[It was probably a little over ten years ago. Allen's biological parents weren't decent people, anyway. They were probably a third-rate wealthy family, basically nouveau riche.]
[Back then, they arranged to go skiing to entertain clients, and Allen's mother gave birth to twins during that trip.]
[Allen was the younger brother, and because he had a heart problem at birth, the couple didn't want to raise him. So, on a snowy day, his biological father abandoned him on a deserted Snow Mountain.]
[His father was so afraid someone would find him that he deliberately picked a place with no one around.]
Ye Qi'an couldn't keep the disgust from showing in his eyes as he listened.
As a doctor, he could understand that everyone had their own choices, and that people's character varied.
But he despised such irresponsible behavior-abandoning a child so readily, and even wishing the child would die somewhere far away for the sake of their so-called reputation.
Pah! Hypocrites. Such hypocrites.
[As it happened, Allen's adoptive father was out exploring the mountain that day. He heard the baby crying and took him home, treating him as his own. He not only had his illness treated but raised him well, too.]
[Then, when he was fourteen or fifteen, his biological parents somehow tracked him down. They cried their eyes out, claiming he'd been kidnapped by human traffickers and that they'd searched for him for years and years.]
They were definitely after money.
Ye Lan withheld judgment on their behavior, but he found something strange.
If they wanted money, shouldn't the couple have treated Allen especially well after taking him back? Why would they send him to a psychiatric hospital?
*[Allen's adoptive parents genuinely loved their younger son. Allen didn't have much of an opinion, but the couple felt that