Ji Qingwu instantly understood her meaning.
Qi Peiyao gently stroked her belly, again and again.
"Take that trembling, terrified village woman from today. If something were to happen to her child one day, she would surely demand my child's life in return."
Ji Qingwu said, "You've thought this through completely."
This was indeed a source of instability. The human heart is the last thing you can rely on when put to the test.
'If I were in her shoes, I wouldn't feel at ease either.'
Ji Qingwu thought for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "But I was also kidnapped and brought here."
'Why isn't Qi Peiyao worried I'll do something bad?'
Qi Peiyao propped her head up on the couch, her hand fiddling with the wheat-stalk tassels on a pellet drum that sat on the wooden table beside her.
"That's right, you were kidnapped and brought here too. But then again, who wasn't?"
'So Qi Peiyao was also captured and brought to the village…'
