"Yueyue, all of this is yours!"
Cheng Wenqing pushed a thick document envelope across the table toward him.
The instant he opened it, Cheng Yue was stunned.
"Grandma, this..."
Smiling, Cheng Wenqing took a jade pendant out of a velvet pouch. The character for Zhuo was carved on it. It was the very pendant Cheng Wenzhuo had traded away to buy him formula all those years ago.
"If someone hadn't put this jade pendant up for sale, I might never have found you."
All one could say was that everything in this world had its cause and effect. Even in his hardest days, Cheng Wenzhuo had been unwilling to sell it. But after taking Cheng Yue in, he had been forced to exchange it for money and food so the boy could eat his fill.
Years passed, and after changing hands several times, it finally allowed Cheng Wenqing, who had never stopped searching for her family, to find her older brother within her lifetime.
In the end, the jade pendant returned to Cheng Yue's hands.
"I've spent this time sorting everything out. All of this should have belonged to your grandfather in the first place."
Cheng Wenqing hung the pendant around his neck. "Now that he's passed away, it's only right that you inherit these assets."
Cheng Yue couldn't make out the densely packed text on the documents, but he recognized the stack of red property deeds.
"Grandma, you know I'm not Grandpa's biological grandson. I can't accept any of this..."
"Nonsense!"
Cheng Wenqing raised a hand to cut him off, her expression serious. "Wasn't it your grandfather who raised you?"
Yes, but...
Cheng Yue knew very well how much Cheng Wenzhuo had loved him, but he had known since childhood that he was a child the old man had