"You two are always arguing. All you do is argue all day long. I get so annoyed just looking at you two."

Grandpa Gu looked at Li Yaxian not far away and gave her a cold shoulder.

"Didn't I tell you not to disturb the Gu family's life anymore? Why are you here again? I warned you not to get close to my son. You've already ruined him enough. What do you want from him?"

Li Yaxian was about to say something when Gu Yuanhong spoke first, "It wasn't her who came to us on her own initiative; I asked her to come. But I assure you... I asked her to come here because of some things; I urgently need to know the truth."

"Now that Mom and Dad are back, let's listen to them together. These things are also closely related to you."

Gu Yuanhong's words caught the attention of the two elders.

"Speak. What is it?"

Grandpa Gu was very impatient. He still had to prepare gifts for his five great-grandchildren and didn't have time to waste with these two lunatics.

Nothing compares to his great-grandchildren.

Unlike Grandpa Gu, Yan Yan noticed something was wrong. Her son's eyes were swollen; he must have been crying.

She knew her son well; he wouldn't cry for no reason. She had never seen her son cry since he was a child.

Today, for the first time ever, I saw that his eyes were swollen like walnuts.

She walked to Gu Yuanhong's side, patted her son's shoulder, a stark contrast to the old man, and asked softly.

"Has something happened?"

Upon hearing his mother's words, Gu Yuanhong could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

“Mom! Do you know how outrageous Li Yaxian is? I never pressured her to have a son, but she took someone else’s child and made me raise it. She heartlessly threw away my own daughter. How cruel she is.”

Upon hearing this devastating news, Yan Yan's hand, which was patting Gu Yuanhong's trembling back, froze. She stood there stiffly, her eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

She suspected she was hallucinating.

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Exactly. What nonsense are you talking about? Si Nian looks so much like me when I was young. He's definitely a member of the Gu family. How could he not be? This joke is really not funny at all."

Gu Yuanhong's eyes were red from crying, and his voice was hoarse as he said, "But I have investigated very clearly, and Gu Sinian is really not my biological son."

"Then why does he look so much like me?"

Gu Yuanhong scoffed, "You'd have to ask Ms. Li Yaxian. She's a very smart person. I used to say she was stupid and clumsy, and that she could be easily fooled if you weren't watching her closely."

"It's all just a disguise. They're so clever. They were afraid that if they just brought any child back, our Gu family would notice something was wrong. So they found a branch of the Gu family and made a deal with those Gu family members who had never spoken to them before, selecting those who looked like our Gu family members."

"It didn't take long to find a target. We also found out that the two children were due around the same time, so we asked my mother-in-law to go to the countryside to find someone to bring the couple to the city to prepare for the birth."

"They consulted a traditional Chinese medicine doctor beforehand and knew it was a son... and Gu Dabao, a member of a collateral branch of the Gu family, agreed to the deal."

"After all, they already have two sons, so having another daughter wouldn't be a problem. They also want a daughter."

"Gu's eldest son broke his leg and needed a lot of money. Knowing that exchanging children would bring him money and give him another daughter, he thought it was a win-win situation and agreed."

Yan Yan couldn't believe the bad news at all. She trembled as she grabbed Gu Yuanhong's hand and asked.

"This is impossible, absolutely impossible! You're lying to Mom, aren't you? Si Nian is my precious grandson, right?"

Gu Yuanhong didn't know what to say. In fact, because of Li Yaxian since childhood, he wasn't very close to Gu Sinian.

Knowing now that he's not my son, my heart aches so much, and tears are streaming down my face.

"Li Yaxian, I just want to know if Qiao Xiyan is our second daughter?"

Upon hearing Gu Yuanhong ask this question, Yan Yan leaned weakly against the sofa. She didn't want to ask anything anymore; she had no strength left to ask.

The news was more and more devastating than the last; her heart simply couldn't take it.

Grandpa Gu was equally shocked, plopping down on the sofa in fright, waiting to hear even more explosive news.

What could be more heartbreaking than knowing that Gu Sinian, such a good boy, isn't his biological grandson?

He sat there with a look of utter despair, waiting for them to explain things clearly.

Li Yaxian didn't know why things had turned out this way. She had disguised herself very well. Her mother and Old Mrs. Qiao, who knew the truth, had both passed away, and no one would know her secret.

She didn't know where things went wrong and how they ended up like this.

She had handled things properly with Gu Dabao, so why was the matter still dug up?

She had no idea what was going on, nor had she heard that Gu Dabao had come to claim the child.

She knelt directly in front of Gu Yuanhong to repent, crying so miserably that anyone who didn't know better would think she was mourning a funeral.

"I'm sorry, Yuan Hong, I really didn't mean it. After I gave birth to Si Qing, my mother told me to quickly have a son to secure my position."

“Back then, you left early and came home late, and you got promoted very quickly. I was afraid that if I didn’t have a son to rely on, you would really abandon me. That’s why my mother and I came up with this idea.”

"This might be karma. In order to give birth on the same day so that I could switch babies without you finding out, I asked the doctor to prescribe labor-inducing drugs. The baby was born very weak, and I was left with health problems. When I was about to give the baby to Gu Dabao..."

"Suddenly I heard Grandma Qiao crying loudly in the operating room not far away. When I went over to take a look, I found out that she hadn't been watching the child, and the child had accidentally rolled down the stairs and died."

“I saw her crying her heart out, and an idea popped into my head. I suggested to her that we use a fake to exchange our daughter for the eldest daughter of the Qiao family.”

"My original intention was that the Qiao family also lived in a military compound, so that I could see my daughter whenever I missed her in the future."

Upon hearing this, Yan Yan understood what had happened. "It turns out that Grandma Qiao suddenly took her granddaughter back to the countryside to cover up her secret."

Li Yaxian nodded, "I told Grandma Gu Qiao that for the sake of family harmony, I had no choice but to risk using my method. I claimed that I found the child."

“I gave Grandma Qiao’s eldest granddaughter to Zhang Dabao and had him deceive his wife by holding the child. Everything was so flawless. Who discovered the clues?”

Gu Yuanhong gave a sneer, "It must have been someone who dislikes you who told me about your secret."

After hearing the whole story, Yan Yan finally couldn't take it anymore and fainted completely.

Before she fainted, she kept saying it was impossible; she couldn't accept that Qiao Xiyan was her granddaughter.

How could her granddaughter be the kind of wicked woman who had done all sorts of bad things? She couldn't believe it, she just fainted.

"Mom! Mom! Mom! Wake up!"