68: The script for the real and fake young masters was switched, but it didn't work.

The smell of disinfectant had not yet dissipated. Zhao Cheng clutched the crumpled hospital bills,

his eyes sweeping over the man in the custom-tailored suit outside the nursery, his nails nearly digging into his palms.

Beside him, Xu Qian had just finished her C-section; her face was deathly pale, but her eyes were bright.

The two exchanged a look and, taking advantage of the nurses' shift change, slipped into the nursery like weasels stealing chickens.

"The third one on the left, the Qin Family's precious treasure, hurry!"

Xu Qian lowered her voice and stuffed her son, Zhao Tian, who was wrapped in rags, into the luxury crib.

Then, in a panic, she picked up the male infant wearing a pure gold longevity lock—Qin Jiuge.

The two stumbled out of the hospital. Zhao Cheng couldn't even resist looking back at the closed door,

as if he could already see the days when his son would live in a villa and drive luxury cars, his smile stretching from ear to ear.

But as soon as they turned the street corner, the "Qin Jiuge" who had been swapped into the nursery suddenly opened his eyes.

There was no infant ignorance in the dark pupils, only a chill that could freeze a person to death. Quick Transmigration System 001 reminded him:

[Demon King, that couple just swapped you with their child; I have already swapped you back.]

"001, investigate that couple's background."

[Understood! Zhao Cheng, an unemployed vagrant, riddled with gambling debts.]

[Xu Qian, worked odd jobs to survive and was extremely vain.]

[The two have been married for three years. Because they had no money to treat Zhao Tian's sick elderly mother, they targeted the wealthy Qin Family who had just given birth and planned this swap.]

The cold light in Qin Jiuge's eyes grew even more intense.

He had lived for tens of thousands of years, and what he hated most were people who were poor yet loved to have children,

and even thought of swapping their own child with someone else's, harming another's child—how is this any different from a cuckoo bird?

Half a month later, the Qin Family held a Full Moon Feast.

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian dressed up specially and brought two boxes of cheap milk to the door,

ostensibly to "congratulate the Qin Family on their new son,"

but in reality, they wanted to see how their "son" was doing.

Luxury cars were gathered at the Qin Family's entrance. The two walked in with their necks shrunk and immediately saw Qin Jiuge being held by the Qin Family couple.

The little fellow was wearing a small diamond-encrusted formal suit; his skin was fair, and his eyes were as bright as stars.

Zhao Cheng's eyes widened, and he secretly tugged at the corner of Xu Qian's clothes:

"Look at our son, how grand! He's a hundred times better than in our shabby rental!"

Xu Qian was also so excited that her eyes turned red. She leaned in when no one was looking, her voice trembling:

"Baby... Mommy has come to see you..."

Qin Jiuge looked up and glanced at her. That look was as cold as an ice pick, scaring Xu Qian into freezing instantly.

But on second thought, the child was still young; what could he understand? It must be that she was too excited.

She quickly forced a smile and stuffed a cheap plastic toy into Qin Jiuge's hands:

"Good baby, here, play with this..."

Qin Jiuge directly waved his hand and knocked the toy to the ground. His little mouth puckered, and he burst into tears with a loud 'waa'.

Madam Qin was immediately heartbroken and quickly carried him away, frowning at Xu Qian:

"Ma'am, the child is still small; don't frighten him."

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian's faces instantly turned red, and they retreated awkwardly to the side.

Qin Jiuge lay in Madam Qin's arms and stole a glance back at them, his lips curling into a devilish smile.

This was just the beginning; the good show was still to come.

From that day on, Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian ran to the Qin Family every few days.

Each time, they brought worthless things, ostensibly for a "visit," but in reality, they wanted to gain some benefits.

The Qin Family couple had good tempers; seeing how pitiful they were, they would occasionally give them old clothes, toys, or even some money.

