Chapter 423 - DNA Test Results (1/2)
The next day, time was passing fast and going slow at the same time.
Su Qingsang was peeling an apple for Xiang Caiping in the hospital room. Staring at her, Xiang Caiping spoke carefully:
“Qingsang, have you been very tired lately?”
Su Qingsang paused. She finished peeling the apple in her hand, looked at Xiang Caiping, and said: “Oh, no. I am not tired. It’s just that I only have less than two days off, and I feel a little bit depressed.”
“I know how hard you have been working. You should take the time you have and rest well,” said Xiang Caiping.
Xiang Caiping thought that her daughter and son-in-law didn’t need to look after her every day. “It’s all right for you and Huo Jinyao to go out and have fun. You don’t need to worry about me.”
With Ning and Yu being here and taking turns to tend her, she didn’t find it necessary to have her daughter’s company all the time.
“Mom, I am all right. I am not that tired,” said Su Qingsang.
Su Qingsang cut the apple into pieces, picked up one piece with a toothpick, and gave it to Xiang Caiping. She said, “Mom, please do not overthink.”
Xiang Caiping took the piece of apple from Su Qingsang with a smile of gratitude in her eyes.
Now Su Qingsang’s feelings toward Xiang Caiping were quite complicated. Su Qingsang knew in her heart that Su Chenghui had fooled them all.
She and Su Peizhen were very likely switched when they were born.
How could Xiang Caiping suspect? She didn’t raise her, after all.
They didn’t know each other until recently. There wasn’t a long-standing emotional bond between them.
But Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao had done so much for her, she felt so touched and of course she wouldn’t ask for more, Xiang Caiping thought.
“Mom.”
Su Qingsang could probably tell what she was thinking just by looking at her.
“Are you concerned that I might not want to take care of you because we were reunited only after I grew up?”
“What do you mean?” Xiang Caiping gave an embarrassed laugh. As a matter of fact, Su Qingsang could tell that Xiang Caiping really thought so.
“Mom.”
Su Qingsang did not say more.
Xiang Caiping looked at her. She didn’t seem to understand why her daughter was about to say something but stopped before she spoke.
“What happened?”
“Nothing,” Su Qingsang shook her head and said, “I’ve been thinking that I am so lucky. I couldn’t have had a better mother. What if… what if there was some mistake and I was not your daughter…”
Su Qingsang didn’t finish her sentence. It was easier for her to speak half in jest than in complete seriousness.
“What nonsense!” Xiang Caiping was unwilling to listen. “You are my daughter. I feel it in my heart. My own child.”
“Mom.” What Xiang Caiping said relieved Su Qingsang of her last struggle. She squeezed Xiang Caiping’s hand and said, “That’s right. I am your daughter.”
When Ning came into the room, she saw Xiang Caiping and Su Qingsang talking and laughing. She felt relaxed too.
…
The next morning, Huo Jinyao stared at Su Qingsang when he got up.
“Do you want me to go with you?”
Su Qingsang told him about the DNA test when she came back yesterday. He didn’t think the test was necessary, though. The result seemed evident to him.
However, Su Qingsang had a point doing that.
Looking at him, Su Qingsang gently nodded, but immediately shook her head.
“What do you mean?” Huo Jinyao didn’t understand. “Do you want me to accompany you or not?”
“I want you to go with me. But I also want to go alone.” Su Qingsang went over her inner thoughts and said, “Jinyao, you know, on the one hand, I want someone to share the burden with me and to accompany me to face the news; on the other hand, I want to carry all the weight of it by myself.”
In fact, the answer couldn’t have been more obvious. She, Su Qingsang, was most likely the child of Su Chenghui and Li Qianxue. There was a very slim chance of it being otherwise.
For now, she only needed to be completely sure. However, at the last moment, she was a little bit reluctant to face the result.
“I am with you,” Huo Jinyao held her hand. “Whatever the result turns out to be, I’ll be right here by your side.”
Su Qingsang looked into his eyes. She nodded heavily and said, “Okay.”
She only wanted an answer. To her, anything was better than not knowing.
As to her, it didn’t matter what the result was. Actually, she wished she could find out the truth and then put it aside forever.
However, there was no way to avoid what was in front of her.
After she took a shower, Su Qingsang called her classmate at the DNA Diagnostics Center and went there to pick up the two test reports.
One was for her and Su Chenghui, and the other for her and Li Qianxue.
If possible, she wished neither of them were her parent.
How she wished she were an orphan! She could adopt Xiang Caiping as her own mother and accept no favors from the Su Family and Li Family.
Su Qingsang didn’t stop Huo Jinyao from taking the reports. She watched him open the reports and read them.
The first report was the result about her and Su Chenghui. Huo Jinyao put the report into Su Qingsang’s hand and said, “There was never any doubt about this one. You look so similar to Su Chenghui.”
Su Qingsang knew it. No matter how much she wished otherwise, she could not deny she was Su Chenghui’s daughter.
Huo Jinyao opened the other report. Su Qingsang slowed down her breathing and stared at Huo Jinyao nervously so as not to miss a single word.
The test result was just a single sheet of paper. Huo Jinyao looked up at Su Qingsang, his expression self-explanatory.
“Qingsang, the likelihood that Li Qianxue is your biological mother is 99.9%.”