Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 1161 - 1139: Secrets (Part 2)

Maybe it’s because the shared grave of that family of three was a bit shocking, disrupting Qiao Yongyong’s emotions; several times she nearly stepped wrong while walking.

Nie Yixiao’s hand slid down, reversing to hold her small hand, his voice displeased: "Walking like this on the mountain, are you trying to fall to your death?"

She stuck out her tongue, although he was scolding her this time, it sounded pleasant, and his grip seemed much warmer this time.

After descending the mountain, the guard opened the car door, and Nie Yixiao let Qiao Yongyong get in first.

They waited for a while, then Ning Xiaochuan came down.

He approached, looked at his father, and said in a low voice, "Why let Yongyong pay homage to the Qin family?"

Something flickered in Ning Xiaochuan’s eyes, and he calmly replied, "Qin Li was your father’s lifesaver, a life-and-death friendship from his youth, and also your and Yongyong’s elder. Since you and Yongyong are here, it’s only normal to pay homage."

"But you specifically let Yongyong bow her head." His exceptional intuition couldn’t ignore Ning Xiaochuan’s oddity today.

"Yongyong is the new daughter-in-law of the Ning Family, a junior bowing to an elder, is that strange?" Ning Xiaochuan walked to the car, bent down, and got in.

Nie Yixiao gazed at Ning Xiaochuan’s back, the suspicion in his deep eyes growing deeper, as an astonishing conjecture flashed through his mind, he looked at the petite silhouette in the back of the car.

His handsome features tensed, he turned his back, and dialed Gong Sen’s number: "Help me investigate someone."

Immediately, Gong Sen’s teasing voice came: "Go ahead, who? I’m Beijing’s go-to guy! Flying in the sky, walking on the ground, there’s nothing I can’t find!"

He pondered for a moment: "Qin Xiaopei, female, from Beijing, was seventeen when she died, the only daughter of Five-Star General Qin Li. Her father worked in the Southeast Asia region on anti-drug missions and was posthumously awarded as a first-class honor martyr after sacrificing in an undercover mission. I want to know if she had a boyfriend during her lifetime, or if she had intimate contact with any man, most importantly, if she had a child."

"Huh... investigating a dead person??"

"What’s wrong, can’t handle it?"

"Hmph, of course not!"

"Then that’s settled." Nie Yixiao hung up the phone.

"Brother Yixiao, get in the car." Qiao Yongyong leaned on the car window, playfully waving her hand.

He composed his expression and walked into the car with large strides.

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After the tomb-sweeping, the Ning Family returned to its usual atmosphere.

Qiao Yongyong felt that ever since returning from Shuangding Mountain, Brother Yixiao’s attitude toward her seemed to have changed imperceptibly.

That day down the mountain, he even took the initiative to hold her hand, and his usual speech wasn’t so cold; he would come home early every night now.

A few days later, in the evening.

Nie Yixiao was driving on the way back to the Ning Family, his phone rang.

He swiped open his phone.

Gong Sen’s efficiency was indeed impressive, having thoroughly investigated Qin Xiaopei’s information.

The screen displayed a scanned old photo, showing Qin Xiaopei during her lifetime, probably about fifteen or sixteen years old.

The girl’s eyebrows, mouth, nose, demeanor, and that faintly smiling expression struck an unparalleled shock in him, and he took a deep breath.

The photo of Qin Xiaopei bore an eight to nine-tenths resemblance to Qiao Yongyong.

From certain angles, they seemed carved from the same mold.

Even without a DNA test, it was clear that Qin Xiaopei and Qiao Yongyong had a blood relationship.

His suspicions turned into reality. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

It seemed some secret was gradually coming to light...

All this time, he wondered why Ning Xiaochuan would accept Yongyong.

Until the day they visited the cemetery on Shuangding Mountain, he felt he had found the answer.

He suspected Yongyong had some connection to the Qin Family.

The couple Qin Li had only one daughter, Qin Xiaopei, with no other children.

Could it be that Qin Xiaopei and Yongyong were...

Now seeing the photo of Qin Xiaopei resembling Yongyong, he could almost be sure.

...

If this were true, it would fully explain why Ning Xiaochuan favored Yongyong so much, preferring to break off the engagement with the Gan Family, wanting Yongyong to be the Ning Family’s daughter-in-law...

Besides the photo, Gong Sen had unearthed some other information, although from a long time ago, some traces could still be found:

Qin Xiaopei was a high school student in Beijing, never dated, had no boyfriend, not even close male friends.

Until her disappearance, Qin Xiaopei’s romantic life was blank, making it impossible for her to have had intimate contact with any man.

At seventeen, her father Qin Li’s cover was blown during an anti-drug operation in Southeast Asia, and he was privately executed by the drug cartel.

Then, both Qin Xiaopei and her mother Yue Fen disappeared, never to be seen again, rumored to have been revengefully thrown into the sea by the drug cartel, leaving no remains, not even finding the bodies.

Nie Yixiao stopped the car by the roadside and began to ponder.

After the disappearance of Qin Xiaopei and her mother, their bodies were never found, which means they might not have died back then.

Suppose that the drug cartel captured Qin Xiaopei and didn’t kill her but held her captive as a way to torment the undercover agent’s daughter.

During the years of captivity, Qin Xiaopei gave birth to a child.

And that child was very likely...

His brows furrowed, temporarily pushing down the matter, he mused for a while, started the engine, and continued driving forward.

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Ning Family.

"Young master is back." The servants called out in unison.

After getting out of the car, Nie Yixiao tossed the car keys to a servant, carrying his thoughts upstairs.

Second-floor bedroom.

Qiao Yongyong had been waiting at the bedroom door for a long time, and as soon as she saw Brother Yixiao return, she rushed over, stumbling into the man’s arms.

He gathered his thoughts from the road, both annoyed and amused, as he grabbed this little girl who immediately got restless upon seeing him: "Can’t you behave yourself?"

Excitedly, she pulled out her report card: "Look, the report card is out."

He picked up the report card and glanced over it—all passed, not a single subject failed, and the grades were quite good, several subjects even earned A’s.

"So, what do you think? Shouldn’t you fulfill your bet now!"

He raised an eyebrow: "Didn’t cheat, did you? Or bribe the teachers?"

This girl, unexpectedly, her grades weren’t bad; he thought she only knew how to have fun.

Qiao Yongyong huffed: "Come on, just because you have a 300 IQ doesn’t make you the only genius here. If I put my mind to it, I’m not bad either, okay~"

He lowered his gaze, watching the jumpy girl in front of him with inexplicable amusement, then reached up and gently poked her tender nose, put down the report card, and headed towards the study.

Qiao Yongyong was stunned, the warmth of his slightly rough index finger still lingering on her nose, was he... poking her nose?

Such an intimate gesture, did he really do that to her?

Was she dreaming?

She gave her forehead a hard knock, ensuring it wasn’t a dream.

"Why are you hitting yourself, doesn’t it hurt?" He turned around, his perfect profile still cool, but his tone carried a hint of warmth.