Ni Qianshan couldn't refute Ni Sitian's words, but he was unwilling to accept such accusations. He muttered, "Anyway, it was later proven that you weren't my biological child. I didn't really wrong your mother. She had an illegitimate child with another man. Wasn't she more at fault?"

Bastard...

Ni Sitian felt dizzy. It turned out that the "dad" she had been calling for all these years was not her father. It was all her mother's fault for abandoning a child who was not Ni Qianshan to Ni Qianshan. After being mistreated for so many years, she felt that it wasn't so unfair. It was probably the greatest mercy Ni Qianshan had shown her that a bastard child had not been abandoned.

"I... I misspoke." Seeing Ni Sitian's pale face, Ni Qianshan was afraid that his earlier comment about the bastard child might have upset her and made her refuse to help him, so he changed his words: "Actually, you're innocent too. Blame your mother for sleeping with other men..."

"Enough." Ni Sitian interrupted Ni Qianshan, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, stared at him again, and said word by word, "What right do you have to complain about her cheating on her husband? You and He Cuiyun got together first. Before you brought He Cuiyun into the house, you had already been having an affair for more than half a year. It's hard to say who cheated first."

Ni Qianshan curled his lips, clearly dissatisfied with Ni Sitian's statement, but dared not provoke her. Finally, he swallowed hard and said, "No matter what, for the sake of all the years I've raised you, you must help me this time."

“I’ve paid back all the expenses you incurred in supporting me, not less than you’ve paid. I’ll hire a good lawyer for you this time. How much your sentence can be reduced depends on the judge. I won’t hold you accountable for this money. You’d better take care of yourself from now on.” Ni Sitian was still a little dizzy from hearing such shocking news. When she stood up, her legs went weak and she almost fell back down.

Looking at Ni Sitian like this, Ni Qianshan recalled how he had tricked her into donating a kidney, and she had gone for a tissue matching test. At that time, he was not unmoved, but it was because He Cuiyun and Ni Ziqi, that couple, brought up her background again, making him feel that it was only right for him to take more from her.

Actually, when Ni Sitian was first born, even though she was a daughter, he wasn't entirely without joy. He treated her quite well at first, until he later learned that she wasn't his biological daughter, and that's when things started to change...

In addition, He Cuiyun had reminded him from time to time over the years that no man could tolerate a bastard child hanging around in front of him, so when He Cuiyun and her daughter bullied him, he even felt a sense of pleasure.

Unexpectedly, after all these years, at the very end, the mother and daughter he cherished betrayed him, causing him to be imprisoned, while this bastard child, whom he considered deserving of a thousand cuts, turned out to be the one who helped him in the end.

“Sitian,” Ni Qianshan pursed his lips, took a breath, and said with determination, “Consider this my way of repaying you for helping me one last time. I have something to tell you.”

Ni Sitian looked down at him, her feelings towards him now were completely different. Before, she said she was severing her father-daughter relationship, but she always felt that the blood ties in her bones were something she could never sever no matter how much she hated him. Now, she truly felt that he was just a familiar stranger.

"I don't know who your mother's lover is, but she mentioned it in a diary she left behind. There was also a small thing, which looked like a cufflink, hidden in a hole cut out of a page of the diary. They are now in the second locked drawer of my bedroom closet, and the key is in the pillowcase."