Her real mother would definitely love and care for her!
Her real mother would certainly approve of her marriage to Li Jingyan—in fact, she would adore him.
“Nuannuan, tell me: if Zhou Hua is my mother, why did my grandmother and Zhou Menglu, or the rest of the family for that matter, never tell me? If Zhou Menglu took on the responsibility of raising me despite only being my aunt, I would certainly be very grateful. Why would they lie to me?”
“There are a few possible reasons,” Nangong Nuannuan answered. “First, they might just see you as free labor. Just like now, when they’re using you as a bargaining chip, trying to get you to marry a rich old man in his forties so they can get more compensation for this house’s destruction. They want more houses and more benefits, which they can get from your marriage. Or maybe your mother left something like an inheritance behind that Zhou Menglu wanted. She inherited what your mother left behind but despises you and refuses to support you. Third, your real mother might have a secret. The family did not want her to live, so they killed her but not you, and decided to raise you out of guilt. But they’ve never treated you well all these years because you remind them of your mother and of all the hurt they caused her. They feel so guilty that they instinctively avoid thinking about it and hate anything associated with her.”
Sze Lingyun was a student at the Military Medical University and a qualified military doctor, so she had learned some basic military skills. Among these skills was understanding criminal psychology.
She felt like Nangong Nuannuan’s analysis was very reasonable.
Wu Pingting was completely shocked. She muttered, “Then… which of those do you think is Zhou Menglu’s real motive?”
“The third,” Sze Lingyun answered without hesitation. She continued, “Maybe there’s a little of the second reason mixed in there, but it’s likely mostly the third reason.”
“Why do you think it’s the third possibility?” Wu Pingting found it hard to wrap her head around the situation.
Wu Zongxu had hurt Wu Pingting because he was not from the Wu family. However, Zhou Hua was Zhou Menglu’s biological sister. Seeing that Zhou Menglu and Zhou Mengjing had a good relationship, she could not understand why Zhou Menglu would have wanted to kill Zhou Hua. Was it not true that blood was thicker than water? Even if there was some hatred between them, no one should be able to kill their own biological sister!
How much hatred did the Sze family possibly harbored to push them to the point of wanting to kill a blood member of their own family?
Sze Lingyun went up to Wu Pingting and said, “Before this, I never thought that I wasn’t Zhou Menglu’s child, so I never had any doubts. However, after I was in that car accident yesterday which almost killed me, and Zhou Menglu’s only response was to urge me to come home back for a blind date, I realized she didn’t care at all. That’s when my doubts began popping up. Now that I’ve confirmed that I’m not Zhou Menglu’s child, I can remove myself from the situation and view this matter from a clearer perspective. Do you notice any differences between my mother and Zhou Menglu and Zhou Mengjing?”
Wu Pingting’s eyes widened.
They were all smart women. Wu Pingting understood almost immediately.
“You and your mother are both the black sheep of the Zhou family! Your grandmother never accepted your mother as her daughter. She named her eldest daughter Zhou Menglu and her second daughter Zhou Mengjing, but she gave your mother the unfitting name Zhou Hua. You can see how much she dislikes her!”
