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 Jinye

ultimately took Jian Xiaoning’s

Zhi seen of her. While Jian Xiaoning was distracted, Mu Zhi sent a message to Lu Jinye,

candidate to complement Jian Xiaoning’s

more men to the party, especially those wealthy, young hunks, to

message to follow up with

out the dress, Mu

bridal studio with plans to search for some food. At the doorstep, Mu Zhi was suddenly reminded of

before asking Jian Xiaoning, “Xiaoning, if someone shows up out of nowhere and tells you that he is your father, what would you do to confirm

“What does that mean?”

replied nonchalantly as she turned her car engine

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

you stop living

the back

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

on his stature, I don’t think he needs

Zhi replied Jian Xiaoning helplessly

Xiaoning brainstormed

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

situation was

had a

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

lips slightly and thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu Zhi, I think

and ask him about your mother’s favorite things.

Xiaoning’s suggestion, but

meal with Jian Xiaoning, Mu Zhi returned home and started searching for the

her father

where he grew up

was Mu Xue, and she was born into a

Zhi and her mother did not originate from City A. She moved to the city when she was little.

Zhi usually did not ask about the past because her mother

mother came from a village located at the south of City A. The town was surrounded by mountains. The residents

the man’s name was Mu Xianyong,

into business in the later part of

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

the country, Mu Xianyong would ceaselessly bring up his lost wife and child in

posted several search notices for Mu Zhi and her mother, but he could only use

was as a young girl. Thus, it was

Xianyong, the

would lie about what

of the lie would

was lasered in her research, her

eager to get to know her. “Apologies, Mu Zhi… Is this the right

a second before saying,

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

nightfall, and the natural black had engrossed the