Chapter 540: Who is the Child's Father?

"Stop."

Jian Yixin called him to a halt: "Sheng Zerong, how long are you going to keep pretending? Is this interesting?"

He stopped, turned around, his face full of worry and very serious: "Wife, we must go to the hospital for a check-up. No matter what, I will be with you."

Jian Yixin:...

Was he worried that she had become mentally ill?

That was right, that was exactly it.

Her mother had suffered from mental illness, and it hadn't improved for so many years.

He had a shadow in his heart; whenever he saw someone acting abnormally, he would think in that direction!

"You're the one who's mentally ill! Sheng Zerong, your whole family is mentally ill!" Jian Yixin was furious.

She didn't want to give him any more chances; she wanted him to confess on his own.

She slapped the paternity test right in front of him: "Sheng Zerong, explain this to me. What exactly is your relationship with Shi Yuke?"

He picked it up to look—he was completely bewildered!

What was going on?

This was impossible.

Sheng Zerong swore to his wife with absolute sincerity: "Wife, believe me, I have absolutely no relationship with Shi Yuke. That appearance of hers... no, you know my feelings for you. Aside from you, I would never have any improper thoughts about any woman."

Jian Yixin said coldly: "Sheng Zerong, do you still think I'm a teenage girl? Do you think I can believe any sweet talk? We are all adults; wouldn't it be better to be mature?"

"A real man should have the courage to act and take responsibility. Don't make me look down on you..."

Her words were quite calm, but tears couldn't help but fall.

Only at this moment did Jian Yixin realize how much pain she felt in her heart.

Before, she thought that Sheng Zerong loved her more, and marrying him was a mix of being moved, gratitude, not disliking him, and liking him a little.

But why did her heart ache so much knowing that Moli was his biological child?

So, she did love him.

She didn't know when it started.

But unknowingly, it had already seeped into her bones, very, very deep.

Jian Yixin's heart ached, aching as if someone were stabbing her heart with a knife.

Her heart was bleeding; others couldn't see it, but she could feel the pain herself!

Sheng Zerong said firmly: "I didn't. Yixin, I swear to you, I have absolutely no relationship with Shi Yuke, and it is impossible for Moli to be my biological child."

He immediately wanted to take Moli to the paternity testing center again to have another test done; he did not accept this test report.

Seeing her husband's firm attitude, Jian Yixin agreed to a second paternity test.

However, she didn't want her husband to go. After all, Sheng Zerong was a person of status in Jiangzhou; if reporters photographed the three of them at the testing center, it would definitely cause a huge stir.

She personally pulled a few hairs from her husband's head and a few from Moli's head, placed them in sealed bags separately, and sent someone to have them tested.

The test results came out, and sure enough, there was a blood relationship!

But it was not a father-son relationship; it was an uncle-nephew relationship.

A false alarm.

Jian Yixin hugged her husband, crying and laughing at the same time.

She cried and said: "I thought you had betrayed me. You are the person in this world least likely to betray me. If even you don't want me anymore, what meaning is there for me to live in this world? Then I would just die..."

After crying enough, she hugged her husband and broke into a smile through her tears.

Sheng Zerong held his wife and said lovingly: "You are truly silly. The only meaning of my life is because of you. You are the lighthouse in my life; without you, I wouldn't be able to find my direction at all!"

The couple hugged each other and made up as before.

After the excitement, once they calmed down, there was a practical question they couldn't help but think about.

Whose child was it?

Sheng Zerong and Moli had a blood relationship—an uncle-nephew relationship—so who was Moli's father?

Both of them thought of one person at the same time—Sheng Hanyu!

The couple covered their mouths simultaneously, their expressions very complex.

If Sheng Hanyu were Moli's father... this reason was even more far-fetched than Sheng Zerong being the father, and even more impossible.

Sheng Hanyu and Shi Yuke were like fire and water; it was absolutely impossible.

