Chapter 525: The True Origins

Chapter 525: The Real Parentage

Everyone in the room turned at once to see Yi Jue’s tall, commanding figure strode into view.

Yi Jue had arrived.

"Yi Jue, you're here?" Yun Mu quickly looked over, her heart instantly calming at the sight of him.

Yi Jue walked in with long strides, razor-sharp trousers hugging his long legs, every step radiating a chilling presence.

He raised his hand slightly.

At that moment, Cheng Li led several people forward.

Only then did they realize that not only had Yi Jue come, but he had also brought back Shangguan Yu and Yuan Qingge.

"On the way here, I happened to spot a helicopter and intercepted it," Yi Jue said coldly, curling his lips as he gestured to Cheng Li. "Take the tape off their mouths."

"Madam!" Granny Gu spotted Yuan Qingge and lunged forward, but Yi Jue’s glare froze her in place.

As the tape sealing their mouths was torn off, Yuan Qingge rounded on Shangguan Yu, "Why did you lie to me? You swore you’d found my child’s corpse! You said if I didn’t leave, I would die too!"

Yun Mu let out a cold laugh. "He had no idea your son survived—otherwise, Yunzhe would be the poisoned one, not me."

Yuan Qingge turned to Yun Mu, her eyes instantly reddening. "Amu... [whispered] my child..."

She stepped toward Yun Mu, arms outstretched, but Yun Mu retreated two steps, hiding behind Yi Jue.

Yuan Qingge then looked at Yunzhe, who returned her gaze with equal coldness.

Yuan Qingge’s eyes filled with despair as she wept bitterly. "You both refuse to acknowledge me... you both hate me... All these years, not a second passed without me thinking of you. How can you hate me?"

Yun Mu sneered. "Bai Wei’s the real daughter you actually love!"

"Amu, you are my daughter! Don’t you know how worried I’ve been about you—"

"Then force Shangguan Yu to give me the antidote!" Yun Mu demanded.

Yuan Qingge turned to Shangguan Yu. "Godfather! What’s Amu’s antidote?"

Shangguan Yu’s hands were bound, and when he looked at Yun Mu again, his once-kindly facade had vanished, replaced by venomous malice.

He gave a venomous chuckle. "Ah Chong outsmarted me—played me like a fool!"

Ah Chong was Yun Mu’s father’s childhood nickname.

"I never expected he would secretly save this child and bring him back to his side! Hah, it seems I messed up this play!"

Yun Mu stared at Shangguan Yu. "One thing I’m curious about—if your goal was to ensure the Yun family had no heirs, why keep going after you believed Yunzhe was dead? Why continue? When I was a child, you even saved me once."

"That’s because your father played him!"

Just then, Yun Shumo’s drawl sounded from the door as he walked in with Bai Wei.

Yun Shumo said, "Earlier, Bai Wei took me back to the orphanage, where we dug up her mother’s old things. They explain the whole story."

Shangguan Yu’s face twisted instantly.

"I found this hidden in the lining of my childhood backpack—my mother sewed it in there," Bai Wei said, holding up a letter as she glared at Shangguan Yu. "This is why you slaughtered my family, isn’t it?"

Shangguan Yu did not deny it.

Bai Wei handed the letter to Yun Mu.

At the same time, Yun Shumo said, "Originally, Shangguan Yu incited the old Yun family head to suspect that his own son was not his biological child, so that the old head would kill his own son with his own hands and drive away his wife—because he had long been secretly in love with Lady of the Yun family, who was twenty years younger than him!"

"You're lying! My godfather and I are completely innocent!" Yuan Qingge roared.

Yun Shumo shrugged. "Irrelevant. What I'm saying is the real matter. The Yun family head did just that—he pretended to throw his own child into the water, then had Shangguan Yu steal a baby girl from the capital's Yun family. Shangguan Yu did as he was told..."

Hearing this, Yun Mu froze.

Yun Shumo looked at her and smiled. "Yes, Yun Mu, that baby girl was you. You've always been my sister."

Yun Mu instantly felt her limbs turn cold. Yi Jue pulled her into his embrace.

Yun Shumo continued, "But it was because of this baby girl that Shangguan Yu realized he had been used. He also discovered a far greater secret about the Yun family! The Yun family in the capital was actually descended from the Yun family of Nanming. The eldest of the Yun twins, who was believed to have been killed by the Yi family back then, didn’t die—he was saved and lived in the capital!"

"Moreover, Shangguan Yu uncovered another secret about the Yun twins! Yun Mu, when this old man told you about the feud between the Yun and Yi families, he didn't tell you the whole story!"

Yun Mu lowered her gaze to the contents of the letter in her hands and chuckled softly. "Who knew? The blood of the Yun twins is just that special? For legitimate twins, the blood of the firstborn can be used to grow antidotes for all poisons, while the blood of the second can be used to grow lethal poisons."

"Exactly!" Yun Shumo went on. "That’s how the feud between the Yun and Yi families began. Back then, the head of the Yi family was selfish. When the Yun family head entrusted him with a pair of twins, he extracted the blood of the eldest to develop a plague antidote for the Yi family—without sharing any with the Yun family! Later, the Yun family head, mourning the death of his beloved son and seeing his clansmen suffer heavy casualties, used the second child’s blood to cultivate withering grass and poisoned the Yi family in his fury!"

Grandpa Shangguan sneered, his voice filled with hatred. "That’s right! That’s how the feud started a century ago! I originally thought A-Chong genuinely believed he'd been betrayed and killed his son in anger! But I never expected that even without my instigation, he would have gone to the capital to retrieve this child! Because the Yun family had been declining for the past century, he needed a talented and gifted child to lead the family again. So, the moment he learned the capital's Yun family had twins, he came up with this scheme! I merely gave him a plausible justification to do it!"

"Sure enough, after bringing you back, Yun Mu, you displayed extraordinary talent in medicine. Even without using your blood, you could create countless deadly weapons! Of course, I couldn’t allow that. Your rescuer as a child wasn’t me at all—it was Qingge! I’ve been plotting all along how to kill you and wipe out the entire Yun family!"

So, the one who saved her had never been him.

Yun Mu pressed further, "So, my supposed accidental death over a year ago was also orchestrated by you, inciting Yi Hou and Yun Chengsen to do it? Then you took the chance to extract my blood and had Bai Wei create the deadly poison meant to kill me now?"

"Yes," Shangguan Yu admitted outright.

The baby girl taken from the capital's Yun family back then—Nanming’s Yun Mu—was the second twin, the perfect tool for crafting lethal poisons.

Yun Mu never imagined that she and Yun Xiaosha not only shared the same name but were actually sisters from the same mother.

Suddenly, she recalled Lin Wanqing’s words: No mother would mistake her own child.

Ha!