Rong Yin stood outside the Nanjiao Women's Prison, holding the retrial application tightly in her hand.
That was where her mother Rong Wanqing served her three-year sentence.
And this time she came not to miss her.
She came to find a forgotten and hidden secret.
**
She found out from the old files:
Rong Wanqing had an abnormal "medical record" during her sentence,
which lasted for half a year, and required routine "physical examinations" every month,
and the medical team came and went frequently, but the prison records showed "no major cause of illness".
Even more bizarre was that-
One month before her sentence was completed, she was suddenly transferred from the original prison area to a "special isolation cell" with no contact.
The more Rong Yin checked, the more frightened she became.
She took out the yellowed diary left by her mother, and near the back cover, there was a line of words written:
"Yinyin, I am not the only one who has paid the price for your father."
She stood up suddenly, rushed out of the archives room, and made a phone call:
"Help me check whether there are any prenatal examination records during my mother's imprisonment!"
"Also, whether there were any babies secretly transferred out during that period!"
The other party was silent for a few seconds, and then lowered his voice:
"... Your mother was three months pregnant when she was imprisoned."
**
Rong Yin was stunned.
So she had a younger brother? Or a younger sister?
Where did this child go?
She didn't remember anyone mentioning it.
What's more terrifying is that Rong Wanqing never mentioned this child anywhere.
Why?
Is it pain? Is it impossible to admit it?
Or... this child was not allowed to exist at all?
**
At the same time.
Lin Zhiyuan received an anonymous email with a complete copy of the "prenatal examination file".
He flipped through a few pages and sneered:
"It turns out that she has such a layer of 'identity thunder'."
He called Chi Yaomin: "I have a new bargaining chip. Now, I can make her leave Chi Yuchuan completely."
Chi Yaomin was silent for a long time before saying:
"Do it."
**
Rongyin's investigation speed was getting faster and faster.
She finally found an old man who had worked as a nurse in a women's prison for a short period of time.
The old man said tremblingly:
"At that time, we all thought she had a stillbirth because the child was taken away immediately without leaving any records."
"She cried every day, sewing sweaters while talking to herself, saying 'I can't forget, I can't forget'."
"One day she fainted, and when she woke up, she pretended that she didn't remember anything."
"I heard her mutter a sentence - 'The Lin family can't know that he is still alive.'"
Rongyin's brain was buzzing.
Lin family?
Is it Lin Zhiyuan's Lin family?
Her mother kept silent to protect the child?
She gritted her teeth and took a bunch of rusty keys from the old man -
That was the key to the iron cabinet that Rong Wanqing used in prison.
**
She opened the iron cabinet where old things were stored and found a handwritten fairy tale book, two roughly sewn woolen dolls, and an unsent letter.
The envelope read:
"For my Xiaodong."
Rong Yin sat in the empty storage room, tears falling instantly.
"Xiaodong?"
Is that her brother's name?
She gently opened the letter:
"Mom is sorry... Mom can't protect you..."
"You have to grow up well, even if no one tells you who I am."
"As long as you are still here, Mom is alive."
"You must remember your name - Lin Dong."
**
Rong Yin's mind exploded instantly.
Lin Dong?
She suddenly remembered that in a subsidiary that Chi Yuchuan had just taken over, there was a young technical backbone named "Lin Dong", whose information was so clean that even his university background seemed to have just been completed.
She immediately retrieved the information and saw at a glance:
This is not an ordinary clean background, but someone deliberately erased the past.
She rushed into Chi Yuchuan's office: "Help me check 'Lin Dong', now!"
Chi Yuchuan looked at her out-of-control expression and hugged her shoulders: "Calm down. What's going on?"
She stuffed the letter to him: "I may... have a younger brother."
"And now, he may be targeted by Lin Zhiyuan."
Chi Yuchuan's expression also became solemn: "You mean... Lin Zhiyuan knew it a long time ago?"
Rong Yin nodded, her voice hoarse:
"He deliberately lured me to investigate my mother's old case, just to make me find 'Lin Dong'."
"Then, he can use the identity of 'your mother secretly gave birth to the Lin family' to completely destroy me."
Chi Yuchuan said in a deep voice: "Then we will do the opposite now and snatch Lin Dong back from him."
"Let Lin Zhiyuan get nothing."
**
A few hours later.
Rong Yin and Chi Yuchuan rushed to Lin Dong's company.
The young programmer was sitting in the office, typing quietly.
He wore glasses, had soft features, and his eyebrows and eyes were three points similar to Rong Yin.
She paused.
Lin Dong looked up at her and was slightly startled: "You are...?"
Rong Yin's voice trembled: "I am Rong Yin."
"Your mother's name is Rong Wanqing."
He was stunned.
After half a minute, his lips moved:
"... I always dream about her."
"She said she would come to see me."