Chapter 115

Chapter 115: He Deserved It

As the mood at the scene grew stranger because of Du Yi Han’s words, the guest he had mocked turned dark in the face and immediately tried to stand up and hit him.

At that key moment, Fourth Aunt stepped forward: “Let me tell it.”

It turned out that when Du An Rao fainted just now, everyone in the Du family had been worried about her health and had followed her upstairs together.

With no host left downstairs, the room buzzed with whispers.

Most people still knew how to behave. They kept their voices down, only discussing what had just happened and asking if Du An Rao’s condition was serious.

But among today’s guests, there really was one clueless fool. Noticing that the hosts were gone, he right away started talking without any scruples.

First he mocked that Du An Rao was a country bumpkin from some far-off place, asking what peerless divination she could possibly know. He said all of it was just some people trying to flatter the Du family parents, putting on a fake show to match her “acting like a goddess.”

Then he went on to sneer that the Du family were hypocrites. He said they clearly knew Du Yu Xi was the daughter of the human trafficker who had caused them to be separated from their real daughter for more than ten years, but that to protect their good name, they still kept this daughter and pretended nothing had happened. He called them fake and disgusting.

Ruan Xiu Ru and the others turned black in the face while listening. They left the part about Du Yu Xi aside for the moment, but this man was trampling on Du An Rao as someone who acted like a god, and claiming that everyone who trusted her were just putting on a show to flatter the Du family. That was plainly cursing all of them too.

They were furious and were just about to argue back when two young people rushed out, gave the man a good beating, and even almost started fighting each other over who got to punch him more times.

After hearing the whole story, the Du family: “…”

After a short speechless silence, everyone turned at the same time to look at the two quiet young men standing to the side.

Du Yi Han gave a cold snort, looking like it was only natural: “He deserved the beating.”

“That’s right,” Li Zhao Yang agreed. “With a mouth that cheap, wasn’t he just asking for it? We only helped him.”

Father Du looked at the two young people helplessly. They really were at a hot-blooded age.

Actually, he agreed with them quite a bit. If it had been him, he would also have taught the man a lesson, just in a more “polite” way that hurt even more.

He hadn’t planned to lecture the two boys at all. Father Du simply turned his gaze to the Zhang couple, who had rushed over when they heard the noise to back up their son.

“What do you think we should do about this?” he asked.

The couple looked stiff and embarrassed. It seemed they also hadn’t expected their son to cause such trouble.

“This really is our Shao Qi’s fault. It’s not the two young men’s fault,” Mother Zhang said. She even pushed her son forward. “Hurry and apologize to the two Miss Du.”

Who knew this Young Master Zhang would be so stubborn. Seeing that even his own parents wouldn’t take his side, his anger flared up.

“Why should I apologize? What did I say that was wrong? That woman is definitely pretending to see the future, and that Du Yu Xi really is the daughter of a human trafficker. She’s greedy, selfish, vain…”

“You dare keep talking…” Li Zhao Yang and Du Yi Han rolled up their sleeves, ready to hit him again.

This time, there was even Du He Xuan sharpening his metaphorical knife behind them.

Sadly, before they could actually swing their fists, someone stopped them.

Uncle Li stepped in front of his child and looked down at this clueless junior. His face was visibly cold.

“Who told you that our child is the daughter of a human trafficker?” Uncle Li asked.

Zhang Shao Qi froze for a few seconds, then quickly figured out who the man in front of him was. His eyes went wide with shock: “You’re that one from the Li family?”

“You know me?” Uncle Li’s face grew even darker. “So you spread these rumors on purpose to hurt my child?”

“No, I didn’t…” Zhang Shao Qi denied it without thinking, but he could not explain himself clearly.

Just from his reaction, Du An Rao didn’t even need to think very hard to guess who he was.

“You’re one of Li Qian Xi’s people?” she asked.

[Just look at that bewitched, sharing-the-same-enemy look. He’s definitely one of the little fish and shrimp in Li Qian Xi’s pond.]

The Du family: “…”

The melon-eating onlookers: “!!!” It was Li Qian Xi again. Their melon had a sequel.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Shao Qi heard that name from Du An Rao, his face went pale and his eyes started to dodge.

Seeing that, how could anyone not understand what was going on? Their expressions turned uglier, especially the three members of the Li family, who had come today especially for Du Yu Xi’s coming-of-age ceremony.

Du An Rao was angry too. A tiger that doesn’t roar really does get treated like Hello Kitty.

“Let me guess what she told you,” she said. “That my Fourth Sister is the daughter of a human trafficker. That back then, they swapped her with me, and when the swap was discovered, they set their sights on her again. She even had plastic surgery to look like Second Madam Li, then went to the Li family to make them suspicious, and stole her identity as the Li family’s second miss.”

The onlooking guests were stunned by the amount of information in her words. When they came back to their senses, they couldn’t help whispering to each other.

Everyone knew that gossip about real and fake rich young ladies being switched at birth had always been one of the top favorite dog-blood topics.

Aunt Li was so angry her face turned red: “She really said that?”

Zhang Shao Qi had never thought that his private chat with Li Qian Xi would be repeated word for word like this. Guilty as he was, he still somehow spoke with a weird kind of confidence.

“So what if she did? Isn’t she right?” he said.

Father Zhang and Mother Zhang both jumped. They had thought their son had only been rash. They hadn’t expected a whole other story behind this.

Having eaten a few more decades’ worth of rice than their son, the couple quickly realized that their boy had been stupid and used by someone, and he still had no idea.

The more Aunt Li learned about the truth, the more she felt she must have been blind all these years, never even noticing that she was raising a ravenous wolf she could never satisfy.

“Of course she’s not right. Look carefully at this and figure out who is lying,” Aunt Li said coldly. “Don’t let someone use you as a gun, and you still don’t even know how you died.”

Hearing that, the onlookers all instinctively moved closer, trying to see what was in Zhang Shao Qi’s hands.

Stunned by being smacked in the face with the papers, Zhang Shao Qi needed a moment to remember to flip them over. The first thing he saw was two bold lines at the bottom of the report.

“According to existing data and DNA comparison, the results support that Du Yu Xi and Li Gu Wei are in a biological father-daughter relationship.”

“According to existing data and DNA comparison, the results support that Du Yu Xi and Su Ying Rong are in a biological mother-daughter relationship.”

Du Yu Xi’s whole body trembled. Her gaze at the report in Zhang Shao Qi’s hands was very complicated.

She had already known the result, but now that it was really placed in front of everyone, her heart still felt like a jar of mixed flavors had been knocked over.

Mother Du noticed her reaction and gently patted her daughter’s shoulder in comfort.

The Li family members also could not help looking at her carefully, afraid that she would not be able to accept this fact and would refuse to acknowledge them.

Only Zhang Shao Qi stood there, totally confused. After a long while, he finally said something that made everyone almost fall over.

“Who are Li Gu Wei and Su Ying Rong? Why are you showing me a paternity test for these people?” he asked.

The onlookers: “…”

Du An Rao let out a: “Pfft…”