"You don't want to acknowledge them?"
Du Jingzhou didn't think it was any trouble.
If they refused, he could just drive them out of Haishi and let them fend for themselves.
"It's not just that I don't want to acknowledge them. Neither of us sisters wants to acknowledge them."
"When she escaped back then, you should have known that Wu Fenglan and Su Pinhan wanted to hand her over to Shen Shuting to pay off their gambling debts."
"And before that, Su Pinhan and Shen Shuting had already made a move against her once. She only managed to escape by sheer luck."
It was precisely because she had no intention of acknowledging those parents that, even though Su Qiao suspected they might be sisters, she never investigated.
Because even if she found out the truth, it would be useless.
"They already made a move against her once?"
Du Jingzhou knew she had run away to escape being sold off by her family, but he hadn't known they had already tried to hurt her before that.
"Mm."
Su Qiao pondered how to deal with the Shen Family, as well as Su Zhongyun's family of three, who worked as stewards for the Shen Family.
"Does your younger sister know something about the Shen Family? Why haven't they been willing to let her go even after three years?"
Du Jingzhou had previously asked An Jin to question her sister several times, but they hadn't gotten anything out of her.
He didn't know whether she was deliberately hiding something or whether she herself didn't know.
The original owner might not have known, but Su Qiao understood it perfectly well.
"That time—the time she escaped from the Shen Family—she ran into President Shen and a Japanese man who had just come out of the Secret