Chapter 81 Didn't you want to know?
His hands trembled as he turned the page, his gaze falling on the conclusion on the last page: "Tests have shown that there is no biological relationship between Gu Shi'an and Gu Xiaoyuan."
Upon seeing this line of text, he inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief. Yuanyuan would probably feel much better if she knew that Gu Shi'an, that scumbag, wasn't her father.
No one doubted that Yuanyuan was his child, so naturally no test results related to him appeared.
Gu Zheng was having some difficulty breathing. Why didn't he send it to me back then?
If he had known earlier that Gu Shi'an was not Yuanyuan's father at all, he could have followed the clues and found out the truth.
Due to a moment of carelessness, he missed such important information.
He couldn't sit still any longer; he had to find Xia Zhiyun and get to the bottom of things.
Yuanyuan's room is not far from his office area, only about a ten-minute walk away.
Gu Zheng felt that the road was ridiculously long.
My mind was constantly racing the whole way.
He raised his hand to knock on the door, his hand trembling.
The door opened quickly, and Xia Zhiyun, dressed in simple home clothes with her hair casually draped over her shoulders, appeared. After a period of recuperation, her face, which had been so thin that it looked gaunt, had regained some weight, giving her a delicate and pretty appearance.
She was somewhat bewildered, not understanding why Gu Zheng had come to see her in the middle of the night.
"Professor Gu, is something important happening so late?"
"I'm asking you," Gu Zheng cut to the chase, "Yuanyuan, is she really my child?"
Xia Zhiyun's face turned deathly pale instantly. Her lips moved a few times, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a single word.
Judging from her expression, Gu Zheng could be certain.
Xia Zhiyun felt flustered under his gaze and unconsciously stepped back.
Gu Zheng took the opportunity to squeeze into the room.
"I think we should have a serious talk."
There were people guarding the area, and there were surveillance cameras everywhere. He didn't want his private affairs to be watched by a group of people.
They went straight into the bedroom, the only room without surveillance cameras.
"What...what are you going to do?"
Xia Zhiyun was a little flustered, no, she was very flustered.
Is he trying to steal Yuanyuan from her?
"Sit down." Gu Zheng sat down on the sofa in the room, pointed to the bed, and asked Xia Zhiyun to sit there.
Xia Zhiyun sat down shakily and said, "I don't know what nonsense you're talking about. How could Yuanyuan be your child?"
Gu Zheng narrowed his eyes and just looked at her.
"..."
Xia Zhiyun felt a chill run down her spine from his gaze. "What exactly do you want?"
Gu Zheng looked away and handed her Yuanyuan's DNA report.
“I’ve read this report,” Gu Zheng said, his gaze fixed on her. “Gu Shi’an is not related to her by blood.”
"That's right, Yuanyuan isn't Gu Shi'an's child, but she can't be yours either."
Gu Zheng took out the paternity test report that his mother had sent him and showed it to her.
"This is my DNA test report with Yuanyuan. It shows a 99.99% match. How long are you going to keep this a secret?"
The paternity test had already been done, and Xia Zhiyun knew there was no point in hiding it any longer.
"I……"
"I didn't mean to, Gu Zheng, I really didn't mean to hide it from you."
"Then why didn't you say so? There were so many opportunities."
You'd rather have your child recognize me as his godfather than tell me he's my child?
Gu Zheng's voice was hoarse, "Don't you believe me? Or do you look down on me, Gu Zheng?"
"I don't."
"Five years! Yuanyuan is five years old now. Why didn't you tell me?"
And when exactly did we have this child?
He wanted to have a proper talk, but he just couldn't control himself.
Xia Zhiyun staggered back two steps, fell onto the bed, and lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
Seeing her like this, Gu Zheng's anger inexplicably subsided by more than half.
"You still won't tell me even now?"
Xia Zhiyun's tears welled up instantly and slid down her cheeks. She raised her hand to wipe them away, but the more she wiped, the more tears streamed down her face, and her shoulders trembled uncontrollably.
Xia Zhiyun cried for a while before gradually calming down. She raised her tear-streaked face, her voice choked with sobs, and slowly began to recount what happened six years ago.
Do you still remember the alumni association in Beijing six years ago?
I had just graduated not long ago, and I made a special trip back to attend, just wanting...wanting to see you one more time.
Gu Zheng was taken aback. Were they alumni?
He has absolutely no recollection of it.
Xia Zhiyun stared at him with her eyes full of tears.
"That night, after the dinner party, I saw you leaning against the wall in the hotel corridor. Your face was flushed and you seemed to be out of it. There were several men and women with ill intentions staring at you."
In a moment of impulse, I rushed up and took you away.
Gu Zheng frowned. His memory of that period was indeed vague. He only remembered drinking a lot of alcohol that day, and the rest of the time was a blank. He didn't think much of it when he found himself in the hotel bed without anything unusual.
"You, you were drugged, so we...we..."
Xia Zhiyun's voice lowered, tinged with shyness.
“The next morning, I was afraid you would misunderstand when you woke up, and I was also afraid you would think I was deliberately getting close to you, so I quietly cleaned up the traces in the room and ran away before you woke up.”
At this point, tears welled up in her eyes again: "But unexpectedly, a little over a month later, I found out I was pregnant."
I was so happy back then that I couldn't sleep. I felt that this was God's chance to give me a little more time to get closer to you.
But I've searched through all the yearbooks and asked everyone who knows you, and nobody knows your new contact information.
She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, "My belly is getting bigger every day, but I still can't get in touch with you."
Unfortunately, my father was seriously ill at that time, and while lying in his hospital bed, he urged me to get married, saying he didn't want to see me suffer alone raising the child, and I didn't want Yuanyuan to be born into a situation where people would speak ill of her behind her back.
Gu Zheng was completely frozen. Looking at Xia Zhi's pale face, he imagined her carrying the child alone, taking care of her seriously ill father, and searching for him everywhere. Guilt almost overwhelmed him.
"I had no choice but to pay someone to fake a marriage," Xia Zhiyun's voice carried a hint of self-mockery, as well as deep fear.
"After much deliberation, I chose Gu Shi'an. He said he didn't want my money and would raise Yuanyuan like his own daughter."
For the past two years, he really put on a good act. He was gentle with me and cared about Yuanyuan. I even thought I could forget the past and live a good life.
But this peace was soon shattered.
Xia Zhiyun's body began to tremble, "Until..."
"Stop talking."
Gu Zheng dared not listen any longer; he knew what happened next.
Before, he only felt sorry for her, but now that he knew it was all because of him, he couldn't bear to listen anymore.
Xia Zhiyun didn't stop, and continued:
"One day he brought his first love's child back and forced me to adopt her. I disagreed and we had a big fight."
He started to get impatient, and when I wanted a divorce, I was met with a beating and he locked me in the room…
"Please stop talking, please don't."
Xia Zhiyun smiled sadly, "Didn't you want to know?"
"I called the police, but that was just the beginning of a nightmare..."
"He started falsely accusing me of cheating on him, of having a child with another man behind his back, and even had a paternity test done, trying to get the media to condemn me... trying to drive me crazy through public opinion. I'm not afraid, but what about my daughter?"
"sorry…"
She looked up. "It's not your fault, why are you apologizing?"
"I really didn't expect that Yuanyuan would end up in the Forestry Bureau by some twist of fate, and that she would run into you."
I never expected you would go and get a DNA test... Gu Zheng, I'm not trying to lie to you, I'm just afraid, afraid that you'll try to take the child from me, that you'll have your own children in the future.
But she's all I have... I can't live without her.
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