“Biological parents? Heh, Mrs. Lin, have you ever heard the story of the cuckoo taking over the magpie’s nest?” Su Ruojin said casually.
"What...what do you mean?" Lin Zhengshan spoke up before Zhao Jiao could answer.
Lin Zhengshan, a man of considerable learning, felt a sense of foreboding upon hearing Su Ruojin's words.
At this moment, he no longer cared about the pain in his wound; he only wanted to know what Su Ruojin meant by those words.
"Lord Lin, Madam Lin, your time is running out, so let's just let you die knowing why."
Okay, let me tell you a story first.
There were two little girls in Bali Village who were born on the same day.
Because they were girls, the two were disliked by their families and had to do a lot of farm work at a young age. Being beaten and going hungry were common occurrences.
The two girls were in similar circumstances, so they sympathized with each other, huddled together for warmth, and helped one another.
This was one of the few moments of warmth they experienced in the village, and they vowed to be lifelong friends.
When the two girls were about to reach marriageable age, one of them was betrothed to an old widower in the next village. When she came of age, she would marry him as his second wife.
The other girl was a child bride bought by her family, and she would marry the family's mentally challenged son after she came of age.
After a simple coming-of-age ceremony, the two young girls were about to get married. Unwilling to accept this, they made a pact to run away that very night.
Just then, a carriage arrived in the village. The people in the carriage claimed to be the Prefect of Yanyang, and they had come to the village to look for their lost young lady.
The young lady has a birthmark on her waist and a safety lock on her body. A large reward will be given to anyone who can provide clues.
Ordinary villagers wouldn't know if the little girl had a birthmark, but one little girl in the crowd overheard everything.
That night, the two girls secretly took their packed bags and met at a big tree outside the village before fleeing into the mountains behind the village.
After finally reaching the top of the mountain, the two girls were exhausted and sat down to rest for a while.
At that moment, the young girl who was to marry the mentally challenged son secretly picked up a knife she had prepared and stabbed her former best friend.
After confirming the person was dead, she tore off the safety lock that her friend had been hiding on her chest, glanced at the shape of the birthmark on her friend's waist, and then pushed her friend off the cliff.
The next day, she became Lin Wanqing, the eldest daughter of the Prefect of Yanyang.
At this point, Su Ruojin paused and looked at Lin Zhengshan and his wife.
"Lord Lin, Madam Lin, the daughter you have found is the murderer who killed your own daughter."
When Su Ruojin uttered those words, Lin Zhengshan and Zhao Jiao were so shocked they were speechless.
After muttering "Impossible," Zhao Jiao glared fiercely at Su Ruojin. "Impossible! Wanqing is definitely our biological daughter. You must be holding a grudge against us for treating her so well back then, so you deliberately made up this story to deceive us."
Su Ruojin chuckled, "Mrs. Lin, when Lin Wanqing came back, didn't you mention wanting to do a blood test to prove kinship, but she stopped you with various excuses?"
Aside from the day you returned home, after you saw the birthmark on her waist, have you never seen it again? She definitely avoids you when she bathes.
“What’s the big deal? She’s my daughter. Whether we do the blood test or not, it’s the same. My daughter is all grown up now, and she doesn’t need me by her side when she takes a bath,” Zhao Jiao argued.
Compared to Zhao Jiao, who was on the verge of collapse, Lin Zhengshan was relatively calm. He knew that Su Ruojin wouldn't say such things without reason.
He asked, "How do you know all this?"
"Lord Lin, as the leader of the Dark Alliance, is it so difficult for me to investigate anything?"
The leader of the Dark Alliance?
The leader of the Dark Alliance!!!
Lin Zhengshan felt as if he was hallucinating.
Su Ruojin, the former eldest daughter of the Lin family, is actually the leader of the Dark Alliance!
Zhao Jiao also stopped crying. She didn't know about the Dark Alliance before, but after arriving in the capital, Lin Zhengshan had said that he wanted to find someone from the Dark Alliance to protect their safety, but unfortunately, he couldn't find the Dark Alliance's contact information.
Now that Su Ruojin claims to be the leader of the Dark Alliance, Zhao Jiao's eyes widened, and she stared at her with her mouth slightly open.
The more I looked at Su Ruojin, the more she seemed like a stranger.
A stranger she could never reach again!
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