I Just Want to Freeload on Your Luck - Chapter 48
Zhao Yuan frowned and walked toward her seat. Her seat was in the third row and she had to walk past the podium.
Lu Ye happened to be wiping the blackboard on the podium. He glanced down at her.
Because of the mess up last time, Zhao Yuan felt even more annoyed about Lu Ye. She didn’t even want to go out with Lu Ye to watch that movie and became extremely indifferent to Lu Ye. During this period of time, Lu Ye had always been hesitant to get close to the goddess, but he didn’t dare to approach her.
However, at this time, Zhao Yuan felt that his gaze was a little weird— It was definitely not the eyes of an admirer, but some look of subtle disbelief and awakening.
Zhao Yuan thought that this was another means to attract her attention, so she returned to her seat without looking at him.
Miss Ye Bing, the homeroom teacher, came in quickly and briefly explained the next study arrangements. She reminded the students who participated in the training and preliminary competition to adjust themselves as soon as possible and return to their daily studies.
Ye Bing has always spoken very fast, and she didn’t stop her eyes on any of her classmates.
However, Zhao Yuan didn’t know if it was her misperception, but she felt that when Miss Ye was looking at her, her gaze had clearly stopped, and then she hurriedly looked away two seconds later.
?
Zhao Yuan’s heart skipped a beat suddenly. Her bad premonition became stronger and stronger.
There were some small comments that reached her ears which seemed to be mixed with the word ‘Zhao Yuan’. Zhao Yuan looked over at them stiffly, but when she bumped eyes with some of her classmates on the right side, they were all avoiding her gaze.
…
Her desk mate was Pu Shuang, but because the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point during the training camp, at this moment, Pu Shuang’s face was cold and she didn’t want to help her find out what happened.
E Xiaoxia, who was not far away, kept looking at her from the corner of her eyes. Seeing her looking over, she quickly turned away.
What happened? Why has everyone been staring at me ever since we came back from the training camp?
Could it be that Lu Ye did something?
It was a bit embarrassing to ask in person, so Zhao Yuan bit her lip and took out her phone to open the forum.
Miss Ye Bing, who was still talking on the podium, saw her using her mobile phone in class. She hesitated and chose to close one eye to it.
Zhao Yuan didn’t understand what happened at first, until she logged into the forum and saw the red headline hung on the top of the page.
That post was really glaring. Because there were so many clicks and replies and it’s always the top one, it’s hard to not notice it at first glance.
‘OP’s relative works in the hospital. Here are the DNA results of the former School Beauty Zhao Yuan and a nanny from the Zhao family. Strange, why are the two people identified as mother and daughter?’
???
Zhao Yuan didn’t realize what it meant for a moment, but when she saw this title, her blood rushed to her forehead. She was unable to control her anger.
Who is making this up?
How can I be related to Zhang Yufen?!
A nanny?!
The main post was a DNA result.
The comment section below had nearly tens of thousands of replies.
There were more than 200 pages of comments in total, with various opinions.
—”Is this for real? What can a mere DNA result tell? Can I just take two hairs from random strangers and say that they are in a parent-child relationship?”
—”How much hatred is there between OP and Zhao Yuan?”
At first, most people suspected that the DNA result was fake.
However, most of the students in Middle School A and nearby schools were from wealthy families. Some of the students’ parents were doctors and some of the students were very good at computers. They all went to authenticate the document.
About 200 comments later, a second year male student from a family of doctors came out and affirmed the genuineness of the DNA result. It was really a DNA result from the hospital. It was completely compliant. Also a boy who was good at computers in a normal class of senior high school went to test it out. He said that there was no trace of this DNA result having ever been photoshopped!
From here, some people gradually believed that the DNA result was genuine.
But immediately someone asked: “Well, what if it is not Zhao Yuan and the so-and-so nanny at all, but someone just took the hair of herself and her mother in order to slander Zhao Yuan and used it to slander others? Isn’t this too predictable?”
After a while.
