He was supposed to open his eyes, but then he felt her grasp his hand and sit down by his bedside; he had a premonition she was about to say something, so he simply chose not to wake up and continued to sleep peacefully.
Indeed, his intuition was incredibly accurate. It took less than three minutes of her sitting down for her to start pouring out her thoughts in detail.
These were her innermost feelings, things that he, despite his persistence, could never force out of her.
He was pleased that what she harbored in her heart was what he enjoyed hearing. Only, those final words of hers, saying even she didn’t know who the father of the child was, shocked him.
How could she not know who the child’s father was?
Where on earth did this child come from?
He suddenly realized he had overlooked a very important issue. He had investigated all her backgrounds and how she had switched identities, but he had never looked into the child.
Thinking of that innocent and lovely child, he could not stay still any longer. He sat up from the bed and took out his mobile phone, "Hello, this is Ou Mucen."
"Third Young Master..."
"Tell me, when I asked you to look into that adopted daughter from the second wife’s family, did you find out where her child came from?" He threw out such a question without preamble, without realizing that the secretary on the other end of the phone had no idea the adopted daughter even had a child.
"Third Young Master, does Ye Ning have a child? How did you find out?"
"Third Young Master, why have you been so interested in this Ye Ning lately? Now that your brother and his family have fallen from grace, are you still going to look into that adopted daughter of theirs?"
Secretary Gao bombarded him with two questions in a row, leaving him speechless.
Indeed, he did not understand because he did not know that the adopted daughter was An Ning, who was currently by his side.
Ou Mucen was losing patience, his voice grew stern as he uttered, "You don’t need to concern yourself with these details. Just check whether Ye Ning had any children while she was in prison, and if so, who’s the child’s father? Just tell me what you find out."
After he spoke, he hung up the phone!
This was indeed a very serious issue. How could he have never thought of investigating this child?
The child was only four years old this year, and she had been in prison for five years. That meant the child was born while she was incarcerated. So, who was the father? She had said at her job interview that her husband had already died.
But now, she told him she didn’t know who the father of the child was. How could a woman give birth and not know the identity of the child’s father?
How could this be possible?
It was utterly absurd!
Unless there was one possibility...
He suddenly felt a violent thumping in the depths of his heart, and at that moment, his mobile phone rang again. He looked at it and saw a message from Secretary Gao...
"Third Young Master, I just asked a few servants at Blue Mountain Villa, and they said that the adopted girl had a very close relationship with your nephew when she was at the villa. If there is a child, could it possibly be his?"
Secretary Gao was stating what seemed like a very normal fact.
However, upon hearing this, the man here felt as if he had suddenly fallen from the clouds to the ground; instantly, his heart was completely drenched!
How could this be possible? This was utterly preposterous!!
He suddenly found the needle that was hanging from his arm unbearably glaring. As a surge of nameless anger arose in him, he forcefully pulled it out and threw it away.
In an instant, blood spurted from the needle site. In just a few seconds, bright red blood had splattered everywhere.