Chapter 56: Qin Sheng, Whose Son Is He?

  Lianqiao International Building, Qin Lang walked out of the revolving glass door with a gloomy face, and immediately afterwards, a woman wearing high heels rushed towards the glass door.

  This woman was none other than Qin Lang's stepmother, Cao Yan.

  As Cao Yan was about to pass through the glass door, a man rushed up behind her.

  "Yanyan, can you just give me one more chance? I was wrong to you in the past, but this time I've come back with a sincere heart to make up for my mistakes. The man grasped Cao Yanyan's arm, his attitude sincere and his expression eager, completely disregarding the fact that they were standing at the bustling main entrance of the building."

  Cao Yan fiercely pushed away the other person's hand, stopped in her tracks, pointed at their nose and scolded: "Zhu Ganglie, I only agreed to meet you today because of that little bit of affection we had back then. Are you trying to get on my nerves? Now tell me how you plan to make up for your mistakes! What were you doing back then?! Get out of my way!"

  Zhū Gāng Liè refused to give in, and with a bitter smile said: "Yàn Yàn, I know that back then it was all my fault, I should have died, I'm the one who messed up. But do you know? All these years, there hasn't been a single moment when I've forgotten about you. I thought I would forget you, but I couldn't, the more I tried to forget, the more I realized that you are the only love of my life."

  "Love?" Cao Yan sneered, "You're also qualified to talk about love? You still think I'm the same naive little girl from before, who would believe anything you said after being fed a bowl of sweet nothings, right? I've watched too many TV dramas over the years, and the lines you're spouting are all clichés that have been done to death on screen. Just hearing them makes me sick."

  "Yanyan, I didn't deceive you. My love for you is as clear as the sky and the earth, and can be proven by the sun and the moon." As he spoke, Zhu Ganglie suddenly rolled up his sleeves, revealing the shirts and clothes underneath, and stretched out his bare arm in front of Cao Yanyan, saying emotionally: "All these years, I've been living in regret and longing, it's been a miserable existence. To alleviate this pain, I used a knife to carve on my own arm, stroke by stroke, blood flowing out, but I didn't feel any pain, because my heart hurts more than the wound."

  Cao Yan's eyes scanned with disdain, suddenly froze in shock.

  On Zhu Gang's bare arm, scars were all over, these scars were twisted and turned, but together, they formed rows of Chinese characters: Yan Yan, I love you! Yan Yan, I miss you! Yan Yan, I was wrong! Yan Yan...

  Men are rational animals, while women are emotional animals. Seeing Zhu Ganglie's arm, Cao Yan's heart still had a little spark of the old feelings that hadn't completely died out.

  She looked at the man in front of her and asked with a complex gaze: "If you've always said that you love me, why haven't you come to find me all these years?"

  Zhu Ganglie's pupils flashed with a hint of imperceptible joy, and he smiled wryly: "I didn't not want to find you, but I had no face to come find you. From the year I left you, I made up my mind that if I couldn't make something of myself, I would absolutely not come see you. For this, I endured countless hardships, step by step accumulating, and finally achieved what I have today - a luxurious car, a grand mansion, I don't lack anything now, except for you. So I've made up my mind to come find you, Yan Yan, let's get back together!"

  "Together, together, together..."

  A few kids appeared from nowhere, perhaps thinking that the dialogue between these two uncles and aunts was too much like a TV show, they clapped their hands and cheered.

  "Shoo, shoo, shoo, don't make trouble." Zhu Ganglie dispersed the little friends, opened his arms and waited for the woman to rush into his embrace, tears streaming down her face, pouring out her emotions.

  But he thought too simply.

  Years of luxurious life had long suppressed Cao Yan's sensibility with rationality. She recalled how this man abandoned her years ago, taking away all her savings and leaving her with a huge debt, making her lose everything overnight, several times wanting to commit suicide, and almost falling into prostitution, her heart had cooled down.

  "You speak so well, I almost want to applaud for you. Unfortunately, Zhu Ganglie, I was deceived by you once, and there will absolutely not be a second time. Let's consider this our last meeting today, don't come bother me again in the future, otherwise don't blame me for tearing off your face."

  Cao Yan dropped the topic and wanted to avoid Zhu Ganglie.

  Zhu's face flashed a hint of impatience, and he suddenly said lightly: "Yanyan, why be so ruthless? Even if it's for the sake of our son, you should give me one more chance."

  Cao Yan's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, and she stared fixedly at the man in front of her. "What nonsense are you spouting? Who has a son with you? If you keep talking nonsense, don't blame me for being rude."

  Yan's mother let out a deep sigh and said, "Yan, you may have fooled that fool Qin, but you can't fool me. If I'm not mistaken, when I left back then, you were already pregnant. Later on, Qin Fengyang benefited from it and got himself a son for free. However, I should also thank him; if it weren't for him, who would have raised my son to be so big?"

  Cao Yan angrily opened her eyes and scolded: "Don't spout nonsense here, Sheng Er is the son of me and my husband, and has nothing to do with you."

  "If he's not related, how come he looks so much like me and doesn't look anything like that Qin guy?" Zhu Ganglie burst out laughing.

  Cao Yanru was struck by lightning and turned pale, saying: "Have you seen him?"

