Transmigrated into a wealthy family's stepmother, I raised the villain into a sweet child.

After seeing the photo clearly, Jinxi couldn't hide the surprise on her face.

The man's eyes in the photo look exactly like Zan Zan's!

Zhou Linxu said softly, "Let's go in."

He walked in first, leaning on his cane. Jinxi followed him in, feeling dizzy. Even when she reached the table, she was still slightly tipsy.

Finding out about Zan Zan's background so suddenly, who wouldn't be confused?

She picked up the photo, but his name automatically popped into her mind.

Zhou Jinming.

She had seen this name by chance in Zhou Linxu's study last time.

No wonder Zan Zan and Zhou Linxu look alike yet different; it turns out that Zan Zan is the son of Zhou Linxu's older brother. The two brothers look about six or seven parts alike, except that Zhou Jinming's features are gentler, while Zhou Linxu's are more sharp.

Jinxi put the photo down again and looked at Zhou Linxu beside her. He was also looking down at the solo photo.

She pursed her lips: "What... exactly is going on?"

Zhou Linxu is Zanzan's uncle, so how did he become Zanzan's father?

Since he had already brought Jinxi here, Zhou Linxu didn't intend to hide anything. He said, "Three years ago, the old man's health deteriorated. At that time, the Zhou family was eyeing the group, this juicy piece of meat. Unfortunately, Zhou Jinming became the sacrifice."

The old man was in poor health at the time, but he was not yet senile. He suppressed the power struggle, and no one dared to bring it out into the open.

On the surface, the Zhou family appears peaceful and harmonious, but in reality, they secretly plot against each other and sabotage each other.

Later, as the old man's condition worsened, he became lucid and confused at times, and the struggle within the Zhou family came into the open.

In fact, Zhou Jinming was not interested in being the head of the Zhou Group; he wanted to be a pilot, but in this large family, such a dream was simply impossible.

Zhou Jiansheng forced Zhou Jinming to join the group and help Zhou Linxu fight against him, but he never expected that a negotiation project would directly ruin his life.

"Actually, I should have gone that day," Zhou Linxu said calmly as he recounted the events. "But I wasn't feeling well that day, so he drove my car and went in my place. He even told me that the deal was done and that he could just go home to visit Zan Zan and his wife on the way."

Unexpectedly, although the project was finalized, on the way back to the city, the car braked out of control. In order to avoid hitting pedestrians, Zhou Jinming twisted the steering wheel and crashed into the green belt next to the road. After three days of rescue efforts, he still could not be saved.

Jinxi opened her mouth, but seemed to lose her voice. However, she still managed to ask, "...Which car?"

"We couldn't find anything." Zhou Linxu's expression darkened, his voice devoid of any emotion: "It was just a few people from the Zhou family who did it, except they did it perfectly back then."

Zhou Linxu devoted a lot of energy to investigating this matter, but in the end he only caught a minor, insignificant person.

In recent years, Zhou Linxu has been doing his best to suppress them, making them afraid to act recklessly, but so what?

He wanted to tear them to pieces, but it would take some time.

Jinxi frowned: "Then what about Zanzan? Where's his mother?"

"Zhou Jiansheng doesn't like Zanzan and his sister-in-law." Zhou Linxu sighed. "In his eyes, my marriage with Zhou Jinming should be an asset, just like his marriage with my mother back then. It was a business marriage, and after having children, we went our separate ways."

Zhou Jiansheng looked down on Zanzan's mother, Song Lanqing, because she came from a humble background and he had almost never seen her.

After Zhou Jinming got married, he and Song Lanqing lived outside together, and their relationship was always very good.

After Zhou Jinming's accident, he also went to see Song Lanqing and Zanzan. At that time, the situation of the Zhou family was unclear, and with Zhou Jinming's death, he was afraid that Zanzan and her would also be hurt, so he wanted them to go abroad for a while.

"But she refused," Zhou Linxu said. "She said she was taking Zanzan back to her parents' home. I couldn't persuade my sister-in-law otherwise, so I gave her one of my cards so she could go back to her hometown and avoid the situation."

"I told her that if she didn't want me to know anything about them, she should just use my card every now and then to let me know that they were doing well."

However, Song Lanqing never used it. Zhou Linxu knew that she was still angry with him, so he didn't dare to disturb her. In addition, the old man was also nearing his deadline, so he had no time to take care of the mother and son.

He only asked someone to secretly take care of the mother and child. Later, after he had stabilized the situation a little, he went to look for Song Lanqing and Zanzan, only to find that they had lost contact.

"Back then, I didn't dare to make any big moves to contact them, and the Zhou family still kept a close eye on me," Zhou Linxu said. "At that time, I also thought that she didn't want to have any relationship with any of our Zhou family members."

Six months after he lost contact, the bank suddenly sent him a text message. At first, he didn't pay attention to it, but then he realized that it was the card he had given to Song Lanqing.

Because it was cash, the location was specified as a place far from Song Lanqing's family home; he even checked and found it was a very remote county town.

Having a direction makes investigating things much easier.

"I only found out then that she had already passed away several months ago." Zhou Linxu's brows furrowed as he spoke of this: "The Song family didn't want to raise Zanzan either, so they gave him to a distant relative who couldn't have children."

"I rushed to that place overnight and it took a lot of effort to find Zan Zan." Zhou Linxu's words seemed to be squeezed out.

Song Lanqing had raised Zanzan to be a chubby, healthy baby. But after only three months in that place, he was like a completely different baby. He was pale and thin, no longer lively, dirty, and seemed dull and silly. Only when he saw him would he cry with grievance, hugging him tightly and asking him incoherently, "Daddy, why did you only come now?" "Daddy, I missed you so much."

"I never imagined I would meet Zan Zan like this." Zhou Linxu clenched his hands at his sides. This was the first time he felt that being with Zhou Jinming was somewhat of a blessing.

At least Zan Zan won't become an orphan. He'll be Zhou Linxu's son, and he can live a good life too.

The fever that followed the accident also made Zan Zan forget the painful memories of the past. Zhou Linxu struggled for a long time at that time, but in the end he felt that the present moment was good enough.

It's good to forget some painful memories.

Jin Xi was speechless. She hadn't expected things to be so complicated, and she could sense that Zhou Linxu was on the verge of collapse.

She looked at Zhou Linxu, pursed her lips, reached out, and slowly grasped the back of his taut hand.

Zhou Linxu looked at her with a somewhat confused expression.

Looking at his slightly reddened eyes, Jinxi suddenly realized how inadequate her vocabulary was.

She couldn't say anything more, only weakly stating, "It's all in the past now."

It's all in the past now.