Qi Qi, who is remembered by Xiang Yi, has once again traveled with Lian Yi and others, and they have entered Longxi City.

After entering the city, the two sides officially parted ways. Qi Qi arranged for people to continue watching Liàn Yī's group, feeling that he could find the answers he wanted from these few people.

"Auntie, that kid is quite crafty. He's not giving up and has people watching us! Should we knock those tailers unconscious?"

Ripples, driving a carriage, went straight to Wang Zhenzhen and asked.

"No, if he truly served the royal family, he would have found them by now. It's only a matter of time. Then we'll see his attitude."

Wang Zhenzhen closed her eyes and said softly.

Wang Yaozu on the side was a little confused, wondering how this had anything to do with his Wang family. However, he didn't dare ask.

With practiced ease, under Wang Yaizu's command, the carriage rolled to a stop before the entrance of the Wang family mansion. She leaped down from the carriage, brandishing Wang Yaizu's personal jade pendant and knocked on the door. She flung the jade pendant to the recipient, uttering only one sentence:

"Let your master come to pick them up."

The doorman, seeing the beautiful woman in a red outfit and her cold eyes, didn't dare ask any questions. He held the jade pendant and went to report it.

Wang YaoHui has been in a very bad mood lately. His father is seriously ill, and he needs to take care of him. The Wang family also has a lot of things waiting for him to handle. He informed his younger brother to come back and replace him, but after a month passed, he only received one letter from his brother Wang YaoZu saying that he was heading back to Longxi. There has been no news since then.

Today, after serving his father his medicine and seeing him fall asleep, he went to visit Mistress Wu. Ever since he was a child, he had known that he wasn't Mistress Wu's biological son. His real mother, Su Ling, passed away three years after giving birth to his younger brother.

In order not to threaten the status of his heir, Wu did not include his second younger brother Wang Yaozhu under his name. He only hired a teacher to educate his younger brother, hoping he would be able to study and achieve a good future for himself.

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He also knew that his biological mother, Lady Li, had not lived well in the Wang family's inner courtyard. Before he turned eighteen, he had even blamed Wu Shi for it. However, on the day of his coming-of-age ceremony, Wu Shi invited the clan elders, his father, Lady Li, and him to attend. She then revealed that Lady Su Ling had schemed against his two elder sisters.

At first, Su Ling refused to admit it. But as evidence after evidence was presented before her, she had to admit that for the sake of her two sons, she had been used by outsiders to do wrong things, and she begged her father not to harm them.

He still remembers Wu's expression when she looked at him.

"I know you have resented me for my mistreatment of your mother. I took her away from you, securing my position with my legitimate wife, yet still I treated her so harshly. You should know the great effort it took to hold back from killing her, even allowing her to bear a second son?"

My daughter, how innocent your elder sisters are! Everything you enjoy now should have belonged to them.

When Wang's family took me in, they promised that as long as the child came from my womb, regardless of gender, whoever had the ability could inherit the family business. Your elder sister, Wang Zhenzhen, was raised with this in mind.

Because of your birth mother's selfishness, and the duplicity of these elders from the Wang family who only want a male heir to inherit the family business, you were born. How should I treat you? How should I treat your mother?

All the elders present blushed. They had indeed promised Wu Shi, but at the time they thought she would definitely give birth to a son and a daughter. Unfortunately, Wu Shi only had two daughters. In their eyes, daughters ultimately get married off, so that's why they considered taking another wife.

Mrs. Wu was initially unwilling, but she was very intelligent and realized that her husband, the current head of the Wang family, did not oppose it. She turned coldhearted, agreed to take a concubine, brought Su Ling into the house, and encouraged her to give birth. After giving birth to Wang Yaohui, she agreed to have him registered under her name, on the condition that the existing family property be divided.

She had paved the way for her two daughters, after all, Wang Yaohui inherited the Wang family, and with a bit more wealth, the two daughters would be secure for the rest of their lives. But she underestimated Su Ling's ambition, and she also underestimated the Wang family elders' preference for their son.

The head of the Wang family was well aware of the investigation results and knew that Su Ling was the one who had almost ruined his two daughters. Following Wu's request, he laid out everything before Wang Yaohui and dealt with Su Ling, causing her to pass away shortly after.

Wang Yaohui was very clear that if his biological mother didn't die, he would never be able to smoothly inherit the family business in this lifetime. Not to mention his own ability issues, Wu Shi wouldn't agree, and the clan elder would definitely obstruct him from inheriting the Wang family to give Wu Shi an explanation.

So his feelings for Wu were complicated, a mix of respect and resentment. But all of that seemed to vanish in the face of Wu's cold expression, because she simply didn't care about him.

This time, the father's illness came on suddenly and he was bedridden. Besides visiting on the day he fell ill, Wu went back to her own courtyard and never saw her father again after that, leaving all his care to others.

Wang Yaohui was well aware that Wu had resentment towards his father. It was just that she was getting older and didn't want to cause any more trouble, so she simply closed herself off and lived her own life. After he inherited the position of head of the family, he never interfered in Wang family affairs again.

He should be grateful, but he always felt uneasy. Moreover, since his father fell ill, rumors about a treasure map had spread through the martial arts world, and they subtly pointed to his deceased second sister, Wang Yingying, making him feel as if he was caught in a huge conspiracy. He was just agitated and restless.

Wang Yaohui sighed, raised his teacup and took a sip, just as an attendant approached him carrying a jade pendant. He then relayed the visitor's message.

Wang Yaohui looked at the "Zu" character in the lower right corner of the jade pendant and immediately confirmed that it belonged to his younger brother, Wang Yaozhu. He had a similar one himself, crafted by their father especially for them when they were born.

Wang Yaohui clenched the jade pendant and stood up with a "whoosh," immediately taking his men to the front door of the mansion.

Liàn Yī sent the token and returned to the carriage, stopping Wang Yào zū who was about to get off.

"What's the rush? Even if you ran into your brother's arms right now, he wouldn't recognize you. He'd think you were up to no good! Just wait! I'll talk to you when I get my reward."

After finishing, he coldly glanced at Wang Yaozhu.

Wang Yaizu immediately shrunk back into the carriage and behaved himself. The Ripple Woman's gaze was truly intimidating, like she was looking at a corpse. He was just one door away from home, so it was best to be obedient.

Wang Yaohui had the doorman open the gate, and at first glance, he saw ripples, then an ordinary carriage. He didn't see his younger brother's shadow. Just as he was about to ask, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a graceful woman smiled softly and spoke:

"Shining, long time no see!"