Chapter 444: The whole story back then
"What gray-haired boy?" Everyone was curious about what Ji Huifen had just stated.
The man momentarily forgot about Ji Feifei’s demise and the fact that he had just learnt that Ruby was his daughter as he tried to recall the past.
"A boy from the Guan clan. Back then, the Guan clan was close to my family so that boy and I were naturally friends. Everything was peaceful and my grandfather and Old man Guan were especially close. Until one day, my grandfather found out something he shouldn’t."
Xiehan and Ruby tensed up. This must be where it all started.
"The Guan family seemed to have a good relationship with the Li family on the surface but in real sense, they were accomplices."
"The Li family?" Xiehan asked curiously. Li Yuming’s family?
Ji Huifen must have guessed what he was thinking. He shook his head. Not Li Yuming’s family. I investigated her years ago and she came from a different family and merely had the same surname. Anyway, both the Guan and Li families were medicine practitioner families. They had many talents in the field of medical research but they did not use it to save lives; they used it to destroy humans just to earn a quicker buck.
Aside from producing harmful medicines and selling them to governments, they would make deals with parents who delivered unhealthy babies or those whose unborn babies were prone to suffer from long-term illnesses, and switch them out with healthy ones.
Sometimes, the weak babies would be given to poor parents who wouldn’t be able to do anything about it even if they had suspicions. Sometimes, they would be killed.
Some of those babies could be nursed into perfect health by the geniuses in those families. However, not only were they not lucky, they were perhaps unluckier than those who were killed because they would be used as lab rats and if they proved to be useful, they would be fed with medicines to forcefully groom them into geniuses, then they would be forced to join the business of those families. It was an ongoing cycle and no one had ever found out. If someone did find out, they would not remain alive.
When my grandpa found out, he was shocked and wanted to flee the country with my grandma, my parents and me. However, Old man Guan was fast enough to catch up to him and tried to kill him.