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.

believed that

she ultimately took Jian Xiaoning’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

the perfect candidate to complement

enough. She should invite more men to the party, especially those wealthy,

sent another text message to follow up with Lu

Xiaoning had changed out the dress,

doorstep, Mu Zhi was suddenly reminded of the incident where she was stopped by a man who

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

“What does that mean?”

she turned her

in the

can you stop

eyes to the back of her

after

based on his stature, I don’t think he

Jian Xiaoning helplessly to dismiss

Xiaoning

upbringing, the abrupt

Zhi’s situation was

Mu Zhi had a

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

and thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu Zhi, I think this

try and ask him about your mother’s favorite things. If he can answer you, he might

Zhi hesitated upon hearing Jian Xiaoning’s suggestion,

returned home and started searching for the man’s information on

really be her father because she could find detailed information about him

year he was born and where he grew up matched Mu

was Mu Xue, and she was born into a family of

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

did not ask about the past because her mother

was surrounded by mountains. The residents in the town

was Mu Xianyong, a common surname for where he

business in the later part

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

ceaselessly bring up his lost wife and child in every

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

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

the more convinced she was that he

about what happened dozens

lie would be

her research, her phone

anxious voice came from the phone. He sounded like a father who was eager

Zhi was startled for a second before saying,

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

nightfall, and the natural black