Chapter 717: Confirming Identity

"Deputy Head, we have a clue!"

"What clue?" Ou Jun immediately asked when he heard his subordinate come in to report.

The subordinate said, "We have found information about Miss ’Ou Jiao’, no, Comrade Cao Guihua’s mother!"

"The situation with Cao Guihua’s mother?" Ou Jun’s brows furrowed slightly as he asked.

"Yes, the situation with Comrade Cao Guihua’s mother!" The subordinate nodded and replied, "Comrade Cao Guihua is indeed her mother’s biological child."

His tone was very certain.

"What?" Hearing this, Ou Jun stood up abruptly, shaking the desk with his vigorous movement.

Ou Jun fixed his eyes on the subordinate and asked, "Speak, what exactly happened?"

The subordinate hastily answered, "Deputy Head, it went like this..."

In fact, the matter was not complicated.

It turned out that when Cao Guihua was born, her father, disdaining her for being a daughter, immediately handed her over to human traffickers.

However, not long after, Cao Guihua’s father had an accident at work, and the family received a compensation payment. Cao Guihua’s mother, who had always felt guilty, used that money to find the traffickers and buy her daughter back.

"It’s quite coincidental; these traffickers were the very same people who abducted Miss ’Jiao Jiao’ back then." The subordinate explained, "Moreover, someone who was present at that time recently remembered why there was no record of this transaction."

"It was because it wasn’t a sale; it was a redemption."

As for the swaddling clothes, they must have been mixed up inadvertently by the traffickers.

In any case, it was all a series of unfortunate misunderstandings that led them to mistake Cao Guihua for Ou Jiao.

The truth was finally clear.

They could at last confirm that Cao Guihua was not the real Ou Jiao.

Ou Jun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and then tensed up again.

It was good that they had eliminated the possibility of Cao Guihua’s identity.

But where then was his actual, legitimate sister?

Ou Jun felt some frustration; if only he had been more careful from the beginning!

"There’s another matter," the subordinate suddenly mentioned.

"What is it?" Ou Jun raised his eyes, his brow furrowed.

"The driver who was driving when the Lady fell ill has just come back from a mission," the subordinate informed.

"He’s back?" Ou Jun asked.

The driver, a new addition to the household staff, had been driving when his mother fell ill. Ou Jun, finding him too flustered and unreliable, nearly delayed his mother’s treatment.

Therefore, after his mother regained consciousness, he had the driver sent back to the military.

Because the driver had not performed well in tasks for Ou ZhenTing, upon returning, he had been assigned to a remote region to carry out duties as a minor punishment.

"Yes, he’s back," the subordinate confirmed.

Ou Jun nodded.

"That’s good then," Ou Jun thought for a moment and said, "Since he’s back, have him come here so that I can ask him about the circumstances of my mother’s illness."

"Get the details and report back to me," Ou Jun ordered.

After the incident with Cao Guihua, Ou Jun became even more cautious about the search for his sister. Now, he could not easily trust anything.

Thus, he began to wonder whether his mother had even met "Ou Jiao" and if she had mistaken a passerby for Jiao Jiao during her illness.

In short, he had to suspect boldly and verify carefully.

He and the Ou Family could not afford another mistaken identity.