After returning home with the child, her ex-husband knelt down and gently coaxed her.

As evening approached, An Ning was still at her meeting when Lu Xiyan was buying a cake at a dessert shop.

While wandering around, he came across a dessert shop. They had a plain pudding cake that looked very similar to the cake shop in Jinghai. He just didn't know if the taste was similar, so he decided to buy it for Anning to try.

I had just finished making the payment when Liang Xu called.

"Mr. Lu, is there something wrong with the couple you asked me to investigate?"

Lu Xiyan frowned slightly. "What's the problem?"

"According to the information I found, the couple's child does not have a birth certificate, let alone any other documents," Liang Xu said. "Furthermore, according to the examination report left by the couple at the hospital more than 30 years ago, Ms. Kong Yiyun is infertile."

Lu Xiyan's hand, which was about to open the car door, suddenly paused. "Infertile?"

"Not only that, there's something even more exciting."

Liang Xu continued talking on the other end of the phone, and Lu Xiyan's brows furrowed more and more as he listened.

After hanging up the phone, he got into his car, placed the cake on the passenger seat, and instead of starting the engine, he hesitated for a moment before picking up his phone and making a call to arrange a meeting time and place.

......

The tranquil teahouse is situated halfway up the mountain, offering excellent privacy and a particularly expansive view. Looking out, one sees the azure sea and sky, where the setting sun paints the horizon orange, reflecting on the deep blue water.

The room was filled with the aroma of tea. Jiang Xiaoshan watched as the man opposite her skillfully prepared tea with his sculpted fingers, and soon a cup of golden tea was placed in front of her.

Jiang Xiaoshan smiled and accepted it. "Mr. Lu, you have news so quickly?"

"Aunt Jiang, if I may be so bold as to ask, is the woman Professor Jiang and his wife have been searching for all these years really their biological daughter?" Lu Xiyan looked at the woman's slightly surprised eyes and smiled gently, "If we want to find this daughter, some things can't be kept secret."

Jiang Xiaoshan's smile froze on her face. "Mr. Lu, what did you find out?"

"Professor Jiang and his wife have been dedicated to medical research for many years without children. They claim that their work is their priority and they don't want children yet, but the real reason is that Professor Kong is unable to have children due to health reasons, right?"

"They only had a daughter late in life, when they were middle-aged. But how did this daughter come about?" Lu Xiyan looked at Jiang Xiaoshan, his calm gaze seemingly penetrating. "There was no birth certificate, no adoption registration. There are only two reasons: either she was found or she was adopted."

Looking at Jiang Xiaoshan's somber face, Lu Xiyan knew he had guessed correctly.

"But if it is an abandoned baby, Professor Jiang and his wife would also need to submit a police report for picking up the abandoned baby when they go through the relevant procedures, which is obviously not required."

Jiang Xiaoshan listened to his analysis, then lowered her head and sipped her tea without saying a word.

Lu Xiyan took a small sip of tea and said in a calm and unhurried voice, "If you want me to continue helping you find people, I need to know the truth."

Jiang Xiaoshan put down her teacup and looked up, just in time to meet the man's deep eyes.

Those were eyes that were more than twenty years younger than her, yet they possessed an unfathomable power.

After a long pause, she spoke, "Twenty-eight years ago, a woman came to Dianhai with a newborn baby girl, intending to abandon the baby, but my sister-in-law saw her and stopped her."

"The woman said she was pregnant out of wedlock, and when she was about to give birth, her boyfriend took all their savings and ran off with another woman. She gave birth to this child without a name or status, and her family said she had disgraced the family and would beat her to death if she went back with the child."

At this point, Jiang Xiaoshan sighed deeply. "That woman was so pitiful. She said she was incompetent and uneducated and couldn't raise the baby girl, so she thought of just abandoning the child. If the child could be found and raised by someone, then she would be lucky. If she was unlucky, then she should be reborn into a good family sooner."

"So, Professor Kong adopted this girl?" Lu Xiyan asked.

"Yes." Jiang Xiaoshan nodded. "My sister-in-law saw that this baby girl was fair-skinned and cute. It just so happens that the couple is middle-aged and still doesn't have any children. They were planning to adopt from an orphanage, but when they saw this baby girl, they felt it was a connection and decided to raise her."

Lu Xiyan asked, "How so? Is it possible that the woman changed her mind later, so the child might have been taken away by the biological mother?"

"Impossible." Jiang Xiaoshan denied it decisively. "That woman isn't a local; she came from the north. When she handed the child over to my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law offered her money, but she refused. She said she didn't want anything, as long as my sister-in-law agreed to one condition."

Lu Xiyan frowned slightly. "What are the conditions?"

Jiang Xiaoshan looked at him and said, "She said that from now on, this baby girl cannot set foot in Jinghai, nor is she allowed to be told about her biological parents. Whether she lives or dies is none of her business."

Lu Xiyan's eyes were deep. If he didn't want to acknowledge his relatives, that would be understandable, but what kind of obsession was it to not let him go to Jinghai?

"Is that woman from Jinghai?"

"I don't know," Jiang Xiaoshan said. "She only said that she came from the north and was determined not to take the child back. My sister-in-law only adopted the child because she thought that the distance from south to north was far and the other party had no intention of taking the child back."

Lu Xiyan stroked the teacup in his hand. "What was that girl's name?"

"Jiang Zhi".