Chapter 339
“Enough! How much more are you going to humiliate my daughter?”
An father’s face was livid with fury.
Rong Yu handed him a file. “Whether it’s humiliation or not, shouldn’t you take a look first, President An?”
An father flipped it open, scanned it rapidly, and nearly fainted.
“What?”
“How is this possible?”
“No… I don’t believe it. I don’t…”
Rong Yu spoke calmly. “As you can see, the An Nuo standing before you is not your biological daughter. The real An Nuo went abroad to study at age eight and only returned after completing graduate school. She only saw her parents once a year, which left an opening for someone to impersonate her. This impostor has undergone more than thirty plastic surgeries…”
“Ridiculous!” An mother clutched her daughter tightly. “Say whatever you want. I’m taking my daughter home!”
An Nuo looked like a fish gasping for air as her mother pulled her toward the car.
But then—
Sheng Qingyan stepped forward and blocked their path.
Rong Yu approached, grabbed An Nuo’s chin without warning.
Seeing this, An mother tried to push Rong Yu away, but Sheng Qingyan seized her wrist.
“Sheng Yun! Your pregnant wife is being bullied like this, and you just stand there?” An mother’s voice was breaking. “Are you even a man? My An Nuo really married the wrong person!”
Sheng Yun’s eyes darkened. “It’s not certain whether she’s my wife or not.”
“Open your mouth!” Rong Yu forced An Nuo’s jaw open with pressure. “When the real An Nuo was sixteen, she visited a dentist in China. According to dental records, her upper right second premolar had a typical curved root canal. But this one…”
She released her hand, her gaze burning like fire. “When did you take the place of the real An Nuo? Let me guess—was it the night of An Nuo’s eighteenth birthday party? Or the night she stayed out with her boyfriend for the first time at nineteen? Perhaps it was the day she went camping at twenty…”
An mother roared in anger. “Judging someone’s identity by a tooth? That’s absurd!”
“Let’s do a paternity test immediately,” Sheng Qingyan said. “The military’s test will yield results in an hour.”
“No!”
An Nuo suddenly shrieked.
“This is an invasion of my human rights, a trampling of my dignity! Mom, Dad, let’s go home. I want to go home right now!”
This unusually intense reaction stunned the An family.
An father had been standing silently at the back. Now he strode forward abruptly and grabbed her shoulder.
“Nuo Nuo,” the head of the An family said, his voice dark and menacing, “if you’re really my daughter, why are you afraid of a test?”
“Dad, I…” An Nuo’s pupils dilated wildly, her lips trembling. “Yes, I am the An family’s daughter. Why should I do whatever they say? On what grounds…”
An father’s eyes grew colder, and his grip tightened. “My daughter fell off a swing at age six and fractured her collarbone, leaving a permanent scar. Let me see…”
He roughly yanked down the high collar of An Nuo’s shirt. Beneath it, her collarbone was smooth and unblemished.
Time seemed to freeze in that moment.
An father’s gaze turned as sharp as a blade. “You’re not my daughter after all. No wonder you suddenly started wearing high-necked clothes after your eighteenth birthday. So… that’s when you replaced my daughter!”
He suddenly grabbed her throat, his eyes bloodshot. “Tell me! Where is my daughter?”
An Nuo’s face turned purple as she struggled, her legs flailing, her hands desperately prying at his iron-like fingers.
An mother let out a heart-wrenching wail and threw herself at her husband, pounding on him. “Let go! She’ll die! She’s carrying a child!”
But An father seemed to have lost his mind, his grip tightening. “Tell me where Nuo Nuo is, or I’ll kill you with my own hands!”
Desperately, An Nuo turned to Sheng Yun, choking out the words. “Sheng Yun, save me… I’m pregnant with your child…”
Sheng Yun stood motionless, his expression as cold as ice. Slowly, he said, “I married An Nuo. Are you her? Since you’re not, what does the child in your belly have to do with me?”
So that was why she’d revealed the traitor in the base, offered up her accomplice—it was only to gain his trust.
He had been a fool.
An Nuo’s face had turned from purple to blue, and her eyes began to roll back.
Just then, Sheng Qingyan lunged forward. With a precise karate chop to An father’s wrist, he sent An Nuo collapsing weakly to the ground, gasping for air, the five purple fingerprints still vivid on her neck.
“President An, if she dies, we won’t be able to find anything out,” Sheng Qingyan said coolly. “Arrest her!”
Several soldiers stepped forward, hoisting An Nuo up like a dead fish, and dragged her back into the military headquarters.
An mother collapsed to the floor, tears smearing her perfectly made-up face. “My Nuo Nuo, my only precious daughter… how could this happen…”
She suddenly grabbed Rong Yu’s pant leg. “Please, tell me this isn’t true… tell me Nuo Nuo is still alive…”
Rong Yu knelt down and gently held her trembling hand. “Mrs. An, I’m sorry. According to my investigation, the real An Nuo likely died during her studies abroad. The imposter planned this for a long time. She spent over two years getting plastic surgery to match An Nuo’s appearance…”
“No!”
An mother let out a piercing scream, then her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
An father slammed his fist into the wall, scraping the skin from his knuckles until they bled. He slumped to his knees like a man whose soul had been drained, the once composed businessman now hunched over, looking twenty years older.
Sheng Yun’s expression was a storm of emotions. He pressed his lips together, helped the two elderly to their feet, and arranged for someone to take them home.
Sheng Qingyan gently squeezed Rong Yu’s hand, then turned and entered the military compound.
When they had investigated around An Nuo, they found nothing. But once they knew she was an impostor, countless clues surfaced on their own… At just eight weeks pregnant, with a fragile fetus, she suffered a miscarriage and was sent to the hospital after three days of confinement.
After the forces entrenched in China were purged, Grandfather Ji was finally allowed to leave the hospital.
Sheng Qingyan found time to personally escort him out.
“Ah, A Yuan, clear out a room in the villa,” Grandfather Ji insisted. “Mr. Sheng will stay here tonight. Put him in the room next to your great-grandmother’s— no, I mean, next to Miss Rong’s.”
If he weren’t afraid of startling his biological father, he would have suggested Sheng Qingyan share a room with her directly.
Ji Zhiyuan asked, “Mr. Sheng, what style of room do you prefer?”
Given the situation, his great-grandfather would likely be frequently staying over at the Ji mansion anyway; it was better to set up a room properly.
“There’s no need,” Sheng Qingyan said. “Tonight, I have to accompany the troops to Base Four. You should already have seen the news. In three days, Base Four will launch the Eagle Eye-One rocket. The special forces are deploying to ensure a successful launch.”
Rong Yu smiled. “Then see you at the base. I have to go there too.”
Sheng Qingyan looked troubled. "I've been assigned a mission by the organization. I have to be on standby twenty-four seven..."