Chapter 404: Someone Is Manipulating Things Behind the Scenes
Chapter 404: Someone Is Secretly Manipulating
The most exhilarating part for Jiang Mengyu was the realization that she and Cheng Jiuhe were truly first cousins!
No wonder she felt a blood connection with Cheng Jiuhe.
Remembering Cheng Jiuhe’s unconditional kindness to her, even giving her the exquisite Siheyuan that his grandfather had given him, Mengyu’s heart felt warmly touched.
She must find Cheng Jiuhe’s Brother quickly to tell him that they are not just sworn siblings but also blood-related cousins!
"Mengyu, I didn’t come clean to you right away because, honestly, I also didn’t know how to say it. This matter is just too mysterious."
Her daughter’s sale to the Jiang Family by Lin Hai was mysterious enough, but it turns out she’d been switched with another child even before Lin Hai sold her.
"If it weren’t for my running into my biological daughter browsing in the store recently and my coincidental visit to the store at the time, I would have been unaware that my daughter had been swapped with someone else.
I know that right now, the Nan Family is a dangerous place too, and it would be better for Nan Mingzhu to come back to me than stay with them. With my current ability, I can give her a better life, but—"
Leng Xiangyu sighed deeply and said, "I hope you won’t rush back to the Nan Family to acknowledge your kin. In fact, don’t even show that you already know your true identity!"
"Why?" Mengyu didn’t understand.
She didn’t believe Leng Xiangyu wanted her daughter to remain the Lady of the Nan Family.
Mengyu knew that although Leng Xiangyu was currently under Tang Ailian, that was only their private relationship. In fact, she was a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator and had started the largest antique company in City B, with a net worth in the billions.
Therefore, Leng Xiangyu’s social status in society was absolutely no less than that of the Nan Family.
Moreover, at the Nan Family, Nan Mingzhu was just a pitiable young lady whose parents were both deceased, but being with Leng Xiangyu, she could be the pampered Eldest Lady of the Ancient Charm Antique Company!
However, Leng Xiangyu did not take Nan Mingzhu back to her side. There must definitely be reasons that Jiang Mengyu was not aware of.
Sure enough, after a while, Leng Xiangyu answered.
"I have a feeling that someone is secretly manipulating this affair. If we acknowledge our kinship, they remain in the dark while we are in the open. It would be very difficult to find them out.
But if we don’t acknowledge our relationship, they’ll think their schemes have yet to be discovered, allowing us to calmly unearth this person."
This person is very likely to be Nan Mingzhu’s biological father, the source of the tragedy that befell her early life, and she must not be overlooked.
It must be said that Leng Xiangyu’s reasons were powerful enough to convince Jiang Mengyu, who agreed.
Mengyu thought for a moment and said, "I can temporarily refrain from acknowledging kinship, but—I have a condition."
"What condition?" asked Leng Xiangyu.
Mengyu looked at Leng Xiangyu: "I heard you’ve opened an antique company?"
Indeed, she was eyeing the Essence Value of the antiques in Leng Xiangyu’s antique company. If she could absorb the Essence Value from those antiques, would she still lack Essence Value?
Leng Xiangyu was curious: "Yes, what about it?"
"Nothing much, just that I want to study archaeology and hope to borrow those antiques for research," Mengyu said, slightly embarrassed. After all, borrowing someone else’s antiques to use actually meant absorbing the Sun and Moon Essence from their antiques.
Leng Xiangyu looked at Jiang Mengyu with a somewhat odd expression, took out several antiques, and handed them to Mengyu: "Alright, I have a few here. Shall I lend them to you for your research to start with?"