Chapter 89
Shu Ci did not relax his vigilance.
The incident where Zhao Qian and Gu Lanzhu conspired to kidnap him by helicopter was still vivid in his mind. He dared not take any stranger lightly.
But, mother.
This word made him dazed for a moment.
This image was simply too distant for him.
His last impression of a “mother” remained many years ago: a woman crying as she was kicked to the ground by her gambling-addicted, violently temperamental husband, whimpering and unable to speak.
Later, that woman ran away.
Thinking the silent child was a congenitally mute cripple, that man dumped him at a construction site during a rainstorm.
He hated rain. He hated being abandoned in the curtain of rain, helpless. Fighting a high fever, he walked step by step in the rain, thinking about rushing onto the road to meet a speeding car for an intimate end, seeking a release from it all.
Later, he forgot whyâperhaps exhaustion, perhaps drowsinessâhe fell into a coma for a night in clothes sticky with rain. When he woke up, he didn’t think that way anymore.
People who didn’t want him didn’t want him living as an eyesore, so he insisted on living well.
Living more brilliantly than anyone else.
Later, when he achieved fame and success, living like a human being, standing out above the rest, things like fathers and mothers became less important to him.
As for the original host… the original novel never mentioned that he wasn’t Shu Changze’s biological son. Amidst Gu Lanzhu’s relentless pestering, he had no time to look for his direct Alpha kin, and it didn’t seem very important.
This uninvited guest appeared neither earlier nor later, but chose this exact moment to come to his door. He didn’t know her intentions.
That Alpha’s real child was gone. Existing now was just him, a “dove occupying the magpie’s nest” who had no expectations of parental love. He didn’t know what meaning this family recognition drama held.
Shu Ci looked at the Omega in front of him and asked indifferently, “Apologies, how can I be sure you’re telling the truth? Or did you see the news and deliberately find me to claim kinship with Song Zhiyuan? Or rather, what do you want to get from me by suddenly recognizing me?”
The woman seemed frightened by his direct and sharp words. She gripped her cuffs somewhat helplessly. She tilted her head slightly and glanced at the driver’s seat.
The driver lowered the window. “Miss Si.”
The woman reached out. “Give me the document bag. You wait for me in the parking lot first.”
The driver frowned. “But…”
The woman stopped looking inside the car and walked straight up to him. “If you are worried, we can find a safe place to chat. However, I don’t have the ability to plot anything.” Saying that, she pointed to her own gland. “It has already been destroyed.”
An Omega lady who looked soft but possessed a core of steel.
Facing those emerald-like eyes, Shu Ci sighed. “I didn’t mean to make you reveal your scars. Meeting for the first time, shouldn’t you introduce yourself first?”
The womanâs lips moved. She was stunned for a moment, then said shyly, “Sorry, I was a little nervous just now.”
She seemed to be visiting the Seventh District for the first time. The dress and leggings she wore were not warm enough. She was shivering faintly while talking to him. It looked like she had received the education of a noble Omega, maintaining exceptional propriety and elegance even in this situation.
Shu Ci thought for a moment, raised his hand to send Lu Wanqing a message, and opened the villa door.
“Come in and talk.”
The safest place was Lu Wanqingâs house. As long as pheromones other than theirs appeared in the room above a certain concentration, the alarm would trigger automatically. Besides the high-level security system, there were cameras with no blind spots capable of judging whether captured human movements were harmful.
Every time Lu Wanqing was entangled by him, he stubbornly turned off all the cameras, as if their intimate whispering and uncontrollable embraces were shameful scenes.
To this, Shu Ciâs artistic persona, with its inherent wildness, was dissatisfied.
But he had no choice. If he didn’t let Lu Wanqing turn them off, Lu Wanqing wouldn’t kiss him.
Only after seeing the driver drive away out of the corner of her eye did the woman nod and enter through the foyer with Shu Ci. Shu Ci went in and poured her a cup of tea. She sat with both hands on her knees, upright on the guest chair in front of the fireplace. Taking the tea he handed her, she was slightly surprised. “Your mother liked tea too, but she loved flower tea.”
She took a symbolic sip, put down the teacup, looked up, and took a deep breath.
“Let me introduce myself. My surname is Si, Si Man. I am your Alpha mother’s younger sister.”
Shu Ciâs hand, pouring tea for himself, hung in the air. The historical knowledge he had once crammed flooded his mind.
“The Si family… the last to be granted a peerage, produced multiple councilors, but voluntarily withdrew from politics over twenty years ago and left the Central District?”
Si Man looked at him in astonishment. “You actually know? I thought no children growing up during the years Gu Yan was in power would have the chance to learn about these things.”
Shu Ci shrugged and didn’t speak.
