"Let's not talk about this, let's get back to what happened back then.""More than 20 years ago, a man and a woman fell in love with each other. The woman introduced her fiancé to her best friend. She never thought that her best friend would fall in love with her fiancé." "Yes, he is young and promising, with good character, appearance and status, and he is indeed admired by women." "Every time I hear about their deep love, my friends start to have inappropriate thoughts. They think if their friends have it, why can't they have it too." "Plus, the feeling of unrequited love was very bad, so my friend took advantage of the custom that men and women cannot meet three days before marriage, and borrowed the woman's name to ask the man out." "Not only did she congratulate them, she also offered to be their concubine and serve them." "The man flatly refused." "This incident planted the seeds of hatred in that friend's heart." Yan Funing's lips curved slightly, and she pointed her slender finger at Yu Shuyan: "That friend is you." "The woman is my mother, and the man is my father." "My father did not make this public in order to save your reputation. My mother thought that she had a deep friendship with you, so she introduced her brother to you."

"Instead of being grateful for this, you started setting up a scheme to destroy the relationship between my parents." "My parents loved each other deeply after they got married, and you hated them even more." "After my mother brought you together with my second uncle, you still missed my father. So you often came to the Duke's Mansion, nominally to see my mother, but in fact you wanted to see my father more." "From the time my eldest brother was born, to my sister, to my second brother, and then to my third brother, my parents' children were born one after another." "I guess you've been wanting to do it for a long time." "Because my grandmother would be there when my mother gave birth, you had no chance." "So when my mother was pregnant with me, you decided to come up with a foolproof plan." "From customizing the jade pendant, to bribing the midwife, to finding a tattoo artist in advance in case the baby has a birthmark." "I am my parents' fifth child." "My mother has already given birth to four children. Logically, the fifth child should have the shortest labor process." "On the contrary, my mother was in labor for two days when she gave birth to me." "Because the labor pains lasted too long, my grandmother was afraid of an accident, so she went to pray." "And you said you wanted to stay with my mother." "Yu Shuyan, I guess there is something mysterious in the cakes you gave my mother before she gave birth." "At that time, I was still a few days away from being born. You gave my mother the drugged cakes, which caused her to give birth early and have prolonged labor pains." Every word and sentence is well-reasoned and the analysis is clear and logical. Madam Hong covered her lips and exclaimed, "I remember now. When our sister-in-law gave birth to Fu Ning, the fetus was delayed in moving and she had unbearable abdominal pain. It was Yu who suggested that we go and pray for blessings." Mrs. Hong San nodded in agreement: "Yes, she proposed it, but she didn't go, so we all went." After the two sisters-in-law said this, Yu Shuyan's face suddenly turned ugly.

But he kept his mouth shut and said nothing. Yan Funing looked at her calmly and continued, "When my mother started having labor pains, you ordered someone to find a replacement baby." "We have prepared one for each boy and girl." "I didn't expect that it would take two days from the time my mother started having labor pains before I was born. That's why Yan Yan'er is two days older than me." Hong Qingyi was so angry that her chest heaved. She said in a cold voice, "I fell asleep, and when I woke up, the baby was brought to me. I asked why he was bigger." She never thought that the baby at that time was no longer Fu Ning, whom she gave birth to. Madam Hong said sadly, "I said at the time that babies change every day and will be fine when they grow up." Madam Hong San also felt upset, "I said something similar. It's all Yu's fault. Babies under one month old do change every day and can get a lot heavier. How could we have thought that the sister-in-law, who usually has the best relationship with us, would plot to switch the baby of her younger sister-in-law?" Old Madam Hong picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at Yu Shuyan. "You are just the daughter of a seventh-rank official. It is a great honor for you to be able to enter our mansion. I didn't expect you to be so vicious that you would kill my precious granddaughter, you vicious woman!" Yu Shuyan dodged. Just then, Yan Cheng and Mr. Hong Yuxin arrived. "Poisonous woman, you still have the nerve to hide?" Hong Yuxin shouted loudly, looking extremely displeased. He pulled Yu Shuyan's arm and said, "Kneel down." Yu Shuyan did not kneel. She glanced at Yan Cheng, who was still elegant, and sneered, "Hong Yuxin, do you think you can win my heart just because you are the legitimate son of the Marquis's mansion?" "And you, Yan Cheng, you have such a cruel heart." He actually turned a blind eye to her feelings. "Hong Qingyi and Yan Cheng, the more affectionate you are, the more jealous I am." "Why can the daughter of a marquis be the wife of the crown prince, while I can only obey my family's arrangements?" At that time, Yan Cheng was still the prince of the Duke's Mansion, and there were many women who loved him. He took a fancy to Hong Qingyi. She was clearly not bad-looking when she was standing next to Hong Qingyi. Why couldn't he see her? She laughed wildly and admitted, "Yes, I did switch the babies. I planned it very carefully. I didn't have a chance to do it with the first four children, but with the fifth one, I was determined to succeed no matter what." Hong Yuxin slapped her in the face: "You still don't know you're wrong?" Yu Shuyan's cheeks immediately showed five finger marks, but she didn't rub them. She smiled and said, "What have I done wrong?" She pointed at Hong Qingyi and Yan Cheng, her eyes tearing up as she said, "It was them. They clearly said that four children were enough, but they insisted on having another one." "If they didn't have a fifth child, how would I have had the chance to accomplish this?" She laughed wildly: "How can you blame me for this?"

Yan Funing said calmly, "As you planned, the baby swap went smoothly. In the following sixteen years, you gradually felt comfortable watching my parents dote on a fake daughter. Until I came back, you started to dislike me in every way. The hatred you had back then resurfaced." Yu Shuyan gnashed her teeth and said, "I hate it. I only hate myself for not strangling you to death and throwing you into a mass grave." Yan Funing chuckled briefly: "Yes, if you had strangled me to death, this day wouldn't be here." "So I regret it. I regret having sympathy for you when you were crying." Yu Shuyan sneered at herself, "I regret leaving the real jade pendant with you when you left Beijing, and I also regret selling you to a rich family." If it was sold to a poor family, they would have pawned or sold her real jade pendant long ago. Yan Funing nodded: "I cry a lot, especially when I was a baby. Fortunately, I was born at a good time, so the people who bought me raised me as a daughter. Also because I cry, I was sold many times." The people present felt distressed when they heard this and blamed Yu Shuyan one after another. Madam Hong said angrily, "Yu, my Hong family treats you well. You should know that with your status, being my wife is already a compliment to you." Yu Shuyan pointed at Hong Yuxin: "I have never looked down on him. Hong Qingyi is trying to bring us together. Hahaha..." Hong Yuxin was furious when he heard this. He hadn't expected that his wife, with whom he had slept in the same bed with for more than twenty years, had already become a vicious woman with a twisted heart. "Come here, I will punish you according to the family rules!" He shouted angrily. (End of this chapter)