The male supporting character was actually myself.

"We suggest registering your search for relatives on the Baby Finding Relatives website. Maybe your parents are looking for you too!"

"Wow, my husband has such a tragic past! He's so handsome, has such good values, and is capable of making money and helping others. What kind of parents would be willing to abandon such an outstanding child to an orphanage?"

"It's definitely not abandonment, it must have been kidnapped, right?"

"You kidnapped children and then abandon them in an orphanage? Do you think human traffickers are stupid?"

…………

As soon as Jiang Chen went live, a large number of fans flooded into his live stream, with the number of online viewers instantly reaching tens of thousands.

You can see handsome men, hear exciting news and inside stories, and even learn about the law. In addition, Wei Jiangchen is eloquent, full of jokes, and his interactions are humorous and entertaining, making it a show that you can watch endlessly. Therefore, many of his fans are waiting for the announcement of the live broadcast time to watch.

"Thank you everyone for helping me find clues. By the way, a netizen posted a photo of an abducted child; please take a look and help find clues. This is definitely not me. I have detailed records of my time at the Lengcheng Orphanage. I was abandoned at the orphanage gate just two or three days after birth, before my umbilical cord had even fallen off. I've already registered on the Baby Finding Family Network, but haven't found a match yet..."

Jiang Chen replied while scrolling through past messages.

After taking down Yuexiu Dou, he no longer needed Rongtuanzi to boost his data, so he kept the tipping function off to prevent people from squeezing money out of their living expenses to tip him, since he couldn't possibly be short of money and didn't need to rely on live streaming to earn money.

This way, we can avoid a lot of trouble and prevent the virus from framing us and causing harm.

Taking advantage of the positive public opinion surrounding the company's successful completion of several cases, his high-profile search for his relatives was intended to prevent the virus from digging into his background and fabricating stories.

The little white cat had already traced back to the source by following the original owner's physical data, and found out the original owner's biological parents, as well as the adoptive parents' family that sold him, the man who bought the child deep in the mountains, the woman the original owner brought to live in the city, and so on. He wanted to eliminate the hidden dangers from the source and then go into seclusion with Ye Ruoyi.

He achieved great success and left behind only a legend in the world. Let's see how the virus can handle this!

"Mom, Mom and Dad, come quick!" In a slightly messy ordinary house in Lengcheng, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl held an old cell phone, her eyes glued to the screen, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Come over here quickly!"

Zhou Lilian emerged from the kitchen, disheveled and greasy. She shook her hands, wiped them on her apron, and then scolded in a low voice, "What are you yelling about? You're so old and still don't know any better! Your brother just fell asleep. If you wake him up, it'll be another nightmare! Do you know how expensive his medicine is every day? What are you looking at? Are you thinking of buying something again? What are you watching that live stream for?"

"Come and see this handsome guy!" Chen Qiqi ignored her mother's nagging and exclaimed excitedly with her eyes shining, "Wei Jiangchen, who became famous recently! Doesn't he look like the older brother in our family photo?"

She had heard people say since she was a child that she had an "older brother" who was not related to her parents by blood and was adopted from an orphanage in the city after going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money.

Unlike many disabled children in the orphanage, that boy was good-looking and had a good temper. It is said that he was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage because he had some disease when he was born. The relevant departments cured him and he had no sequelae. He stayed in the orphanage until he was five years old before his parents took him home and named him Chen Yixiao.

As a result, the older brother only lived in the house for two years before being adopted.

Chen Qiqi had no recollection of this, because she was born the year after Chen Yixiao entered the family. Later, her mother became pregnant again and it turned out to be a boy. Her parents discussed that having their own biological child and raising an unrelated child would be a heavy burden and wouldn't be appreciated in the future.

After all, who knows what kind of bad genes parents who can just abandon their children might leave behind? They don't want to let an outsider who is very likely to become an ingrate share the resources of their own child, given that they already have a fairly substantial family fortune.

So they found someone to "foster" Chen Yixiao, leaving only a few photos of them taken during the Spring Festival at home.

If Chen Qiqi hadn't discovered this while moving a few years ago, she wouldn't have known what her brother, whom she had never met, looked like.

Recently, her work has been slow and she didn't have much money. She dug out some old things to sell for some pocket money, but then she realized that her brother Chen Yixiao in the group photo looked familiar!

Chen Qiqi took note and searched for information about Wei Jiangchen online.

However, for some reason, the previous online rumors had completely disappeared without a trace, leaving only some live stream videos. The more she looked, the more she felt that their facial features were similar, so she waited to wait for Wei Jiangchen to go live so that her parents could identify them for themselves.

If we can confirm that Wei Jiangchen is indeed Chen Yixiao, the adoption certificate left behind back then will come in very handy!

Anyway, so many years have passed and things have changed. The parents come forward to play the victim and say that they were tricked into adopting their eldest son and then stage a sentimental reunion. After all, the adoptive parents raised him for two years. Wei Jiangchen is so popular and rich now, can't they not show some appreciation?

If even a little bit of it leaks out between his fingers, the whole family will have a good life!

