"So I want to ask you, is it really worth it for you to pay so much for her?"
"It's not worth it, so why bother? You committed a crime for her, and even got hunted down in prison. Doesn't your life count as a life?"
Seeing Xiao Yuanhe trembling with excitement, Xiao Chen sighed: "Alright, think about it carefully, I'll come back another day."
"Haha, Xiao Chen, do you think your life is not a tragedy?" Xiao Yuanhe sneered.
"So, you know something?" Xiao Chen glanced at Xiao Yuanhe, his eyes full of interest.
"You just want to know why I stole you back then?" Xiao Yuanhe closed his eyes, then opened them as if he had made up his mind.
"That's right. And I feel that given my background and family, even if my biological father is not around, it wouldn't be that easy for you to take me away from my mother."
"Yes, you guessed it right. You come from a wealthy family. If someone didn't instigate it and someone didn't collude with me, I would never have taken you away." Xiao Yuanhe smiled a little neurotically.
"Go on," Xiao Chen waved his hand.
"Do you know who that person is?" Xiao Yuanhe laughed even harder: "Your dear grandfather, Xiao Wanli, the patriarch of the Xiao family, hahahaha."
"Indeed." Xiao Chen nodded heavily: "Haha, then can you tell me, what is he planning?"
"What is he planning? Your father is an illegitimate child." Xiao Yuanhe stared at him with bloodshot eyes.
"What kind of existence is the Xiao family? They are a famous family in Yanjing, blessed by the glory of their ancestors, and Xiao Wanli is a man who values face very much."
"Xiao Gucheng, your biological father, is so outstanding."
"If his brilliance overshadows Xiao Wanli's biological son, and if your biological father, Xiao Gucheng, becomes disloyal in the future, what will happen to his legitimate and legitimate biological son?"
"Are we going to watch helplessly as the Xiao family's foundation falls into the hands of an illegitimate child?"
After saying so much in one breath, Xiao Yuanhe seemed to have used up all his strength.
He lay back down on the bed, breathing heavily.
"Good, good, good." Xiao Chen applauded and said three good words in a row.
He suddenly laughed, and as he laughed, tears burst out.
It turns out that the culprit behind all this was Xiao Wanli.
How could that self-righteous, arrogant old man have the heart to collude with outsiders and steal his own grandson?
Two lives, eighteen years of separation from family, and even a tragic death in the previous life, the root of everything is actually here.
"Xiao Chen, you didn't expect that, did you?" Xiao Yuanhe sighed. "Actually, when he first found me, I didn't expect that either."
"But this world is so strange. The people who stab you in the back are often the ones closest to you."
"I swore never to tell these truths, but now."
Looking at the densely packed tubes inserted into his body, Xiao Yuanhe laughed self-deprecatingly: "I'm already in this state, how can I care about so many things?"
"I didn't expect Xiao Wanli to be so cruel. In order to cover up these things, he actually wanted to eliminate all those who knew the truth?"
"He didn't keep his promise, so I can only speak out."
"Is that all? Is there anything else I don't know?" Xiao Chen asked.
"No, there are only these things. Xiao Wanli looks down on your father because he is an illegitimate child."
Xiao Yuanhe shook his head: "He is a person who values clan values and family traditions very much and is very concerned about face. He regards your father as a disgrace."
"If your father wasn't so outstanding, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be in Xiao Wanli's eyes."
"But he couldn't let your father's fame overshadow Xiao Yuecheng, your second uncle, so these things happened."
"Good move." Xiao Chen gave a thumbs up. "Just as he wished, my dad has lost his fighting spirit in recent years."
"He's been out there all year, risking his life and striving for military merit, just to avoid having any free time. If he does, he'll be consumed by guilt."
"Who said it wasn't?" Xiao Yuanhe nodded. "But, he missed one point. He never expected you to be so outstanding."
"Haha, maybe within ten years, your brilliance will reach the Xiao family. Didn't he look for you? Asking you to return to the Xiao family?"
"Of course I have, but why should I go back?" Xiao Chen sneered, "From now on, there can only be one Xiao family in Yanjing."
"You want to compete with Xiao Wanli?" Xiao Yuanhe looked at Xiao Chen deeply, and nodded with deep feeling: "Yes, you have the ability."
"There's one more thing, and I don't think you need to hide it." Xiao Chen took out a photo.
Above is a picture of the same birth pattern.
"Do you recognize this pattern?"
Xiao Yuanhe's pupils shrank slightly, and then he shook his head: "I don't know him."
But how could this subtle expression of his escape Xiao Chen's eyes?
Xiao Chen smiled. He sat opposite Xiao Yuanhe with a playful expression.
"There's actually no point in denying it now. Some things can't be concealed just because you want to."
"I believe Xiao Ming must have this thing. Under certain conditions, it will show up."
"And I have that same thing in me, and it shows when I'm hurt or weak."
"As far as I know, when Xiao Ming was a child, he was so weak that he couldn't even be raised. But after you found Chen Qingshan, his health improved."
"Xiao Yuanhe, don't tell me there's no connection between the two. I don't believe it."
Xiao Yuanhe stared at the photo, his lips moving with difficulty.
He knew that he could not hide anything in front of Xiao Chen.
"I don't know what this thing is called, but this pattern comes from an organization called the Tongshenghui."
In order to save his life, Xiao Yuanhe had to grit his teeth and tell everything he knew.
"When Mingming was little, he was weak and we took him to many hospitals, big and small, but nothing worked."
"Later, a fortune teller told us that Xiao Ming was supposed to have died in the womb like his twin brother."
"Even if he is born, it will be difficult for him to survive."
"And then?" Xiao Chen looked at him with interest.
"Later, through connections, we met Chen Qingshan, a famous local doctor who believed in treating poison with poison. Locals called him the Poison Doctor."
"He is... a member of the Tongsheng Society. Coincidentally, Qin Yuan's sister, Qin Youxin, who disappeared for a long time, is actually a high-ranking member of the Tongsheng Society."
"And she has acquired some special abilities from somewhere that can extend the lives of others, but the price is that everyone around Xiao Ming will suffer backlash."
"In other words, to save Xiao Ming at the cost of the lives of all those close to him?" Xiao Chen asked.
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