A girl with a parent who has been reading the gossip and working in the Third Hospital couldn’t help but interject: “I didn’t want to say it, but last weekend, the Third Hospital did have samples under the names Zhao Yuan and Zhang Yufen.”
As soon as these words came out, the entire forum almost exploded!
The topic was completely pointed in an unpredictable direction!
At the beginning, some people doubted the authenticity of the DNA result, but after 400 comments, almost most people believed that the DNA result was authentic. Even if it was mixed with the refuting voices of a few of Zhao Yuan’s suitors, it was quickly overwhelmed.
Explosive discussions one after another:
—”So what’s the situation? Is the former School Flower the illegitimate daughter of her father and the nanny?!!! I checked, several large and small companies in the Zhao family are actually quite famous in this city, they have quite a lot of assets! Zhao Yuan’s father is called Zhao Hongzhi! God!! Does his wife and his staff know that he had an affair with the nanny and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter?!!!”
—”I’m replying to the comment above. Zhao Hongzhi’s wife must know, otherwise how could Zhao Yuan stay at home for so many years?”
—”That’s awkward enough. To raise an illegitimate daughter for the nanny?”
—”Assuming that the Zhao family knows that Zhao Yuan is an illegitimate daughter, then why is her elder brother so kind to her? People in our class have seen her elder brother drive over to pick her up before.”
—”To the person above me, you revealed that you are in the senior high school’s Evergreen Class. Forget it, I won’t scold you for dragging your classmate through the mud. After all, everyone is trying to get a piece of this juicy gossip. Who knows what’s going on? The Zhao family is so messed up.”
— “I heard that Zhao Yuan’s second brother is still a D-list star. He’s the one named Zhao Mo or something. If this happens, will it affect his career as an artist?”
—”There is another question. Since the former School Beauty was born to the nanny and Zhao Hongzhi, why can the nanny named Zhang Yufen stay in Zhao’s house for so many years? (Don’t ask who I am. Zhao Yuan hosted a birthday party at home once, so everyone knows that Zhang Yufen was still working as a nanny at her house two months ago)”
—”I still can’t help but sigh. That picture of the nanny looks so ugly. Zhao Hongzhi is worth more than 100 million at any rate, yet he really isn’t picky at all!”
…
The explosive remarks came one after another.
Zhao Yuan learned about this only after returning from the training camp. The title of the post was posted three days ago, which meant that it had been a long time since the people in the school and nearby schools had seen this post and participated in the discussion.
No wonder everyone’s eyes were a little strange when we just came in.
Even the homeroom teacher was hesitant to talk.
Zhao Yuan was embarrassed and angry. She didn’t dare to continue reading this post. Her heart was pounding with anger, her hand which was holding the phone was trembling and blood was rushing to her scalp. Her vision went black, anger and fear surged within her like a storm.
The anger was because she was not an illegitimate child at all.
The fear was because she was afraid of being discovered that she was actually not even a child of the Zhao family!
But who did it?!
Zhao Yuan was extremely angry. Ye Bing was still talking on the podium, but she suddenly stood up.
“What’s wrong, Zhao Yuan? Sit down.”
“Everything said in the forum is not true!” Zhao Yuan’s heart was beating wildly as she shouted at the people in her class.
She trembled all over and tears flowed down her eyes.
Ye Bing calmly said to her, “Zhao Yuan, why not go to the office with me and calm down a little? The school will resolve the matter on the forum.”
When some people in the Evergreen Class who were whispering about the matter saw this, they all stopped gossiping among each other.
Zhao Yuan looked so wronged. Could it be true that those things in the forum are just rumors?
In the next second, Zhao Yuan grabbed her school bag and rushed out.
Who else can do such a thing? Who else can hate me so much? It must be Zhao Mingxi!
*
As soon as Zhao Yuan ran out with red rimmed eyes, the Evergreen Class became agitated and the whole classroom was in an uproar.
Ye Bing was afraid that something might happen to Zhao Yuan, so she hurried out.
Because Ye Bing was not there, the whole class became more noisy and some people couldn’t help but rush upstairs. They saw Zhao Yuan going upstairs.
