The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 2074

"What do you want to know?" Joanne had turned serious. She was curious about what Renee wanted to ask.

"I can affirm your parents wouldn't adopt an unrelated boy for no reason, given their character," Renee said. "Probably, they might even sell him to another person. But they adopted him, which was unprecedented. Although they weren't nice to him, they fed and raised him. So, I wanted to know..."

After a pause, she continued, "How did they adopt my brother? Or did someone let them have him?"

"I'm not sure about that." Joanne frowned, trying hard to recall it. "He's only three years older than me. When I was old enough to remember things, he was already living at my home. But at that time, my family openly said he wasn't blood-related to us. So, I knew from the start that he wasn't my biological brother.

"But there was something quite special. My parents and biological brother had always been lazy. However, my family conditions were okay. They didn't work, but we had money for food and stuff. My family was even considered pretty decent in the village. I doubted if some rich people secretly helped my family and if they were related to your brother."

"That's possible," Renee said.

contemplation, however, she shook her

it's illogical. If some rich people secretly helped your family because of my brother, why did they let your family adopt him? Plus, they let such a messy family adopt him. They watched your family bully and oppress him. Why didn't they try to stop

support my family. They purposely made my family harm your brother, and even paid my family

took advantage of a young woman in the village. That victim wasn't even sixteen years old! Logically, he should be severely punished. But that person managed to settle it. From then on, I could feel your brother getting worse. My parents seemed to have received some kind of order. They would harm your brother more severely with higher pay from

slammed her fists hard on the table. If that was true,

very wicked to separate Quinton from his parents, yet the perpetrator made it worse by purposely putting him in such a terrible family. He was harmed and oppressed from a

must be crazy

Joanne hung her head in