usatvline Chapter 194 The 7-year-old woman was at the perfect age to venture out (2)
Chapter 194 The 7-year-old woman was at the perfect age to venture out (2)
At this moment, Xiaobai's voice sounded in my mind: "Host, I will quickly transfer the original owner's memories to you now."
Canglan responded, "Okay, let's begin."
In an instant, a flood of memories came rushing in.
The original owner's name was Zhou Hanyi. Both of his parents were soldiers, but unfortunately, they both sacrificed their lives for their country during an extremely dangerous mission.
She was still young at the time. Fortunately, neither of her parents had many relatives. With the generous pension provided by the state, she worked hard from elementary school onwards and achieved excellent grades. She was admitted to the Department of Finance at Tsinghua and Peking Universities with the highest score in her grade.
After graduation, she seized opportunities with her extraordinary abilities and courage, and started Zhou's Company from scratch. In that era of booming real estate, she had a keen eye and quickly threw herself into the industry. After countless hardships and struggles, she finally gained a foothold in the business world and made a fortune.
Later, considering the continuation of her family business, she chose Qi Sheng as her husband from among a group of college students.
The reason is simple: Qi Sheng came from a poor family and was orphaned. He was quite handsome, which met Zhou Hanyi's requirements. So Qi Sheng married into the Zhou family.
Then, Zhou Hanyi became pregnant, but suffered a difficult childbirth, which greatly weakened her. She was unable to conceive again after that and only had one son, Zhou Qiming.
For the next few decades, she devoted herself to her work and paid little attention to her family, which led to her son Zhou Qiming becoming closer to Qi Sheng.
More than a decade later, Zhou Hanyi keenly sensed the future shift in the real estate industry and arranged for Zhou Qiming to marry Shen Yue, the daughter of the Shen family.
Shen Yue came from a scholarly family. Fortunately, Zhou Qiming and Shen Yue fell in love at first sight and soon became husband and wife. They had a son and a daughter. Their son, Zhou Yanli, was born first, followed by their daughter, Zhou Manyun, in their later years.
Zhou Hanyi originally thought that life would continue in this uneventful way until she turned seventy.
While tidying up old things at home, Zhou Hanyi accidentally discovered letters between Qi Sheng and another woman, namely his first love, Bai Zhilan.
She carefully examined each letter. At first, she saw only ambiguous love letters and felt nothing. But when she opened one of them, she was struck dumb.
She learned from the letter that Qi Sheng still chose to protect Bai Zhilan even after he learned that Bai Zhilan had switched his biological granddaughter.
The thought that Zhou Manyun was not her biological granddaughter at all, and that her biological granddaughter was suffering, made Zhou Hanyi feel dizzy and almost fall to the ground.
She suppressed her inner turmoil and pretended to be nonchalant, secretly ordering people to investigate the matter thoroughly.
As the investigation deepened, an even more startling truth gradually surfaced.
It turns out that after breaking up with Qi Sheng, Bai Zhilan, Qi Sheng's first love, was forced by her parents to marry a rural man. From then on, she not only had to endure her mother-in-law's constant harassment, but also had to take care of heavy housework from morning till night, leaving her physically and mentally exhausted. Her husband was an illiterate farmer who only knew how to have children.
When Bai Zhilan was about to give birth, she happened to meet Zhou Hanyi, who was also pregnant, at the hospital. Zhou Hanyi was surrounded by her loving husband, nanny, bodyguards and many other people.
She watched as Zhou Hanyi amassed wealth, became a powerful figure in the business world, and built a vast commercial empire.
In terms of family, her husband Qi Sheng was an adopted son-in-law, and their child took the mother's surname. He had absolute say in the family. This stark contrast deeply hurt Bai Zhilan's heart, and her jealousy and resentment grew wildly like weeds.
The thought that she could have married Qi Sheng, but because of Zhou Hanyi's appearance, Qi Sheng left her, causing her to fall into this endless suffering, made her secretly vow to take revenge.
Therefore, Bai Zhilan had the idea of switching the babies. After learning that Zhou Hanyi's baby was a boy, she became even more determined. However, an accident happened. Because it was Zhou Hanyi's first time giving birth, she was very cautious and chose to give birth abroad. She would only return to China after the baby was a month old. In addition, she had many followers with her, so there was no opportunity for her to take advantage of the situation.
Bai Zhilan had no choice but to give up. During this time, she began an ambiguous relationship with Qi Sheng. Knowing that Zhou Hanyi's wife, Shen Yue, was about to give birth, she set her sights on the granddaughters. Taking advantage of the birth of Zhou Qiming and Shen Yue's child, she secretly switched the identities of the two baby girls.
However, as time went by and Zhou Manyun grew up, Qi Sheng immediately noticed that she looked more and more like his first love. He immediately wrote a letter to Bai Zhilan to inquire, only to find out that Zhou Manyun was not his biological granddaughter at all. However, under Bai Zhilan's influence, he not only did not tell the truth, but also chose to hide it and let things develop.
Upon learning the truth, Zhou Hanyi felt her blood rush to her head. She never imagined that her husband of many years would scheme against her like this. Her vision blurred, and she was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, but she ultimately succumbed to her injuries and passed away.
After her death, Zhou Hanyi's soul floated in the air. Only then did she realize that during her coma, her eldest son's family had been hoping that she would die so they could regain control of the Zhou Group. When the doctor said she wouldn't live for more than a few days, they appeared briefly and never came to the hospital again.
Afterwards, she watched helplessly as Qi Sheng eagerly brought Bai Zhilan and her whole family of vampires to her villa, and held a grand and luxurious wedding less than seven days after her death.
In the crowd, Zhou Hanyi noticed a girl dressed in shabby clothes but with eyes that looked remarkably like her own. She instantly guessed that the girl was her granddaughter.
From that moment on, she followed the girl closely, determined to protect her.
You wouldn't believe it until you see it. Bai Zhilan's entire family treated the girl like the lowest of servants, and even gave her own granddaughter the name Wang Zhaodi.
The girl ate leftovers every day, but did the heaviest and most tiring work.
Zhou Hanyi's ghost trembled angrily beside him, but was powerless to intervene.
Later, Zhou Hanyi discovered that the imposter, Zhou Manyun, seemed to have known all along that she was an imposter. She was afraid that Wang Zhaodi would be recognized by Shen Yue and his wife and lose her current wealth and status.
So she secretly added slow-acting poison to Wang Zhaodi's food and repeatedly arranged for people to bully her and make her do the hardest and heaviest work.
She even falsely accused the girl of trying to seduce Zhou Yanli. Zhou Hanyi knew that Shen Yue hated this kind of thing the most. Sure enough, Shen Yue believed Zhou Manyun's slander and felt extremely disgusted with her own daughter. She even wanted to drive her out of the Zhou family.
But for Zhou Manyun, it was better to kill Wang Zhaodi than to kick her out, so she ruthlessly put large amounts of slow-acting poison into Wang Zhaodi's food.
As a ghost, Zhou Hanyi could only watch helplessly as the poison slowly eroded his granddaughter's body. Ultimately, Wang Zhaodi was tortured to death at the age of seventeen.
During this time, Zhou Hanyi gradually discovered a terrible truth.
It turns out that over the years, Qi Sheng, a chemistry major, had been slowly poisoning her food, which led to her death in the hospital despite all efforts to save her.