Bradley's heart was pounding rapidly. If he wasn't worried about waking up the woman in her sleep, he would definitely have gone to Ye Lu An with the report and asked him to clarify all the situations.

But at this moment, he could only tremble as he replied to the message via text.

Wait a moment. Freya is about to fall asleep. Let's talk in person.

When Freya came back just now, her face looked very pale. Bradley asked about the situation and only then learned that she had donated blood to Ye Lu Qi.

This silly woman! She was already so weak, yet she still donated blood to someone, and she had donated so much.

Bradley was extremely sad. He quickly held her and lay down to rest.

Freya was indeed tired. She nestled into his arms, closed her eyes in a daze, and soon there was the sound of even breathing.

After she fell into a deep sleep, Bradley carefully adjusted her sleeping position and then signaled Ye Lu An to come in.

He still couldn't get out of bed at the moment, so he could only ask Ye Lu An to sit on the sofa, and the two of them talked face to face.

"You've seen the report, right? It turns out that the person I've been looking for is Freya's biological mother," Ye Lu An still couldn't accept this fact. She had been so far away yet so close, and as a result, they had missed each other for so long.

On his way here, Ye Lu An had been thinking about this question. Why did Freya want to catch the queen? And Bradley had once said that the queen had a deep-seated hatred with them for the death of their mother.

At that time, he hadn't quite understood, but now when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that there was an answer.

It was because Freya was the daughter of Bai Zhilan, and Bai Zhilan's death had an irreconcilable relationship with the queen. Therefore, Freya had always been determined to find the queen.

But there was one thing Ye Lu An couldn't figure out. Since Freya knew the queen's crime, she should also know who her biological father was.

So why had Freya never mentioned it, and she didn't even seem to have the intention of acknowledging their kinship?

Just as Ye Lu An couldn't figure it out, Bradley had already spoken. "You're right. Bai Zhilan is Freya's biological mother, and she passed away when Freya was eight years old. As for the murderer, you already know. It was the queen who colluded with Freya's stepmother and hired someone to run over her with a truck and kill her."

When talking about these past events, Bradley felt sorry for what Freya had gone through. Facing that scene alone at that time, she must have been very scared and helpless.

He knew this feeling very well. After all, when the Long family persecuted his parents, he had also been hiding in the corner and watched his parents die with his own eyes.

Upon hearing this, Ye Lu An clenched his fists and then slammed them hard against his chest, choking as he said, "If it wasn't for my childishness back then, Bai Zhilan wouldn't have been involved in the royal family's disputes. It's all my fault. I'm the one who killed Bai Zhilan."

"Old Xue, things have come to this. Tell the truth," Bradley said.

Now that all the secrets were no longer secrets, then let the truth come to light.

Ye Lu An nodded and then began to tell the events of that year.

After hearing the whole story, Bradley frowned and said, "So the person who had a relationship with Bai Zhilan back then wasn't you, but Ye Lu Qi?"

Ye Lu An hummed in agreement. "Yes. At that time, my eldest brother was about to ascend the throne. I was worried that these things would affect his future, so I took all the blame. After that, I searched all over the world for Bai Zhilan's whereabouts, but I never heard from her again."

Bradley finally understood completely.

It turned out that they had all been misunderstanding.

Ye Lu An wanted to make up for Bai Zhilan not because he had an affair with her, but to atone for his own youthful and frivolous behavior.

"Old Xue, Old Xue, you really got us. You've been fooling us for so long," Bradley said in a cold and deep voice, and his eyes looking at Ye Lu An were even less friendly.

It was Ye Lu An who had confused the situation, which had made this blood relationship a laughingstock.

"What do you mean by fooling? I was protecting my eldest brother," Ye Lu An didn't understand what Bradley meant at all and was immersed in his own emotions.

But he didn't expect Bradley to say, "You reversed the truth, making all my investigation results point to you. You also made us misunderstand that you were Freya's biological father, and you made Freya hate you for nothing all this time."

After saying that, Bradley let out a helpless sigh and looked down deeply at Freya, who was sleeping soundly. He didn't know how desperate she would be when she learned this truth.

After all, Ye Lu Qi was her biological father, and she hated him so much. Yet, due to inevitable reasons, she had to save this man several times.

Ye Lu An was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized. "So the reason why Freya's attitude towards me suddenly changed completely was that she mistook me for her father?"

Bradley narrowed his eyes and said lightly, "That's right. She has always hated the man who hurt her mother. So whether it was you or Ye Lu Qi, she didn't plan to acknowledge the kinship."

"How can that be? Freya is of the blood of the Ye Lu royal family and is a princess of great honor. The Ye Lu royal family has owed her for so long, and she deserves the best compensation."

At this moment, Ye Lu An felt a little lucky. Since Freya was his eldest brother's daughter, then the future of Country Z was saved.

However, this thought had just arisen when it was mercilessly extinguished by Bradley. "She is my woman, and I will compensate her myself!"

Ye Lu An naturally understood Bradley's strength. It was no problem for him to protect Freya. Moreover, with all his assets, he could ensure that Freya would live a prosperous life.

But blood is thicker than water. Although Freya was Bradley's woman, she was also a princess of their Ye Lu royal family.

Therefore, Ye Lu An had no intention of giving in on the matter of acknowledging their kinship.

"Bradley, we've been brothers for so many years, and you know that I'm not the kind of person who likes to be entangled. But regarding Freya, I still insist that she recognize her ancestors and return to her clan."

"We'll talk about this when Freya wakes up. But Old Xue, I'm warning you. If Freya doesn't agree to acknowledge the kinship, you'd better give up this idea," Bradley said.

He respected all of Freya's thoughts. As long as she didn't want to do something, no one should try to force her.

"Okay. I'll stay here and wait. When she wakes up, we'll talk about this calmly," Ye Lu An said and started making tea on his own, as if this was his territory.

This made Bradley extremely dissatisfied.

So he picked up the fruit knife on the bedside table and rushed towards Ye Lu An.

Ye Lu An was just about to drink tea when a cold light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. He was so scared that he quickly stood up and sidestepped to avoid it. The fruit knife stabbed directly into the door.

"I was just drinking tea and didn't do anything. Do you really have to try to kill me?"

If he didn't have some martial arts skills, the fruit knife might have stabbed into his heart, and he would have been lying on the ground dead by now.

Bradley ignored him and simply uttered one word, "Get out."

His woman was sleeping here. What was Ye Lu An doing sitting here?