Gu Chengzhao’s body swayed slightly, his incredulous gaze fell on Gu Bichen’s face, and then shifted to Na Amo.

From Na Amo’s expression, he understood everything.

No wonder Amo’s visits home had been decreasing and she was experiencing more sleepless nights.

Once, as he was about to fall asleep, Amo suddenly asked him out of nowhere, "Why doesn’t Bichen look anything like us...?"

At the time, sleepy as he was, he replied hazily, "There are many kids in the world who don’t resemble their parents at all, go to sleep early, don’t think too much."

Later, Amo began daydreaming more often, and he occasionally found her secretly wiping away tears.

He thought it was due to a bottleneck in her research project, and as the project leader, the pressure on Amo was too great, compressing all those emotions.

The anomalies Amo displayed in the past now seemed to have been confirmed.

Gu Chengzhao managed to produce a voice with difficulty from his throat, "Amo, is what she said true?" 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

As one of the biggest victims of this malicious child-swapping event, Na Amo was bearing countless gazes from the entire room, but she didn’t shrink back and took a step forward to answer firmly.

"That’s right, Lin Hui’s words are all true. Back then, Zhou Rong took advantage of my postpartum state to swap her child with my son. For all these years, we’ve been raising her child while our biological son has been living in hell, suffering abuse, oppression, exploitation, prematurely bearing responsibilities that shouldn’t be his burden."

Na Amo’s candid confession shattered the last trace of Gu Chengzhao’s illusions.

In an instant, all eyes focused on the central figure of this topic, Gu Bichen. Among those gazes were inquiry, disdain, and even mockery.

Gu Bichen’s face was devoid of color, excessively pale. He felt the malicious stares coming from all directions like sharp arrows, in that moment, as if pierced by thousands of arrows, he was in unbearable pain.

He had exhausted all efforts to hide his background, not hesitating to stain his hands with blood, forced into hell, becoming a demon; but ultimately, his secret was exposed.

Blood-stained, laid bare under the sunlight, the embarrassment and awkwardness of being uncovered made his scalp tighten, leaving him utterly exposed.

He opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but found he didn’t know what to say.

Being swapped wasn’t by his choice, at that time he was just a newborn baby, knowing nothing at all.

It was that couple’s fault, why is everyone blaming him, as if he were the world’s greatest sinner.

Clearly, he was also a victim.

Gu Bichen looked at Na Amo in bewilderment; you raised me for so many years, how could you so heartlessly sever our familial bond with your own hands, just because I wasn’t your biological son?

This counts as a scandal for the Gu family; it could have been settled privately, yet she insisted on exposing it in front of all the guests, falling from cloud nine to mire all at once, his dignity and honor thoroughly trampled, becoming the gossip at these people’s banquets.

Na Amo could have dealt with it in a more dignified manner, but she chose to be so ruthless, leaving him no face at all.

Could it be that all these years of maternal affection are fake?

Gu Bichen felt a sense of betrayal and humiliation, churning emotions in his heart, ultimately condensing into a concentrated, unyielding hatred.

Shen You’an curled her lips in a smile and said, "Rice-grain gratitude turns to bucket-grain resentment; one must believe in the wonders of genetics. All these years, the Gu family’s teachings of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and integrity were not learned; instead, what was inherited was his biological father’s coldness and selfishness."

Gu Bichen felt a heavy blow in his chest, more painful than all previous mocking and malicious stares combined.

But soon he caught the key point in Shen You’an’s words, his biological father...

Yao Huia’s death was a setup from the beginning, and Na Amo and Shen You’an knew about his background and exposed his plot long ago. They had been hiding it all for this fatal moment today.

Moreover, Shen You’an was the instigator of all this.

Shen You’an knew everything about him, including the biological parents he couldn’t find despite his exhaustive efforts. She knew it all.

Gu Bichen suddenly recalled Shen You’an’s eyes filled with a bit of mockery whenever she looked at him in the past, he had just thought he was overthinking, but it wasn’t.

