Cici's climbing body suddenly froze.
"No! No, please! Gu Miao!" Cici suddenly fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably.
Cici held Gu Miao's small face, patting it over and over, her vision blurring and clearing, clearing and blurring.
The flames behind her still roared, and the remains of the thugs were still there.
But Cici couldn't see anything anymore!
She kept calling out to Gu Miao, but Gu Miao's small body lay quietly on the ground, completely still.
Cici grabbed Gu Miao's little hand and pressed it to her own face, her tears falling onto Gu Miao's cheeks, slowly washing away the dirt.
"Gu Miao, wake up! Mommy promised you, Mommy wants you, Mommy accepts you! Please wake up, okay? Mommy will never leave you again, Mommy will never abandon you again! Gu Miao, you said it yourself, you're a man, you have to protect Mommy! You can't break your promise! You've only been my son for three days, how can you leave Mommy behind already?" Cici cried and shouted at the same time.
"Gu Miao, wake up! Didn't you say you wanted to stay with me forever? Didn't you say you wanted Mommy? I'm right here!! Wake up! Please, wake up!" Cici desperately kissed Gu Miao's forehead, shaking his tiny body.
"Cici..." Rona Muir was stunned too. She wanted to go check on Gu Miao.
Unexpectedly, Cici hugged Gu Miao tightly, refusing to let anyone touch him.
Ethan Yin came running out of the house just then, standing at the doorway, unmoving.
Ethan's sharp eyes swept over the neighboring house, then quickly looked away.
A pair of leather shoes appeared in Cici's line of sight, followed by a hand reaching out to her: "Give me the child."
Cici instantly hugged Gu Miao even tighter.
"Get lost, he's my son!" Cici didn't even look at the person, her voice cold as ice. "Don't touch my son!"
Charles Yin's fingers froze.
He hadn't expected Cici's reaction to be so intense.
Had they gone too far this time?
At that moment, Cici hugged Gu Miao with a look of utter despair, stabbing Charles right in the heart.
"Be good, listen, give me the child." Even though Cici was fierce and harsh toward Charles Yin, he remained patient: "He's not dead. Really, he's just asleep... really, just asleep... Look, check his breathing, he's still breathing."
Cici looked at Charles suspiciously, half-believing, half-doubting, and shakily reached out to test Gu Miao's breath under his nose—
A deep, strong breath suddenly blew onto Cici's fingers.
Cici was stunned.
She was completely stunned.
Breathing?
He isn't dead?
Cici quickly turned Gu Miao's body over and saw a bright, shiny syringe stuck in his backside.
A... a syringe...?
Rona Muir, standing off to the side, seemed to understand something. She watched coldly, clearly displeased with Charles Yin.
Hmph, now you've gone too far, haven't you?
Let's see how you clean up this mess!
Ethan Yin carefully tugged at Cici's sleeve and said, "Mommy, big brother is just asleep! Let's hurry and let him rest inside."
He mixed the medicine himself—of course he knew why Gu Miao was asleep.
It wasn't poison at all—it was... anesthesia!
Just as Cici was about to get up, she suddenly felt dizzy, and fell backward!
As expected, Charles Yin caught Cici in his arms.
"Someone, take them back to their rooms to rest." Charles Yin picked Cici up in his arms and strode inside.
Rona Muir, standing to the side, said, "Charles Yin, you really went too far this time, didn't you? You could've at least given me a heads up!"
Charles Yin usually couldn't be bothered to explain himself, but since she was the children's godmother, and she'd just risked her life to protect them, he decided to say a few words.
"If Cici doesn't experience a life-and-death separation, how can she quickly accept these two children? Instead of waiting and hoping for some uncertain, possibly never-returning memory, it's better to let her step into the role of mother as soon as possible. Life-and-death moments are the easiest way to discover one's true feelings. Her performance tonight was perfect, wasn't it?"
After saying this, Charles Yin carried Cici inside.
At the doorway, Charles Yin stopped again and said, "Don't tell her about what happened tonight."
"How am I supposed to keep lying?" Rona Muir was so angry her chest felt like it would explode. "I don't mind you chasing your wife across the world, but do you have to go this far? You almost fooled me too!"
"Those people weren't acting on my orders." Charles Yin tossed out this line and carried Cici inside.
Gu Miao was also carried inside by Alex. When he reached Rona Muir, Alex whispered, "Those people are local arms dealers. This place is one of the black market outposts. We just found out today, and when the president learned there would be a deal tonight, he ordered people to set up an ambush."
Rona Muir slammed the gun in her hand hard onto the ground!
What does that even mean!
Playing me for a fool!
No wonder Sean Kerr is getting more cunning these days! He must've learned it all from Charles Yin!
Hmph, Charles Yin, just you wait!
