Chapter 499: Maternal Grandfather and Reconciliation

Although the policewoman said "if," paired with her slightly evasive eyes, the effect was barely different from stating it outright.

After a violent startle, looking at the hesitant-faced policewoman before him, Li Ang couldn't help but ask, "When you were going through the list, did you find something?"

"I did find something... but I'm not entirely sure yet, so it's only an if..."

After silently sighing to herself, the policewoman took the "Missing Persons List" and the "Brief Genealogy of the Lionheart Family," pointed at one of the crossed-out names, and said softly with an unpleasant expression:

"This person... has the same name as your maternal grandfather. He was a fairly outstanding mechanic who once fought the previous-previous family head for control of the Bobby Laien Munitions Company.

But because his foundations were shallow, after losing the power struggle he not only lost his position at the munitions company, he was also driven out by the previous-previous family head's schemes, and in the end his whole family had to move out of the royal capital and go to... Bobby Laien County..."

"..."

The same name, a mechanic, Bobby Laien County... it was a little suspicious, but...

"That doesn't mean I'm a Bobby Laien, does it?"

Li Ang frowned after thinking for a moment:

"Bobby Laien County may be a small county, but it still has a few million permanent residents. For there to be one person with the same name..."

"It's not just the same name."

Clearly having had similar suspicions herself, upon hearing Li Ang's words the policewoman shook her head and brought over the third book she had prepared.

"Look, this is a photo from a ball at the time. The person on stage is your maternal grandfather."

"You want me to identify someone from a photo?"

Looking at the middle-aged man on stage, full of high spirits but with completely unfamiliar features, Li Ang couldn't help but frown:

"Because of certain things, I barely have any impression of my maternal grandfather, so..."

"Even if you don't recognize him, doesn't this person look familiar to you?"

After pointing into the crowd below the stage, the policewoman said helplessly:

"This person is your maternal grandmother. Her appearance is simply..."

Simply a mature version of Anna!

Looking at the woman in the photo who, apart from a few details, shared a full seven-tenths of her features with his own sister, this time even Li Ang felt that all this probably wasn't a coincidence.

After taking the three books back to his seat, brow tightly furrowed, Li Ang rapidly flipped through the relevant records and incidentally looked up the corresponding lineage.

Then he discovered, to his utter speechlessness, that if all this really held true, then not only was he a Bobby Laien, his generation rank seemed not low either—even the current Bobby Laien family head would have to call him uncle!

Although his uncle status was a distant branch, with no inheritable property to speak of, and when it came to the succession rights of the title he was ranked all the way past thirtieth, he was indeed a member of the Bobby Laien family, and could just barely be counted as part of the main line's branch.

Good lord, this melodramatic?

And looking at the mounting points of suspicion before him, even though Li Ang was rather reluctant to acknowledge this branch of relatives, he had to admit that he was probably really a Bobby Laien.

If there were only one or two suspicious points, it could still be coincidence, but this many coincidences piled together was honestly a bit hard to explain, especially a maternal grandmother who shared seven-tenths of her features with Anna...

This really is... the whole point of coming to acknowledge relatives was just an excuse to investigate the anomalous object, but now the offal hasn't been found, and the relatives have already been acknowledged first!

"Li Ang..."

Looking at Li Ang, who kept rubbing his brow with an unpleasant expression, the policewoman couldn't help but ask again:

"What are you going to do?"

"Do about what?"

"The matter of investigating the evidence, of course!"

"Those are two separate matters, just go ahead and investigate." After waving his hand to show he didn't care, Li Ang took out pen and paper, and while copying down the relevant records, he thought of Anna's worries.

He was a transmigrator, with not only no memories of his maternal grandfather, but even the matters concerning his parents were things he had heard from Anna.

But Anna was different from him. Although his maternal grandfather and grandmother had died of plague early, calculating the ages, Anna should have met them when she was small, and might well know her own background clearly.

So... could the thing Anna was hiding from him be exactly this?

But if it was this, why didn't she want him to see the photo? And was there really any need to hide something like this from him?

With a belly full of questions, after finishing copying the records related to his maternal grandfather, Li Ang folded the paper and carefully kept it on his person, preparing to go back and ask Anna.

Then he looked at the policewoman beside him, whose face was full of things unsaid, and pushed over another sheet of paper with his notes.

"Here, these are the people I found whose rise to power was very strange, who are suspected of having used some underhanded methods. If you want to investigate the Bobby Laien family, you can prioritize investigating these people."

"Ah? Thank you..."

After taking the "Suspicious Persons List," looking at Li Ang before her who had regained his composure, the policewoman couldn't help but clench her fists and said with a complicated expression:

"I didn't expect you really are a Bobby Laien..."

"Hold it."

After raising his hand in a stopping gesture, Li Ang said with a serious expression:

"My Bobby Laien is the Bobby Laien of Bobby Laien County, not the Bobby Laien of the Lionheart Duke... at the very least I don't plan to be, and my family never mentioned this, which proves they most likely have no interest in acknowledging this branch of relatives either.

So I hope we stop this matter here. After this, investigate the Bobby Laien family however you want, I have no relation to this family."

Saying this, Li Ang couldn't help but pause slightly. Although the policewoman didn't seem like the talkative type, just to be safe he still took out his citation notebook.

"How about this, what just happened counts as classified content, known only to you and me. If I find out anyone else knows..."

"Don't write me a ticket! I'm not that kind of person!"

After giving Li Ang an indignant glare, watching him put on an appearance of strict defense, doing his utmost to distance himself from his relation to the Bobby Laien family, the policewoman inexplicably felt relieved inside, then said with a slightly admiring gaze:

"Although the Bobby Laien family doesn't have a great reputation, they are still a great noble house with over five hundred years of history, and your grandfather was from the main line. I thought you would..."

"What you think isn't necessarily true. Besides, how do you know I was being sincere just now, and won't turn around and go acknowledge kinship with the Bobby Laien family?"

After cutting the policewoman off, seeing that after discovering this matter she hadn't concealed it to secretly investigate him, but had told him truthfully, and to prevent this fellow from capsizing the cart through rashness in the future, Li Ang couldn't help but offer some advice:

"You're not a bad person, but your temperament is a bit too impetuous, always making decisions on the spur of the moment.

For example right now, since you know my interests are tied to the Bobby Laien family, why tell me the situation directly? And before, it was just a misunderstanding, how could you be so dead-set that I must be a rebel?

Your judgments are all too hasty. When you encounter similar matters in the future, think it over before deciding. You can't keep going on so recklessly."

"I... I'm not completely thoughtless either..."

Hearing Li Ang's assessment of herself, being seen as reckless and impetuous by someone younger than her, the female police officer's face flushed slightly, and she couldn't help but try to salvage her dignity:

"I told you what I discovered directly because I felt you're actually not a bad person, and it's unlikely you'd be in cahoots with the Lane family!

As for why I concluded you're a rebel... just based on what you said before beating up the editor-in-chief of the Daily News, who wouldn't think you're a rebel after hearing it?"

(End of chapter)