“F*ck, I was so scared. This is the biggest gossip I’ve heard in all my three years in high school.”
“Who released the DNA result on the forum? How much hatred does this person have against Zhao Yuan? Concocting such an outrageous thing!”
“Do you think it’s a fabrication? I think it’s very real. The OP was so rigorous and firm. But I don’t know why the Zhao family still raised Zhao Yuan at home when they knew that Zhao Yuan was an illegitimate child— I don’t understand them! Anyway, it’s so messy and exciting!”
“I also feel that 80% of that post is true. Have you heard about this? My dad went home last night and said that they have a project with Zhao Enterprise. This gossip also spread through the Zhao family’s companies yesterday! Zhao Yuan’s father should have known about it yesterday!”
“??? How can a little thing from the school forum spread to that kind of big company?”
“I heard someone posted a copy on the door of Zhao Yuan’s father’s company.”
“…”
Pu Shuang was dumbfounded amidst the noise in the classroom. She couldn’t help swallowing hard. In the chaos, she seemed to have noticed something— So is this the reason why Zhao Zhanhuai did not come to pick up Zhao Yuan recently? Is it because she is an illegitimate daughter?
But the explanation doesn’t make sense. What about Zhao Mingxi?
…
While the school was in an uproar, Mr Zhao was also losing his temper at home.
Last night, he felt that the eyes of the people at the front desk of the company when they called him “Mr Zhao” were a little different. Only when he went to the company this morning did he learn an explosive news that someone posted a paternity test at the entrance of the company yesterday.
After several employees found out last night, they quickly tore it off the glass door of the building. However, the content of the DNA result was as if it had long legs, and it spread throughout the company this morning.
Mr Zhao no longer wanted to recall how the assistant came in sweating profusely to tell him about this matter.
He looked at the DNA result and his face went green! He crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it to the ground!
Mr Zhao was incoherent with anger, “Who the hell did this?!”
He asked the assistant, but the assistant didn’t know. The assistant quickly said, “I’ll go to the security department to check the cameras!”
But the urgent task now was obviously not to check who deliberately posted a paternity test at the company’s door, but to figure out whether the paternity test was true or not and find out what was going on.
How could Zhao Yuan be related to Zhang Yufen?!
Who is Zhang Yufen?
Mr Zhao almost couldn’t recall who she was. When he remembered that it was the nanny he fired from his family who didn’t brush her teeth very often, his blood pressure almost skyrocketed!
The assistant did not know whether to speak or not. He said, “The school forum where your child is studying seems to be discussing this matter, and the other party also posted a copy on the forum. Now they are all saying…”
“What is it?” Mr Zhao was so angry that he walked around the office and smashed three cups.
The assistant gave him a frightened look, but he still bit the bullet and said, “They said that you and your nanny had an affair, that’s why Zhao Yuan was born. They also said that you are really not picky since you would even go for the nanny.”
“…How is this possible?!” Mr Zhao was so angry that his face was flushed. He was red all the way to the roots of his hair. He roared like a lion, “Whoever continues to spread such baseless rumors will be driven out of the company!”
However, these kinds of derailed rumors were the most talked about after tea. The morning was not over. Not only the employees of Zhao Hongzhi’s company knew it tacitly, even the people in the office building next door burst into laughter.
The veins on Mr Zhao’s forehead went blue. When he drove home from the underground garage, two young white-collar workers from the company next door were still talking about this with coffee in their hands. “Really? The old boss in the next building?”
As he talked, he laughed. “Is there a picture of the nanny? F*ck, she looks like this? They say she’s 50 years old, but it looks like she’s over 60, right? Of all people he chose to have an affair with the nanny at home. What a heavy taste he has!”
“…”
Mr Zhao was about to have a heart attack. He slammed the car door shut, his eyes widening to the size of his fists.
“How can Zhao Yuan be Zhang Yufen’s child?! We haven’t noticed anything amiss for so many years!”
The entire Zhao family was struck by lightning.