Then there was one more person who was possible—Sheng Yukai.

However, Sheng Yukai was serving his sentence in a distant frontier Prison; if there were no accidents, it would be impossible for him to get out in this lifetime.

An accident...

Both of them reached for the phone almost at the same time, preparing to call the Prison to ask if Sheng Yukai had come out a year ago and if he was still in Prison now.

That Sheng Yukai was able to serve his sentence in such a remote place was also thanks to Sheng Zerong.

When Bai Xue was lucid, she had cried and begged her youngest son to help his second brother, not to let him die, but to let him live to atone for his sins.

So he used his connections to get his second brother sent to the distant frontier to serve his sentence.

Sheng Yukai's sentence was commuted from a suspended death sentence to life imprisonment, and he was undergoing labor reform in the desert!

If there were no accidents, they had almost forgotten about this person.

"Beep—"

"Beep, beep—"

"Beep, beep, beep—"

The phone rang many times, but there was no answer on the other end.

"Could he have changed his number?" Jian Yixin asked.

After all, they had not dialed this number for many years.

"Are you stupid?"

Hanyu affectionately poked her forehead: "If the number had been changed, it would show 'cannot be connected' or 'invalid number,' not that no one is answering."

"Wait, I'll dial it one more time."

"Mm."

About half an hour later, the other side called back: "Hello, Mr. Sheng, I apologize, I was in a meeting just now and the phone was on silent."

Sheng Zerong inquired about his second brother's situation, and the other side told him that Sheng Yukai was doing everything normally in Prison, following the same early-to-rise and late-to-bed routine as the other inmates.

"Has he gone out at all in the past year, or has anyone come to visit him recently?" Sheng Zerong asked.

The reply from the other side was very certain: "No, it is impossible to enter or leave our facility at will; he has not stepped a foot outside the Prison, and no one has come to visit him."

They even asked if he wanted to speak with Sheng Yukai.

He refused: "No need, thank you."

Hanging up the phone, the two of them fell into deep thought again.

In the end, Jian Yixin decided that this matter still had to be told to Shi Youxuan.

They had clearly notified one person, but both of them came.

The two of them walked in, and Sheng Hanyu spoke immediately: "Take Shi Moli to do another paternity test; this time, I will go personally."

Jian Yixin and Sheng Zerong were both stunned.

Sheng Hanyu's influence in Jiangzhou was much greater than his third brother's; if he went to do the paternity test, was he not afraid of the news spreading or people spreading rumors?

He was not afraid.

Shi Youxuan was not afraid either.

The two of them were in agreement that those with a straight shadow need not fear a crooked figure; besides, having already been through so much, this little test was nothing.

Shi Youxuan said: "Let's go together."

Thus, everyone went to do the test together, and the result was the same as what Shi Youxuan had guessed—Moli and Sheng Hanyu were indeed uncle and nephew.

It was just that they shared even fewer identical genes.

From these few test results, it was basically possible to deduce who Moli's biological father was—Sheng Yukai!

Sheng Zerong did not believe it: "How is that possible? He has been in Prison the whole time and has never stepped a foot outside; Shi Yuke got pregnant while in the psychiatric hospital, could she have had a 'cloud pregnancy'?"

The three of them looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Sheng Zerong was good in every way, but he was too bookish and sometimes inflexible, often asking questions that a nerd would ask, just like right now.

He had only made a phone call; just because the people at the Prison said he was there, did that mean he really was?

Could the people on that side not be lying?

Shi Youxuan poked a hole in it: "The people at the Prison must be lying to you."

"Why would they lie to me?"

The three of them were speechless.

Why else?

They don't want to take responsibility, that's why.

Sheng Hanyu sent Lao Qi to investigate; this kind of matter must be taken seriously.

Sheng Yukai hated the few of them to the bone; if he had escaped, it would be a very serious hidden danger.

It is easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to guard against a hidden arrow.