Gu Nianzhi looked at Huo Shaoheng in a panic, her dark, manga-like eyes filled with unease and fear.
Huo Shaoheng sighed and reached out to hold her hand. "Don't be afraid. It's not that simple. Go back and ask your father."
Gu Nianzhi nodded repeatedly. She couldn't even wait to return to her apartment. She immediately took out her phone to video call Lu Jin.
Lu Jin took a while to pick up.
He was wearing a white lab coat and looked like he had just come out of the lab. He smiled at Gu Nianzhi and said, "Nianzhi, what's up?"
Gu Nianzhi's heart was pounding. After a while, she finally squeezed out the words, "Dad, who is my biological mother?!"
"Lu Jin" didn't seem to have expected her to ask such a question. He paused for a few seconds before saying, "… Have you had lunch?"
Gu Nianzhi thought that Lu Jin was deliberately changing the topic and said angrily, "Dad! Don't interrupt! I'm not hungry. I don't want lunch! Tell me, who is my biological mother?! "
"How can we skip lunch? Your stomach won't be able to handle it. If you don't eat lunch at noon, your blood sugar will also rise. You won't have the energy to work in the afternoon, which is harmful to your health. Let's go eat lunch, I still have experiments to do. "
The phone rang, and Lu Jin's profile picture disappeared.
"He" cut off the video call.
In Gu Nianzhi's eyes, this was a proper "guilty conscience"!
"He knows! He really knows! "Gu Nianzhi was furious. She couldn't wait to fly back to the imperial capital and confront Lu Jin.
Huo Shaoheng thought so too. After all, the way "Lu Jin" changed the topic in the video call was too clumsy.
However, Lu Jin had a serious interpersonal disorder to begin with. Neither Huo Shaoheng nor Gu Nianzhi suspected anything from his behavior.
"What should we do? Major General Huo? Are we going back to the capital now? "Gu Nianzhi was restless and couldn't calm down at all.
It would be a miracle if an ordinary person could remain calm after encountering such a thing.
Huo Shaoheng understood Gu Nianzhi's feelings, but he was much more mature and steady than Gu Nianzhi. Although he was also shocked, he wouldn't make an impulsive decision.
He patted Gu Nianzhi's hand. "Don't worry. Go back and get some rest. Take a shower, and I'll take you out for some good food. We'll discuss the next step tomorrow, okay?"
Gu Nianzhi was very disappointed. "Why do we have to wait until tomorrow?! I can't wait any longer! "
Huo Shaoheng patiently analyzed the situation with her. "What can you do even if you go back to your father now? Don't forget that he lied to you once. "
"To verify the parent-child relationship between you and Qin Yaoguang. You guys are clearly not biological mother and daughter, but he lied to you and said yes."
These words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Gu Nianzhi's heated mind.
She began to calm down.
Huo Shaoheng glanced at her. Seeing that she was no longer so agitated that she couldn't sit still, he breathed a sigh of relief. He squeezed her hand and continued, "Your DNA can't be casually taken out for testing. Qin Suwen has been dead for so many years. How are you going to test it? Do you really want to verify your sibling relationship with He Zhichu? "
Gu Nianzhi averted her eyes in embarrassment.
She and He Zhichu had almost fallen in love with each other …
Just thinking about it made him feel extremely awkward.
Seeing that she understood, Huo Shaoheng finally let go. With both hands on the steering wheel, he stepped on the gas and sped towards their apartment in the west district.
Huo Shaoheng's deep voice was magnetic and comforted Gu Nianzhi's panicked emotions.
"… You'll know once you check the information on DNA testing. With our current level of technology, it's almost impossible to directly verify that you and He Zhichu are half-siblings."
Although Huo Shaoheng wasn't a biological genetic expert, due to his profession, he had seen Chen Lie do many DNA testing experiments to provide evidence for their work.
Chen Lie had told him many times about the shortcomings of DNA testing. In other words, this method could achieve a 100% accuracy in verifying that the two were not related by parentage.
However, to verify that the two were related by parentage, the probability would never be 100%.
"… You'll know once you check it out. The DNA similarity between humans and gorillas is 98.8%, and the DNA similarity between humans and dogs is 96%."
"The differences between the genes of different species truly explain what it means to be 'the slightest difference makes a huge difference'."
"So you see, how difficult is it to prove that two people are related by blood?"
"It's said that more specialized methods are needed to conduct the test, and they can't give you a 100% answer."
"The more distant the blood, the harder it is to determine whether they are related by blood."
"So for now, only direct relatives such as parents and children are legally valid."
Siblings were not counted as direct relatives.
Gu Nianzhi listened to Huo Shaoheng's deep voice in the car, as if it was beside her ears.
She listened to him silently before asking in a hoarse voice, "… Then what should we do? Aren't we going to verify it? "
"There's really no way to directly verify whether Young Master He and I are half-siblings."
After Gu Nianzhi's panic, she quickly calmed down. She was no longer blindly afraid and wanted to find a way to solve the problem.
