Yang Yajing felt her life was utterly worthless—single at 36; meager salary absolutely insufficient to cover her mother's medical expenses.
Her best friend not only stole the man she...
Jiang Xuanxuan has misunderstood Xia Yuxuan this time!
They're still fast asleep right now! They have no idea what's going on online.
A spoiled brat who partyes every night, how could he possibly get up before afternoon tea time?
Madam Xia was utterly shocked. Although she knew Jiang Xuanxuan's private life was problematic, she never imagined she would even be able to sleep with someone so close to her!
Moreover, it was on the eve of the family reunion press conference. Did she not know the identity she was to be recognized?
If she really is the daughter of the Xia family, then wouldn't that be incest?
"Miss Jiang, what's going on?" After a long while, Madam Xia finally found her voice, but her tone was clearly unfamiliar.
"It's fake! It's all fake!" Jiang Xuanxuan exclaimed anxiously. "Someone must have photoshopped the pictures to frame Xuanxuan! How could Xuanxuan do such a thing! Xuanxuan is your daughter!"
"Why are they framing Miss Jiang? Has Miss Jiang offended anyone?" Madam Xia asked.
"Xuanxuan hasn't offended anyone...no!" How could she have incurred the Xia family's hatred before even entering their home? "Yes! It's jealousy! It must be jealousy!"
"Jealousy? Jealous of what?"
"Xuanxuan is going to become the Xia family's daughter, someone must be trying to sabotage it and take her place!" Jiang Xuanxuan said to herself as she thought, confirming, "Yes! That must be it!"
“But isn’t there DNA testing?” Mrs. Xia followed her words and entered the second act of the performance.
"Xuanxuan doesn't know! Mrs. Xia... Oh! No! Mom! Mom must stand up for her daughter!"
"No! It's too early to change your mind!" Madam Xia leaned back slightly.
Upon hearing this, Xia Changlong pressed the send button on his phone. The pre-edited message contained two words: Interrupt!
The recipient of the letter was none other than the hospital director, who was also waiting in the parking lot.
Just as Jiang Xuanxuan was crying her heart out, the staff member at the door opened the door and whispered something in Madam Xia's ear.
Mrs. Xia nodded, and only then did the staff open the door and let the person in.
The person who entered was a middle-aged man in a sharp suit, carrying a file folder in his hand.
Upon entering the scene, he first bowed deeply to Madam Xia and apologized: "Madam Xia, I am incompetent and have failed in my duty to discipline. Please forgive me."
"You are...?" Madam Xia looked at the person who apologized as soon as he entered the door and roughly guessed who it was, but she was not sure about the details of Xia Changlong's arrangements.
"I am Qu Weihua, the president of Jincheng Renji Hospital."
"Renji Hospital?" The reporters below quickly realized who it was. "Was the gene test last time issued by the hospital's gene research department, Director Qu?"
"Exactly!" Dean Qu nodded.
"Dean Qu, may I ask what brings you here?" The reporters' eyes lit up again.
"Mr. Qu is here to apologize and correct his mistakes." After Dean Qu finished speaking, the audience raised their microphones, signaling him to continue.
Qu Weihua slowly built up the tension, saying, "I don't know where to begin with this..."
"Let's start from the beginning!" a reporter couldn't help but shout.
"Let's start from the beginning?" Qu Weihua thought for a moment before speaking, "At the beginning of the year, I heard that the hospital had received news from two giant companies that they wanted to conduct genetic screening..."
Qu Weihua began to recount the story in detail, talking about one thing for five or six minutes.
In those five or six minutes, Jiang Xuanxuan and Wang Xiuzhen's faces went from red to green, and then to deathly pale.
Qu Weihua meant that he was afraid of problems with the genetic screening, so he drew twice as many blood samples from the two people.
It just so happens that he was also an expert in the gene research department before he took over as dean. Not feeling at ease, he personally verified and checked it.
One blood sample can be used for three tests, but his results were completely different from those of the chief physician.
The report had already been published, but he still felt uneasy, so he spoke with the chief physician.
It turns out the director refused to admit it, but no one knows who anonymously sent him a money transfer message.
After questioning the chief physician with this, I learned that he had violated medical ethics and made a false report for a mere million yuan.
To prove his claims were well-founded, he presented evidence piece by piece on the projector.
There are three genuine reports, a written self-criticism from the chief physician, and a personnel order revoking the chief physician's medical license.
This timeline perfectly matches Dean Qu's explanation.
"Who forged this?" Madam Xia asked indignantly.
"The head of the Jiang family is Jiang Jucai," Dean Qu replied.
"Why...why did he..." Madam Xia seemed very disappointed and heartbroken, "Why would he even use his own daughter, give her away? How could he bear to do that..."
"At first, Mr. Qu couldn't understand it either, but earlier today, he received several other reports." At this moment, Qu Weihua took out several more reports from the file bag.
One of them was Jiang Xuanxuan's blood test report, which clearly showed her OB blood type.
Then came the separate gene comparisons of Jiang Jucai, Wang Xiuzhen, and Jiang Xuanxuan.
It is clear that Jiang Xuanxuan is not Jiang Jucai's daughter, but Wang Xiuzhen is Jiang Xuanxuan's biological mother.
Madam Xia only knew that Jiang Xuanxuan was not her daughter, but she did not know that Jiang Xuanxuan was Wang Xiuzhen's biological daughter.
She really wanted to curse, cursing Yang Yajing and Xia Changlong for hiding such important information from her.
But what she couldn't understand even more was: "Madame Chiang... how... how could you bear to do that?"
Wang Xiuzhen was unable to answer immediately.
"I've been searching for my daughter for over twenty years, over twenty years!" Tears welled up in Mrs. Xia's eyes. "I've considered many possibilities, imagined my daughter becoming someone I wouldn't want to see... But no matter what, I never considered giving her away!"
If she's not good enough, she can be taught; if she's been hurt, she can be comforted; even if she's missing limbs, the Xia family has the resources to ensure she lives as comfortably as a normal person...
The only thing I never thought about was that they would disown my daughter, let alone give her away!
"Madam Xia! Madam Xia, we were forced!" Jiang Xuanxuan was the first to react, and she tugged at Wang Xiuzhen.
"Yes! We were forced into it! That old bastard Jiang Jucai forced us to curry favor with the Xia family, and even said that if we didn't succeed, he would kick us out and make us beggars!"
"A woman with hands and feet, why would she need to be a beggar?" Madam Xia disagreed. "Is it really that important that she's not in the Jiang family? Why would she need to deceive me, to exploit my love for my daughter?"
"We're really at our wits' end!" Wang Xiuzhen's tears smudged her eye makeup into a mess. "I'm just a housewife, I don't know anything!"
"Is this an excuse to deceive and exploit me? Have I offended you? Have I coerced you?" Madam Xia said sternly. "Knowing you were incompetent, couldn't you have avoided making mistakes in the first place?"
Husband and wife are birds of the same fate. When the father is loving, the mother is at peace; when the mother is at peace, the child is at ease; when the child is at ease, the family is harmonious; and when the family is harmonious, everything prospers.
With the Jiang family patriarch's heart not with his wife, the scattering of birds and beasts at the sound of gunfire seemed inevitable from the start.
Mrs. Xia thought the farce was over, but then another uninvited guest appeared in the hall…