All his actions and thoughts were laid bare in her eyes; from beginning to end, he was nothing more than a jumping clown in Shen You’an’s eyes.

As someone with a fondness for her, this was even more cruel than having his identity exposed in public.

Yao Huia’s hateful gaze fixed on Gu Bichen’s pale face, tugging Lin Hui, signaling her to speak.

"It was President Yao who first discovered there was a problem with Gu Bichen’s background; after learning this, Gu Bichen attempted to cover up the secret to continue enjoying the comforts of the Gu family. His wickedness reached the extent of poisoning President Yao with a voice-losing toxin to threaten her, Yu Ruohuan also knew his background, using it as leverage to manipulate him. Otherwise, how could he have been seen frequently with Yu Ruohuan during that time? Naturally, the proud young master of the Gu family couldn’t stand being threatened, first hiring thugs to create a fire, hoping President Yao would perish in the flames. If it hadn’t been for Miss Shen’s rescue, President Yao might have met the same fate as Yu Ruohuan."

All of Gu Bichen’s lies and facades were torn away at this moment.

Gu Bichen instinctively wanted to escape; he couldn’t stay here another moment.

Gu Suqiu couldn’t believe it, she asked tentatively, "Then where is the real Gu Bichen?"

Gu Bichen’s escape halted suddenly.

His heart raced abruptly, hoping, perhaps that child had already died, even if not dead, growing up in such a terrible family, must have absorbed bad influences, becoming an even worse person.

He still had a chance.

All he needed was to plead with his grandmother, who had always loved him, and he could stay in the Gu family, binding years of affection and taking his time.

Having enjoyed this identity for seventeen years wasn’t fake; he lacked the courage to abandon everything, leaving the Gu family would mean losing everything.

Reason calmed him down, he hadn’t obtained the whereabouts of that person from the private detective on the dark web, and he harbored a thread of hope in his heart.

Zhou Rong’s heart was in turmoil, and when she saw the teenager standing beside Shen You’an who deliberately reduced his presence, she suddenly realized something was amiss.

Rong Yuhe also realized, "Damn, this kid has been playing dumb the whole time, hiding a tiger in a pig’s clothing, waiting here for this moment."

He thought Xianning had long known his own background, had been tolerantly patient, just for today.

Indeed, you cannot raise a white-eyed wolf.

He dreamed of ruining his biological son’s future; it’s simply unrealistic, he wouldn’t give Xianning this chance.

Rong Yuhe withdrew from the crowd, found a corner where no one was paying attention, took out his phone, and dialed a number.

Xianning had long since blocked his and Zhou Rong’s numbers, so later he obtained a new number, unexpectedly useful at this critical moment.

The phone rang abruptly.

Xianning glanced at the phone, seeing an unfamiliar incoming call.

He didn’t answer, directly cutting off the call.

Rong Yuhe cursed angrily, the brat dared to hang up his call.

Rong Yuhe’s fingers typed quickly, a message flew to Xianning’s phone.

Lin Hui looked towards the teenager seemingly wandering outside the crowd, and amidst confused and anticipating gazes, she slowly cast the bait.

"The real Gu Bichen is right here."

Gu Suqiu scanned the surroundings, "Where?"

Among the guests were several teenagers of Gu Bichen’s age, all hailing from prominent families, none could be Lin Hui’s mentioned son raised by a nanny from the lowest strata.

Gu Chengzhao’s complex gaze fell on Xianning, formerly overlooked details about this teenager now surged into his mind, reminding him of his folly.

Lin Hui glanced at Na Amo, realizing the next words were not hers to say.

Na Amo walked towards Shen You’an’s direction, her every move drawing attention from everyone at this moment.

Upon seeing Shen You’an, people suddenly had an epiphany.

Could it be Na Amo actually gave birth to a daughter back then?

But no, Shen You’an’s background had long been thoroughly exposed, her biological father was Yu Fuli, and her mother, a plain rural woman with intellectual impairment.

The truth seemed trapped in fog, shrouded and elusive.