"Oh my god, if this really is my brother... hehehe!" Chen Qiqi licked the screen, drool dripping from her mouth. The romance novel plots she had read online were flooding her mind, making her daydream.

A long-lost adopted son falls in love with his adoptive parents' biological daughter, leading to a romantic tale of a domineering CEO pursuing his wife.

How awesome would it be if a storyline like this, which you only see in TV dramas, happened to you?

"What Wei Jiangchen? You're just glued to your phone all day looking at random things..." Zhou Lilian had long forgotten that she once had an adopted son, let alone any photos of them together.

She shuffled over to her daughter in her slippers, and just as she was about to continue her rambling, her eyes swept over the screen and she froze. "Hey? She looks familiar! Old Chen! Old Chen, come here right now!"

Zhou Lilian yanked her husband, Chen Yang, who was disheveled and reeking of alcohol, up by the ear. "Come and take a look at this big star. Isn't he the child we picked out from the orphanage?"

"What child?" Half-drunk and half-awake, Chen Yang rubbed his eyes impatiently, glanced at the child, shook his head and muttered, "If I can't see clearly, who can remember what he looks like?"

Seeing this, Zhou Lilian was furious and slapped him on the forehead, scolding, "All you do is drink! You might as well drink yourself to death! You don't care about such an important matter. If Wei Jiangchen really is our Xiaoxiao, would we be short of money after we acknowledge him? Do you know how rich he is now?"

Upon hearing the word "money," Chen Yang sobered up considerably.

"It looks like it! I have to say, it looks about 70 or 80 percent like it!" He leaned close to the phone screen and looked at it again and again, muttering, "Quickly, go find those documents and photos and compare them."

Wei Jiangchen...

Holy crap! I heard he's incredibly rich, and he even started a company that offers free legal services. How much money must he have to do all that for free?!

The thought that Wei Jiangchen was very likely his adopted son Chen Yixiao, and the thought of spending so much money like water to help others with their lawsuits, made Chen Yang's heart bleed.

If this money were given to the Chen family, wouldn't they instantly become the richest family in Lingcheng?!

Hiring an ordinary lawyer to handle a case is expensive enough, yet Wei Jiangchen collaborates with so many well-known law firms. Those firms are paid to do their jobs, and the money is all paid by this fool!

A rough calculation showed that Chen Yang felt he had lost 100 million yuan.

The old photos were found, the first one being a family portrait taken when Chen Yixiao first arrived at his home, showing the three of them together.

Upon seeing the photo, Chen Yang's dead memories came back to life.

Back then, he was riding high. His parents had some wealth, which allowed him to enter a higher social circle, meet his wife, and eventually marry her. His in-laws were very rich, and they provided him with a house, a car, and support in his career.

At that time, Chen Yang was considered a big shot in Lengcheng.

The only problem was that they had no children. They went to countless hospitals, but nothing worked. There was nothing wrong with either of them, but they just couldn't conceive. Back then, there was no IVF technology, and they dragged it out for several years without any success.

Later, the two sets of parents came up with a solution – adoption.

It is said that many people who adopt children bring their biological children with them. Even if they can't bring their biological children, at least they have a child to raise, so that they won't be left without someone to take care of them in their old age.

Chen Yang specially consulted someone to calculate his birth chart and spent a lot of money to pull strings, finally selecting a healthy five-year-old boy after half a year of searching among many orphanages.

Adopting a healthy child from an orphanage is no easy feat; it's only thanks to his resourcefulness that he managed to snatch a spot and jump the queue.

After bringing the child back, they named him Chen Yixiao. The "Yi" in his name was meant to bring forth "two" or "three" younger brothers for the family, so that the Chen family would have biological descendants.

Back then, the couple were young and longed for a child. Chen Yixiao was fair-skinned, pretty, and had a good personality. They liked him very much from every angle.

So on the first day after arriving home, to commemorate the occasion, the three of us had a nice meal, bought new clothes, and took a family photo. In the photo, Chen Yang and Zhou Lilian were holding Chen Yixiao, and the three of them were smiling happily from the bottom of their hearts, which looked very warm.

The second photo was taken during the Spring Festival that year. It shows the couple holding their child, a happy family of three.

In the photo, Chen Yixiao is fatter, taller, and fairer-skinned than when she first arrived. Wearing the most fashionable little military uniform at the time, she looks as cute as a New Year's picture doll.

The third picture is from the Spring Festival of the following year. The eldest daughter was exactly 100 days old. She was wearing a bright red cotton-padded jacket and gold bracelets and silver locks. The couple held her and doted on her. Chen Yixiao was still wearing her usual old clothes. She looked a little timid and huddled alone in a corner with a shy look in her eyes.

“I only kept these three photos. In the early spring of the following year, after the Spring Festival, I became pregnant with my son and gave him away before summer.” Zhou Lilian looked through the photos with a hint of guilt. “He was already seven years old then. Could he remember them all?”

Chen Yang rolled his eyes and snorted coldly, "Remember what? Even the smartest seven-year-old can't remember much."

