Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Chapter 152: Coercion

Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

Tang Xi looked at Tao Yan from behind Xiao Yan and snorted. “I think my mom will only be disappointed when wakes up and sees you two still fighting for Xiao Jinning!”

“Okay. If you don’t want to bear the living costs for Jinning, that’s alright, but you can’t do this. It’s too absurd!” Lin Ruozhi exclaimed.

Hearing his words, Tao Yan immediately grabbed Lin Ruozhi’s arm and shouted, “Of course they’ll bear the living costs for Jinning! That’s what you people owe her! You almost ruined her! She could earn a lot of money before but because of you people, everyone is now blaming her and laughing at her! How can she survive in the future?”

Seeing this, Tang Xi narrowed her eyes and turned to walk towards the identification department. As she walked, she said to Xiao Hongyi, “Take a DNA sample from my mom and send it to me. Today we are going to uncover a mystery that has been hidden for forty or fifty years!”

Upon hearing Tang Xi’s words, Tao Yan rushed over to catch up with her but was stopped by Xiao Hongli and Xiao Yan. Lin Ruozhi looked at the latter and said, “Xiao Yan, go stop your sister and your dad. They will lose their faces if they do this. Even if your mom is not our daughter, so what? We raised her for over twenty years. She...”

Eyes sharp, Yang Jingxian stepped forward and asked coldly, “What do you mean? So Lin Ru is really not your daughter?!”

Seeing how they did not dare to look her in the eyes, Yang Jingxian sneered and said to Tang Xi, “Rourou, I don’t think it’s necessary to perform a paternity test. Their reaction tells the truth.”

Tang Xi stopped walking to look back at Tao Yan and Lin Ruozhi, then narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips. “I think it is necessary. If Mom wants to break off relations with them, it’s better to perform a paternity test, which might be required by the court and the police if we file a lawsuit. Otherwise, wouldn’t my mom have suffered for so many years for nothing?!”

Xiao Rou and her parents had been separated for more than twenty years. Although the ending was not good, at least she saw her biological parents. Lin Ru, on the other hand, was nearly fifty now. Even if she found out her biological parents were not Tao Yan and Lin Ruozhi, it was possible she would never be able to find her real parents, who might have died after searching for her for so many years.

This was why people like Tao Yan and Lin Ruozhi, who stole the children of others, had to be punished!

Hearing Tang Xi’s words, Lin Ruozhi and Tao Yan were immediately afraid. Fear drove Tao Yan shout, “I raised her for decades, but I’ll be repaid by being put in jail? That’s ridiculous!”

A nurse came over and saw the noisy Tao Yan, a hint of disgust in her eyes. She said coldly, “This is a hospital. Don’t make noise here. If you want to quarrel, go out!”

Tao Yan glared at the nurse. “It’s none of your business. I’m here...”

Tang Xi interrupted her while giving an apologetic smile to the nurse. “I’m sorry. We’ll be leaving soon, but you can also see that we’re having trouble communicating with her. Please give us some time.”

The nurse was no longer as angry when she saw Tang Xi was so beautiful and polite. She asked them to solve their problem as soon as possible and not to make any noise here.

Tang Xi nodded in response and then handed the two hairs in her hand to Xiao Hongyi, saying seriously, “Go and make take paternity test with these and show the result to Mom when she wakes up.” With that said, she glanced at her watch and finished coldly, “I have something else to attend to.”

Xiao Hongyi hadn’t expected that his daughter would uncover such a shocking truth, which made him feel great. After having to put up with his father-in-law for so many years, he now found that this man was actually not Lin Ru’s biological father! This was the best news he had gotten in the last few days!

Thus, he took the hairs to the identification department without demur.

Seeing that they couldn’t do anything to stop the test from happening, Tao Yan and Lin Ruozhi were going to leave, but Tang Xi smiled and asked them, “Aren’t you two curious as to what I’m going to do in a moment?”

The elderly couple stopped. Tao Yan looked viciously at Tang Xi. “What are you going to do?”

Tang Xi sneered, “I’m going to deal with your beloved granddaughter—Xiao Jinning. It’s time to publicize what she did to me. I came late because I just went through the wound identification. Xiao Jinning tried to harm me by having someone slip glass fragments in the hot spring today. I’ve already called the police.”

Tao Yan’s face changed. “Bullshit. You aren’t injured at all! You’re framing her!”

“Well, either way, you can’t escape punishment. You’ve admitted to pushing my mom down the stairs. Do you think you won’t have to be held criminally responsible?” Tang Xi looked at them coldly and continued, “You came all the way to City A to make such a scene, just for the sake of Xiao Jinning’s future life, isn’t that right? But that’s easy. I’ll send her to prison. The government will provide free food and accommodation for her, so you don’t have to worry that she’ll go hungry or cold.”

When Tang Xi was speaking those words, her eyes had looked so cold that Xiao Hongli and the others were almost shocked.

“You...” Lin Ruozhi elbowed Tao Yan, who was about to speak, then looked at Tang Xi and said softly, “Little... Well, your grandma just doesn’t want to see you kids hurt each other like this. She wants family harmony. She doesn’t mean to...”

“Oh?” Tang Xi interrupted Lin Ruozhi and asked him coldly, “So what did she do? She wants family harmony, so she came to make a scene at our home? Hey, are you guys out of your mind? Do you think as long as you make a scene, my mom will be forced to bring Xiao Jinning home?”

“Oh,” Tang Xi began, a cold gleam flashing in her eyes. “I forgot that Xiao Jinning is now called Yao Jinning, not Xiao Jinning. We swapped lives, didn’t we? Then the Yao Family, where I used to belong, is her real home now...”

“Nonsense! Her surname isn’t Yao!” shouted Tao Yan.

Tang Xi narrowed her eyes and took a step forward. “Her surname isn’t Yao. Then what is it? Is Xiao Jinning related to you?! Was it because of you that I was sent to the Yao Family in the mountains of City W?!”

Tao Yan moved her eyes away in response. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t understand your words. What Yao Family? You being sent to them had nothing to do with me!”

Tang Xi’s gaze turned sharp. Since she suspected them, she would find out the truth anyway. Now that she had decided to take revenge, then she would avenge anyone she cared about, whether it be Xiao Rou, herself or anyone else!