Jiang Yu was clearly Xiao Youzi’s biological father!
While shielding Xiao Youzi in her arms, Lin Ting picked up the paper with one hand, looking at it over and over again…
[Excluding Jiang Yu as the biological father of Lin Jin Yi]
That single line of text sent Lin Ting’s blood rushing to her head.
Her limbs went weak and numb.
Her thoughts became chaotic.
The members of the Lin and Jiang families gathered around, each picking up the paternity test results to examine.
The clamorous voices only added to Lin Ting’s confusion. They eyed her and her daughter with various hidden agendas and began to accuse her.
“Vivi and Jiang Yu are about to get married. How disgusting of you to pull this stunt?”
“This little girl is clearly the bastard child you had with Zhou Ziheng. Are you trying to pin it on Jiang Yu again? Do you want to ruin Vivi and Jiang Yu’s relationship?”
Xiao Youzi in her arms grew even more unsettled.
Lin Ting quickly picked up her daughter and looked toward Jiang Yu, whose eyes were filled with disgust and hatred.
“Jiang Yu, the result shouldn’t be like this. Xiao Youzi is clearly your daughter.”
“Xiao Youzi loves eating pomelos just like you, she’s also allergic to peanuts, and she’s smart and has a photographic memory just like you. You love painting, and she loves painting too. She started drawing simple sketches when she was two, and now she can already do still life drawings. And she hates eating scallions and cilantro just like you…”
“There must have been a mistake with the results. Can you go somewhere else and do another test, please? I’m begging you…”
Her mother’s desperate pleas were all witnessed by Xiao Youzi.
Beneath her long eyelashes, her eyes were already damp.
Her small hands wiped her mother’s tears. “Mommy, don’t cry. Youzi doesn’t need a daddy. Youzi only needs Mommy.”
Seeing Youzi like this, Lin Ting continued to plead with Jiang Yu.
But her desperate pleas were harshly interrupted by a furious roar.
“Enough!”
Lin Ting quickly covered Xiao Youzi’s ears tightly.
Afraid her ears would start hurting again.
The furious Jiang Yu looked at her with utter disappointment.
“Lin Ting, when you came to me a few days ago, I even reflected, thinking maybe I had misunderstood and wronged you before.”
“I even felt guilty toward you.”
“To be absolutely certain, I didn’t even tell Shu Chen. I personally took Xiao Youzi’s hair for the test.”
“I even went to several testing centers, just to avoid any mistakes.”
“But every single result came back the same.”
“Xiao Youzi is simply not my daughter.”
“What terminal cancer, what being forced into it?”
“It’s all just a trick so you can keep colluding with the Zhou family to steal my medical secrets.”
“Lin Ting, being so despicable, aren’t you afraid you’ll really get cancer and face retribution?”
Each accusation churned Lin Ting’s heart like a stormy sea.
Yet she still kept Xiao Youzi’s ears tightly covered.
Fortunately, Xiao Youzi didn’t hear Jiang Yu’s words about her using cancer as an act.
She gave Jiang Yu a pleading look:
“Mr. Jiang, Xiao Youzi has lost hearing in one ear. The hearing aid amplifies sounds much louder than normal decibels for her.”
“Could you please not speak so loudly, and could you please not say these things in front of the child?”
Jiang Yu found it laughable. “Now you know to care for your daughter?”
Hatred robbed him of reason.
He spoke the most heartless and hurtful words:
“Lin Ting, your daughter losing her hearing is the punishment and retribution from heaven for your despicable deeds.”
With that, he flung out a stack of photos.
One landed in Lin Ting’s hands.
Upon closer inspection, it was a photo of a bespectacled man with a large belly—someone from Zhou Pharmaceutical.
Photos of him coming to see her had actually been secretly taken?
At the time, the other party had indeed proposed collaborating with her.
He had pestered her for several days.
She had refused every time.
She felt more wronged than Dou E, “They wanted to work with me, but I didn’t agree. I never even considered—”
Slap!
The person who rushed out and slapped Lin Ting was her elder brother, Lin Zhenyu.
“Lin Ting, you ungrateful wretch.”
“Just moments ago, seeing how poorly you and your daughter were living, Dad even said he’d let bygones be bygones. He was worried you and the child were suffering outside and wanted to bring you both home to take care of you.”
“And this is how you repay the Lin family?”
