Your Highness, Your Child
Your Highness, Your Child
Discussions were heard, and countless doubtful gazes landed on Chu Liuyue and Dugu Mobao.
"No wonder Grotto-Heaven Cliff also brought a child over this time. So it's Dugu Yue's son?!"
"Since she's already married and has a child, how can she still participate in His Grace's contest to choose a princess consort? Isn't she treating this as a joke?"
"This Dugu Yue is so gutsy! She played everyone in the Sky-Cloud Empire! She really can't be underestimated…"
"Such a woman should be directly killed and executed!"
All sorts of voices filled her ears.
Obviously, Lou Ruhai's sentences were very shocking!
Seeing that he had caused such an uproar, Lou Ruhai was secretly delighted. He arrogantly gazed at Chu Liuyue, wanting to see her anxious and helpless expression.
But—no.
That woman still stood there quietly as if she couldn't hear anything in her surroundings, and she still looked as calm and composed as before. The way she looked at him was also very strange. It was as if… it had a hint of pity?
Pity?! Lou Ruhai thought that he had seen it wrongly. After being exposed in front of everyone, her future days won't be easy. Yet, she is still revealing such an expression?
Right at this time, Jiang Hetian boomed, "Are you telling the truth?"
Lou Ruhai cupped his fists. "I'm Grotto-Heaven Cliff's Lou Ruhai, the Lin family's First Elder and heavenly doctor. I can use my reputation to guarantee that whatever I said was the truth!"
On the way here, he had heard the Lin father-son discussing with Dugu Yue about finding Dugu Mobao's biological father. How could it be fake?
Jiang Hetian was surprised, yet he didn't show anything as he shockingly looked at Chu Liuyue. "Dugu Yue! Do you have anything to say about this?!"
…
Chu Liuyue really pitied Lou Ruhai.
Such a fine ninth-grade heavenly doctor is wasted from today onward. He could offend anyone, but he had to trifle about Big Baby. It's fine if he said that I'm married, but saying that Big Baby is my son…
Chu Liuyue quickly shot a look at Dugu Mobao. As expected, she saw that his pinkish, intricate face had completely darkened.
Seeing that he was about to erupt, Chu Liuyue gave him an assuring gaze as she looked at Jiang Hetian and calmly said, "Of course. That's because… everything he said was fake."
Lou Ruhai sneered. "Fake? Dugu Yue, for fortune and glory, you're actually abandoning your own child?! Master and Fourth Young Master can testify to this! You came here just to find the man that abandoned you and your son! Now, you're still trying to deny it?!"
Quite a few people looked at Lin Tianfeng and his son. They brought the person over, so their words are naturally the most trustable.
Lin Tianfeng knitted his brows tightly. Even though His Grace choosing Dugu Yue as his princess consort is very unexpected, I still hope for the best for Dugu Yue. After all, she is Zhifei's benefactor. If I nod now, won't I be pushing Dugu Yue to her death?
Just as he was very hesitant, Chu Liuyue spoke first. "Of course, Master Lin and Fourth Young Master Lin will agree with what you said previously. This was because in their hearts, they do think that I'm such a person. But what if I say all the things I said weren't true from the start?"
Chu Liuyue's lips gradually curled up, and she smiled cunningly. "I said that I brought Big Baby over to find someone, but I didn't personally admit that Big Baby and I are mother and son, nor did I admit that I'm looking for his father. Master Lin and Fourth Young Master Lin can testify to that."
"Yeah." Lin Zhifei paused for a moment and spoke seriously. "Ms. Dugu indeed has never said all of this before. It was just our guess."
A woman brought a child along to look for someone. Who could they be looking for?
It was reasonable that they thought this way.
Lou Ruhai was dazed for a moment and later clenched his teeth. "It's not true just because you say so. What proof do you have?!"
"Then, what other evidence do you have?" Chu Liuyue immediately asked in retaliation.
Lou Ruhai was stumped.
This incident had developed to this stage, and it entered a stalemate.
The crowd's gazes kept darting back and forth between those people, and they didn't know who to believe.
After a temporary silence, a voice came from the side. "If Ms. Dugu really has nothing to do with that child, why would she spend so much effort to bring him into the God Residence Realm from outside?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Liuyue followed the voice and looked over.
The person talking was Jiang Zhiyuan, who had just treated her wound. Her pretty face was pale at this moment, but it made her look even more pitiful—she gained people's sympathy.
"Also, since Ms. Dugu is only a stage-seven warrior, then… How did she successfully pass the God Residence Realm's entrance to come here?" Her voice had already recovered her usual peace as if it weren't an interrogation but a simple query. However, these two questions hit the nail on the head!
It was already very difficult for normal cultivators to barge in from outside the God Residence Realm. Why did she still want to bring a child along and cause so much trouble? Let's not mention that she couldn't even come in with her current cultivation level!
Everything was suspicious!
"Of course, it's because I'm willing to do it!" said Chu Liuyue with a smile. "As for how I got in… I naturally came in with my own abilities! If not, would someone have specifically fetched me in?"
Rong Xiu touched his nose.
A chill ran down Yan Qing's spine, and he looked down.
Yu Mo scratched his head in confusion. Is she scolding Master or Yu Mo?
But he very quickly thought it through. She's still scolding Master. Yan Qing doesn't have that right.
Jiang Zhiyuan felt that Chu Liuyue was being ridiculous and illogical. Her explanation amounts to nothing. Isn't she just avoiding it?
"Ms. Dugu, please answer my questions properly. If you can't produce any evidence to prove your innocence, we really have reasons to suspect that the child is yours."
A woman with a child wants to be the princess consort? Dream on!
Chu Liuyue raised her chin. "May I ask everyone: how does Big Baby look like me?"
The crowd instinctively sized up the two.
One had purple hair and purple eyes, while the other had black hair and black eyes. They were really miles apart!
Furthermore, that child was born extremely beautiful, yet Dugu Yue…
"Isn't this simple? He just looks like his father!" Jiang Hetian pressed on. "Dugu Yue, since you admit that you came to the Sky-Cloud Empire to look for someone, why don't you find that person now so that we can question him in person? Let's see whose child this is!"
Chu Liuyue raised her brows. "Are you sure?"
Jiang Hetian sneered. "What, you're afraid?"
"No…" Chu Liuyue stroked her chin as she turned around and looked at Rong Xiu. "Your Highness, they insist on saying that this child is yours. Why don't you come and acknowledge him?"