AITFYMIBP Chapter 74

TL: Hua

Ever since Xuan Yihan debuted, his fans could finally hold their heads high.

Especially after learning on the night of the finals that their idol was a genuine wealthy young master, they became even more arrogant.

After the initial wave of peace and love swept through after their debut, they couldn’t help but start jumping around and making a ruckus again.

They turned around and started settling old scores with Lin Yanran.

However, things were different now.

Although Xuan Yihan was popular, Lin Yanran’s popularity was not low either. Coupled with the fact that they couldn’t mock his professional skills, they could only grab onto the one thing Xuan Yihan had over Lin Yanran—his wealthy background—to frantically seek a sense of superiority.

Today, fans snapped photos of Xuan Yihan at the airport wearing designer clothes, with ear studs worth six figures.

A blogger who specialized in compiling photos of celebrities’ airport fashion for the month updated their feed.

Updated along with it were airport photos of other stars, including Lin Yanran’s photos from a while back.

Celebrity airport fashion is usually trendy, and they typically wear very little.

But Lin Yanran belonged to the category of people who were extremely afraid of the cold, so he wore a domestic down jacket he had always loved, wrapping himself up tightly.

Usually, in the fan circle, the tacit rule was that after a blogger updated, fans would only focus on praising their own idols and ignore the others.

But Xuan Yihan’s fans didn’t do that. After explaining every single brand-name item on their idol from top to bottom, they immediately began to tear down Lin Yanran with sarcastic insinuations.

[Wealthy Young Master vs. Slum Young Master]

[I really envy my Hanhan. He won at the starting line from birth. Unlike some people—don’t look at how whitewashed he is now, he used to go everywhere cutting ribbons just for money.]

[I heard he lived in a dilapidated, small apartment before. He even encountered a pervert who almost took photos of him LOL]

[Don’t top stars live in big villas? My god, he actually lives in this kind of neighborhood?]

[It wasn’t easy for him to get where he is today; isn’t he wearing clothes sparingly to save money?]

While Xuan Yihan’s fans were vigorously insinuating things, Lin Yunzhe had sent two people to the police station.

The doctor and nurse who had resigned back then admitted that they had indeed swapped the children twenty-two years ago.

“At the time, someone gave us five million and told us to swap and dispose of the child belonging to the lady named Xie Roufei, who came to give birth the next day.”

The nurse, now in her fifties, sobbed as she recalled the events of the past.

“At first, I didn’t believe it. After all, who could know with such precision that someone would be coming to give birth the next day? Plus, the sum of money was truly astronomical at the time; I thought someone was playing a prank on me.”

“But then they called me again and told me to check a trash can outside. I dug out five hundred thousand in cash from it.”

TL note: The raw above says 5 million now it’s 500k. Idk what’s the real number : (

“Then I believed it… My child had leukemia, and I desperately needed that money at the time… so… I agreed.”

“I didn’t expect that someone really would come to give birth the next day.”

“Later, following their instructions, we swapped the child with a dead male infant and then abandoned the baby by the roadside.”

The nurse slowly recounted the details of that time.

But every word that reached the ears of the Lin family made their hearts pound in horror.

Especially Xie Roufei.

What the nurse had just described was exactly the same as the scene in her dream!

So that dream wasn’t a dream at all; it was a reenactment of reality…

Xie Roufei felt waves of aching pain in her chest.

Her child…

Her child…

“Did the child have a birthmark on his body?”

The nurse thought for a moment. “I think there was a birthmark somewhere around the waist or buttocks. I was too panicked at the time to look closely.”

Xie Roufei softly filled in the details the nurse had forgotten. “It was on the waist, on the right side of his back… an S-shaped birthmark…”

Yanran, the child she had lost for twenty-two years…

She saw it clearly during the performance that day; the birthmark was exactly the same as the one on Yanran’s body.

No wonder she felt a sense of closeness the first moment she saw him.

Because that was her biological son…

The nurse nodded. “Yes, that’s the spot. I remember now.”

Hearing this answer from the nurse, Xie Roufei’s vision blurred. She staggered a few steps and nearly fainted.

Fortunately, Lin Yanhui was quick to react and caught her in his arms.

Xie Roufei was too emotional right now, so Lin Yanhui helped her outside.

But Xie Roufei clutched her husband’s collar. “Go find Yanran quickly, our child.”

She was now absolutely convinced that Lin Yanran was her child. She didn’t want to wait a second longer and wanted to find him immediately.

Lin Yanhui patted her back and nodded. “Okay, we’ll go bring our son home right now.”

Lin Yunzhe didn’t follow them out. After his parents left, he continued to ask the nurse a few more questions.

“Who told you to do this?”

