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"Waaaaah... We've only been apart for a little over a month, but I miss you all so much! I think about you every day, I even dream about you..."

Hearing her daughter's heart-wrenching cries, Bai's mother felt a sharp pain in her heart, as if it were being stabbed.

She trembled all over, tears streaming down her face. Her dry, calloused hands tightly embraced her daughter, and she patted her back rhythmically as she cried.

"Xin Xin, my dear daughter... I miss you so much! Are you doing well over there? How are they treating you?"

Although Bai's father remained silent like a taciturn man, his cloudy eyes were already red with tears.

He stiffly raised his hand, wanting to touch his daughter's head, but was afraid that his rough hands would hurt her. He could only stand aside, his lips trembling, choked with sobs, unable to utter a single word.

Lu Baizhou, who had been observing coldly from the sidelines, now had a slight fading of his doubts.

Those tears, the longing in her eyes, and the instinctive reaction of blood ties between mother and daughter—these were definitely not something a spy could act out.

This girl really is Bai Zhengyuan's unlucky little sister who was switched at birth.

Qiao Xinxin lifted her head from her mother's arms, her face streaked with tears, and looked at her father with deep concern in her voice: "Dad, I missed you so much! Are your legs feeling better? Do they still hurt on rainy days?"

Hearing his daughter still concerned about his old ailment, Mr. Bai could no longer hold back his tears, nodding repeatedly, "Everything's fine, everything's fine at home! It's just that you... why do you look so thin?"

Bai's mother carefully cupped Qiao Xinxin's face, afraid of touching on her daughter's painful memories, her voice trembling: "Daughter, are you not used to the food over there? Or... is it that they... are treating you badly?"

Qiao Xinxin could no longer hold back and buried her head deeply in her mother's arms again, the familiar faint fragrance of soap and sunshine lingering around her nose.

"mom……"

That cry of "Mom" was uttered with a thousand turns of emotion, containing endless grievances and lingering fear, which shattered Bai's mother's heart!

"Good girl, Mom's here, Mom's here!" Mother Bai hugged her tightly, like a protective mother hen. "My dear daughter, tell Mom the truth, were you wronged at the Qiao family?! Don't worry, Mom's here. With your father and brother here, they definitely won't let anyone bully you even a hair on your head!"

With that comment as a foundation, Qiao Xinxin cried even louder, venting her pent-up frustration without restraint: "Waaah..."

After inviting Lu Baizhou into the house, the elderly couple sat down on the sofa. Qiao Xinxin, having cried enough, finally lifted her head from her mother's arms.

She raised her sleeve, fiercely wiped away the tears on her face, and sobbed as she recounted, in detail, every single word of the heinous things she had experienced at the Qiao family!

"They don't treat me like a human being at all! From the moment I entered the Qiao family home, Qiao Shouguo and Qin Fangfang treated me coldly, their hearts and eyes were only for Qiao Mingzhu!"

"That Qiao Mingzhu, she disliked her fiancé for becoming disabled and didn't want to marry him, so she pretended to be pitiful in front of Qiao's parents and my brother Qiao Lijun! She even tried to send me to her fiancé's bed, plotted against me, and drugged me."

Upon hearing this, Lu Baizhou raised an eyebrow. So, that's why she lost control so much that night?

But why did he lose control himself?

He initially thought that Qiao Xinxin had drugged him, because he started feeling hot all over as soon as he came into contact with her.

If Qiao Mingzhu was the one who plotted against Qiao Xinxin, then the drug should have been administered to Qiao Mingzhu's fiancé, not to him.

"Those Qiao parents are extremely biased. To protect Qiao Mingzhu, they're forcing me, their own daughter, to marry in her place! If I refuse, they'll cut off my livelihood and even try to tie me up and send me there!"

Before Qiao Xinxin could finish speaking, the elderly couple were already trembling with heartache, their eyes red and almost bleeding.

The mother hugged her daughter tightly, slapping her back repeatedly with her hands, her teeth chattering with anger.

"My poor Xin Xin! It's all my fault, I was blind! I thought sending you back to your biological parents would be a blessing, but I never imagined they were such beasts! And I never imagined that Mingzhu... she was a piece of my own flesh and blood, how could she do such a heinous thing!"

Qiao Xinxin grasped her mother's rough, cracked hand, tears welling in her eyes: "Mom, don't say that! This has nothing to do with you! How can I blame you?"

At this point, Qiao Xinxin gritted her teeth and dropped a bombshell: "Mom! You have no idea how disgusting they are! Qiao Mingzhu and Qiao Lijun, the eldest son of the Qiao family, are not related by blood, yet they secretly slept in the same bed the night before their wedding! They were caught red-handed!"

"They're doing this despicable thing just to force me into a marriage of convenience!"

"boom--"

After hearing all this, the elderly couple felt as if they had been struck by lightning!

Father Bai's face instantly turned ashen, veins throbbing on his forehead, his hands trembling violently. He slammed his hand on his leg, yelling, "This child... how could this child do such a shameless thing! She has our Bai family blood in her veins! What a disgrace to our family! What a disgrace to our family!!!"

The Bai family has always been honest, hardworking people who toil in the fields for generations. They live clean lives and do things with integrity. When have they ever done anything so scandalous?! Even if that child doesn't acknowledge them, what he did was practically digging up their ancestral graves!

The mother asked in a trembling voice, "So your biological parents... they just let those two beasts run wild?!"

"Them? They've already tacitly approved! On the contrary, I've become an eyesore, and they almost forcibly kidnapped me to the Zhou family!"

"Beasts! What a family of beasts!" Father Bai's lips trembled with rage as he gritted his teeth and cursed, "How can this family be so shameless!"

Bai's mother was heartbroken, tears streaming down her face. She hugged Qiao Xinxin tightly, crying, "My poor child! You've suffered so much, why didn't you write home sooner! Even if you had just sent someone to deliver a message, your parents would have risked their lives to rush to the capital and bring you home! If we had known it would turn out like this, we would never have let you go back to suffer like this!"

"Mom, I don't want to go back to that cannibalistic home..."

Qiao Xinxin nestled against her mother's shoulder, her voice soft and sweet, filled with dependence and a sob: "Nobody in that family liked me, they all despised me. I just wanted to live with you all, so our family would never be separated again, okay? That's why I ran away to stay with my brother overnight... He said he'd take care of me! I'm all grown up now, I can find a job near the army base and earn money to support you! Mom, is that okay?"

"Okay, okay!" Mother Bai's heart broke upon hearing this, and she readily agreed, tears falling onto Qiao Xinxin's hair. "We're not going back! We'd rather die than go back! From now on, you'll stay with your parents, and Mom will take good care of you. Mom will make your favorite braised pork!"

Father Bai, his eyes red, nodded heavily, his voice resounding, "That's right! We're not going back! The Qiao family is scum; our Bai family doesn't care about that lousy rich girl's status!"