shenqiyingyuan

Chapter 1413: Zheng Baobei

adventure, actions and ahem snu snu...

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When Song Yan woke up, she found the three ghosts sitting in the room. They were silently cultivating as they sat on the floor with crossed legs and closed eyes. Song Yan did not disturb them, instead she first got up from the bed and then went to take a bath.

It was just too hot these days! She couldn\'t help it.

Once she was done with her shower, Song Yan stepped out and smelled an unusual aroma that was not present earlier in the room. She sniffed the scent and walked over only to see a dish filled with crystal shrimp dumplings.

"Madam Gu sent a few dumplings to you just now," Fang Yanli answered as she stood up from the ground and floated next to Song Yan. "I wish I could eat them, they look really delicious."

Song Yan raised her hand and patted the little girl on her head.

"Soon. You will be able to eat these things very soon," Song Yan sighed as she could see that Fang Yanli\'s cultivation had gotten stronger with each passing day. Now the day when she would return to her life wasn\'t far.

When Song Yan thought about the time when she would have to say goodbye to Fang Yanli, she couldn\'t help but feel saddened.

But she did not show her feelings on her face as she was worried that Fang Yanli would think too much. She walked over to the chair where she sat down and then started eating the meal that was served to her.

She asked, "Did you find something useful?"

"Oh we did," Ni Ah floated next to Song Yan and then sat down next to her. She cupped her chin with her hands and sighed, "We went to the house where Zheng Baozhi grew up and then looked around for a while. We almost thought that we would find nothing but then fortunately we ran into a ghost lingering inside that house and we were able to find the truth."

"Ghost? There is a ghost inside the Zheng house?" Song Yan paused as she turned to look at Ni Ah who nodded.

"But don\'t worry. The ghost belongs to the old nanny of the house, she cannot move on after dying so she is haunting that manor. As no one lives there, she is not a danger to anyone," Little Ming chimed up from the side as if patching up the mistake that Ni Ah had made.

Song Yan nodded as she gulped the dumpling in her mouth. She then turned to look at the plate in front of her before picking another crystal dumpling, while munching on the dim sum, she asked, "What did you find, then?"

"What Zheng Baozhi told you is indeed the truth. There was indeed an illegitimate daughter living in the Zheng family," Fang Yanli relayed what she had learned to Song Yan. "However, the love and care that Zheng Baozhi spoke of was never present. Old Master Zheng was never present to care for his daughters and Madam Zheng hated Zheng Baobei, however as she was a socialite, she couldn\'t kill Zheng Baobei."

"Are you telling me that what Zheng Baozhi told me is the truth?" Song Yan questioned with a frown. The direction in which this story was leading seemed to be more or less similar to what Zheng Baozhi had told her.

Fang Yanli shook her head. She said, "That\'s where the twist comes in. The ghost told us that when Zheng Baozhi and Zheng Baobei were only six years old, Zheng Baobei\'s IQ surpassed many geniuses as she took the test with her sister."

"However, when the certificate came out the name on it belonged to Zheng Baozhi. Similarly, every award, record and everything that was set by Zheng Baobei was handed to Zheng Baozhi."

"The nanny told us that there was a time when Zheng Baozhi got drunk and pregnant, even her face was recorded in the video but the Zheng family pushed Zheng Baobei out to take the blame."

Fang Yanli frowned and continued, "From what the nanny told us, Zheng Baozhi did not return to the country for years and only recently came back. While it was Zheng Baobei who was married to Master Lai, however for some reason she never told the man that she was Zheng Baobei and not Zheng Baozhi."

"You mean to say that the Zheng family tormented and forced the illegitimate daughter to live as Zheng Baozhi for years and now what should have belonged to Zheng Baobei is given to the useless good for nothing?" Song Yan summed up the entire situation.

No wonder, earlier in the photos and videos she did not see an ounce of fortune on Zheng Baozhi\'s face. She was destined to use up all her wealth and die as a beggar but somehow that woman was living well, it was because of this!

What kidnapping and getting an unexpected windfall, those were all lies to fool the world and the celestial masters.

"That\'s right," Fang Yanli nodded, as she said, "I have no idea why Zheng Baobei agreed to live as Zheng Baozhi. However from what I found out that Zheng Baozhi is indeed not a good woman. She lived and had a lot of fun abroad, and now that she is back, she naturally snatched everything that Zheng Baobei earned under her name. As for what happened to Zheng Baobei

No sooner did she finish speaking, a wail erupted in the room startling the three ghosts. Song Yan sighed as she waved her hand and summoned the ghost of Zheng Baobei, at least she guessed it was Zheng Baobei.

"Who is she?" Fang Yanli asked as she looked at Zheng Baobei whose face was covered with slash marks which made it impossible for her to recognize who this woman was.

"I guess she is Zheng Baobei," Song Yan now understood why this woman was so obsessed with her husband. From what Yuan Heng told her, it was Zheng Baobei and Master Lai who grew up together and got married, Zheng Baozhi clearly had no relation to Master Lai but that woman blinded by her jealousy came back and killed Zheng Baobei to get Master Lai.

She also stole the awards and the name that should have belonged to Zheng Baobei.

When Fang Yanli heard Song Yan\'s response her eyes widened as she turned to look at the woman whose face was bleeding along with her eyes that had been stabbed as well.

"Y...Yes, I am Zheng Baobei," Zheng Baobei who finally remembered who she was, answered with a sobbing voice. "I am the unfortunate Zheng Baobei."

As she finished speaking she covered her face and started crying tears of blood again. Song Yan let her cry for a while before asking, "Can you clear everything? There are some things that I don\'t understand, like why did you let the Zheng family exploit you and how did you die."

Zheng Baobei\'s ghost sobbed and cried for a while, it took her a few minutes to calm down as she replied to Song Yan, "I was born as an illegitimate daughter by a maid. My father did not care for me and left the responsibility of taking care of us mother and daughter to Madam

Zheng."

"He did it to appease his wife who hailed from a better background," Zheng Baobei\'s lips curled up in a disdainful smile. "It was that bastard who made the mistake but it was my mother who paid for it. Madam Zheng tormented my mother until she was sent to the mental asylum. Because Madam Zheng had a decent background this matter was swept under the rug, that bastard also helped her in doing so."

"After that, she turned her attention to me. Just like my mother she wanted to squash me like a bug but soon then she found out that I was better than her daughter in everything," Zheng Baobei said with a saddening laugh. "She hated me but she also found my existence useful as I and Zheng Baozhi looked more or less the same, she turned me into her shadow." "My existence was more or less erased in the Zheng family and only the eldest daughter Zheng Baozhi remained. Madam Zheng did not allow me to leave the house unless Zheng Baozhi had some exam or competition to participate in... and as soon as I was done with the performance, I was stuffed back in the dark while Zheng Baozhi was pushed to take the awards

and winning rewards."

Zheng Baobei covered her face as she cried, "I did not want to do it but Madam Zheng threatened me with my mother. She warned me that if I did not listen to her then it would be

the death sentence of my mother." She dropped her hands down as blood tears fell from her eyes. "No matter what the mistakes my mother had committed in her foolishness, she was my mother and she treated me well."

"So how could I let her die!"