Lin Peirou's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably, but she didn't even have the strength to cry out.
Lu's mother wanted to argue, but looking at the evidence in the pottery basin and at the looks in everyone's eyes, all her words got stuck in her throat.
They could only watch helplessly as Shen Qingtang, carrying the ceramic basin, walked step by step toward Lu Jin and Lin Peirou.
The chill in his eyes.
It made her shiver involuntarily.
Lu Jiaojiao scrambled to her feet, trembling with rage. Pointing at Shen Qingtang's nose, she screamed shrilly, "Shen Qingtang! You'll regret this! You'll definitely regret it! So many people want to adopt me as their daughter but never get the chance. I'm a lucky person, but you just don't want me! Even if you beg me to come back, I won't acknowledge you!"
She kept repeating that she was "lucky," as if that could cover up the fact that they had to undergo a blood test to determine kinship, but the panic in her voice was unmistakable.
Shen Qingtang looked at her coldly, her tone completely calm: "You don't need to tell me these things. Since I'm not your mother, go find Lin Peirou. She is your real biological mother."
"You... what nonsense are you talking about!" Lu Jiaojiao's heart trembled violently, as if someone had touched her most secret secret.
His face paled even more instantly.
Now that Shen Qingtang had said that, she suddenly panicked. She subconsciously looked at Lin Peirou, then hurriedly looked away. When she met Shen Qingtang's eyes, which seemed to see through everything, she shrank back in fright.
Seeing this, Pei Wuwang stepped forward and stood beside Shen Qingtang, looking at Lu Jiaojiao with a cold gaze: "Shen Qingtang will not regret it. The decisions she makes are never wrong."
"What's it to you!" Lu Jiaojiao, stung by Pei Wuwang's words, shrieked, "Pei Wuwang! You're an outsider, mind your own business! You all just wait, one day you'll all be envious of me!"
Shen Qingtang stopped wasting words with Lu Jiaojiao and turned to look at Lin Peirou, who was pale and silent. Her voice was calm but carried a sense of pressure: "Lin Peirou, your biological daughter is right here. Don't you want to acknowledge her?"
Lin Peirou froze, instinctively avoiding Lu Jiaojiao's gaze, her hands gripping the hem of her clothes tightly, her nails almost digging into her palms. How could she dare to admit it?
Lin Peirou immediately took a step back, trying to appear calm, but her tone was clearly panicked: "Sister-in-law! What nonsense are you talking about! I'm still a virgin, I've never been pregnant, and I've never been with a man. How could Lu Jiaojiao be my child? You must be crazy!" As she spoke, she raised her hand to smooth her hair.
She tried to maintain her "innocent" image, but the fear in her eyes was impossible to hide.
"Really?" Shen Qingtang looked at her with a half-smile, her eyes sharp as knives, as if they could see through all her pretenses. "Are you sure you've never been pregnant?"
That look made Lin Peirou feel uneasy, and she couldn't help but take another step back.
He stumbled, his voice trembling, "I... I'm sure! Don't make false accusations!"
Those around them had already noticed that something was wrong.
At this moment, two sycophants who had been fawning over Lin Peirou suddenly stood up and yelled at Shen Qingtang, "Don't slander Peirou! We know what kind of person Peirou is. She's innocent. How could she have a child? You're just making up lies to get revenge!"
"Is that so?" Shen Qingtang was too lazy to waste words with them. She took a step forward, grabbed Lin Peirou's wrist before she could react, and then pulled Lu Jiaojiao, who was still in a daze, together with her hands.
She took out the dagger and ceramic basin from her spatial storage and said to everyone, "Whether it's slander or not, we'll find out by doing a blood test."
"No!" Lin Peirou struggled desperately, trying to shake off Shen Qingtang's hand. "I won't bleed with her! You're humiliating me!"
But how could her strength compare to Shen Qingtang's?
Shen Qingtang held her hand tightly and without hesitation made a small cut on her fingertip, and bright red blood dripped into the ceramic basin.
Then, he made a cut on Lu Jiaojiao's fingertip and dripped her blood into it.
Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on the ceramic basin, where two drops of blood from Lin Peirou and Lu Jiaojiao were slowly approaching each other in the water. After a short while, they completely merged together!
"They've merged! They've merged!" someone exclaimed. "Lu Jiaojiao really is Lin Peirou's child!"
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