spicy food and drink hard liquor^[2]to live well!〗

A certain system was trying to make promises.

Xu Youyou tilted her head to the side. “But Mom, Youyou can’t eat spicy food.“

〖5874: ……A figure of speech! It’s just an example, do you understand?〗

Xu Youyou nodded without full understanding. If her mom likes spicy food, then she could try to learn to eat it as well. No difficulty could beat her!

After the two, whose thoughts were no longer on the same line, ‘discussed’ the future, Xu Youyou closed her eyes at 5874’s behest.

But because she was too excited, she couldn’t fall asleep. In the end, 5874 had to play the Heart Sutra over and over again in the little one’s head to put her to sleep.

As for why the Heart Sutra?

5874 expressed that even it felt sleepy when listening to this stuff, thus it must be able to coax the cub. Now it seems that the effect was indeed good!

———pr

The next day, Grandma Wu got up with a frown. She didn’t sleep well last night as her mind was filled with threats from the Zhou couple and how to protect Xu Youyou.

She’s old and her family members were all ordinary workers. They couldn’t compare to Zhou Weimin, who has made a name for himself in the city. But if she gives them Youyou, wouldn’t that be pushing the child into a pit of fire?

If Grandma Wu did such a thing, she would be condemned by her conscience for the rest of her life. What should she do?

The troubled Grandma Wu soon received a call.

“Uh-huh, yes, this is Chunxiao^[3]Spring Morning Orphanage, yes, yes, I’m……”

Fifteen minutes later, Grandma Wu hung up the phone with a strange expression on her face. However, it didn’t look like she was troubled, but rather like she heard something incredible.

Youyou’s biological mother?

In order not to worry Youyou like yesterday, Grandma Wu didn’t tell her anything this time and decided to wait until she met the so-called mother first, and then call Youyou if there was no issue.

At two in the afternoon, Xu Wenyin, wearing a mask and a simple white T-shirt, appeared in the office.

It was the same location but the other party was different.

Grandma Wu’s mood was very complicated. After all, the story was really so, so…… dramatic.

But when she saw Xu Wenyin take off her mask, her four or five points of belief immediately increased to six points.

Similar! So similar!

The woman and Youyou seemed to be carved from the same mold that most people would immediately think they were blood-related.

So much so that it would be really strange if the two people weren’t related at all.

As for the remaining four points, Granda Wu still needed to see before giving her seal of approval.

“Ms. Xu?”

Xu Youyou was the most beautiful child in the orphanage, so naturally, Xu Wenyin was also a beautiful woman. Grandma Wu estimated that the other party must be around 27 or 28 years old, which was a good age.

“Director Wu!” Contrary to Grandma Wu’s expectations, Xu Wenyin, who looked gentle and quiet, held her hands tightly as soon as she came over. “I-I really didn’t expect that I’ll be able to see my baby again in this lifetime. It’s all thanks to you!!!”

“……Ah, um, Ms. Xu, please calm down!”

“Wuuwuuwuu, my poor daughter didn’t have her mother with her after she was born. I feel really sorry for her!”

Grandma Wu’s comforting words had no effect. After speaking, tears welled up in Xu Wenyin’s eyes and it looked like it could fall at any given time. Even a woman would feel distressed when seeing her expression.

Thinking of the police officer’s words on the phone that morning, if all of it was true, Grandma Wu couldn’t help but feel sorry for this ill-fated woman.

About three years ago, a major magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Yu County. Along with the fact that it happened at night, it was really like hell on earth, and the death toll was counted in the tens of thousands.

Xu Wenyin was nine months pregnant at that time. She was lucky enough to survive the earthquake, but unfortunately, she was about to give birth.

Even if pregnant women have been given priority, the condition of medical facilities was still very constrained.

Coupled with the fact that Xu Wenyin herself wasn’t in the best of health, she tragically passed away after trying her best to give birth to a child and give the baby a name.

It was so chaotic at that time and the bodies should have been cremated uniformly, but whether anything went wrong in the middle of the process was anyone’s guess.

In ancient times, the concept of resurrection from death was definitely regarded as an evil thing, but modern science uncovered several cases of suspended animation, and the principles could be clearly explained to people.

Just like Xu Wenyin who suddenly appeared right now.

When Grandma Wu got Xu Youyou, the person in charge also investigated the situation. Xu Wenyin herself was an orphan. Her parents died early and her grandparents and other immediate family members also passed away one after another before she reached adulthood.

Other relatives regarded her as the bearer of ill luck and kicked her out as soon as she came of age. In addition, those relatives were thousands of miles away and they just hung up the phone whenever the police called, which showed their attitude.

The child’s father was unknown. Xu Wenyin’s legal marital status was unmarried, and no one came to see her afterward. So in the end, the child ended up at Chunxiao Orphanage.

“Director Wu, I really, really didn’t think I……”

Xu Wenyin’s experience in the past three years was also very bizarre. According to her, she woke up in a cabin without any memory.

The old man who picked her up said he found her by the river with only one breath left, but she managed to survive.

For some unknown reason, the old man was living alone in the barren mountains and rarely went down. But occasionally, he would go to the river to catch some fish to improve his meal.

There he found Xu Wenyin by chance.