Seeing the sister he had once doted on so dearly slapped until her cheek flushed red, Lin Zhenyu’s heart ached.
But when he thought about how, after being released from prison, she was scheming to collude with the Zhou family to continue harming Lin Jiang Pharmaceutical, his hatred grew stronger.
His arm rose again.
And at this very moment, Jiang Yu, who had once vowed to protect Lin Ting forever, was shielding Lin Weiwei, who had tried to rush out to intervene.
It was Jiang Shuchen beside them who pulled back the impulsive Lin Zhenyu, quickly urging:
“Zhenyu, stop hitting her. What if there’s some misunderstanding here?”
“What misunderstanding could there be? Lin Ting only returned to Pengcheng with the intention of continuing to harm the Lin and Jiang families. She even wants to come back and steal Weiwei’s man.”
While Jiang Shuchen and the others argued back and forth about whether there was a misunderstanding or not,
Lin Ting picked up the frightened Xiao Youzi again.
Even though she was scared, Xiao Youzi kept trying to comfort her.
“Mommy, does it hurt?”
“Mommy, Youzi will blow on it for you.”
Xiao Youzi blew warm breaths onto the red mark on her cheek.
Looking at Xiao Youzi, whose eyes were brimming with tears, wanting to cry but holding back, Lin Ting choked up.
With great difficulty, she managed to speak:
“Mommy doesn’t hurt. Youzi, don’t be scared, Mommy is fine. Does your ear hurt?”
Xiao Youzi hadn’t understood the adults’ argument, only hearing the sharp, piercing voices growing louder and louder.
Her ears were hurting from the noise.
But Xiao Youzi shook her head, denying it. “It doesn’t hurt, Youzi doesn’t hurt. Mommy, Youzi will blow on it for you.”
“Mommy, can we leave?”
“They’re all so mean. Youzi doesn’t want to stay here.”
Wiping her daughter’s tears, Lin Ting nodded gently. “Okay!”
Five years ago, no one had believed her.
Now, with the paternity test results showing no biological relation, even fewer would believe her.
She didn’t know where the paternity test results had gone wrong, but before leaving, she fixed her gaze on Lin Weiwei.
Though she had no proof that Lin Weiwei had tampered with things,
Lin Ting’s intuition was strong.
This suspicious look made Jiang Yu, standing beside Lin Weiwei, shield her even more tightly.
Beside them, Lin Zhenyu angrily warned her:
“Lin Ting, don’t you dare lay a finger on Weiwei.”
“No matter what you do this time you’re back, you won’t change the fact that Jiang Yu and Weiwei are about to get married.”
Lin Ting had never intended to change their current relationship.
If it weren’t for Xiao Youzi, she would never have wanted to see Jiang Yu again in her life.
Enduring the pain, she declared firmly:
“To me, Jiang Yu is nothing more than a discarded old object.”
“Whether he gets married or not, and who he marries—I couldn’t care less.”
“I was just…”
Thinking of Xiao Youzi, she paused.
It seemed her hope of entrusting Xiao Youzi to Jiang Yu was completely dashed.
The days left to her by fate were already few.
She had to quickly think of another way.
“Jiang Yu, just pretend I never came.” She had long been disheartened by Jiang Yu.
Fortunately, she still had Xiao Youzi in her arms.
That small, soft, and adorable body was connected heart to heart with hers.
As long as she had Xiao Youzi, it didn’t matter if she lost the whole world.
Because Xiao Youzi was her whole world.
“Youzi, Mommy will take you home.”
All the pain was instantly healed upon seeing Xiao Youzi’s adorable little face.
“Mommy, let’s go home!” Xiao Youzi hugged her neck.
That soft, tender voice was so healing.
Lin Ting instantly stopped feeling sad.
Holding her daughter, she turned to leave, while behind her, Jiang Yu announced to the crowd:
“My wedding with Weiwei has been moved up from the original National Day on October 1st to Labor Day on May 1st.”
That resolute announcement seemed specifically intended for Lin Ting to hear.
Lin Ting, holding her daughter, walked steadily to the private room door without stopping.
When the server opened the door for her, she didn’t look back.
That resolute figure made the complex emotions churning inside Jiang Yu even more turbulent.
Watching that retreating figure, he coldly warned, “Lin Ting, don’t collude with the Zhou family again to harm Lin Jiang Pharmaceuticals, or don’t blame me for being ruthless.”