The woman had stopped crying. She patted the boy, who glanced at his mother, then at the dignified old man, before mustering his courage to step forward and timidly say, "Grandpa...Grandpa..."
Grandpa Chu was furious and interrupted the boy sharply, "Shut up, I'm not your grandfather!"
The boy was only five or six years old and not very brave. When Grandpa Chu yelled at him, he immediately cried and hid behind the woman, who turned pale.
The atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive when a sudden inspiration struck Lan Qingyue. Despite Old Master Chu's imposing presence, she spoke up.
"Um... I took a look, and this report is from three years ago. Since you already knew three years ago that this child was Chu Xiao's, why didn't you bring the child to acknowledge your parentage three years ago, instead of waiting three years to show up?"
"I..." The woman was enraged by Lan Qingyue's question and shouted uncontrollably, "What do you mean by that? Are you questioning the authenticity of this report? This child is Chu Xiao's. Your question was clearly an insult to me, an insult to Chu Xiao's child. You vicious woman, you actually want my son to never come home! You're so wicked!"
Lan Qingyue: "..."
She touched her nose speechlessly. "I just wanted to ask, why are you so angry?"
"This child looks to me about five years old, right? Why didn't you come looking for him back then? Your older brother has been gone for two years, and you're only now coming to us. If we don't suspect you, who else would we suspect?"
Chu Ying jumped up, grabbed the DNA report, glanced at it briefly, and sneered coldly, "What can't you do at such a young age? Why do you have to use a child to make money? Who knows if this report is real or fake?"
Indeed, as Lan Qingyue asked, why wasn't the report from three years ago released then? Why was it kept hidden until two years after Chu Xiao's death?
If her family accepted the child without even thinking about it, given such a dubious report, they would be truly foolish.
"You...you..." The woman was so angry with Chu Ying that her lungs felt like they were about to explode. She glared at the two elderly people in the main seat with resentment in her eyes. "Ha, you should ask your good parents about this! Back then, when I was dating Chu Xiao, we had already reached the point of discussing marriage. Your family humiliated me with money, and now you want to humiliate me and my child. Aren't you afraid that Chu Xiao in the afterlife will be disappointed in you?"
"Slap!" The sound was startling. Lan Qingyue panicked as she saw the woman's face turn to the side. Old Madam Chu's face was flushed red. "Ha, Zhang Liyun, after all these years, you haven't grown at all! You have no self-awareness at all. You weren't worthy to enter the Chu family back then, and you're even less worthy now! Don't think that having a son gives you leverage. Unless Chu Xiao personally acknowledges this child, you can forget about it."
So, this woman really is Chu Xiao's ex-girlfriend?
Lan Qingyue's mind went blank. It didn't seem impossible for someone who was against marriage to fall in love.
Oh dear, what kind of situation is this?
She could have transmigrated into any body in the book, even into that little baby Chu Chu, it would have been better than being a single stepmother.
Zhang Liyun held the child's hand, tears streaming down her face. Her gaze towards Lan Qingyue was like a poisoned dagger. Even from a distance, Lan Qingyue could feel the woman's hatred. "I'm not worthy? I'm not worthy, is that it? Then does Lan Qingyue, an actress, deserve it?"
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