Ethan Yin came over, grabbed Rona Muir's hand, shook it, and looked at her with pitiful, pleading eyes: "Godmother..."
"Did you know about this ahead of time too? Hmm?" Rona Muir squinted dangerously at Ethan Yin.
Ethan shrank his neck and said, "We only found out after we got here that this place was a trading post..."
Rona Muir really wanted to sigh to the heavens!
She must've been enemies with the Yin family in a past life!
Father and son teaming up to mess with her!
"When Mommy wakes up, we'll just say Daddy was never here..." Ethan Yin saw Rona Muir was truly angry and immediately unleashed his unbeatable pleading skills: "Godmother, godmother, please! Don't tell Mommy, okay? Gu Miao and I finally found Mommy, and finally got her to accept us. If Mommy finds out, she'll definitely leave us and go back to France!! Godmother, you don't want to lose Mommy too, right? Please help us! We promise, we'll never do this again! I swear, I promise! Godmother..."
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Watching Ethan Yin act cute with her, Rona Muir really didn't know what to say.
"So tell me, how are we supposed to explain things when your mom wakes up?" Rona Muir asked, clearly annoyed.
"That's easy! Just say Mommy was traumatized and had a hallucination. The daddy she saw was just a hallucination!" Ethan Yin answered matter-of-factly.
Rona Muir was completely speechless!
Ethan Yin! Did you inherit that scheming nature from your dad?
You're only three, and already so scheming—is that really okay?
"And then?" Rona Muir suddenly felt her intelligence was being mocked by a three-year-old!
"We were attacked, so of course we can't vacation here anymore. Tomorrow morning we'll all return to Paris, and Gu Miao and I will need Mommy's comfort, then we'll spend a quiet weekend at home with her." Ethan Yin answered as if it was obvious.
Rona Muir stared at Ethan Yin for a long time before finally saying, "You really are Charles Yin's son! You couldn't fake it if you tried! That scheming nature—it's exactly the same as your dad's!"
Even though Rona Muir didn't want to go along with it, she had no choice!
Because Gu Miao woke up!
Gu Miao lay in bed for a whole hour before finally waking up, groggy and slow.
Cici had been so frightened earlier that she still hadn't woken up.
As soon as Gu Miao opened her eyes, she saw her mom lying beside her, still asleep.
Gu Miao glanced at Ethan Yin and couldn't help but ask, "Wasn't I the one who fainted? Why did Mommy faint too?"
Rona Muir rolled her eyes dramatically from the side.
Ethan Yin looked up at the ceiling: "Mommy thought you died, and cried so hard she couldn't even walk. Then, when she heard you weren't dead, she got so tense and then so relieved, she passed out! I kind of wish I could get a shot for Mommy too..."
Rona Muir:
Gu Miao nodded, "Alright, next time it's your turn!"
Rona Muir:
Ethan Yin: "Then it's settled! Let's make sure our stories match. Tonight, someone else saved us—Daddy was never here."
Gu Miao: "Okay."
Rona Muir:
Ethan Yin: "If Mommy insists she saw Daddy, we have to stick to our story that it was just a hallucination. And we need to firmly tell her those terrorists used hallucinogens tonight!"
Gu Miao: "Okay!"
Rona Muir:
Rona Muir felt the world's malice pressing in on her.
All these kids are so meticulous and logical, and their cover-up is perfect. How am I supposed to keep up?
Ethan Yin reached out to check on Cici and quickly said, "Mommy will wake up soon. Everyone, get into position!"
Gu Miao immediately cooperated, lying back down and pretending to be unconscious.
Rona Muir was still standing off to the side when Ethan Yin hurried over and pulled her, "Godmother, right now you should be very nervous and upset, waiting for the police to arrive!"
Rona Muir nodded along for no reason... Wait, that's right, why haven't the police arrived yet?
Even though this was the outskirts of Paris, the explosion happened quite a while ago—why haven't the police shown up yet?
Ethan Yin said calmly, "It's fine, they'll be here in ten minutes."
Rona Muir felt completely abandoned by the world!
Waa waa waa...
Ten minutes later, sure enough, Cici slowly woke up.
As soon as Cici opened her eyes, she looked around in confusion for a while, then suddenly sat up, "Gu Miao!"
Cici didn't even glance at Rona Muir, who was standing obviously nearby, and immediately turned to look everywhere for Gu Miao.
The moment Cici turned her head, she saw Gu Miao and Ethan Yin lying beside her, and tears started pouring out again!
"Gu Miao, Ethan! Wake up!" Cici still hadn't recovered from the earlier explosion and assassination attempt, convinced Gu Miao had been killed by the attackers!
At that moment, Gu Miao and Ethan Yin 'just happened' to wake up. Seeing Cici crying so miserably, they felt a bit guilty.
But in order to bring Mommy back to them quickly, they really had no choice! Sorry, Mommy!