Looking back carefully now, the Xie Family's affection for Xie Ran really had been nothing but superficial.
All that nonsense about a cuckoo taking over the magpie's nest, all that talk of belated compensation—
It was all fucking excuses.
Later on, they were just tormenting him for the sake of tormenting him. They did not need any reason at all.
Xie Ran had merely faked an illness and said he needed a kidney transplant, and Xie Chen had been locked in a basement.
It was absurd beyond belief—absurdity had come home to roost.
What normal person could do something like that?!
It seemed the Xie Family had simply wanted an excuse to take the opportunity to force him to death...
Actually, Xie Chen had long known that Xie Yongan had stolen the Xie Family's Destiny Pattern.
He had kept his silence and endured, hoping to flush out whoever was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
For example, according to the plan, he would help that old fox smuggle himself into the United States, then follow the trail...
But the mastermind behind it all was even more cunning than that old fox.
They had actually ditched their informant and vanished without a trace.
If Xie Chen wanted to find that old fox, he could only wait for another opportunity.
But the photo sent by the special department had left him tossing and turning.
A certain intuition kept crashing through his mind.
That sinister object, saturated with yin energy...
It seemed to be his?!
"Can't sleep?" Huo Wenye's deep, concerned voice fell beside his ear. "Thinking about the jade pendant?"
Xie Chen immediately shot him a sidelong glare. "Don't act like you're the tapeworm in my stomach!"
Fuck.
Could he have guessed any more accurately?!
Did sleeping together for a while unlock