Chapter 136: Am I he Wenqing's flesh and blood?

Han Beicheng ran into the room when he heard Shangguan Zhi's worried voice. Even Nan Feng, who was hiding in the dark, was shocked.

"Why aren't you breathing?" Shangguan Zhi asked He Lanjin as he checked for her pulse.

Nan Feng silently looked up at the sky and bowed to the eighteen generations of the Qiao family's ancestors. He had failed. He Lanjin was dead, and the Qiao family was probably never going to have any more descendants. This was his fault; he should have protected her better.

Just as Nan Feng started to think of ways to punish himself, he heard Qiao Hanye laughing deeply.

Qiao Hanye's gloomy face suddenly brightened with a smile. His roaring laughter filled the room as he wiped the corner of He Lanjin's mouth with his thumb. "You naughty little thing, what should I do with you?"

No one could understand what was happening. Had the master gone mad?

Qiao Hanye raised his hand and motioned for everyone to go out. Shangguan Zhi and Han Beicheng looked at each other and dragged Zhao Yuyi out. They stuck their heads in to peek through the gap of the door, but were shocked to see Qiao Hanye glaring at them. They could only silently close the door.

Han Beicheng was terrified. He Lanjin stopped breathing after she vomited blood, and Qiao Hanye suddenly laughed. This was all too strange for Han Beicheng. He was in the room the entire time; what did he miss?

Inside the house...

Qiao Hanye stared at the hem of his white shirt, which was now stained with blood. It was obvious that someone had wiped their mouth with it.

As he looked at the unconscious He Lanjin whose breathing had stopped, Qiao Hanye's eyes were filled with a mixture of love and helplessness. "Little Jin, I think it's fine if we stay in the bridal chamber a little longer, since we have been registered and are technically married. What do you think?"

The man's magnetic voice filled the room. His fingers landed on her collarbone and gently picked at her collar.

Qiao Hanye slowly undid the first two buttons on He Lanjin's shirt, his gaze fixed on her face. Undoing the third button revealed He Lanjin's soft white breasts, and Qiao Hanye could not help but look at them.

Unable to hold her breath any longer, He Lanjin laughed out loud. "Hi," she said coyly, seeing that Qiao Hanye saw through her pretense. She had been awake since she coughed out some blood, and was only playing to see how Qiao Hanye would react to her "death."

He Lanjin had to "wake up" before Qiao Hanye got further than the third button.

The last thing she remembered before she fell unconscious was the excruciating pain in her stomach. When she came to, she thought it would be funny to tease Qiao Hanye by spraying him with her cough, which turned out to be accompanied by blood. She fell back to the bed and held her breath, but not before she wiped some of the blood from her mouth on his shirt.

She did not expect Qiao Hanye to undress her just so she would "wake up" and admit that she was only toying with him.

"Mrs. Qiao, you heard everything, right? You owe me a lot of time in a bridal chamber," Qiao Hanye said bluntly.

Lying lazily on the bed, He Lanjin grabbed the hem of Qiao Hanye's shirt and used it to wipe the remaining blood from the corner of her mouth. Without warning, she got up and jumped on his lap. Sitting on his thighs, she wrapped her legs around his waist and cupped his handsome face in her hands. "Come on, hurry up."

Qiao Hanye shook his head and laughed. He knew just by looking at He Lanjin's sly smile that she was, once again, teasing him. She knew that he would never take advantage of her, especially when her life was in danger.

"Are you feeling okay?" Qiao Hanye asked worriedly. "I better let Shangguan Zhi take another look at you."

He Lanjin shook her head and rubbed his chin with her fingertips. "I'm fine," she said. "That reminds me... Shangguan Zhi did a paternity test for me but I never got the results. Am I He Wenqing's flesh and blood?"

He Lanjin had been drugged, but she had a strong immune system. As soon as the drugs were flushed out, she felt better. She actually felt refreshed, as if she had just woken up from a nap.

"No," Qiao Hanye said as he supported He Lanjin by the waist, afraid that she would fall. He wiped her little face with his handkerchief and asked, "What's next? Have you thought about what you are going to do?"

Disappointment flashed across He Lanjin's eyes.

She had always known at the back of her head that there was something amiss about her parents, so she had been expecting this result. Still, a part of her found it hard to accept that He Wenqing was not her father.

"So they really are not my biological parents. No wonder they... don't like me." He Lanjin laughed self-deprecatingly. She tried to stifle her disappointment, but it only made her even more upset.

Qiao Hanye saw the disappointment in He Lanjin's eyes. He took her in his arms and said softly, "You have me. You will always have me."