"I didn't!" Rong Lan faced the ghost Bai Ronglan's doubt head-on. "I didn't forget about them! Moreover, once the truth comes to light, if they are innocent, it won't be too late for me to rebuild my relationship with them. By then, the Bai family members surely won't feel uncomfortable because I'm in touch with my biological relatives. In this way, I can keep both sides of my family. Isn't that great?"
She was certain that, with the Bai family's open-minded educational philosophy, once the truth was out, if her biological parents had nothing to do with the child - swapping incident back then, they would surely be willing for her to stay in touch with them.
The ghost Bai Ronglan took a deep breath and calmed down. "Then... what if they aren't innocent?"
"???" The little fox stared in shock. What did she mean by "what if they aren't innocent"? Did the ghost Bai Ronglan know something she didn't? But that didn't seem right. She had already checked the cause - and - effect line of her biological father. It should be okay.
Rong Lan was utterly confused, but the question the ghost Bai Ronglan threw out wasn't hard for her to answer. "If they aren't innocent, it means they voluntarily abandoned me back then. In that case, why should I stay in touch with them?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan fell silent. The little fox was right, especially considering how well the little fox was getting along with the Bai family... But back then, she hadn't had many choices...
"Forget it..." She sighed. "Little fox, I'll ask you another question. From your perspective, did I do something wrong in my previous life?"
Rong Lan tilted her fox head. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer this question.
She felt that no matter what she said, the ghost Bai Ronglan wouldn't be very happy. But -
"In my opinion, you only made one mistake." Rong Lan finally decided to be an honest fox. "You knew that the investigation results showed that your real relatives were the masterminds, but you still got close to them in front of the entire Bai family. I only think this was wrong. You should know that in the eyes of Mom and Dad of the Bai family, those people were the villains who made them lose their real daughter for twenty years. Their crimes were as bad as those of human traffickers. In Bai Rongran's eyes, those people were the villains who made her lose the privileged life she should have had."
That was exactly why the relationship between Bai Ronglan and the Bai family in her previous life had gotten worse and worse. The Bai family thought Bai Ronglan was an ungrateful person, while Bai Ronglan thought the Bai family was rejecting her.
The ghost Bai Ronglan fell silent again for a long time.
Rong Lan thought her straightforward words would make the ghost angry, but unexpectedly, the ghost Bai Ronglan didn't lose her composure. Her aura remained calm.
After a long time, the little fox Rong Lan heard another sigh.
"What did Bai Rongran go through when she called you for help abroad?"
Rong Lan didn't expect the other party to ask this question. Her fox eyes widened in surprise. "Why do you ask this question?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan turned her head and looked out of the window at the blue sky and white clouds. Her tone was calm. "I just want to ask."
Rong Lan lifted her paw and scratched her chin. Even though those scumbags had already paid a heavy price, she still gritted her teeth in hatred when she thought of this. "I don't know what Rongran went through in her previous life, but in this life, when she was pregnant, she was sexually assaulted by five men..."
As the ghost Bai Ronglan listened to the little fox's description, her eyebrows knitted together, but then quickly relaxed. She couldn't help but sigh. She felt that she had sighed more today than the total number of sighs she had let out since she became a ghost. "I understand..."
No wonder Bai Rongran had changed so much after she returned to China.
The ghost Bai Ronglan didn't ask any more questions. She just calmly looked out of the window. The light in her eyes flickered. Only she knew what she was thinking.
Rong Lan also fell silent. She thought she would stay with the ghost Bai Ronglan for a while. Maybe the ghost Bai Ronglan would figure things out today and cancel her wish. Then her trip wouldn't be in vain.
However, she couldn't stay still after just a short while because maintaining the magic formation required spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy she had painstakingly cultivated was flowing out rapidly to maintain the formation.
The little fox got up, gracefully flicked her fox tail, and politely bid farewell to the ghost Bai Ronglan. "I have to go home first. I still hope you can seriously consider canceling your wish." After saying that, she lowered her head as if bowing.
Hearing the little fox's words, the ghost Bai Ronglan was surprised. "You're going back like this? Don't you plan to enter this body before leaving?"
The little fox wrinkled her fox face. "I'd like to, but I can't do it now. Let's do it next time."
"Okay. If I figure things out, I'll come to you." The ghost Bai Ronglan waved to the little fox.
Rong Lan waved her paw too and then used the teleportation spell.
To be on the safe side and not to scare Little Amber, Rong Lan did as she did before. First, she cast an illusion spell to create the illusion that she was opening the door and coming home from the outside. Under the cover of the illusion spell, she directly teleported to the living room.
She never expected that at a little past three in the afternoon, when she landed, she would meet Chu Hengyuan's eyes.
Rong Lan: "!!!"
The little fox was so frightened that her fur stood on end. She accidentally lost her balance and fell forward on her soft legs. Her poor fox chin hit the ground with a thud.
She almost cried out in pain, but fortunately, her reason prevailed, and she gritted her teeth and endured it.
Chu Hengyuan was also startled by the suddenly appearing little fox. Goosebumps popped up on his arms. Seeing the little fox fall, he instinctively wanted to stand up and go over to pick her up, but he was afraid that the already frightened little fox would be even more terrified if he got closer, so he forced himself not to get up.
"Meow~" Seeing Mom come back, Little Amber excitedly greeted her.
Chu Hengyuan turned his head and glanced at the little ragdoll cat, then adjusted the gold - rimmed glasses on his nose.
The functions of the glasses Si Mo gave him were beyond his expectations. He thought it was good enough that he could see the little girl's fox ears and the spiritual energy fluctuations around her while wearing the glasses. He didn't expect that he could also see through the formations she set up.
Just now, he saw two scenes. One was the little fox opening the door and walking in, but this scene was illusory. From his perspective, it was obvious that it was an illusion spell cast by the little fox. The other scene was the little fox suddenly appearing in the living room, overlapping with the little fox in the illusion spell.
This was the first time he had witnessed the power of his little girl.
Rong Lan didn't know that her illusion spell was ineffective in Chu Hengyuan's eyes. She thought he could see the illusion spell and would see the fox in the illusion spell opening the door, which would further strengthen his impression that she wasn't an ordinary fox.
She never would have thought that what her brother saw was her suddenly popping up out of thin air.