But their greed was insatiable. Every time they got something, they felt it was what "their son" deserved, and after returning, they treated Zhao Tian even worse.

After Zhao Tian was taken back to the rental house, his life was more miserable than a dog's.

Zhao Cheng would hit him whenever he lost money gambling, and Xu Qian disliked him for eating too much and being ugly, resorting to both physical and verbal abuse.

The two always compared him to the Qin Family's "Qin Jiuge":

"Look at your brother! He lives in luxury in the Qin Family, growing up fair and plump,"

"Then look at you! Dark-skinned and skinny as a monkey, a real jinx!"

"If it weren't for you being useless, would we be working this hard? When your brother grows up and inherits the Qin Family's fortune, just wait and see how we'll enjoy our lives!"

Zhao Tian was only a few years old and didn't understand what a swap was; he only knew that his parents didn't like him and always hit him.

Every day he didn't have enough to eat, wore tattered clothes, and huddled in the corner shivering,

looking at the photos of Qin Jiuge that his parents had secretly taken on the wall, feeling both envious and afraid.

Meanwhile, Qin Jiuge's life in the Qin Family was thriving.

He spoke at one, recited poetry at two, and could solve calculus at three, making the Qin Family couple dote on him endlessly.

He also deliberately "performed" when Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian came over:

Either playing a fluent piece on the piano or reciting a passage in a foreign language.

Each time, the two were left dumbfounded, and after returning, they would hit and scold Zhao Tian even more severely.

"Look at your brother! He can play the piano at three. What about you? You can't even figure out 1+1! A pig is better than you!"

Xu Qian grabbed Zhao Tian's ear and slammed him against the wall.

Zhao Cheng sat to the side drinking and sneered:

"Trash is trash. Just like his dead grandmother, he's just here to collect debts!"

"When your brother becomes successful in the future, he'll be the first to kick you out!"

Zhao Tian's tears flowed from the pain, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

He didn't understand why his parents liked "Brother" so much but hated him so much.

As the days passed, Qin Jiuge grew into a handsome young man. Not only were his grades first in the school,

but he was also proficient in various arts, becoming the pride of the Qin Family and the favored child of the heavens in the entire social circle.

Meanwhile, under long-term abuse and malnutrition, Zhao Tian grew up thin and short, with a cowardly personality and bottom-tier grades, becoming a "poor student" in everyone's eyes.

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian were even more proud, feeling that their decision back then was absolutely right.

They even began to plot that when Qin Jiuge turned eighteen and became an adult, they would go and claim kinship with him, letting him take them to the Qin Family to enjoy a life of comfort.

On this day, it was Qin Jiuge's birthday, and the Qin Family held a grand party.

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian specifically bought new clothes and arrived early.

Seeing Qin Jiuge in a bespoke suit, surrounded by people like the moon surrounded by stars, the two couldn't stop smiling.

Xu Qian leaned in, grabbed Qin Jiuge's arm, and said affectionately:

"Jiuge, you've grown so big. Do you still remember Mom and Dad?"

Qin Jiuge shrugged off her hand, his eyes cold:

"Ma'am, please watch your words. My parents are only Mr. Qin and Madam Qin. You have the wrong person."

The smile on Xu Qian's face froze, and Zhao Cheng quickly stepped forward:

"Jiuge, how can you say that? If it hadn't been for us back then..."

"If it hadn't been for you what back then?"

Qin Jiuge interrupted him, his voice not loud, but carrying an intimidating Aura,

"If it hadn't been for your attempt to swap babies, trying to steal a life from the Qin Family?"

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian's faces instantly turned deathly pale, looking at Qin Jiuge as if they had seen a ghost:

"You... how do you know?"

Qin Jiuge sneered and took out a DNA report, throwing it in front of them:

"I not only know, but I also had an appraisal done long ago."

"Look, this one is for me and Mr. Qin and Madam Qin; the parental relationship is 99.99%."

