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At this moment, the old couple's slight awe of the Qiao family, which arose from class differences, completely turned into anger!

This family is truly despicable! When they discovered the two children had been switched at birth, the two families were having dinner at a restaurant. The Qiao family members were impeccably dressed, looking like they were well-off.

The elderly couple, with tears in their eyes and gritting their teeth, thought that they could send Xin Xin, who had suffered since childhood, to the city to live a better life and receive a better education. Only then did they reluctantly agree to send her back to the Qiao family!

If I had known earlier that it was a den of monsters with human faces and beasts in their hearts, if I had known that the Qiao family would treat their Xin Xin so badly, I would have broken their legs and never sent my daughter into that hellhole!

As for Mingzhu's biological daughter...

The father and mother sighed bitterly in their hearts.

Although they are biological children, they are old and just peasants from the countryside.

During their two meetings, Qiao Mingzhu dressed like a delicate porcelain doll, but she didn't even give them a second glance!

The look of disgust in his eyes and the gesture of covering his nose to smell the stench were clearly written all over his face!

Let's just pretend... they never had that wretched daughter in their lives!

Recalling the series of awful things she had just heard, Bai's mother's cloudy eyes filled with tears again.

Her thoughts drifted back to the first meal the two families had at the state-run restaurant after discovering the babies had been switched at birth.

She will never forget that meal!

The piece of flesh she carried for ten months, that girl named Qiao Mingzhu, was utterly disrespectful at the dinner table! One moment she was pinching her nose, complaining that the couple had a poor, rural smell about them, and the next she was complaining that they didn't use serving chopsticks, saying that they were unhygienic peasants and that their saliva was poisonous!

Bai's mother felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her heart, as if she were being pricked by needles.

It would be a lie to say she wasn't heartbroken that her own daughter looked down on them and despised them from the bottom of her heart, and wouldn't even call them "Mom and Dad"!

But she's a pampered golden phoenix raised in a big city!

Seeing Mingzhu dressed like a princess in the Qiao family and living the good life of city dwellers, and with Qiao Shouguo and his wife also reluctant to part with the child and determined to keep her at home, these two incompetent country folk gritted their teeth and nodded with blood in their mouths!

Who could have imagined that the child would do such a shameless and despicable thing?!

"What a tragedy, what a tragedy!" Mother Bai wiped away her tears, her chest heaving with anger. "How could she, a grown woman, not know how to respect herself! No matter how sweet Qiao Lijun's words were, he might not be good to her forever! She actually dared... dared to sleep with him before marriage! He's her nominal brother! If this gets out, what will become of her reputation? How will she ever face anyone again!"

The thought that her beloved Xin Xin, whom she had raised for twenty years and who was as delicate as a flower, had suffered so much in that den of wolves for such a shameless bastard, made Bai's mother's heart ache.

Her rough, warm hands trembled as she stroked Qiao Xinxin's tiny face, tears streaming down her face. "My dear child, you've suffered so much! Look at you, it's only been a little over a month, and your chin is already so sharp, your face is so thin! Don't worry, Mom's here, and Mom will definitely cook you something delicious and fatten you up! From now on, even if our Bai family has to sell everything we own, we'll never let anyone bully a single hair on your head again!"

Hearing her adoptive mother's heartfelt words, the slight sense of unfamiliarity that Qiao Xinxin felt due to her time travel completely vanished.

She stopped crying and started laughing, like a fluffy little kitten, clinging to her mother's hand and shaking it affectionately: "Mom is the best, and Dad is the best too! When my brother comes back from his mission, our family will truly be reunited! I'm not going anywhere; I'll find a job in the capital and be Mom and Dad's sweet little darling for the rest of my life!"

"Oh! Oh! My good daughter!" Mother Bai smiled through her tears, nodding repeatedly. "Making our family live a good life is more important than anything else!"

Lu Baizhou, who had been standing like a black tower in the entrance hall, stared intently at the three people who were embracing each other and crying.

His eagle eyes, honed on the battlefield, were now quietly lowered in defense.

