At that time, his collateral relatives were smug and defiant, which made him truly believe that his Xiao Luo was no longer alive.
“After we escaped, Miss Luo kept trying to find out about you. The Warrens family is a big family after all, and it’s really hard for us to find out any inside information. We finally managed to find out, but then we heard that... you were caught up in the family’s gunfight and were unfortunately shot and died.”
“That’s not me,” Li Yuan said hoarsely. “It’s the young master of the opposing faction.”
The gunfight that year was extremely intense, especially after he learned that the woman he loved was "gone." Without his only weakness, he was invincible, and with a single shot, he blew the head off the son of the collateral branch elder who had ignited the internal war within the Warrens family.
"..."
Grandpa Ji was taken aback. After hearing Li Yuan's explanation, he belatedly realized what was going on.
Back then, they only found out that the young master of the Warrens family died in that gunfight, but they were not sure if that young master was Li Yuan.
"And then?" Li Yuan pressed.
"Later... Miss Luo took me and Nan Nan, who was still in my womb, and fled to various places, making homes wherever we went, hiding our identities, until she safely gave birth to Nan Nan a few months later."
"At the time, I thought life would continue like this. About a hundred days after Nan Nan was born, Miss Luo suddenly gave me the jade pendant and two cards that you had given her, and asked me to take Nan Nan with me."
“I don’t understand the point of Miss Luo’s actions, but Miss Luo’s attitude is firm. She told me to take the child and run as far away as possible, and to hide my identity from Nan Nan and not to tell her who her biological parents are. She said I have to keep it a secret for the rest of my life.”
It wasn't that the old man was unwilling to tell Ji Zhinan; it was that Xi Luo had repeatedly instructed him to.
During that year or so, the old man had witnessed firsthand the power struggles and intrigues among the wealthy and powerful. He feared that young Ji Zhinan would be drawn into those exhausting conflicts and follow in the footsteps of Young Master Li and Miss Luo. Therefore, he heeded Xi Luo's advice and allowed Ji Zhinan to live a peaceful life.
If Ji Zhinan hadn't forced the old man to tell the truth, he would never have told her about her true background.
"..." Li Yuan listened silently from the side, keeping every word the old man said in mind.
Xiao Luo, why did you suddenly entrust your daughter to Uncle Ji's care?
Li Yuan knew Xi Luo very well; if something hadn't happened, Xi Luo would never have made such a decision.
"Did something happen to Xiao Luo back then?" Li Yuan asked.
"I don't know." The old man shook his head honestly, trying hard to recall what happened twenty years ago.
But so many years have passed, and the old man had suffered a brain injury and was in a coma for several months before waking up, so he couldn't remember anything else for the time being.
…………
Li Yuan's father was the head of the Warrens family, and his mother was just an ordinary daughter from a family in Beijing, China.
She traveled to Europe and met Li Yuan's father. She fell in love at first sight and later had Li Yuan.
Because of their vastly different social statuses, and with the opposition of the Warrens family elders, they ultimately did not end up 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 patriarch and a commoner girl, as a descendant of the Warrens family, he naturally had to bear the Warrens surname.
The Warrens chieftain at the time missed his lover, so he used the first letters of Li Yuan's name as the key to create a name that didn't quite sound like a Western name: Ling Yin Warrens.
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