Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
His heart was filled with warmth when he heard his wifeâs answer, and using a sickeningly gentle tone, he inquired. âWhat explanation do you want me to offer, then?â
That stern look on her face did not fade. Instead, she pouted in displeasure and insisted on getting an explanation from him. âShe couldnât possibly get pregnant on her own, could she? Are you telling me that sheâs conceived a ghost child?â
He suddenly pulled her into his arms.
The woman put up a fierce struggle at first, pushing and pummeling his chest with her little fists, but it was all to no avail. Her punches were no more than tickles to him, and he easily restrained her by stretching his hand. Sensing that she was about to fly into a rage, he said, âThat child in her stomach isnât mine.â
âWhat?â
Her eyes bulged wide open in astonishment.
He broke into laughter. âYou heard it loud and clear.â
âHowâs that possible? If not yours, then whose?â
Itâs a pity that I burned that DNA-test result out of anger earlier. If not, I could bring it back, throw it at his face, and confront him with it!
âIn the report she showed you, was there a line, before the confirmation of the biological relation between the provided samples, stating âexcluding circumstances surrounding multiple births, blood relations, and outside interferencesâ?â
Yun Shishi racked her brains hard to recall what she had read earlier, and it suddenly occurred to her that there was indeed such a line in that report.
Her husband chortled at the sight of her ruminating. âDo you recall it now?â
âYes...â
âThe fact that you read up to that part just proves you arenât so foolish,â teased the man, only to have his hand be slapped away by his wife.
âWhat about it? What does it mean?â
Mu Yazhe coolly explained, âIn other words, even if sheâs impregnated by someone else from my family, the DNA-test report will show that the child and I are biologically related.â
â...â
She was flabbergasted.
âAre you saying that...â
The man flicked her forehead hard, then snorted. âWhat a fool! Only now you go silent, huh? From your earlier behavior, you looked like a rampant kitten!â
In just a few words, he got his wife all coaxed and appeased.
Once she had calmed down, he proceeded to explain the matter in its entirety to her.
While his wife was still in Sea City and those few days after Song Enya had mysteriously disappeared from the hospital, the man got hold of his nieceâs whereabouts.
From the result of the investigation, he learned that the madwoman had thought of conceiving his child through artificial insemination to blackmail him into marrying her by threatening him with it.
The Mus had a private sperm bank, which mostly stored specimens from their male descendants. His niece had bribed someone from the senior management to sneak out his sperms. She then went to a hospital in the US and, after nursing herself back to health, went through a nerve-racking period of IVF treatment, which turned out to be a success.
Unfortunately for the young missy, he had caught wind of her plan at an earlier date and had tasked someone to swap his sperms with Mu Yanchengâs. Not only that; he even destroyed his remaining specimens stored in the sperm bank, lest a repeat of this incident should happen!
It was customary for the Mu family to preserve their genes, actually, but he had always been against it. As such, on his eighteenth birthday, he flatly rejected his uncleâs suggestion of him preserving his sperms, claiming that he needed no such thing.