SBCEJM -Chapter 366 The Real Culprit, Su Mei: “I Swapped My Own Niece for a Son!”

【Wait! Holy crap! There’s a twist!】
【A huge twist!】

Feng Zexuan froze. 【What twist?】

【Su Yan and Su Meiniang aren’t blood-related at all!】

【What???】

Feng Zexuan even blurted it out in English.

The four people inside the tent were stunned at the same time.

Not blood-related?

How were they suddenly unrelated again?

Su Yan’s body tensed like a drawn bow. He stared fixedly at the pitch-black bushes outside the tent. Bloodshot eyes erupted with terrifying hope, like a drowning man clutching at the only piece of driftwood he could find—yet fearing it might only be an illusion.

【System, stop dragging this out! What exactly is going on?!】

Feng Zexuan was dying from curiosity.

【Host, earlier I only checked whether Su Meiniang was a child of the Su family. She is!】

【But I didn’t check Su Yan!】

【I just investigated more carefully and discovered—】

【The Su family’s child really was switched back then, and Su Meiniang truly is the Su family’s daughter!】

The system spoke rapidly.

【But the person exchanged with Su Meiniang wasn’t Su Qingqing—it was Su Yan himself!】

【Su Yan is actually the farmer’s son!】

Boom!

The revelation exploded inside the tent like thunder.

Xiao Che, Li Jingyan, and Lu Zheng stared at each other in disbelief.

Their jaws practically hit the floor.

This drama… had taken an absolutely insane turn!

Su Yan went completely rigid, his mind blank.

He… wasn’t a child of the Su family?

How was that possible?

But…

He suddenly recalled how, growing up, neither his appearance nor personality resembled his parents in the slightest.

His father was honest and gentle. His mother was soft and virtuous. His younger sister Su Qingqing was graceful and sweet.

Only he himself had always been cold, decisive, and sharp-edged—completely out of place within the Su family.

So it turned out… he had never shared their bloodline at all.

【Oh right!】

Feng Zexuan suddenly realized the flaw in everyone’s assumptions.

【After finding their biological daughter, why did everyone automatically assume the switched child was another daughter instead of the son?】

The system explained:

【In most people’s subconscious minds, baby-switching usually means swapping one girl for another girl.】

【Very few people would imagine someone exchanging a boy for a girl…】

【Sigh. Rigid thinking really ruins lives.】

Feng Zexuan sighed emotionally.

【But in that case, doesn’t that mean Su Yan and Su Meiniang can finally be together openly and legitimately now?】

【A happy ending for everyone!】

Inside the tent, Su Yan’s breathing grew heavy.

His tightly clenched fists trembled slightly from the force.

Finally, the corners of his taut lips broke into an almost crazed grin.

The massive boulder crushing him for five years suddenly shattered apart. His entire body felt light, as though he might float into the air.

The other three men looked at his expression—wanting to laugh yet hardly daring to, his face flushed red from holding it in—and their emotions became indescribably complicated.

From shock… to sympathy… to shock again… and finally into helpless amusement.

What kind of absurd situation was this?!

【But System,】 Feng Zexuan suddenly thought of another possibility.

【Could that farming family have intentionally swapped their son into the Su household for ulterior motives?】

【Host, you guessed wrong again this time.】

The system rejected her speculation.

【I just uncovered the truth behind the child swap!】

【Su Yan’s biological parents had absolutely nothing to do with it.】

【The mastermind behind everything was Su Meiniang’s paternal aunt—Su Mei!】

【Su Mei? Why would she do something like that?】

【The story begins twenty-eight years ago.】

The system slowly narrated.

【At the time, Su Mei was still unmarried and about to wed.】

【Before the wedding, she went to speak privately with her mother—Su Meiniang’s grandmother.】

【By accident, she overheard her mother saying she planned to give half of Su Mei’s dowry to her older brother, who later became Su Yan’s adoptive father.】

【The reason was that her sister-in-law was pregnant with twins. Her brother didn’t refuse and happily accepted it.】

【Su Mei exploded with rage on the spot! She believed her mother was biased and her brother greedy.】

【In a fit of anger, she did something insane—】

【She secretly gave her own brother a drug that would render him infertile.】

The four men in the tent sucked in sharp breaths.

She actually poisoned her own brother like that?

This woman was vicious beyond belief!

【At the time, her thinking was extremely twisted. She felt that since her sister-in-law was already carrying two children, that should be enough.】

【If there were more children later, her parents would favor the nephews even more.】

【On the day her sister-in-law went into labor, they had been visiting a temple together to offer incense. But on the way back, she suffered premature labor.】

【Su Mei watched with her own eyes as her sister-in-law nearly died giving birth to twin girls!】

【She was overwhelmed with regret, believing she had doomed her brother and caused the Su family line to end.】

【In order to “make up” for her mistake, she made another mad decision.】

【She saw that a neighboring farming family was also giving birth. While both mothers were unconscious, she bribed the midwife and swapped one of her nieces with the farmer’s baby boy!】

【In her mind, this both took revenge on her biased mother and greedy brother while also “preserving” the Su family bloodline.】

【Even if her brother could never have children again, he would at least still have a son to care for him in old age.】

【As long as nobody knew the bloodline had changed, what difference did it make?】

Feng Zexuan was dumbfounded.

【Wh-What kind of insane logic is that?!】

【Sure, she got her revenge, but her sister-in-law and that farming family were completely innocent!】

【Because of her selfishness, the destinies of two entire families were completely rewritten!】

【Exactly!】

The system agreed.

【Debts belong to those who incurred them—what right did she have to use other people’s lives to compensate for her own mistakes?】

After hearing the whole story, the four men inside the tent wore complicated expressions.

They were shocked by the bizarre truth and furious at Su Mei’s selfishness.

Xiao Che said grimly, “If this is true, then Su Mei is the true culprit!”

Li Jingyan nodded. “She ruined two families. Her crimes are unforgivable!”

Lu Zheng clenched his fists. “Someone like her deserves death by a thousand cuts!”

Su Yan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

So this was where everything began.

If his aunt had not acted on her own madness, he would never have been switched at birth, never met Meiniang, and never suffered through these past five years.

But now, the truth had finally come to light.

He and Meiniang shared no blood relation. They could finally be together openly.

As for his biological parents…

He would search for them. But regardless of the outcome, the kindness of being raised outweighed heaven itself. The Su family would always be his home.

Feng Zexuan sighed emotionally:

【Sigh… the root of all these tragedies was outdated son-preference thinking.】

【If Su Mei’s mother hadn’t favored sons so heavily, if people didn’t value boys so obsessively, none of this would’ve happened.】

【In the end, toxic ideas are what destroy people.】

The system agreed.

【Host, you’re absolutely right!】

【That’s exactly why your education reform matters so much!】

【Only when everyone receives education can these rotten mindsets truly change!】

Feng Zexuan nodded.

【Mm. There’s still a long road ahead.】

After finishing this earth-shattering gossip session, Feng Zexuan happily let out a satisfied burp.

【Alright, now that we’ve figured out the new leeks’ background stories, it’s time to reel in the net!】

Stretching lazily, she prepared to enter the tent and drag the four men into the space.

But the moment she took a step forward, her foot suddenly landed on something hard and round.

She bent down to pick it up and held it close to the firelight spilling from the tent.

Feng Zexuan’s eyes lit up.

【System, look! I found something good!】