"You're cursing and swearing!" Shang Hongxuan was both shocked and furious, his curses growing louder. However, he dared not take another step forward, nor did he try to touch Shang Yechu again. "You bastard! -- You think you're all grown up now? What the hell are you? Hit your father..."
Shang Yechu didn't look at him, but instead looked down at her hands.
What a pity.
When she made the move, Shang Yechu subconsciously controlled her strength. With filming of "Anna Doriya" about to begin, Shang Yechu didn't want anything to happen that would delay the shoot.
Otherwise, that teapot should have smashed Shang Hongxuan's head until it bled.
Assistant Wang looked around and saw that there were only four people in the room. He quickly went forward, bent down, and picked up the teapot handle from the ground—it was intact because it was wrapped in steel.
Assistant Wang quickly wiped the teapot handle with the corner of his clothes and reached out to hold it.
"I'm so sorry!" Assistant Wang, holding the teapot handle, bowed slightly to Shang Hongxuan. "Mr. Shang, I just saw you about to attack my boss, and I couldn't help myself, so I attacked you with this teapot! I apologize!"
Shang Hongxuan was stunned.
"What the hell are you talking about?" After a long while, Shang Hongxuan finally reacted. "You bastard surnamed Wang, you dare to mess with me?!"
Assistant Wang, holding the teapot, said without blinking, "I acted rashly. How about I compensate you 1,000 yuan for medical expenses? I just drank the tea, so it shouldn't have caused serious burns."
The woman, holding a basin of cold water, stood timidly a short distance away, hesitant to approach. Hearing this, she finally couldn't help but say, "You're talking nonsense. It's clearly—"
Assistant Wang calmly said, "There are only four people in this room. You can testify for your husband, and Sister Ye can also testify for me."
The woman suddenly fell silent, standing there blankly for a long time before moving closer to Shang Yechu: "You, how could you... He's your father!"
Who is my father?
The woman was stunned.
Shang Yechu slowly pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and unfolded it leisurely. Only then did everyone realize that it was a photocopy of two household registration booklets.
Shang Yechu looked indifferently at the woman in front of her and showed her the black-and-white image on the photocopy: "Legally, my father's name is Shang Ping, and my mother's name is Ye Lihua. I am their only daughter. My father died when I was fourteen. I smashed an old basin for him; when I was twenty—"
Shang Yechu's voice trembled almost imperceptibly. Then, he gave a self-deprecating laugh.
"My mother is dead too."
The woman was struck dumb; the basin of water slipped from her grasp and crashed to the ground with a loud thud.
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When Shang Yechu was sixteen, she applied for her ID card without her parents' company. Instead, she was accompanied by a woman she barely remembered.
Shang Hongxuan said that Shang Yechu should call that woman Second Aunt.
My second aunt was a taciturn person, her face full of the numbness brought on by hardship. She was not warm towards Shang Yechu and almost never spoke to her.
At that time, Shang Yechu did not know that it was her "mother" in a social sense.
Upon learning about the household registration issue, Shang Yechu immediately checked her ID card again.
The address on everyone's ID card must match the address on their household registration booklet. There are no exceptions to this rule.
The address on Shang Yechu's ID card was in a village she barely recognized. She had never paid much attention to this address before. After all, it was common for registered residence addresses to differ from current addresses. Even though this address wasn't where Shang Yechu currently lived, she didn't think much of it.
It's been too long. Counting her previous life, Shang Yechu's first time getting an ID card, smashing the old basin at the funeral, and many other details, all happened nearly twenty years ago. It took a lot of effort to dig out these minor details from the corners of her memory.
Only now did Shang Yechu realize that this address was actually the registered address of her "parents".
With the address, everything becomes much easier.
In modern society, a household registration booklet is required for all matters related to school enrollment and college applications. Shang Yechu's academic journey from elementary school to university has been smooth, which means that, at least when taking the college entrance examination, Shang Ping and Ye Lihua's household registration booklets will still be valid.
Although two lifetimes have passed and the world has changed drastically, in this lifetime, Shang Yechu's college entrance examination was only three years ago. Three years is not a long time, and the hope of finding news related to Shang Ping and Ye Lihua is not too slim.
With this thought in mind, Shang Yechu found the address on the ID card.
Sure enough, Shang Ping and Ye Lihua had both passed away. Ye Lihua died three years ago, her family destitute. Their house had been requisitioned by the villagers and turned into a hay shed. Their only possessions had been confiscated by the village. As for their ID cards, household registration books, and other belongings, they had originally intended to burn them. It was only after an elder in the village reminded them that everyone discovered there was a child registered under the family's name, Shang Yechu.
As long as there is one living person in the household, the household registration book cannot be burned.
The villagers were simple and honest. They figured that the chubby little baby on the household registration book might need these documents in the future, so they threw all the miscellaneous documents into an old wooden box and piled the box on the kang (heated brick bed) where Shang Ping and Ye Lihua had slept.
Exposed to wind and sun, and gnawed by people and horses, these old artifacts were gradually forgotten by the villagers. If Ji Juntao hadn't reminded him, Shang Yechu might never have known that such a box of things existed in this corner of the world.
Opening the old wooden crate, a musty smell wafted out. The hay shed was dry, and luckily, the crate wasn't infested with insects. Among the yellowed clutter, Shang Yechu saw an ID card, a property certificate, a household registration booklet, and… a forged birth certificate.
The birth certificate states:
Father: Shang Ping; Mother: Ye Lihua.
It was this box of things that forged the social significance of Ye Chu's business.
Shang Yechu would never tell anyone how she felt when she saw that box of things. Completely disregarding her image as a top female star, she plopped down amidst the dust and straw, hugging Shang Yechu's parents, Shang Yechu's family, and Shang Yechu's birth certificate, crying and laughing... like a crazy woman.
In any case, legally speaking, Shang Yechu has no relation to Shang Hongxuan and his wife anymore. If the Shang family still wants to pursue this matter, they must find proof of their upbringing of Shang Yechu over the years and prove to the court and the public that they are indeed Shang Yechu's parents!
Unfortunately, in order to have Shang Jiayu and evade fines, the business owners had long been operating as a guerrilla force, constantly moving from city to city. Only in recent years had they finally settled down. The already scarce "evidence" of their support for Shang Yechu was completely lost during those moves!
Furthermore, due to frequent moves, evasion of census and community surveys, no neighborhood committee or organization could issue a legal certificate proving that Shang Hongxuan and his wife raised Shang Yechu from childhood to adulthood!
Heaven's judgment is clear, and retribution will not be swift.
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