Actually, Qi Shanhe wanted to ransom that girl from the Qianse House because he's been eager for a son all these years.
Qi Shanhe is thirty-seven years old and only has one daughter, and his wife Xing Shi hasn't gotten pregnant since she gave birth to Xiaosui.
In Yu Xiaolian's mind, Qi Shanhe isn't really a bad person; he's just dumb.
How dumb can Qi Shanhe be? So much so that he doesn't even know how to properly do a bad deed.
This time, for example, he teamed up with people from the Zhao Family Gambling House to spread the news that he owed them money—an incredibly foolish move.
A student of the Confucian classics being a hopeless gambler, Qi Shanhe himself ruined his own reputation.
And all this is just for a child that he doesn't even know if it's his own flesh and blood.
"So... why doesn't Qi Shanhe just tell the truth to his mother instead of trying to ransom the girl?" Yu Changhe really couldn't understand why Qi Shanhe was putting on this act.
