When Emile rushed Luo Fei to the hospital, Princess Xiya had already woken up. She was just getting off the treatment bed, ready to be discharged. Seeing her son enter, she smiled and said, “The butler was too nervous, calling you two back here.”
Emile hurried over to support her and asked, “Are you feeling better?”
Xiya nodded. “Mm, just a bit dizzy, nothing serious…”
Just then, a doctor in a white coat pushed the door open and came in, holding a report sheet he handed to Emile. “The test results are out. It’s not serious. Just dizziness caused by hypoglycemia. In the future, be careful to eat on time, supplement your nutrition, and get plenty of rest. It’ll be fine.”
Emile took the lab report and looked it over. Politely, he said, “Thank you. Can my mother be discharged now?”
The doctor said, “No problem. She can be discharged now.”
Once they arrived home, Princess Xiya took her medicine and went to sleep in her bedroom.
The butler, looking embarrassed, said to Emile, “I thought Madam’s condition was very serious and called you back right away…”
Emile didn’t blame him, instead saying gently, “It’s fine. The banquet was almost over anyway. And Mother’s health has always been poor. It’s only right you took it seriously. You go attend to your tasks first; I’ll stay and look after her.”
The butler turned and left. Luo Fei followed Emile out of the bedroom and asked, “Has Aunt often fainted before?”
Emile said, “She’s always had hypoglycemia. She needs to take blood-sugar stabilizing medication every morning. With adjustments over the past few years, she’s been much better now.”
Luo Fei nodded. “That’s good, as long as it’s nothing serious.”
Having had a false alarm, the two finally relaxed.
Xiya had already fallen asleep. Not wanting to disturb her, Emile took Luo Fei to his own estate to chat.
As they talked, the image of Mo Lin’s crying tantrum surfaced in Luo Fei’s mind again—that Omega was sensitive and fragile to the extreme, always crying and self-destructive, frustrating just to watch. He truly embodied all the traits Luo Fei most disliked.
How did the Mo family put up with an Omega like that?
If his own younger brother fussed and cried like that all day, Luo Fei’s head would surely explode.
Thinking this, Luo Fei turned and asked, “Oh right, Cousin, you’re an alumnus of Mo Han. How much do you know about his younger brother, Mo Lin?”
Emile was slightly taken aback by the question. “Why are you suddenly so interested in Mo Lin?”
Luo Fei said, “I met Mo Lin today.”
Emile’s eyes widened. “Ah? You met him?”
“What?” Luo Fei looked at the other in puzzlement. “Has no one else ever seen him?”
“Exactly!” Emile said, “I grew up in the Lyra Constellation. Our family has had many dealings with the Mo family, but I have genuinely never seen Mo Lin.”
“Why is that?” Luo Fei frowned.
“Speaking of these twins, I have to tell you about their Dad first.” Emile said mysteriously. “Have you ever heard of the person Fang Ziqian?”
“No. Is he Mo Han’s Omega father?”
“Yeah. Back then, before the Empire’s reforms, all Omegas were sent to specialized Omega academies in the Virgo Constellation to study. Fang Ziqian was also from a wealthy family. He had a rather peculiar personality; reportedly, he broke school rules multiple times and nearly got expelled. But he was very good-looking. Once, when Mo Qiming followed his father to Virgo, he fell for Fang Ziqian at first sight. Since both families were in business and well-matched in social status, the parents on both sides negotiated and set an engagement.”
“The Fang-Mo family alliance was supposed to be a perfectly happy event. At the time, many prestigious business families were invited to attend. The scale of the wedding was almost comparable to a Royal Family event. But it turned out Fang Ziqian was very dissatisfied with this engagement. On the wedding day itself, he ran away from home, leaving Mo Qiming stood up at the wedding banquet.”
“…………” Luo Fei was somewhat speechless. Running away on the wedding day—this Omega was indeed quite daring. He could imagine the shocked expressions on the guests when they discovered Fang Ziqian had fled after the appointed time. Luo Fei couldn’t help but touch his nose and ask, “He fled on the wedding day? Wasn’t Mo Qiming furious?”
“My father happened to attend that wedding banquet. Supposedly, Mo Qiming’s expression was awfully grim at the time, his whole body shaking with anger.” Emile also found it amusing as he recounted this.
“Anyone would be shaking with anger, I imagine.” Luo Fei chuckled. “What happened next? Was the runaway caught and brought back?”
“Mm. Both families joined forces to search for him. It took over a year before they finally found him in a corner of a remote planet. They brought him back and held the wedding ceremony a second time. But this time they didn’t dare invite many people; it was just a private affair between the two families.” Emile was clearly delighted by this sensational gossip from years past. “It was several years after the marriage before Fang Ziqian got pregnant. Probably the couple’s relationship wasn’t good and took some time to adjust.”
“He was pregnant with the twins, Mo Han and Mo Lin?”
