"Mother, why did you hit me?" Fu Tingyi's face was filled with disbelief.
The old Madam Fu had put all her strength into that slap. She staggered, but Shen Qingqing quickly steadied her and helped her sit on the sofa.
"Because you are not a member of the Fu family at all!"
At these words, everyone looked at her.
Even Madam Fu's eyes showed a complex mix of surprise. "Qing girl, you... you know everything?"
Shen Qingqing glanced at Fu Jingchu and Fu Tingsheng. The former's expression was unreadable, while the latter was utterly shocked. "Grandmother, how long were you going to keep this a secret?"
"I... I didn't intend to keep it a secret..."
It was just that, after all, it was a family. Once it was truly said, the family would fall apart.
Over there, Fu Tingyi had completely lost his mind. He roared, "You're talking nonsense! How can I not be a member of the Fu family? You're not a member of the Fu family. You haven't even married in yet, and you're already trying to sow discord between me and Jingchu's father-son relationship, you little slut!"
His words were so vulgar that even Madam Fu found them unbearable. "Just shut up!"
Shen Qingqing patted her back, urging her not to get angry. She then looked at Fu Tingyi, "Whether I'm lying or not, you know it in your heart."
A flicker of panic crossed Fu Tingyi's face. "Nonsense, you!"
"You've known your identity for a long time, haven't you?"
"I don't know!"
His denial was too quick, making him look guilty.
Shen Qingqing snorted, "It's useless to deny it. If we do a paternity test now, everything will be revealed. But do you really want to make things this ugly?"
"If this gets out, it won't do you any good."
The shareholders supporting him at Ruisi Group would instantly switch their allegiance, and Fu Tingyi would lose all authority within Ruisi Group.
Fu Tingyi's face was a mixture of pale and green, and he almost gritted his teeth to the point of breaking them.
This matter was kept so secret, how could she have found out?
In fact, the matter was indeed seamless. Even with a hereditary illness, it couldn't definitively prove that Fu Tingyi wasn't Fu Jingchu's father.
But fate would have it that Shen Qingqing was the one who saw the medical records and blood types.
And she had already seen some clues from Fu Jingchu, so she had people investigate. The events of that year had never been brought up, and they all thought it was flawless, so no one had bothered to cover it up.
Once she started investigating, she found out.
"Back then, Grandmother adopted you from outside due to some concerns, but she never expected to raise an ungrateful wretch."
Fu Tingyi vehemently retorted, "No, I'm not an ungrateful wretch!"
Shen Qingqing remained noncommittal and turned to Madam Fu. "Grandmother, at this point, just tell the truth. Otherwise, it's unfair to Jingchu and my uncle."
Madam Fu sighed. She glanced at Fu Jingchu and saw his complex and inscrutable expression, feeling a pang of guilt. She then looked at her youngest son beside her, who was still in shock.
"Yes, Tingyi was indeed adopted by us back then, and the reason was..."
"Your father was worried about hereditary anemia. This illness would follow a person for life and have a great impact on them, so he decided not to have children and just adopt a healthy child from outside."
"So that's why you abandoned me."
Fu Tingsheng's eyes flickered with pain.
Madam Fu quickly said, "No, even if we didn't want children, since we had you, we never thought of abandoning you."
Every time she spoke of those years, her heart was filled with endless pain.
"Then why did you abandon me?"
This matter was like a knot in Fu Tingsheng's heart, rotting and festering with time, something he might never be able to resolve in his lifetime.
Madam Fu slowly closed her eyes, holding back the moisture that welled up in her eyes. "I truly didn't mean to. I thought... I thought he could take good care of you. I was too tired then. If I had known you would be lost that day, I would have watched you myself, never leaving your side."
"Weren't you the one taking care of me that day?"
Fu Tingsheng seized on the key point.
"No, I had a difficult labor when I gave birth to you, and my body was weak afterward..." She would occasionally hand the child over to her husband or the servants to watch.
"Then who was taking care of me that day?"
"It was... your elder brother."
This sentence struck everyone like thunder.
Fu Tingyi's eyes flickered. "What does it have to do with me? I was young then too, I don't remember anything. I only remember that I got a fever later and had a serious illness, almost dying."
Because of this, Madam Fu felt even more guilty towards him.
Shen Qingqing, however, said, "Is that necessarily true? Didn't you abandon my uncle back then?"
Fu Tingyi reprimanded her sternly, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Madam Fu also looked at Shen Qingqing, unwilling to believe it no matter what. "This is impossible. Tingyi was still young then. It was a moment of negligence that led to Sheng'er being lost. He became ill afterward and almost developed pneumonia from the fever..."
"A ruse," Shen Qingqing said, taking out a document and a recording from her bag.
The document was about the maid who had accompanied Fu Tingyi when he took Fu Tingsheng out. It indicated that shortly after that incident, a substantial sum of money appeared in her account.
The recording was a conversation between Fu Tingyi and the maid.
"Young Master, do we really have to do this?"
"If we don't, Father and Mother will never see me. I can't be kicked out, I don't want to go back to the orphanage!"
"But..."
"Don't worry, as long as you help me with this, I will inherit the Fu family later, and you won't be shortchanged. Your mother is ill, isn't she? I'll find an opportunity to ask Father for some money in a few days, and I'll give it all to you then."
The maid gritted her teeth. "Alright, then Young Master, don't lie to me!"
After the recording finished, Madam Fu suddenly understood. "No wonder later, he asked the old man for money, saying he wanted to invest in a fund. We were surprised at the time, thinking this child had financial management ideas at such a young age..."
Who knew he was using it to buy his own son's life!
Fu Tingyi went mad and tried to snatch the recording pen, throwing it to the ground and smashing it to pieces. "Fake, fake, it's all fake! Today, it's just the two of you little beasts conspiring to harm me. This recording is all fake!"
Shen Qingqing reminded him, "I obtained this recording from that maid. This is just a backup. There's the original recording, and I've already handed it over to the police."
She glanced at the two recording pens that had been stomped on on the ground.
"Two copies."
One was for him conspiring with someone at a young age to send his brother away. The other was for him demanding Glibenclamide from the head of a pharmaceutical company to frame his brother, causing him to have a car accident and nearly die.
Either one of these was enough to put him in serious trouble!
Fu Tingyi went mad. He lunged forward like a madman, but Fu Jingchu blocked him, easily pushing him away with one hand. He looked at Fu Tingyi with unprecedented coldness.
"The police will be here soon. You can wait to be taken away."
Fu Tingyi roared madly, "You're all framing me! Mother, what they're saying is fake. You can't believe them!"
Unfortunately, Madam Fu, who was utterly disappointed in him, no longer looked at him. She looked at Fu Tingsheng with guilt. The police soon arrived and dragged Fu Tingyi away.
His voice disappeared outside the door along with his footsteps.
"I will get revenge! I will definitely get revenge! I won't let you live happily, you just wait!"