Ding Qingyao looked at Mo Wenjie with a face full of disbelief. How could you possibly have this jade pendant? Where did you find it, please tell me where its owner is?
Mo Wenjie looked at the nearly crazy Ding Qingyao and said, "This jade pendant has been on me since I was a child. When did it become that I found it?"
Ding Qingyao looked at Mo Wenjie and asked, "Are you sure it has been on you since you were a child, and you're not lying to me?"
Mo Wenjie said, "Why would I lie to you?"
Ding Qingyao excitedly grabbed Mo Wenjie and said, "Come with me to a place."
Mo Wenjie was rendered speechless by her actions. Where do you want me to go with you?
Ding Qingyao said: "Let's uncover your origins!"
Mo Wenjie heard this and was speechless.
Ding Qingyao prompted: "Are you my husband, and you will know when we get there."
Mo Wenjie asked, "Where exactly are you taking me?"
Ding Qingyao also became anxious. "You big man, why are you hesitating? We'll know when we get there."
Mo Wenjie and Qin Lingyue followed Ding Qingyao to a large estate, where the banner above the gate boldly displayed four characters: "Mo Estate".
The gatekeeper saw Ding Qingyao and hurriedly bowed, saying, "Miss Qingyao, hello. We will inform the elder madam immediately."
Ding Qingyao said, "I'll go myself to find the old lady. There's no need for you to report."
She brought Mo Wenjie and Qin Lingyue to the center of the estate.
Mo Wenjie and Qin Lingyue couldn't help but marvel. Such a grand estate, with rows of imposing and magnificent houses, a variety of flowers and trees in all shapes and forms, the fragrance of flowers permeating the air and refreshing the soul.
Mo Wenjie muttered to himself, "Is this the Mo family that's related to my identity? If I am really a member of the Mo family, I don't know whether to be happy or angry. Such a large family has abandoned me. This kind of family is not worth remembering if they truly abandoned me without any reason."
Qin Lingyue looked at Mo Wenjie. "Could he really be the descendant of this Mo Estate? If he truly is a member of the Mo family, then his identity is simply terrifying."
Ding Qingyao led them to the main hall of the main palace.
In the center of the hall stood an eight-feet-long table. On either side of the table, there were two large armchairs, each occupied by a man and a woman. Their ages were around fifty-something. There were ten chairs on both sides of the hall, all filled with people of various ages.
Ding Qingyao bowed and said, "Greetings to Uncle and Aunt!"
The crowd saw Mo Wenjie's expression change dramatically. The woman seated in the highest position, even more so, stood up excitedly.
Mo Wenjie was also puzzled, as he felt a sense of familiarity and intimacy with this middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged man also stood up, "Who are Qingyao and them?"
Ding Qingyao said, "Uncle, Aunt, he is Mo Wenjie. He is the husband of Qin Lingyue, a disciple of my Jade Maiden Gate."
The middle-aged couple was shocked to the point of no return upon hearing this. "What is his name?"
Ding Qingyao said: "Mo Wenjie!"
The middle-aged woman burst into tears immediately, sobbing, "My son, you've made your mother search so tirelessly."
The middle-aged woman finished speaking and rushed towards Mo Wenjie, but was held back by the middle-aged man. He gently said, "Wait a moment and ask for clarification. There are so many imposters in these past twenty years. You yourself have cried so many times, can you forget that?"
The people below chimed in: "Yes, mistress. That year, not many came to claim their kinship. However, it was later that more and more imposters made their way in, making the mistress even sadder. These scammers have become more and more sophisticated over the years, even resorting to plastic surgery to resemble the family patriarch. To gain the identity of the young master of the Mo family, they have gone to great lengths!"
Ding Qingyao said, "Uncle, Aunt, he has the family's legacy jade pendant of the Mo family."
Mo Weifeng quickly said, "Please show me your jade pendant."
Mo Wenjie took off the jade pendant and handed it to Mo Weifeng.
Mo Weifeng and Yao Wanning carefully examined the jade pendant.
The two people burst into tears at that moment. "Our son Mo Wenjie, we have searched for you so hard!"
Yao Wanning rushed towards Mo Wenjie, hugging him and said, "My son, let your mother have a good look at you. These years, I've been crying so much whenever I think of you. The tears have just flowed down my cheeks unconsciously."
Mo Weiqiang said, "Brother, sister-in-law, we should thoroughly investigate this child's background. We cannot acknowledge kinship hastily. What if..."
Mo Weifeng interrupted him, "This is definitely my son Wenjie. As for the imposters who came before, they had our Mo family jade pendant to prove their lineage, but I could tell they were false because of how accurate they could imitate our family's features and even name themselves after Wenjie. However, we only mentioned his childhood nickname as 'Zhen Tian' in hopes of finding him, and it was common knowledge that he was named Mo Wenjie. This jade pendant cannot be forged."
Mo Weiming asked, "Uncle Mo Weifeng and Aunt Yao Wanning, why are you so certain that the jade pendant is not fake?"
Mo Weifeng said, "Because when we were being pursued, we feared that carrying Zhen Tian would lead to accidental injuries. Therefore, we placed him in a room and marked his clothing with his childhood nickname. I also used my inner force to remove half of the dragon eye on the jade pendant, and this secret was known only to my wife and me. No one else knew about it. That's why all imposters who came with our family jade pendant were exposed by me. The injury resulted from my effort, and I am very familiar with it. Wenjie is indeed my lost son of twenty years, and there's no way he could be a fake."
The crowd exclaimed, "Congratulations to the family head for finding his lost young master after twenty years."
