Chapter 63: She’s Right in Front of You
They were eating watermelon!
The watermelons had come from the supply crate. There were seven or eight of them, huge, seedless, and releasing a sweet fragrance the moment they were cut open.
They weren’t just eating—they were deliberately making loud noises too, smack smack smack…
Gu Hua and the others spent the entire afternoon swallowing their saliva.
“Qian Qian, why don’t we have a bonfire barbecue tonight? There’s so much fresh food right here.” Chi Fengxiao suggested.
“I’ll find the seasonings!” Shen Jiashu raised his hand immediately.
Shen Jing said, “Then I’ll make some bamboo skewers—we’ve got plenty of bamboo.”
Luo Zichuan adjusted his glasses. “I’ll prepare grape sugar water to help with digestion. There are a lot of wild grapes in the forest.”
Chi Qian slurped up an entire slice of watermelon in one go and nodded. “Then I’ll be responsible for eating everything clean.”
Chi Fengxiao grabbed her head. “Lazy again! If you don’t work, you don’t eat!”
Luo Zichuan instinctively wanted to stop him, then thought better of it and sat back down, falling into deep thought.
After struggling for a long time, he asked Chi Qian, “How did you make the arrow explode when it hit someone?”
He had thought about it countless times, but still couldn’t figure it out.
Chi Qian casually picked up a piece of watermelon. “The first arrow carried fire. The second had potassium nitrate tied to the tip.”
“But where did you even get potassium nitrate?”
“Bat droppings, of course.”
Luo Zichuan suddenly understood. “Right, bat guano contains a lot of potassium nitrate… There must be plenty of bats in the forest caves.”
So, when they were digging pits, she had actually gone to look for bat droppings.
She really… calculated every step.
Meanwhile, Tang Xin hadn’t joined them in eating watermelon. She had gone to help Wen Li. “Mom, let me help you. You should rest a little.”
“No need.” Wen Li’s expression returned to its usual calm. “Go on.”
Tang Xin stood there, unmoving. “Mom, thank you for what you did just now…”
“No need.” Wen Li cut her off. “I’ve thought about it. After all, you’re only my adopted daughter. Calling me ‘Mom’ isn’t really appropriate. Once the recording is over, you should go back to calling me Auntie.”
“When the time comes, I’ll send you back to your grandmother’s home.”
Now that she knew her real daughter was still alive, she could no longer tolerate anyone else calling her “Mom.”
That would be unfair to her daughter.
Tang Xin clenched her fists tightly, forcing a smile. “Alright, Mo—Auntie. I’ll listen to you.”
It was just going back to where she had been in the beginning. She could do it.
It didn’t matter.
Her nose stung as she returned to Chi Qian’s side and whispered, “Qian Qian, can I ask you something?”
Chi Qian bit on a lollipop. “Let me guess, Movie Queen Wen asked you to find out where her daughter is?”
“How did you know?” Tang Xin’s eyes widened.
“Mm-hm.”
“Then… can you tell me?”
“What can you trade me for it?” Chi Qian’s gaze locked straight onto the watermelon in Tang Xin’s hand.
She had already eaten five pieces earlier. Her uncle warned her that if she kept eating, her stomach would bloat and forbade her from having more.
Tang Xin immediately handed the watermelon over. “Here, Qian Qian, eat.”
“Good.” Chi Qian happily took it. “Go bring Wen Li here, I’ll tell her.”
Tang Xin hurried to fetch Wen Li.
Wen Li came, looking a little awkward, with none of her earlier arrogance left. “Miss Chi, that child is very important to me. I only want to know where she is and if she’s doing well. Please, I beg you.”
“To be honest, I don’t like you, and I wasn’t planning to tell you.” Chi Qian said, “But since Xin Xin went out of her way to ask me, I can make an exception.”
A flicker of surprise passed through Wen Li’s eyes—Tang Xin actually…
“Movie Queen Wen, I’ll give you two choices.”
“What?”
“Between Tang Xin and your biological daughter—you can only choose one. Who will you pick?”
Wen Li only hesitated for two seconds. “I choose my biological daughter.”
“Oh? And your reason?”
“Because Tang Xin…” Wen Li carefully chose her words. “I’ve always known she was a child my husband had from an affair. I even checked their DNA—it matches.”
[I’m choking on this melon—so all these years, Movie Queen Wen has been raising her husband’s mistress’s kid?!]
[What ‘model husband’? He completely fooled poor Li Li!]
[No wonder Movie Queen Wen always hated Tang Xin. It makes sense now.]
Wen Li continued, “Last time you told me my husband’s mistress was my best friend. I figured Tang Xin must be her daughter. I can’t tolerate lies. Once we leave here, I’ll terminate the adoption and send Tang Xin back to her real family.”
Having said this, Wen Li felt a weight lift off her shoulders.
Tang Xin was already in tears, clinging tightly to Chi Qian as if trying to draw strength.
Chi Qian held her hand and smiled. “In that case, I’ll tell you.”
“Your biological daughter has always been right by your side.”
Wen Li urgently asked, “Where? Who is she? Is it… is it Yan Ran, my friend’s daughter? But the age doesn’t match…”
Chi Qian said lightly, “She’s right in front of you.”
“Wh… what?” Wen Li froze. Following Chi Qian’s gaze, she looked at Tang Xin beside her.
Impossible!
“You’re lying! How could it be Tang Xin…”
Chi Qian replied, “When you did the DNA test, you never tested you and Tang Xin, did you? Because you never imagined she could be your daughter. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have let your real daughter act as someone else’s blood donor. By the way, your best friend and your husband have always known the truth.”
Her final words landed like a bomb, exploding in Wen Li’s mind.
Tang Xin—the girl she had always thought was an illegitimate child…
Turned out to be her biological daughter!
Impossible. Absolutely impossible!
[!!! No way—they’re really biological mother and daughter?!]
[So how did Tang Xin get mistaken for an adopted daughter? There’s definitely a huge conspiracy here.]
[Most likely that scumbag husband of Best Actress Wen is behind this!]
[And the mistress even wants Xinxin to be a blood bag for her daughter? The audacity!]
Wen Li’s faith crumbled. Seeing Tang Xin’s dazed and bewildered expression, tears welled in her eyes.
“Xinxin, I…”
But Tang Xin instinctively hid behind Chi Qian, avoiding Wen Li’s touch.
Wen Li’s expression collapsed in an instant.
Chi Qian smiled sweetly at her. “Oh dear, what a shame. You just personally pushed your own daughter away.”
“You did this on purpose!” Wen Li’s voice was hoarse. “You knew Xinxin was my daughter all along, and yet you deliberately forced me to make a choice that would tear us apart!”
“Tear you apart?” Chi Qian gave a cold laugh. “Forgive me for being blunt, but was there ever any ‘mother-daughter bond’ between you two? Weren’t you already planning to kick her out of the house?”
“I—I wasn’t…”
“The one who truly abandoned her was you, Actress Wen,” Chi Qian struck mercilessly. “All these years—if you had really looked carefully at her, you wouldn’t have mistaken her for your husband’s illegitimate child.”
“She looks so much like you.”
