"Cough cough..." Because of his excitement, Chen Batian accidentally choked on his saliva. Afraid of being unseemly, he quickly made a fist and coughed lightly with the web of his hand.

After calming down, Chen Batian tentatively asked, "Miss Yu, do you know who your biological father is?"

At the banquet, he secretly pulled out a few strands of Yu Qiao's hair and ran off to get a paternity test.

After seeing the kinship test result of 99.99%, he immediately investigated Yu Qiao!

Recalling everything the information showed, her family was poor, her mother constantly beat and scolded her, and she had to work at a young age to earn money for her schooling...

Just looking at the documents made his heart ache!

He couldn't help but feel uneasy and think that if it weren't for him, his daughter wouldn't be living such a difficult life!

But what shocked and angered him was that the woman did not treat Yu Qiao as her daughter at all, and instead beat and scolded her!

Even when Yu Qiao was seven years old, they kicked her out of the house, and she almost froze to death outside.

Chen Batian was filled with anxiety, unsure whether his daughter harbored any resentment towards him as her father.

Yu Qiao's beautiful eyes widened in surprise, looking bewildered and innocent. She spoke weakly, "Mr. Chen, I... I don't have a father."

She knew how to feign weakness, and every word she uttered was aimed at Chen Batian's heart.

Yu Qiao said dejectedly, "My mother said I was a bastard, an unwanted child, and she has never liked me."

“I don’t know who my father is either, maybe…” her voice trembled, “My father knows, but he just thinks I’m too bad and doesn’t want to acknowledge me.”

Chen Batian's heart felt as if it had been frozen in a thousand-year-old ice cellar, and his refined and scholarly face cracked: "No, it can't be!"

"You're so well-behaved and sensible, how could he not want to acknowledge you?"

Yu Qiao looked over with surprise, and Chen Batian guiltily touched his nose: "I mean, he might not know you exist."

Yu Qiao lowered her gaze, her delicate lips twitching slightly.

Didn't know she existed?

That's true, after all, she was born from a relationship with a random man while Yu Meijiao was hanging out in bars.

Yu Meijiao didn't even know who that man was.

Yu Qiao took a deep breath, picked up her teacup and took a small sip. She looked up, her eyes sparkling, and went straight to the point: "Mr. Chen, let's not talk about this anymore."

"Is there something you need from me?"

Chen Batian paused slightly, suddenly finding it difficult to speak, the paternity test certificate next to his hand feeling as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Will his daughter forgive him and acknowledge him as her father?

In an instant, countless thoughts piled up and intertwined in my mind.

Finally, Chen Batian spoke with difficulty: "Qiaoqiao, don't you think so?"

"You're a lot like me..."

A shadow of unease flickered across Yu Qiao's eyes. She looked up again, her gaze filled with helplessness and a hint of timidity: "Mr. Chen..."

"I don't understand what you mean."

"Take a look at this." Chen Batian opened his mouth but couldn't speak, so he pushed the paternity test results in front of Yu Qiao.

Yu Qiao's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her slender, fair fingers opened. When she saw that the blood relationship between father and daughter was 99.99%, her pupils suddenly widened.

"This, this is..."

Chen Batian said, "As the paternity test shows, daughter, I am your biological father!"

Yu Qiao stared wide-eyed in disbelief: "How is this possible? Mom clearly said, said I was..."

"Twenty years ago, because I was not interested in women, my family mistakenly thought I was gay. They drugged me when I went to a bar, and I accidentally ended up being pulled into Yu Meijiao's room and having sex with her."

"I was planning to take charge the next day, but my grandmother suddenly fell ill and was in the hospital for emergency treatment, so I just left my business card and left."

"I thought Yu Meijiao would contact me after she woke up, but I didn't expect her not to."

Fearing she might overthink things, Chen Batian quickly explained, "I tried to check, but the surveillance cameras were broken that day, so I don't know who I was with... I didn't even know you existed."

Yu Qiao pursed her lips.

business card?

She looked at Chen Batian.

Yu Meijiao was probably in a panic the next day. She put on her clothes and ran away. How could she have seen any name?

Otherwise, if Yu Meijiao knew that she could hook up with Chen Batian, she would probably want to strip naked and lie in bed every day.

Yu Qiao's lips curled into a mocking smile.

Seeing her silence, Chen Batian assumed she was having trouble accepting it, and said again, "I have never been married and have no children. Qiaoqiao, you are my only daughter."

I know it must be hard for you to accept right now.

Yu Qiao truly didn't know how to face her biological father. Her long, fan-like eyelashes trembled slightly as she whispered, "This is too absurd."

Chen Batian's eyes were filled with tears.

My daughter is...

Are you not going to acknowledge him anymore?

Yu Qiao collected her thoughts and said, "Mr. Chen, I have something to attend to."

Emerging from the banquet, Yu Qiao was still somewhat dazed. She wasn't a bastard; her father had come looking for her…

but,

A chilling expression, completely out of character, appeared on Yu Qiao's pretty face.

What's the point of finding it now?

She has already gone through the twenty years of abuse and humiliation she suffered.

Yu Qiao sneered.

What she needs now is not a so-called father.

All she wants is money!

Yu Qiao did not refuse to acknowledge Chen Batian, but she also did not agree to acknowledge him.

She used her most vulnerable appearance to gain his guilt and pity, while looking at the bank card worth thirty million in her hand.

She simply tossed it into her bag.

Too few.