The wife he married through an arranged marriage is so sweet, Mr. Lu can't control himself.

Grandpa Gu laughed heartily:

"Even if these things can provoke me, they're not too much of a provocation."

"I also want to see you and Yan Shen have your wedding. And I especially want to see you and Yan Shen have a child someday so I can hold it."

"Don't worry, I survived such a major surgery, so Grandpa won't leave so easily."

"Zhizhi, just say it."

Gu Zhi also knew that her grandfather had a strong ability to endure hardship.

Only then did she take out the photo and hand it to her grandfather.

"This fell out of Mom's photo album. I've checked it carefully, and this is the only one hidden in the album."

When Mr. Gu saw the photo, he was extremely angry:

"He's definitely her biological son! Scumbag!"

"No wonder you said your mother might have already been suffering from depression before you got lost!"

"That might be why your mom was spacing out back then!"

"Thinking about it carefully," Old Master Gu frowned and recalled for a moment, "your mother was often absent-minded before you went missing, but every time I asked her, she would say that nothing was wrong."

Gu Zhi: "This photo was probably in my mother's hands just before I got lost."

Grandpa Gu nodded in agreement.

He then cried out:

"No matter when your mother got this photo, she knows that Shen Lifeng cheated on her and has a child with someone else."

Why didn't your mother tell me?!

"What is she thinking?"

"They never told me, not even until they died!"

"Why did you hide it from me?!"

Gu Zhi thought about her mother's personality and guessed:

"Perhaps she's just too embarrassed to tell you."

"After all, you were so opposed to it back then, but she insisted on being with Shen Lifeng. It turns out that Shen Lifeng really is the same as you said, a bad person."

"She probably felt that she brought this on herself and had no one to blame but herself, so she just swallowed the bitter pill and didn't say a word to anyone."

Grandpa Gu nodded repeatedly:

"Definitely! Definitely!"

"Although your mother is simple-minded, if she feels she is wrong, she will blame herself to the core and will not blame others."

"She must be blaming herself for misjudging people, and she didn't even blame Shen Lifeng."

That's why she didn't tell me, kept it all to herself, and endured it all by herself.

"No wonder she was so depressed and eventually committed suicide; so that's what happened!"

Gu Zhi also felt that her mother's suicide was not entirely due to her getting lost, but also because of that.

Only after the old man's emotions had stabilized did Gu Zhi say:

"Grandpa, I want to go to Mom's room and see if she's hiding anything else."

Grandpa Gu nodded repeatedly, "I'll watch it with you."

Gu Zhi:

"Grandpa, you should rest for a while. After lunch, you should take a good rest. Even if you can handle it, your body shouldn't be too tired. You haven't fully recovered yet."

"I can check it myself. If I find anything wrong, I'll ask you, okay?"

Grandpa Gu didn't want his granddaughter to worry.

He genuinely wanted to live a good life and see his granddaughter more often.

He's the only one left on his granddaughter's side of the family.

If he leaves, his granddaughter's family will be left without anyone.

He couldn't let himself leave so soon.

It was this belief that kept him alive from the operating table.

"Alright then," Old Master Gu finally agreed.

After lunch, Grandpa Gu went for a nap.

At this moment, Gu Zhi went to her mother's room.

Grandpa Gu asked Aunt Wu to accompany Gu Zhi to watch.

Aunt Wu has worked for the Gu family for almost thirty years. She knows a lot about Gu Zhi's mother, even without asking Old Master Gu.

Gu Zhi spent the whole afternoon in her mother's room but didn't notice anything amiss.

Aunt Wu didn't notice either.

Just as Gu Zhi was about to leave the room and return to the villa on the hillside, she saw several medicine bottles on the table by the window.

Those medicine bottles were clearly worn out over time.

When Aunt Wu saw her looking at the medicine bottles, she quickly said:

"These are the medications your mother took to treat depression. They were supposed to be thrown away when your mother passed away, but your grandfather asked us to keep them, saying it was a keepsake. That's why they're still there."

Gu Zhi nodded and still managed to move her wheelchair over.

Aunt Wu just checked this area; she didn't check it.

Moreover, she thought that Aunt Wu didn't know anything about medicine, so she didn't need to check the others, but she felt she still needed to take a look at this one.

As soon as Gu Zhi went over, she picked up each medicine bottle and read the words on them.

Although the handwriting has faded considerably, it is indeed a medication for treating severe depression.

Gu Zhi unscrewed a bottle, wanting to see what was inside.

There's clearly medicine in here.

But as soon as she opened it, before she even looked at it, she smelled an unpleasant odor.

The odor seems to be musty.

It also has an earthy smell.

Gu Zhi took another sniff and noticed the industrial fragrance.

And it also has a sour, rotten smell.

Gu Zhi immediately turned to ask, "Aunt Wu, how many years has my mother been dead?"

Aunt Wu quickly replied, "She passed away almost nineteen years ago."

Gu Zhixiu frowned.

Real medicine wouldn't have these smells after so many years.

This clearly shows that cheap starch and inferior coloring were used.

Gu Zhi poured out a little.

This bottle of medicine, which was originally meant to be in tablet form, could not maintain its original tablet shape as expected.

Some even had localized blackening or browning, and developed mold spots.

Gu Zhi hurriedly looked at another bottle, which was in capsule form.

An unpleasant odor was immediately noticeable upon opening.

I could even smell the plastic.

Gu Zhi also poured out a little to look at.

The powder inside the capsules had all leaked out, and some capsule shells were yellowed or blackened, with even white crystals precipitating out.

These white crystals are clearly industrial impurities.

This is also a bottle of fake medicine.

Gu Zhi then looked at the other bottles, which were also counterfeit medicines.

Gu Zhi expressionlessly put the caps back on the medicine bottle.

And tighten it.

My mind was racing.

Who switched the medicine?

The medicine bottle is fine; the problem is with the medicine inside.

It definitely wasn't her mother who changed it.

At worst, her mother would simply refuse to take the medicine; she wouldn't go to the trouble of buying fake medicine to replace it.

If someone else switched it, then her mother must have been murdered.

The reason why the condition did not improve at all is that the patient did not take any real medication for depression.

It even got worse; he kept committing suicide and died.

Gu Zhi then asked Aunt Wu, "When did Shen Lifeng move out of the Gu family's house?"

Aunt Wu: "After your mother's funeral, it was discovered that he was the Shen family's illegitimate son, so he moved out of the Gu family and returned to the Shen family."

Is it Shen Lifeng?

Gu Zhi then asked, "Did Grandpa make any will?"

Aunt Wu:

"Yes, he has. The old man has always had the habit of making a will because he has a heart condition and is afraid that he might suddenly pass away one day."

"The old man's will stated that everything he owned belonged to you, his granddaughter who is still searching for him. If you cannot find him, he would donate it all and leave nothing behind."