Chapter 290: Chapter 290: Waiting for the Verdict

Unable to utter the last two words, Xining nevertheless kicked each of them squarely without hesitation.

Targeting the pressure points on their legs, Xining’s kicks landed, causing both men’s knees to buckle, and they knelt directly in front of Fu Junhang.

Due to inertia, their bodies kept lurching forward, as if to kowtow to Fu Junhang for past transgressions.

At this moment, the calm in Old Mrs. Mu’s eyes vanished.

As she considered the cause and effect.

She understood everything that had seemed insurmountable before!

It turned out that it wasn’t that Mu Suyu had had a genetic mutation making her unlike her and her husband, but that she wasn’t their biological daughter at all!

Her eyes trembled, and she staggered two steps.

Supported in time by a young maid, Old Mrs. Mu looked at Fu Junhang, her eyes brimming with tears.

Her voice choked, she asked, “Your mother, is she… is she…”

Mu Suyu was still desperately struggling. She pushed Xining’s hand away and walked to the side of the elderly lady, trying to get her to leave quickly.

“Mom…”

Fu Junhang’s tone was cold, “She’s long been dead.”

Both of their voices rose simultaneously, but the man’s deep and indifferent voice clearly overpowered the other, ringing clearly in everyone’s ears.

Like a thunderclap from clear skies!

Old Mrs. Mu’s blood pressure skyrocketed and she fainted.

“Mom–” Mu Suyu rushed over.

Xining administered emergency treatment, giving her a pill to protect her heart.

Within a dozen seconds, the old lady began to recover.

The situation hadn’t progressed to the point she desired. Old Mrs. Mu absolutely couldn’t afford an incident now. There was more at stake that required her push to reach the desired outcome.

Seeing the old lady awaken, Mu Suyu flung herself to her, holding her tightly.

“Mom, are you alright? Don’t scare me!”

“They’re all talking nonsense, don’t believe these people. I am your daughter, I’ve been by your side since birth, how could I not be?”

No matter how tearfully she spoke, Old Mrs. Mu still looked at her calmly, yet a decision had been made in her heart.

She pushed Mu Suyu’s hands away and gently patted her shoulder, “Suyu, don’t be hasty. In a moment, you and I, and the two of them, will go for a paternity test together.”

Tears reddened the eyes of Old Mrs. Mu as she looked at Fu Junhang and stammered, “Child, please wait.”

Seeing that he didn’t answer, Old Mrs. Mu then turned to Xining beside him.

Xining gave her a small smile, her gaze briefly sweeping across the reporters from the TV stations around them, then to Mu Suyu and her birth parents, her smile not quite reaching her eyes.

The old lady understood her meaning.

After pondering for a moment, she turned to address the reporters from various TV stations.

“Today, I ask all of you to bear witness. If Mu Family’s true daughter has been victim to identity switch by avaricious schemers, I, Mu Lan, will not let them off easily! I will make them pay a painful price!”

“In my case, an adopted daughter is never more important than a biological one; false is false. What I have always wanted is my biological daughter whom I bore for ten months!”

“If Mu Suyu is not the real deal, then all the benefits given to this child–identity, name, shares, assets, even the marriage obtained in the name of the Mu family’s daughter–I will take them all back!”

“And, I will definitely use legal means to make her birth parents and her face the consequences!”

Old Mrs. Mu’s message was crystal clear.

If it was indeed the nanny who swapped her daughter, she would send the family of three to prison, never to see the outside world again in this lifetime.

She didn’t completely eliminate the alternative either as she added another potential outcome.

“If Mu Suyu is my biological daughter, it will prove to everyone once and for all, so there will be no further talk of true or false heirs in front of me.”

Old Mrs. Mu’s stance caught everyone off guard.

“Mom!” Mu Suyu was filled with panic at the thought of her identity being revealed.

People exchanged looks of shock and commiseration.

Regardless of whether or not Mu Suyu was Old Mrs. Mu’s biological daughter, she had spent decades by her side, relishing a life of privilege. Losing all that now would likely drive her mad.

But the old lady was resolute, leaving no room for negotiation.

The butcher and the nanny were starting to fear the worst.

To ensure there was no room for deception, Mu Lan invited six paternity testing facilities from Port City.

Xining watched Mu Suyu’s face grow paler and took the opportunity to remind, “Old Mrs. Mu, even if Mu Suyu is a fake, she has accumulated quite a bit of power and wealth over the years in Port City.”

“Why not arrange for the TV stations to document everything? With expedited processing, we could have results in as little as three hours. If any lab’s results differ from the rest, it’ll be a good warning to others.”

She smiled as she gestured at Mu Suyu, who was covertly using her phone, frantically typing out a message behind her back.

Once everyone’s gaze followed to Mu Suyu,

Xining continued, “I see Mrs. Jing is quite busy with her phone amid such an upheaval. She’s still able to send messages. Surely she isn’t arranging some underhanded scheme?”

“You’re talking nonsense!” Mu Suyu’s voice trembled.

Old Mrs. Mu extended her hand, “Hand it over.”

After hesitating for a long time, she decided to hand it over, Mu Suyu’s eyes looking sorrowfully at her.

“Mom, do you really believe what they say?”

The screen was dark, and Old Mrs. Mu didn’t ask Mu Suyu to unlock it; instead, she held the phone in her hand, her gaze calmly settling on the panic stricken face before her.

“Blood ties cannot be altered. If you are my daughter, then the paternity test won’t harm you.”

“If not…”

The old lady didn’t continue, but everyone understood the implication of her unfinished statement.

Xining and Fu Junhang had already settled back in the first row of chairs, relaxed, with no concerns about the upcoming results.

The old lady truly acted decisively.

She tried to put herself in their shoes.

If it were Lu Nuonuo who had been swapped by a maid and suffered, not knowing comfort or warmth, while the daughter she had cared for and nurtured for decades turned out to be the maid’s, living a life of luxury with all the status and wealth that came with it.

Just the thought made her want to kill these people!

At this moment, Old Mrs. Mu felt exactly like Xining. She had her suspicions the moment she saw Fu Junhang’s face.

Especially upon hearing her biological daughter had died, never having experienced a good life and falling victim to abuse by the butcher and the nanny, she wanted to toss them all into the sea to feed the sharks.

Locking them up would still be ‘too fortunate’ for them.

The wait for judgment was agonizing.

Without her phone, Mu Suyu couldn’t contact anyone to interfere. She turned to look at the place where Jing Yi’s car had been parked, but it had disappeared.

Just as Xining had said, she had become expendable along with her son.