Daily Intelligence System: Financial Independence
Chapter 505 - 238: Blood Runs Thicker Than Water, Reunion of Siblings!
"President Jiang! You’re here! President Bai asked me to wait for your arrival here."
Wu Xiaolan, the client manager who had served Jiang Tao and his group several times before, enthusiastically greeted them upon seeing Jiang Tao and Jia Feng.
While warmly greeting Jiang Tao, Wu Xiaolan also glanced at Jia Feng who was standing beside him.
Although Jia Feng was overshadowed in every aspect when standing next to Jiang Tao, he was still quite handsome.
Moreover, Jia Feng had a well-proportioned, slim physique from years of running, which was quite attractive to women.
Jia Feng observed the parking lot security and the hotel client manager being so courteous to Jiang Tao.
This further confirmed to him that Jiang Tao’s identity was indeed special and posed no threat to him.
In other words, if people wanted to harm him, they wouldn’t need to personally confront him.
"Manager Wu, this is my friend Jia Feng. I’m bringing him along to see Sister Bai."
Jiang Tao smiled as he introduced Jia Feng, harboring a bit of envy towards him.
Of course, it wasn’t envy for being abducted as a child, but envy for having a great sister.
With Bai Yulan’s wealth, status, and influence in Ping County,
if Jia Feng could acknowledge this sister, he wouldn’t have to worry about anything for the rest of his life.
"Hello."
Jia Feng, slightly wary, greeted Wu Xiaolan.
"Hello, hello, please follow me, both of you."
Wu Xiaolan, smiling, greeted Jiang Tao and Jia Feng and then led them towards the internal elevator nearby.
Taking the elevator to the 5th floor, they arrived outside Bai Yulan’s office, where Wu Xiaolan knocked on the door.
Knock, knock, knock—
"Come in."
Upon hearing Bai Yulan’s voice from inside, Wu Xiaolan gently pushed open the door, leading Jiang Tao and Jia Feng inside.
"Jiang Tao, you’ve arrived. Eh, and this gentleman is..."
As Bai Yulan looked up and saw Jia Feng standing next to Jiang Tao, her face showed a puzzled expression.
"Hello, my name is Jia Feng."
Feeling slightly nervous, Jia Feng introduced himself to Bai Yulan.
On seeing Bai Yulan, Jia Feng felt a surge of excitement.
Bai Yulan was undoubtedly the most beautiful and elegant woman he’d ever seen in reality.
And it seemed she was the owner of this high-end looking hotel?
Who wouldn’t want such a beautiful and affluent sister!
"If she were really my sister, how wonderful it would be!"
At that moment, the yearning in Jia Feng’s heart reached its peak!
"Hello Jia Feng, pleased to meet you. I’m Bai Yulan."
Bai Yulan nodded kindly to Jia Feng, out of consideration for Jiang Tao, introducing herself by name.
"Xiao Wu, please step outside."
Bai Yulan knew that Jiang Tao brought Jia Feng today with something important to discuss, so she asked Wu Xiaolan to step out.
"Alright, President Bai, call me if you need anything."
Wu Xiaolan nodded, then left the office, gently closing the door behind her.
"Sister Bai, do you believe in fate?"
Jiang Tao plopped down on the guest sofa by the office wall, smiling at Bai Yulan as he got straight to the point.
"Oh? Fate?"
Bai Yulan’s gaze shifted between Jiang Tao and Jia Feng, still not quite grasping what Jiang Tao meant.
Not one to beat around the bush, Jiang Tao stated directly:
"The person Sister Bai has been searching for all these years is right here, in front of you."
"What! You mean..."
Bai Yulan abruptly turned to look at the restrained Jia Feng standing nearby.
The person she had been searching for all these years?
Her brother, Xiao Cheng?
"Xiao Cheng, are you saying he’s, he’s Xiao Cheng?"
Despite her usual composure, upon learning that Jia Feng was indeed her long-lost brother, Bai Yulan found it hard to stay calm.
