Qin Haoran smiled coldly, "You're not going to tell the truth? Then I'll have the police investigate. Your mother's actions constitute a crime, and she'll go to jail. And your failure to report it is also a crime of harboring someone."
"Go...go to jail..." Gong Ermei looked at Qin Haoran in horror. She didn't want to go to jail. If she went to jail, her two children would have no one to take care of them. Then her mother-in-law and sister-in-law would definitely ask her husband to divorce her.
"That depends on your attitude. If you tell the truth, I'll ask the police to let you off. If you don't, I can't help you." Qin Haoran continued to threaten. If she didn't scare someone like this, she would definitely not tell the truth.
Gong Ermei bit her lip, hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you really not scaring me?" She didn't understand these things because she was inexperienced, but she didn't dare to take the risk.
"You can choose not to tell me, but don't regret it." Qin Haoran said calmly.
Gong Ermei turned to look at Qin Mengyao. Qin Mengyao was about to wink, but when she saw Qin Haoran looking at her, she could only turn her eyes away. Her father was furious now, and she couldn't make him angry again, otherwise he would really kick her out of the house.
Seeing Qin Mengyao turn away, Gong Ermei panicked even more. Without hesitation, she said, "I'll tell you everything." She then told Qin Mengyao how she and she first met, how many times they had met, and how many times they had recently spoken on the phone. However, she didn't reveal the content of the conversations, as she was afraid she wouldn't be able to leave.
Qin Haoran looked at Qin Mengyao with a grim face, "What else do you want to say?" If Gong Ermei hadn't come to the door, the couple would still be kept in the dark. This daughter really made him look at her in a new light, as she actually hid herself so deeply.
"Yaoyao, is this all true?" Fang Shuyi asked Qin Mengyao, her heart aching with disbelief. Yaoyao had grown up under her watch, and she'd always told her everything, even the little things at school. But she hadn't expected that she'd kept this major secret from her for thirteen years, when Yaoyao was only nine. She'd known about it, yet they hadn't even noticed a single clue.
Qin Mengyao nodded, crying. She knew she had no choice but to admit, "Mom, I just don't want to leave you. I'm afraid you'll send me away if you find out, and then I'll be without a mom and dad. That's why I've never dared to tell you." At first, she did think so, but as she got older, she felt more and more that Gong Xiaoyun was a threat as long as she was alive. So she instigated Old Lady Gong to abuse Gong Xiaoyun even more severely, hoping to torture her to death so that no one would ever know the secret again.
Back then, when Old Lady Gong deliberately swapped her with Gong Xiaoyun, it certainly wasn't just to give her a good life, otherwise she wouldn't have gone out of her way to find her and tell her about it. Old Lady Gong did this to get more benefits from the Qin family through her. She said she gave her a good life, but in reality, she was just a tool for Old Lady Gong to make money. Over the years, she had also given Old Lady Gong many benefits, and she gave most of the pocket money her parents gave her to Old Lady Gong.
Fang Shuyi was a little angry at first, but after hearing Qin Mengyao's words, she felt relieved. She hugged Qin Mengyao in her arms and gently rubbed her hair, "Mom knows everything. Don't cry. Mom will not abandon you." Yaoyao was only a nine-year-old child at that time. When she knew that she was not their biological child, one can imagine the worry and fear in her heart.
"Mom, you're so kind!" Qin Mengyao buried her head in Fang Shuyi's arms, sobbing continuously. She wasn't afraid if her mother wasn't angry. With the relationship she had with her mother for so many years, what would it matter if Gong Xiaoyun came back? Could she compare to her?
Looking at the mother and daughter hugging each other, Qin Haoran's face grew darker. "Fang Shuyi, is this your choice?" He had truly given up on her after learning the truth of the matter. He had originally thought his wife was kind and well-educated, but now he realized he was wrong. She simply didn't know what was good or bad, and acted on emotion.
"Haoran, Yaoyao is hiding this from us because she's afraid of losing us. Are you really that cruel?" Fang Shuyi looked at Qin Haoran in confusion. She really couldn't understand why he was so persistent when he could have the best of both worlds.
"Just tell me, do you want her or our daughter?" Qin Haoran didn't want to talk too much nonsense with Fang Shuyi. He just wanted her to make the final choice.
"Mom!" Qin Mengyao raised her head and looked at Fang Shuyi, her eyes full of anxiety, fear and pleading. Now her mother was her only support. If she chose Gong Xiaoyun, she would really have nothing.
Fang Shuyi looked at Qin Mengyao, then at Qin Haoran, hesitating and not knowing how to choose. Haoran had already told her that if she chose Yaoyao, she would lose not only their biological daughter, but also her husband. She didn't care about losing Gong Xiaoyun, but she didn't want to lose her husband.
Thinking of this, her eyes became firm, "Haoran, if you really want me to choose, then I can only choose death. I don't want to lose Yaoyao, and I don't want to lose you either."
"Are you threatening me?" Qin Haoran looked at Fang Shuyi with a chilling coldness in his eyes.
"No! I'm telling the truth. Without that Gong Xiaoyun, our family has always been very happy. But her appearance has abruptly destroyed our original happiness. She caused discord between you and Yaoyao, and between us as husband and wife. For her, you even abandoned us as mother and daughter. Do you think I would accept her? But I can't lose you. You are my husband, my support. Without you, what is the meaning of my life? So if you want me to choose between Yaoyao and that Gong Xiaoyun, I can tell you very clearly that I choose Yaoyao. If you want me to choose between you and Yaoyao, then I can only choose death."
Qin Haoran sneered, "Fang Shuyi, are you talking like a human being? Haven't you seen how much our daughter has suffered in the Gong family over the years? Didn't you give birth to our daughter after ten months of pregnancy? You clearly already know that Yaoyao is not our daughter, and you clearly know the whereabouts of your daughter, but you still want to protect this imposter. Do you think you are worthy of your daughter? The most ridiculous thing is that you even want to threaten me with death. Fang Shuyi, I am really disappointed in you. Let's divorce."
Fang Shuyi's face suddenly turned pale. She shook her head and looked at Qin Haoran in disbelief, "Qin Haoran, the love between you and me for so many years is not as good as that girl I only met once?" She really couldn't understand why he became so ruthless.
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