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A middle-aged woman, her head wrapped in a floral scarf, hurriedly lit candles around the simple house, gradually illuminating the dim space with each flame.

The woman tiptoed, holding a candle, and approached Wang Tonghai stealthily.

Startled by her sudden appearance, Wang Tonghai's eyes widened dramatically. "Old hag! Are you trying to murder your own husband by getting so close?"

The woman shook her head timidly. "I just want to see if our daughter has woken up."

As she spoke, she inched even closer.

The faint candlelight illuminated the beautiful face of the young girl, her eyes softly closed as if asleep.

So...

Their daughter had grown up looking like this.

"Our daughter?" Wang Tonghai scoffed. "You didn't raise her."

Li Chunni stammered, "She...she came out of my womb. Whether I raised her or not, she...she is still my daughter."

Wang Tonghai, impatient, grumbled roughly, "Alright, go fetch the cryogenic container. Our son is still waiting for a kidney transplant. We need to extract it and rush it back."

He then directed his venomous gaze at the unconscious Fu Feifei.

In the afternoon, he followed the Fu family back to their home and had been staking out, finally waiting for Fu Feifei to leave alone.

Thinking of his son, bedridden with uremia, he looked at the healthy Fu Feifei with growing resentment. How was it fair that his son fell ill while this discarded daughter remained unscathed?

"Here's the cryogenic container," Li Chunni said, lugging the heavy, icy metal box. Gazing at the slumbering Fu Feifei, she couldn't help but feel fearful. "Tonghai, are you really sure nothing will go wrong?"

"Worried about something going wrong?" Wang Tonghai sneered. "What could possibly happen?"

Bending down to search for a knife, he couldn't even see its shadow in the dim light. He then rummaged through his pockets, seemingly unconcerned.

"Haven't you heard the doctors? Humans have two kidneys, so removing one won't cause any issues. If we don't find a matching kidney for our son soon, he'll be the one to die!"

With bloodshot eyes, Wang Tonghai gritted his teeth fiercely. "Can you bear to let him go?"

"I can't," Li Chunni shook her head, overwhelmed with pain as she thought of her son. Who could bear to watch their child suffer and die from illness?

But what options did she have?

They had already exhausted all their resources to treat their son.

Her gaze kept returning to the unconscious Fu Feifei. "Truly… nothing will happen?"

"Nothing!" Wang Tonghai frowned impatiently.

In truth, he wasn't sure if there would be any consequences either. He only knew that without a matching kidney for his son, something terrible would definitely happen.

As long as it could save his son, whether or not their discarded daughter could survive was of secondary importance.

As he finished speaking, a loud bang echoed.

Wang Tonghai unlocked the freezer, and a chilling draft emerged as a dagger lay within. Without hesitation, he grabbed it, the sharp tip poised to pierce the girl's waist.

"Wait."

Li Chunni trembled as she intercepted Wang Tonghai's hand. It was her first time doing such a thing, and fear overwhelmed her. "Is... is the sedative enough? Will Feifei wake up in pain?"

"Wake up? I poured half a bottle of chloroform on her. It'd be a miracle if she stirred!" Wang Tonghai pushed her aside once more.

Li Chunni still hesitated. Though uneducated, she understood that removing a kidney was a major surgical procedure, one that required the safety of a hospital. Out here in the wilderness, they had nothing.

What if her daughter lost her life?

Though she hadn't raised Fu Feifei, seeing her for the first time stirred a maternal instinct. After all these years of neglecting her responsibilities as a mother, how could she bear to let her endure this pain now?

" Tonghai, c-can we take Feifei back to the countryside first? T-the hospital is safer."

"Back to the countryside?" Wang Tonghai sneered. "We've tried that before. Fu Feifei would rather die than go back."

With that, he lifted the knife again.

Suddenly.

A soft moan echoed.

Opposite, Fu Feifei, whose hands and feet were bound, gradually opened her eyes, just in time to witness Wang Tonghai raising his knife.

"Wu...wu...wu..."

With fear dilating her eyes, her screams were muffled by the duct tape sealing her mouth.

Seeing how terrified Fu Feifei was, Li Chunni hastily intervened, stopping Wang Tonghai who held the knife. "We'll take Feifei back to the countryside and talk to her properly. She'll understand that it's her own brother, and she'll surely want to save him."

Back then, when their son was diagnosed with uremia, his condition deteriorated swiftly.

The doctors said a kidney transplant was necessary for survival, and finding a compatible organ from a relative would be the quickest route.

Without hesitation, Wang Tonghai offered his own kidney.

Even the doctors were moved by Wang Tonghai's decision. Unfortunately, after conducting the necessary examinations, they found that his body was not suitable for a single kidney removal.

The couple waited and waited, but they never found a suitable kidney donor.

The doctor, with a sense of helplessness, told them that if no kidney source was found, they could only prepare for their son's funeral arrangements.

It was under these circumstances that Wang Tonghai recalled a rumor he had heard before. Someone mentioned that a child had been taken from the mountains. He knew that the infant girl was Fu Feifei, but at that time, he refused to acknowledge that the abandoned baby was his own.

Later, after extensive searching and inquiries, he finally discovered that Feifei had been adopted by the Fu family living on the opposite mountain.

It was only through persistent efforts that he traced them.

With his son's life hanging by a thread, how could Wang Tonghai let this opportunity slip away?

He sneered at the frightened Fu Feifei, "Does this ungrateful girl want to go back? All she cares about is living comfortably in the Fu family, feasting and indulging. She has no concern for her brother. Didn't you see the attitude of the Fu family? If I hadn't abandoned her back then, would she have found such a good family like the Fus?"

"Abandoned?"

Li Chunni seemed to have heard something shocking; her eyes widened. "You clearly said you gave her to a family with decent conditions. You even brought back a cotton robe, saying they complained about its poor quality, and told me to keep it for our next child!"

Back then, given the family's modest circumstances, it was a struggle to support two children, let alone a third. Wang Tonghai, desiring to have another child, deceived Li Chunni, telling her that he had found a well-off family to provide a better life for their youngest daughter.