Chapter 13
Chapter 13 — My Husband and I Are Both Infertile, Three Months After Being Married I Got Pregnant With Quadruplets, He Was Immediately Shocked
This is the only way to live for me and my children. Looking at the crazy hope in my eyes, Chu Duat finally compromised. We went to the assessment center again. This process is even more torturous than the previous one. Three days of waiting for results felt like a century. I locked myself in my room, not eating or drinking. Chu Duat also locked himself in his office and smoked continuously. We are all waiting for a final verdict. On the third day, lawyer Truong brought the report. He didn't dare look at us, just put the file bag on the table, then walked out. I looked at the file bag, like looking at Pandora's box. Inside, contains the survival of me and my child. I reached out my hand, but it was shaking so much that I couldn't hold the file bag. Finally, it was Chu Duat, who used his equally trembling hands to tear the seal. He pulled out the report, his eyes jumping straight to the last page. And then, his body suddenly stiffened. He looked at me, his eyes were a hundred times more surprised and unbelievable than when he found out we were brothers.
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Zhou Duat's expression is something I have never seen before. It was a complex mixture of extreme shock, confusion, excitement, and even fear. His hand holding the report trembled. My heart jumped straight into my throat.
“What's going on?” My voice was hoarse.
He didn't say anything, just put that flimsy report in front of me. My eyes also immediately stopped at the conclusion of the last page. The bold black letters, like bolts of lightning, exploded in my mind.
“… Based on the results of DNA analysis, excluding Chu Duat as the biological father of the tested fetuses, the probability of blood relationship is 0%.”
The probability of blood relationship is 0%. The baby… is not yours. My tense nerves, at this moment, were completely broken. Extreme joy, and a feeling of extreme paranoia, came at the same time. I laughed, laughed, then cried again. My child, keep it! We are not incest anymore! But… A new question, a more fatal problem, arose in my mind. The baby is not Chu Duat's. So whose will it be? The man that Chu Tu Ngang came to find? I suddenly raised my head and looked at Chu Duat. He was also looking at me, in his eyes, there was the same doubt and... fear as me. If the baby belongs to another man, then how can I explain my "Dragon Mother and Phoenix Nest" constitution? Why could a stranger's "seed" be planted in my body, creating a quadruped whose bloodline was so compatible with Chu Duat's? Why was my pregnancy able to cure Zhou Yut's body? All of this is not reasonable anymore! Unless… A wilder, more unbelievable thought, like lightning, flashed through my brain. I quickly grabbed Chu Duat's hand.
"Chu Duat! That's not right! Everything is not right!"
“Inspection report, there is a problem!”
Chu Duat was startled by my reaction: "Hua Chi, calm down and report..."
“The report is fake!” I interrupted him, “Or in other words, we got it wrong!”
"Think about it, if the baby isn't yours, then the 'Dragon Mother and Phoenix Nest' theory won't be established at all! Your body's recovery will also become an unexplainable mystery!"
“In this world, there cannot be many things What a coincidence!”
“The only explanation is, all of this, from beginning to end, was a trap! A trap even bigger and more terrifying than the plot of Chu Minh Hai and Bach Kinh Dinh!
“Someone is behind my back, manipulating everything! That person forged this assessment report to make us believe that the baby is not yours, causing us to fall into chaos and kill each other!”
My speaking speed is extremely fast, my brain works at full capacity. Zhou Duat was also shocked by my analysis. He looked at the report in his hand, his eyes immediately became sharp.
“What do you mean… there's a problem with the appraisal center?”
“Not just an assessment center!” I said, “It's everything! Including the box my father left behind, including Tan Tu's sudden turn around!
“It's all so coincidental! Coincidentally like a pre-arranged play!”
“Someone wants to destroy our house!”
Who is that person? Why did he do that? Chu Duat and I looked at each other and thought of one person at the same time. A person that we have always overlooked, the most incapable person. Tan Tu. Chu Duat's mother. My mother-in-law. It was she who entrusted the box containing that shocking secret to me. It was she who used the harshest words to provoke me, forcing Chu Duat and me to the brink of breaking up. It's her, always by my side, seemingly stupid on the outside, but always pushing the plot in the right direction at the most crucial moments. Is she really a stupid woman blinded by hatred? Or... Is this her most brilliant disguise?
“Lawyer Truong!” Chu Duat immediately took out his phone and dialed the number.
“Investigate me immediately! Who has Tan Tu had financial transactions with over the years, and who is he in contact with! Don't miss anyone!”
Hang up the phone, he looked at me, his eyes filled with pain and struggle. He didn't want to believe that his biological mother was the hidden person who wanted to put him to death. The results of the investigation were available very quickly. Faster than we could imagine. Lawyer Truong sent a file of documents. When I opened it, Chu Duat and I both felt like we had been struck by lightning, our whole bodies were cold. Inside, are secret email transactions between Tan Tu and a foreign medical facility. The content of the email is scary to look at. It turned out that I was not born infertile at all, and Chu Duat was not exposed to any type of chronic poison. We are all "victims" of a genetic experiment. Twenty years ago, in order for Chu Duat to completely defeat Chu Minh Hai's son in the race for inheritance, Tan Tu secretly contacted everyone and this illegal genetic medical facility. She asked them to conduct a taboo "genetic modification experiment" on Chu Duat, who was only ten years old at the time. The purpose of the experiment was to "optimize" Chu Duat's bloodline, so that his future descendants would possess stronger genes. But the experiment failed. Chu Duat's body produced a strong rejection reaction, causing the reproductive system to be locked tightly, becoming "infertile" in the mouth of people.