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.

exaggerated behavior, Mu Zhi believed that her love for Lu

she ultimately took Jian Xiaoning’s words

Mu Zhi seen of her. While Jian Xiaoning was distracted, Mu Zhi sent

candidate to

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

text message to follow up

Jian Xiaoning had changed out the dress,

them left the bridal studio with plans to search for some food. At the doorstep, Mu Zhi was suddenly reminded of the incident where she was stopped by a man who called himself

momentarily before asking Jian Xiaoning, “Xiaoning, if someone shows up out of nowhere and tells you that

“What does that mean?”

replied nonchalantly as she

her what happened in the morning. Jian Xiaoning gawked at

can you stop living such

her eyes to the back

must have come to extort you after learning news that you’re marrying the distinguished

on his stature, I don’t think he needs the

Xiaoning helplessly

Jian Xiaoning brainstormed

lost all traces of a fatherly figure over their upbringing, the abrupt appearance of their father would not

Mu Zhi’s situation was a little

Mu Zhi had a secret desire for a

away, which meant that all she had left in her family was her

thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu Zhi, I think this is worth looking

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

Xiaoning’s

Mu Zhi returned home and started searching for

her that… The man might really be her father because she could find detailed information about him on

was born and where he grew up matched Mu

and she was born into

from City A. She moved to the city when she was little. Her mother

ask about the past because

south of City A. The town was surrounded by mountains. The residents in the town were predominantly members of

Zhi found out that the man’s name was Mu Xianyong, a common surname for where he

in the

born and later ventured around the world, including

bring up his lost wife and child in every interview he was involved in,

but he could

Besides, Mu Zhi appeared nothing like she was as a young girl. Thus,

the more convinced she was that

would lie about what

lie would

lasered in her research, her phone suddenly

phone. He sounded like a father who was eager to get to

a second before saying, “Not

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

nightfall, and the natural black had engrossed