"Pah!" Aunt Zhang spat at her crisply. "You didn't treat Qingyan well before, treating her like your own servant girl. Now you call her 'daughter' so affectionately. We all know Qingyan; she's not a petty person. If you had been nice to Qingyan before, would she have ignored you?"

"I."

Lin Sisi pulled Fang Huilan again, "Mom, can't you just stop talking?"

Seeing the disdainful looks around her, Fang Huilan followed Lin Sisi's advice and remained silent.

Lin Sisi pulled her to stand at the very edge of the crowd, trying to avoid the strange looks from everyone.

Xu Xinning stood in the crowd, quietly observing everything unfolding before her. From Fang Huilan and Lin Qingyan's conversation, she learned that Lin Qingyan's biological mother had died when Lin Qingyan was young, and Fang Huilan was Lin Qingyan's stepmother. So, that jade pendant…

Other images flashed through her mind instantly: Granny Lin, Dong Yue, they all treated Lin Qingyan very well, which she found quite strange.

Connecting this to the jade pendant, and considering a certain possibility, her pupils suddenly dilated considerably. Could that jade pendant have belonged to Lin Qingyan's mother, and after Lin Qingyan's mother died, it was taken away by Fang Huilan and given to Lin Sisi?

Therefore, Lin Qingyan's mother is Dong Lianxin, and Lin Qingyan is Dong Laoye's biological granddaughter.

He had heard from Grandpa Dong that Dong Lianxin was very talented in medicine and had achieved great success at a young age. Lin Qingyan was also very accomplished in medicine. Did she inherit Dong Lianxin's talent?

She looked at Lin Qingyan in disbelief. For a moment, she felt that Lin Qingyan and Granny Lin shared a similar charm.

She was immediately terrified by this conjecture, even more so than when she first learned that Lin Sisi was Old Master Dong's granddaughter.

Because Lin Qingyan is smarter and stronger than Lin Sisi, and she is also liked by Grandma Lin and her third brother.

If she considers Lin Qingyan an enemy, then Lin Qingyan will be a formidable adversary.

Whether at work or in the struggle for power within the Dong family.

Suddenly someone shouted that the bus was coming, and everyone around rushed towards it. Xu Xinning had no desire to go shopping at the department store anymore, but she still had to go in order to find out some things.

Whether she's with Lin Qingyan or with Fang Huilan and her daughter Lin Sisi, she has a chance to get the information she wants.

She needs to find out whether Lin Qingyan's mother is actually Dong Lianxin.

She squeezed onto the bus with the crowd, but there were no seats left, so she stood holding onto the handrail.

She glanced around the carriage. Lin Qingyan and Fang Huilan, mother and daughter, both had seats. She didn't have a seat, but she could move around freely in the carriage. Her gaze lingered between Lin Qingyan and Lin Sisi twice, wondering whether she should go find Lin Qingyan or Lin Sisi and her daughter.

She thought about it briefly. Lin Qingyan was quite clever. If she asked Lin Qingyan about the other party's mother or subtly brought up the other party's family affairs, Lin Qingyan might suspect her motives.

She could tell that Lin Qingyan didn't want to air her family's dirty laundry and become a laughingstock. If she went to Lin Qingyan to discuss her family affairs, Lin Qingyan might not only suspect her motives but might also refuse to talk about it.

If that jade pendant belonged to Lin Qingyan's mother and is now being worn by Lin Sisi, and Lin Qingyan hasn't asked her for it, it must be because Lin Qingyan doesn't know that the jade pendant is on Lin Sisi. She can't tell Lin Qingyan where the jade pendant is.

After thinking it over, she decided to go find Lin Sisi and Fang Huilan.

At first, I just chatted with them for a few minutes without mentioning their family matters.

The bus entered the city more than half an hour later and stopped at the bus stop outside the department store. Lin Qingyan, Aunt Zhang, and Yang Qiuyue got off the bus together, while Xu Xinning, Lin Sisi, and Fang Huilan got off the bus together.

The post office here is not far from the department store. Lin Qingyan and the others went to the post office first, while Xu Xinning, Fang Huilan, and Lin Sisi went to the department store.

Fang Huilan was still holding a grudge because Lin Qingyan had just humiliated her. After getting out of the car, she took advantage of Lin Qingyan's absence and began to pour out her grievances to Xu Xinning.

"Little Xu, your aunt is almost wronged to death. That brat, she lost her mother when she was three years old. I treated her very well after I came to the Lin family, but she falsely accused me of abusing her in front of so many people, not giving me any face at all."

People say being a stepmother is tough, and I've truly experienced it firsthand. No matter how good I am to her, just because I'm a stepmother, she despises me. Now that she's powerful and doesn't need me anymore, she'd rather kick me to the curb. Sigh, what can I do? I'm a stepmother; I'll never get any good treatment from her.

"Auntie, don't be angry. Getting angry is bad for your health. You're doing this for her own good, and if she doesn't appreciate it, so be it. It's not worth ruining your health because of her."

People say like mother, like daughter. Does that mean her biological mother is also unreasonable?

“Her biological mother was an idiot. She didn’t even know who she was and only dealt with medicine all day. She was only three years old when her biological mother passed away. She couldn’t teach her anything, so she must have inherited her biological mother’s idiocy and cold-heartedness.”

"Is her mother an idiot? Does she only know how to deal with medicine?"

Dong Lianxin suffered from amnesia when she left the Dong family. At the same time, she was also a medical genius.

Both of Fang Huilan's conditions matched Dong Lianxin's perfectly.

To further confirm whether Lin Qingyan's biological mother was indeed Dong Lianxin, she deliberately asked Fang Huilan, "Can an idiot make medicine?"

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