This meant many things—
It may mean that the swapping of children back then was deliberately done! It may also mean that their child was deliberately abandoned and became an orphan who suffered and almost froze to death! The other party stuffed a daughter of their own who was completely irrelevant to them. She was fed, dressed and educated for many years. Even the other party has been working as a nanny in their house for so many years and has been very close to Zhao Yuan!
The other party did not lose anything, and together with her child, they maliciously stole their child’s life!
Whenever they thought that this possibility may be true, the Zhao family became disgusted and angry.
Assuming this is true, then Zhang Yufen was the culprit, and they have raised the child of the culprit for 18 years! And because they loved the culprit’s child too much, they forced their own children to break up with their families!
Madam Zhao slumped on the side with a pale face. She had yet to fully process what was going on.
“This is unbelievable.” Zhao Zhanhuai frowned. “Who can think of such an imaginative scenario and spread it everywhere?”
He was totally unable to think about the possibility of this extreme horror.
“Where is Zhao Yuning?” Zhao Mo asked, “Does he know about this?”
Zhao Zhanhuai said, “He doesn’t go on the forum very much, and the first and third years are also separated in school, so he probably doesn’t know. But Assistant Li said that three days ago, someone posted about this on the forum of his school. There’s a lot of gossip now, so it’s hard to guarantee that he hasn’t found out already.”
“What the hell is this?” Zhao Mo scratched his hair irritably. “Someone is talking about this in Weibo. My agent asked me to go back quickly, otherwise the reporter who is looking for me may come near our home. I can’t stay at home anymore.”
Mr Zhao was angry like a volcano. He forced himself to calm down a little bit. “Then just go back to your company first! You will only cause trouble if you stay at home, and it won’t help!”
Madam Zhao picked up the paternity test on the ground and slowly recovered her senses. She cried and asked, “So, Zhao Hongzhi, you bastard, you can’t possibly have anything to do with Zhang Yufen—”
“No way!” Zhao Hongzhi was so enraged that he jumped up without a care for his image. “Even if I want to, I will find a tender model. Zhang Yufen is a nanny. How could I possibly have anything to do with her?! Do you know what the people outside are saying about me right now? Even the employees of my company are laughing at me behind my back, so don’t add to the mess with your silly implications at this time!”
Zhao Zhanhuai was a little more rational. He said: “This matter is still unconfirmed. I am afraid that Dad’s company’s competitors might have deliberately created such rumors to cause unrest. If we want to verify this, we have to send the hair strands of Zhang Yufen and Zhao Yuan to do a test. Zhao Mo, you go back to the company first. Wang jie*, take my mother upstairs to rest.”
*Not his actual sister. ‘Jie’ can also be used to refer to elder caretakers which a person is close to.
Then he asked Mr Zhao, “Dad, how do you think this should be resolved now?”
Zhao Zhanhuai couldn’t help taking in a deep breath. “You can’t let the public opinion be anymore or your reputation will be ruined! How can I participate in the summit next month? I am far too embarrassed to participate!”
…
It wasn’t a small thing to be accused of having an affair with the nanny at home.
The problem is, it’s about Mr Zhao’s reputation.
He cheated with the nanny at home despite his old age. What will the people in their circle think?
When discussing business and playing golf in the future, how would those middle-aged men laugh at him behind his back?
There were also those groups of wives with an even looser tongue. Within two days, this matter would be spread all over their circle.
“You must make a decision as soon as possible,” Zhao Zhanhuai and the assistant said.
Mr Zhao scratched his hair irritably.
*
E Xiaoxia sat in the classroom and watched absent-mindedly. She looked at how everyone was in turmoil, especially Zhao Yuan— There was a feeling of having executed a successful revenge. She couldn’t help shaking her legs. She untied the earphone cord and put on her earphones.
The next step was to watch the show.
The reason why she only released the one that proved that Zhao Yuan and Zhang Yufen were biological mother and daughter but did not include the one showing that Zhao Yuan and Zhao Yuning were not siblings was because directors should always pay more attention to how the plot was to be pushed little by little.
