"Jiang Honghu and my grandmother had a son and a daughter. My mother also had a younger brother named Jiang Nantian.
Jiang Honghu was ambitious by nature. How could he possibly have accepted becoming a live-in son-in-law? So after marrying my grandmother, he had been subjecting her to psychological control.
While my grandmother's father was still alive, Jiang Honghu had restrained himself somewhat. Back then, my great-grandfather was still in charge.
But after my great-grandfather died, Jiang Honghu could no longer sit still. He used my grandmother to gather all of my great-grandfather's power into his own hands, then controlled her for decades.
The year after my uncle was born, the woman Jiang Honghu kept outside also bore him a child.
In order to prevent my uncle from standing in her son's way, that woman hired people to kidnap him. But she never expected my mother, who was only four at the time, to discover it."
"So your mother was taken away with them because she caught them kidnapping your uncle?" Qi Si asked in surprise. "Then what happened to your uncle? Was he lost too?"
Qi Si thought it over carefully. Bo Yanqi's uncle did not seem to have gone missing, did he?
Wasn't it said that Old Jiang had a son whom he valued greatly?
Could that son actually have been the mistress's child?
The possibility startled Qi Si.
He had seen people seize an entire family's inheritance, but never anyone gorge himself as thoroughly as Jiang Honghu had.
"No, my uncle wasn't lost. After my mother discovered them, she snatched my uncle back from those people. Her cries for help drew the attention of others. In their panic, they could only take my mother away, and my uncle was saved because of it," Bo Yanqi explained.
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