Chapter 122: Paternity Test

This story is purely fictional.

Finally locating the phone number, he hurriedly dialed Wu Zhengzhe’s line.

The phone rang for a long time, but there was still no answer.

Nian Weiyi kept calling Wu Zhengzhe’s number repeatedly...

Wu Zhengzhe was awakened deep in the night by the urgent need to relieve himself.

Returning from the bathroom to his bedside, he drowsily noticed his phone flashing incessantly.

Seeing the incoming call display, he knew it was the head coach of the Dahe team. “Hello, Coach Nian, this is Wu Zhengzhe.”

“I’m currently at Aunt Fan Wei’s house in Hexi. Aunt Fan is dead. I’m reporting this to you; please come to the scene immediately,” Nian Weiyi said hurriedly.

“All right, I’m on my way. Please don’t leave the scene. I’m heading there now,” Wu Zhengzhe said as he quickly dressed and hurried downstairs.

Wu Zhengzhe was in a rush, speeding toward Aunt Fan’s house in Hexi like the wind. When he arrived, the house was shrouded in darkness.

Seeing no sign of movement, he cupped his hand over his mouth and called softly, “Coach Nian, Coach Nian...”

The head coach was nowhere to be found. Wu Zhengzhe wondered to himself, “Is he avoiding me? Or has something happened to him on the way here?”

The tranquil night in Hexi was occasionally pierced by distant, frantic barking dogs.

Wu Zhengzhe’s sixth sense told him that Coach Nian was no longer at the scene.

He ascended to the second floor of the house and, using his flashlight, illuminated Aunt Fan’s face on the bed. Judging by what he saw, Aunt Fan was already dead. He then called the police station to request reinforcements.

About forty minutes later, all police personnel had arrived at the scene.

According to the preliminary on-site forensic examination, the victim’s neck bore marks of strangulation, and the pupils indicated signs of struggle before death. Semen was found in the victim’s body, suggesting sexual assault.

After thorough examination and evidence collection, the police wrapped Aunt Fan’s body in a body bag, zipped it up, and transported it back to the police morgue.

Xiao Jin called Ma Shengwei to inform him that due to Xiao Yi’s car accident, the matters Ma Shengwei had arranged could not be attended to.

Upon hearing about Xiao Yi’s accident, Ma Shengwei anxiously asked, “What happened? Is there a life-threatening situation? Which hospital is she at?” He immediately left his work and rushed to Dahe Hospital.

In the emergency surgery room of Dahe Hospital, doctors were frantically working to save Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi had been hit by a van, thrown three to four meters from the vehicle. She was bleeding heavily at the scene. A brain CT scan showed mild cerebral hemorrhage. Additionally, the three-month-old fetus could not be saved; the miscarriage caused severe bleeding, requiring an urgent blood transfusion.

However, the blood bank did not have Xiao Yi’s blood type.

“If there’s no matching blood, take mine immediately!” Xiao Jin shouted to the doctors.

“An RA-negative, ‘panda blood’ type? Is that correct?” the doctor asked.

“What type? Panda blood? I’m the father of the child; my blood should be fine,” Xiao Jin said, rolling up his sleeve.

“Both of you should have blood drawn. Whose matches better, we’ll use that,” the doctor explained to Xiao Jin.

Looking around and not seeing Jin Yan nearby, Xiao Jin cursed loudly, “Where has that woman run off to? Always dropping the ball at crucial moments. Where the hell is that woman?”

“I’m here, I’m here,” Jin Yan called out, raising both hands. “I twisted my ankle while walking earlier.” She limped over to the doctor like a cripple.

“Oh right, my wife has congenital anemia. Draw my blood for testing. Time is life,” Xiao Jin told the doctor about the mother’s condition.

“Then hurry up,” the doctor signaled the nurse to act quickly.

When the nurse brought the blood test results to the emergency room, she whispered something in the doctor’s ear. Xiao Jin grew impatient. “Is the blood test result ready? Why aren’t you transfusing my precious daughter yet?”

Standing nearby, Jin Yan immediately understood what was happening.

At Zhizhen’s bar, Dai Yunjou, who had been waiting for Xiao Yi, sent messages but received no reply. He called Xiao Yi, but the phone was off.

Not knowing what had happened, Dai Yunjou felt as though two days without seeing Xiao Yi was an eternity.

Xiao Yi’s silence made Dai Yunjou deeply uneasy. In his heart, he had completely fallen for this pure, simple girl.

