This was not the news that Tang Moyu had expected to hear from her husband when she confronted him. She opened her mouth to say something, only to realize that she didn't know what to say at that moment.

  Just how… how was it even possible? She just lost her brother a few weeks ago and now she gained a new one?

  Tang Moyu suddenly stood up, worrying Feng Tianyi as she had yet to fully recover from her injuries. She covered her mouth in shock for a moment before she bit her thumb as several possibilities crossed her mind.

  "Are you certain? Could you be mistaken?" She asked her husband. However, looking at Feng Tianyi's face, Tang Moyu already knew the answer.

  Feng Tianyi had surely done an extensive investigation about Zhang Jiren as to why he was interested to know about her mother and to think that he was her twin brother…


  "We are certain, Moyu. We couldn't be mistaken and the fact that he and your father reunited and knew each other before he passed away is something he cannot easily make up."

  "Dad knew about him?" Now, that was the more shocking news for Tang Moyu. To think that Tang Lixue even knew Zhang Jiren……

  "Yes." Feng Tianyi affirmed. "Apparently, he was by your father's side on his deathbed until he passed away. Zhang Jiren asked me not to tell you and allow him to give some time to think about it. He said he isn't ready and doesn't know how he should introduce himself to you, since he is now living as a Zhang and not a Tang like you."

  Tang Moyu's face darkened, her good hand tightening into a fist. Did everyone enjoy making a fool out of her? Did they really want to keep her in the dark forever?

  "Shit." She cursed out loud, surprising her husband. Tang Moyu rarely spoke like this. There weren't a lot of things that could make her react like this.

  Now that Feng Tianyi mentioned it, how the f.u.c.k did her twin brother end up as a Zhang? She couldn't understand. This only brought up more questions for her.

  Feng Tianyi excused himself for a moment to retrieve the result of the investigation he and He Lianchen had done on Zhang Jiren. Tang Moyu didn't wait for too long as he came back to their bedroom with a stack of papers in his hand.

  He turned the pages to where the information about Zhang Jiren was while Tang Moyu sat back on the edge of their massive bed, waiting for him. Once he found it, Feng Tianyi handed her the paper for her to see.

  Tang Moyu's eyes scanned the content of the papers on her l.a.p and flipped the pages, one at a time. Her brows furrowed at what she read and how miserable Zhang Jiren's life was growing up alone in the orphanage until he was taken in by Zhang Xianzhe as his illegitimate child.

  The empress's hand tightened into a ball until it crumpled the paper she was holding. She couldn't believe that the Zhang family could be such vicious bastards! She didn't even notice her tears spilling from her eyes the more she thought of how the Zhangs ruined her and Tang Lingjung's lives.

  "He knows I'm his sister?" She blinked and finally realized that she was shedding tears. Why was she crying anyway? Tang Moyu couldn't understand why. If Zhang Jiren knew that she was his twin sister for a long time, why did he keep his distance and didn't introduce himself?

  "En." Feng Tianyi didn't expect this kind of reaction from his wife. He thought that she would blame him, hate him for even trying to hide this fact from her, but she didn't. "He knew for a long time but he decided not to tell you."

  "To protect me, I assume." Tang Moyu let out a chuckle, her tone filled with sarcasm. Did they think she was some kind of doll that could easily get broken? Didn't she deserve to know the truth? She was truly getting tired of these white lies.

  "I know you are upset, Baby." Feng Tianyi hated it whenever he saw her cry. "I understand that you are disappointed, but you also have to understand why he cannot go ahead and claim to be your twin brother when he's currently bound to the Zhang family."

  "My birth mother died, causing my dad to lose his will to live, severing his ties with me." Tang Moyu said bitterly. "And now I find out that my brother is alive but he was raised as a Zhang? What kind of joke is this, Tianyi? What did I do to deserve all of this? How can they tear my brother away from us?"

  She buried her face in her husband's c.h.e.s.t and wept in silence. Only in his arms did Tang Moyu allow herself to lower her guard down and cry to her heart's content. In front of him, she knew she didn't need to pretend that she was okay when she was not.

  Feng Tianyi could only hug her and kiss her crown as she wept. Even if Tang Moyu didn't say it out loud, he knew that her biggest fear was to lose her family. He had seen how broken she was when Tang Beixuan died and he would never want her to experience it all over again.

  "Didn't Li Meili say she and Zhang Jiren will visit us tomorrow? Why don't you take the chance and have a good talk with him? Perhaps you can understand him better, if you would give him a chance to explain his side to you." He suggested.

  Eventually, Tang Moyu had to confront Zhang Jiren. As to whether she would acknowledge him as her brother or not, that was a whole different issue. However, he hoped that Zhang Jiren wouldn't deny himself of the happiness or the chance to be reunited with his sister too, no matter what horrendous things he had done in the past.