After the fake young master left home, he discovered that it wasn't raining at all outside.

Instead of returning to the banquet hall, the banquet proceeded directly to the main building.

Zhu Mo was too lazy to deal with those old hands, and since Zhu Yan wasn't interested either, he made up an excuse to send them all away.

After all, tonight is the main event.

When Zhu Yan walked through the corridor and arrived at the hall, the Zhu family was all there.

But Zhu Yan noticed that everyone seemed a little uneasy, especially when he sat down on the sofa. He felt that they had something they wanted to tell him.

"Just say what's on your mind," Zhu Yan said, breaking the silence.

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Ayan," Zhu Yu said first. "Can you not be angry after I told you?"

Zhu Yu observed Zhu Yan's expression and then added, "If you're angry, be angry at our dad. He arranged everything."

Zhu Mo didn't expect that Zhu Yu, that brat, would betray him so quickly. "That... idea was your second brother's."

Zhu Mo handled this blame very well.

Zhu Qian: !!!

I knew his dad was unreliable.

"Ahem... the inspiration came from my older brother." Zhu Qian immediately joined in, putting pressure on his older brother, Zhu Cheng.

Zhu Cheng: ...

He shouldn't have come.

Bai Zheng listened as his children passed the buck, and even chuckled to himself.

"Tell me about it." Zhu Yan found this family quite interesting, which piqued her curiosity.

"Well... we kidnapped Wen Lin and his family to attend your inheritance ceremony." Zhu Yu spoke rapidly, as if afraid that Zhu Yan would hear him clearly.

But Zhu Yan reacted quickly and heard Zhu Yu's words clearly.

As soon as Zhu Yu finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Zhu Yan, wondering if he would get angry.

But Zhu Yan was surprisingly calm, showing no expression, and even asked a question.

"Where are you tied up?"

I've never seen a celebratory banquet held in a banquet hall.

"They were tied up and kneeling outside the banquet hall, and now... they're still kneeling," Zhu Mo answered Zhu Yan's question.

He just wanted the Wen Lin family to see that the child they had never loved before was now a precious treasure held in the hands of the whole family.

I also want them to realize that Zhu Yan's status is a height they can never reach in their entire lives.

Actually, they had a bit of selfish motives, because they still felt sorry for the hardships Zhu Yan had endured in the Wen family over the past few years.

However, they handed over the power to deal with the Wen family to Zhu Yan, but unexpectedly, Zhu Yan just left them to fend for themselves.

They thought that Zhu Yan was still reluctant to let go of their relationship of more than ten years, so in the end they didn't dare to keep this matter from her.

"Ayan, if you're angry..." Zhu Qian took over the conversation, but Zhu Yan interrupted him before he could even finish speaking.

"Why am I angry?" Zhu Yan was curious and couldn't understand why these people felt that they had offended the Wen family and that he would be angry.

"Huh?" Zhu Qian was stunned by Zhu Yan's question.

"You all think that I still care about their family, right?" Zhu Yan noticed everyone's concerns and posed a question to them.

The people in the hall fell silent.

"Go and bring them here." Zhu Yan didn't continue speaking, but looked up and gave the order to Lin Xiang, who was waiting quietly beside him.

It seems that some things still need to be clarified.

When Wen Lin, Lan Li, and Wen Huai were brought over by the bodyguards, their faces were flushed, sweat was pouring down their foreheads, and their eyes were unfocused and lifeless.

It's still summer, and the sun is blazing outside. The Wen family has been kneeling in the banquet hall since morning, and they even suffered from heatstroke several times in between.

However, Zhu Mo was quite kind and specially arranged for a doctor to watch over them, and provided them with all the necessary medicines and cooling tools.

If you feel dizzy, give them medication immediately, let them rest in the shade for a while, and then continue kneeling.

The three of them were tortured to the point of near death; they would have been better off just passing out.

When Wen Lin and the others were pulled over, it seemed that in order to keep them conscious, several basins of water were poured over them, soaking them from head to toe.

The cooling effect in the hall was excellent, making it cool and comfortable. Wen Lin and the others slowly came back to their senses.

"Ah... Ah Rang?" After Wen Lin regained his sight, the first thing he saw was Zhu Yan sitting lazily on the sofa.

"Looks like he's still not quite right in the head. Take him out and make him kneel for a while longer."

Zhu Yan remembered that she had reminded him that Wen Rang was already dead.

Now, he's called it wrong again.

The penalty should be imposed.

"No...no, I'm sorry...I'm sorry, Mr. Zhu, I was blind and mistook you for someone else." Wen Lin had been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable, and having finally been able to rest for a while, she absolutely did not want to go out and suffer again.

