"Sir Song nghwa, do you really think this is appropriate?"
"Sir Song nghwa..."
Song nghwa was not fazed by the tsunami of questions directed his way. He stood calmly on stage. With a smile on his face, he made a sign for the crowd to quiet down. "Please, hold your questions for now. Let explain myself."
...
The chaos in the hall gradually dampened; however, so of the reporters still had straggling questions. One of them was exceptionally grating to Song nghwa’s ears. "Don’t you know that the child between biological siblings will often end up with crippled limbs or a retarded mind? Do you still wish to keep such an unfortunate child?"
"What absurdity! Why are you cursing my grandchild‽" Song nghwa glared angrily at the reporter who had asked this rude question before continuing to explain into the microphone. "I, Song nghwa, do admit that I couldn’t wait to have a grandchild, but I’m not soone who is so depraved as to allow my children to do stuff that is totally immoral!
"The only reason I allow my daughter to keep her child is because of a Song family secret that is known only to the Song family."
Actually, that number was exaggerated by Song nghwa. The only people who knew about this secret was himself, his wife who already passed away, and his loyal butler. He said what he did to preserve the reputation of his son and daughter. Even though he knew that they would not have known this secret beforehand, he had to create an illusion for the dia to believe that Song Qingchun and Su Zhinian had known the truth from the very beginning and had always shared a normal relationship.
"This secret is related to my daughter. My daughter, Song Qingchun, is not my biological daughter."
The hall started to get rowdy again. Su Zhinian frowned as he turned to look at Song nghwa. The mouth of the seated Song Qingchun, who had her eyes fixed to the reflections of the light on the marble floor, fell slightly open.
"Qingchun is a child adopted by myself and my wife from the hospital when she was three months old. All my old friends here should know that my wife has been pregnant twice, but the second child was a stillborn birth.
"At the ti, the hospital was crowded, and my financial situation wasn’t as good as it is now, so my wife shared the maternity ward with another woman.
"The unfortunate thing was while my wife suffered from a stillborn, the other woman died from excessive bleeding three hours after her childbirth. The woman’s husband was a police officer, and he died on duty when she was six months pregnant. The baby girl was thus born as a parentless child. After discussing it with my wife, we decided to adopt the child at the hospital to give her a whole family."
The hall was silent, and Song nghwa continued. "Of course, you might suspect of creating this story to prevent a financial crisis to Song Empire or to wipe away the scandal from my children. I understand that. To prove our innocence, I am willing to conduct an open DNA test with my daughter before the dia.
"Of course, my children have known this a long ti ago. Therefore, they are not as you all would like to believe, getting together while thinking that they were biological brother and sister."
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