Chapter 29: Chapter 29: The Mysterious Origins

Hearing his elder brother calling him, Liu Zheng hurried upstairs.

Upon entering the room, Liu Zheng looked at him and motioned for him to sit by his side.

"Xiao Zheng, this letter is for you."

As he spoke, Liu Daniu handed over a yellowed envelope to Liu Zheng.

Looking at the envelope being handed to him, Liu Zheng was slightly stupefied.

Nevertheless, he took it and then looked at Liu Daniu with an inquiring gaze.

He didn’t know why his elder brother was giving him this letter.

"Xiao Zheng, cough cough..." Liu Daniu coughed twice, then patted the letter with his hand and continued, "To tell you the truth, you are not actually our child. Your background is all written in this letter."

Liu Zheng was taken aback upon hearing this and couldn’t help but look pale.

This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.

He never imagined that he might not be a member of the Liu Family.

Holding the yellowed envelope in his hand, Liu Zheng couldn’t help murmuring to himself, "Could it be, could it be... I was picked up?"

Bowing his head, he carefully examined the envelope in his hand.

To tell the truth, at this moment, Liu Zheng truly felt somewhat lacking the courage to open the envelope and look at its contents.

His hands trembled slightly.

When he raised his head, there was a look of hesitation in his eyes.

Looking at his elder brother beside him, Liu Zheng couldn’t help but say, "Brother, you’re joking with me, right? After all, we grew up together, played together, went to school together, and no matter what, I don’t believe what you said."

Seeing his disbelief, Liu Daniu couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

Shaking his head, he said, "Xiao Zheng, honestly, I didn’t believe it at first either. And I had never heard of such a thing since I was young. I’ve always treated you as my own brother,"

Having said this, Liu Daniu gave a wry smile and then continued, "However, when our father passed away, he told me the truth. My feelings at that time were probably similar to yours now,"

Liu Daniu sighed deeply and patted the back of Liu Zheng’s hand.

"Father gave me this letter, telling me that since you were in university, I shouldn’t tell you the truth yet. He said that once you make something of yourself, I should choose a suitable opportunity to tell you the real story."

Listening to his elder brother, his heart couldn’t help but sink.

He had just begun to think that Liu Daniu might still be joking with him, teasing him.

Tricking him for fun, Liu Zheng felt he could accept such an outcome.

But then.

Seeing how solemn his brother’s expression was, without the slightest sign of jest,

He knew that it was true, unequivocally so.

His hands shook even more severely, and his breathing became uncontrollably heavy.

"Xiao Zheng, don’t hesitate, open it and look at the contents of the letter,"

Liu Daniu’s voice was very calm. He had known about this matter for many years, so he was no longer so agitated.

Finally, Liu Zheng nodded, gathered his courage, and with still trembling hands, opened the envelope, unfolded the two pages of the letter, and carefully read its content.

As the letter was unfolded, the text inside came into view.

The first page was written with a fountain pen, the handwriting was strong and powerful, exuding a sense of vitality.

Moreover, the writing was in cursive script, lively and elegant, pleasing to the eye.

As these words entered his vision, Liu Zheng felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

The words seemed to be reading themselves in his mind, flowing through Liu Zheng’s heart, word by word.

My son Liu Zheng, seeing this letter is as if seeing your face.

By the time you read this letter, you would have already come of age.

In the past, our family faced a great calamity. I had no choice but to send you away to hide from our family’s great disaster.

Our family’s treasured legacy was coveted, with our bloodline’s inheritance hanging by a thread; I was forced to send you away with tears, hoping that you could continue our family’s legacy.

I hope the ancestors of our Liu Family can bless my son with a smooth journey.

The letter ended abruptly at this point.

The extremely brief letter did explain that he was not Liu Daniu’s biological brother, but had been sent by someone else.

However.

The problem was that he truly did not believe that his own life story was contained within just these two sheets of paper.

Anxious to read the second page of the letter, he opened it only to find his pupils uncontrollably contracting.

"What...what is this situation?"

The back of the paper had no words, just a portrait.

The person in the portrait was strikingly the celestial woman, graceful as a fairy.

Wasn’t that the fairy sister he had seen in his dreams?

Written below the portrait were the words "Ancestor of the Family." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"She is actually our Liu Family’s ancestor, how is this possible?"

Liu Zheng was truly puzzled, but he had no choice but to believe it.

Because he had indeed met this fairy sister in his dreams, and she had indeed passed on a legacy to him.

His eyes widened, and his expression was exceedingly complex.

Liu Daniu looked on at Liu Zheng’s changing expressions, growing increasingly worried.

"Xiaozheng, what’s wrong? What happened?"

The anxious Liu Daniu, even in his weakened state, felt his heart quivering.

Even though Liu Zheng was not his biological brother, he had always treated him as one.

"It’s nothing, big brother, I’m fine,"

Liu Zheng took a deep breath to steady his emotions and quickly reassured his big brother.

He said he was okay, but inside, his heart was already in turmoil.

Liu Zheng stared at the content, truly feeling at a loss.

To be honest, he had not expected to discover another layer of identity, a mysteriously profound identity.

The content of the letter confirmed that he was indeed surnamed Liu, and the name Liu Zheng was correct.

However.

He was also truly delivered to this family, also surnamed Liu.

And the reason he was adopted by this Liu family was nothing else but the persecution of his clan, the coveting of the family treasure, and even the possibility of his parents losing their lives.

Anticipating the imminent danger, Liu Zheng’s father heart-wrenchingly sent him here.

Liu Zheng was the bloodline inheritor of the family; his parents sent him here to protect him.

However.

Could it be that his parents did not escape that disaster and died at the hands of their enemies?

All of a sudden, with an additional layer to his identity and discovering his origins were so secretive, Liu Zheng couldn’t help feeling a profound weight on his heart.

So, what has become of my parents now?

If they are alive, why have they not come to find me after so many years?

A flurry of disordered thoughts surfaced in Liu Zheng’s mind, one after another.

These thoughts made it hard for him to breathe.

But in the end, all these thoughts converged into one resolution.

No matter what, he had to uncover the truth, if they were alive, he must find them.

If they had died, he would have to seek vengeance for them no matter what.