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Chapter 252: Tons of Melodramatic Cold Shots (300+ Monthly Tickets Update)

Chapter 252: Chapter 252: Tons of Melodramatic Cold Shots (300+ Monthly Tickets Update)

Seeing Suizi about to have another row with Chen Lijun, Yu Jingting urgently stepped in to protect his pregnant wife and prevent her from becoming angry.

He quickly handed Suizi a bottle of beer.

"Honey, if she messes with you again, you just gulp this down, it’ll scare her half to death!"

Chen Lijun twitched at the corner of her mouth driven to anger by this ruffian tactic.

"Drinking alcohol while pregnant, are you trying to murder our baby?" Suizi was left speechless by his bizarre peacekeeping method.

"We’re just trying to spook her a little, you can’t actually drink it—see? She’s scared by us now, isn’t she?" Yu Jingting pointed toward Chen Lijun with his chin.

"You dare say this to my face? You’ve become too arrogant." Chen Lijun rebuked Yu Jingting, "You naughty boy, you really think I’ll just let her leave with you?"

"She’s a sly woman with lots of hidden agendas. Take her back home and she’ll annoy you daily until you age prematurely. I don’t mind her messing with me here."

Suizi pinched his thigh under the table. Whose side was this jerk on?

He was like a weathercock, one moment siding with her, the next with her mother!

"I’m just trying to lighten the atmosphere." Yu Jingting gave Suizi a harmless smile.

"You’re just no good." Suizi and Chen Lijun spoke in unison, before exchanging glances.

Suizi was overwhelmed by a rush of mixed emotions, both sweet and sour.

After many years apart, the silent understanding between her and her mother was still there.

For a moment, she felt as though nothing had changed, as though nothing had happened between them.

"Mom, you have two choices in front of you. First, be honest with my wife and avoid her getting upset with you. If something happens to our baby because of the stress, we’ll both be heartbroken."

"Hmm, you’re quite assertive, aren’t you? And what if I don’t choose this one?" Chen Lijun folded her arms and gave a cold stare at the fence-sitter Yu Jingting.

The same boy that had earlier sworn an oath to treat her with filial devotion like his own son was rebelling now that Suizi was here.

"Second, I’ll get you drunk until you spill the truth—see that old woman on the kang? If you’re uncooperative, you’ll end up like her."

A slightly drunk Wang Cuihua mumbled timely:

"My head hurts from all the drinking..."

Chen Lijun couldn’t help but laugh. She hadn’t seen her daughter in years, and this should have been a meaningful meal together, but Yu Jingting turned it into comedy.

With such a clown for a son-in-law, she couldn’t keep a straight face.

Chen Lijun understood that Yu Jingting might be joking around, but he was earnestly determined to defend Suizi.

If she didn’t clear up matters today, this young couple wouldn’t let her leave. It wasn’t good for her pregnant daughter to be worrying and stressed.

With a heavy sigh, Chen Lijun realized she couldn’t hide it any longer.

"Check if your sister is asleep."

After a quick check, Yu Jingting confirmed that Jiaojiao was asleep in the next room.

Once sure this was a private conversation, Chen Lijun finally said:

"I didn’t want you two to know, for your own good. The Fan Family’s influence is far greater than you might think. You’ve already met that idiot son of Fan Hua, haven’t you?"

Upon hearing this, ice around Suizi’s heart, frozen for years, suddenly melted. Yu Jingting was right, her mom hadn’t abandoned her!

Although she was mentally prepared, she was still caught off guard upon hearing it. Tears welled up in her eyes, and her lips started to tremble. There were a million things she wanted to ask, but she completely lost her words.

Yu Jingting grabbed a spring onion and handed it to her.

"Calm yourself down, eat the onion to soothe yourself, I’ll ask for you—Mom, who did she get this problem from, where she can’t speak when nervous?"

"She got it from her grandpa. He would stutter when arguing or nervous, but he’s quite talkative normally."

"Well, my wife isn’t like him, she’s very lovely. So, what’s the connection between my wife and the Fan Family?"

Yu Jingting was a master of language. He lightened the mood while speaking on Suizi’s behalf, each word hitting the right notes.

"The Fan Family believes Suizi is their long-lost child. No matter what I say, they refuse to believe otherwise. And you can imagine what they want Suizi for, coming from such superstitious family."

To borrow lifespan.

These three words simultaneously appeared in Suizi and Yu Jingting’s minds.

But what shocked them even more was that Suizi’s real father might not be Chen Kaide?!

"So, who’s child am I... "

"You’re my child, don’t ask anything else."

Chen Lijun gave an ambiguous reply. Suizi took a big bite of the onion in her hand, dumbfounded.

Living two lifetimes, but for the first time discovering the secret of her birth, she felt like a whole vat of blood was being dumped on her head. No, it wasn’t just a vat, it was a ton.

A ton of blood being poured on her head left Suizi not knowing how to respond.

"Mom, when you were young, did you have a... rather colorful life?" Yu Jingting seemed far more calm than Suizi.

He easily accepted this shocking news. Having interacted with Chen Lijun since his childhood, he knew his mother-in-law was no ordinary woman.

"Get lost, you lot have no business meddling in my affairs," Chen Lijun mouthed off, but her words didn’t carry a hint of anger, showing that she wasn’t really mad.

"How can people believe in such nonsense? The Fan family should all be taken to my wife’s school for some education."

Yu Jingting always believed that the idea of borrowing lifespan was preposterous.

He was raised by his mother, who relied on her deceptive practices, making him see such beliefs as scams designed to cheat the foolish and wealthy.

"Mom, you avoided acknowledging Suizi as your daughter for this reason? That doesn’t seem like you."

If it wasn’t his mother-in-law, Yu Jingting would surely have scoffed at them.

"Some things are better believed. Have you ever wondered how Fan Hua’s son ended up an idiot?"

"When Fan Hua’s wife was pregnant, Fan’s patriarch was on his deathbed. So, they borrowed the lifespan of the unborn child. The child was born an idiot, but the old man recovered."

Some things, if you say they are coincidences, they are coincidences, but if you think deeply about them, they can be quite frightening.

The steam from the hot pot concealed Chen Lijun’s face, making it hard for Yu Jingting and Suizi to tell the truth from the lies.

Suizi and Yu Jingting broke out in a cold sweat despite being in a warm room.

"When Suizi called me, the Fan family was right next to me. If I hadn’t spoken like that, they would have started fancying Suizi. Among the younger generation of the Fan Family, there are many, but the one who meets all the criteria is only Suizi."

"After finishing this meal, swallow this and forget about it. As long as the old man from the Fan Family is alive, Suizi can’t see me."

Maintaining her dumbstruck pose biting into the onion, Suizi was now on the same page with her mother-in-law. Was she just dreaming?

This overload of information... she couldn’t digest it.

"Wait a minute, Mom, something doesn’t add up..." Yu Jingting made a ’pause’ gesture with his hand for some time to think over it.

Something definitely didn’t add up.

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