Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 189 You're still too inexperienced.
In order to avoid being beaten to death by his good brother later, Jiang Changbin felt that he still needed to make amends: "The Qing court tried to interrogate the two of them, but they insisted that there was no such person."

Oh, in the end, it all comes down to a lack of competence.

Jiang Changbin: "..." Why does this feel like the more I try to explain, the worse it gets!
However, Du Anrao was also somewhat puzzled. Logically speaking, since they had already been discovered, shouldn't they have betrayed the other party and tried to curry favor with the Yu siblings in order to atone for their sins and avoid being killed? Why were these two so steadfast?
But then Du Anrao suddenly understood.

【Could it be that……】

Jiang family members: Hmm?

If that's really the case, then these two are truly obsessed with money!

According to Du Anrao's speculation, the mastermind behind this incident was Yu Chuhui's half-sister, who accidentally learned that her sister's boyfriend was gay and had been having an affair with another man. She then used this information to blackmail Qiu Tianli, demanding that Qiu Tianli cooperate in setting a trap for Yu Chuhui, making a quick buck, and then releasing the photos to ruin her reputation.

Qiu Tianli and his companion's initial plan was not just about getting money. Naturally, they were dissatisfied with the significantly reduced result. However, they had leverage over each other, and if Yu Chuhui found out the truth, they would not even be able to get this last bit of money. They had no choice but to compromise.

But things are different now. Yu Meimei's secret has been exposed ahead of time, so it can no longer be considered a secret.

On the contrary, the fact that the other party had threatened Qiu Tianli not long ago to set a trap for Yu Chuhui and cooperate with her in scheming against Yu Chuhui has turned into a handle that can be used to control the other party.

If I'm not mistaken, if this Yu girl were even slightly cautious, she wouldn't have left any trace of her contact with Qiu Tianli online; she would have chosen to meet him directly. But if Qiu Tianli had any sense at all, he should know that this is illegal, and he would definitely need to leave some evidence in case someone uses him and then tries to pin all the blame on him after the matter is exposed. So he might have a video or recording of their meeting and plotting...

The Jiang family members exchanged glances, all seeing surprise in each other's eyes.

Jiang Younian's thoughts were wandering. How many palace intrigue and domestic drama novels had his little cousin read to be able to think of all this so smoothly and understand everyone's thoughts so thoroughly?

[They were just temporary partners working together to do bad things, each holding dirt on the other. Now that the scumbag's dirt is gone, the balance has been broken. He probably wants to use Yu's sister's dirt to blackmail her, trying to extort the money he originally planned to swindle from Yu's sister. Dogs fighting, a classic case of scum!]

The Jiang family members: "!!!" There's such a thing?

Understanding these people's thoughts will naturally allow you to predict their next actions.

[Sister Yu's younger sister probably won't give up on her plan so easily. Knowing that the scumbag's approach isn't working, she'll most likely take matters into her own hands or bribe someone else to do it. No, I have to warn them.]

Jiang Changbin was jolted awake. In fact, after the incident with her boyfriend actually happened, even though Yu Qingting was emotionally unwilling to doubt his mother and sister, his rationality still made him obediently go and get a paternity test done for his family.

This probing inquiry into Du Anrao was also an attempt to see if there were any melons that their family had missed.

“Um…” Du Anrao cleared his throat, “Sister Yu was there that day, so there were some things I couldn’t say. After all, it was our first time meeting, and saying something might not be helpful, but it could make us enemies. But today, everyone here is family, so I’ll speak frankly.”

“Yes, yes, yes.” As soon as Du Anrao finished speaking, Madam Jiang hurriedly chimed in, “There are no outsiders here, only our own brothers. Don’t be afraid, just say it, we all believe you.”

"Mom is right, just say it."

“That day, when I looked at Sister Yu’s face, I noticed that her eyebrows were bushy and knotted, indicating that there must be trouble among her peers and relatives. In other words, she is very likely to be betrayed by a relative soon. This relative is most likely a sibling of the same generation as her, but... but the relationship between the other party and her should be slightly different.”

"Entering and exiting? What kind of entry and exit?"

"Half-siblings, either from the same father but different mothers or the same mother but different fathers." "What?"

The Jiang family members feigned surprise and turned to look at Jiang Changbin.

Jiang Changbin paused for a moment, then offered the explanation he had prepared beforehand: "They are twins, so they shouldn't be."

Du Anrao stared at him for a long time, making him think that he had acted too calmly or too exaggeratedly, and that his cousin had discovered the flaw and ruined the performance. Who would have thought that the next second he would hear a major news.

【Then you're still not very knowledgeable. Twins can also have different fathers.】

Jiang Changbin: "??!" Ah... this really shows how ignorant he is!

However, she and her older brother do share the same parents.

Jiang Changbin: "..." I was so scared! He thought he'd gotten himself into trouble with his brother!

Du Anrao, unaware of the other person's inner turmoil, decisively avoided the topic and asked, "Besides her eldest brother, does she have any other brothers or sisters?"

"I also have a younger sister."

“Sister.” Du Anrao stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, “Brother, do you have any photos or videos of her? Preferably videos, recent ones, and clear ones.”

Jiang Changbin certainly doesn't have it, but Yu Qingting definitely does.

Jiang Changbin immediately called Yu Qingting and asked him for videos related to Yu Yaqi.

That photo was taken not long ago when Yu Chuhui celebrated her birthday. In the picture, Yu's younger sister has beautiful curly hair and wears a delicate and simple oleander gemstone hair clip. She looks pure and innocent.

Upon closer inspection, Du Anrao noticed that this person's eyebrows were much thinner than Yu Chuhui's, suggesting they had been deliberately made up.

That's why people say that rich people's cameras have higher resolution. Du Anrao zoomed in on her eyebrows to the extreme and found that this Yu girl probably had some broken eyebrows. She probably thought they didn't look good, so she plucked a large part of them and then deliberately drew the eyebrow line black with an eyebrow pencil.

The newly drawn eyebrows softened her features, concealing the blatant scheming in her eyes, but even the best mask cannot hide a person's true nature for long.

After looking at her for a while, Du Anrao noticed another difference between Yu Yaqi and her older brother and sister. Her nose was thin and pointed, with no flesh. It looked very high but was also very thin and prominent. It was completely different from the fleshy and slightly flat noses of Yu Chuhui and her brother, as well as their father's big nose, which was very auspicious.

Upon closer inspection, it seems that Yu's mother doesn't have a nose like that either; she most likely inherited it from her biological father.

After carefully studying Yu Yaqi's face, Du Anrao finally understood why she harbored such great hostility towards her own sister.

So that's how it is! No wonder she went to such lengths to ruin Sister Yu's reputation; her own father actually wanted to give her away to an old man in his seventies or eighties.

The Jiang family members: "??!"

(End of this chapter)