If I let everyone know that Zhao Yuan is not the daughter of the Zhao family, but the daughter of the nanny, the explosion would be finished all at once, then what else is there to watch?
I must everyone mistakenly think that Zhao Yuan is the illegitimate daughter of Mr Zhao and the nanny. Only this sort of water is muddy enough.
Pu Shuang looked at E Xiaoxia who was smiling strangely.
Is she happy that something so huge happened to Zhao Yuan?
But then again, if something like this happened to Zhao Yuan before, the two of them would rush out to curse others and defend Zhao Yuan first. But now both of them were no longer on Zhao Yuan’s side, instead they were gloating a little— Is this Zhao Yuan’s problem or their problem?
Pu Shuang pursed her lips, feeling that she and E Xiaoxia were still different people. She disdained to be grouped with E Xiaoxia.
…
When Mingxi returned to the classroom and put down her school bag, she also found out about it. There was no other reason but Ke Chengwen who would never miss the opportunity to pick up on even the smallest piece of gossip.
As soon as Ke Chengwen saw her, his eyes lit up. He quickly moved his head over. “Zhao Mingxi, are the rumors on the forum true? Did you know that—”
Before he could finish speaking, Fu Yangxi pushed his head away.
Fu Yangxi glared at him displeasedly and said, “Just talk normally. What are you doing with your head stretched out like a tortoise? Your saliva sprayed all over me. She just came back from the preliminary exam in the training camp. How can she know what happened on the forum?”
“What are you talking about?” Mingxi’s heart fell, thinking that something bad had happened to her.
Why did I keep seeing everyone discussing something while I was walking all the way from the bus back to class?
She glanced at Fu Yangxi and saw that Fu Yangxi didn’t want to say anything. She sat down and turned to ask Ke Chengwen. “What is it? Does it have something to do with me?”
Ke Chengwen’s lust for gossip was burning. “This is a long story!”
Mingxi said, “Then make it short.”
“Class is about to start soon!” Fu Yangxi was not too happy that she and Ke Chengwen were so close. He raised his hand to her head, twisted her head back and muttered, “You can talk even with your back turned away. How can you twist your head so much? Are you not afraid of spraining your neck?”
Mingxi looked at Fu Yangxi. “Huh?”
Fu Yangxi said, “It has nothing to do with you. It’s Zhao Yuan from the Evergreen Class who is related to this. What has it got to do with you?”
Ke Chengwen took the opportunity to intervene and briefly summarized, “Someone posted something bad about Zhao Yuan on the forum!”
While the three were having a conversation, Mr Lu came in. As soon as he came in, he said to them, “Zhao Mingxi, the opportunity to compete is hard to come by. You have to study hard! You kept on staring at your desk mate before going off to training camp, yet you’re still doing the same after returning from training camp?!”
“Or should I just change seats for you two?”
Fu Yangxi almost slapped the table and said angrily, “Lu Zhangwei, don’t try to ask for trouble!”
Mingxi was also taken aback. “Teacher, forget it…”
The two sentences of refusal were unanimous.
After saying these two sentences, both Mingxi and Fu Yangxi went a little stiff at the same time.
The air became distressed.
The tips of their ears were red and they both felt guilty. They quickly turned away, refusing to look at each other.
Lu Wangwei was about to continue speaking when there was a sudden commotion outside.
“What happened?”
They saw Miss Ye Bing from the Evergreen Class and a group of students suddenly rushed here. However, unlike last time, the student following this time seemed to be just excited to watch the show and rushed over with the girl in front.
And the girl in front—
Lu Wangwei recognized Zhao Yuan from the Evergreen Class.
Seeing her pale complexion, angry expression and the redness under her eyes, Lu Wangwei suddenly became vigilant. There was a premonition that she was coming to find the students in his class. So before the group of people rushed over, he walked up to them. “What are you doing?!”
“What do you want with our class?!”
Zhao Yuan stared at Fu Yangxi and Zhao Mingxi, who had their heads emerging from the back of the classroom, from outside the window. She was all choked up. “You guys were the ones who did it, right?! Such intolerable bullies!”
