Chapter 52 Unbelievable
Seeing the familiar vermilion iron gate open, Xin Xin couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart.
I learned from the anchor today that I am not actually his biological child.
Could it be that all the kindness they showed me all those years was just an act? It's truly disheartening.
"Let's go. Judging from the lively sounds in the courtyard, they don't seem to be asleep yet. I guess some neighbors are still chatting together."
Gu Yunlang also curled his lips. He heard a woman's loud laughter. Could that be the sound of Xin Xin's adoptive mother? That's too exaggerated!
When the three of them stood in the courtyard, sure enough, under the jujube tree, several neighbors were sitting and chatting.
Sharp-eyed Xiaoxi noticed that her adoptive mother's belly was protruding. Was she... pregnant?
When Wan Huanhuan saw the three people who suddenly appeared in the courtyard, she stood up.
"Xin Xin, what are you doing here?"
"What? You mean that thin woman is Xin Xin?"
Several neighbors watched this scene with curiosity.
She wasn't like this when I saw her last year.
"Could we have mistaken her for someone else? How could she possibly look like this?"
Xin Xin stepped forward and said, "Dear uncles and aunts, it's me!"
[Holy crap, that woman with the grimacing, protruding belly, is she pregnant? Is it really that bad that seeing her isn't as good as having her heart? Looking at her age, she's probably an older mother; she's really gambling with her life.]
“Xin Xin, what happened to you? Aren’t you a boarding student in the county high school? We didn’t see you during last year’s Spring Festival, and we didn’t see you during this year’s holiday either. Everyone thought you were busy with your studies.”
"Yes! I also feel like it's been a long time since I've seen Xin Xin."
They forced me into their car and took me to a mental hospital, where I never came out again.
So, the neighbors all thought he had gone to school.
Xin Xin gave a bitter smile. "Wan Huanhuan, is this what the neighbors are saying? Do you think I don't know where I've been all year?"
Father Yu Jie stood up. “You silly child, what happened to you? It’s good that you’re back now. These two friends brought you back, right? Come and sit down, have some watermelon.”
"Dear uncles and aunts, I was locked up in a mental hospital by these two people this year. They almost tortured me to death, which is why I am now a grotesque mess. If it weren't for this sister who helped me by chance, I'm afraid I would have really gone crazy."
"What? Lao Yu, is what Xin Xin said true? You two actually locked her up in a mental hospital? What kind of place is that? Didn't someone from our village go there before? How could you be so heartless? What did she do wrong?"
"Yes, do you really think you can blame Xin Xin for Xiao Yuan's death?"
"Yes, I was saying, how could you two be so cruel as to lock her up in that awful place after not seeing her for a year?"
"Alright, it's getting late, everyone should go home!"
Yu Jie was afraid that his family's shameful affairs would be known to the neighbors, so he started urging them to leave.
Although the group left the courtyard, they didn't go far. Instead, they stood quietly not far away. In the countryside, especially at night like this, even the slightest voice could be heard.
They just wanted to see how Xin Xin had spent the past year.
"Did you two bring Xinxin back?"
After closing her front door, Wan Huanhuan turned around and looked at the two of them with a questioning tone.
Upon hearing the old woman's voice, Gu Yunlang was furious.
"Hey lady, what kind of life did your daughter have in the hospital? You should know better than us, right? How can you treat your own child like this?"
"What, feeling sorry for her? If that's the case, why didn't you take her home after bringing her out, instead of coming here to me?"
Wan Huanhuan spoke in a questioning tone.
"Honey, be careful. This pregnancy is unstable. Be careful not to upset the baby."
"You little bastard, I didn't expect you to not go crazy after being locked up for a year. I underestimated you."
[Wow! This is mind-blowing! I never imagined parents could be like this.]
Why don't they say that having a son is perhaps a blessing brought by their adopted daughter? Sigh, every family has its own troubles.
"Wan Huanhuan, why did you send Xin Xin to a mental hospital? Haven't you two ever doubted yourselves? Xiao Yuan's death was caused by you, and has nothing to do with Xin Xin."
Gu Yunxi pulled Yu Xinxin aside and looked at the two people sitting in the chair.
“An adopted daughter is still a daughter. If it weren’t for Xinxin’s arrival, which brought good fortune to your family, how could you have given birth to Xiaoyuan?”
The couple exchanged a surprised glance. How did this woman know that Xin Xin was adopted? Could it be that this little bastard had already discovered her true identity?
"Nonsense, this is our family matter. Now that she's back, you two can leave."
Xin Xin quickly grabbed Gu Yunxi's arm and shook her head vigorously.
She realized that she had never truly seen her parents' true colors. If they left, she would probably be locked up in that dark and hopeless place again before dawn.
“Go? Go where? Even if we have to leave, we must take Xinxin with us and go find her real parents.”
"Since you already know he's not our biological child, let me tell you, Xin Xin is someone I adopted from an orphanage. Her parents died long ago, so she has no relatives."
"Ma'am, I'm really sorry, but I'm a bit of a charlatan. I actually managed to find out where her parents live now?"
After Gu Yunxi finished speaking, she secretly made a spell and flicked it onto the two of them.
“We adopted Xin Xin. At that time, we had been trying to conceive for several years without success. We heard from the villagers that adopting a child from an orphanage would bring good luck, and it really did!”
Less than three years later, we had Xiaoyuan. At that time, we treated her very well, supported her education, and in the blink of an eye, she was already in high school…
From their heartfelt conversation, we learned that Yu Xinxin went to study in the county. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yuan fell ill soon after. They couldn't afford to take him to a big city for a checkup, but the small county's medical standards couldn't find anything. The two then placed their hopes on the gods, but ended up buying talisman water from a swindler.
This caused Yu Xiaoyuan's condition to worsen, and he soon passed away. Seeing that their adopted daughter was alive and well, the two of them had wicked thoughts again. They believed other people's rumors that this adopted daughter was incompatible with their son's birth date and time, and that she had caused his death.
So the two of them hardened their hearts and decided to avenge their son, and directly put Xin Xin into a mental hospital.
[Ah! These two are crazy! Their child is sick, and instead of seeing a doctor, they believe in superstition. They probably drank some weird stuff that caused his body to give out.]
[Being born into such a family is truly pitiful and tragic. Fortunately, Xinxin managed to connect with the streamer; otherwise, her life would have been completely ruined.]
"Wait, what did I just say? How did I reveal everything?"
Yu Jie, standing to the side, was also dumbfounded. What had just happened between the two of them? Why had they blurted out all their innermost thoughts?
Could it all be that woman's doing?
"What...what did you just do to us?"
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