Hades, the Urban Legend

Chapter 660: Chapter 663: Denial is Useless

Ning Guangyao seemed not to hear Yang Chen's half-mocking, half-joking words. He took the teapot from Yang Chen's hand, poured himself some tea, and drank it all in one go, finally calming his expression.

After a long silence, Ning Guangyao smiled with a hint of bitterness, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed myself. I didn't expect that the hatred between you and Guodong had reached the point where you couldn't even sit down and talk. That was my mistake."

"I think you misunderstand," Yang Chen leaned back in the rattan chair, lazily yawning, "It's your son who hates me. He isn't even qualified to be someone I hate."

Ning Guangyao didn't get angry but smiled gently, "The first time I met you, I felt that you were a domineering young man with no regard for others. It seems I was right."

"It depends on who's sitting in front of me," Yang Chen replied.

Ning Guangyao nodded, "I sincerely hope you can mend your relationship with Guodong. Even if you can't be friends, I don't want you to be enemies."

"Premier Ning, if a man had his eyes on your wife all the time, could you have a good relationship with him?" Yang Chen sneered in response.

Ning Guangyao's face changed, as if it had touched a nerve. He poured and drank two more cups of tea before sighing, "I haven't asked yet, how are your family members?"

"Which family members?" Yang Chen smiled mysteriously, staring at Ning Guangyao.

Ning Guangyao seemed a bit hesitant to meet Yang Chen's gaze and tried to stay calm, "Of course, your mother and your wife."

"My mother is quite happy in Zhonghai, although she has some worries occasionally. But I know she likes her current life. As for my wife, she's very busy with work every day. Although she doesn't say it, I know she's not doing well," Yang Chen said.

Ning Guangyao was taken aback and asked, "Is Ruoxi having problems? Is she too tired?"

"You seem very concerned about my wife," Yang Chen said with an evil smile, "I thought Premier Ning only had ties with my mother."

Ning Guangyao forced a smile, "Haha, I've met that young woman. She's very young and taking on such a big responsibility is not easy. I admire her, so I couldn't help but ask out of concern."

"Then I must thank Premier Ning for your concern. If my wife is not doing well, it's because your precious son scared her. Ever since your son showed her Lin Kun's medical records, she hasn't been able to be truly happy," Yang Chen said with a half-smile.

Ning Guangyao's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, and he forced a smile, "I'm very sorry about that. I've already called to explain that the medical record was fake. Your family doesn't need to take it too seriously."

Yang Chen's gaze turned cold, "Premier Ning, do you know who first discovered that medical record?"

"Hmm?" Ning Guangyao looked up, puzzled.

"It was me," Yang Chen said.

Ning Guangyao seemed stunned, a flicker of unease flashing deep in his eyes.

Yang Chen said indifferently, "That day, after Lin Kun died, his attending physician called the family to his office. That doctor, surnamed Jiao, took out the medical record in front of me, which clearly recorded Lin Kun as having congenital seminal vesicle absence... At that time, the doctor tried to blackmail me with that medical record for over a hundred million. I didn't give him the money, but I warned him that if he leaked it, I would take his life. But I never expected that despite all my calculations, someone would track down Ruoxi's family background to use against me, and that medical record ended up in your son's hands."

Ning Guangyao said nothing, silently sipping his tea.

"Premier Ning, I know better than you whether Lin Kun was fertile, and I can tell you clearly that the nanny who watched over Lin Kun's marriage, Wang Ma, still works at my house. The old patriarch revealed these things to Wang Ma when he was alive. Even if you hadn't called that day, we already knew the medical record was real," Yang Chen said.

Ning Guangyao took a deep breath, forced a smile, and said stiffly, "Is that so? It's really sad to hear that. It was my oversight. But let's not continue talking about this painful matter."

Yang Chen shook his head, "I haven't gotten to the main point yet. The reason I agreed to come today was to clarify things."

"Youth, what do you want to say?" Ning Guangyao's eyes flashed with a trace of the sharpness of someone in a high position for a long time.

Yang Chen was unmoved, saying seriously, "That day, I accompanied Ruoxi to sweep her mother and grandmother's graves. While going up the mountain, I saw a familiar Audi A8 driving away from there, and that car was the same one I saw outside the district office. Premier Ning, it was your car."

Ning Guangyao's body stiffened slightly, forcing a smile, "Really? I think you must have seen wrong. I haven't been to any cemetery."

"Is that so? Then the bouquet of Bauhinia flowers in front of my late mother-in-law's grave wasn't from the Premier?" Yang Chen asked with a smile.

"Of course not, haha," Ning Guangyao's temples started to sweat.

Yang Chen sneered, "Premier Ning, do you still want to play dumb? Not to mention that I could never mistake a license plate, it's a fact that you knew my mother and my late mother-in-law Xue Zijing since university. Is that something that can be covered up?"

"What exactly do you want to say?" Ning Guangyao asked heavily.

"I want to say that no matter how much you deny and try to cover it up, you cannot change the fact that you are Lin Ruoxi's biological father!" Yang Chen declared.

In an instant, the air seemed to be sucked out of the room.

Ning Guangyao's eyes widened, bloodshot, his body trembling slightly, the dignity of a premier hard to maintain.

Yang Chen looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, unmoved, like he had just pronounced a death sentence.

"Hahaha," Ning Guangyao suddenly laughed a few times, pointing at Yang Chen, "Yang Chen, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. Let's drop this topic. I'll pretend you never said it."

"Why not mention it?" Yang Chen sneered, "Do you think that if I don't mention it, others won't know?"

"Enough!" Ning Guangyao shouted, glaring angrily, "I don't want to continue this topic! If you don't want to talk about anything else, leave immediately!"

"I come and go as I please, but I must finish what I have to say!"

Yang Chen didn't back down, saying coldly, "I'll tell you the truth. If you don't want people to know, don't do it in the first place. The fact that you had an affair with my mother-in-law was clear to the old patriarch, but he never revealed it. My mother has also confirmed that she saw you sneaking to Zhonghai at that time, which coincides with Ruoxi's birth time."

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Ning Guangyao said angrily.

"Denial is useless. Even if you don't admit it, my mother, Wang Ma, and others who are aware of what happened back then know the truth," Yang Chen scoffed, "Do you think denying it will change anything? My late mother-in-law's photos, any of them showing you together, will speak volumes. Some photos even have poems written on the back, like 'Thinking of you every day but never seeing you, drinking the waters of the Yangtze together.' If she wasn't your lover, then what, was she pining for you alone?"

A trace of sorrow flashed in Ning Guangyao's eyes, and he was speechless, staring blankly.

"Premier Ning, let me tell you the truth," Yang Chen said, pressing his hands on the table and raising his voice, "If I hadn't already figured out that you are Ruoxi's father and that Ning Guodong is her half-brother, I would have killed Ning Guodong right in Ruoxi's office for blackmailing her with that medical record! I wanted to tear him apart just for that!

"Do you know why your son is still alive today? Do you think it's because I care about your Ning family? Care about you? Nonsense! I just didn't want to make my woman sad. Do you understand?!"

Ning Guangyao's mouth hung half-open. He clearly hadn't realized that Yang Chen had understood the situation long ago and that there were so many complex factors involved.

After finishing his speech, Yang Chen scratched his head, trying to control his emotions. Seeing Ning Guangyao still in a daze, he earnestly said, "Premier Ning, go see Ruoxi."