"Are you awake?" Zhu Yan leaned back on the sofa, sipping his tea.

"Qing... is awake." Only Wen Lin responded the whole time; the two people next to him were too weak and obviously about to collapse.

Zhu Yan didn't intend to pay them any attention.

He has one more question he wants to ask him.

"You've always known I'm not your biological child, haven't you?" What should have been a question turned into a statement when Zhu Yan said it.

Wen Lin remained silent for a long time.

"Yes..." There was no confidence in his voice.

Oh……

Sure enough, I should have thought of that.

At that time, he was still young and did not understand why his parents were always dissatisfied with him.

No matter what I do, I never receive a word of praise or encouragement.

He always thought that he hadn't done a good enough job.

Starting in junior high school, he became utterly disillusioned and stopped expecting love.

He had also doubted whether he was his biological son.

But so what?

If someone raises a child for over ten years without giving them a single bit of love, how can they expect their biological parents, who have never been there for them, to give them the most precious gift in the world?

Bai Zheng, who was sitting next to Zhu Yan, quickly noticed Zhu Yan's unusual behavior, reached out to him, and hugged him.

Zhu Yan was caught off guard.

"Ayan, we will never lose you again..." Bai Zheng couldn't hold back her emotions, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Zhu Yan raised her hand, paused in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, and finally landed on Bai Zheng's back, patting it gently.

Bai Zheng hugged him even tighter.

Zhu Yan didn't even realize that a smile had crept onto his lips.

But he was lucky.

He met family members who loved him very much.

"Ayan, I've always owed you an apology." Zhu Cheng couldn't bear to see Zhu Yan looking so dejected, and his eyes also reddened.

This day was the worst news he had received in so many years; he had never wanted to recall it and even had nightmares about it frequently.

In his dream, the banquet was no higher than his knees when a large hand grabbed his throat from behind, pulling him further and further away until he disappeared.

No matter how Zhu Cheng shouted or chased after him, it was all in vain.

"If I hadn't been so arrogant on New Year's Eve and secretly taken you out by myself, I wouldn't have lost you, and you wouldn't have had to suffer for so many years."

Zhu Cheng could no longer hold back his tears, which slid down his cheeks from the corners of his eyes. "I'm sorry... Ayan."

"Big brother, why did you take me away alone back then?" Zhu Yan guessed that Zhu Cheng must have had a reason for doing so.

Sure enough, it was all to make the banquet more enjoyable.

"You said you wanted to go to the most bustling fireworks display in Beijing, Yanjing Palace, but your parents wouldn't allow it because there were too many people there, and they were afraid something might happen to you. But if they cleared the area, you said it wouldn't be lively, so you didn't want to go..."

That year, Zhu Cheng was only a teenager. Born into a noble family, he was proud and arrogant. He only wanted to please his younger brother, so he secretly took Zhu Yan to the banquet without telling anyone in the family.

But when he lost Zhu Yan, he panicked and searched frantically, immediately calling Zhu Mo and mobilizing everyone.

However, it happened to be New Year's Eve, and there were huge crowds. The surveillance system wasn't very good at the time, and the key point was that Zhu Yan was only three years old and so short, making it even more difficult to find him.

"So you're still doing this for me, aren't you?" Zhu Yan wasn't good at comforting people, so she could only say this to ease Zhu Cheng's guilt.

Zhu Qian handed Zhu Cheng a tissue to wipe away his tears.

Zhu Cheng accepted it; he knew Zhu Yan was trying to comfort him, but he just couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart.

"Mr. Zhu, actually, the person I arranged with that human trafficker wasn't you at all. I saw the photo of that child, and he was wearing a Xie pendant around his neck. I never expected that it would be you who ended up being sent to me."

Wen Lin kept kowtowing, begging for forgiveness.

Back then, the Wen family was just a small family in Beijing with assets of just over 100 million yuan, but the internal competition was extremely fierce.

In a fight for the inheritance, those wicked relatives sold their children.

There was no other way; the old man had spoken, and he knew his sons' personalities very well, so he left all his property to his two grandsons.

Desperate to inherit the family fortune, Wen Lin had no choice but to buy a child from a human trafficker.

Anyway, the old man was about to pass away in the hospital, and the child looked pretty much the same. He didn't have time to distinguish them properly before he breathed his last.

If Wen Lin knew that Zhu Yan was a child of the Zhu family, he wouldn't dare to lay a finger on him even if he beat him to death.

The banquet was quite a surprise.

She was wearing a pendant around her neck...

Therefore, the child that Wen Lin bought back then was Xie Sheng'an!