Fu Jun: "Good girl, if you're sick, you have to be cured. Do you understand?"Tangtang was depressed: "Even if I'm not sick, I'll have to make you go crazy!"Fu Jun: "Only then will you be pregnant. Do you understand!?"Tangtang cried: Uncle, I invited you here to see the illness in my leg!

It begins with the arrival not of a detective, but of disaster: Badfort is for sale, but when Uncle decides to buy it, demolish it, and build a pleasantly appointed park on the site, he is forestalled. Beaver Hateman has sold it cheaply to someone on the condition that he, Hateman, is allowed to stay on as a paying guest. Forgetting that the man who has bought Badfort is certain to regret the "bargain", Uncle tries to console himself by continuing his never-ending exploration of Homeward. He soon discovers the mysterious Crack House - lair of a vicious and horribly squawking creature, half-bat, half-bird, called Batty - where there are rumours of buried treasure. Uncle is in need of a detective . . .

She was a beautiful daughter of a wealthy family. He was a bloodthirsty killer and a cold-blooded CEO! Three years ago, in order to escape from marriage, she ran to a random "duck" in a hotel and left in a hurry! Who would have thought that despite not being able to escape his marriage, he would find out that he was pregnant on the second day of marriage?! Three years ago, he had been mysteriously toyed with in the hotel by a crazy woman who later tipped him with a diamond ring she claimed was her wedding ring. Staring at the diamond ring, he was stunned ...

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