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"You'll see when you get there." Lan Ying didn't say anything more and pulled Chu Wanqing outside.

When Lan Ying's eldest daughter-in-law, Chen Yu, heard that Old Madam Zheng had arrived, she also came over. Lan Ying glanced at her but didn't say anything. This daughter-in-law was good in every way, except that she loved to join in the fun.

She had been feigning illness a few days ago, and if Mingyue hadn't stopped her, she probably would have rushed over long ago upon hearing that Chu Wanqing had arrived.

Outside the second gate, Madam Zheng's carriage slowly came to a stop.

Hongliu stepped forward and lifted the carriage curtain. Old Madam Zheng helped Chen Mengyao out of the carriage, followed by a young girl wearing a veil.

Chu Wanqing's gaze involuntarily fell on the girl, and her heart inexplicably tightened and pounded.

"Big sister, we've been waiting for you!" Lan Ying greeted her with a smile.

Madam Zheng grasped her hand and smiled, "How could I refuse your invitation?"

As they talked, the group walked toward Lan Ying's courtyard in the backyard.

After everyone sat down and exchanged a few pleasantries, Lan Ying said to Chen Yu, "Old Madam Zheng will be having dinner at the mansion tonight. Please make the arrangements."

Chen Yu was extremely unwilling, but still wanted to stay and find out what was going on. She forced a smile and said, "Mother, I'm not as meticulous as Granny Mingyue. Why don't we let her make the arrangements?"

Lan Ying glared at her: "What, is your Aunt Zheng not worthy of you personally arranging a meal for her?"

With this serious accusation pinned on him, Chen Yu dared not refuse any longer. He quickly stood up with a smile and said, "How could I? It's rare for Aunt Zheng to come all this way. I'll make the arrangements right away and make sure you and Aunt Zheng are satisfied."

Having said that, he reluctantly left.

After Chen Yu left, Chu Wanqing looked at the girl in the veil and asked softly, "Aunt Zheng, this young lady looks unfamiliar. May I ask which younger member of your family she is...?"

Old Madam Zheng gave her a meaningful look and said, "This is my newly adopted goddaughter, surnamed Yun, given name Jin. Jin'er, come and greet Madam Yun."

Yun Jin removed her veil, revealing her delicate face, and stepped forward to give a graceful bow: "Yun Jin greets Madam Yun."

Chu Wanqing stared blankly at her, her mind going completely blank.

When I saw Yun Jin at Huajinge that day, I felt a strange sense of familiarity.

Looking at her eyebrows, her expression, and the slightly upturned corners of her mouth now, she looks just like her mother when she was young!

"You..." Chu Wanqing opened her mouth, her voice trembling uncontrollably, "You just said... what's your name?"

"Madam Yun, my daughter is Yun Jin." Yun Jin raised her head, her clear eyes meeting her gaze.

Chu Wanqing's mouth dropped open in disbelief.

Yun brocade, exquisite brocade...

The characters "锦" (jin) and "绣" (xiu) are such a coincidence?

Is it...

She turned sharply to look at Lan Ying, her voice trembling, "Mother..."

Lan Ying nodded, tears welling in her eyes: "It's just as you think."

Chu Wanqing's hands trembled violently. She looked at Yun Jin, took a step forward, and reached out her trembling hand, wanting to touch her cheek, but her fingertips stopped in mid-air, not daring to fall.

Is this really her daughter?

The biological child she carried for ten months and gave birth to, but whom she had never seen, never held, and never fed a drop of milk to.

"Daughter..." she choked, barely able to speak, "You really are my daughter..."

Looking at her red eyes, Yun Jin finally relaxed the string that had been taut in her heart for so long.

She gently took Chu Wanqing's hand, which was suspended in mid-air, and pressed it against her face.

"Mother," she called softly.

That one word, "Mother," was like a key, instantly unlocking the floodgates of tears that Chu Wanqing had been holding back for two days.

She hugged Yun Jin tightly, bursting into tears: "My child... my daughter... I'm so sorry... I've made you suffer..."

Yun Jin was held tightly in her arms, feeling the hot tears soaking her shoulder, and her nose stung terribly.

She gently patted Chu Wanqing's back, as if comforting a wronged child: "Mother, don't cry. I'm fine, look, I'm alright now."

The more she said that, the harder Chu Wanqing cried.

Lan Ying watched from the side and couldn't help but wipe the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Madam Zheng and Chen Mengyao exchanged a glance and remained silent.

Chu Wanqing cried for a long time before she gradually calmed down.

She loosened Yun Jin's brocade, cupped her face in her hands, and looked at her carefully inch by inch, as if trying to fill in the gaps of the past fifteen years.

"So alike, so very alike..." she murmured, "Just like your grandmother when she was young. It's all my fault for not realizing my daughter had been switched. You must have suffered so much all these years..."

Yun Jin held her hand and said softly, "Mother was unaware of this, so it's not your fault."

"How can I not blame you?" Chu Wanqing's tears welled up again. "You stayed in my belly for ten months, I gave birth to you, but I couldn't protect you. I let you wander outside, letting that bastard take your place and enjoy everything that should have been yours. What use am I as your mother?"

Yun Jin shook her head, her tone firm: "Mother, don't say that. If they hadn't been so scheming, how could you have been kept in the dark? The fault lies with Yun Heting and Liu Shi, not you."

Chu Wanqing felt a mix of sadness and warmth in her heart as she listened to her gentle words of comfort.

This child has suffered so much, yet she not only doesn't resent her, but also thinks of her in every way. What a good child!

That wicked woman, what right did she have to take her daughter away?

"Jin'er," she gripped Yun Jin's hand tightly, her voice trembling, "come home with me! I'll take you back to the Yun family mansion and tell everyone that you are the legitimate daughter of the Yun family, and that bastard child will be kicked out!"

Before Yun Jin could speak, Lan Ying said in a deep voice, "Foolish!"

Chu Wanqing was taken aback: "Mother?"

"If you take her back now, what evidence will you have?" Lan Ying's face darkened. "Will Yun Heting and Madam Liu acknowledge her? They'll only turn around and accuse Jin'er of being a liar, of trying to climb the social ladder and deliberately obscuring the Yun family's bloodline! Your daughter will have no chance of ever being recognized again!"

Chu Wanqing was instantly speechless. Yes, she was only thinking about acknowledging her daughter, but she forgot that she had no evidence...

Madam Zheng nodded and said, "Wanqing, your mother is right. The fact that they look alike is not enough to prove that Jin'er is your daughter, let alone that Yunxiu is their illegitimate daughter who was switched at birth. If they deny it to the death, it will only put Jin'er in danger."

Chu Wanqing bit her lip, and tears fell uncontrollably again.

Seeing her biological daughter right in front of her, yet unable to openly acknowledge her, unable to take her home, unable to make up for the fifteen years of neglect, her heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife.

Yun Jin gently patted her hand and softly comforted her, "Mother, I've discussed it with Grandmother. Right now, I can't live in the Yun residence as your biological child, but we can change our identity..."

(Jinbao is changing identities and may have to endure for a while. Don't worry, everyone. Enduring is for a better explosion. The more you wait, the more exciting it will be.)

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