"Because my uncle was seeing me frequently at the time, even though he was being very discreet, Jiang Honghu still noticed something was off and traced my existence."
"And then? What did he do?" Qi Si pressed.
Bo Yanqi answered, "He found me. At first, he played the family card, trying to use his identity as my grandfather to gain my trust and get me to help him take power back from my uncle."
"So basically, he wanted you to help him hurt your uncle?" Qi Si summed up.
Bo Yanqi did not deny it.
Qi Si was stunned. He knew that fathers and sons turning against each other, brothers fighting brothers, was common in families like this. But for that old man to have his own grandson go after his own son was truly deranged.
"He wanted me to earn my uncle's trust, then pass along information from my uncle's side to him."
Qi Si asked in confusion, "Why was he so confident you would believe him?"
"That's why I say he was arrogant." Bo Yanqi sneered. "He took out a photo of my mother with her parents when she was little, trying to use family ties and morality to blackmail me. He even told me that my mother had gone missing because my uncle was too playful back then."
Qi Si's eyes widened, unable to believe what he had heard.
"There really are people in this world who are that shameless?"
"But didn't he realize that saying that only made him more suspicious?" Qi Si could not understand Jiang Honghu's thought process. "What normal father would deliberately slander his own biological son in front of his grandson? Especially in a family like the Jiang Family, where sons should be valued even more?"
A mocking smile hung on Bo