It’s just cultivating immortality, who isn’t a favorite of heaven?

"Compensation? How can you compensate me? My name is not Cheng Shuyan, but Cheng Dani. I'm the couple's first child, so I'm called Dani.

Since I was a child, I lived in a cold and dark woodshed and slept on a wooden board on the ground. I didn’t have a decent bed or a warm quilt.

That couple treated me like an animal, beating and scolding me, using me like a slave, and beating and scolding me at every turn."

Tears flowed unconsciously, and she looked at Cheng Lingshu: "Do you know? I also have a younger sister, her name is Cheng Erni, she is the biological daughter of that couple.

But she wasn't as lucky as me. She was sold to a brothel when she was seven years old, and when I went to look for her later, she had disappeared."

"Your daughter, her name was Cheng Dani. She died on that winter day when she was thirteen years old. The day before she was sold by that couple to the idiot from the neighboring village who beat several wives to death, her life stopped forever on that day!

How are you going to compensate me for all these things?"

She is not Cheng Dani, who died in the winter when she was thirteen.

She didn't know if Cheng Dani would feel relieved towards her biological parents if she were alive, but she was not qualified to feel relieved for Cheng Dani.

No one is qualified.

Perhaps Cheng Huaixu and his wife have their own difficulties, but they are Nascent Soul cultivators and the ones in power in the Cheng family!

Even if the child's disappearance was an accident, hasn't all these years been enough for them to find the truth? Hasn't it been enough for them to get their child back?

By the time she finished speaking, Jian Qing was already sobbing uncontrollably, and just kept saying sorry. Cheng Lingshu supported her and burst into tears as well.

Cheng Huaixu stood aside, with his head lowered so that his expression could not be seen clearly, but the ground in front of him was already wet.

Cheng Shuyan suddenly felt very tired. She didn't understand why she suddenly lost control.

She didn't even listen to Cheng Huaixu and his wife's explanation, and blamed everything on them.

She could clearly feel during the two days she had been here that the couple were genuinely looking forward to her arrival and wanted to make it up to her.

"I'm sorry, I just..." After calming down, Cheng Shuyan softened his heart and wanted to apologize to them.

Cheng Lingshu stopped her and hugged her in his arms: "Sister, you don't have to apologize. It is the Cheng family who owes you. Although father and mother have their own difficulties, it is a fact that they lost you.

Sister, we don't force you to accept us or the Cheng family right away. As long as you can give father and mother a chance and let them slowly make amends, okay?"

Cheng Lingshu's pleading tone slowly calmed her down.

"Forget it. I was impulsive. This has nothing to do with you."

……

She stayed at the Cheng family for half a month, and Cheng Huaixu and his wife stayed with her for half a month. They cooked different kinds of food for her and sent her gifts every day.

After she calmed down, Jian Qing gave her a storage bag, saying that it was all the things he had saved up for her over the years, and he had left her a share of everything that Cheng Lingshu had.

She opened it and took a look. It contained all kinds of spiritual herbs, elixirs, magical instruments and spiritual materials used by Qi-cultivating cultivators, and there were tens of thousands of spiritual stones alone.

In addition, there were also quite a few elixirs used in the foundation-building period. The couple didn't know what her spiritual roots were, so they put one of each of the five series of top-grade magic weapons.

She hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted it.

Only if she accepts these things will Cheng Huaixu and his wife feel better.

not to mention……

She really needs money!

She had never seen so much money since she started practicing!

Half a month later, with the witness of the two ancestors she met on the first day, Cheng Huaixu opened the ancestral hall and solemnly recorded her name in the family tree.

However, in the family tree, her name became Cheng Mingshu. Jian Qing was afraid that she would have objections, so she quickly explained to her:

"Ayan, girls of your generation are named with the character 'Shu'. According to the tradition of our clan, your father and I named you Mingshu.

But don't worry, we won't force you to change your name. You can call yourself whatever you want. You were called Shuyan before, so we'll still call you Shuyan from now on. How about that?"

Cheng Shuyan had no objection to this and just treated it as Cheng Dani's name.

When Cheng Dani was a child, she always envied her playmate named "Yujiao" because she had a nice name.

Now Cheng Dani also has a nice name, her name is Cheng Mingshu.

Cheng Huaixu and his wife wanted to hold a grand ceremony for her to announce her identity to the world, but she refused.

She didn't care about these empty formalities. Besides, she had too much to do and didn't have time to do them.

From Cheng Lingshu, Cheng Shuyan learned the whole story of how Cheng Huaixu and his wife lost their eldest daughter.

Back then, a guest elder of the Cheng family had a secret crush on Cheng Huaixu and wanted to seduce Cheng Huaixu while Jian Qing was pregnant.

Cheng Huaixu naturally refused and expelled the woman from the Cheng family.

Originally, the matter would have ended there, but the woman held a grudge against Jian Qing. After Jian Qing gave birth, the woman entered the Cheng family under the pretext of an apology and took the opportunity to steal the eldest daughter born by Jian Qing.

The woman has disappeared since then. Fortunately, before the child was lost, Cheng Huaixu had taken her fingertip blood to refine the compass, which confirmed that she was still alive and well in this world.

Over the years, they never gave up the search until a year ago, when the woman was finally found.

Cheng Huaixu tortured her severely, and she could not bear it anymore, so she told him the whereabouts of the child.

Although she stole the child, she did not dare to go too far. On the one hand, she could not harm a newborn baby.

On the other hand, she was only at the Jindan stage, while Cheng Huaixu and his wife were both at the Yuanying stage. If she really dared to kill the child, she would surely end up with her soul torn to pieces.

So she stole the child and sent it to the secular world, then forcibly changed the memories of the mortal couple, making them think that the child was their biological daughter.

After finding out Cheng Shuyan's whereabouts in the secular world, Cheng Huaixu immediately sent his steward Cheng Qi to the secular world to pick her up.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Qi was gone for a whole year. During his stay, he sent them a message saying that everyone in the village said that the child had disappeared when she was thirteen years old, and someone in the village saw her jump into the river and commit suicide.

Cheng Qi naturally didn't believe that she was dead. The compass in his hand could tell whether the eldest lady was still alive.

So he asked around in nearby towns whether there were any similar people around during the time when the young lady disappeared. Unexpectedly, his inquiries actually led him to find a clue.

A young man named Lin told him that when he was escorting a caravan several years ago, he met a fairy who looked very similar to the person he was talking about.

Not only did he get clues about the eldest lady, he also heard the name "Shen Yunjian" from the young man.

He followed the clues all the way and found Wen Yu, from whom he got the latest news about the eldest lady.