On the day of the divorce, I became Qin Shao's darling.

"Fen'er, your daughter is so beautiful, she looks like a movie star." The old man kept staring at Lin Xiwei, and when they reached the door, he praised her again, then clicked his tongue and said, "What happened to your face? It's such a pity that such a beautiful face is disfigured."

"Get out!" Lin Xiwei rudely told her to leave.

The old man left, grumbling and cursing.

Lin Xiwei closed her eyes to calm down, then turned to look at Zhao Xingfen, her anger rising again: "A person's reputation matters! How could you do such a thing? How could you bring yourself to kiss someone who smells like an old person!"

Zhao Xingfen sat down on the sofa, smoothed her hair, and said coldly, "Isn't this all your fault? You got your dad and your brother arrested, and the restaurant was forced to close. How am I supposed to live on my own? That old man is rich and generous to me. I really want to divorce your dad and go live with him."

As Zhao Xingfen spoke, she touched the gold necklace around her neck.

Lin Xiwei was speechless with anger upon hearing these words.

But when she realized that this person wasn't her biological mother, she suddenly felt much more relaxed and relieved.

"They were just playing around with you, why did you take it seriously?" Lin Xiwei shattered her dream.

Zhao Xingfen shamelessly said, "So what if I'm just playing around? There are plenty of other old men dancing in the square. If he doesn't want me, someone else will."

Lin Xiwei shook her head in disbelief.

She actually lived with this scumbag for over twenty years and called him "Mom" for over twenty years.

Zhao Xingfen glanced at her and asked, "Why did you suddenly come back? Did you have a change of heart and are you planning to release your father?"

Lin Xiwei didn't answer, but walked towards the living room and took out the paternity test report.

"I came back for this." She handed over the test report.

Zhao Xingfen glanced at it impatiently. "What is it?"

She reached out and took it, initially with an indifferent and disdainful expression. But when she saw what was written on it, her expression suddenly turned serious, and her eyes widened in horror!

"You..." Zhao Xingfen suddenly stood up, stammering in panic, "This...when did you do the paternity test? You...how did you do it?"

Seeing her reaction, Lin Xiwei understood everything: "It seems that I am indeed not your biological child."

"Nonsense! You're the child I carried for ten months and gave birth to. Who knows where you got this kind of thing from to try and fool me! You don't want to take care of us in our old age, do you? You got so much money in the divorce settlement, but you don't want to spend it on us, do you? You actually came up with this kind of scheme! Trying to sever ties with us?"

Zhao Xingfen reacted quickly and immediately denied it.

Lin Xiwei watched her perform quietly.

"Last time, I asked you to take care of me at the hospital. When you weren't looking, I plucked a hair from your head. This paternity test is between you and me, and it clearly states that we are not related by blood."

Lin Xiwei told her clearly, word by word.

Zhao Xingfen's expression changed again.

She recalled the last incident and gritted her teeth: "You, you're so cunning... So it turned out that asking me to go to the hospital to take care of you was a trap, and asking me to help you to the restroom was also a trap..."

Zhao Xingfen remembered everything that happened that day.

She was helping Lin Xiwei to the restroom when her hair was suddenly pulled.

Lin Xiwei said it was an accident, and blamed her for getting a perm at her age—now that she thinks back, she had already suspected it.

Zhao Xingfen was filled with remorse.

She didn't think of it that way at all; she just assumed she had accidentally snagged her hair.

When Lin Xiwei saw that she was no longer trying to argue, her expression turned cold.

"If you're not my biological mother, then is Lin Zheng'an my biological father?"

Zhao Xingfen slumped onto the sofa, remaining silent.

"Okay, I understand. He's definitely not my biological father. No wonder he hurt me so badly."

Lin Xiwei nodded, her heart completely dead, yet at the same time feeling a sense of relief.

She turned to look at the house, guessing this was the last time she would come back.

"From childhood to adulthood, I've never doubted that you weren't my biological parents. I only remember that after my younger brother was born, your attitude towards me worsened, and you became especially biased. I thought you were simply sexist, but I never imagined—it was because I wasn't your biological child. You already had your own child, a 'brilliant' one, so how could you possibly care about me, your stepdaughter…"

Lin Xiwei suddenly realized, and even felt a little fortunate.

She was thankful that they had been so unfair and cruel to her, which made her feel less sad after learning the truth.

"Regardless, you have raised me. But the money I've given you over the years has paid off that debt. We're even now."

Looking at the ever-silent Zhao Xingfen, Lin Xiwei calmed herself down and asked the most important question.

"If I'm not your biological child, how did I come to be in this family? Where are my biological parents? What prompted you to adopt me?"

Zhao Xingfen lowered her head, and her hands, which were resting on her lap, twitched slightly.

She was silent for a while before whispering, "We found you at the train station. We hadn't had children yet, so we brought you home."

"Really? Which train station? And who can testify?" Lin Xiwei was skeptical of her words.

Everything that had happened these past few days, and what she witnessed today, made her realize that the Lin family had serious moral problems, and that these words were likely a lie to her.

"It's been over twenty years, who would remember? Anyway, you were just picked up," Zhao Xingfen said indifferently.

Lin Xiwei pressed on, "Didn't you call the police at the time? Didn't you try to find out whose child was missing?"

