An Yan went home alone without anyone picking her up, and was stopped not far from the Qi family villa.

An Yan glanced at the two plainly dressed middle-aged men and women. They were about the same age as Qi's parents, but they already had noticeable white hair and wrinkles. Their shrewd faces were filled with dark eyes, flashing with greed and excitement.

Seeing that An Yan didn't say anything, the other party took the initiative to speak, "Yan Yan, right? We are your biological parents. You have grown up so much. We really miss you. We really don't have the chance to see you."

As they were talking, they wanted to go up and shake her hand, but An Yan avoided them.

"What are you doing here?" An Yan's undisguised disdain and alienation towards them made Zhang's mother lower her head in embarrassment.

Zhang's father was thick-skinned and didn't care at all. Instead, he used filial piety to pressure others. "Ever since Xiaojing returned to the Qi family, you haven't come back to see us. We miss you, so is it not enough for us to come and see you?"

An Yan didn't want to waste time talking to them and made a move to leave. Zhang's father hurriedly tried to stop her. He angrily said, "How did the Qi family raise you to be so rude? The elders are talking, and you just walk away with a cold face?"

Seeing An Yan's unstoppable pace, Zhang's father finally said, "Hey, hey, hey, it's like this. Your brother is about to go to high school, and your grandparents are sick and in the hospital. Our family is broke. Can you help us out by giving us some money? It doesn't have to be a lot, just give us a million or eight hundred thousand to tide us over. Consider it your filial piety."

An Yan sneered, "Do I have any relationship with you? Where is the evidence?"

Father Zhang quickly concealed his panic and pretended to be calm, "We and the Qi family have the wrong children. Xiaojing and you, Xiaojing is from the Qi family, so aren't you ours?"

"Really? What do you think, Madam Zhang?" An Yan stared at Zhang's mother sharply. Zhang's mother avoided her sight in panic, twisting the corners of her clothes constantly and not saying a word.

Zhang's father couldn't stand Zhang's mother's shy and timid look, so he dragged her to the front and said fiercely, "Speak up."

Mother Zhang shuddered, her lips moving, which made An Yan frown. She felt even more disgusted by the man who laid hands on the woman. "Alright, do you think I don't know about the deal you made with the Qi family?"

In order to make An Yan give up on the Zhang family and stay safely in the Qi family, Yuan Rong told her about the buyout early on and told her that she could ignore them.

Zhang's mother trembled even more violently, and Zhang's father was stunned for a moment.

An Yan's voice was filled with sarcasm: "You've abused Ranran over the years, why didn't the Qi family pursue it? Have you forgotten? Because the Qi family asked you to cut off all ties with us and stop contacting us, and even gave you a large sum of money. What? The money is gone, and you want to break the contract?"

Zhang's father's face was filled with embarrassment at being exposed. He thought the Qi family wouldn't tell the children about these things, so he came to her privately to ask for money. "That's not what I meant. Our family is facing difficulties right now..."

“When you encounter difficulties, find a way out. Sell your watch, your car, or even your house. You can always get through it.”

"No, you can't leave unless you pay! If we bring in the media, not only will you have to pay, but your reputation will be ruined. That's not worth it." Zhang's father threatened.

An Yan asked quietly, "Extortion and moral kidnapping, you're committing a crime! Are you sure?"

Zhang's father didn't care at all. "So what if the police come? It's only natural for a daughter to respect her parents. They can't interfere."

But Zhang's mother stopped him and said, "No, no, no, don't call the police, dad, let's go!"

"Why are you leaving? You can't leave without getting the money!" Zhang's father was extremely arrogant.

"What are you doing? Why do you want money?" Several policemen came over. Zhang's father immediately became intimidated and said with a smile, "No, no, you heard wrong. We are communicating with our daughter!"

An Yan raised her hand obediently, "Officer, I called the police. They stopped me on my way home and asked me for money. They wanted 1 million or 800,000 yuan. If I didn't give it to them, they wouldn't let me leave!"

The police officer was stunned. "You're still robbing people on the road these days? You're really brave!"

Father Zhang hurriedly explained: "It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding! We are all family!"

An Yan took out her phone and shook it, "I have a recording, it's not a misunderstanding!"

So, everyone was taken to the police station.

An Yan contacted Xiao Ancheng in advance and asked him to bring some things over, including a report that he had no blood relationship with the Zhang family.

When taking the statement, An Yan described the whole process in detail, including the incident of being taken away by mistake 18 years ago, and expressed her suspicion that what happened back then was a conspiracy.

An Yan said righteously, "Ranran, who has suffered for so many years, that missing Zhang child, and my relatives whom I have never met, they are all innocent. Officer, please find out the truth and give everyone justice!"

The police officer obtained the evidence she provided and immediately began an investigation and interrogated Zhang's father and mother.

Zhang's mother was a timid person. She felt guilty about keeping such a big secret, and she told everything when she was scared.

Mother Zhang wept bitterly, speaking incoherently, "I gave birth to a girl. My family valued boys over girls, so they ignored us. Unfortunately, my child died just a few days after being born."

"A few days later, the child's father suddenly came to the hospital very happily and said that a wealthy family wanted our daughter, but my daughter was already dead. Her father was unwilling to miss out on this deal, so he went to find a baby girl as a replacement. I don't know where the baby girl came from; he never told me."

"Later, her father took the child away and exchanged her for a baby girl, saying she was the daughter of a wealthy family. The wealthy businessman originally wanted to buy her, but he changed it to an exchange. He thought he could make more money with the child, but he didn't expect them to be so hard-hearted that they would not care. So he often took out his anger on Xiaojing, and she had a very hard time."

"A year ago, for some unknown reason, the son of a wealthy businessman came to our house and took Xiao Jing home. They also gave us a sum of money to buy out our relationship with Yan Yan. Today, he was short of money, so he thought of secretly asking Yan Yan for money, thinking that they would definitely give it to him out of respect for their wealthy family."

The police went to interrogate Zhang's father again. He was reluctant to confess at first, but the evidence was right in front of him and he had no choice but to speak.

As for An Yan's background, he only knew that a man wanted to abandon the child, and he happened to be useful to her, so he took her.

Qi Jiamian and Yuan Rong were both called in to cooperate with the investigation. They initially denied it, but Zhang's father had been on guard and still had the receipt, which had Yuan Rong's fingerprints on it, so they couldn't deny it.

Qi Jiamian immediately pushed everything onto Yuan Rong, and through a lawyer, he asked Yuan Rong to take the blame. After she was released, she was still the noble Madam Qi. Yuan Rong had no other choice but to obey him.

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