Chapter 268: Seeing Li Xuan One Last Time

However, upon seeing the test results, he was dumbfounded.

The test concluded that Shen Chi and Bai Mo have no biological relationship.

"How is this possible?" Shen Chi muttered in disbelief.

He rubbed his eyes and looked again, but the result remained the same: Bai Mo had no biological relationship with him.

"Let me see!" Li Xuan had been waiting anxiously and snatched it to look, her face equally incredulous. "Not my granddaughter? How could it not be my granddaughter? No! There must be something wrong somewhere!"

Contrary to the reaction of this mother and son, the three members of the Bai family were thrilled.

Bai Fu took the paternity test with an air of finality. "Do you see now? Momo has nothing to do with you. Don't pester us again in the future."

"No!" Shen Chi could not accept this. "You can't leave. How could there be such a coincidence in this world? My daughter was sent to the Fuliyuan, you just happened to adopt her from there, and she looks so much like our family—this paternity test must be flawed!"

"I think there's something wrong with your brain!" Bai Fu was a big, sturdy man; he stepped forward and shielded his wife and daughter behind him, ensuring neither Shen Chi nor his mother could touch a single finger of his daughter. "There are plenty of coincidences in this world. Besides, didn't your mother say your child was born with health issues? Then my daughter certainly isn't her!"

Shen Chi tried to reach out to snatch the paternity test results, but Bai Fu easily pulled them away, leaving him unable to touch even a hair. "I paid for the paternity test, so the results naturally belong to me."

His sudden display of such a tough attitude left Shen Chi and his mother feeling momentarily off-balance.

"From today on, if I find out your family dares to harass my daughter again, the consequences will be very dire."

Having said his piece, Bai Fu stopped paying attention to them, took his wife and daughter by the hand, and strode away.

"I don't believe it," Shen Chi said, sliding down the wall to the floor in agony. "It shouldn't be like this."

Li Xuan, however, spotted Si Rong not far away. Her anger flared up instantly, and she ran over in a few steps. "It's you! You did this, didn't you? You tried every possible way to stop us from reuniting with our granddaughter before. How could Heaven not have taken you for doing such a vicious thing? Tell me! Did you bribe the hospital..."

She suddenly found herself unable to continue; something was blocked in her chest, and it suddenly felt as if it were about to burst out.

In the air, a spray of blood splattered out, a truly horrifying sight.

Li Xuan's eyes widened. Her body seemed unable to move, and only her ears could still hear sounds.

Those noisy, chaotic, meaningless sounds—they were so much like her life.

Li Xuan was rushed into the emergency room by nurses. Shen Chi took the money he had obtained from his younger sister by lying about Li Xuan being critically ill to pay the surgery fees.

It turned out that in the dark, everything had its own destiny.

He watched Si Rong walk away quietly, feeling no further emotion in his heart.

Only one final thought remained in his mind: even if Li Xuan had a thousand faults, she was the only mother he had in this world.

"Uh..." This sudden and inexplicable scene left Ming Zi speechless.

Just as she was most of the time when facing Li Xuan.

"She isn't going to just die like this, is she?"

Si Rong raised an eyebrow. "The good never live long, while the wicked live for a thousand years."

The two of them left the hospital. Ming Zi pulled Si Rong into her car and said to Jiang Cheng, "Don't worry, I'll send your wife back safely. We have some private words to share now."

Jiang Cheng:...

He could only watch helplessly as his wife got into another woman's car.

After rolling up the car window, Ming Zi handed a document from her bag to Si Rong.

Si Rong looked at the paternity test in her hand. "So, Bai Mo really is the daughter Shen Chi and Lin Meixi had back then."

"Not anymore." Ming Zi put on her sunglasses. She looked at herself in the rearview mirror and thought she was the coolest old lady ever.

Si Rong felt this method wasn't foolproof. "But Li Xuan and her son don't believe this result. What if they test again?"

It could only be said that as Bai Mo grew older, she really did look more and more like her aunt.

"We'll deal with that when the time comes," Ming Zi thought it wouldn't happen in the short term. "Whether Bai Mo will cooperate with them is one thing, and besides, the nearly two-thousand-yuan cost of a paternity test isn't something that mother and son can just pull out."

"How did you fake this kind of thing?" Si Rong asked, somewhat worried. "What if it's discovered later? Will you be in trouble?"

"With money, everything is easy to handle," Ming Zi wasn't worried at all. "I'm already fifty-five this year. By the time it's discovered, I might be seventy or eighty, or dead. Are they going to throw me in prison? They'd have to support me in my old age!"

Si Rong:...

"For the first time, I feel that being old is also an advantage. You're right; as long as Bai Mo can grow up healthily in the Bai family and not fall into Li Xuan's clutches, that's what matters."

All the way back to the Family Quarters, Si Rong felt the air was filled with a familiar, fresh scent.

But it wasn't just the air that was familiar; the reporters who had wanted to interview them before they were hospitalized were there too.

"By the way, you two didn't spend little money going to Chuan Shi, right? Now that you're being promoted by Chuan Shi as positive figures for earthquake relief, I heard some brands want to find you two to film advertisements."

"Film advertisements?" Si Rong had never dealt with that. "I'm not interested."

"There's a very high endorsement fee."

It was indeed as Ming Zi said; this time, not only did reporters come looking for them, but there were also many brand partners.

The highest endorsement fee offered reached one million.

After discussing it with Jiang Cheng, Si Rong decided to take on some advertisements and donate a portion of the income to Chuan Shi to support post-disaster reconstruction.

A week later, just as Si Rong finished filming and returned to the Family Quarters, she saw Shen Yuan at the entrance.

She rolled down the car window and heard Shen Yuan say, "My mother is dying. Before she passes, she wants to see you one last time."

In truth, after a lifetime of entanglement, Si Rong had nothing to say to her.

But Shen Yuan knelt directly before her. "I beg you."

Si Rong still decided to see Li Xuan one last time.

Not because of Shen Yuan's kneeling, but because she suddenly realized that from this moment on, there would be no one named Li Xuan in this world.

However, Si Rong did not go alone.

Jiang Cheng accompanied her.

It was mainly because this family of three was always inexplicably spiteful, and she always had to be on guard when dealing with such people.

Shen Chi and Shen Yuan stood outside the hospital room, and Jiang Cheng did not go in either.

Inside the room, only she and Li Xuan remained.

"You came after all." Li Xuan smiled at her.

The smile was withered and ugly.

"That's right, I've come to see you off on your final journey, and while I'm at it, to give you a word of advice: walk well on the road to the Yellow Springs, and stop dwelling on ways to harm others." Si Rong's brows and eyes were low as she sat on the stool by the bed.

"Harm?" Li Xuan let out a long breath. "Yes, in this life I have harmed you, but Si Rong, at the very beginning, I did not intend to harm you."