Chapter 8

Chapter 8

The world had finally become an absurd shape I could not understand.

My parents were not my parents. They were the real daughter’s parents.

My brother was not my brother. He was the real daughter’s brother.

Wang Ma was not a maid. She was my family’s enemy.

Uncle Chen was not a butler. He was my… nominal second uncle, and my biological father by blood?

When Uncle Chen transformed and revealed another face beneath his disguise, I questioned for the first time whether I was truly a firm materialist. The very next second, Wang Ma cried out in disbelief.

“Brother Jingze.”

Uncle Chen was my second uncle, whom I had never met and who had supposedly been cruelly plotted to death by my father.

According to my nominal second uncle, back then he had not been plotted against. He had merely grown tired of the family’s schemes and struggles, so he deliberately designed a fake-death scheme with my father.

After enjoying a few carefree years, he returned under a hidden identity and, using the name Uncle Chen, became a butler by my father’s side.

Wang Ma was dumbfounded.

“So there was no grudge?”

“None.”

“Then… what was my eighteen years of planning?”

“Your romance-addled brain short-circuiting.”

After the kidnapping was resolved, there was an even more important matter.

In the Su family living room.

“So, I’m your daughter?”

I looked at Uncle Chen on the sofa, no, my nominal second uncle.

Looking at the face beneath his mask, even more handsome than my father’s, I truly had no courage to move closer. Once again, I felt ashamed of my own ordinariness.

Second Uncle said, “No. You are not my daughter. You are Big Brother’s daughter.”

It was my turn to be shocked.

At that moment, my brother took out the test result and waved it in front of Du Ruoqing and me. I clearly saw the result column. Su Jingtian and I had a 99.95 percent DNA match.

“You are my sister.”

My brother’s words were cold. His gaze swept over me, and his tone was as disdainful as ever. “Although you really don’t look like it.”

Wang Ma said, “How is that possible?”

She did not believe it.

“I really did switch the children back then!”

She emphasized.

“But I switched them back again.”

Second Uncle spoke once more.

Case solved.

According to Uncle Chen’s explanation, after Wang Ma switched the babies, he secretly switched the two children back. But to protect Wang Ma all these years, he had kept silent the whole time.

Du Ruoqing said, “So I am your daughter?”

Her eyes held disbelief, and also… deep unwillingness.

She seemed unwilling to accept that she was merely a butler’s daughter.

Second Uncle said, “No. You are not my daughter either.”

Du Ruoqing’s face froze again.

Second Uncle sighed.

“My wife cheated long ago. When I faked my death, she lied and claimed the posthumous child was mine in order to receive more of my inheritance. So whose child you are, I do not know.”

“Of course, if you are willing, you may call me godfather.”

Du Ruoqing seemed to have been struck still.

Her eyes were wide, and her upper and lower lips trembled slightly. After a very, very long time, I finally could not keep watching and kindly stepped forward to gently comfort her.

“If you want to cry, just cry.”

“Waaah!”

Wang Ma was taken away by Second Uncle.

Du Ruoqing agreed to study abroad in Argentina.

As for me, I continued living my usual lazy life of eating, sleeping, and waiting to die.

However, the atmosphere at home was different from before.

My cold father no longer flew all over the world. My dazzling mother no longer slept in hotels all the time. My expressionless brother even switched from boarding at school to commuting from home.

Wang Ma and Uncle Chen were gone, but my father and mother were here more often.

My father even took the rare initiative to organize a family picnic.

I did not understand. “Actually, you don’t have to specially come back and live at home for me.”

My expressionless brother said, “We reflected on ourselves. Judging from this incident, we gave you too little sense of security.”

I said, “Actually, it’s fine…”

My expressionless brother said, “Don’t think I don’t know. Before the result came out, you were already preparing to leave.”

I froze. Looking at them, I swallowed.

“You all knew?”

They knew that I had secretly packed all my luggage, ready to give up my place and run away at any time.

“Nian’an, actually, in our hearts, even if you are ordinary, we still believed you were our biological daughter.”

My mother turned back and said this to me. Her gaze held a tenderness I had never seen before.

She said, “I never doubted it.”

It was as if something struck my heart.

In truth, the moment Du Ruoqing appeared, I had been certain I was the fake. After all, I did not fit this family at all.

They were like radiant swans, while I was only an utterly ordinary ugly duckling.

“I thought…”

For some reason, my nose stung.

I had just prepared to speak when the man in the driver’s seat opened his mouth.

“After all, no family’s ancestral grave can keep blasting out good fortune forever.”

I closed my eyes.

Fine. The worry hanging over my heart was still dead.