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

Jiang Family Villa.

When Lu Xiyan appeared before Jiang Xiaoshan with An Ning, Jiang Xiaoshan was filled with disbelief.

"Mr. Lu, is your wife... our Xiaozhi?"

She found it laughable. "Mr. Lu, even if you want this patent, you don't have to fool people like this, do you? Are you treating people like three-year-olds? And you call yourself the young master of the Lu family!"

Looking at the huge villa, An Ning's first reaction was the same as Jiang Xiaoshan's: How could she possibly be the daughter of the Jiang couple?

How could she possibly be the Jiang Zhi they were talking about?

This is all so absurd!

"Aunt Jiang, my wife also wants to find her relatives, so we'd like to know if it's just a coincidence."

Lu Xiyan held An Ning's hand tightly in his palm, the warmth of his hand conveying a sense of security to her.

An Ning steadied herself, her voice still trembling slightly as she spoke, "Aunt Jiang, I'm not sure if I'm the Jiang Zhi you're looking for, nor am I sure if Professor Jiang and Professor Kong are my parents. I really don't have any memories of my childhood."

She looked up at Jiang Xiaoshan, whose brows were furrowed. "Twenty-three years ago, I was found by human traffickers in Dianhai and brought to Jinghai to be sold to my adoptive parents. I was four or five years old that year and had a high fever. I don't remember anything before I was four or five."

Jiang Xiaoshan's eyes darkened, her brows furrowing deeply. "So this proves you're our Jiang Zhi? Our Jiang Zhi got lost in Qichuan, not in Dianhai! My older brother and sister-in-law were busy with research that year and never took her to Dianhai! If you're going to write a script, at least make it believable!"

An Ning was speechless. Chen Laosi said that he met her in Dianhai, but she did not remember how she ended up in Dianhai.

If Jiang Zhi was lost in Qichuan, and she met Chen Laosi in Dianhai, it's impossible for a four or five-year-old girl to have walked that far on her own, given that Qichuan is hundreds of kilometers from Dianhai.

Unless, she and Jiang Zhi were originally two completely unrelated people!

"Aunt Jiang, we still need to investigate how Jiang Zhi got from Qichuan to Dianhai." Lu Xiyan continued, looking at Jiang Xiaoshan, "You said that Jiang Zhi has a few distinctive features that you can recognize at a glance."

He suggested, "Why don't you take a look at my wife's features and see if they match Jiang Zhi's?"

After listening to his words, Jiang Xiaoshan pondered for a moment, and finally, wanting to see if they were really just fooling people, she got up and went into the room.

When An Ning turned to look at Lu Xiyan, he also looked over and nodded slightly.

An Ning took a deep breath and followed Jiang Xiaoshan into the room.

......

A moment later, Jiang Xiaoshan's exclamation came from the half-open door.

A mole on the inside of my wrist...

A red mole on the earlobe...

It's exactly the same!

Her trembling fingers landed on Anning's lower back, and when she lifted the hem of her clothes, her body shook so badly she could barely stand. She covered her mouth in shock and then began to sob softly.

"Crescent Moon..."

"The exact same crescent moon..."

Jiang Xiaoshan wouldn't mistake this mark; even the location was exactly the same!

She only mentioned the crescent-shaped mark above Jiang Zhi's waist to Lu Xiyan, but did not say whether the crescent-shaped mark was facing up or down, or what its curvature was.

Even if the other party wanted to make a copy, it would be impossible to make it so flawless.

Furthermore, the mark on Anning's fair skin clearly wasn't recently applied.

Words can lie, and moles may have meaning, but this mark left at the age of two cannot lie.

Her fingers trembled as she traced the mark on Anning's lower back. "Xiaozhi... are you really Xiaozhi?"

An Ning stood there, her mind blank, feeling as if a wad of cotton was stuck in her throat, unable to utter a sound.

Could she really be Jiang Zhi?

It really is the Jiang family's lost daughter!

"Xiao Zhi... no, Xiao Ning?" Jiang Xiaoshan quickly corrected herself, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at An Ning, "You were really kidnapped twenty-three years ago?"

An Ning's throat was dry. She met the other person's teary eyes, her own eyes welled up, and she nodded.

"Twenty-three years ago, in the suburbs of Dianhai City..."

"But why did you go to Dianhai, child?" Jiang Xiaoshan hugged her tightly, heartbroken, and burst into tears.

An Ning's heart clenched into a fist, and after a long pause, she finally managed to stammer, "So... I wasn't abandoned by my parents? They didn't abandon me?"

"How could your parents abandon you? They love you so much!" Jiang Xiaoshan cried, her hands trembling as she tried to stroke her cheeks. "The day you went missing, your parents were busy with their research in the lab. They promised to take you to the mall for dinner after they finished, and they even promised to buy you a big doll to take home..."

"They repeatedly told you not to wander off, but as soon as they finished their work, you disappeared!"

Jiang Xiaoshan cried so hard she could barely speak. "Xiaozhi, your parents have been searching for you for so many years. Even before they passed away, they were still thinking about you, wondering where you were, whether you had enough to eat and wear, and whether you were living a hard life..."

Upon hearing this, An Ning's emotions, which she had been holding back for so long, finally burst forth, and she could no longer suppress her sobs.

If she really is Jiang Zhi, how cruel this outcome would be for her.

After searching for so many years, she finally found her biological parents, only to discover that they had already passed away, separated from her by death.

They will never have the chance to see each other again in their lifetime!

She had even forgotten what they looked like.