Chapter 106 I Don’t Deserve All This
"If only...if I hadn't slept with Lin Wan..."
Mu Feng muttered to himself, his voice hoarse and broken. Another image seemed to emerge before his eyes—he and Shen Yi, holding hands, strolling with their child in the garden at sunset. That should have been their happy life, but because of his stupidity and betrayal, it turned into nothing.
"Why...why couldn't I have a frank talk with her back then?"
Mu Feng covered his face in pain, tears falling from his fingers. He hated himself, hated his selfishness and cowardice, and hated why he didn't give Shen Yi a chance to explain.
If he had calmed down and listened to her, perhaps the ending would have been different.
At this moment, Mu Nanyan's cold voice brought him back to reality:
"Do you know what Lin Wan did before she married you?"
Mu Feng raised his head, his eyes blank:
"Isn't she a bartender?"
Mu Nanyan sneered, with a sarcastic tone:
"She was indeed a waitress, but it was just that kind of service. She had been working in that kind of place for a long time before she slept with you. Moreover, she was already pregnant at that time. Mu Yunshu is not your biological daughter at all."
"How is this possible?"
Mu Feng stood up suddenly, his voice filled with disbelief and anger.
Mu Nanyan didn't answer, but took out a paternity test report from her bag and threw it coldly on the table. Mu Feng picked up the report with trembling hands, glanced at the conclusion on it, and his face turned pale in an instant.
"Mu Feng, you will never have your own biological children in this life. This is God's punishment for you."
Mu Nanyan's voice was cold and cruel, like a sharp knife, completely cutting through his last trace of self-deception.
Mu Feng slumped in his chair, his mind blank. He felt like a joke, having lived for decades, only to be schemed against and raised other people's children.
He thought of Lin Wan's gentleness and thoughtfulness, and Mu Yunshu's obedience and understanding, but all of this turned out to be a lie.
"I...I'm so ridiculous..."
Mu Feng chuckled to himself, his voice filled with bitterness and regret. He thought of Chen Yi again, and the trust and love she once had for him. Back then, they had been so happy, but he had destroyed it all with his own hands because of his own stupidity and greed.
"Nan Yan..." Mu Feng raised his head, his eyes full of tears.
"I'm sorry to your mother, to the Shen family, and to you..."
Mu Nanyan looked at him coldly, without a trace of emotion in her eyes:
"Your apology no longer means anything to my mother."
Mu Feng lowered his head and was silent for a moment. Then he slowly stood up, walked to the desk, took out a document, and signed his name tremblingly. He handed the document to Mu Nanyan, his voice hoarse and firm:
"These are all the Mu shares in my name. Now, they belong to you. This is what I owe Shen Yi, and I also owe the Shen family. They helped me so much in the past, but I killed their daughter... I... I don't deserve all this."
Mu Nanyan took the document, looked at him with complicated eyes, and finally said nothing, turned around and left the office.
Mu Feng stood there, watching her leave, his heart empty. He knew that he had paid the price for his mistakes in this life. And the woman who once loved him deeply, the woman who should have spent her life with him, Shen Yi, would never come back.
Mu Feng seemed to be suddenly provoked. He slammed the table, grabbed the car keys and the paternity test report, and rushed out of the Mu Group. His face flushed with anger, and he stepped on the accelerator all the way to the Mu family.
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Back at the Mu family's house, Lin Wan and Mu Yunshu were sitting on the sofa watching TV. They chatted animatedly about the plot of the show. In the past, when Mu Feng returned home and saw this scene, he felt warm and happy. But now, after learning the shameful truth, watching this scene again, his eyes stung and a fire welled up in his heart.
He wondered, if that woman, Lin Wan, hadn't been so cunning and hadn't set him up to sleep with her, how could all this mess have happened? And how could he have thought of killing Shen Yi, taking her property, and raising someone else's child for so many years in vain? The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, blaming all the mistakes on Lin Wan.
Lin Wan saw Mu Feng coming back and saw that he looked unhappy, so she pretended to be gentle and considerate, walked over with her waist twisted, and asked softly:
"Brother Feng, what's wrong with you? Are you having trouble at work?"
As she said that, she reached out to pull Mu Feng.
But before her hand touched Mu Feng, Mu Feng raised his hand and slapped Lin Wan in the face with a big slap.
The blow was so severe that Lin Wan's head tilted and she almost fell down.
Mu Yunshu was startled and quickly ran over to support his mother. He looked at his father with a confused face and asked loudly:
"Dad, what are you doing? Why are you hitting Mom?"
Mu Feng's eyes were red, and the veins on his hand, clutching the paternity test report, were bulging. He stared at Lin Wan's hypocritical face and suddenly felt extremely disgusted:
"Pretending? Keep pretending! Back when you were a hostess at the Nightingale bar, how many men did you deceive with your pitiful appearance?"
Lin Wan's fingers covering her face froze, and a trace of panic flashed across her delicately made-up eyes, but she still managed to hold back her sobs.
"Brother Feng, what are you talking about? Is someone instigating..."
"play off?"
Mu Feng threw the report in her face. The sharp edge of the paper scratched a bloody mark on Lin Wan's well-maintained cheek.
"Mu Yunshu is not my child at all! You married me with this bastard child just to get the Shen family's wealth, right?"
Mu Yunshu picked up the report trembling all over. When he saw the conclusion that "biological father-daughter relationship is ruled out", his nails dug deep into his palm:
"Impossible... Mom, say something!"
Lin Wan suddenly chuckled. She slowly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. When she looked up again, her always gentle face suddenly revealed a venomous coldness:
"Yes, Yunshu's biological father is a prostitute whose name is unknown. I have to thank Chen Yi, otherwise how could I have met you and become a wealthy wife now."
She tilted her head to look at Mu Feng, her red lips curled up in a sarcastic arc.
"Shut up!" Mu Feng picked up the crystal ashtray and threw it at him.
Lin Wan turned her head away, the broken glass shards streaking a bloody line on her neck. She simply sneered:
"What? Did you hit a sore spot? Back then, you said with your own mouth that Chen Yi's child was a bastard and that she deserved to die! Why are you pretending to be affectionate now?"
Mu Yunshu slumped to the ground, her carefully styled curly hair sticking to her tear-stained face. She trembled as she pulled at Mu Feng's trouser legs:
"Dad, even if I'm not your biological daughter, we've been father and daughter for twenty years..."
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