Falling for the Contract Bride

Chapter 232 Is the Man Really Her Father?!

Jian Xiaoning uttered as she zipped up her dress.

“Hrm, I suppose not.” Mu Zhi answered good-naturedly, “Seeing what she did out of desperation to win back Lu Jinye’s heart, I feel that she’s quite pitiful.”

“What’s there to be pitiful about? It simple, Lu Jinye doesn’t love her. Also, we don’t know how she got pregnant.”

“You’re the only one with all these conspiracy theories.”

Mu Zhi looked at Jian Xiaoning helplessly. “Have you read too many web-novels and as a result, think that the world is dark and strange?”

“Of course not.”

Jian Xiaoning pulled the corner of her sleeves and added, “I heard this from Xu Se. It’s common in the lustful world that after a one-night-stand, women would use the baby they conceive to bind a man to her.”

“Besides, you won’t believe how many of these melodrama-esque incidents we see every day in the gynecology department in the hospital! After delivering the child, some mothers would bribe the doctor to keep mum of their abortion attempts. Also, frequently you see mothers give birth to a child not knowing who the father is.”

Mu Zhi was listening attentively.

“Really?”

Jian Xiaoning nodded with a stern face. “Because some women are insatiable. They might have slept with more than one man at the same night, so they can’t be sure who is the father of the child.”

“So…”

She was about to summarize her remarks when a studio staff knocked on the door and entered with two bottles of water.

Jian Xiaoning instantly silenced herself.

Meanwhile, Mu Zhi was astonished by what she said. Holding the bottle in her hands, it took her a while before twisting the cap open and taking a small sip out of it.

Mu Zhi felt like she must not make rash accusations against Xiao Qingqing. After all, she did not know her personally.

Xiao Qingqing’s exaggerated behavior, Mu Zhi believed that her love for Lu

took Jian Xiaoning’s words

bridesmaid’s dress. It might’ve been the best Mu Zhi seen of her. While Jian Xiaoning was distracted, Mu Zhi sent a message to Lu Jinye, telling him to get Xu Se as his best

the perfect candidate to

thinking briefly, Mu Zhi decided that Xu Se alone wasn’t enough. She should invite more men to the party, especially those wealthy, young hunks, to

text message

changed out the dress, Mu Zhi

search for some food. At the doorstep, Mu Zhi was suddenly reminded of the incident where she was stopped by

out of nowhere and tells you

“What does that mean?”

as she turned her

before recollecting to her what happened in the morning. Jian Xiaoning gawked at Mu

you stop living

back of her head.

man must have come to extort you after learning news that

his stature, I

Xiaoning

Xiaoning brainstormed

all traces of a fatherly figure over their upbringing,

Mu Zhi’s situation

without a father, Mu Zhi had a secret desire

her mother had recently passed away, which meant that all she had left in her

her lips slightly and thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu Zhi, I think this is worth looking into. What if the man is

about your mother’s favorite things. If he can answer you, he might be telling

hesitated upon hearing Jian Xiaoning’s

the meal with Jian Xiaoning, Mu Zhi returned home

her father because

born and where he grew up

was Mu Xue, and she was born into a

She moved to the city when she was little. Her

not ask about the past because her mother was resistant about

town was surrounded by mountains. The

the man’s name was Mu Xianyong, a common surname for where

business in the later part

and later ventured around the world, including joining the gold rush overseas.

back in the country, Mu Xianyong would ceaselessly bring up his lost wife and child in every interview he was involved

Zhi and her mother, but he could

she was as a young girl. Thus,

the more convinced she was

lie about what happened dozens of years

the lie would be

her

phone. He sounded like a father who was eager to get to know her. “Apologies, Mu

was startled for a second before saying,

just done with work. I heard from my friend that your mother has passed. Can I please visit

nightfall, and the natural black had engrossed