No one notified me in advance. Everyone in the end times is crazy.

Chapter 537 Turn Back, I'll Raise This Child with You

Yu Qingcheng only stayed at home for two days before leaving in a hurry.

He didn't show up again for the next six months, and because of his special status, he didn't even send Xiao Lili a single message.

Yu Qingcheng seemed to have vanished into thin air.

As Xiao Lili's pregnancy progressed, her life became increasingly inconvenient. Swelling in her feet, an inability to bend over, and the heavy belly often made it difficult for her to fall asleep.

Even at times like this, she would still give Yu Qingcheng a piece of her mind from afar.

"You damn man! You abandoned us, mother and daughter, you might as well just die out there! Wait till you get back, I'll give you a good beating!"

Her curse came true one day.

It was a morning news report that popped up on the AI, with the headline: "Drug dealer commits suicide with a gun after having nowhere to escape."

The head of the corpse in the picture is blurred, but the blood is still clearly visible.

Xiao Lili recognized the man as Yu Qingcheng from the ring on his left ring finger.

She refused to believe it and contacted Yu Qingcheng, only to find that his AI account had been cancelled.

All the facts pointed to the truth. Xiao Lili was not so grief-stricken as to cry. She sat there without shedding a single tear, unusually calm.

After thinking for a moment, she made a video call to someone.

[Who was he calling? The lord of the second city?]

Just as Luo Shiyu was wondering what was going on, the video call connected, and a woman in military uniform appeared before her eyes. She had her hair in a high ponytail and was holding a document that she was working on halfway through. She looked very capable.

Luo Shiyu felt that this person looked familiar, but before he could remember who it was, Xiao Lili called out, "Ayu."

[Nan Yu! Nan Xing's mother actually knows Xiao Lili?]

Nan Yu in the video scoffed, pushed up her glasses with her middle finger, and said sarcastically, "What? Now that your man's dead, you know to come looking for me?"

Luo Shiyu sensed the gossip and a smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.

【There must be something going on here.】

Xiao Lili, who was usually quick to anger, was not provoked by Nan Yu's words. Her voice was flat and emotionless: "I need to talk to you."

Nan Yu tossed the documents in her hand onto the table and said with interest, "What is it? Go ahead. If you want me to raise this child with you, that's fine."

"Please contact Fu Hua for me."

Nan Yu narrowed her eyes slightly and asked warily, "What do you want with him? Are you planning to find him to take over your life after your man's death?"

"I want him to claim Kiyosumi's body."

"Huh? Are you kidding me? Why would you let him claim your man's body? Besides, this is a crucial time for him to establish a positive image and take over as commander. How could he possibly claim the body of a drug dealer? I advised you to give up. I told you long ago that you shouldn't marry this man, you just wouldn't listen. Now look what happened, you've fallen for it!"

"Then I'll go claim it myself."

Nan Yushuang braced herself on the table, stood up from her chair, leaned forward, and angrily said to Xiao Lili's projection, "Are you crazy? Don't you understand a word I'm saying? He's a drug dealer. Do you know what it means for you to claim his body? All those families that were broken up because of drug addiction will blame you, even if none of this has anything to do with you."

Xiao Lili stroked the photo of her and Yu Qingcheng, remained silent for a moment, and said, "I considered all of this before contacting you. He is my husband, and I cannot let his body be left in the cold morgue."

“Xiao Lili! Has Yu Qingcheng bewitched you? What’s so great about him that he’s doing this for you? Don’t forget, you have an unborn child. Come back, okay? I can raise him with you, and Xingxing can be his older sister. Just like we said when we were kids, we won’t rely on any man, we’ll each have a child together and live together.”

"Thank you for your kindness, but... it's not necessary."

“Why…” Nan Yu slumped into the chair, completely powerless. She murmured regretfully, “If I had known, I shouldn’t have taken you to visit the base. That way, you wouldn’t have bumped into Yu Qingcheng coming out of the restroom, and none of this would have happened.”

[Good heavens, it turns out Nan Yu was the one who accidentally brought Xiao Lili and Yu Qingcheng together.]

Xiao Lili's words were full of determination: "Things have come to this, so let's not talk about the past. Our statuses are now vastly different. You will be the new commander's right-hand man, while I am just a commoner. This kind of relationship...we should not contact each other again. I don't want others to use me to mock you."

"What do you mean by that? Do you think I'm the kind of person who cares about these things?"

"But I do care." Xiao Lili lowered her head and looked at her belly, which was being kicked and bulging. She knew that the little one inside was being naughty again.

She cradled her pregnant belly, smiling inappropriately.

Nan Yu felt that she couldn't bear her husband's death and had gone mad.

"Nan Yu, can I ask you for one last favor?"

"Say whatever you want, your matter is not a problem for me."

"Then please tell Fu Hua that he has repaid the kindness of his parents in saving Yu Qingcheng from the ghost tide with his life. From now on, please do not ask about or interfere in anything concerning me and this child. I do not want the child in my womb to follow the same path as his father."

"I'll pass that on."

"Thank you, Ayu." Xiao Lili smiled at her one last time, hung up the phone, deleted her contact information, and completely severed ties with Nan Yu.

[I never imagined she had such a past. Now I can understand why Nan Yu laughed when she mentioned not having a husband.]

Xiao Lili went to the Ministry of Public Security to complete the procedures for identifying the body. Passersby whispered among themselves and looked at her with strange eyes.

Xiao Lili didn't care at all; she had already prepared herself for gossip before even stepping into this place.

When the staff opened the refrigerated cabinet for the body and tried to pull open the body bag, Xiao Lili stopped them.

"Can I do it myself?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you outside." The staff here had witnessed too many partings and deaths, so they wisely closed the door and went outside to wait.

Xiao Lili gripped the zipper; something that should have been easy to open felt incredibly heavy in her hands.

The zipper slowly opened, and that familiar face reappeared before my eyes.

Xiao Lili's strength crumbled the moment she saw Yu Qingcheng.

She collapsed to the ground, clutching Yu Qingcheng's body, her hand trembling as she reached out to stroke her lover's face—the face she had fallen in love with at first sight, now devoid of warmth.

My fingers traced his eyes, those eyes that would captivate you at first glance, but they wouldn't open.

His tightly closed lips had long since lost their color, and he would never utter a single word like "wife."

Xiao Lili leaned down, and Luo Shiyu, thinking she was going to kiss Yu Qingcheng, sensibly turned away and stopped looking.