  Zhu Ganglie nodded: "I've seen him, but don't worry, I told him I'm your classmate. And I even gave him a small gift, that gemstone lizard, our son loves it."

  "It was you who sent it." Cao Yan gritted her teeth, "Zhu Ganglie, I'm warning you again, Sheng'er is the son of me and my husband, you'd better stay away from him. If you dare to touch him, I'll fight you to the death."

  Zhu Ganglie let out a pretentious sigh, "Yanyan, what's the point of this? Facts are facts, no matter how much you deny them, it won't change anything. Let me show you something, I believe that after you see it, you won't be so stubborn anymore."

  As he spoke, he opened his bag and pulled out a document. He didn't hand it to Cao Yan, but instead spread it open, pointing at the words on it: "This is a DNA report, which shows that my genetic similarity with Sheng Er is as high as 99.97%. In other words, he is my biological relative in medical terms. Now that medicine has advanced so much and DNA testing is also very convenient, I did one casually to prove that Sheng Er is my flesh and blood."

  Cao Yan's face changed dramatically, and she reached out to grab it, but was avoided by Zhu Ganglie.

  Zhu Ganglie put the DNA report back into his bag, zipping it up as he spoke: "Yanyan, even if you were to snatch this report away from me and tear it to shreds, I still have a copy in my hands. Even without a copy, you can't deny the blood relationship between me and Sheng'er. I'm not taking out this thing to threaten you, but rather to hope that you'll give me one chance. Sheng'er needs a real father, and you need someone who truly loves you too. Let's be a happy family of three, okay?"

  Cao Yan's face changed color.

  Just then, a figure flashed between the two of them, quickly snatching the bag from Zhu Ganglie's hands before he could even zip it up, and immediately rushed out towards the revolving door.

  Cao Yan was stunned for a moment, and after she came to her senses, her heart felt like it had been heavily pounded, scaring her so much that her whole body trembled. Without thinking, she rushed out the door, shouting: "Catch the pickpocket! Someone's stealing a bag! Catch him quickly!"

  Zhu Ganglie's mouth corners flashed a strange smile, and then he also ran out slowly.

  ……

  "Who would have thought that even I, Qin Lang, would have a time when a single penny could bring down a heroic man?" Qin Lang narrowed his eyes, gazing at the dazzling sunlight, but his heart couldn't help but feel gloomy.

  It's been a very long time since he had to worry about worldly money, so long that even he himself can't remember.

  The attitude of that Cao medicine master just now, although it made him angry and hateful, but more so, it sounded an alarm in his heart. He suddenly realized that this was a world different from the Dan Ding continent, where ordinary people were the mainstay, and what dominated ordinary people was money.

  He is now an ordinary person, so money is a must for him, it's indispensable.

  No money, every step is difficult.

  No money, nothing can be done.

  The problem is, Qin Lang suddenly realized that with his current ordinary body, he didn't have any way to make money, at least he couldn't think of a way to quickly get a lot of money.

  "Was he really going to ask his father for money?" Qin Lang smiled wryly, knowing that as long as he opened his mouth, his father would definitely not say a second word and would immediately transfer the money to him, but he couldn't bear to lose face like this.

  Maybe it's because he was a beggar in his past life, so he has an instinctive resistance to such acts of asking for help, even if the other person is his own flesh and blood.

  Except for asking his father, he really couldn't think of any other way to quickly get the money to buy medicine.

  Apart from committing crimes, stealing, robbing...

  Just as the absurd idea of "stealing" had flashed through Qin Lang's mind, he suddenly heard a voice coming from far behind: "Someone is stealing a bag, catch him quickly..."

  Rush for packages?

  What a coincidence! Is this meant to provoke me into joining in the scramble as well?

  Qin Lang turned his head and saw a man wearing a duck-tongued hat, agilely running towards him. The man was holding a bag in his hand, while running, he also stretched his hand into the bag to dig out something, soon, he took out a document from it, rolled it up in his hand and grasped it tightly.

  In the distance, he also saw that among the crowd in front of the entrance of Lianqiao International Building, someone was shouting and chasing after him, but the distance was far away, and the figure was blurred, so he couldn't see very clearly.

  Qin Lang didn't want to intervene at first, he didn't have Lei Feng's spirit and wasn't fond of meddling in other people's business, but someone just had to open their big mouth.

  Just then, a man wearing a duck tongue hat who was running over glared at Qin Lang fiercely and shouted, "Get out of the way, you idiot! Move quickly, or I'll cut you down!"

  Qin Lang's face turned black, and when the duck-tongued hat man brushed past him, he silently stretched out his leg.

  Peng!

  A man wearing a duck tongue hat was running at full speed when his feet got tangled and he fell heavily to the ground, with two streams of nosebleed gushing out instantly.

  This fall was not light, the man instinctively wanted to find trouble with Qin Lang, but hearing the sound getting closer and closer behind him, and the eyes of the people around him starting to gather, he didn't dare to delay any longer. He got up and scolded Qin Lang viciously: "You little brat, wait for me."

  After finishing speaking, he didn't even pick up the bag that had fallen to one side, but tightly grasped the document in his hand and ran away quickly.