Just then, Xingxing came in.
“Mom, you’re awake,” Xingxing nestled beside her and asked.
Gu Jianing patted his head. “Yes, Mom’s awake. Is your dad in the kitchen?”
“Yep, Dad’s making breakfast.”
“Go tell your dad to come here. Say Mom has something very important to talk to him about.”
“Okay.”
Soon, Xingxing ran out.
Not long after, Sheng Zexi, wearing an apron, lifted the curtain and entered.
“Ningning, Xingxing said you’re awake and wanted to see me?” Sheng Zexi came in carrying a washbasin and a towel.
He wet the towel in the basin, wrung it out, and handed it to Gu Jianing as he spoke.
Gu Jianing took the towel and wiped her face.
Then she said, “Yes. The future newspaper has appeared again.”
“Fu—” Sheng Zexi’s words abruptly cut off as he looked up at Gu Jianing in surprise. “The future newspaper? The one that appeared twice before, the one you showed me?”
Gu Jianing nodded.
Sheng Zexi pressed his lips together.
He remembered the previous two future newspapers—both had written about extremely significant events.
This time, it was probably no different.
“Is it about a natural disaster or man-made calamity this time?” Sheng Zexi asked.
“Man-made. And it’s related to the Lin family!” Gu Jianing replied.
Then she handed the newspaper to Sheng Zexi.
Sheng Zexi took it and began reading.
His expression shifted several times before settling into deep solemnity.
“I never expected the Lin family to be hiding so deeply!”
This future newspaper detailed the Lin family’s arrest five years later.
Yes, the entire Lin family—not just Lin Chushi or Lin’s father alone.
Because the article revealed that starting from Lin’s father’s generation… the entire Lin family were actually R-country nationals!
That’s right—the Lin family were all from R-country.
Lin’s father had known about R Country’s hidden supplies all along.
But he had never exposed it.
All for the sake of using it at a critical moment in the future.
“They planned to use it later but never expected you’d discover it,” Gu Jianing said.
Once discovered, it was reported.
This completely ruined their plans.
It was also the reason why those R-country agents targeted Xingxing and Yueyue.
They claimed Sheng Zexi had taken something from them.
And the one who informed them of this was Lin’s father.
Those people were, in truth, being directed by Lin’s father.
It was also Lin’s father who had been shielding them, allowing them to hide and operate freely on Huansha Island.
“…This time, they’re pinning the blame on Zhang Qiumei.”
Zhang Qiumei did want Xingxing and Yueyue dead.
This aligned perfectly with the R-country agents’ goals.
So, rather than saying Zhang Qiumei sought out Auntie Zhou and blackmailed her into acting,
the truth was, Auntie Zhou and those agents had deliberately set it up.
Their goal was to use Zhang Qiumei as a cover for the Lin family behind the scenes.
That way, even if they were caught after failing, they could claim it was all Zhang Qiumei’s doing.
Indeed, after their arrest, that was exactly what they claimed.
“If it weren’t for this future newspaper, we truly would have been fooled by them,” Sheng Zexi said with a grave expression.
Neither Sheng Zexi, Commander Lu, Chen Han, nor anyone else had imagined that the true mastermind behind these people was Lin’s father.
And the entire Lin family—every last one of them—were R-country nationals!
Lin’s father was now in his sixties.
That meant he had been lurking in their country for at least half a century.
Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying.
“So, Lin Chushi actually had an older brother…” Gu Jianing pointed to a specific piece of information in the future newspaper for Sheng Zexi to see.
“Except this man was killed by his younger brother, Lin Chushi.”
This future newspaper was published five years later, after the entire Lin family had been arrested and interrogated.
Thus, it exposed all the crimes the Lin family had committed.
Among them was Lin Chushi murdering his own older brother.
Originally, only Lin’s father knew about the family’s R-country origins, and later, Lin Chushi found out.
No one else in the Lin family was aware.
Until one day, Lin Chushi’s older brother accidentally discovered the truth.
At the time, Lin Chuchen—Lin Chushi’s older brother—was already a promising military officer.
Having been raised with a strong sense of patriotism, Lin Chuchen despised R-country.
Yet he had accidentally stumbled upon the fact that he himself carried R-country blood.
Even worse, his father and younger brother were secretly plotting to serve R-country’s interests.
This was something Lin Chuchen could never accept.
After a painful internal struggle, he decided to report his own family to his superiors.
But his actions were discovered by his younger brother, Lin Chushi.
Though still young at the time, Lin Chushi understood the severity of the situation.
He knew that if this were exposed, death would be the only outcome awaiting him.
But Lin Chushi didn’t want to die.
He still wanted to replace his older brother as the Lin family’s heir and lead the family to greater glory.
So, almost without hesitation—after begging his brother to no avail—
on a night of violent typhoon weather, he lured Lin Chuchen to the seaside.
Then, catching him off guard, he drowned his own brother in the sea.
Lin Chuchen probably never dreamed in his worst nightmares that the younger brother he had doted on the most would be the one to kill him with his own hands.
Lin Chuchen had been drowned by his own brother, Lin Chushi, decades ago.
Afterward, Lin Chushi staged it as an accident.
Even Lin’s father believed it.
From then on, he focused all his efforts on grooming Lin Chushi.
This truth remained buried until five years later, when the entire Lin family was arrested and the story came to light.
“Now that the future newspaper has revealed the Lin family’s true nature, we can’t just stand by and do nothing,” Sheng Zexi declared firmly.
“Even though the newspaper shows that the Lin family will be arrested in five years, still…”
Gu Jianing continued his thought, “Five years is enough time for countless things to happen. And the future is unpredictable.”
Though the future newspaper presented one outcome, the future could still be changed.
Just like the previous two incidents—hadn’t they altered those as well?
“Exactly. But the Lin family has hidden themselves too well. How do we expose them?”
They needed evidence!
Otherwise, even an anonymous tip wouldn’t be of much use.
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