“Yes. But Fang Ziqian was in poor health during the pregnancy. Supposedly, Mo Lin was very weak at birth, prone to getting sick. To care for the younger son, Mo Qiming hired private tutors for the twin brothers. The brothers were always educated at home, until three years ago when Mo Han scored a perfect grade across all subjects to enter Herman University, which is when I got to know him. As for his younger brother, Mo Lin, because of his poor health, he’s always been recuperating at home. I’ve never met him… By the way, how did you end up seeing him today?”
“I followed behind Mo Han and unexpectedly saw him. According to Mo Han, Mo Lin had an accident at age ten and suffered a severe shock? What exactly happened?”
“That incident is rather complicated to explain.” Emile cleared his throat. “When he was ten, Mo Lin was out with his father and was kidnapped. I’m not entirely clear on the specifics, only that later, when Mo Qiming rescued them, Mo Lin’s father was already dead. Mo Lin’s legs had been broken, leaving him permanently disabled. The shock was too much; he suffered a mental breakdown and developed severe depression. The Mo family doesn’t dare let him see outsiders, and outsiders don’t dare bring him up around the Mo family.”
Emile sighed, his face showing a hint of sympathy. “Actually, Mo Lin is quite pitiable. His father was even more tragic; protecting Mo Lin, he was gravely injured and couldn’t be saved. I was young then and went with my father to Fang Ziqian’s funeral. Mo Qiming loved him deeply. He knelt before his tombstone and cried for a very long time. Seeing it was heart-wrenching.”
“…” Luo Fei didn’t speak further, but in his mind, he meticulously sorted through the sequence of events.
Through Emile’s description, combined with Mo Han’s earlier explanations, Luo Fei finally pieced together the whole story.
His father, Fang Ziqian, had poor health, so Mo Lin was born frail. The twin brothers were sheltered and cared for by Mo Qiming at home. At age ten, Mo Lin went out with his father, was unexpectedly kidnapped, had his legs broken and became disabled. Adding to that the death of his father protecting him, the severe trauma caused a mental breakdown, making him a recluse within the Mo family, never seeing outsiders.
This story sounded plausible on the surface, but Luo Fei had an odd, strong intuition.
—This story might not be as simple as it appeared.
Over twenty years ago, before the Empire implemented marriage law reforms, most Omegas would follow the arrangements of the Association or their parents and marry Alphas upon coming of age. Fang Ziqian, under the watch of both the Fang and Mo families, managed to vanish without a trace on his wedding day. How did he escape? For the wedding day escape, he clearly had a meticulous plan far in advance, leaving no suspicion, even evading both families’ joint search for a full year before they found him—this proved he was brave and also highly intelligent.
Such a brave and intelligent Omega, after being kidnapped, would he have just let his son be crippled while sacrificing himself?
Kidnappers typically abduct hostages only for money. As long as the hostage obediently complies and the family delivers the ransom, there’s usually no danger to life.
With Fang Ziqian’s intelligence, could he not handle a few ordinary kidnappers?
Even if physically weak and unable to fight them, could he not at least stall for time until Mo Qiming’s rescue? Would he foolishly resist the kidnappers head-on with his son, resulting in his son’s legs being broken and his own death?
From Luo Fei’s deduction, there were two possibilities for this abduction case.
First, the kidnappers didn’t abduct them for money but intended to directly kill Fang Ziqian and his son. In that case, no matter how high Fang Ziqian’s IQ, there was no escape; he could only fight with all his might to protect his son. Second, this kidnapping case wasn’t as simple as the Mo family’s story suggested. Perhaps Fang Ziqian didn’t die, and Mo Lin wasn’t a mentally ill cripple. There must be a more complex hidden truth.
Thinking this, Luo Fei immediately ordered Chongming to connect to the network and search for data from that time.
Chongming quickly found a large amount of data and rapidly organized its analysis: “Master, regarding the kidnapping case from ten years ago, all the online reports are identical, all stating Fang Ziqian was murdered, Mo Lin’s legs were broken, Mo Qiming was devastated and held a funeral, etc….”
Luo Fei asked sharply, “What did the police say?”
Chongming searched another moment and said, “The police did not get involved in this matter.”
Luo Fei thoughtfully stroked his chin. “In other words, when Fang Ziqian and his son were kidnapped back then, Mo Qiming didn’t report it to the police at all.”
Chongming said, “Correct. Mo Qiming handled it privately and failed to resolve it well, resulting in Fang Ziqian’s death.”
Luo Fei: “…”
It seemed his suspicions were correct.
Behind these Mo family twins, there was likely some significant secret hidden. Fang Ziqian’s death was also heavily riddled with doubt.
Luo Fei hadn’t originally had much interest in the Omega Mo Lin, merely curious to see what an Omega with such outstanding genes was like.
But now, he had developed an intense interest in the Mo family twins.
He was even somewhat impatient to uncover the truth behind the Mo family twins.
