Chapter 65

Chapter 65: The Beloved Female Lead Is This Scary

Everyone else seemed dazzled by the afterglow of that little sun, leaving Aunt to truly taste the lonely sadness of being the only sober one while the whole crowd was drunk.

Now that Li Qian Xi was playing the same trick again, Zhang Wan Yin had a huge fire stuck in her chest. She wanted nothing more than to rush over and rip off that mouth of hers along with her fake mask.

Du An Rao watched from the side in shock and awe, finally gaining a deeper understanding of this Sea King female lead’s power.

[Wow, I woke up too early and saw a real green-tea black-lotus female lead! Compared to her, that dodder-vine Little White Lotus Bai Xiu Qing is child’s play. Just a few lines and she pulled herself completely out of it. Even if people really find out in the future that she and Fourth Sister were swapped, she can still stay spotless, clueless, and pitiful.]

[And most importantly, she comes with her own sickly buff. After she said all that, if Aunt keeps pressing her, wouldn’t that be bullying a patient? So classic, so, so classic. Is this the power of the beloved female lead? It’s terrifying!]

Du Yu Xi could not help raising her eyebrows. For the first time, she seriously studied Li Qian Xi’s face.

You could say that when they had been upstairs just now, there were two reasons they could tell at a glance that the girl with the Xie mother and son was Li Qian Xi.

First, even though the banquet was being held at the Li family home, the second floor was still a private area. If you weren’t brought up personally by someone like Li Zhao Yang, you had to be like Li Qian Xi, part of the host family.

Second, it was because of that face.

Li Qian Xi had a congenital heart disease and could not do intense exercise. Her face was paler than most people’s, and she was thinner and more delicate.

Her little face was only as big as a palm, and because of her condition it often carried a bit of sorrow. After years of being pampered in the Li family, her skin had become smooth and fair like cream. She did not look as bright and stunning as Du Yu Xi, but she had her own kind of gentle beauty, like a weak willow in the wind, and easily stirred other people’s urge to protect her.

No wonder so many men were willing to be fish in her pond. Humans really are visual animals at heart.

Madam Li and Madam Xie did not speak. Instead, they turned to look at the two people in the room who could be called the backbone right now, Li Feng Xian and Su Rui Yin.

Li Feng Xian did not say whether he believed it or not. He only asked Du Yu Xi: “Have you two done a paternity test?”

“An An and my adoptive parents did a paternity test, and she really is my adoptive parents’ child. As for me…”

Everyone’s hearts tightened at once. Du Yu Xi lowered her eyes a little and said: “My parents have already passed away, so we never did one.”

This was, of course, a lie. Wang Xue He had died a few years ago, but she had been caught as a human trafficker. The police kept her DNA, to compare and find more children who had been abducted.

At first, Du Yu Xi had not done a test simply because she could not accept having that kind of background. Later, she did not do it because of the things Du An Rao had said.

Either way, by a twist of fate, she had never done a paternity test with Wang Xue He. Saying this now was only to lower Li Qian Xi’s guard.

Sure enough, the moment Li Qian Xi heard that Du Yu Xi had never done a paternity test with Wang Xue He, the tension in her face visibly relaxed.

She knew the Li family could not do a test on their side either, because Li Gu Wei and Su Ying Rong had died long ago and left no DNA samples behind.

Li Feng Xian and Su Rui Yin shared a look. He frowned and said: “Gu Wei and Ying Rong left so suddenly, I’m afraid they also… It seems that if we really want to confirm this, we can only do a kinship test.”

But a kinship test could not just be done casually. It was best if the test involved a brother or sister of the parents who was the same sex as the person being tested. On Li Gu Wei’s side, Li Feng Xian was a man. On Su Ying Rong’s side, Su Rui Yin was also a man.

The brothers and sisters on both sides were all a different sex from Du Yu Xi, which meant the test might have uncontrollable errors.

The situation seemed to be stuck again, but Du An Rao looked confused. She hurriedly flipped through the book again to make sure she had not remembered wrong.

[That’s not right. Fourth Sister’s dad and mom donated bone marrow years ago at Mr. Xi’s hospital. Aunt and Mr. Xi’s mother are real sisters. There’s no way Uncle’s family doesn’t know about this. Did they forget, or do they have another plan?]

“What?”

The Du family members crowded in a small corner downstairs, secretly listening. They could not help crying out, then quickly covered their mouths and went on eavesdropping.

The only one who knew what the Li family was planning, Xi Jing Yue, thought of the two DNA samples still sitting in his hospital, waiting to see the light of day again one day. He could not help feeling moved.

Back then, Uncle Li and Auntie Su had probably had a feeling, deep in their hearts, that a day like this would come, so they went together to do a bone marrow donation.

Or maybe this was Heaven Above’s reward for kind-hearted people.

By the time she heard all this, the heart that Li Qian Xi had been holding up finally settled completely.

She knew very well that as long as there was no solid, perfect proof, even if everyone present had a thousand guesses, no one would dare pull her down from the position of Miss of the Li family.

Instead, it was Du Yu Xi who fell silent for a long time after listening to the two men. Then she suddenly asked: “Can I see her photos?”

Everyone knew who this “her” meant.

Li Feng Xian turned to look at his wife. Li Zhan Yan understood at once and said: “I’ll go get them.”

Both Su Ying Rong and Li Gu Wei had loved to travel around, meet new people, and make friends. From when they started dating, to getting married, to the accident that took their lives, only a few years had passed, but they had already filled several photo albums.

After they died, these photos became precious keepsakes. Li Zhan Yan kept them carefully.

The album she chose now mostly held photos from after their wedding. Besides their wedding pictures, there were also many pregnancy photos of Su Ying Rong at different stages.

During this whole process, Li Gu Wei had never been absent. He had always stayed by her side, sharing her wait for the arrival of their love’s child.

Du Yu Xi’s eyes first fell on their wedding photo. In it, the two of them wore simple white shirts and sat side by side, their faces lit with the purest joy.

Su Ying Rong did look very much like her, except she seemed more outgoing and cheerful. When she smiled, her eyes curved, bright and sweet, making anyone who saw her want to smile too.

Li Gu Wei also looked a bit like Li Feng Xian, but not as serious. He looked like a simple, straightforward young guy. When he smiled, he showed a standard row of eight teeth.

After Su Ying Rong got pregnant, this young guy seemed to grow up all at once, slowly becoming someone his wife and child could rely on with peace of mind.

The last page of the album was a photo taken in the Li family’s back garden, when Su Ying Rong was more than eight months pregnant. At that time she was wearing a white gauze dress and sitting on a light-colored garden chair. She had a gentle smile on her lips and was looking down, softly stroking her high, round belly.

The afternoon sun fell on her and covered her whole body in a faint halo, misty and dreamlike.

Li Gu Wei was half squatting by her side, his head leaned against her belly. His face was full of love and gratitude for his wife, and curiosity and expectation for their future child.