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Lin Zhiwei roared in anger, “What kind of madness is this? After all these years, I have never done it. And now, I won’t do it either…”
“How long will you keep deceiving yourself?” Lin Qingyou questioned sternly. “What exactly are you afraid of?”
“You refuse to do it, yet you continue to doubt… Every time you doubt, you spread your negativity to my mother… After she passed away, you passed it on to me…”
“Think about it—how many times have you yelled at me, saying that I don’t deserve to be your daughter?”
“I didn’t understand before. I thought it was because you found me disobedient, that I embarrassed the Lin family. But now I see it clearly—you were just venting your frustration.”
“Every time you claim to have spoken in a moment of anger, those were actually your true thoughts! Deep down, you’ve always doubted that I’m your daughter! That’s why those words come out of your mouth so naturally…”
Lin Qingyou clutched a strand of her hair and stepped closer to Lin Zhiwei, pressing him with each step. “Do you know why I insist on doing a DNA paternity test with you?”
Lin Zhiwei sneered mockingly, “You hope Ji Mo Sheng is your biological father, don’t you? You and your grandfather are exactly the same… Why do you both favor Ji Mo Sheng so much? Because he wanted a royal son-in-law, and you—do you want a father with royal blood?”
“If I wanted a noble, king-like father, I wouldn’t be doing a DNA test with you.”
“What do you mean?”
“What do I mean?” Lin Qingyou looked at the strand of her hair in her hand. “What are you so afraid of? Because I am not afraid at all.”
“I trust my mother. I am absolutely certain that I am your biological daughter.”
“That’s why I have no fear of taking this test with you.”
“You’re certain?” A flicker of guilt flashed across Lin Zhiwei’s face before he erupted in fury, shouting, “What makes you so certain?!”
“I already said—I believe in my mother!”
Lin Qingyou’s voice was firm and resolute. “If I were not your biological daughter, my mother would have been the first to leave you.”
“She would never allow—let alone raise—another man’s daughter under your roof and pretend she was yours.”
Her mother was a woman of immense pride.
How could she ever do something like that?
“My mother must have told you the truth before, but you never believed her. Or rather, you claimed to believe her.”
“After all, you are the best at acting…”
Lin Qingyou’s words were like a sharp blade, stabbing straight into Lin Zhiwei’s heart.
[So my father was right all along. It was me who was wrong…]
[Lin Zhiwei, you are such a brilliant actor. You deceived me so badly…]
[Get out of my way. Let me leave… I don’t want to see you for even a second longer…]
Lin Zhiwei’s eyes suddenly widened as if he had realized something. The veins on his forehead bulged, his eyes burned red with rage, and his voice erupted like a volcano about to explode. “You… Shut up! Shut up!”
“I refuse to!”
“I said shut up!” Lin Zhiwei, shaking with fury, raised his right hand and swung it forcefully toward Lin Qingyou’s face.
His palm sliced through the air in a sharp arc, carrying a fierce gust of wind, about to strike her delicate face.
At the critical moment, Yin Hanyu stepped in without hesitation, using his broad back to shield Lin Qingyou.
He held her tightly, as if building an impenetrable fortress with his own body.
But in the end, Lin Zhiwei’s slap never landed.
Because the moment he struck, Ji Mo Sheng reacted swiftly, intercepting Lin Zhiwei’s wrist with a firm grip.
Seeing Ji Mo Sheng’s sudden interference, Lin Zhiwei’s rage flared to its peak…
His eyes were wide with fury, his teeth clenched so tightly they ground together, and a low growl rumbled from his throat. “Ji Mo Sheng, how dare you stop me?!”
“Everything—all of this—is because of you… It’s all your fault…”
With that, Lin Zhiwei violently broke free from Ji Mo Sheng’s grip and swung a heavy punch straight at him.
Ji Mo Sheng, however, did not dodge.
He stood his ground, taking the full force of the blow.
Lin Zhiwei’s fist landed hard against his face with a dull thud. Ji Mo Sheng’s body swayed slightly but quickly regained balance.
As Lin Zhiwei prepared to strike again, Ji Mo Sheng caught his incoming fist mid-air.
Calmly, he locked eyes with Lin Zhiwei’s burning gaze, filled with hatred. Then, he casually wiped the trace of blood from the corner of his mouth.
“Ji… Mo… Sheng…” Lin Zhiwei seethed with resentment, despising the man’s unshaken composure.
“Lin Zhiwei,” Ji Mo Sheng said coolly, “out of respect for the fact that you are Qingyou’s father, I willingly took that punch. However…”
His voice took a sharp turn. “I have no reason to bear your baseless hatred.”
“What happened back then—I was a victim too.”
“That night, nothing ever happened between me and Xiao Ya.”
“Impossible!” Lin Zhiwei roared. “I clearly heard Xiao Ya calling for help!”
But the Xie family’s men had held him back—he couldn’t get to her.
Ji Mo Sheng explained, “I was drugged that night. Under its effects, I was indeed losing control…”
That was the truth he had always hesitated to tell Lin Qingyou.
How could he tell her: My dear apprentice, your master almost violated your mother that night?
He had no face to say such a thing.
“But Xiao Ya knows medicine. In that critical moment, she used acupuncture to knock me unconscious before anything happened.”
“After that, I had no idea what went on. By the time I woke up, you and Xiao Ya had already gone to the civil office and registered your marriage.”
But for Ji Mo Sheng, the event had been nothing short of humiliating.
He, Ji Mo Sheng, could have any woman he wanted. Yet he had nearly become a criminal despised by all?
His trust in Xie Yutian had led him to fall into such a trap.
But no matter the reason, he had almost done something unforgivable… That incident was his disgrace.
“You say nothing happened just because you say so?” Lin Zhiwei snapped. “You’re only denying it because you’re afraid that if Qingyou is really your daughter, it would ruin your reputation and political standing! And out of guilt, you secretly took her in as your apprentice and treated her well behind my back! Ji Mo Sheng, you are the real hypocrite here.”
“You are beyond saving…” Ji Mo Sheng sighed. “If Qingyou were truly my daughter, I would willingly give up everything for her.”
“You have no idea how much I envy you for having such a wonderful and interesting daughter.”
“Lin Zhiwei, you are blind to the blessings around you. You are not empty-handed—you have more than you realize.”
“But you are trapped in your own narrow-minded world…”