No, that wasn't right. Zhai Ruizhen studied Min Guangyao more closely, then found a familiar face buried deep in his memories.
It was his mother's face. She had passed away after he married, and now, so many years later, even her voice and smile had begun to fade from his memory.
Looking at Min Guangyao now brought it all back. No wonder he had felt a faint sense of familiarity when he first saw him.
[Yes, exactly, he switched the babies. Zhai Ruizhen's third son had just been born, and Nie Jinglun happened to find a baby boy abandoned in the wind and snow. That was when a wicked idea took root.
Who would have thought that Nie Jinglun, who had failed so many times in his attempts at mischief, would actually succeed this time?
But in Great Xia, where sons were valued over daughters, abandoning baby girls was commonplace. Baby boys were rarely abandoned, and those who were almost always had something wrong with their health.
Not long after the swap, the baby left in his son's place died young, despite treatment from numerous renowned physicians.]
Zhai Ruizhen nodded inwardly. That was indeed what had happened. He had grieved for quite some time back then, never imagining that the baby was not his own.
[Nie Jinglun switched the babies on a whim. Once he had the child, he found him something of a nuisance and originally intended to kill him outright. But just then, the Nie Family's crimes came to light, and their estate was confiscated. He happened to be away at the time and escaped disaster.
Consumed by hatred, he laid the blame squarely on Zhai Ruizhen. In the end, Zhai Ruizhen had simply been struck by a calamity out of nowhere.]
Guagua could not understand how Nie