“How did they know my mother would go to your hospital to give birth on that specific day?”

In response to Lin Yunzhe’s questions, she shook her head.

“It was all done over the phone. I don’t know who it was; I never saw them in person.”

“I don’t know. I have no idea about that either; I was actually quite curious myself…”

Lin Yunzhe didn’t ask any more questions and turned to leave.

His brows furrowed slightly.

The investigation had hit a dead end here; all clues were cut off.

However, his irritability was quickly washed away by joy.

After his secretary called him, he relayed news about Lin Yanran to his parents.

“Yanran has finished work now.”

Getting information on Lin Yanran was much easier than investigating the stolen child from twenty-two years ago.

Lin Yunzhe already knew his age and background, which completely matched his younger brother’s.

He was even crystal clear about the Xuan family adopting and then abandoning him.

Although they deliberately concealed the adoption, there is no impenetrable wall in the world.

Coupled with the nurse’s confirmation of the birthmark on the waist, barring any accidents, there was a 99.9% chance that Yanran was his long-lost brother.

Thinking of how much his brother had suffered out there for so many years, Lin Yunzhe felt both anger and heartache.

Lin Yunzhe already knew that Lin Yanran lived in Dongjiao Junting, so he immediately drove his parents there.

He had bought a building here, and although he only stayed occasionally, the community manager welcomed them warmly.

They didn’t call Lin Yanran; they just waited quietly.

Xie Roufei watched the second hand on her watch circle around; every second felt like a year.

After waiting for about half an hour, the manager got through to Lin Yanran’s home and told them he was coming down immediately.

During the minute or two waiting for the elevator, Xie Roufei didn’t dare blink…

Finally, when the figure she had missed countless times appeared, Xie Roufei couldn’t suppress her surging emotions, and tears burst from her eyes.

Almost instantly, she ran towards Lin Yanran.

“Ranran…”

With tears streaming down her face, Xie Roufei pulled her son into her arms.

“Mom has finally found you!”

Separated for twenty-two years, she had finally found her child today.

He wasn’t dead; he was alive and well…

Feeling the real warmth in her arms, Xie Roufei wept uncontrollably.

It was no longer like the helplessness in her dreams, where she could only watch helplessly as others stole her child away.

She could truly hold him and hear him call her Mom.

Lin Yanran actually hadn’t noticed anything when he first stepped out of the elevator.

But a second later, he was enveloped in a warm embrace.

Hearing his mother’s familiar voice, Lin Yanran almost shed tears.

For a split second, he thought he was hallucinating.

But when he lifted his head, he truly saw his mother, father, and brother standing before him.

Each of them was looking at him, smiles on their faces, yet tears in their eyes.

Ever since missing his mother’s birthday that time, Lin Yanran had long become accustomed to being alone in this world.

Seeing his parents and family again had even become a wild hope.

After trying several methods to return to reality without success, he had even prepared for the worst—staying here for a lifetime, never seeing his family again.

Those faces, which had appeared countless times only in dreams and memories, were now right in front of him, so undeniably real.

Emotions peaked to such an extent that, apart from choking up, he couldn’t speak another word or make any more movements.

It was as if his brain had lost control at that moment.

Lin Yanran could only use his eyes to stare intently at the family before him, examining their faces carefully.

Everyone was exactly as he remembered them.

“Son… Ranran…”

“Little brother, I’m your big brother.”

Listening to the familiar voices of his family, it took Lin Yanran a long time to utter a single sentence.

“Is this a dream or reality?”

He was a little confused.

He remembered clearly that just ten minutes ago, he was obviously with Gu Siye. How could he be seeing his family now?

Gu Siye and his family couldn’t possibly exist at the same time.

Could it be that he was dreaming again?

But can dreams be this vivid?

Lin Yanran lowered his head, raised his arms to hug Xie Roufei, and spoke cautiously.

“Mom…”

How long had it been since he had called out this word so freely?

Something so easily achieved by ordinary people was so, so difficult for him.

When Lin Yanran said this, he was even afraid he wouldn’t get a response.

But this time, his call was not an illusion.

Hearing Lin Yanran call her “Mom,” Xie Roufei couldn’t hold back anymore. Hugging her son, she felt both self-reproach and pain.

“I’m sorry, baby. Mom wasn’t good; I lost you.”

Even Lin Yanhui, who rarely showed his emotions, had tears in his eyes.

He reached out and embraced the mother and son, along with his eldest son, in his arms.

“Ranran… baby… Mom and Dad are taking you home. You won’t be alone anymore.”

Lin Yunzhe’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down. Holding tightly to the brother he had lost and regained, he choked out, “Our family is finally reunited.”

“Welcome home.”