The CEO's Substitute Wife Is A Genius-Chapter 343: Manman is Not an Adopted Daughter, She is My Biological Daughter

Chapter 343: Chapter 343: Manman is Not an Adopted Daughter, She is My Biological Daughter

King’s face did not show too much sadness.

When he looked at Mrs. Lan Xiang, the cold in his eyes transformed into an endless icy pond.

His voice was as cold as his gaze.

"Dead?"

Mrs. Lan Xiang did not understand his expression and thought he was blaming her.

Biting her lip, she felt her throat choked by something and wanted to speak, but found she couldn’t make a sound.

"Congenital heart disease... She had no heartbeat right after birth..."

It was only after a long while that she managed to say these words with difficulty.

"Hah!"

King sneered, "Stay away from my daughter!"

Lan Xiang was stunned, feeling the hostility from King.

He still blamed her for what had happened years ago.

"If our daughter were still alive, she would be about the same age as Manman, King, I really like Manman. Please don’t stop me from contacting her, okay?"

Mrs. Lan Xiang pleaded earnestly.

After saying this, she suddenly realized something.

"Wait, how old is Manman?"

Mrs. Lan Xiang calculated the time; Jiang Man had just turned 21.

Which means, she was the same age as Nannan.

"Manman isn’t your daughter, is she?"

Unless King was dating her at that time and was also dating another woman who was pregnant around the same time as her.

Thinking about it, it seemed impossible.

Back then, King was caught up in a love triangle with her and Lu Xuemei, along with the pressure from the Lu Family; how could he have time to mess around with another woman?

"Manman is my adopted daughter, in any case, I don’t want you two to meet anymore!" freeweɓnovel.cøm

King’s words were not suggestive but threatening.

"If you don’t want the whole world to know you have another identity as Ye Xiangling, then just try me, and keep testing my patience!"

After saying this, King turned and left.

Mrs. Lan Xiang was left standing in pain.

She knew King hated her.

And he had every reason to hate her.

King walked out of the restroom, his face somber.

His thoughts traveled back 21 years, to when he found out Xiangling was carrying his child and God knows how happy he was.

He wanted to find her and tell her, no matter how much pressure the Lu Family applied or even if they used the Ye Family to threaten him, or threatened his life.

He wanted to persuade her to be brave, for them to flee everything in Beicheng, escape to a place where no one knew them, have the child, and then live a simple and happy life as a family of three.

When he had found the hospital where Ye Xiangling was giving birth, he accidentally overheard a conversation between Ye Xiangling’s mother and the housekeeper.

"Are we really going to throw this child away?" the housekeeper held the child, reluctant to let go.

Ye’s mother glanced at the baby’s swaddling clothes, her expression incredibly cold: "A worthless thing, and a congenital defect too, don’t we just throw it away instead of raising it? It’s an encumbrance, a burden. With a bad heart, how long can it live? Eventually, it won’t live long and will even affect Xiangling’s marriage prospects!"

He saw the housekeeper toss the infant into the hospital’s medical waste bin.

When he picked the baby up, the little one’s chubby hand grabbed hold of his finger with a suckling motion.

The tiny hand was soft, very warm.

The little one smiled broadly at him.

In that moment, he felt his heart was about to melt.

Their child, how could she bear to throw it away?

Just because she had congenital heart disease?

She wasn’t disabled.

She was his treasure, his life!

Indeed.

Manman was not his adopted daughter, she was actually his biological daughter!

Back then, he had thought about giving Ye Xiangling a chance.

But what did she do? She abandoned her child and fled abroad.

Within a few years, she had met a foreigner and quickly married him in a shotgun wedding.

And he, he didn’t immediately leave the Lu Family, but rather endured hardships there.

Later, he went to the US, and the main reason he could start from scratch so quickly was because he had learned the craft at the Lu Family, and he had learned the real deal.

Over the years, he gave his all, gave the best to Manman, building his business empire.

He wanted to make Manman the happiest girl in the world.

Looking back at those times, he hated Ye Xiangling even more than he hated Old Mrs. Lu and Lu Xuemei.

He hated Ye Xiangling for compromising with her maternal family, for agreeing to the terms the Lu Family set, and for pushing him into the arms of Lu Xuemei.

Did she ever ask for his opinion?

Was he just an object, to be pushed around by these women?

He hated her even more for her ruthlessness, for actually abandoning her biological daughter, throwing Manman into a trash bin, no different from murder!

He could even accept that Manman ultimately chose Lu Xingzhou, but he couldn’t accept Manman recognizing her birth mother.

Such a woman, she does not deserve it!

"Old Dad?"

Jiang Man was sitting at the dining table waiting.

Seeing King come out, she immediately stood up.

King walked over, took her hand, "Let’s go!"

"Go? Where are we going? We still have to take Aunt Lan to the airport."

"She doesn’t deserve you being so good to her!" King said sternly, "Don’t you listen to your old dad? Would you defy me?"

"I’m not..." Jiang Man bit her lip.

"But there should be a reason, right?"

"Get in the car, I’ll tell you."

Jiang Man was thus taken by King to the car.

After getting in the car, he lit a cigar, took a drag, and slowly exhaled, feeling a lot of the depression in his heart dissipate.

"Old Dad, what exactly is going on?"

Jiang Man’s gaze was intense, showing a strong desire to know.

King looked at her, his heart aching.

Poor child, really a poor child.

But no matter how cruel reality was, he wanted to weave a fairy tale dream for his daughter.

Being abandoned by her biological mother... that truth was too cruel, he didn’t want Manman to know.

"She used to be called Ye Xiangling. I had a very good brother named Li Jin. We were as close as brothers. But this Ye Xiangling, for her father’s job, for the good of her family, offered Li Jin as a bargaining chip to Miss Lu Xuemei from the Lu Family. Later, Li Jin died of depression and committed suicide by jumping into the sea. Until his death, I never found his body. Afterwards, to commemorate him, I changed my name to Lisite, which actually originated from the name ’Li Jin.’"

Jiang Man was very intelligent, naturally detecting the flaws in this story.

King was not worried at all.

Although the Red Alliance was controlled by Manman, which of the elders within the alliance wasn’t his confidant?

The Red Alliance could investigate people and events all over the world, but only ’Li Jin’ had always been a classified file, no one dared to look into him except for him.

"Ye Xiangling is not a good person. She killed my brother. I didn’t demand her life, that was already showing mercy!"

Jiang Man said nothing.

Although she was skeptical about the story, she could see that her old dad’s anger was real.

Just like grandma and aunt, they all disliked Aunt Lan.

She might disregard the feelings of grandma and aunt, but she could not disregard her old dad’s feelings.

"Old Dad, don’t worry, I will not contact her anymore."

Having said that, she took out her phone, and in front of King, deleted Mrs. Lan Xiang’s contact information.

King said nothing.

He knew his daughter, and to really solve this matter, it had to be eradicated from Ye Xiangling’s side!