Chapter 64

Chapter 64: I Am Your Retribution

Li Feng Xian was the first to react. As the host, he asked: “What happened?”

Li Zhan Yan quickly stepped forward and briefly explained what had happened. Li Feng Xian’s face darkened, and he said in a cold voice: “This is not the place to talk about this. Let’s go to the second floor first. Zhao Yang, you stay here and greet the guests.”

Because his seniority was not high enough, Li Zhao Yang was pushed out by the elders and forced to hover outside the circle. He was speechless: “…” No, he also wanted to go upstairs and listen!

Zhang Wan Yin still remembered that Li Zhan Yan had just mentioned that Li Zhao Yang had personally invited Du An Rao and her sister. She wanted to let him go upstairs with them, but Li Zhan Yan stopped her again.

Zhang Wan Yin frowned slightly. Although she was puzzled by this, the understanding built over many years made her swallow the words that were already on the tip of her tongue.

Since the families related by marriage had no objections, Li Feng Xian then turned his gaze to Du Yu Xi and her sister and asked: “Would the two young misses be willing to come with us?”

Du Yu Xi turned her head to look at Du An Rao for her opinion. Du An Rao quickly raised her hand and said: “I’m fine with anything.”

So Du Yu Xi also nodded.

Li Feng Xian secretly let out a breath of relief, then arranged for a few people to help Li Zhao Yang greet the guests. Only then did he lead everyone upstairs.

As soon as they entered the study, Zhang Wan Yin could not wait and asked: “Could you tell us in detail about you two being switched at birth? We… we are really curious.”

No matter how curious they were, it was still a bit rude to ask this of people they had just met. Du Yu Xi once again looked toward Du An Rao to ask for her opinion.

Du An Rao did not really mind. This was not something shameful.

Strictly speaking, both she and Du Yu Xi were victims, and the only one who had gained from it all…

Du An Rao glanced at Li Qian Xi, who had quietly followed everyone in, but in the end she still left the decision to Du Yu Xi.

Of course Du Yu Xi also noticed that Li Qian Xi was there, but compared to Li Feng Xian and the others, she did not care much about this stranger who had no blood tie with her.

She said: “I can tell you, but I want to know the reason.”

“This…” The few people looked at each other, their faces full of hesitation.

But Zhang Wan Yin was impatient and said: “Because my sister, the one I mentioned just now who looks so much like you, also gave birth to a child then in XX Hospital of Y Province.”

Hearing this, Du Yu Xi put on a surprised look and asked: “So you now think that I am your family’s child?”

Su Rui Yin and the others did not speak. Instead, Li Feng Xian suddenly turned his head to look at Li Qian Xi and asked: “What do you think…”

After the first moment of panic, Li Qian Xi was now completely calm. She thought for a bit and suddenly asked: “Forgive me for asking, but are both of you in good health?”

“Of course.”

Li Qian Xi then lowered her head and showed a sad little smile: “I don’t know why this Miss looks so much like Mom, but the two of them are both very healthy. They are not like me, who was sentenced to death the moment I was born, with this illness that makes me deal with hospitals all my life.”

Her words were meant to remind everyone present that both Du An Rao and Du Yu Xi were healthy, so it made sense that switching them had not been noticed.

But she had been born with congenital heart disease. How could it be possible to swap a sick baby for a healthy one without anyone noticing?

Madam Li and the others stiffened slightly. Clearly, they had only just realized this point.

Only Du An Rao, who held the script in her hands, saw through her little scheme at once.

[Smart, really smart! She reacted so fast. She must have gone over today’s scene in her head many times after learning the truth. Too bad for her, she ran into me. Everything has a cause and an effect. I am your retribution!]

The few Du family members and Xie Jing Yue, who had moved down one floor and into the next room to secretly eat melon: Pfft…

This did sound like a logical weakness. It was easy to notice a swap between a healthy baby and a sick baby like Li Qian Xi, but it seemed that even Heaven Above had been helping her and her mother.

Back then, the medical system was not as careful and advanced as it is now. On top of that, the natural disaster had caused many car accidents, the hospital was packed, and the whole system was close to collapse.

At that time, the only one who knew about Li Qian Xi’s condition was a doctor in charge of checking the newborns. When Wang Xue He brought the baby to him, she happened to catch him secretly taking red packets and kickbacks, a serious rule-breaking problem.

The Du family members: “…” What kind of chosen girl was this? Wasn’t it all a bit too coincidental!

As expected, Wang Xue He used this to threaten him and forced him to change the stored records for Li Qian Xi and Du Yu Xi.

[This doctor died of illness six years ago. Li Qian Xi probably already knew this and chose this moment to bring it up on purpose, betting exactly on the fact that the dead cannot testify.]

Du An Rao was not wrong. After learning the truth a year ago, Li Qian Xi had spent money to let her adoptive father help her check many things and had erased many traces left by Wang Xue He in advance. She knew that the doctor had long since passed away.

But Zhang Wan Yin was not so easy to convince. She said: “There are many strange things in this world. Sometimes, the things that look the most impossible are the ones most likely to happen.”

At this point, Li Qian Xi hated this aunt, who had never thought much of her, to the extreme, but on her face she still kept that pitiful, lowered-eyes look as she said: “If Aunt wants to think that way, there is nothing I can do. I only said what I was thinking. How to tell the truth still depends on what all you elders decide. After all, back then I was only a child. What could I have known?”

Zhang Wan Yin choked up. At first, her impression of Li Qian Xi had not been that bad.

Until later, one time when she came to the Li family to see her, she happened to catch Li Qian Xi hiding behind Li Zhao Yang, speaking in a soft, weak voice about a “small conflict” between herself and the daughter of another family they had long ties with.

The whole story sounded fine on the surface, but Zhang Wan Yin could not help getting goosebumps.

Especially when she saw that after the other girl being complained about stormed off in anger, Li Qian Xi, still hiding behind Li Zhao Yang, suddenly showed a strange smile with a dark, damp feeling to it.

With her top-level radar for spotting fake-sweet girls, Madam Su felt a jolt in her heart and at once tasted the problem hidden inside. But she also worried she might be too sensitive and might wrong a child, so after that she watched Li Qian Xi even more closely.

After several times, she finally confirmed that this child had indeed grown crooked!

Back then, Li Qian Xi had only been six years old. Naturally, Zhang Wan Yin had thought that it was because the Li family had not taught her well and had even started to doubt the Li family’s character because of it.

Later, after long contact, Zhang Wan Yin changed her mind again and realized that this child turning out like this was completely her own problem.

But it was also because of this that Zhang Wan Yin became more and more resistant to Li Qian Xi’s existence.

That girl she had almost watched grow up, young and beautiful, bright and generous, like a little shining sun that you could never forget after seeing once.

How could someone like that give birth to a child so fake and pretentious, who liked to play little tricks behind people’s backs?