Li Dongyun was also taken aback, and frowned as she asked, "Yuxia, what are you doing here? Didn't you tell me this morning that you were going to a classmate's wedding today and needed to ask for leave, you..."
A moment later, Li Dongyun's face darkened as he looked at Zhang Yuxia.
She vaguely knew some things.
It seems that Zhang Yuxia has kept many things from her all these years.
If the Zhang family really was hiding something so big, Zhang Yuxia would definitely know.
It could even be said that Zhang Yuxia helped her keep many things from her.
As for Zhang Yuxia's claim that she has severed ties with the Zhang family, that is likely false; otherwise, Zhang Yuxia wouldn't be here today.
Moreover, judging from the way she opened the door, this wasn't her first time here.
Li Dongyun immediately gave a mocking laugh and shook his head repeatedly, "Zhang Yuxia, I'm really stupid. I didn't even realize you were good material for a spy."
Now, Li Dongyun is almost certain that there is not a single good person in the Zhang family.
What kind of terrible judgment did she have back then, to be so devoted to Zhang Yunde, and later actually believe that Zhang Yuxia would rather abandon her family than stay by her side?
Seeing the look in Li Dongyun's eyes, Zhang Yuxia panicked and began to explain incoherently, "No, sister-in-law... Sister Dongyun, you've misunderstood, I..."
Li Yunfeng glanced at Zhang Yuxia, snorted, and without beating around the bush, asked her directly, "Zhang Yuxia, stop beating around the bush and just tell me what heinous things your family did back then, what huge lies you told, and how you've been lurking around my aunt's side for so many years."
"I, I didn't, I..." Zhang Yuxia looked very flustered, and she knew that she couldn't hide the fact that she had a child anymore.
Li Dongyun interrupted her directly, then looked at her and said, word by word, "Duoduo's brother-in-law Yan Dongdong has a classmate named Zhang Xiaopeng. Zhang Xiaopeng's father is named Zhang Yunda, and his grandmother is named Li Duanxiu..."
Li Duanxiu is the old lady of the Zhang family.
Seeing Zhang Yuxia's increasingly pale face, Li Dongyun continued, "That child shares the same birthday as my baby, and also has a birthmark on his butt that's exactly the same as my baby's..."
Zhang Yuxia felt as if all her strength had been drained away. She leaned against the door and didn't say anything more.
Seeing her like this, Li Yunfeng was furious and impatiently urged her, "Zhang Yuxia, your Zhang family definitely can't keep this secret anymore. For the sake of how well my aunt has treated you over the years, tell me the truth. What exactly happened?"
Now that things had come to this, Zhang Yuxia knew she couldn't hide it any longer, so she opened her mouth to explain.
He opened his mouth several times, but didn't know what to say.
Finally, urged by Li Yunfeng, she slowly said, "Sister-in-law, I don't know how to explain this to you. If I say I really don't know, will you believe me?"
"Explain yourself clearly, what exactly happened?" Li Dongyun knew very well that even if Zhang Yuxia knew about this, it was only later, because when the child was lost, Zhang Yuxia was still in the countryside and had not returned to the city, so naturally she could not have been involved.
Zhang Yuxia nodded and continued, "Or to put it another way, by the time I found out about it, it was already a done deal, and there was nothing I could do to change it."
"Sister Dongyun, my family has always treated me like an outsider, that's not a lie, I..."
Zhang Yuxia also told the truth.
When Bao'er went missing, Zhang Yuxia wasn't home; she was still in the countryside and hadn't returned to the city.
After she returned, perhaps because they were worried that she would find out about the child, she was arranged to stay in the old house and was kept in the dark about the child.
On the surface, the Zhang family told her that there was no room for her there.
Later, her family pressured her to go on blind dates, but she refused because she still had feelings for Yun Zhifeng. She had a falling out with her family and ran away from home.
Then, she went to Li Dongyun for help and only then did she learn the full story about the child.
She always thought the child was really lost until more than a year later, when she went back to the Zhang family to get the household registration book for some business. She went there without notifying her family.
Then, that was the first time she saw Zhang Xiaopeng.
At the time, her family panicked and immediately took Zhang Xiaopeng away. They also told her that she was an adopted child of her older brother because her older brother was infertile, and told her not to go out and talk about it.
At the time, Zhang Yuxia was a little puzzled. Her older brother had always refused to adopt a child and didn't like children, so why did he suddenly adopt one?
Besides, if you really want to adopt someone, what's there to be ashamed of?
What struck her as even stranger was that she felt the child resembled Bao'er somewhat.
Although she had never seen Bao'er in person, she had seen Bao'er's photos at Li Dongyun's place, and she genuinely felt that something was amiss.
Then, she remembered the woman who later married her second brother; she seemed to have seen her before.
The woman seemed to be a classmate her second brother liked a lot when he was in high school, and she had even visited their house before.
It could be said that he was her second brother's first love.
Later, her second brother said he wanted to marry that woman, but because that woman's family had experienced a change of fortune, their parents disliked the woman's family background and instead coveted Li Dongyun's background, forcing her second brother to marry Li Dongyun.
As she thought about it, she felt something was wrong, as if there was a big conspiracy hidden in this matter.
For several days, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Unable to bear it any longer, she secretly went to see her older brother, Zhang Yunda.
Zhang Yunda was an honest man who couldn't lie, and he was easily tricked by Zhang Yuxia into telling the truth.
It turns out, it really was a huge conspiracy.
Not long after her second brother Zhang Yunde and Li Dongyun had Bao'er, he met his first love and fell head over heels in love.
Then, he discussed with his family about divorcing Li Dongyun.
But my family didn't want to.
Firstly, if they divorce, the Li family will definitely take the child away.
Secondly, given the Li family's power and influence, they will likely suppress them relentlessly, making it impossible for them to maintain any influence in Kyoto's social circles in the future.
At that time, the Li family already had a strong influence in the Kyoto area, and most people wanted to curry favor with them.
Li Zhengyang, in particular, rose through the ranks the fastest during those years, and Li Yunfeng also developed very well in the military, making the Li family's power even stronger.
But Zhang Yunde went crazy at the time, saying that even if he died, he would divorce Li Dongyun and be with his first love.
Having no other option, the Zhang family came up with the idea of hiding the child and falsely accusing Li Dongyun of abandoning him.
Because in this way, Li Dongyun would be in the wrong first, and the Li family, out of guilt, would be too embarrassed to suppress the Zhang family.
Furthermore, no one is competing with them for this child anymore.
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