Wang Dayong certainly wasn't spurred into igniting his internal fury by a few casual words from Mu Jinyu.
Instead, he had always felt that his son didn't resemble him at all, and he suspected whether he was truly his biological son.
His suspicions grew, and as his son got older and looked even less like him, his doubts only increased.
Finally, one day, he couldn't hold back and mentioned it to his wife. He said, "Why does our son look nothing like me?" She became furious and retorted, "If he isn't yours, whose is he then? If you don't believe it, go for a paternity test. After that, we can divorce. If he is your son, you will leave everything behind; if not, I will leave everything behind."
Hearing his wife say this, although he thought about doing a paternity test, he ultimately didn't dare go through with it.
Additionally, his wife used to look different, and he wouldn't have married her if she hadn't been pretty. But after a failed cosmetic surgery, she turned into the obese woman he saw now. He thought that the son's lack of resemblance could be related to her cosmetic surgery, right?
He barely convinced himself.
But his suspicions never dissipated.
It haunted him like a nightmare. Whenever friends and relatives casually remarked, "Your son doesn't look much like you," it annoyed him and made him irritable!
Mu Jinyu's definitively confident tone was finally the last straw that broke the camel's back, leading him to see his wife's odd reactions and ultimately deciding to confront her recklessly!
His eyes reddening, he glared at Chen Ping with murderous intent and stepped toward her.
"Dayong, you... don't listen to his nonsense, Xiaoming is really your biological son..."
Wang Dayong looked at Chen Ping, his wife of many years, with a murderous tone, saying deliberately, "I will ask you one more time now, is Xiaoming really my son? If you answer honestly now, I will just ask you to leave everything behind, but if you still stubbornly refuse to tell the truth, and once I complete the paternity test, find out I have been raising someone else's child for years, I..."
As he spoke, Wang Dayong had already approached Chen Ping, grabbed her by the throat, and roared with rage-filled eyes, "will kill you!"
Seeing Wang Dayong like this, Chen Ping, as his wife of many years, knew he was serious this time. No matter how much she pretended to rage, it wouldn't fool him once he found out that the son wasn't his own flesh and blood. He was a straightforward man who might truly go insane and try to kill her.
Frightened out of her wits, she immediately shook her head and said, "No... he is not yours..."
Upon hearing this answer, Wang Dayong felt as if a nuclear bomb had exploded in his mind, causing everything to go dark as the world spun around him.
His son, indeed, was not his own.
Wang Dayong felt bitter and distressed, overwhelmed with hatred, yet he found it somewhat bearable.
After all, he had long harbored countless suspicions.
"Huff huff..."
Soon, Wang Dayong regained his composure. He stared at the wife who had deceived him for decades, his breathing becoming heavier. Then, he suddenly punched her in the stomach!
"Ah!!"
Struck in the abdomen, Chen Ping almost vomited out her breakfast along with the previous night's dinner.
Wang Dayong was about to hit her again when suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from outside. Shortly afterward, several police officers rushed in. Seeing Wang Dayong's aggressive stance, they quickly shouted, "Stop!"
The police hurried over and quickly separated Wang Dayong and Chen Ping.
"What are you doing? It's none of your business if I hit this wretched woman!"
Wang Dayong struggled and tried to hit Chen Ping again but was restrained by the police.
"Behave yourself!"
Soon, Wang Dayong also calmed down, realizing that beating someone was not an option anymore, and just glared fiercely at Chen Ping.
Chen Ping, gasping for breath, secretly felt relieved that she had called the police in advance; otherwise, she was afraid she would have been beaten severely again.
After the police separated them and surveyed the fly-ridden mess around the restaurant and the workers groaning on the floor, they glanced over Mu Jinyu, Wang Dayong, and Chen Ping, who were still standing, and asked:
"What happened here, who called the police, who made this mess, and who beat up those workers lying there?!"
Mu Jinyu was about to claim responsibility, saying he was the one who beat them and he was the one who trashed the place since it was just a matter of paying damages in a civil dispute, and he didn't care about the money.
However.
Before he could speak up, Wang Dayong glanced at him and suddenly said, "It's my own restaurant; I can trash it if I want to, what does it have to do with you?"
"Those workers, they work for me, I let them lie down, is that any of your business?"
"Your restaurant? You trashed your own restaurant?" The police officer was taken aback and then asked, "So, who called the police?"
Regaining her composure, Chen Ping, infuriated by what Wang Dayong had just said, hastily raised her hand and said, "I called the police. It wasn't him who trashed my restaurant; it was that man over there, who also robbed and extorted me…"
Chen Ping glared venomously at Mu Jinyu, pointing at him.
She had originally been very afraid of Mu Jinyu, but emboldened by his slip of the tongue, she was determined to make him pay.
Wang Dayong cursed, "What does it have to do with anyone else? Ah? What are you rambling about?"
The police officers, puzzled by their conflicting statements, furrowed their brows and said, "What exactly is going on here?"
Soon, amid the bickering between Wang Dayong and Chen Ping, they figured out that this seemed to be a case of marital discord, where they trashed their own restaurant and the wife even called the police hoping to have them arrested.
At that moment, one police officer, after asking around, rushed in and said, "Captain Lin, I've asked the locals, and they indeed confirmed that they are a husband and wife, and the restaurant belongs to them both."
"This is absurd…" Captain Lin frowned and then waved his hand, saying, "Let's pull out, pull out. It's their family matter; we shouldn't interfere. No external property damage was done, let's go, let them sort it out themselves."
Seeing the police about to leave, Chen Ping stomped her feet in frustration and exclaimed, "Are you blind? I didn't trash the restaurant myself; it was that guy! Didn't you see how he swelled my face?"
Hearing this, Captain Lin glanced back at Chen Ping's face, which was no longer swollen, and shook his head, saying, "I can't tell."
In the end, he didn't bother with Chen Ping's hysterical yelling and just led his team away.
Mu Jinyu watched Chen Ping's near-mad expression with a smirk.
When he had hit her earlier, he had used a trick; at the moment, it would make her face hurt tremendously, but the swelling would soon subside.
He had dealt with the crowd at Wen Rou's Restaurant in the same way before.
Otherwise, if everyone appeared to be seriously injured, resulting in severe diagnoses at the hospital, how much would he have to pay?
As a doctor, if he didn't have some tricks up his sleeve for recklessly beating people for Wen Rou, wouldn't he end up in a lose-lose situation? That would be too much of a loss.
Mu Jinyu was not one to suffer losses; naturally, he had to let them swallow their losses silently.