"You think you've covered your tracks perfectly at the New Jersey jade shop? Hmph, if it weren't for my people cleaning up the mess for you, you would have been under the watchful eyes of certain departments long ago."
Zuo Ling's tense nerves relaxed. If she hadn't said anything then, what could they do to her now that it's been spread around?
Heh, I found a sofa and sat down, waiting for the rest of the story with a cold face.
"I knew you had spatial abilities all along. How ridiculous! The message my mole planted in the Ding family sent back said you had ice abilities."
Zuo Lingxin tensed up; her spatial ability was her biggest secret.
People leave their names behind, just as swallows leave their calls. It's hard for anything done without leaving a trace if you're mindful of it. The old man is the first to so openly say that he knows something.
She wanted to kill him to silence him.
The old man continued, seemingly oblivious:
"The old man from the Ding family never imagined that the spatial ability he had been trying so hard to obtain was actually in you."
This was the first time Zuo Ling had seen the old man smile since she entered the room.
A quick glance at her biological mother—it's a tragedy. Even in this state, some people still feel sorry for you.
How did I end up at the Zuo family's house?
The old man's face, which had just calmed down, immediately turned cold: "You think she threw you away?"
"Isn't that right?" Zuo Ling's face was expressionless, but her fists were clenched so tightly that her nails dug into her flesh.
"Is that how you miss your mother?"
Seemingly sensing what Zuo Ling was thinking, the old man's tone became very unpleasant.
Instead of answering, Zuo Ling asked, "How did she become like this?"
The old man stared blankly in the woman's direction for a long time, then sighed deeply.
"She... is an idiot."
Zuo Ling agreed with this point; she wasn't stupid enough to be fooled by her good-for-nothing father.
"Back then, when she discovered that your good-for-nothing father had lied to her, she ran away from the Ding family with you in her arms in a fit of anger. Like you, she also has spatial abilities..."
Can spatial abilities be inherited? Zuo Ling was very surprised.
"Spatial abilities aren't the strongest, but they are the rarest. The competition among the major families for spatial abilities has always been brutal, and she's been targeted for a long time..."
The good-for-nothing father seduced the mentally challenged mother in exchange for his spatial abilities.
So what about you? Were you also plotting against the silly mother for the sake of the Ning family?
Various thoughts raced through Zuo Ling's mind.
The old man was lost in distant memories.
"To be with that bastard, she risked breaking with her family, only to end up like that. She was too ashamed to go home and didn't know where to go, so she wandered aimlessly until she entered the Jin family's territory, where she was kidnapped..."
The old man's face showed resentment, and he trembled all over as he recalled the past.
"I got the news too late. By the time I found out she was at the Jin family's house, it was already too late, cough, cough..."
The old man struggled to suppress his violent coughing fit. Zuo Ling, wanting to continue listening to the story, reluctantly poured him a glass of water.
The old man drank it all in one gulp, but still held onto the cup tightly. It took him a while to calm down.
"The Jin family!"
He forced out two words through gritted teeth.
"The Jin family actually had the idea of plundering her spatial abilities."
Zuo Ling felt a chill in her heart, recalling the helplessness she felt when she was tied to the iron platform. It turned out that the fates of the mother and daughter were the same. A red mist clouded her vision.
"Was the bombing of the Jin family's residence done by you and Pei Nansheng?"
Zuo Ling remained silent. She didn't trust the old man. According to the information she received, the Ning family's relationship with the Ding, Jin, and Zhao families was much closer than their relationship with the Bai, Li, and Lin families.
The old man said to himself:
"Well done, well done, cough, cough, blow those bastards from the Jin family to death, cough cough cough..."
Zuo Ling poured the old man another glass of water. This time, the old man didn't drink it all at once, but took a sip and looked at Zuo Ling, saying:
“You are stronger than your mother, more ruthless, and more cunning. When a girl needs to be ruthless, she must be ruthless; when she needs to be cunning, she must never be soft.”
Zuo Ling retreated to the sofa, remaining silent.
"You don't believe me..." The old man's face darkened, and he gave a self-deprecating laugh:
"That's true. What right do I have to make you believe me? If you don't believe me, that's fine. Don't end up like your mother, who trusted someone too easily, ruined her life, and ended up like that."
The room was silent. The two stared at the living dead on the bed. One was saddened by the past, and the other was lamenting the gears of fate. They had somehow come together at that moment.
"When I rescued her from the Jin family, she had been tortured beyond recognition. She only had time to tell me the address of an orphanage before falling into a deep coma."
Zuo Ling clenched her fist. She had attacked the Jin family because she had learned that they were conducting experiments to steal supernatural abilities.
Looking back now, it seems that everything was preordained, and the feud was formed long ago.
"I found the orphanage before the Jin family, and after finding you, I thought it over and decided to send you to the Lin family's territory..."
Zuo Ling caught a piece of information:
"Why the Lin family? Why not the Bai family, the Li family, or the Mei family?"
The old man paused for a moment, then burst into laughter:
"So that's how it is, haha, haha, so they didn't tell you."
It seemed really funny; the old man laughed until tears streamed down his face.
"who are they?"
The old man avoided answering:
"I don't know why they didn't tell you. I thought... Ha, yeah, they were so heartless back then, how can they have the nerve to do this now?"
Zuo Ling's expression changed. The old man said, "They didn't even tell me," which meant that "they" were people she knew and who were right beside her.
Who is it?
“I promised the old lady of the Zuo family a sum of money and promised to send her living expenses every month so that she could take you out of the orphanage.”
At first, I sent money to Grandma Zuo every month on time, for many years. Later, some problems arose, and your living expenses stopped. A year later, you had dropped out of school and gone out to work.
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