After glancing outside, Chaochao tapped his watch phone and said in a slightly hurried tone, "Eagle, my mother's second personality has appeared. She has already left the manor. You must protect her. Also, tell Nan Yi that he and his people must not go near my mother. I'm afraid she might hurt them."
A bloodthirsty excitement flashed in Eagle's eyes. "Yes, young master."
Chaochao frowned slightly. "Don't help her do anything illegal. When my mother returns, if she finds out you helped her do bad things, she'll send you back to the base."
The excitement in Eagle's eyes vanished instantly. "Yes, young master... Xi Zhu called me."
"Open the link I sent you first, then answer her call," Chaochao said, tapping his small hand to send a file. Then, he made a shushing gesture to Lan Haolin and Mu Mu.
Mu Mu, with a tearful face, tightly grasped her grandfather's hand.
Lan Haolin sighed and bent down to pick up the little one.
Through the earpiece, Lan Yuxi's cold, piercing voice soon came.
"Assemble the team and follow me to Hua Country."
"Yes! Xi Zhu, may I ask what the mission is? So I can arrange the appropriate people."
"Killing!"
"...Who is the target?"
"Fu Rui Xi! Nan Xiao!"
Chaochao's pupils contracted sharply upon hearing his father's name.
"Xi Zhu, Fu Rui Xi can be killed, but Mr. Nan is your husband, this..."
"Shut up and make the arrangements! Meet me at Xiwannuo Airport in an hour."
"Yes!"
After Eagle hung up, Chaochao looked up at Lan Haolin. "Grandpa, you must immediately call your people and tell them to keep their distance from my mother. She's even going to kill my father, so your people are also in danger."
Lan Haolin nodded. "I will inform them and your father."
"I'll tell my father," Chaochao said with a cold expression. "My mother's second personality appearing suddenly must be related to my father. I need to find out what happened. Also, my mother's second personality doesn't recognize me and my sister, but this time she recognized us. I suspect that this time both her first and second personalities are coexisting."
Lan Haolin was slightly taken aback. "That's possible?"
"I've studied cases like my mother's. Under certain specific circumstances, two personalities can coexist. I suspect my father pushed my mother to the extreme, and she couldn't bear to harm him, so she allowed the second personality to coexist with her. Otherwise, with her personality, she would rather self-harm than let the second personality take over her body."
Lan Haolin reached out and stroked his head. "You understand your mother best. You communicate with your father first, and I'll discuss the next steps with your uncles."
Chaochao nodded and reached out to catch his sister as she slid from her grandfather's arms.
Mu Mu pouted and pointed at the bloodstain on the blanket. "Brother, look, Mommy coughed up blood."
Chaochao pursed his lips and nodded. "I saw it. Let's go back to the room to call Dad."
The siblings held hands and returned to the children's room.
Chaochao took out his phone and sent a video invitation to Nan Xiao.
Nan Xiao quickly answered the call. "Chaochao, Mu Mu... Where's Mommy? Is she still not awake?"
Seeing her father, Mu Mu burst into tears. "Daddy, Mommy coughed up blood..."
Nan Xiao panicked when he heard this. "How did Mommy cough up blood? Is she tired?"
Chaochao handed Mu Mu a tissue and then asked in a deep voice, "My mother must have been extremely stimulated to cough up blood. Also, her second personality has taken the dominant position. Have you contacted her or done anything to anger her in the last ten-plus hours?"
Nan Xiao was taken aback. "No, I've been contacting Grandpa and you two for the past few days, afraid of disturbing her."
Chaochao took his laptop and opened a software. "Then what were you doing after she returned from the hospital today? Specifically, what were you doing at eleven o'clock in the evening in Hua Country?"
"I was back at the old house. It was your Uncle Xiang Dong's birthday last night, and we had a small celebration for him. After drinking, I slept at the old house... Why are you asking this?"
"At eleven o'clock your time, my mother called you."
"Impossible. The first thing I do when I wake up is check my phone. I have no missed calls."
"I installed software on my mother's phone that can view her chat history. She did call you. The call lasted thirty seconds. After that, you called her back with a video call, and it wasn't long either."
"If that's the case, then my phone might have been tampered with. I'll have your Uncle Xiang Bei restore my call records."
"No need, I'll restore them for you. If your phone was tampered with, then there might be a traitor among those around you. From now on, don't trust anyone. Also, I have some bad news for you. My mother is flying to Hua Country in an hour. She's asked Eagle to assemble the most skilled assassins. Her targets are you and Fu Rui Xi."
Nan Xiao's pupils contracted sharply. "She wants to kill me?!"
"Yes! However, it's not my mother who wants to kill you, it's her second personality. We must find out what you did while you were asleep that not only forced her second personality out but also angered her to the point of wanting to kill you."
Nan Xiao frowned slightly. "I'll check the recordings. You restore my call records first."
Mu Mu held her brother's hand and cried, "Daddy, you must be careful. I don't want you to die."
"You won't. Not only will Daddy not die, but I will also find Mommy. No one will break up our family of four!"
Chaochao said gravely, "Dad, don't think you still have time. Mei Xi's people are everywhere. Perhaps Mommy has already arranged for people to wait for you to walk into her trap. Also, you need to find that Fu Rui Xi as soon as possible. Mommy's hands shouldn't be stained with blood."
"I know, I'll handle it."
After hanging up the phone, Nan Xiao drove back to the old house alone without informing anyone. When he accessed the recordings, he found that a few minutes were missing, and he knew that this matter had escalated.
In the past, he would have passed these matters onto Nan Xiang Bei, but this time he handled everything himself without notifying anyone.
The restored recordings showed a servant secretly bringing a man and a woman into the old house, settling them in the place where Lan Yuxi had previously lived. It was this servant who took his phone while he was asleep, precisely at eleven o'clock.
Nan Xiao's face darkened, and he quickly walked out. However, when he went to the servant's residence, the person was already gone.
Nan Xiao clenched his fingers and drove straight to the servant's home.
The servant's surname was Nan, a distant relative of the Nan family, and lived in the far suburbs of the southern city.
Following the address he had left when he was hired, Nan Xiao kicked open his house door.