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

ultimately took Jian

the bridesmaid’s dress. It might’ve been the best Mu Zhi seen of her. While Jian Xiaoning was distracted, Mu

was the perfect candidate to complement

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

message to follow up with Lu

had changed out the dress, Mu Zhi had finished arranging

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

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

“What does that mean?”

nonchalantly as she turned her

her what happened in

can you stop

back of

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

based on his stature, I don’t think

Zhi replied Jian Xiaoning helplessly to

Xiaoning brainstormed

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

situation was a little

had a secret desire for a fatherly

away, which meant that all she had

She pursed her lips slightly and thought thoroughly before saying, “Mu Zhi, I think this

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

upon hearing Jian Xiaoning’s

Xiaoning, Mu Zhi returned home and started searching for

father because she could find detailed information about him

and where he grew up matched Mu Zhi’s mother’s

she was born into

to the city

Zhi usually did not ask about the past because her mother was resistant about bringing it

was surrounded by mountains. The residents in the town

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

in the later part of his

left the village the year Mu Zhi was born and later ventured around the world, including joining the gold rush overseas. He returned to the country

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, expressing his concerns for

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

as a young girl. Thus, it was

Xianyong, the

what happened dozens of years

consequences of the lie would be too

was lasered in her research,

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

Zhi was startled for a

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

natural