Zhao Xingfen said indifferently, "They called the police, but they didn't care. Back then, it wasn't like now, where people would search the whole world for a lost child. Many women back then abandoned their daughters because they thought they were a burden, and the police couldn't do anything about it. You must have been abandoned at the train station by your biological parents because they thought you were a burden."

Zhao Xingfen glanced at Lin Xiwei, then quickly looked away.

"If we hadn't brought you back, you would have been sent to an orphanage. We saved you, raised you well, and even sent you to school. Look how well you're doing now, but you're heartless and don't want to acknowledge us anymore."

As Zhao Xingfen continued speaking, she changed the subject again and began to accuse Lin Xiwei.

But Lin Xiwei was not led astray by her.

"Don't change the subject. I'm asking you, where did you call the police?"

Zhao Xingfen rolled her eyes: "It's been over twenty years, that police station is long gone, you won't find it."

Lin Xiwei looked at her and knew that she was very resistant to telling the truth. She guessed that she wouldn't get any useful information out of her, so she stopped wasting time.

"Fine, even if you don't tell the truth, I still have ways to find out everything. If I find out that I wasn't abandoned back then, but was trafficked or brought here by you through other means, I will definitely pursue legal action."

After saying this, Lin Xiwei didn't want to stay a moment longer and turned to leave.

Zhao Xingfen suddenly became anxious, stood up and took two steps after her, "Weiwei! Don't tell your dad about what happened today."

Lin Xiwei walked to the door, then turned back to look at her, giving her a mocking smile: "Weren't you just so self-righteous? You were even thinking about divorcing your husband and going to be with that old man."

Zhao Xingfen trembled, her eyes darting around: "Anyway, you can't say that I raised you, you have to show me some gratitude, otherwise you'll suffer the consequences."

She frequently curses herself, wishing for retribution.

Lin Xiwei felt even colder after hearing this: "If Heaven has eyes, it should punish you first."

After saying this, Lin Xiwei opened the door and went out, slamming the door shut behind her.

She slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, telling herself that there was no need to be sad for this kind of "family," and soon she felt relieved.

When she got down to the second floor, she saw someone standing in the stairwell. Upon closer inspection, she realized it was Assistant Han.

"Ms. Lin, you've come down?" Assistant Han turned around.

Lin Xiwei was surprised, but then she understood: "Did Attorney Qin send you to follow us?"

"Yes, he was worried about you and asked me to stand guard outside the door. If you run into trouble, I'll step in," Han Rui explained politely, following her downstairs.

Upon hearing these words, Lin Xiwei's previously cold heart instantly warmed up.

Back in the car, Qin Jiamo put down the file he was working on and turned to ask her, "Is everything taken care of?"

Lin Xiwei glanced at him, then shyly looked away.

Ever since the two kissed last night, she has wanted to hide whenever she sees Qin Jiamo today, and she doesn't dare to make eye contact with him.

"Well, it's all sorted out now. That place was disgusting, I didn't want to stay there any longer," Lin Xiwei replied softly.

"Disgusting?" Qin Jiamo was puzzled; after all, it was the home she had lived in for over twenty years.

Lin Xiwei explained, "I opened the door and went in, and saw her on the living room sofa with an old man..."

Lin Xiwei paused abruptly at this point.

Thinking back to the erotic dream that had haunted her all night, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in her heart.

It was such a wonderful thing, but because she witnessed Zhao Xingfen with that old man, she felt extremely resistant, and it almost left her with psychological trauma.

Han Rui had just gotten into the car when he heard this and suddenly turned around: "I just got to the stairwell and saw a balding old man coming downstairs, humming a little tune. Could that person be—"

Lin Xiwei nodded. "Yes, that's the person."

Han Rui's face showed disbelief. "Your mother is only in her early fifties, right? That old man looks almost seventy, and he smells terrible..."

Qin Jiamo glanced coldly at her assistant. "Alright, drive your car."

Han Rui fell silent, immediately turned around, and started the engine.

Qin Jiamo looked at Lin Xiwei and could tell from her reaction that she was disgusted by that scene and might even have been traumatized.

But Han Rui kept asking her all sorts of questions, indirectly making her relive that scene.

If this trauma worsens her, she might have a physical barrier to intimacy with him in the future.

As Qin Jiamo thought of this, her mind suddenly cleared, and she snapped back to reality.

Damn.

He was already thinking so far ahead about something that was barely even started, and he even imagined the whole scene.

"I thought she was still trying to get those two out of trouble, but it turns out she doesn't care at all and has even started flirting with the old man who does square dancing."

Although she saw it with her own eyes, Lin Xiwei still couldn't believe it.

Zhao Xingfen could understand even if her husband didn't care whether he lived or died.

After all, their relationship was just so-so. Except when she asked him for money, they were always on the same side and bickering all the time.

It's truly rare for someone to abandon their own son.

She usually spoils her son so much.

Qin Jiamo said, "That's just human nature. When disaster strikes, everyone flees for their lives. There's nothing strange about it."

Having worked as a lawyer for so many years, he had seen all sorts of terrible people, so he wasn't surprised at all when he heard Lin Xiwei say these things.

Seeing that she was still preoccupied with that mess, Qin Jiamo subtly changed the subject: "What did she say about your background?"