Watching Qiao Xinxin's affectionate manner and natural movements, even the lingering dependence in her nasal voice when she was being affectionate revealed an instinctive bond of blood. This deep connection of souls couldn't be faked. This girl truly was Bai Zhengyuan's unfortunate younger sister.

It seems that his earlier vigilance at the door was truly an occupational hazard stemming from years of catching spies; he was overthinking things.

"Uncle, Auntie."

Lu Baizhou's deep, magnetic voice broke the warmth in the room at just the right moment. He stood upright, his tone carrying a hint of respect for his elders: "Zhengyuan asked me to tidy up this house before. Now that I've safely delivered you two home, I'm relieved. There's still a bunch of messes waiting for me to clean up at the military base, so I'll head back now."

Upon hearing that the high-ranking leader was leaving, Bai's mother quickly stood up from the sofa, her dark face full of apology: "Oh, Comrade Lu! Look at you, you've brought us all this way in this sweltering heat, without even having a sip of water! Please, sit down and rest for a while before you go! You've really gone to so much trouble today!"

"You're welcome, Auntie." Lu Baizhou's lips curled into a very faint smile, which, though cold and hard, revealed sincerity. "You are Zhengyuan's parents, which means you are my elders. I do have military duties to attend to today, so I won't bother you any longer. I'll visit you two with Zhengyuan another day."

After speaking, Lu Baizhou turned around and gave a quick wink to Xiao Zhao, the orderly who had been waiting outside the door.

Xiao Zhao immediately understood, jogged forward to help close the door, and quickly followed his imposing leader.

With a soft "bang," the green wooden door closed.

Finally, only one family remained in the house.

The two old, frayed snakeskin bags were neatly placed in the corner of the living room. Qiao Xinxin quickly pulled the reserved elderly couple to sit down on the soft sofa.

"Mom and Dad, please sit down and rest for a while!"

Qiao Xinxin walked briskly into the kitchen.

As soon as the door closed, she took out the fresh watermelon and plump peaches that she had just stored in her space yesterday.

She deftly cut the watermelon into neat little pieces of red flesh, and placed them together with the washed peaches on a large enamel plate printed with the character for "happiness," then took it out.

"Dad, Mom, you must be thirsty after traveling all this way by train. Have some fruit to cool down!" Qiao Xinxin put the plate on the coffee table and said with a smile, "I bought these at the market yesterday. They're still fresh, kept in a cool place!"

In those days, many ordinary people couldn't even get enough to eat, so how could they bear to spend a lot of money to buy this precious fruit?

Looking at the bright red watermelon flesh, Bai's mother swallowed hard, but then grabbed the largest piece and lovingly stuffed it into her daughter's hand, saying, "Alright, alright! Xinxin, you eat it. Your parents aren't thirsty, you eat it!"

Qiao Xinxin felt a pang of sadness. She forcefully pushed the watermelon back to her mother's mouth, putting on a stern face and pretending to be angry: "Mom! I eat this every day, I'm so tired of it! You and Dad, hurry up and eat. The weather in the capital is so hot, how can you not eat something cool to cool off? Eat up!"

After saying that, without waiting for the two elders to refuse, she turned around and went to get the thermos to add warm water, and busied herself serving tea and water.

After a while of busy work, Qiao Xinxin was finally pulled back by Bai's mother, who felt sorry for her, and forced her to sit down next to her.

Bai's mother took a bite of the sweet watermelon, but the sweetness couldn't quell the fire in her heart.

She gripped Qiao Xinxin's hand tightly, lowered her voice, and asked through gritted teeth, "Xinxin, tell me in detail, how exactly did Mingzhu and that eldest brother from the Qiao family end up together? How exactly did the Qiao family handle this mess?!"

Qiao Xinxin snorted coldly and quickly recounted the whole story in detail.

The elderly couple were stunned. The watermelon they were holding lost its flavor, and the entire living room fell into a deathly silence.

After a long pause, Bai's father spoke in a hoarse, trembling voice, like an old machine that had stalled: "You...you mean...it was that girl Mingzhu who took the initiative?! And this matter has become such a big deal?"