Besides, we didn't discuss selling him in front of him back then. When we let him go with the traffickers, we made it clear that you were pregnant and didn't have the energy to take care of him, so he should stay at someone else's house for a while.

Even if he remembers, he wouldn't know we sold him!

How could human traffickers possibly tell him the truth if they were to use a combination of coaxing and deception?

Even if we tell him, how can he have any evidence if we vehemently deny it?

Wei Jiangchen is right. He went to an orphanage twice, which means that the families who bought his child from us might have had their own children and then abandoned him! Now he's clamoring to find his biological parents, which is nothing more than wanting a family warmth after he's become successful and wealthy.

We raised him for two years, but his biological parents never raised him for even a day. They just abandoned him when he got sick!

In comparison, we owe him a debt of gratitude for raising us, not for giving us life!

What's more, it was after we sent him away that our family gradually declined to where we are now. We even had to sell our house and can only rent a place to live in this shabby place. He must have taken away our family's wealth and good fortune!

How can he not give some compensation?

Does he deserve the kindness of raising him for two years?

Besides, his younger brother is sick. He has money to fight lawsuits for others for free, but not money to treat his brother's illness. No matter what, he's not in the right!

Zhou Lilian thought about it and realized that her husband's words made sense.

"The only problem now is how to prove that Wei Jiangchen is our lost adopted son Chen Yixiao?" She frowned and clenched her hands anxiously. "First of all, we need to get our stories straight and find the human trafficker from back then. We can't let her let it slip."

No matter what, I insist that I was pregnant and didn't have the energy to take care of the children. I thought I would let Chen Yixiao stay with a friend first. They made a good promise, but after I got the children, they disappeared.

Anyway, so many years have passed, who can find any evidence to support the claim that it was June 25th?

Chen Qiqi snapped out of her self-indulgent fantasy of a domineering CEO falling in love with her, wiped her drool, and whispered, "After you sold my brother, who exactly bought him? What if we come looking for him, and the other family also comes looking for him out of greed? If we confront them, won't we be completely exposed?"

"There's no evidence even if we confront each other!" Chen Yang slammed his fist on the table and shouted, "Back then, there was a middleman. They handed over the money and the person, wrote a note, and tore it up and threw it away a long time ago. The human trafficker is definitely not going to come forward and expose herself; she would end up in jail herself!"

No matter what the other family says, we're sticking to the fact that they used the guise of foster care to kidnap my well-behaved and bright eldest son. What kind of good family would throw a child they bought back into an orphanage? They might even have abused him!

"Qiqi, leave a message first to test the waters!" Zhou Lilian's eyes lit up with a sudden idea. "Aren't there a lot of people in the live stream trying to get attention by posting messages to find their missing relatives? Just pretend you don't know anything. Post the first group photo first, and briefly write that your brother was abducted. See if Wei Jiangchen reacts."

While Chen Yang and his family of three were engrossed in discussing how to post messages in the live stream to plead for their loved ones, the little dumpling, in a reclining position, leaned against its host's arm, its head spinning, humming some tune.

"Huh? The script has been updated!" It suddenly sensed it and sprang up, nearly falling off the table in a failed attempt to jump, but Jiang Chen caught it. It then scrambled back onto the table with its paws and took out the script.

Sure enough, a new story, resembling a comic strip, was presented on the page in an extremely sloppy manner.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Go find him!

"What is this? What? What's going on?" The little white cat looked at the updated plot with a blank expression. After a while, it belatedly realized and said, "Hey? There seems to be no news from Meng Xiaosu these past two days. Let me ask the main system what's going on."

It tossed the extremely rough draft to its host and meowed, "The CPU can't handle it. You'll have to figure out what this thing means yourself, host!"

The little dumpling tossed the script to him and ran away as if it were a hot potato.

Let's just eat and drink and wait to win without lifting a finger. Why not leave the brain-intensive tasks to our exceptionally intelligent host? The host I personally choose is always the best!

It sent a report to the main system and then went off to play games and slack off.

Jiang Chen took the script and looked at it carefully. Compared to the previous trailers which were all clear photos, the predictions given this time were really hard to describe.

The abstract comic strip style, with several small pictures without any headings, left him a little confused.

"Everyone, today's live stream is..." Jiang Chen was about to close the live stream to study the new plot when he suddenly saw a series of repeated messages flooding the screen: Leng Feng〤Can Yue: [Image] Searching for relatives in the live stream. My brother, Chen Yixiao, was adopted by my parents, Chen Yang and Zhou Lilian, from the Lengcheng Orphanage seventeen years ago.

He was five years old at the time, as shown in the picture above.

After living with my brother for two years, my family experienced a change in circumstances, and my mother became pregnant unexpectedly and was unable to take care of him due to health issues. So, I placed him in the care of a friend and gave them fifty yuan a month for living expenses.

We agreed that my brother would be fostered for three months, and that we would bring him back once things at home were settled and my mother was feeling better. However, the other party took the money and left Lengcheng overnight, and we haven't heard from them since.

Oh open?

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and stared at the screen, slightly startled.