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  “Oh my god!” Fang Zikai covered his mouth with his hand. He walked to Fang Yusheng’s side and lowered his voice to ask softly, “Does Grandma like to wear white clothes?”


  Fang Yusheng thought about it. His mother did have a few beautiful white dresses.

  He nodded. “Yes, she does,” he said.

  Fang Zikai felt terrible.

  He ran home and shouted as he ran, “Brother! I saw Grandma’s ghost!”


  Fang Zicheng, who was admiring a turtle laying eggs, heard Fang Zikai’s words and thought silently, Is there something wrong with his brother’s head?

  Fang Zikai pounced on Fang Zicheng from behind. Fang Zicheng was already prepared. His body shook from the collision, but he did not fall. “Speak properly.” He was like a little adult.

  Fang Zikai then said, “You scared your precious brother to death.”


  If he was his younger brother, so be it. Why did he have to add the word “precious”?

  Fang Zicheng frowned and looked a little puzzled.

  Fang Zikai leaned close to his ear and whispered, “Brother, let me tell you. I saw our grandmother’s… ghost in the forest just now.”


  “There are no ghosts.” His mother said that there were no ghosts in the world. Fang Zicheng trusted his mother. When he was young, he believed that his mother had milk for him to drink. When he grew up, he believed that his mother had money to spend.

  Fang Zikai jumped up anxiously. “There really is! If you don’t believe me, come with me to take a look.”


  “No.”


  “Brother, just go!”


  “No.”


  Fang Zikai refused.

  He held his brother’s hand and shook it. As he shook it, he said, “Go, go. If you don’t go, I’ll cry for you.”


  Fang Zicheng thought about it and finally made a choice—


  “Then cry.”


  He climbed onto a stool and sat upright, looking at Fang Zikai in all seriousness. He said to Fang Zikai, “Start crying. I’ll watch.” The lights and stage were already in place. Please begin your performance!

  Fang Zikai was speechless.

  He burst into tears and complained to Qiao Jiusheng as he cried. “Mom, Brother bullied me!”


  No one believed that Fang Zikai had seen Lisa’s ghost. They all thought that it was nonsense.

  Fang Zikai gradually began to suspect if he had seen something wrong.

  Whether he was seeing things or not, Fang Zikai did not dare to enter the forest again.

  The next day, when Qiao Jiusheng cleaned up Fang Yusheng’s room, she found a photo album. She took the photo album to the first floor and sat down in the corridor behind the house. Qiao Jiusheng opened the photo album and saw a woman in a dark green silk dress looking at the camera.

  She had an outstanding temperament and her eyebrows were flawless. Her green eyes looked deep and mysterious.

  How beautiful!

  Qiao Jiusheng was dumbfounded.

  “Wow! Who is this!” Fang Zikai happened to be bouncing a ball as he ran over. He passed by Qiao Jiusheng and was attracted by the woman in her photo album. Qiao Jiusheng said, “Your grandmother.”


  Fang Zikai was not afraid when he saw Lisa’s expression.

  Grandma was really beautiful. Even if he saw her ghost in the forest that day, he was no longer afraid.

  When Fang Zicheng heard that there was a photo of his grandmother, he followed over to take a look.

  The mother and sons sat side by side. Qiao Jiusheng placed the photo album between her legs and waited for the two babies to finish looking before turning to the next page.

  “Huh?” Fang Zikai stared at the seven to eight-year-old boy in the photo album and exclaimed in surprise.

  Fang Zicheng said, “It’s Dad.”


  “Yeah.”


  In the photo, Fang Yusheng was wearing a vest and pants. His brown hair was soft on his head, and his green eyes were filled with arrogance. He had been arrogant since he was young.

  Qiao Jiusheng wished she could steal this photo and hide it in her wallet.

  Fang Zicheng suddenly said, “Dad doesn’t look like Grandpa.” He added, “Or Grandma.”


  Fang Zikai looked at it carefully and agreed with his brother.

  “When Dad was young, he was even more handsome than Grandpa.” They had all seen Fang Pingjue’s photo when he was young.

  Fang Yusheng was in the study on the second floor, right above the three of them.

  Hearing their muttering, he got up and walked to the window. He pushed the window open and hit Qiao Jiusheng’s shoulder with the tip of the pen.

  Qiao Jiusheng was in pain from the slap and howled. Then, she looked up and glared at Fang Yusheng. “What are you doing!” Her tone was fierce.

  “Are you guys talking bad about me?” Fang Yusheng crossed his arms and leaned against the windowsill. He looked down at the three of them.

  Fang Zicheng explained with a straight face, “We didn’t say anything bad about you. We were saying that Dad doesn’t look like Grandpa.

  Fang Yusheng said self-deprecatingly and sarcastically, “He even suspected that I was born by your grandmother and your second grandfather because I don’t resemble him” Hence, when he was young, he was often despised by Fang Pingjue. Fang Pingjue and Lisa’s relationship was originally very good, and Fang Pingjue treated Lisa as a goddess.

  However, it was strange that after they got married and had Fang Yusheng, their relationship became stiff.

  Later on, Fang Pingjue even cheated on her.

  Fang Zikai and the rest roughly understood what his father meant.

  “But Daddy isn’t like Second Grandpa either,” Fang Zikai said. “Daddy isn’t like Grandpa, Second Grandpa, or Grandma…” The child’s face crumpled. He thought for a long time and asked an unsolvable question—


  “So who is Daddy’s father?”


  Qiao Jiusheng burst out laughing. “Of course it’s your grandfather.”


  Fang Zikai argued, “Not Grandpa.”


  Fang Zicheng felt that this was not an easy topic and chose to remain silent.

  Knowing that this question could not be joked about, Qiao Jiusheng told Fang Zikai sternly, “Xiao Kai, Dad was born by Grandma and Grandpa. Don’t ask again.” Fang Yusheng acted like he did not care, but Qiao Jiusheng knew that he actually cared about this.

  He had always been neglected by Fang Pingjue as a child. If he pursued the root of the matter, it was probably because Fang Pingjue had always suspected that Fang Yusheng was not his biological son.

  Fang Zikai did not understand this, but it did not mean that he could use his father’s pain as a topic of conversation.

  When Mom was serious, she was a little scary.

  Fang Zikai nodded and said obediently, “I understand.”


  After looking at the photo album, Qiao Jiusheng prepared to make dinner.

  Fang Zikai pulled Fang Zicheng to find maple leaves to be a specimen. He did not dare to enter the forest alone. Fang Zicheng naturally rejected him. Qiao Jiusheng always wanted the two of them to spend more time together. She was worried that if Fang Zicheng continued like this, their relationship would be weaker in the future.

  She said to Fang Zicheng, “Iron Egg, go with your brother. Why are you always staying at home?”


  Fang Zicheng listened to Qiao Jiusheng.

  He had no choice but to follow his brother to look at the leaves.

  Only then did Qiao Jiusheng take the photo album upstairs. She pushed open the study room door and saw that Fang Yusheng was in a daze. She thought that he had encountered a problem with his designs. She put down the photo album and walked behind the desk to hug Fang Yusheng’s neck. “What’s wrong with our Young Master Fang? Did he encounter a bottleneck?”


  Fang Yusheng held her hand on his chest.

  He suddenly said, “I didn’t tell you, right? My father… secretly took my hair and did a paternity test with my second uncle.”