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

Chapter 2 focuses on an act of repaying kindness with enmity.

"Cough cough cough..." Upon suddenly learning the shocking truth, Mr. Du choked and subconsciously called out, "An'an..."

Du Anrao looked at him with a puzzled expression, his face full of concern: "Dad, are you alright?"

"No...it's nothing." Father Du's face was a little pale, and his gaze toward Bai Xiuqing held a sternness and scrutiny he hadn't shown before.

If he still had a shred of pity for Bai Xiuqing before, now that he knows the truth, he has no lingering feelings for her at all, and is even tempted to clean house for his deceased good brother.

After Bai Xiuqing finished her performance, she deliberately slowed down her movements, waiting for the Du couple to compromise and try to persuade her to stay. However, after waiting for a long time, the two of them did not make a move.

Just as she was caught in a dilemma, a figure appeared at the door.

"Jun Yan?"

"Brother Junyan!"

"Who are you?" Du Junyan glanced at Bai Xiuqing with a cold expression, seemingly not recognizing her.

Du Anrao, however, worried that this was a desperate attempt to correct the plot's inconsistencies, since Du Junyan had never appeared at this point in the original story.

Why is my brother back at this time? What if he believes Bai Xiuqing's fabricated story and claims the child as his own? Wouldn't all our previous efforts be wasted?

Mrs. Du was terrified and quickly stepped forward to stand between the two: "This is your Uncle Bai's daughter, she just returned from abroad. Why are you back so early today? Don't you have to go to work?"

"I just went to the police station, but nothing happened, so I came back first."

"The police station? What happened?"

Everyone present was taken aback, and Du Anrao immediately perked up his ears.

The original work didn't mention this. Could it be that something else happened that triggered the butterfly effect?

"It's nothing, I'm just cooperating with the investigation. Last month, I went to City C on a business trip, and someone maliciously installed a camera in my hotel room. The perpetrator has been caught, and the police asked me to go in and give a statement, since I am also one of the victims."

"What? There's a camera in the hotel room?" Mrs. Du exclaimed in surprise, then seemed to realize something, "Then the secretly recorded videos..."

"It was just sent to me, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet."

Upon hearing this, the hall fell silent.

After a while, the Du family heard someone's cheerful, squeaky-chicken-like croaking again.

[Hahaha, are you dumbfounded? There's a camera in the room! How do you explain this? In mythology, Fuxi's mother had to step on his giant footprint to conceive him. You two didn't even hold hands and yet you caused a death. Could it be because you were breathing the same air in the same room? Wow, what kind of high-tech secret is this? Advanced, truly advanced!]

The Du family members couldn't help but smile as they listened to Du Anrao's words, which were full of sarcasm and gloating. However, they had no choice but to maintain a facade of equality.

"It's good that we got it back. After all, it involves privacy. Even though we haven't done anything wrong, we don't like having everything leaked out to others."

When Du's mother said this, she glanced meaningfully at Bai Xiuqing, but in that instant, she saw Bai Xiuqing swaying and falling to the side.

To be precise, it fell straight onto Du Junyan. Most people would have instinctively reached out to help, but this Brother Du was quite a character.

Upon seeing her turn upside down, he immediately took a big step back in disgust.

Bai Xiuqing's attempt to embrace him failed, and she fell to the ground, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.

Mr. and Mrs. Du turned pale with fright, not out of pity for her, but because they were worried that if she and the baby in her womb were to suffer any serious injury, their family would be completely blackmailed. Du Anrao hid behind the two of them, looking at them from one side to the other, like a mischievous gossip who loved watching a good show.

[Haha, bro, are you serious about taking a step back now? And wasn't the female lead just jumping around and saying she wanted to leave? How did she suddenly faint? Could she have been faking it?]

"Is she faking it?" Du's mother paused, quickly calming down, and shouted, "Xiuqing, what's wrong with you? Quick, call an ambulance and take her to the First Hospital."

This shout immediately triggered the keyword, and Bai Xiuqing quickly realized that pretending to faint at this moment was also a foolish move, so she hurriedly "slowly woke up".

"I'm fine, I just have a little low blood sugar, I'll be fine after a while."

Du Anrao looked at her with a complicated expression, his disdain undisguised.

[I knew she was faking it. With acting like that, pretending to faint is just awful.]

The three members of the Du family: "..."

Bai Xiuqing sat for a while, holding her forehead, and realized that no one was supporting her other outstretched hand.

He could only sheepishly shrink back and instead slowly stand up while holding onto the table next to him.

"Are you really alright? You fainted, you should go to the hospital for a check-up."

Bai Xiuqing felt a headache coming on at the mere mention of the word "inspection," especially after discovering that Du Junyan hadn't even glanced at her since she fainted. For a moment, her expression turned ferocious.

"It's alright, I've recovered. I suddenly remembered that I made an appointment with the cemetery to visit my parents this afternoon, and it's almost time, so I won't bother you any longer. I'll visit again later."

After saying that, he stopped taking small steps and ran off like the wind, as if a dog was chasing him.

Du Anrao watched Bai Xiuqing's retreating figure and shook his head with some regret.

[She ran away so easily; the female lead doesn't seem to have much of a mental fortitude.]

Du's mother and the others were both amused and annoyed, thinking to themselves that it was fortunate she didn't have a strong mentality, otherwise they might have been morally blackmailed by her.

"I'm so sorry, An'an, you've only just gotten back and you've already run into such a terrible thing." Du's mother said, glaring at Du Junyan.

Du Junyan, feeling like he'd been unfairly targeted, was speechless.

"It's alright, it's alright. Every family has a few eccentric relatives and friends. But I think this matter probably doesn't have much to do with my brother. Miss Bai's words have quite a few loopholes."

Du Anrao said this to test the attitude of the three members of the Du family towards this matter. In the original work, the reason why Bai Xiuqing was able to deceive the Du family so easily was not only because she had someone helping her at the hospital, but also because of her guilt towards Bai Xiuqing's deceased parents and her trust in her character.

Unfortunately, parents are parents, and children are children.

Some children bring honor to their parents' family, while others bring shame upon their parents in their later years, leaving them restless even in death.

When Du Anrao took the initiative to speak up for his eldest son, Du's mother was both moved and sighed: "We knew, but we never expected that the child would turn out like this."

Du Anrao didn't say anything, but he was complaining a lot in his heart.

【There are so many things you wouldn't expect! Most people would go after their enemy for revenge, only to end up in their bed? And this woman is notoriously love-struck and unlucky; one minute she's registering her child with her brother's family for temporary residency, and the next minute the child's biological father, a criminal with a criminal record, shows up at our door, bringing ruin to our family. The main theme is repaying kindness with enmity, and repaying good with evil.】

The three members of the Du family: !
(End of this chapter)