Chapter 4 Visiting the In-Laws
However, I did not return to kneel and beg for mercy as they wished.
At that moment, I sent three strands of hair to the gene testing center as quickly as possible.
One came from Dad's graying short hair scattered on the sofa.
One was pulled from Jiang Chen's scalp in the chaos.
The last one was mine.
If not for those few hairs, I would not have stepped into that cage again.
Over these thirty-five years, every time I witnessed Mom and Dad's near-pathological favoritism, I suspected more than once that I was not their biological daughter at all.
Perhaps I had been picked up, or even... possibly stolen.
If the final test results confirmed my guess, they'd pay a hundred times over for these thirty-five years.
Every second waiting for the gene results felt unbearably long.
And the online storm did not subside at all. Instead, it surged into huge waves because of a sudden piece of evidence.
Mom had fabricated a Paternity Test Report at astonishing speed.
In black and white, it clearly stated it supported the biological father-son relationship between Jiang Jianguo and Jiang Chen.
She cried and wailed in front of the live camera.
"Everyone look! This is the nonsense made up by my black-hearted daughter! Just to avoid helping her brother, she dares to spread such a family-ending lie! I will sue her! Sue her until she goes bankrupt and rots in prison!"
Dad, lying on the hospital bed, saw the report and struggled to sit up, cursing into the live stream.
"This beast! How did I give birth to such a family wrecker! Do you insist on seeing my Jiang family cut off without heirs and the family ruined before you are satisfied?!"
The entire internet erupted.
"It's confirmed! She really is a mad dog biting randomly!"
"I had some sympathy for her before, but now it looks like she brought it on herself!"
"Support the aunt suing her! Defamation! Let her sit in jail!"
And at this moment, my sister-in-law Sun Xiaoqian made a high-profile entrance.
"The scene was too chaotic at the time. She pushed me hard, and I fell straight to the ground. After being sent to the hospital, the child could not be saved..."
"Although she is family, she is also the murderer who killed my child! We cannot just let it go. She must pay the price!"
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"Why not call the police right away? This is already intentional injury causing a miscarriage!"
"This bitch must rot in prison!"
The sister-in-law wiped her tears and continued her performance.
"But I am the newly married daughter-in-law after all... If sister really goes to jail because of this child, what will others think of me? So I am willing to give her one last chance. As long as she is willing to sincerely mend the family's rift, we can all forgive her."
I watched the carefully rehearsed bitter drama on the screen with cold eyes.
A chance?
It sounded so nice.
It was nothing but coveting my house.
My online friends were all successfully brainwashed in an instant, frantically doxxing me and pressuring me.
However, I did not engage. I simply appeared quietly downstairs at Sun Xiaoqian's parents' house.
When the door opened, her parents' faces were filled with vigilance.
"What are you doing here? Get out!"
Sun's mother blocked the doorway with a mop.
"Uncle, aunt, just a few words, and I will leave."
"We have nothing to say to you!"
Sun's father pretended to close the door.
I pulled out my phone directly, opened Sun Xiaoqian's latest video about losing her child, and turned the volume to maximum.
Her tearful accusation echoed in the corridor.
"Turn it off! If you keep this up, we will call the police!"
Sun's mother was agitated.
I pressed pause and looked at them.
"Whether I pushed her or not, you know it in your hearts. But that is not the point. The point is, do you know what kind of family she married into?"
"Stop sowing discord here!"
"Sowing discord?"
I smiled faintly.
"No one understands Mom and Dad better than I do, especially the way they treat their son. For this son, they have no bottom line."
I took a step forward.
"For the past twenty years, they have been leeching off me. Their precious son cannot carry a thing or lift a finger. He earns not a cent, yet his appetite has been raised higher than the sky. When sucking my blood is no longer enough, who will they suck from next?"
Their expressions changed drastically.
"My brother can now, for money, team up with Mom and Dad to destroy his own sister online like this. In the future, for your house and savings, how will he treat your daughter?"
Sun's mother's lips trembled, her eyes shifting uneasily.
"I am here today to give you a reminder."
I shook the file bag in my hand.
"Inside are records of every penny I spent on their family over the years, more than one million three hundred fifty thousand.
And some new evidence I just obtained. It is easy for me to escape and disappear.
No one would find me. But what about you?
Once you have a child, Sun Xiaoqian will live the next few decades being leeched off and schemed against."
Silence spread through the corridor, so oppressive it was hard to breathe.
Sun's father took a deep breath and finally stepped aside.
"Come inside and talk."
I shook my head.
"No need. Call Sun Xiaoqian now. Have her remove the false statements online immediately and keep distance from that spendthrift. As for the miscarriage, I do not know if it is true or false. Even if it is, it must be heaven looking out for you."
Sun's mother looked into my eyes. She shivered slightly, then pulled out her phone.
That was all I could do to help them.
Everyone had their own destiny.
Soon, the gene test results arrived...