"This one is for Zhao Tian and you; it's also 99.99%. Your swap back then never succeeded from the very beginning."

"Impossible!"

Xu Qian screamed, grabbed the DNA report, her fingers trembling as she looked at the results, and her tears instantly fell,

"How can this be? We clearly swapped them... how could it not have succeeded?"

"Because I did not allow it."

Qin Jiuge's tone was flat, but it carried an unquestionable dominance,

"Did you think that with your little bit of cleverness, you could steal something that didn't belong to you?"

"How could my, Qin Jiuge's, life be something you could alter at will?"

The surrounding guests were stunned and began to gossip.

The Qin Family couple was also stunned. They quickly took the report to look, and after confirming it was correct, they looked at Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian with rage:

"You actually did such a thing! How despicable!"

Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian were completely panicked. They hadn't expected the "beautiful dream" they had plotted for so many years to be fake from the start.

They looked at Zhao Tian, who was huddled in the corner, and suddenly realized,

all these years, the one they had been beating and scolding was actually their own biological son!

Xu Qian rushed over like crazy, grabbed Zhao Tian's arm, and wailed:

"Tian'er! Mommy was wrong! Mommy shouldn't have hit you or scolded you! Can you forgive Mommy?"

Zhao Tian was hurt by her grip and violently threw off her hand, taking a few steps back.

The years of abuse flashed through his mind like a movie. He looked at this pair of strange "parents" before him,

then looked at Qin Jiuge, who was surrounded by the crowd, and the resentment accumulated over many years finally exploded.

He pulled a fruit knife out of his pocket.

He had brought it secretly today, originally thinking that if his parents hit him again, he would end his own life.

But now, looking at this couple who had ruined his life, his eyes became cold.

"Forgive you?"

Zhao Tian's voice was hoarse and tearful, but every word was written in blood,

"All these years, you hit me, scolded me, treated me like a dog, said I was trash, and said I wasn't as good as 'Brother'."

"Did you ever think that I was actually your son?"

"When I was hungry, you were buying delicious food for 'Brother',"

"When I was covered in wounds from your beatings, you were praising 'Brother' for being smart and sensible."

"Now you tell me you were wrong? It's too late!"

Zhao Cheng's face was ashen, and he tried to step forward to pull him:

"Tian'er, don't be impulsive, we..."

"Don't touch me!"

Zhao Tian suddenly raised the knife, his eyes filled with despair and hatred,

"You ruined my life, and I'm going to make you pay the price!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed forward without hesitation and stabbed the knife into Xu Qian's chest.

Xu Qian's eyes widened, and she looked at him in disbelief, blood gushing from her mouth as she fell to the ground.

Zhao Cheng's Soul was flying away and his spirit scattering in fear; he turned around to run.

Zhao Tian chased after him with bloodshot eyes and stabbed him again from behind.

Zhao Cheng gave a miserable cry, fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

The entire party scene was in chaos, with screams rising one after another.

Qin Jiuge stood where he was, watching everything before him, his eyes showing not the slightest ripple.

This couple got what they deserved.

The police arrived quickly, and Zhao Tian was taken away for murder.

Before leaving, Zhao Tian looked back at Qin Jiuge with a complicated expression.

Qin Jiuge nodded at him and secretly gathered the Heavenly Dao Luck onto Zhao Tian's Soul.

In his next life, Zhao Tian will be born into a top-tier immortal family in the Cultivation World.

This is what he deserved.

Later, Qin Jiuge successfully inherited the Qin Family's business, kept the Qin Family in perfect order, and became a legend in the business world.

And Zhao Tian, although sentenced, received a good education in prison with the secret help of Qin Jiuge.

Later, Zhao Tian's sentence was reduced. After he was released, he started a new life and even won a 100 million grand prize in the lottery... As for Zhao Cheng and Xu Qian, under Qin Jiuge's machinations, they were sent to the Goblin Lair, where they would suffer for all eternity.