Qin Zhizhi and Yin Sichen joyfully prepared to make the news of the Heavenly Dao Art public, never expecting that a much larger storm awaited them. The Qin family's ancestral worship ceremony proceeded as scheduled. Inside the solemn ancestral hall, Patriarch Qin—Qin Zhengtao—stood before the ancestral tablets and solemnly announced a shocking piece of news: "Today, I must confess something to everyone. Twenty years ago, my biological daughter was not Jiaojiao, but... Zhizhi!" As soon as these words were spoken, the ancestral hall instantly erupted in a tumult.
People whispered among themselves, unable to believe their ears. Qin Jiaojiao had always been the proud daughter of heaven carefully nurtured by the Qin family, while Qin Zhizhi was merely a wild girl wandering outside. How suddenly had she become the true daughter of the family? However, Qin Zhengtao produced conclusive evidence—the testimony of the midwife from back then, alongside the keepsake left behind when Qin Zhizhi was born. These irrefutably proved Qin Zhizhi's true identity.
Qin Jiaojiao's face turned pale as she shook her head in disbelief, yet she was powerless to refute it. The perfect image she had painstakingly cultivated over many years collapsed into ruins at that very moment. Lin Wan stood beside her, a flash of vicious light deep within her eyes. With the truth brought to light, the crowd's attitude toward Qin Zhizhi did not change for the better; instead, it grew even more hostile.
Chapter 35