Mo Wenjie said, "Wait a minute, have I agreed to acknowledge you guys?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Mo Wenjie in disbelief, their faces full of shock. How many people had risked death to become the young master of the Mo family, yet here he was, unwilling to accept the position. If others found out, they would surely beat him to death, and that would be a light punishment.
Yao Wanning looked at Mo Wenjie with a beseeching gaze. "Son, if there's anything you need to say, you can tell us. You can't not recognize your mother!"
Mo Wenjie said, "It was you who abandoned me twenty years ago. When I was a child, I missed you very much, and every time I met you in my dreams, I woke up to find it all gone. With the passage of time, my longing for you faded away, and so did my hatred towards you. As I grew up, I no longer harbored any resentment towards you. All I wish for is that no matter where you are, as long as you are well taken care of, I will have no more desire to find you."
Yao Wanning's tears soaked her clothes. "Dear son, it was not that we wanted to abandon you. It was because we were pursued by our enemies at the time and didn't want you to be mistakenly injured that we placed you in a room. After that, we searched for you, and we have continued to search for you until now."
Mo Wenjie said, "Don't call me Tian Er. My name is Mo Wenjie. When my teacher found me, he waited for a day in that place, but no one came to find me. It was only after that that my teacher brought me up the mountain and adopted me."
Mo Weifeng felt guilty and said, "It was indeed our fault. When we placed you there, we intended to kill the enemies and then return to find you. Little did we know that their allies were so numerous, and they fought for an entire day and night. Although we managed to kill all our enemies, we sustained heavy injuries, lost a lot of blood, and fell into unconsciousness. By the time our family members found us and took us back to the family to revive us, three days and three nights had already passed."
We and your mother searched for you frantically, covering every inch within a hundred miles around that house for an entire three months, but we came back without any success. We all thought you were killed by wild beasts. Your mother fainted from grief so many times that her tears soaked the pillow, and her eyes were dry with crying. She blamed herself endlessly, washed her face with tears countless times; how could you treat her like this?
Yao Wanning couldn't stop crying and said, "Weifeng, don't blame Wenjie. It's our fault. We shouldn't have abandoned him. Even if our whole family had to die together, we shouldn't have abandoned him."
Ding Qingyao looked at Mo Wenjie and asked, "Can't you forgive them? They also feared you might be injured at the time. Accidents happen, and it's not impossible for someone to be hurt by a sword. On the contrary, if Uncle and Aunt hadn't left you behind to fight against the enemies with your worries about you, they wouldn't have even known if they could kill the enemies or not. How can you blame Aunt?"
Qin Lingyue also said, "Mo Wenjie, where does anyone have parents who don't love their children? Uncle and Aunt were considering your safety. They were not wrong. If we were being hunted and had a child, we would do the same thing."
Yao Wanning listened and looked at Qin Lingyue, "Miss, what is your relationship with Mo Wenjie?"
Qin Lingyue replied, "Aunt, I am Wenjie's partner in cultivation!"
Ding Qingyao said, "Aunt, Qin Shimei is from the secular world. Last time during the Youth Talent Competition, Mo Wenjie brought Qin Shimei along. Later, they went to the Jade Maiden Gate, where Qin Shimei has an extraordinary talent and was taken as a personal apprentice by the elder patriarch of the Jade Maiden Gate."
Yao Wanning turned from sadness to joy, holding Qin Lingyue's hand and said, "I never expected that I already have a daughter-in-law. It's so exciting! Qingyao, won't you be unhappy because of this?"
Ding Qingyao glanced at Mo Wenjie and said, "How could I dare to be unhappy? I have heard from Qin Shimei that he has many women in the secular world. Moreover, the disciples of our Jade Maiden Gate are willing to be his partner in cultivation innumerable times. I dare not be unhappy, just afraid that if he is upset, he might break off the engagement."
Yao Wanning smiled and said, "Wenjie wouldn't do that, after all, you two were engaged since childhood. You are his lawful wife. Besides, Wenjie isn't as popular with girls as you say he is!"
Ding Qingyao glanced at Mo Wenjie disapprovingly and said, "Aunt, you don't know that he was discovered to have a zilingshen root by the Jade Maiden Gate. Even our patriarch was startled."
The people in the great hall looked at Mo Wenjie in disbelief upon hearing this, their faces filled with astonishment. A purple spiritual root is the kind that leads to becoming an emperor or a saint. Could Mo family rise to prominence from here on out?
Upon hearing this, Yao Wanning was even more shocked to the point of being unable to process it. "Mo Wenjie, tell me, is what Qingyao just said true?"
Mo Wenjie looked at Yao Wanning and felt uneasy in his heart. Although he felt a close connection with Yao Wanning, the sudden acceptance was making him feel a bit overwhelmed. He nodded and said, "Miss Ding is correct. I am indeed a zilingshen root, but it seems unrelated to you."
Mo Weifeng said, "How can you speak to your mother-in-law like this, my child? It was our mistake to have abandoned you. However, there was a reason behind it. We did not want to leave you but it was unavoidable. We have already explained the situation from twenty years ago and your mother went almost mad in her search for you. In the twenty years without you, she shed countless tears and cried many times. How much pain and guilt do you think she feels? You still refuse to forgive us."
Yao Wanning quickly stopped Mo Weifeng, "Don't scold Wenjie, please. Over the past twenty years, he has also lived in the pain of longing. Have you thought about Wenjie's helplessness and frustration? The reason for causing such a situation for the child is on our part. You cannot blame Wenjie. It's reasonable for him not to be able to accept this all at once. Give him some time, and he will eventually come to terms with us."
Upon hearing this, Mo Wenjie couldn't hold back the emotions that had been accumulating inside him for so long. He choked and said, "Mom!"
