Rebirth of the Cannon Fodder in the Entertainment Circle
Chapter 544: Apocalypse: The True Daughter of Wealth Turns to Ashes (15)

Chapter 544: Apocalypse: The True Daughter of Wealth Turns to Ashes (15)

Eldest Luo took the document bag, curious about its contents.

He thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let’s go in and take a look."

Luo Ning then closed the car door, "Goodbye!"

She turned the car around to leave, and only after her car was out of sight did Eldest Luo call everyone to return home.

Luo Baomiao’s gaze had been fixed on the document bag, considering how to distract everyone from the topic once they got home and to delay looking at the contents.

After returning home, Father Luo and Mother Luo, not seeing Luo Ning, looked at Eldest Luo with questioning eyes.

Eldest Luo sighed and recounted what had happened outside.

Seeing how Shen Yan was so happy and reliant on Luo Ning had left them feeling rather unpleasant, after all, they were the real elder brothers.

Father Luo and Mother Luo also didn’t expect that Luo Ning had not come home but had instead waited at the house for Shen Yan, which made them uneasy.

Luo Baomiao glanced at the document bag in the hands of her elder brother again and suddenly started crying.

With a face full of guilt and sadness, she said, "It’s all my fault, if I had left earlier, Luo Ning wouldn’t be unwilling to come home."

"Now that the apocalypse has come, I don’t know if Luo Ning and her brother will be in danger out there."

She added, "Dad, why don’t we go look for Luo Ning, so she can join us tomorrow on our trip to the Capital City?"

Her suggestion was sincere.

If Father Luo and Mother Luo agreed, they could go look for Luo Ning right away and avoid looking at the document bag.

Moreover, she felt that since Luo Ning hadn’t turned into a zombie or died, she should be kept under close watch.

Just like the year and a half that had passed, if she could suppress Luo Ning once, she could do it a second time.

Then, find an opportunity to get rid of Luo Ning and Shen Yan.

After all, they were bound to encounter numerous dangers on the road, zombies had no mercy, and if it were an accident, the Luo Family wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Father Luo and Mother Luo also felt there was some truth to this, with the world outside being so chaotic and dangerous, regardless of anything, Luo Ning was still their biological child.

If they had never lived together, they could harden their hearts and ignore her.

But after living together for a year and a half, they still had some feelings for Luo Ning.

Father Luo was about to speak when Fifth Luo suddenly said, "Dad, Luo Ning gave Big Brother a document bag earlier, said it was very important and that we should take a look."

Luo Baomiao hadn’t expected her plan to be on the verge of success, only for this younger brother to interfere.

She couldn’t help but frown and look towards Fifth Luo.

Just as Fifth Luo looked back, she paused, then gave him a sweet smile.

Eldest Luo also passed the document bag to Father Luo, "Dad, this is it."

Father Luo, somewhat perplexed, took the document bag and pulled out a USB drive and a stack of documents.

He handed the USB drive to Fifth Luo, "Play this on the TV."

Fifth Luo nodded, took the USB drive, and plugged it into the side of the TV to start it.

Meanwhile, Father Luo started reading the documents, his expression growing darker as he looked at the photographs folded among the pages.

Mother Luo noticed his mood and asked, "What is this?"

Father Luo, with a dark expression, handed the items to Mother Luo, "Take a look for yourself."

Mother Luo then curiously took them and skimmed through, her expression also changing.

Brother Luo and the others, seeing this, became curious about what was inside.

Just then, Fifth Luo opened the only video file on the USB drive.

Soon, the video started playing.

The dialogue above took place between a middle-aged man and a woman.

The man was blackmailing the woman, saying that he would reveal how she had deliberately swapped the Luo Family’s child years ago if she didn’t give him money.

Left with no choice, the woman transferred him a sum of money.

Soon after, the video switched to a second scene.

This time it showed the man alone, locked in a small house, being coerced and enticed by someone to tell the truth about what had happened.

The man, with no other options, confessed.

It turned out that he was Luo Baomiao’s biological father, and the woman in the video was the nanny who had accidentally switched the babies at the hospital.

However, she wasn’t the man’s wife; her own younger sister was.

That year, her sister had also given birth to a little girl at the same hospital but tragically died of a severe hemorrhage.

Her brother-in-law was a gambling addict. Her sister had fallen and caused a difficult labor because he yanked the money out of her hands during a fight.

After her sister died in childbirth, the nanny knew that if the child stayed with such a father, her life would be miserable.

And coincidentally, Mrs. Luo, for whom she was working, had also given birth to a baby girl.

Key was, as infants, the two baby girls looked somewhat alike.

Upon the child’s birth, the Luo Family only took a brief look before letting her take the baby away to feed her.

This gave her the idea to swap the two children.

In doing so, her niece would not only avoid a harsh life but also become a wealthy young lady.

As a nanny, she could take good care of the child.

So, she couldn’t resist and covertly swapped the two babies in the hospital.

The gambler uncle naturally did not want to raise the child, and with his wife dead after a difficult labor, he had someone help send the baby back to his parents in the small county.

His parents favored boys over girls and thought, with the daughter-in-law dead and the son already a lost cause, they had to consider how they would find him a new wife if they were burdened with a daughter.

Especially since they didn’t want to raise her either.

So, they secretly took the child in the middle of the night and left her by the trash heap.

They thought that if the child were lucky, someone coming to throw away the garbage in the morning would find her and save her life.

If she perished because no good Samaritan came along, it would simply be the child’s own bad luck.

Their mindset was that she was just a drain on resources; after discarding the child, they went home to sleep and did not bother anymore.

Fortunately, Shen Yan’s mother came across the nearly dead infant while taking out the trash that day, and she quickly took the child to the hospital with her husband to save her. They eventually adopted her.

The man also mentioned that a year ago he had secretly visited his daughter and insisted on acknowledging their relation, or else he would tell the Luo Family everything.

Luo Baomiao, having no other choice, agreed to give him ten thousand yuan a month as support, so he kept his silence.

Sometimes, when he lost money gambling, he would also secretly accost Luo Baomiao at her school and extort more money from her.

Beyond the video, the documents included the paternity test results between Luo Baomiao and her biological father, the man’s bank transfer records.

And there were photos of Luo Baomiao meeting individually with her biological father and that nanny in private.

This was also a gift that Luo Ning deliberately prepared for the Luo Family and Luo Baomiao.

She wanted to see, once the truth was uncovered and they were fleeing during the apocalypse, if the Luo Family would continue to dote on Luo Baomiao like in her previous life.

Luo Ning knew from the original owner’s memories that before the Luo Family headed to the Kyoto Base in Beishang Capital, they happened to encounter the nanny and Luo Baomiao’s biological father.

Under Luo Baomiao’s persuasion, the Luo Family, also thankful for the nanny’s dedicated care for Luo Baomiao, took the two along with them.

As a married couple, they joined, and since the network had already broken down, the Luo Family members did not investigate further.

With Luo Baomiao’s protection, they actually fared better after the apocalypse than before, with no worries about food and drink and always having people cater to them.

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