After Uncle Chen sent someone to bring Gu Lianzhou back, he walked up to Shen Zhiyi with a solemn expression.

"Miss, the master wants to see you."

Shen Zhiyi was not surprised.

She secretly orchestrated such a grand scheme, even managing to eliminate Gu Lianzhou, whom he trusted the most. He must be very surprised.

"Let's go."

But she didn't expect that the first thing Shen Qing said to her was to kick Gu Lianzhou out of the Shen family.

"Since you have this ability, there's no point in keeping Gu Lianzhou around any longer," Shen Qing said coldly. "To prevent him from turning against you, it's best to get rid of him as soon as possible."

Shen Zhiyi remained silent for a moment.

"Has Dad always treated the people around him this way?"

She raised her eyelashes, her face calm. "Keep what's useful to you, and kick away what's useless. I won't bother with it, and I won't even give it a second glance."

The same applies to her biological mother.

Chen Qing frowned deeply.

"What are you saying? I'm only doing this for your own good."

"You don't understand Lian Zhou. You don't know that he's a person with no bottom line and how awful his character is. You can't let your guard down at all!"

Shen Zhiyi's tone remained calm.

"Isn't it all because of your teaching that my brother has grown up like this?"

"You!" Shen Qing stared wide-eyed in disbelief, looking at his daughter who had become a stranger to him, and said angrily, "Don't think that just because you've become the head of the group, you can talk to me like that!"

"My shares haven't even landed in your hands yet!"

"It's not time for you to be complacent!"

She actually dared to say such disobedient things to me while wearing Xiao Wan's face.

That's truly unforgivable.

Shen Zhiyi took a document out of her bag, handed it to him, and said calmly, "So I came here today to ask Dad to sign it."

"Your health is not good, so you don't need to worry about the company's affairs in the future."

"Just leave everything to me."

Shen Qing stared at the "equity transfer agreement" in front of him, then looked up in shock, "Are you crazy?"

He picked up his cane and slammed it heavily on the ground twice.

"I'm not dead yet!"

"Are you in such a hurry to push me off my horse too?!"

Shen Zhiyi stared at his angry face and chuckled softly.

"Dad is right."

"I'm crazy."

"But if I don't go crazy, who knows if one day I'll be driven to my death by you, just like my mother."

When Shen Qing heard her mention Nie Wan, he instantly flew into a rage.

"I think you've gone too far!"

"Your mother died of depression, how is it my fault?!"

"Heh." Shen Zhiyi sneered and sat down beside him. "Doesn't Father know?"

"The truth about my brother and me being switched."

Her expression was too calm, which made Shen Qing feel inexplicably uneasy. His aged hand gripped his cane tightly.

"What do you mean?"

"Wasn't this something your mother's nanny did out of greed for money?"

"It was the Gu family's greed that ruined you and Xiaowan!"

"You're wrong." Shen Zhiyi was lost in memories, a moment of sadness flashing across her face.

“This was not an accident, nor was it designed by Gu’s mother. It was my mother, Nie Wan, who asked her for help.”

"Nonsense!" Shen Qing struggled to sit up straight, his eyes bloodshot. "How could Xiao Wan... how could she..."

“Because she’s had enough.” Shen Zhiyi looked directly at him and said, word by word, “She’s had enough of your indifference, enough of the Shen family’s mistreatment, and even more enough of being treated as a tool that must produce a son.”

"She had no relatives, no friends, and the only person she could talk to was Aunt Gu."

"She envied the Gu family's harmony and their contentment..."

"These are the things she pursued her whole life but never possessed."

"Perhaps I could have had it, but you have taken it all away from me."

She looked at Shen Qing, her tone cold.

Her mother, like a delicate flower given the role of a tragic heroine in an old-fashioned tragic novel, gradually had her vitality worn away by long-term emotional neglect and indifference.

The pearl is covered in dust and has lost its luster.

Shen Qing couldn't see her efforts, let her be tormented by her in-laws, and imposed strict control over her life and long-term invisible mental oppression on her.

It wasn't until after her death that he realized her importance and the love he had never easily expressed.

What use is deep affection when the person is dead?

Shen Zhiyi lowered her eyes and continued, "So, when she found out that she and Gu's mother were pregnant one after the other, she had already made plans."

"The plan to make me leave the Shen family."

She didn't want her daughter to grow up in such a cold and selfish family.

They didn't want her to repeat her fate, to become a pawn in a marriage of convenience with a wealthy family, and to suffer the same torment in her new family.

She wanted her to be free, to be happy, and to feel loved and supported.

So she gave the Gu family a large sum of money, enough to take care of Shen Zhiyi for the rest of her life.

She begged them to switch her daughter with theirs and to genuinely care for her, nurture her as she grows up, and let her live a carefree and happy life.

Gu Jia has indeed lived up to that.

"Mother Gu is soft-hearted and grateful for my mother's sincere treatment over the years. Moreover, letting her son enter the Shen family and grow up in such a wealthy family that everyone envies is an irresistible temptation for anyone."

"So she agreed."

“Over the years, they have never wronged me or deprived me of anything.” Shen Zhiyi thought of her deceased parents and felt a pang of sadness. “On the contrary, they gave me plenty of love and support and let me know the truth early on.”

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