Ti Shen 替身 (Volume 2: Perfect Deduction)

Vol 2 Ch 34: A New Life - My Son, Your Name is An Yang!"

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This translation belongs to the translators and proofreaders of Giraffe Corps.

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Once Master An exacted his revenge against the Ran family, he was conflicted, should or shouldn't he bring Ran Feng Ge back to be nurtured under his wings? Ran Feng Ge is after all, his own flesh and blood -a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its own cubs! What Master An had wanted to do was to get back at Ran Chen; not only did he get his wish, he managed to implicate Ran Chen's two sons in it as well. Therefore, Master An decided to bring Ran Feng Ge to America, get him as far away from the Ran family as possible, who knows, perhaps with time, he would be able to accept things as is and assimilate into the An family.

However, after returning to China, Master An had been unable to locate Ran Feng Ge. He received information that Ran Chen had been admitted into the hospital, which prompted Master An to make a trip down to the hospital in an attempt to locate his son. Alas, not only was he unable to find Ran Feng Ge, he found out that his "wife" Ran Wen Lu had gone crazy.

Even after going back into the Ran family compound and waiting for a whole day and night, Ran Feng Ge was still nowhere to be found. It was only then that Master An started panicking – using all the An resources to search for his son.

Because Ran Feng Ge was under the Su family's protection at that time and the Su family's security was airtight the An family was unable to locate Ran Feng Ge at that time.

At least, that was the case until the day Su Yi Mo decided to take the both of them out for a drive. That was the day the An family finally got a lead on the whereabouts of Ran Feng Ge.

The only problem was that it was too late, by the time the An family could make a move, Ran Feng Ge had already been hurt in the accident.

The men who had hurried to retrieve the unconscious and injured Ran Feng Ge from the carnage met up with Master An as soon as they could to admit Ran Feng Ge into a hospital.

Once the preliminary treatments had been performed and Ran Feng Ge was pulled back from hell's gates, the words the attending doctor said next were that Ran Feng Ge is suffering from a severe traumatic brain injury and that complications could arise.

Master An was beside himself waiting anxiously for Ran Feng Ge to regain consciousness. With regards to this son of his, he was full of contradictions – at one end, he felt immense guilt towards the suffering this young son of his had been through, but on the other end, this was what everyone from the Ran family deserved.

It was only after 5 days that Ran Feng Ge finally regained consciousness.

His head was aching tremendously, his vision unfocused and blurry. He was unsure of where he was or why he was there; the only thing Ran Feng Ge was sure of was that something was not right at all. Ran Feng Ge was unsure why everything around him was so foreign and unfamiliar.

"You're finally awake. Do you feel any discomforts anywhere?" Master An asked gently as he rushed forwards towards his son.

Ran Feng Ge could not help the suspicion from flooding his eyes as he eyed the stranger before him: "Who are you?"

"...Master An was taken aback for a moment before quickly replying, "I am your papa."

"Papa?" Ran Feng Ge repeated the strange word on his tongue, his little face full of suspicion. The word papa was very foreign to him, and from the little memories he still retained, it was a very unfamiliar word.

Master An misunderstood Ran Feng Ge's tone and assumed that his son had been calling out to him – his heart wrenching a little, wondering to himself Ran Feng Ge must hate me, doesn't he?