These contents were indeed not searchable in available materials or web encyclopedias. Many of his information sources were the old newspapers and magazines stored in the storage room under the stairs by Lu Wanqing.
During that time, while practicing his pheromone abilities in the small stairwell using materials sent by Marshal He, he had wondered if those stacks of magazines and newspapers were, like the Omega pheromone training research Marshal He gave him, materials that should have been destroyed but were preserved by someone.
“Finding you at this time might be a bit sensitive and might make you wary, after all, you are close to the young head of the Shen family.” Si Man chose her words carefully. “Actually, we didn’t find you because we saw the news. Since retiring, apart from a few branch members conducting commercial activities outside, the main family has long stopped asking about worldly affairs.”
“What we have been doing all these years is searching for my sister’s whereabouts.”
Si Man took a document out of the bag and placed it on the table. “You went to do a DNA comparison with Song Zhiyuan. In the background, your information automatically matched with my sister’s DNA information.”
Shu Ci frowned. Looking at the paper in front of him stating a 99% parent-child relationship, he only felt offended. “Is this behavior compliant? Or did you make a deal with the testing center?”
“Good question.” Si Man looked up at him. “If you come from a legal background like the young Shen family head and are familiar with various laws, you should know that this is an unregulated zone. The testing institutes themselves are not bound by any constraints. When I was still young, someone proposed a draft, but later I never heard of anyone proposing to perfect it.”
Shu Ciâs pupils constricted. A slightly outrageous idea vaguely surfaced in his mind.
“Back to the topic.”
Si Man looked at him seriously. “If you are willing, I can tell you about the melodramatic affairs of our family.”
Shu Ci lacked interest, but Lu Wanqing sent a message at this moment.
[Stall the person. Wait for me at home. Stay safe.]
He quickly put on a smiling face. “Of course, I’m willing.”
Si Man glanced at him and sighed lightly. “Did you know that every child born needs to have biological information stored? My uncle proposed that regulation.”
Shu Ci blinked. Some gossip Shen Ti had told him suddenly jumped out. “The True and False Heiress of a wealthy family?!”
Si Man laughed. “I forgot you are familiar with the Shen family. Only they would tease our family like that. The Shen and Si families didn’t get along back then. Later, it was also because we didn’t want to take sides with Gu Yan alongside the Shen family that we simply left the Central District. How did the Shen family tell you?”
Shu Ci dug out that bit of glossed-over gossip from his memory. “They said the nanny’s daughter and the family head’s daughter were swapped. The real heiress lived a hard life for many years before being found. Later, the family produced a councilor who proposed the requirement for biological information storage.”
Si Man smiled, pointing at herself. “I am the fake one. My father poured out his heart to my mother, who was still a nanny at the time, while drunk. Then the marking was successful, and I came to be. My sister is Uncle’sâthe Si family head’s daughter, the true heiress.”
“Aunt and Uncle had a political marriage with no feelings. Before giving birth, she planned an escape and successfully fled the Si family while pregnant. But by then, Uncle was already making a name for himself in politics. He didn’t want this matter to become a stain on his life, so he reached an agreement with my fatherâhis younger brotherâto cover up the affair between him and the nanny, raising me as his daughter under his knee.”
“Both my sister and I inherited my father’s hair and eye color, but she seemed to dislike this red hair very much. I’ve only ever seen her with dyed hair.”
“She carried her mother’s resentment and always disliked the Si family. Even after Uncle found her and tried every means to get her to come home, she continued to use her own name, erasing all Si family characteristics, active outside. Almost no one knows she is the Si family’s daughter; only the story of the true and false heiress spreads everywhere.”
“I guess after having a child with your father, my sister didn’t want the Si family to detect that it was Si blood, so Song Zhiyuan fostered you with the Shen family, who didn’t get along with our family.”
Shu Ci nodded in understanding. He took a shallow sip of tea and asked, “So, according to what you said, you should count as my cousin-aunt. What is your request in finding me?”
“Uncle is critically ill and won’t make it. He wants to see my sister one last time before he leaves. Since the matter of you being Song Zhiyuan’s child has spread, if you are willing to vaguely express a wish to find your biological mother, I think if she sees it, she will come to find you.”
“If she comes to find me, I’ll facilitate a meeting for you?” Shu Ci raised an eyebrow.
“Correct.” Si Man took a photo out of the file bag. “This is her photo. I don’t know if you young people of this generation have an impression of her, but my sister was quite formidable.”
When that photo was pushed in front of Shu Ci, his blood almost instantly ran cold.
He saw a woman with hair like seaweed, wearing a crisp uniform, looking dignified and imposing without anger at the camera.
“âŚGeneral Lu Wei.”
His voice trembled faintly, and the hand holding the teacup froze.
But Lu Wei had already sacrificed herself. Why did the Si family still think she was alive?
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