Oh no! His rural wife is sweeter than a peach!

At this point, Sheng Shuang clearly became somewhat angry.

"This woman is vicious; if she can't have something, she wants to destroy it. She's deliberately trying to make Lanling and the others live in misery for the rest of their lives!"

"And then what happened?"

Lu Luozhi and her brother, as well as Ying Sangrou, couldn't help but ask.

"It wasn't until two hours later that we realized the child was missing. Lanling had just woken up and, seeing the child wasn't beside her, assumed the nanny had taken the child to breastfeed."

Upon questioning, the nanny admitted she hadn't touched the baby at all. Lanling and her family panicked and started searching. However, no one at the postpartum care center had seen the baby. Finally, a cleaning lady said she saw a woman carrying a baby running frantically out of the back stairwell while cleaning.

"After checking the surveillance footage, we found out that the woman had taken the child away in the middle of the night. After we called the police, it took them two days to catch her."

"That woman had already taken a car and fled to a small town more than a thousand kilometers away. When the police caught her, the child was not in her possession. After interrogation, she said that she had killed the child. Lanling had ruined her promising future, so she would let her live in pain for the rest of her life."

Hearing this, Lu Luozhi and the others listened intently, holding their breath and waiting for her to continue.

Sheng Shuang sighed.

"After learning that she had killed her child, Lanling went crazy, crying every day. No matter how her husband or her family tried to persuade her, she wouldn't listen. She hated herself for letting the wolf into the house, she hated herself for being soft-hearted and causing this disaster for her daughter. She blamed herself all the time."

"During that time, her mental state was very poor. We were classmates who met while studying abroad. Although I am a few years older than her, we had some acquaintance. When I heard about her situation, I would spend my free time chatting with her and trying to comfort her, but it was no use."

"She suffered from postpartum depression and had suicidal thoughts every day. During that time, her family stayed by her side every day, afraid that something might happen to her."

"The turning point came a month after the child's death. She said she was going to a Taoist temple in the mountains to perform a ritual for the child, not wanting the child to die in such an unclear way."

Her husband and others accompanied her. After the ritual was completed and they came out of the Taoist temple, they happened to run into a fortune teller. The fortune teller noticed she looked unwell and gave her a few words of advice. As if possessed, she told the fortune teller the birth date of her child, asking him to see if her child could be reborn into a good place in the next life.

"The fortune teller said the child wasn't dead; according to her birth date and time, she wasn't deceased. It was from that moment that Lanling's hope began to rekindle. That woman had lied to her, lied to everyone. When they went to the jail to question that woman, she stubbornly denied it, saying that she had killed the child and fed the body to the dogs."

"How could Lanling possibly believe it? From that day on, she began searching for her child all over the country. Finding her child became her only thought in this life. But she has been searching for more than 20 years without finding a single clue."

At this point, she sighed deeply again.

"It's been over twenty years, and the hope is so slim, but she's just holding on to her last breath. If that child were still alive, he would be over twenty years old now."

Upon hearing this, Lu Luozhi felt a pang of sadness.

What a pitiful mother and child.

Just because of a feud between adults, a baby was lost just a few days after birth. How painful must it be for the mother?

Sheng Shuang added, "Actually, I set up this women's foundation to help her. Maybe that child has ended up in some impoverished rural area? Through this method, we might be able to find more clues?"

"Once before, we found a girl who was about the same age and looked somewhat like her. We were so happy that we immediately took a plane and drove for several hours to get to that remote mountain village. Sure enough, the girl's eyebrows and eyes really did look a bit like Lan Ling's. We thought we had a chance this time."

"When the paternity test results came back, we were disappointed once again."

She gave a bitter smile. "This is the umpteenth time Lanling has been filled with anticipation only to be deeply disappointed. In short, after she went back that time, she became even more depressed and stayed at home for more than a month before finally leaving the house."

Sheng Shuang glanced at the group and smiled, "You've all been listening to me talk. Let's eat, or the food will get cold."

So engrossed in listening to her story that, apart from Ying Yuchuan, Lu Luozhi and her brother, as well as Ying Sangrou, all stopped eating. At her invitation, they picked up their chopsticks again.

"That woman is so wicked. People were so good to her, sponsoring her studies, giving her a house to live in, and letting her work at the company. I never expected her to be so vicious and want to harm people like this."

The deer seemed somewhat indignant during its cry.

He felt that "ungrateful" was an understatement to describe the woman; she was simply evil.

No wonder, children are born into the same kind of families; the root of the problem is rotten.

"What happened to that woman later?"

Lu Luozhi couldn't help but ask.

"She was sentenced to sixteen years, but she was released a few years ago. Now I don't know where she is or what she's doing."

Sheng Shuang sighed, "In short, this was the worst mistake my friend ever made in his life."

Ying Yuchuan glanced at the deer-shaped branch beside him.

She was taken in and raised by someone, so she should be able to empathize with this story.

I peeled a spicy shrimp for her and put it in her bowl. "Eat it, don't overthink it."

She doesn't need to care about her birth. She has loving parents and grandparents from the Lu family, as well as Lu Mingshi who listens to her every word. Their love for her has transcended so-called blood ties.

"Thanks."

She gave him a smile and peeled a large shrimp, putting it in his bowl. "You eat too."

The others witnessed their interactions.

Sheng Shuang, in particular, smiled, genuinely happy that they had cleared up their misunderstanding and accepted each other again.

That's great.

She didn't ask them when they were going back to Nancheng. They were adults, they had their own thoughts and plans, and she, as their mother, wouldn't interfere too much.

At most, we can ask Qingran to take on more responsibility in official matters.