... She was Zhenxi's mother.
Not Fu Yuxin.
Not Chen Meili.
Lin Xue.
He had found it in the records.
Buried under seals and bribes.
Anran had traced the hospital visits. Exactly eight months after his disappearance, Lin Xue vanished from public view. Shut down Velvet Shadows. Transferred every asset to Chen Meili. Changed inheritance paperwork. Faked trails.
And then…
Killed the mayor.
The man who had once broken her life.
The man who kept her brothel untouched... because silence kept his own secrets safe.
With her own hands, she ended it.
She never planned to survive.
Only to disappear.
To leave her child clean.
To protect his legacy, even after his death.
She didn't care about prison.
To her, it was just the epilogue.
And now…
He stood before her, silent.
Zhenxi was his daughter.
Born from a moment he barely remembered.
When he was twelve, stupid, reckless, already drowning in blood.
She had realized it too late.
