Chapter 25 - 25 24 Will You Believe Me_2

Chapter 25: Chapter 24 Will You Believe Me?_2 Chapter 25: Chapter 24 Will You Believe Me?_2 “Great! I’m not sleepy at all, Mom, what do you want to show me?”

Su Yang chuckled, “You’ll know when we get there.”

Wenyan was soon brought into Su Yang’s study.

In this home, Shen Yuan, Su Yang, and Shen Jingxiu each had their study for handling official matters or doing design work, each with their own space, without interfering with each other.

Su Yang’s study was filled with all sorts of clothing, bags, and jewelry.

Because these items were quite valuable, her study was usually locked, and the original occupant of this body had rarely been inside.

For Wenyan, this was the first time entering.

She couldn’t help but be dazzled by the luxury that met her eye as if stepping into an exquisite luxury showroom.

However, she tried hard to restrain herself and didn’t look too surprised.

After all, she was now the daughter of the Shen Family, so she couldn’t appear too countrified, nor could she disgrace the original occupant of this body.

Su Yang even took the initiative to engage Wenyan in conversation: “I need to organize a bit before I can show you the stuff.”

Wenyan responded with an ‘Mhm,’ and obediently nodded.

Meanwhile, she thought this was a chance to talk to Su Yang about Shen Zhirou.

With no one easily entering her study, there was no fear of being overheard.

“By the way, Mom, can I ask you about Zhirou?”

“Zhirou’s matter?”

Su Yang didn’t find it strange.

From both Wenyan’s heart and her outward behavior, Su Yang could tell that she was trying hard to reach out to Zhirou.

So it wasn’t wrong for her to come and ask about Zhirou now.

Su Yang simply stopped what she was doing and sat down with Wenyan on a sofa to the side.

“Speak, what do you want to know? I’ll tell you everything, Mommy will.”

“Yes! I just wanted to know how Zhirou left home back then, and what life was like for her during the ten years she spent adrift.”

“Sigh!” As soon as she heard the question, Su Yang sighed deeply.

But since she was prepared to tell Wenyan, she wasn’t going to keep things hidden any longer.

“Back then, Zhirou left because she developed a severe blood disease, and by the time we found out, it was already late. She was basically living in the hospital every day, her schooling was interrupted too, and the hospital was giving us critical illness notices every couple of days.”

The only solution was a bone marrow transplant. But even with our family’s resources, we couldn’t find a suitable match. I even considered having another child in hopes it might save her.

But when I gave birth to Zhirou, my uterus was damaged, and the doctor said it wasn’t suitable for me to get pregnant again. And your four brothers weren’t a bone marrow match, so I put aside the thought of getting pregnant again.

She was undergoing chemotherapy every day, and Zhirou, who loved to look pretty, lost all her hair. We knew she was in pain every day, suffering from the disease. But as parents, we didn’t want to just give up on her.

Eventually, she couldn’t bear it any longer and left the hospital while the nurse wasn’t in the room. Your father and I nearly went mad looking for her, combing through surveillance footage everywhere.

The next day, we found the shoes she was wearing the day she left the hospital and a letter pressed under a stone by the riverbank. She had written that she didn’t want to see her dad and mom in so much pain anymore, and didn’t want to see her mom crying all the time. So she chose to jump into the river to end her life.

I just collapsed at that moment and searched along the river like a madwoman, day and night, wanting to find her alive or at least her body. But strangely, we never found her body.”

“For those three years, I lived like a walking corpse. Because we didn’t find a body, I believed she was still alive. But living and yet not being found, I couldn’t bear the torture.”

“I had become depressed by then, and then your dad brought you back. You were like a warm little sun, healing me. Without your company over those years, I don’t know what I would have done.”

“Just like that, another seven years passed, and we still didn’t give up looking for Zhirou. Until your birthday, when Zhirou’s adoptive parents suddenly showed up.”

“It turned out Zhirou hadn’t died. She was pulled onto a boat after jumping into the river and was taken home by her adoptive parents. But by then, she had lost the will to live and didn’t choose to come back home.”

“Her adoptive parents were very kind to her. After learning about her illness, they took her to the hospital for a bone marrow match, and, miraculously, they found a donor, and the surgery was successful. She was strong and fought through all the complications after the surgery until she recovered. Only then did she find her way back to your dad and me.”

“These memories are an eternal pain in my heart, as well as Zhirou’s. She didn’t have an easy time over those years, so I rarely bring up that period. But today, I’ve told you all this in the hopes that you and your sister will get along well.”

“There might have been times in the past when you felt your dad and I favored her, but that was also because we wanted to make up for what Zhirou went through. Do you understand, Yanyan?”

“I do. I understand, it’s a natural human sentiment.”

The past as told by Shen Zhirou indeed sounded very pitiful and evoked sympathy.

But the latter part, when combined with Shen Zhirou’s duplicitous, shadowy character, now struck Wenyan as extremely unreasonable.

It was too coincidental, too bizarre, almost like something out of a novel.

Wait, this was like a novel.

So perhaps such things could indeed exist. After all, she had traveled through time.

But… “Mom, I need to be clear, I don’t mean anything by this, but I still have to ask, did you do a paternity test after Zhirou came back? After all, so many years had passed.”

“Of course, we did. The paternity test was actually initiated by Zhirou herself. I even kept the report, I can show it to you.”

“Alright.”

[Ah, Mrs. Su really trusts Shen Zhirou. But if one day I tell Mrs. Su that Shen Zhirou once hurt me and even nearly killed me, would she believe me? Never mind that, better to look for evidence first.]

“!??” Su Yang, who was pulling out a drawer, suddenly stopped.

What was Yanyan saying? Zhirou had nearly killed her?

She might not believe it if it were spoken aloud by Yanyan.

But would someone’s innermost thoughts be untruthful?