Chapter 1169: Shen Qin’s Past

Editor: Henyee Translations

Shen Qin had long felt that the fire at home and her parents’ car accident were suspiciously timed.

During the period when these incidents happened, the Xu family from Liyi Company often approached her parents, trying to buy out their children’s clothing brand. As she grew older, she followed news about the fashion industry and learned that after her parents’ deaths, Liyi eventually acquired the brand.

So, when President Xu offered to adopt her, she agreed. She wanted to uncover the truth behind her parents’ deaths.

Even though Yangyang had warned her that President Xu had a dark side and might have twisted interests, Shen Qin felt it was her only chance. She couldn’t let the opportunity slip away.

She kept it from her brother, Gu Yang, and the others to avoid worrying them or distracting them from their competition.

But once she entered the Xu family, she uncovered the horrifying truth: the person responsible for her parents’ deaths was none other than President Xu, her so-called adoptive father.

And President Xu… was a monstrous man. His ex-wife had divorced him because she could no longer tolerate his depraved behavior.

It was also because President Xu had begun to target her that she felt an urgent need to gather evidence to sue him and seek justice. To take her revenge, she specifically sought out deadly brown-scaled ring-handled mushrooms, mixing them with similar-looking fungi to create a toxic soup for dinner.

In a calculated move to clear her name, she drank a small amount of the mushroom soup herself.

Ultimately, the poison took effect, and she was rushed to the hospital for gastric lavage.

President Xu, however, consumed a significant portion of the deadly brown-scaled ring-handled mushrooms, suffering acute liver damage. Because he didn’t receive timely treatment, the poison overwhelmed him, leading to his death.

Thanks to her smaller intake and prompt medical care, she survived.

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As President Xu was infertile and had no biological children, she, as his adopted daughter, inherited everything he had, including his wealth.

After his death, she anonymously donated his entire inheritance to Cloud Rising Orphanage and various other orphanages in Brisk City before leaving the Xu family.

Upon her return to Cloud Rising Orphanage, she discovered that everything had changed. The orphanage had been attacked by criminals, Yangyang had been framed and disappeared, Team Blue Whale was disbanded, and Gu Jin and Feng Jue were nowhere to be found–only her brother remained at the orphanage.

Later, President Xu’s mother, feeling that Shen Qin had caused her son’s death through the mushroom soup, sent people to capture her for revenge.

To protect Director Liang and the rest of the orphanage, she fled Liang City with her brother and sought refuge in the capital.

In order to escape the Xu family’s pursuit, she leveraged the reputation she gained from creating the divine perfumery known as Firework and joined the Luo family.

The Xu family was powerful in Liang City, but they were not worth mentioning in front of the Luo family, one of the Eight Great Clans in the capital.

The head of the Luo Family, Luo Wen, valued her very much as a top perfumer. He even asked his most talented daughter, Luo Peilan, to acknowledge her as his master and help her deal with the Xu Family.

Shen Ran also learned the real reason why she went to the Xu family. He knew that she had been hurt in the Xu family and blamed himself deeply.

Gu Yang, whom he considered his biological sister, had been killed, and her body was nowhere to be found. His only other sister, Shen Qin, was suffering abuse at the hands of scumbags seeking revenge.

As her brother, he felt powerless. Even when they were enduring pain and struggling, he couldn’t arrive in time to help them.

He felt utterly useless, unable to protect the person he cared about most, and he questioned whether he deserved to live in this world.

Crushed by these twin blows, Shen Ran descended into severe depression.