Chapter 243

Chapter 243

She Still Had to Go

Zhou Cuiwei’s face was full of determination. "Then I’m still going!"

That was her daughter—how could she possibly give up on her?

Before, she hadn’t dared to see her, afraid that she would be hated. But she couldn’t avoid it forever. Even as distant relatives, occasional visits would still be better than nothing...

Lin Zhaoyou patted her shoulder in support. "I’ll go with you. We should also inform your parents about this."

Something this big couldn’t be hidden from them.

Zhou Cuiwei took a deep breath and nodded. "I’ll go tell them. Let our eldest (son) ask Zhang Shengguo where they’re staying so we can go find them later."

The Lin family didn’t object—this was the only way. Otherwise, staying estranged for too long would only make things worse...

The Zhou family had suffered terribly during those turbulent years. Compared to their once-large family, very few remained, so they now placed great importance on family ties. When Zhou Cuiwei told them that Zhang Ling had secretly swapped the Lin family’s daughter, that Lin Min wasn’t the Lin family’s child, and that their real daughter had been taken to the countryside for over twenty years, enduring hardship, they wanted Zhang Ling dead.

"How could she be so cruel?!" Zhou’s mother choked up, her heart breaking at the thought of her granddaughter’s suffering.

"The worst part? She was a master at deception and enduring. All these years, we never noticed her sinister intentions. We just thought she resented my second brother for his lack of ambition. Who’d have guessed she hated me that much...?" As she spoke, Zhou Cuiwei’s anger surged again. "Back then, she went out of her way to get close to me. I thought she was genuine—who knew she could deceive so well? She even swore her relatives to secrecy, never revealing a thing. To make it worse, she lied to the child that we abandoned her, that she was the one who ‘saved’ her..."

Mentioning this, Zhou Cuiwei felt that the child’s refusal to acknowledge them was tied to these lies.

Hearing her whole life she’d been thrown away, discarded by her parents—how could she not hate them? Why would she ever agree to meet?

The Zhous seethed with rage. Knowing the child refused to recognize them and was about to return to the countryside, their hearts ached. Of course they backed Zhou Cuiwei and Lin Zhaoyou’s plan to find her...

Not only did they support the idea, they also packed countless things for her. Zhou Cuiwei gave up trying to stop them—they insisted it was all for the child, so she had no choice but to take it.

As for Lin Min, though they were reluctant, they supported her search for her own family. If her real family rejected her too, then all their efforts in raising her would have been in vain.

Painful as it was, everyone belonged where they truly came from.

Truthfully, Lin Min was the most innocent in all this. So the Lins pledged to help her, hoping she could find her real relatives.

Zhang Shengguo had relayed all this to Lu Hang, hoping he could persuade Lin Nannan. After all, the Lin family truly hadn’t known about the past.

Lu Hang understood Lin Nannan’s pain—the suffering she endured wasn’t something anyone could simply overlook with words. Still, he explained the Lin family’s actions clearly. "The Lin family genuinely didn’t know before, which is why they never searched for you. Now that they know about the mistake, they didn’t keep Lin Min with them either—proving they only recognize the Lin family’s true daughter..."

"What are you trying to say?" Lin Nannan asked unhappily.

Seeing her resistance, Lu Hang sighed. "I just wanted you to know how the Lin family has handled things. I’m not asking you to reconcile—your pain isn’t something they can erase with words. But you can’t deny that no one can replace you. Deep down, they’ll only ever see you as their real daughter, right?"