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Everyone from Tokyo had seen Mrs. Tatsumi like this before—she was clearly admitting it.
Although Mouri Ran had long known that Jiang Xia was probably telling the truth, seeing it with her own eyes still felt unbelievable. "Why? Tatsumi Ryunosuke may be your biological son, but Tatsumi Seimaru was also raised by you with your own hands all these years. Even if it was for the position of family head..."
"Why?" Mrs. Tatsumi laughed, her expression gradually twisting. "Because Seimaru... after all, wasn't my biological child—he was the son of that strange-tempered, vicious woman, Tatsumi Ayako!"
"Tatsumi Ayako?" Tatsumi Moe understood. "Wasn't that the name of our late mother? Tatsumi Seimaru was actually my biological Big Brother?"
Mrs. Tatsumi vigorously wiped her face, somehow returning to the elegant bearing of a family matriarch. She sighed. "It's cramped and dark here. It's my least favorite place. If you want to know anything, wait until we return to the hall."
It was rare for the murderous mastermind behind everything to be willing to reveal something voluntarily. Naturally, Yamamura Misao had no reason to refuse.
The group quickly returned to the hall.
Mrs. Tatsumi gazed at the quiet, refined courtyard and sighed. "When I was fifteen, my father died under the burden of enormous debts. From then on, my mother and I lived a miserable life, never having enough to eat or enough clothes to keep warm.
"To escape that miserable situation, I studied desperately and finally got into one of the best high schools. It was there that I met that woman—Ayako.
"Ayako was the pampered daughter of a company president. She was always self-centered, throwing a fit over the slightest thing that displeased her. Perhaps she thought the sight of me offended her eyes, because she constantly bullied me in