Chapter 240

Chapter 240: Good News: He Is His Own

“What she said is all true. You’ve been lying to my cousin this whole time?”

“No, no, no, don’t believe her. Everything she said is fake. Fake!”

Manager Wen did not say yes or no, but the coldness in his eyes when he looked at Xiang Qiu Fu became more and more clear. Obviously, compared to this woman who lied so easily and never told the truth, he was more willing to trust an outsider like Du An Rao, whom he had only known for a few days.

Du An Rao ignored Xiang Qiu Fu’s denial and calmly threw out another bomb: “After you married Manager Wen’s cousin, you got pregnant five or six times in a few years, but you never managed to give birth to any of those children. That’s because, when you were younger, you got pregnant too many times and had too many abortions. Your body was hurt, so every time you got pregnant, you had a habitual miscarriage.”

“You… shut up! Don’t say another word!”

This time Xiang Qiu Fu was truly scared. She had hidden this very well. Even her husband and her late parents-in-law hadn’t known about it. How could this little girl who was only in her teens know?

Could it be that she really could do divination?

Realizing how serious this was, Xiang Qiu Fu rushed forward, trying to attack Du An Rao. But the bodyguards, who had finally reacted, blocked her.

“Now you want me to shut up? Too late.” Du An Rao went on, “To stop your husband and his parents from knowing your shameful past, and also to keep your position in the family steady, you bribed a doctor at the hospital. You had him tell your husband that it was because your husband had weak sperm and poor sperm quality that you kept getting pregnant but couldn’t carry the babies.”

“What?”

Manager Wen’s face changed again.

“No, it’s not like that. I didn’t lie, and I didn’t bribe any doctor. She’s making things up to frame me. I never did any of that!”

But her excuse was clearly weak. Manager Wen did not believe a single word.

“Your husband believed it,” Du An Rao continued. “He became even more obedient to you. Your father-in-law and mother-in-law also felt guilty toward you. Your position in your husband’s family got higher and higher. A few years later, under their careful protection, you finally gave birth at age thirty-eight to your…”

Here, Du An Rao, who rarely got stuck, suddenly paused. Her eyes widened in surprise, like she had just seen a shocking piece of gossip.

[Oh my, this woman actually… actually…]

Xi Jing Yue pricked up his ears and tried very hard to catch the rest, but he still heard nothing. He felt so itchy with curiosity it was torture.

Manager Wen also waited for a long time but still did not hear the rest. He urged anxiously: “President Du, what did she give birth to?”

“…Her second son.”

The onlookers were: “???”

After a brief confusion, it became: “!!!”

“Second… son?”

It took Manager Wen several seconds to digest this piece of news. “She gave my cousin his second son? Then she must have had another son before. Who is he? Who is her first son?”

“This is pretty explosive. Are you sure you want me to say it now?”

Manager Wen looked around and saw that because of all the yelling Xiang Qiu Fu had done earlier, many employees of the auction house had come out to watch the drama. People were gathered all around. It really was not a good time to talk about such private things.

But since Xiang Qiu Fu had already made such a big scene today, the embarrassment she had caused was already bad enough.

If they tried to hide it now and went to talk somewhere else, the rumors that spread later would be even more shocking than the truth.

Since that was the case…

A sharp light flashed in Mr. Wen’s eyes. He quickly came to a decision.

“I’m sure.”

“Her first son,” Du An Rao said slowly, “is the one who is now, in name, her younger brother.”

“How is that possible? Her brother is already…”

Already over forty. If they were really mother and son instead of siblings, then that meant this woman had been…

“Ahhhh! You dare say that, you still dare say that? I’ll tear your mouth apart! Let go of me! I’m going to rip her mouth! Let me go!”

Seeing her biggest secret exposed, Xiang Qiu Fu was both furious and panicked. She wanted to rush at Du An Rao and tear her to pieces.

But those security guards who had just been confused and didn’t know what to do were now like a steel wall. They did not let her get anywhere near Du An Rao.

Even so, Xi Jing Yue still stepped in front of Du An Rao at once. Du An Rao cooperated and hid behind him, poking her head out to keep talking about the shocking truth.

“All these years, behind your cousin’s back, she has been secretly giving her ‘brother’ a lot of money. From his middle school tuition to his college tuition, and even his current house and job, she has paid for them all.

“On the surface, she looks like a sister who spoils her younger brother and sacrifices for him. In reality, she is using your cousin’s money to raise someone else’s child.”

Manager Wen: “…”

Thank goodness his cousin was not here, or he might really die from anger.

“But,” Du An Rao added, “even though she lied to your cousin and has had a child with someone else, all of that happened before she met your cousin. After she got together with him, she really didn’t fool around anymore. So don’t worry, that little son at home is indeed your cousin’s own biological child.”

[Good news: he’s biological. Bad news: his birth mom already spoiled him rotten!]

Xi Jing Yue almost couldn’t hold back and the corner of his mouth twitched as he tried not to laugh.

Manager Wen: “…”

Thank you for taking the time to comfort me, but somehow… he did not feel comforted at all.

But whether he felt comforted or not didn’t really matter. The key point now was…

“After you had this son,” Du An Rao went on, “your husband became even more obedient to you. You also started to show your true nature. You spent money like water and had no self-control. With support from Old Master Wen and his son, your cousin’s family had slowly built up some savings again, but you emptied it all out.

“To satisfy your endless demands, your husband worked harder and harder to earn money and step by step went down the road of embezzling company funds.”

Hearing this, Xiang Qiu Fu shivered all over from fear. She finally understood what Du An Rao had meant earlier when she said, “I probably know more about your family than you do.”

Sadly for her, it was already too late.

“Three years ago,” Du An Rao said, “the reason your husband was found to be cooking the books and embezzling public funds from the auction house was completely because of your son.

“Just like you, he spends without restraint. At a young age, he was already vain and arrogant, always comparing himself with others. He borrowed a huge amount of online loans, and the interest kept piling up. In the end, he took a crazy risk and borrowed from loan sharks.”

“To keep the collectors from going after your son, your husband had no choice but to fake the accounts and embezzle a huge sum from the auction house. But he took too much at once, it was too obvious, and someone noticed and reported him. That’s how he got arrested.”

At the end, even Du An Rao felt a bit helpless.

Pitiful people often had hateful sides. Hateful people were sometimes also driven into it.

“He did something wrong, so of course he should be punished,” she said. “But in the end, you and your son are the real culprits behind all of this. You don’t feel guilty or reflect on yourself. Instead, you still have the face to come here and argue with Manager Wen and push all the blame onto someone else.

“With a wife like you, your husband is really ‘blessed’!”

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