He adored her willfulness in front of him, the way her actions and demeanor seemed at odds with her age, especially how uninhibited she was in bed. In this regard, Xiao Yi was strikingly similar to his ex-wife, so much so that he hardly dared to believe it was true.

Since becoming intimate with Xiao Yi, Dai Yunjou had learned she was Officer Xiao Jin’s daughter. He also discovered through indirect sources that Xiao Yi was not actually Xiao Jin’s biological daughter but the illegitimate child of Ma Shengwei, the director of Dahe Police Bureau.

Those familiar with the underworld understood that after years in the black market, there would come a day when one wished to cleanse themselves of their past. Walking a single path alone was never the solution.

He thought about the harm he had caused during his days as an MC, the many who died under his orchestration. But now, he was no longer the perpetrator of those deaths, which somewhat eased his lingering guilt.

He knew that Officer Xiao Jin was a close friend of Leng Junfeng, but Leng Junfeng was his rival, mortal enemies. If Xiao Jin learned he was dating his daughter, unforeseen troubles might arise.

Despite the potential trouble, Dai Yunjou went to Xiao Yi’s house. The lights were off.

He wanted to check whether she was home or if something had happened.

Ignoring everything else, he knocked on the door persistently.

There was no response. The landlord next door peeked out.

“Officer Xiao isn’t home. Just now, his daughter apparently had a car accident and has been sent to the emergency room at Dahe Hospital.”

Upon hearing this, Dai Yunjou’s heart pounded wildly. His premonition of an accident was confirmed.

He dashed outside, jumped into his car, started the engine, and sped off with a roar, leaving wisps of smoke behind.

Dai Yunjou arrived at Dahe Hospital’s emergency surgery room and anxiously inquired about Xiao Yi’s condition.

When he learned she was not in critical condition, he finally breathed a little easier.

Outside the emergency room, Dai Yunjou noticed Xiao Jin staring in disbelief at the doctor’s strange words.

Xiao Jin couldn’t accept that the daughter he had loved for seventeen years wasn’t his biological child. He didn’t understand what was happening and suspected the hospital’s test was wrong. No matter what, he refused to believe Xiao Yi wasn’t his.

Turning his thoughts inward, he wondered, “If Xiao Yi isn’t mine, then who is the father? All signs point to my wife never having contact with any other man. Her only hobby is playing mahjong, and she only interacts with some mahjong friends. Other than that, there’s no suspicious behavior.”

His mind was flooded with complex thoughts, but thinking about his wife — who was like asexual and indifferent to sex — made these thoughts seem absurd.

In front of him, his wife had never complained about his sexual abilities, which made him trust her completely. Yet, over a decade ago, she had already given him a colossal betrayal.

The medical staff in the emergency room worked urgently to save Xiao Yi. A nurse received news by phone, and upon informing the team that blood had been found, Xiao Jin’s tense heart eased a little.

Dai Yunjou stood outside, seeing both Xiao Yi’s father and mother present, and didn’t dare approach or speak, knowing it was not yet time to reveal his relationship with Xiao Yi’s family.

At that moment, Ma Shengwei also arrived at the scene.

When he reached the emergency room entrance, he saw Dai Yunjou and felt a vague familiarity but did not ask who he was.

Ma Shengwei went straight inside. Jin Yan noticed his arrival and asked, “Why are you here? How did you know I’m at the hospital?”

“Officer Xiao told me. He said Xiao Yi had a car accident and was in the emergency room at Dahe Hospital,” Ma Shengwei replied, glancing at Xiao Jin and nodding. “My goddaughter had an accident; how could I not come see her? Right, Officer Xiao?”

“Thank you, thank you,” Officer Xiao responded absentmindedly.

As Xiao Jin answered Ma Shengwei, he noticed the unusual look Ma Shengwei gave his wife — a lover’s look toward his beloved. Xiao Jin was sure his suspicions were correct.

“No wonder Ma Shengwei insists on calling my daughter his goddaughter every day. Could it be that my wife has been secretly involved with him all along? And I never noticed over all these years,” Xiao Jin scratched his head in confusion, watching the director’s expression to see if there was any relationship between them. “If he really is the man my wife’s been secretly seeing, I’ll tear you limb from limb and throw you into boiling oil...”

His direct superior had cuckolded him. Xiao Jin’s heart burned with resentment.

But for now, he was only suspecting because he lacked solid evidence to prove Ma Shengwei was the man colluding with his wife.

(To be continued.)