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Giving up on their future family head.
What was that about?

So, was one of the four ancient families of the Subcontinent District supposed to be so out of the ordinary?

Venerable the Blade and Xie Gange were aware of some of the Tang family’s secrets.
They had formulated a theory.
They felt sorry for the girl, seeing how she had turned pale.
She was just a pretty front…

Tang Ruyan was trembling.
The three elders had taken away the last glint of hope from her.
They banished her heart to the abyss and the coldness was biting her bones.

Finally…

The day for me to be broken has come.

She lowered her head and bit her lips.
Blood and tears ran into her mouth together.

She remembered the girl that looked just like her.

Her younger sister!

Her biological younger sister!

The actual future family head of the Tang family!

Truth be told, she had indeed been groomed to be the future family head of the Tang family, before the birth of her young sister, that is.
Once her sister was brought to this world, her life was turned upside down.

Her younger sister demonstrated a talent far better than hers, amazing all the higher-ups from the Tang family.
They claimed that she was a genius that was rarely seen in a hundred years.

As such, her younger sister snatched the identity of the future family head from Tang Ruyan.
Tang Ruyan had then transformed, from the future family head to a front impersonating the future family head.

She was still regarded as the future family head in the records, and that was what the other forces believed.
She had to participate as the future family head in some important public events to convince others that she was indeed whom the Tang family claimed her to be.

As a result, she had been living in constant fear since young She didn’t know how many times she had to go through assassination attempts, ambushes, and surprise attacks.

Those had been done by hitmen that other forces had sent over.

But she had survived because she worked hard.
Also, even though she was pretending, people were protecting her in secret as well.
So, she was able to escape every time.

However, her heart was forever scarred.

She had once hated her life and she complained.

But she would always remember her genius baby sister, the girl that would always stand in front of her, guard her, and protect her.

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Her baby sister would always be the first to give candy and other snacks to her.
When other family elders would talk rudely to her or scold her, her baby sister was the first to jump out and defend her.

When her parents scolded her, her baby sister was the first to comfort her.

That big and brilliant smile would always be there with her, and it had dissolved all the hatred and anger inside her.
She could no longer hate.
She gradually accepted her new identity and worked even harder to fit into her role.

She was going to be a very, very… very qualified front!

That is, until that long time that they were parted from each other.”Sir, why are they so lifeless?”

Her baby sister was taken to the killing cave that all the future family heads of the Tang family had to go to train.

There, no one knew who each of them was.
All that was kept in the cave were condemned prisoners.
Only one of one thousand would be able to survive.

Once, Tang Ruyan had survived that trial.

So did her baby sister.

She had been the only survivor.

But after that, the smile never came back to her baby sister’s face.

Even when they were together, the former would not speak a word, as if they were complete strangers.
That went on.
Since she had other assignments to do and other training to take, she and her baby sister would get together less and less.

The last time they met, Tang Ruyan was 14.

Her baby sister was 12.

But her baby sister was much more powerful than she was.

Her baby sister said something that she would never forget:

“I know that you’re a front but you have to work hard.
You’ll give yourself away if you’re always so weak, you know.”

With that said, her baby sister left.
She took away all the warmth and care she once gave to Tang Ruyan.

Tang Ruyan’s heart began to freeze!

Ever since then, Tang Ruyan had always been working hard and trying her best!

Just like her baby sister said, she had to keep working to fulfill her function, as her father, her mother and all the family elders hoped.

To be a qualified pretender.

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Before her baby sister grew up, she had to filter all the potential dangers that came her way.

This day…

It was the day the mask would have to be abandoned.

Tang Ruyan clenched her fists.
Her fingers were poking her palms but she felt nothing.
Baby sister…

Am I a qualified front?

“Just the three of you.
You don’t want her?”

Su Ping frowned.

I have been taking care of her for such a long time and now you tell me that you don’t want her?

Tang Mingqing knew that his answer would reveal the fact that Tang Ruyan was not the real deal.
Anyways, he had to do it.
If Su Ping were to ask for five ransom items, they would have said yes because they could give him garbage items.
But Su Ping was still going to pick by himself.
Of course, he would start with the best ones.

They were unwilling to give up five good items.

It wasn’t worthwhile for a proxy.

Also, while Tang Ruyan’s cover had been blown, their actual future family head was growing up as well.

She was still young but she could already finish average titled battle pet warriors with ease!

She could protect herself already.
She will have matured at the moment she became able to survive a fight with titled battle pet warriors at the peak.
By then, even when her identity was exposed, the other families would not be able to kill her so easily.
“I trust that our future family head will look at the big picture,” Tang Mingqing said, darting a warning look at Tang Ruyan at the same time.
Tang Ruyan wiped away her tears and stopped her mind from wandering to the past.
She gave him an affirmative look.

Tang Mingqing was relieved.

Su Ping was speechless.

This was the first time he knew that a future family head could be given up.
Were all the family heads of your Tang family this cheap?

Or was Tang Ruyan so weak that the Tang family had always been wanting to choose another one?

Su Ping looked at Tang Ruyan, confused.

She was weak but she could make a good future family head.
What is… the Tang family up to?