She Zhuyin nodded: "So my injury hasn't healed yet."
"If they come after me, it doesn't matter if I'm alone."
"If they knew my weakness, I'd be doomed. I don't even know what I'd do."
"So, now is the best arrangement. Since you have raised her for twenty years, are you willing to hand her over to someone else?"
Xia Yuanfang really didn't want to.
Xia Chujian was raised by her personally. Although they were not blood relatives, they were better than blood relatives.
It was only because She Zhuyin was her mother that she had to let go.
Because no one can take a child away from her biological mother unless it is absolutely necessary.
Xia Yuanfang was silent for a while, then said, "What about Huo Yushen? I don't remember you having an older son back then."
If the child was younger than Xia Chujian, Xia Yuanfang could still convince himself that it was She Zhuyin who gave birth to the child later.
But now, Huo Yushen is ten years older than Xia Chujian, which means he could only have been born before Xia Chujian.
She Zhuyin sighed and said, "Do you still remember your cousin's son?"
Xia Yuanfang never expected it to be that child.
Her eyes widened: "...Ah?! No way?! Yes, yes...it's him?!"
"I didn't know you were so capable before. I thought you were the nanny hired by my cousin... I know you were the one who raised him..."
"But, how could it be him?!"
"Didn't that child die when he was ten years old?"
When he said this, Xia Yuanfang didn't realize that he was already in tears.
Her cousin is actually smarter than her, but her cousin's interest is not in scientific research, but in the application of weapons and equipment.
She and her husband, the man from the Huo family who served as the Grand Marshal in the army, complemented each other perfectly and were a perfect couple.
It's a pity that they were born at the wrong time...
It also implicated their only child.
Xia Yuanfang burst into tears.
She Zhuyin took out a tissue and handed it to her, saying with emotion: "He was indeed as good as dead back then. But your cousin and her husband also saved my life."
"I owed them a favor, so not only did I save him, I also kept him by my side and raised him myself."
Xia Yuanfang was stunned for a moment, then said, "...Is it really that child? But I don't remember him looking like this!"
"He doesn't look like you at all. But this Huo Yushen still bears some resemblance to you... Anyone who sees him would think he's your biological son..."
She Zhuyin said: "..."
She shook her head and said with a smile, "He's not my biological son. He's your cousin's child. He's related to you by blood... but not to me."
"But maybe it's because I raised him, so he looks a bit like me."
People do tend to look similar. One possibility for the so-called "husband and wife look" is that two people live together for a long time, and their facial features have a subtle influence on each other, which eventually makes their appearances become more and more similar.
Xia Yuanfang knew it wasn't that simple.
But although she was full of doubts, she temporarily accepted this explanation and did not ask any further questions.
She Zhuyin said, "What about you? Did you notice anything wrong when you first met?"
Xia Yuanfang nodded, sighed, and said, "When I first met her, I thought my soul had traveled through time and space with her aunt's body."
"I didn't know how to explain it, so I followed her lead and made up a story. I told her that her mother was attacked when she was giving birth, and then used her body to save her and me."
"It is also said that her brother also followed his parents."
"I thought I would never see you again, so..."
Just a little bit of free play.
In fact, what she said to Xia Chujian was not completely fabricated.
Because those bloody battles, those alien monsters from outside the domain, the unyielding resistance of all mankind, until the final destruction of all mankind, even the appearance of She Zhuyin and her "death together" with those monsters, were all true.
But there were some things that even she couldn't figure out, and she buried them all deep in her heart, hoping that Xia Chujian would never know about them.
She Zhuyin was silent for a while, then said, "Well, this is why I didn't recognize her. I couldn't answer her questions."
"Your story is very good, let's use your..."
Xia Yuanfang nodded: "Yes, this is the truth."
"I hope you remember not to let anything slip before we first meet."
"Remember, when I first met her, she had parents who died heroically for their country, and a brother who died with them... I just didn't expect she actually had a brother..."
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