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[Didn't you go for a paternity test? Isn't the report right there in your bag?]

[Have you read the results? You're not related to Father Jiang and Mother Jiang by blood at all.]

[And it was precisely this twist of fate that let an idiot like you get run in circles by such a crude scam.]

[You idiot, open your mouth and say something! How is Mother-in-law supposed to know if you don't tell her?]

[Bro, why don't you explain it to Mother-in-law? Maybe once you compare notes, the misunderstanding will clear up.]

Song Shiwei paced anxiously nearby. After hearing her thoughts, the Jiang Family was absolutely frantic.

After hearing Song Shiwei's silent complaints, Mother Jiang grabbed Jiang Chao's hand, her voice trembling slightly. "Jiang Chao, Mom has something to tell you."

Song Shiwei pricked up her little ears nearby. [What's Mother-in-law going to say? That she isn't Jiang Chao's biological mother? But I don't think she knows about Jiang Chao's little schemes either.]

Mother Jiang smiled at Song Shiwei and silently thought, Thanks to you, I know now.

Jiang Chao lowered his gaze, his gloomy eyes holding a hint of danger. Most of what Song Shiwei had said seemed to line up.

This new wife his eldest brother had married-he smiled, a sickly look on his pale face-seemed to know his secrets.

"Jiang Chao, I'm not actually your mother," Mother Jiang said solemnly. "Your father and I are only your adoptive parents."

Song Shiwei's eyes flew wide open. [Mother-in-law spilled the beans?! Since you've already done that, make sure you say more! Don't just stop after that one sentence, or this psycho Jiang Chao really will believe what other people tell him.]

[When this psycho loses it, he's really something. He won't spare even his own flesh and blood.]

Father Jiang's burly frame shuddered at those words, and he hurriedly said, "Jiang Chao, you're grown up now. It's time we told you the truth. Your parents worked under me. We were supposed to go on a business trip together that day, but Jiang Ye came down with chickenpox, so I didn't go. We never expected an accident to happen. Your parents died on the plane."

"I know we bear responsibility for this, but we've been repaying that debt all these years. We worked so hard to raise you, and we treated you even better than Jiang Ye. Even when the two of us are in our graves, we can face your parents with a clear conscience."

Whether Jiang Chao wanted to listen or not, Father Jiang rattled off everything he wanted to say in one go.

He had no desire to watch brothers turn against one another while he himself was driven to an early grave by anger.

The Jiang siblings all looked incredulous. Only Jiang Xun remained seated leisurely to the side. He took a sip of water. "I can testify that Dad is telling the truth. When Jiang Chao was brought home, he was barely breathing. Afterward, he had a persistent high fever. Mom cared for him for over ten days without even taking off her clothes to rest before he improved. Sometimes she treated you even better than Jiang Ye."

Jiang Xun had already been four or five when Jiang Chao was brought home. He had been unusually mature and steady since childhood, and even at that young age, he remembered the incident very clearly.

After hearing Jiang Xun's words, Jiang Chao, whose face had been gloomy, suddenly choked up. Then he heard Father Jiang speak.

"If we really killed your parents, why would we bring our enemies' child home? Wouldn't that be raising a tiger to bring disaster upon ourselves?"

[Exactly. Jiang Chao, are you really this brainless? Did they also tell you your parents didn't have to go in the first place? That Father-in-law was jealous of them, so he sent them instead?]

Jiang Chao: ...

How did Song Shiwei know?

[Can't you use that dog brain of yours? Your parents were just employees, while Father-in-law was a young master from a wealthy family. The things he ate and used cost more than your parents could earn in several lifetimes. What would he envy about them? Their born-to-work lives?]

[And you actually believed Father Jiang and Mother Jiang treated you well out of guilt? Sometimes I really admire Father-in-law and Mother-in-law's patience. If I had a son like this, I'd go crazy sooner or later.]

[You've received such enormous kindness from the Jiang Family, yet now you're repaying kindness with enmity. You deserved to be tricked into having your kidneys harvested and end up dying horribly in Northern Myanmar.]

Listening to Song Shiwei's internal complaints, Jiang Ye nearly laughed aloud. It was finally his turn to laugh at someone else. His third brother really was a piece of work.

He had been jealous of Jiang Chao since childhood, always feeling as though he wasn't his parents' biological son. Who would have thought that Jiang Chao was the one who wasn't related to them?

At that thought, Jiang Ye's heart turned ice-cold. But thinking of the reason made him want to curse for no apparent reason.

It seemed he hadn't been much of a decent person all these years either.

He acted on what he was thinking and abruptly stood up. "Jiang Chao, have you got any decency? My parents treated you so well, and you actually suspected them!"

Jiang Chao opened his mouth but couldn't find anything to say for a moment. That really was what he had thought.

He had taken the paternity test himself, and there really was no blood relationship. Those relatives...

[I've finally found out why Third Young Master Jiang is so stupid.] Song Shiwei once again piped up with her melon-eating commentary.

Everyone in the Jiang Family turned their eyes toward her face. Song Shiwei didn't notice at all, immersed in her own world of eating melons. [Hmm... so the male lead found those ungrateful wolves Jiang Chao calls relatives and had them indignantly expose Father-in-law and Mother-in-law's long list of crimes.]

[Jiang Chao, you're really going to be the death of me! You believe everything those relatives say, but not the parents who raised you all these years? Those relatives nearly got you killed back then, and you still believe them? Having your kidneys harvested is getting off lightly. They ought to harvest your brain too.]

[Wait? This so-called mysterious person is going to propose terms for an exchange to Jiang Chao in a bit?]

[Namely, the Jiang Group's next investment plan and their base bid.]

[And this idiot really handed them over? At the bidding conference, the male lead actually bid just one yuan more than □□ and successfully secured the land.]

[At first, people thought it was just a simple bidding project. Little did they know that this land would later be designated a new special economic zone, and the value of that entire area would shoot up several hundredfold.]