At that time, the side branch provoked him with confidence and complacency, and he really thought that his Xiao Luo was gone.

"After we escaped, Miss Luo has been trying to find out about you. The Warrens are a large family after all, so it's really hard for us to find out any inside information. We finally got some information, but we heard... you were unfortunately shot in a family shootout and are gone."

"That's not me." Li Yuan said hoarsely, "It's the young master of the opposing faction."

The gunfight had been intense, especially since he'd learned the woman he loved was gone. Without his only weakness, he was invincible, having shot the head of the favorite son of the elder from the side branch who had sparked the internal war within the Warrens family.

“…”

Old Master Ji was stunned for a moment, but after hearing Li Yuan's explanation, he finally realized what was happening.

At that time, they only found out that the young master of the Warrens family died in the gunfight, but they did not confirm that the young master was Young Master Li Yuan.

"What happened next?" Li Yuan asked.

"Later... Miss Luo took Nannan, who was still in her belly, and I and she fled to different places. We made our homes in different places, hiding our identities until she safely gave birth to Nannan a few months later."

"At that time, I thought that life would continue like this. About a hundred days after Nan Nan's birth, Miss Luo suddenly gave me the jade pendant and two cards you gave her, and asked me to take Nan Nan away."

"I don't understand the meaning of Miss Luo's actions, but she was adamant. She told me to take the child and run as far as I could. She also told me to hide my identity from Nan Nan and not tell her who her biological parents were. I had to keep it a secret for the rest of my life."

It’s not that the old man didn’t want to tell Ji Zhinan, it’s Xi Luo who repeatedly asked him to do so.

The old man had seen clearly the open and covert struggles among the wealthy and aristocratic families over the past year or so, and he was also afraid that little Ji Zhinan would be drawn into that exhausting struggle and follow the same path as Master Li and Miss Luo. So he listened to Xi Luo's advice and let Ji Zhinan live a peaceful life.

If Ji Zhinan hadn't forced the old man to tell the truth, the old man would never have told her her true life experience.

"..." Li Yuan listened silently, remembering every word the old man said in his heart.

Xiao Luo, why do you suddenly want to leave your daughter to Uncle Ji's care?

Li Yuan knew Xi Luo very well. If Xi Luo had not encountered something, he would never have made such a decision.

"Did Xiao Luo encounter any problems at that time?" Li Yuan asked.

"I don't know." The old man shook his head honestly, trying hard to recall what happened twenty years ago.

But after all, so many years have passed, and the old man suffered a brain injury and was in a coma for several months before waking up, so he couldn't remember anything else for a while.

…………

Li Yuan's father was the patriarch of the Warrens family, and his mother was just the daughter of an ordinary family in the capital of China.

That year, she traveled to Europe and met Li Yuan's father. She fell in love at first sight and later had Li Yuan.

Because of the disparity in their status, they were opposed by the elders of the Warrens family and ultimately did not get together.

A few years later, Li's mother passed away due to illness.

Because his mother's surname was Li, he was given a Chinese name: Li Yuan.

Although he was the child of the Warrens clan leader and a commoner girl, as a descendant of the Warrens family, he naturally had to bear the Warrens surname.

At that time, the chief of the Warrens tribe missed his lover, so he used the first letters of the two words "Li Yuan" as the key and chose a name that did not sound like a Western name: Ling Yin Warrens.