Chapter 87: Chapter 87: His Name is Chen Xu

Jin Huai Zhong shot Shen Zhiyao a disdainful look. “See? This is her angle. She’s just after the money. If you weren’t rich, do you think a woman as gorgeous as her would even give you the time of day?”

“Ugh! You’re driving me crazy! I never planned on going after her! I know my place—a loser like me doesn’t deserve to be with her. But I really can’t be without her!” Jin Fan’s face flushed beet red as he desperately tried to explain, but the words came out all wrong.

“Allow me,” Shen Zhiyao said, tossing the ten-million-yuan check into her 9.90-yuan canvas bag.

She said calmly, “I’m not Jin Fan’s girlfriend. I’m his newly-acknowledged ancestral grandmother. If you’d like, for ten million yuan, I’ll allow you to call me ’Ancestral Grandmother’ as well.”

Jin Huai Zhong: “…”

Jin Fan finally worked up the courage to confess. “That’s right. She’s my newly-acknowledged ancestral grandmother. If you want, you can call her that, too. It’s a bargain, you can’t lose! Really, trust me!”

Jin Huai Zhong: “…”

Jin Fan’s tongue was suddenly loosened, and he started rambling on and on about how he and Shen Zhiyao had met and become acquainted.

Jin Huai Zhong finally pieced things together. He frowned. “So because you lost a bet, you, the young master of the Jin family, became her grandson?”

’And he’s even so happy about it.’

Jin Fan nodded earnestly. “Yeah! I don’t see anything wrong with being her grandson!”

Jin Huai Zhong desperately wanted to punch his son. He restrained himself again and again, but finally, he couldn’t take it anymore and roared, “This is ridiculous!”

But Jin Fan was perfectly serious. “Dad, I’m not being ridiculous! I wasn’t used to calling her that at first, but you know what? The more I did it, the more natural it felt. I think it’s a pretty good arrangement. Miss Shen is skilled and powerful. I’m just finding a powerful backer for our family.”

Jin Huai Zhong was so angry he nearly passed out.

In all these years, he had rarely interfered in his son’s life. He had only come today because Jin Fan had talked back to Kang Lin, and she had given up on handling him.

Afraid Jin Huai Zhong would make himself sick with rage, Jin Fan quickly changed the subject. “Whoa, whoa, let’s put the ancestor business on hold for a second. Let’s talk about something else!”

Jin Huai Zhong leaned back in his chair, wearily massaging his temples. “What else is there to talk about?”

Jin Fan pulled four DNA test reports from his backpack.

Jin Huai Zhong asked in confusion, “What is this?”

Jin Fan pushed the DNA tests toward Jin Huai Zhong. “Dad, just take a look first. And promise you won’t get angry.”

Jin Huai Zhong opened the first one. It was for him and Jin Fan, and it confirmed he was Jin Fan’s biological father.

Jin Huai Zhong slammed the report on the table, furious. “You think I haven’t been good to you, so you doubted I was your real father?”

Jin Fan said, “That’s not the important one. The others are.”

So, Jin Huai Zhong opened the second one. It was a test between Jin Fan and Kang Lin.

He gave it a single glance, his expression barely changing. “It’s true, Kang Lin isn’t your birth mother. I never told you because I didn’t want to hurt you when you were young. Even though she’s not your real mother, she’s been good to you. She pitied your unfortunate fate and took extra special care of you. It was only because she was looking after you that I could focus on my career with peace of mind.”

Jin Fan lowered his head and said nothing more, simply nudging the remaining test reports with his hand.

This one was between Jin Huai Zhong and Jin Muyang.

Seeing this report, Jin Huai Zhong’s face fell. “It’s one thing to test yourself, but how could you test Yangyang! Yangyang just started at the company today. If word of this got out, think of the scandal! The way you handle things…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he glimpsed the three large words at the bottom of the report: “No blood relationship.”

Jin Huai Zhong read it over several times in disbelief. The result was always the same: no blood relationship.

“This is… the DNA test for me and Jin Muyang?”

Jin Fan nodded. “I used strands of your hair with the follicles attached. There’s no mistake. If you don’t believe it, you can get it tested again yourself.”

Jin Huai Zhong was silent for a long moment before muttering, “Could they have been switched at the hospital?”

Jin Fan flipped over the last report, revealing the one for Kang Lin and Jin Muyang. It showed that Jin Muyang and Kang Lin were biological mother and son.

In other words, he had been cuckolded. He had raised another man’s son for more than twenty years!

Jin Huai Zhong passed out on the spot.

Melodramas like this happened every year, but this year seemed to have an abundance of them, and this one just had to happen to him.

“Dad! Dad!” Seeing that things had taken a bad turn, Jin Fan rushed forward and frantically splashed water on his father’s face, shocking him awake.

Jin Huai Zhong gulped down two large bottles of water before he recovered his senses. He immediately asked Jin Fan, “How did you find out?”

Jin Fan explained what Shen Zhiyao had figured out, and also mentioned that someone had stolen his fate.

“I just wanted Ancestral Grandmother to help me find out who stole my fate. I never expected to uncover a full-blown family soap opera. I couldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams that my mom isn’t my mom, and my brother isn’t my brother! It’s bad enough that they’re not blood-related, but they also stole my fate.”

After listening to the whole story, Jin Huai Zhong’s gaze remained fixed on Shen Zhiyao.

He was a firm believer in Metaphysics, but all the masters he’d encountered before were old men. You could tell how profound their practice was at a single glance.

As for Shen Zhiyao, he had assumed she only knew a few superficial tricks and that her livestreams were just a way to scam money online. He never expected her to be the real deal—she could even describe in perfect detail how he and Kang Lin had first met.

Jin Huai Zhong began to recall the events of many years ago, speaking slowly. “Your birth mother passed away right after you were born. I was swamped with work and had no time to look after you, so I hired several nannies. But all of them ended up quitting for one reason or another. Only Kang Lin was meticulous and patient with you. She was the only one I trusted to raise you.”

Back then, Jin Huai Zhong’s career was just taking off, and he had to run around personally managing many projects.

One time, he was driving back late at night. There was a jam on the highway, so he was forced to take the back roads.

What should have been a two-hour drive stretched past four, and he still hadn’t emerged.

After carefully observing the surrounding buildings, he realized he was just driving in circles. He had run into a ghost wall.

At that exact moment, his car ran out of gas. Outside the window, a white figure steadily approached.

A pale-faced woman in a white dress suddenly lunged forward, slamming her hands against the windshield as if trying to break through the glass to get to him.

Her blood-soaked mouth was split into a grin that reached her ears, and tears of blood streamed from her eyes. A chilling cackle echoed around him, and his face went ashen with terror.

Jin Huai Zhong sat frozen in the car, his legs turned to jelly.

Just when he thought he was going to meet his end, a man in the robes of a Wudang Mountain Daoist appeared, drove off the female ghost, and saved him.

Later, Jin Huai Zhong learned that the Daoist was from Wudang Mountain, and his name was Chen Xu.

Chen Xu had completed his apprenticeship many years ago. After leaving the mountain, he had become very famous among the upper echelons of society. Hiring him was not cheap.

When he met Jin Huai Zhong, he claimed their encounter was fated. As he was also heading to Beijing City, they decided to travel together.

Out of gratitude, Jin Huai Zhong gave Chen Xu a hefty red envelope and invited him to his home as a guest, asking him to take a look at the house’s feng shui while he was there.

At that time, Jin Huai Zhong was already married to Kang Lin, and their son was a few months old.

Chen Xu helped with the feng shui and, while he was at it, also did a face reading for him.

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