"But we can verify it indirectly." Gu Nianzhi took out her phone and found He Zhichu's phone number. "First, verify the parentage of Young Master He and his mother, Qin Suwen, and then verify the parentage of my mother and me. Is that okay?"
Just like solving an equation, if A equals B and C equals B, then A equals C.
Qin Suwen was the bridge to verify whether He Zhichu and Gu Nianzhi were related by blood.
Huo Shaoheng nodded slightly. "Of course, but is there any blood or hair left on Young Master He's mother's side?"
Gu Nianzhi sighed. "I'm afraid it'll be very difficult. Auntie He passed away more than ten years ago, right? I wonder who still has some of her belongings? "
At this point, Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng both thought of He Chengjian.
It could be said that everyone in the Huaxia Empire knew that He Chengjian was crazy in love with his wife, Qin Suwen.
The year Qin Suwen suddenly passed away, He Chengjian almost turned the entire country upside down just to arrest Gu Xiangwen, who had seen Qin Suwen for the last time.
The omnipresent pursuit only came to an end when Gu Xiangwen showed up eight years ago and "burned" himself to death at the busy market under the watchful eyes of the public.
If he found out that Qin Suwen had a child with Gu Xiangwen …
Gu Nianzhi couldn't help shivering.
For the first time, she suddenly understood why Lu Jin had avoided talking about this matter. He had even lied to her and said that the annoying Qin Yaoguang was her biological mother …
Gu Nianzhi weighed her hatred for Qin Yaoguang and her fear of He Chengjian. Which one was more important?
She couldn't tell the difference. She even felt that it would be better to let Qin Yaoguang wear the hat of her biological mother and not provoke that lunatic He Chengjian …
Her back, which had been hit by the heavy sniper rifle, began to ache.
She had already completely recovered, but the pain had already been integrated into her memory. It was a psychological pain that couldn't be erased.
The last trace of blood on Gu Nianzhi's face had disappeared completely.
Huo Shaoheng also had a headache.
He Chengjian was too much of a variable. No wonder Lu Jin would rather lie to Gu Nianzhi than tell her who her biological mother was.
He looked up at Gu Nianzhi and felt sorry for her.
In order to divert Gu Nianzhi's attention, Huo Shaoheng quietly changed the topic and said, "But it's strange. If Young Master He's mother, Qin Suwen, looked like you when she was young, then when she grew up and saw Qin Yaoguang, didn't she feel anything?"
Gu Nianzhi was slightly taken aback.
That was an interesting angle.
She pulled down the mirror on the roof of the car and looked at it carefully.
"… My nose is exactly the same as my father's, and it's also the same as Cousin Xie's. They're all the noses of the Gu family." Gu Nianzhi tapped her straight and exquisite nose with her hand, then slid her fingers to her mouth and poked two dimples. "According to what the two neighbors said just now, and Qin Yaoguang's appearance after plastic surgery, it proves that my mouth, dimples, and eyes should look like my biological mother's."
Huo Shaoheng grunted. "Your lips are very unique. Qin Yaoguang is very similar to you. First of all, it's her lips that look especially similar when she smiles. But if you look closely, when she doesn't smile, Qin Yaoguang's eyes aren't as big as yours. "
Gu Nianzhi raised her eyelids and widened her eyes. She carefully observed her appearance in the mirror and smiled. "Do you know why? Because the eyes can't be modified. Normally, opening the corners of the eyes and the ends of the eyes only lengthens the length of the eyes. It doesn't expand the depth of the eyes, which is also the width of the eyes. "
"And whether the eyes are really big or not depends on the size of the pupils and the width of the upper and lower eyes."
"No matter how much she does biological plastic surgery, she can't do plastic surgery on the pupils, nor can she change the width of the upper and lower eyes."
Huo Shaoheng turned the steering wheel and drove into the neighborhood. He said, "You're right, but you still can't explain why Qin Suwen didn't recognize Qin Yaoguang's appearance."
Gu Nianzhi's mind worked very quickly. She clasped her hands and said, "Yes, but she just didn't recognize it, so there's only one reason."
"What reason?"
"… She forgot."
Gu Nianzhi turned to look at Huo Shaoheng and pointed at her head. "Maybe she's like me and forgot what happened before the car accident."
Of course, this forgetting included forgetting everything.
If Gu Nianzhi didn't look at the photos, she wouldn't have remembered what she looked like when she was a child.
Huo Shaoheng frowned and thought about it carefully. He nodded slowly and said, "I think that's the only reason."
"Yes, I think that might be the reason why Auntie He couldn't find any evidence." Gu Nianzhi lowered her eyes and rubbed her phone again. She said, "At that time, I heard from my father that Auntie He had investigated her parents' car accident, but she didn't continue investigating because she didn't have any evidence."
"I was confused at the time. She was the person involved, so she could testify directly."
"If she lost her memory at that time, then it would explain why she was looking for other evidence."
Huo Shaoheng immediately said, "But I remember your father also saying that Qin Suwen personally testified to the police after the car accident that her parents were drunk driving …"
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