Looking at his wife’s pitiful appearance, Li Ze was angry rather than distressed, “Who is the child’s father?”
Ding Jie had never seen her husband so angry, so she was scared and shuddering.
He asked again, seeing that she was not answering, “WHO IS THE CHILD?”
“I …I don’t know … … ”
“Didn’t you know? How many men have you slept with when delivering Weiwei?”
“No!” Ding Jie blurted out, “Weiwei isn’t your daughter and not mine either. I don’t even know who her parents are. You were called away by your mother when entering the delivering room, so only our kid and I were left in the ward. At that time, I was still in a daze because of the anesthesia. When I heard your voice and opened my eyes, I was scared. Someone had exchanged our kid. I was certain that I had delivered a son.”
Li Ze didn’t believe her words, “It’s illegal to formulate such a story.”
“But that’s the truth,”
“I don’t believe it,” Li Ze said, “If that’s the case, then you would have definitely told me. Would you remain silent when your own child was exchanged, and instead choose to raise a strange girl?”
“Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t, but it was a special case that day,” Ding Jie said. “All your relatives were nice after I got pregnant. Your mother was especially excited after nagging for a grandson for long. However, I asked her what would happen if she got a granddaughter. And her face darkened immediately. Also, one day the Bodhisattva said I was carrying a daughter when she went to a soothsayer. From that day on, your mother started to treat me badly and didn’t even care if I was pregnant. Do you know what hurt me the most? On one particular call to an aunt, she said she wanted me to do an abortion for the next son. I was just getting up that day but trembled in cold sweat at her words. She was a vicious woman but my mother-in-law!”
“It’s impossible.”
“Give her a call! And you will ascertain my words!”
“I just want to know where my son is,”
“I really feel a chill at her attitude,” Ding Jie said, “But I was even disappointed at you. As your mother assumed that our child is a girl, she didn’t even allow others to visit the hospital. I wished you had waited outside when I was pushed into the delivery room, however, you were not there. Do you know how desperate I was at that moment? I thought you were leaving our child and me, I even thought you had the intention of divorce. I intended to tell you after I found out that the child had been changed. But as you all thought our child was a daughter! I decided to let it be!”
” Are you crazy?” Li Ze shouted angrily, “You don’t even want your own child!”
“Aren’t you ashamed of insulting me?” Ding Jie retorted, “If you treat me as your wife, and the child as your child, will you slip away during the operation? No husband would do that to their pregnant wives. I remembered that I had asked you, and you said your mum told you to go home. It’s like your mother is more important than to you than the delivery. I really would have liked to divorce you immediately if you hadn’t come back inquiring about my health, and didn’t seem to care about our daughter.”
“My father called me and said that my mother had suddenly fainted, otherwise I wouldn’t have run home.”
“And then?”
“They were lying,” Li Ze said, “My mother prefers sons. In her thought, it’s a loss of dignity among relatives and friends if we delivered a girl. And also she thought that if I wasn’t there, someone would be at the hospital. So I was tricked away from the hospital. After knowing about this, I returned to the hospital as quickly as possible.”
“A husband should never leave even because of a doom. Besides, you were the only one with me in the hospital. And the most heart-breaking thing was that you left knowing there was only my left. If I had an accident at that time, would you accept it?”
“I thought the operation would last longer,”
“You think? Ridiculous.”
Looking at the palm print on his wife’s face, Li Ze’s feeling was complex.
On one hand, he thought his wife might be telling the truth, and on the other hand, he felt she was lying.
But with another paternity test, it will be verified.
Could he forgive his wife if what she had said was true?
Li Ze didn’t want to forgive her.
Even if his wife hates him, she shouldn’t have concealed it.
How could a mother do it?
Li Ze wanted to argue with his wife, but he knew that his wife would refute him with his leaving of the hospital. Thus the most suitable plan is to have another paternity test between wife and daughter.
“Do you know that?” Said Ding Jie “I still hated your mother. I’ve seen a lot of people who prefer sons, but I didn’t expect her to show it so thoroughly. Were daughters not human in her view? How could she mention abortion in her call with the aunt? Do you know how scared I was after hearing this? I was even afraid that she would put an aborticide into my food. So I went home the day after. Even though my parents don’t like me very much, at least they won’t come up with such a vicious idea.”
“You should have told me about this. I’ll discuss with my mother.”
“You’re a filial son, so I have to give in to it without letting you be stuck in the middle. And the result of compromise leads to an impressive relationship between us.”
“If I hadn’t taken my daughter for a paternity test, would you be hiding it for life?”
“Sure,” Ding Jie said, “we’ve long treated Weiwei as our own child. Therefore I don’t need to create panic. Maybe you will take me as cold-blooded, or that I’m not a qualified mother or wife. Anyway, I’ve considered the feelings of your family with the decision to conceal it. It’s been so many years and our son would have been raised. It might hurt everyone if they knew that Weiwei is not our daughter.”
Hearing his wife’s words, Li Ze felt pained, “Haven’t you ever thought that our son might have been carried away by a trafficker?”