TRIGGER WARNING: Stalking and mentions of sexual assault of young Lin Cheng.

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‘Paternity test report’?

Lin Cheng’s eyes moved slightly when he saw the title on the document .

“This is the DNA test report between you and the young—, er, Lin Momo,” Wang Zhou explained in a timely manner.

Lin Cheng said nothing and opened the test report in his hand without changing expression.

When he turned to the last page, he saw the last line in bold and black font: ‘99.999…% possibility that the two parties subject of this test have a parent-child relationship.’ 

Although Lin Cheng’s face was already rigid and had no expression on it, Wang Zhou clearly saw their eldest young master’s hands tremble at that moment.

Lin Cheng pursed his lips into a straight line. He stared at the paternity test report in his hand without saying a word.

The car suddenly became too quiet.

“Eldest Young Master?” Wang Zhou called out to Lin Cheng.

Lin Cheng did not respond.

Wang Zhou called out again, but Lin Cheng still ignored him.

Faced with this situation, Wang Zhou suddenly felt unsure.

Wang Zhou looked at Lin Cheng carefully and began to make rapid guesses in his mind: their eldest young master was silent now. Was he perhaps unable to accept the fact? Still unwilling to accept Lin Momo as his daughter? Or perhaps he didn’t believe the test results at all?

Can you really be this stunned by this ‘surprise’… Wang Zhou asked himself secretly.

But what he didn’t know was that Lin Cheng was indeed a little confused at this time.

Surprised, yes; shocked, even. But there was also an indescribable emotion that appeared in Lin Cheng’s heart, making him unable to recover for a while.

“Eldest Young Master,” Wang Zhou called again and explained in a low voice, “this paternity test report was indeed conducted using samples from you and Lin Momo. It is the result obtained from a reputable testing center. There is no fraud.”

At this time, Lin Cheng finally came to his senses, nodded, and responded, “I understand.” 

Lin Cheng did not doubt the authenticity of this paternity test report.

Since Wang Zhou himself dared to hand over this report to him, there must be no fraud involved.

It’s just…

Lin Cheng frowned with a complicated expression, recalling an extremely unpleasant experience that he was, in truth, very reluctant to even think about.

It happened ten years ago.

… …

Lin Cheng had not yet returned to the Lin family at that time.

At the beginning, Lin Cheng, who had just returned to China, had no support from the Lin family and no stable income. He even encountered unexpected obstacles in the process of job hunting and starting a business, so his life was really not good.

Later, by chance, Lin Cheng became an artist of Starstone Entertainment.

Not long after his debut, Lin Cheng became hugely popular.

Lin Cheng was invited to be the finalé guest singer in the show ‘Star Night’.

After the performance, Lin Cheng had originally planned to leave directly, but he was instead brought to the company’s celebration banquet by his manager at the time.

Under the booing pressure of the other banquet guests, Lin Cheng downed three cups of alcohol and left.

However, before leaving the venue, Lin Cheng suddenly felt dizzy and confused.

The ‘drunk’ Lin Cheng was helped back to a temporary room in the hotel by several assistants, and then fell unconscious.

When Lin Cheng woke up again, the room was messy, and his own condition was also a bit embarrassing.

It was obvious that someone had entered his room and had even done something to him while he was unconscious.

Lin Cheng left the hotel. Before he could call the police, black reports about him had already spread all over the Internet.

Several screenshots of ambiguous conversations supposedly between him and fans, several blurry ‘intimate’ photos of him and various women, and a surveillance video of a female fan surreptitiously leaving his room—all these convinced Lin Cheng’s fans that he was ‘liar who misled his fans into doing lewd things’ and begun his infamy.

Even the on-site ‘evidence’ later collected by the police all pointed to Lin Cheng’s own behavior to be the root of the problem, but because there was no more evidence, the matter had to be left as it was.

… …

If anything could have happened to conceive Lin Momo, it could only have happened that night.

Lin Cheng thought to himself.

His thoughts pulled out from that distasteful memory and returned to reality. Lin Cheng glanced at Wang Zhou. 

“What did you find out about what happened to me in the hotel ten years ago, and Lin Momo’s background?” 

After hearing this from Lin Cheng, Wang Zhou was stunned for a moment and was secretly surprised. Before he could even say anything, how did the eldest young master already know that they were  investigating the previous incident and Lin Momo’s existence?

Lin Cheng glanced at Wang Zhou lightly.

Since the old man has asked people to investigate the parent-child relationship between him and Lin Momo, then, given the old man’s character, he would definitely instruct people to investigate what happened that time.

“We did find something wrong about that incident ten years ago,” Wang Zhou said as he pulled up a report on his phone and handed it to Lin Cheng.

The first page of the information was a photo of a woman.

The woman in the photo was the same woman who appeared with Lin Cheng in the indecent photos that circulated on the Internet, as well as in the surveillance video of the hotel.

It was obvious that someone had manipulated the incident back then, and many things could not be found out even after their investigation. The people under Wang Zhou could only find the original surveillance video, and they have started investigating the identity of the woman in the video.

“This woman’s name is Huang Xueman. She was a student at N City Medical University ten years ago. She was also Eldest Young Master’s…”

Wang Zhou did not say the word ‘fan’ anymore.

To be precise, this Huang Xueman was not a ‘fan’ of Lin Cheng in the normal sense.

When Lin Cheng became famous back then, his popularity was like an explosion, and he gained many fans overnight.

And this Huang Xueman traveled thousands of miles from N city to C city in order to ‘chase stars’. She carved Lin Cheng’s name on the back of her hand with a knife, took a photo of it, and sent it to Lin Cheng’s private message. She went wherever Lin Cheng went, followed him in a car, and stayed outside Lin Cheng’s residence… 

In short, she did a lot of crazy and extreme things.

“After Huang Xueman learned which hotel you were staying in, she kept squatting near the hotel. Later, she somehow accidentally picked up the key card to your hotel room, so she had the opportunity to enter it. 

“Those ‘intimate photos’ that were posted on the Internet should have been taken that night.

“We also found that after this incident, Huang Xueman returned to N City Medical University but soon dropped out of school, and then disappeared for nearly a year.” After a pause, Wang Zhou continued, “In the year that she disappeared, she seemed to have lived temporarily in City C for a month or two, and later appeared again once in City C. 

“After that, Huang Xueman seemed to have been taken abroad by her parents.”

After listening to Wang Zhou’s report, Lin Cheng’s eyes darkened slightly.

T/N: Lin Cheng was 22, good looking, desperate, and had zero backing. Why is the world an awful place?

On to less stressful topics. In most banquets in c-novels, the characters would be toasting using small cups with a liquor called ‘baiju’ — it’s a clear liquid, like the Korean soju and the Japanese sochu but much more potent. Vodka and rum would generally have 40 abv (alcohol by volume) while baiju can go up to 60 abv and often does. This would be equivalent to the alcohol that bartenders use to light up mixed shots with flames.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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