Fu Yangxi felt a surge of anger. He wanted to stand up as soon as he slapped the table. He pointed at his own nose in disbelief. “Was she speaking to me just now?? Was it me? Is she tired of living?”
Mingxi had just returned to the classroom and had not figured out what was going on. She frowned, and under the guidance of Ke Chengwen, opened the school forum.
And before Fu Yangxi came out, a group of followers in the International Class were already out of the ground and angry. “What the hell? Why is everything thrown on our boss? Why don’t you take a look at yourself? Are you even worthy of our boss sparing you a glance?”
Seeing that the scene was going to be chaotic.
A person climbed up the stairs. It was Li Ye, Mr Zhao’s assistant.
Zhao Yuan’s eyes became even redder when she saw someone she was familiar with.
Li Ye walked over in a suit and leather shoes. First, he handed a business card to Ye Bing and Lu Wangwei, and then he said, “I am Mr. Zhao Hongzhi’s assistant. See, our boss can’t come as he is occupied with other matters, but this incident has also spread to our boss’s ears. Thus, he has asked me to deal with this matter first.”
The noises in the corridor immediately fell silent. They were all waiting excitedly for the newest piece of gossip.
Waiting for Li Ye to say something.
This was the person who represented Zhao Hongzhi, another party in the gossip!
Everyone’s hearts were beating with excitement.
Someone in the crowd couldn’t help asking, “So, is Zhao Yuan the illegitimate daughter of the nanny?”
“No.” Li Ye shook his head firmly. “You may not know this, but Miss Zhao Yuan is not related to the Zhao family.”
As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar.
Li Ye continued, “The Zhao family has always raised Zhao Yuan as their biological daughter. Her parent-child relationship with the nanny was only known to my boss and my boss’s family very recently. They were also very shocked and have asked me to bring Miss Zhao Yuan back so that they can do a DNA test carefully.”
Zhao Yuan’s face changed and her breathing became rapid. She stared at Li Ye in disbelief— Who made him say the words ‘not related’?
So what she desperately wanted to cover up was just revealed by Mr Zhao so mercilessly?!
Has the Zhao family ever thought about how she would regain her foothold in school after saying these things?
What the hell?
The crowd did not react in time. Someone couldn’t help but ask, “If there is no blood relationship between them, why did they raise her as their own daughter?”
Li Ye said, “Because they picked up the wrong child in the hospital. Miss Mingxi became an abandoned baby and Miss Zhao Yuan was taken home as their own. Both the Zhao family and Miss Zhao Mingxi are victims! When we learned that the nanny Zhang Yufen may be related to Miss Zhao Yuan, we were also shocked. We decided to verify the truth of this matter first. If it is true, we will definitely hold the nanny to blame!”
Li Ye’s voice was very clear and loud.
When these words were heard, everyone in the hallway immediately made up a big scene in their heads.
Every sentence was shocking!
In other words, 18 years ago, the Zhao family took the wrong child home. Zhao Mingxi was the real daughter and Zhao Yuan occupied the magpie’s nest, but the latter was regarded as a real daughter and loved by the Zhao family.
And now, they found out that the nanny who had been staying at the Zhao family’s house was probably Zhao Yuan’s biological mother— that is, the culprit who swapped the children back then?
The amount of information was simply too much! Everyone was horrified.
Li Ye tried to keep his cool.
Just before he came, Mr Zhao and Zhao Zhanhuai made a decision. Since things have developed to this point, the most important thing was of course to preserve the image of Mr Zhao, who was equivalent to the company’s reputation, and stop the derailing of the scandal between Mr Zhao and the nanny.
Then there was only one way— to clarify that Mr Zhao and Zhao Yuan were not related at all.
The people in the Zhao family were all thinking about the paternity test now. How could they think about the mood of Zhao Yuan, who may be the culprit’s daughter, at this moment?
Zhao Yuan stared at Li Ye with a pale face. At this moment, she understood that she had become an abandoned pawn.