Chapter 171
"No!"
Of course, Chenyang couldn’t admit it.
After all, Liu Yun was a person of considerable status. If An Xiaoqing learned that his relationship with her was ambiguous, there was no telling what she might do to harm Liu Yun.
But even though his denial was firm, he didn’t fool An Xiaoqing.
"Impossible! You two definitely have some kind of secret relationship."
"I’ve only known her for less than two days. What kind of special relationship could we have?"
"Time isn’t the issue. You and I have known each other for less than a day, and didn’t I get you into bed?"
"That was *me* sleeping with *you*, wasn’t it?"
"Same difference." An Xiaoqing didn’t get hung up on it. With a playful look, she said, "A woman’s intuition is sharp. There’s definitely something unusual about your relationship with Liu Yun."
"We..."
"Don’t rush to defend yourself. I’m not prying with ill intent. I just want to ask for two favors."
"What favors?"
"First, get Liu Yun to vote against Gao Tianqi at the vice presidential election in a few days. Under no circumstances can we let Gao Tianqi become the vice president."
"That’s not up to me, but I can pass your request on to Sister Liu."
"Don’t just pass it on. That would make my motives too obvious, and it would also affect the second thing I need to ask."
"Then tell me what the second thing is first!"
An Xiaoqing mulled it over for a moment before saying, "I have a close friend who’s giving birth soon. She wants to ask Director Liu to help her forge a paternity test."
Chenyang frowned. "The baby isn’t her husband’s?"
"Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. If it is, then everyone’s happy and the test doesn’t need to be faked. But if it’s not, one has to be made. Otherwise, all the effort she and her husband have put in these last several months will go to waste."
"I’m a bit lost. If it turns out she’s pregnant with another man’s child, wouldn’t that mean *her* efforts were wasted? How is her husband involved in this?"
"Her husband knows she might be carrying another man’s child. Or, to be more precise, her husband is the one who had her get pregnant by another man."
"What the fuck, is her husband a cuck? It’s one thing to let another man sleep with his wife, but to have her carry another man’s child?"
"Her... her husband does have a bit of a cuckold fetish, but the pregnancy isn’t just to satisfy his kink. It’s for the inheritance."
"Her father-in-law said that the family fortune won’t go to his two sons, but directly to his grandson. Whichever son gives him a grandson will get the inheritance. My friend’s brother-in-law’s wife got pregnant before her, and they’ve already found out it’s a boy..."
"Then why didn’t she just have a baby with her husband, instead of finding another man?"
"Because his sperm has very low motility. The chance of getting pregnant is less than ten percent. They were worried they wouldn’t succeed, so they opted to ’borrow a seed’."
"Tsk!" Chenyang grimaced. "You rich people are wild!"
An Xiaoqing pursed her red lips. "It is pretty wild. But it’s not just my circle. In general, most people are a lot more... open these days."
"Never mind my friend’s drama. Just look at our own hospital. Or think about those young nurses who set you up. They all look so innocent, but in private, each one parties harder than the next."
"How hard?"
"Daring to sleep with you the first day you met. Is that wild enough for you? Group sex, is that wild enough? Screwing a patient in their bed during the night shift, is that wild enough?"
"Tsk. I never would’ve thought those young nurses were so debauched in their private lives."
"Forget everywhere else. Just within this hospital, there’s plenty of shocking and titillating stuff you couldn’t even imagine. It’s hardly anything to be surprised about anymore."
Chenyang grimaced. "We can chat about all this juicy gossip later. Let’s get back on topic. I don’t think Sister Liu will agree to help your friend falsify the test."
"If something like this gets exposed, it won’t just affect her career; it’ll also cause trouble for the hospital."
"Even if she wouldn’t get caught, knowing her principles, she’d never agree. I think you and your friend would be better off not wasting your time and energy on her. You should just go to another hospital, maybe a private one. The kind where they’ll do anything for the right price."
An Xiaoqing gave a bitter smile. "My friend and her husband already thought of everything you just said. But when it comes to the birth and the paternity test, they can’t avoid Director Liu."
"Her father-in-law is a businessman. And as you know, businessmen tend to be superstitious and very particular about prestige. As soon as his two daughters-in-law got pregnant, he went straight to a fortune-telling master."
"The master not only selected the babies’ birth dates, but also specified which delivery room and which recovery room at the City Hospital would bring their family good fortune."
"After hearing the master’s decree, her father-in-law immediately went to the hospital president. He paid a hefty sum to reserve that specific delivery room and recovery room. At the same time, he also arranged in advance for Director Liu to personally perform the C-sections for both of his daughters-in-law!"