Needless to say, Mr. Cheng could already imagine it. Rescuing Youliang had caused quite a stir back then. Putting the pieces together, there was no way his sister wouldn't have figured it out.
"…I saw that that wasn't going to work. Even Youliang's maternal uncle and his entire family had disappeared. It was obvious that you two brothers were in trouble, or at the very least, had gone into hiding.
I trusted you and your brother, but I never trusted Youliang's maternal uncle. If that family of his were decent people, his sister never would have become a concubine, not when our mother had so many maids in her service back then.
Besides, there's something I never told you two brothers. I didn't even let Aunt Geng speak of it. The truth is, it wasn't our mother who asked Youliang's birth mother to have a son for her to raise as her own.
