“Sorry, Mom, there’s something I’ve been hiding from you.”
Huo Yunshen stroked Ying Bao on her head as he explained. “This child is your granddaughter.”
Chen Yunlu suddenly teared up upon hearing her son’s words.
She was completely, utterly shocked.
“She’s really my granddaughter? I can’t believe it… I really can’t… Did you deliberately get her to pretend to be my granddaughter so you could make me feel better?”
“Mom, she is really my daughter.”
Huo Yunshen took out a paternity test report. The report was given to him by Xu Xiyan so he could use it as evidence.
Chen Yunlu took the paternity test report from him and looked at it. Despite being overjoyed, she still reprimanded him, “Oh Yunshen, why didn’t you tell us that you have such a fine child? Why didn’t you tell your parents earlier? Why did you keep it a secret from us? Don’t you know what our biggest wish is?”
“I know. I’m sorry, mom. I just found out about her recently, myself,” Huo Yunshen explained apologetically.
Chen Yunlu was very convinced that the blood of the Huo family ran deep in Ying Bao.
She believed in the strong impact that genes can make on one’s appearance. Looks cannot deceive, and the feeling of intimacy that came with a blood relationship is never wrong.
Chen Yunlu was weeping with joy. She lifted a hand to wipe away her tears and gazed at the little girl’s face, taking a good look at her again and again.
Back when she’d seen the girl on TV, she thought that she really resembled Yunshen when he was still a child.
How she had wished for her son to have such a smart and quick-witted child like Cherry Baby. Today, that dream had unexpectedly come true. She was so happy, truly happy, and unspeakably happy!
At this moment, she was completely immersed in the joy of having a precious granddaughter. She spread her arms and said, “Come here, baby, let Grandma have a good look at you.”
Ying Bao went into Chen Yunlu’s arms obediently and stood still as she let her grandmother take a good look at her.
While Chen Yunlu was looking at her, she was also appraising her grandmother.
Ying Bao noticed that this grandmother did not look like the grandmother she had imagined in her mind before coming here.
In her storybooks, the grandmothers were small and short with hunched backs, and they usually wore scarves on their heads or walked with a cane.
But the grandmother in front of her was not old at all.
The little girl was not one to beat around the bush. She immediately praised her grandmother, “Grandma, you are really young!”
Chen Yunlu was delightfully amused by the little girl’s words. She hugged her tightly, “Oh my, why are you so good at talking? Why is your mouth so sweet?”
Chen Yunlu loved the child so dearly. The little girl was like a precious treasure she could not bear to part with.
Ying Bao rolled her large eyes around the room, looking at the medical instruments in the ward. She asked, “Grandma, I heard that Grandpa is sick. When is Grandpa going to get better?”
Chen Yunlu felt her nose begin to run again. She caressed the child’s cheek and said, “Soon. If Grandpa knows that he has such a lovely little granddaughter like you, he might recover faster.”
“Can I see my grandfather?” Ying Bao said earnestly.
“Of course, Grandpa has been waiting for you. Come, let me bring you to Grandpa.”
Chen Yunlu stood up and led the child to her husband’s bed.
After observing what had happened so far, Huo Yunshen breathed a sigh of relief. He was originally worried that Ying Bao might become nervous, but now he realized that Ying Bao had behaved better than he had expected.
He left Ying Bao in his mother’s care and went to look for the doctor in charge.
Chen Yunlu carried Ying Bao up in her arms. From above, Ying Bao could see Huo Zhen’s face clearly.
There was an oxygen tube in Huo Zhen’s nose as he lay on the bed with his eyes closed. The sight of him made Ying Bao feel like waking him up.
“Grandpa! Grandpa…”
The little girl called out to him again and again. Chen Yunlu leaned in to speak in his ear, “Dear, please wake up soon. Look who’s here to see you?”