After speaking, Bai Yulan swiftly moved to stand opposite Jia Feng.
The distance between the siblings was less than a meter, allowing them to see every detail of each other’s faces clearly.
"Can you turn around and lift your shirt to show me your back?"
Bai Yulan, her emotions barely contained, looked at Jia Feng and made a seemingly strange request.
"Yes, I can!"
Hearing Bai Yulan’s request, Jia Feng’s heart raced even faster.
In the center of his back was a heart-shaped birthmark the color of a green.
His two previous girlfriends assumed it was a tattoo.
Asking right away to see his back indicated she knew there was something unusual about it.
Jia Feng agreed to Bai Yulan’s request, turned around and lifted his quick-dry athletic tank top.
Bai Yulan’s gaze immediately focused on the center of Jia Feng’s back.
Upon seeing the walnut-sized, heart-shaped birthmark, Bai Yulan’s eyes filled with tears.
Exactly the same!
The color, size, and shape of the birthmark on Jia Feng’s back were identical to the one on her brother’s back in her memory!
No mistake, absolutely no mistake!
Even without a DNA test, Bai Yulan was certain this young man was her brother Bai Yucheng!
"Chengcheng!"
With overwhelming joy, Bai Yulan called out her brother’s nickname, embracing him tightly from behind.
"Chengcheng! Where have you been all these years? You have no idea how much Dad, Mom, and I have missed you."
"Even on his deathbed, Dad kept calling your name."
"Chengcheng, Chengcheng, sister finally found you, finally found you..."
"All these years, Mom and I have been looking for you, waiting for you, enduring so much pain."
"Let sister take a good look at you, let her take a look at you."
Watching the composed and elegant Bai Yulan, now holding her long-lost brother and weeping,
Jiang Tao found himself emotionally moved, his eyes welling up.
"Are you really my sister?"
Seeing Bai Yulan both hugging and crying, then laughing, Jia Feng’s eyes were also filled with tears.
"Yes, I’m your sister, you’re my brother Bai Yucheng!"
"You are Chengcheng, there’s no doubt about it!"
Bai Yulan nodded with absolute certainty, as she remembered the birthmark on her brother’s back very vividly.
"Chengcheng, do you not remember your sister at all?"
Bai Yulan, on the verge of tears, looked at her brother, reaching to touch his face, now completely different from her memories.
When Bai Yucheng was abducted, he was not yet three years old.
Scientific research indicates that before the age of three, the hippocampus in the human brain, responsible for memory, is in a high-speed development phase.
During this phase, the hippocampus continually generates new neurons, storing new memories.
Simultaneously, it "deletes" or "overwrites" old memories.
For toddlers at this age, memories are temporary, lacking long-term retention.
Not until after the age of three, when the hippocampus matures, does a more permanent "memory bank" form.
Therefore, Jia Feng, or rather Bai Yucheng now,
has no recollection of his biological parents or sister, Bai Yulan.
Since he was four or five and became aware of his surroundings, he lived alone in a rural hometown in Min Nan with his father.
Before he graduated from high school and went out to work with fellow villagers,
he had never left the small county where they lived. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
He was completely unaware that his father was actually his adoptive father.
It wasn’t until his adoptive father’s deathbed confession that he learned the truth.
"I’m sorry, I don’t remember, not at all."
"But I can sense that there is some invisible connection between us."
Bai Yucheng looked at Bai Yulan, feeling an inexplicable closeness to this sister he had just met.
"Chengcheng, I’m taking you to see Mom! Mom will be so happy to see you!"
After speaking, Bai Yulan grabbed Bai Yucheng’s hand, leading him to the door eagerly.
"Jiang Tao, pardon us for a moment! I’ll properly thank you another day!"
Bai Yulan, too absorbed in the moment to exchange pleasantries with Jiang Tao, hurriedly led Bai Yucheng towards the elevator.