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.

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

ultimately took Jian

Xiaoning was distracted, Mu Zhi sent a message to Lu Jinye,

the perfect candidate to complement Jian

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

message to follow

changed out 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

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

“What does that mean?”

Xiaoning replied nonchalantly as she turned her car

Zhi pondered briefly before recollecting to her what happened in the morning. Jian

Zhi, can you stop living

the back of her head. “It’s not my

after learning news that you’re

his stature, I don’t think

replied Jian Xiaoning helplessly to

Xiaoning

one had lost all traces of a fatherly figure over their upbringing, the abrupt appearance of

situation was

father, Mu Zhi had a secret desire for

which meant that

slightly and thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu

him about your mother’s favorite things. If he can

hesitated upon hearing Jian Xiaoning’s suggestion, but ultimately

with Jian Xiaoning, Mu Zhi returned home and started searching

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

born and where he

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

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

not ask about the past because her mother was

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

the man’s name was Mu

into business in the later part of his

world, including joining the gold rush overseas. He returned to the country about ten years

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

Mu Zhi and her mother, but he could only use Mu Zhi’s photo when

nothing like she was as a

Mu Xianyong, the more convinced

would lie about what happened dozens of years

the lie

her research,

from the phone. He sounded like a father who was eager to get to know her. “Apologies, Mu Zhi… Is this the right time

startled for a

from my friend that your mother

was nightfall, and the natural black had