However, it takes two or three hours to walk to the nearest village on the rugged mountain path. Xu Wenyin couldn’t go alone in her current condition. The old man wouldn’t help her contact people or anything, so she could only stay there temporarily.

That stay lasted for half a year. Before Xu Wenyin could go out to find someone, the old man passed away first.

Xu Wenyin didn’t know where to go since she lost her memory. At least there was a shelter there, so she decided to stay on the mountain for another half a year.

What happened next was even more bizarre.

She finally made it down the mountain but was tricked into being sold to some old bachelor. After going through all kinds of hardships to escape, she fell off a cliff and narrowly escaped death. Fortunately, the knowledge of wilderness survival she learned from the old man had kept Xu Wenyin alive. Then she spent almost a year as a savage at the bottom of the cliff.

What followed was another cycle of leaving the mountain, being tricked, and escaping.

According to Xu Wenyin herself, she had encountered at least four pyramid schemes and three trafficking groups, but she was lucky enough to escape from them all.

The police officers who heard this at that time and Grandma Wu who heard it later: “……”

How to put it? It’s miserable, yet luck was there too!

The last time, Xu Wenyin met someone who claimed to know her. But she ran away again after discovering something was wrong with him. However, she accidentally hit her head in the process and that was when she recovered her memory.

And since she had no identification, the journey she had to get there was arduous.

“But it’s alright, as long as I can see Youyou, nothing else matters to me.” Xu Wenyin turned her head, seemingly reaching out to wipe her tears, before looking at Grandma Wu tearfully. “Director Wu, can I see Youyou?”

She didn’t have much time and had to wrap things up in two hours, thus this conversation and performance had been rehearsed by ‘Xu Wenyin’ many times yesterday.

Fortunately, when she was in system school, the acting class was the only subject where she could get high marks. Looking at Grandma Wu, she must have been moved!

Sure enough, facing Xu Wenyin’s request, Grandma Wu couldn’t say no.

After she asked Xu Wenyin to sit there for a while, she went out to find Xu Youyou, but she didn’t expect to see a familiar little head at the corner just a few steps out of the office.

“Youyou?”

Grandma Wu was startled. “Why are you here?”

Her office wasn’t in a good location and the children usually don’t come there.

It didn’t seem like Xu Youyou was there by coincidence.

Hearing her, Xu Youyou looked up at Grandma Wu, on her face was uncontrollable joy. “Grandma Wu, has Mom come to pick up Youyou?”

Grandma Wu was instantly surprised. “How did you know?”

She had just found out about this matter in the morning and hadn’t told anyone else apart from one orphanage aunt. Moreover, she had told the other party not to tell Xu Youyou about it for the time being.

Only then did Xu Youyou realize that she seemed to have gotten too excited and exposed something.

Mom clearly said they should treat it as their first time meeting!

What to do, what to do?

Will Mom be captured by bad guys?

Grandma Wu never expected that one question would make Xu Youyou cry!

“Youyou, don’t cry, don’t cry. What’s wrong?”

Xu Youyou has a pair of big watery eyes. When she smiles, her eyes would slightly curve. There’s no need to mention how cute she was, just like a newborn deer, pure yet with a hint of cleverness.

But now those eyes were filled with tears, which was particularly heartbreaking.

Xu Youyou’s mind was already blank at this time, but after hearing Grandma Wu’s question, she somehow remembered what her mother told her when she put her to bed last night.

“Grandma, I want Mom, Youyou wants Mom!”

Upon hearing her words, Grandma Wu immediately made up her mind. They say mother and daughter were connected. Did Youyou feel something, that’s why she ran over and said those words?

Thinking about it that way, it actually makes sense!

“There, there, Youyou, be good. Grandma will take Youyou to see Mom~”

After coaxing Xu Youyou for a while, Grandma Wu carried the child and walked towards the office, telling her a few things about Xu Wenyin. But of course, she wouldn’t tell a three-year-old about those bad experiences.

However, Xu Youyou, who buried her face in Grandma Wu’s arms, didn’t listen carefully to what Grandma Wu was saying. She was thinking proudly that her mother’s words were indeed right.

Last night, Xu Wenyin taught Xu Youyou a lot of survival knowledge, one of which was that if she encountered something she couldn’t handle, just cry and say she wanted to find her mother!

Xu Wenyin’s original intention was that since Xu Youyou was still young, she couldn’t run fast with her thin arms and legs. If she really encountered something, it would be faster and safer to go to her than to deal with it by herself. In case she wasn’t around, crying and making a fuss would also attract other people’s help.

But Xu Wenyin never thought that Xu Youyou would do it in this situation and that she would use it correctly?

Otherwise, if Grandma Wu suspected anything, it would cause trouble for Xu Wenyin.

“Mom!”

“Youyou!”

Xu Youyou, who finally met her mother, jumped over happily and buried herself in Xu Wenyin’s arms, rubbing her face against Xu Wenyin. Such a touching scene made Grandma Wu on the side couldn’t help but tear up.

It was a good thing Grandma Wu didn’t know what the young and old were thinking right now, otherwise, she would take back her tears for sure.

Xu Youyou: Mom is indeed as beautiful as Youyou~

Xu Wenyin: What the hell, the human body is so fragile. These two lumps on my chest hurt so much from the impact!