Rebirth of the Little Actor – Chapter 20
20 – You don’t care about your own son, but you care about an impostor!
“Big brother, sister-in-law, he’s not even our An family’s child, Rongrong is the biological son of you two!”
“He’s not my cousin, A Rong is my cousin. My cousin is not this kind of trash!”
The kind-faced Second Uncle An, the dignified and beautiful Second Aunt, the handsome cousin, and the vigilant and indifferent Ning Rong stood in the living room of the An family villa, holding the paternity test in their hands, exposing this brutal truth, in front of the An family.
An Zhaoming was the first to calm down, taking the paternity test from the hands of An’s second uncle.
The first one, proved that Ning Rong and An Zhaoming were father and son. The second one, proved that An Xing and An Zhaoming had no father-child relationship.
An Xing stood behind Shen Ying, blankly looking at everything in front of him, opened his mouth to speak, but couldn’t even make a little sound.
“Second uncle and second aunt, cousin, you ……”
He was interrupted when he opened his mouth with difficulty.
“‘Xingxing ah, don’t you ever call us like that again. You’re not even a child of our An Family, and you’ll have to return to your own parents’ side in the future. Are you calling us that because you don’t want to recognize your parents?”
“And if you call us that, what will Rongrong do!”
Tan Xiu’s voice was not loud, very smooth and not at all aggressive, yet it made An Xing unable to interject. His brain was completely confused, he could barely hear what his second aunt was saying and just shook his head.
He didn’t notice the lightning-like look Ning Rong gave over when he heard one of Tan Xiu’s words.
“Sister-in-law, how could you say that about the Xingxing!”
Shen Ying’s eyes were red and she was dizzy, but she still braced herself to protect An Xing behind her. She was about to say something else when Second Uncle An spoke up.
“Sister-in-law ah, you’re not right. I know you raised this child and have feelings for this child, but Rongrong is your own son, the true heir of my big brother! If you protect this child, what about Rongrong? What do you let Rongrong think!”
Tears instantly fell down Shen Ying’s face. She looked towards the boy behind An Zhaoyuan.
When she first saw that boy for the first time, she only had a faint sense of familiarity, but when she looked at him a few more times, she was able to see her husband’s youthful appearance on that boy’s face, and in her gradually accelerating heartbeat, she felt that magical mother-child sensation.
She knew that this was her son.
But then again, Xing Xing is her son, too!
“Lao Er! You shut up!” An Zhaoming supported his shaking wife and angrily scolded An Zhaoyuan, “Ah Ying, are you alright?”
Anger appeared on the kind and amiable Uncle An’s face.
“Eldest brother and sister-in-law, it’s not wrong for you to care for the child you’ve raised for twenty years, but you can’t be so indifferent to Rongrong! Rongrong is your own son! Do you guys know what kind of life Rongrong has had?”
“His adoptive parents’ family is not well off, and ever since he became an adult, he’s had to work on his own every vacation to earn pocket money. His foster parents just died not too long ago, and the rest of that family had to fight over the inheritance they left behind and threw Rongrong out!”
“You don’t care about your own son, but you care about an impostor!”
These words were like a knife plunged into the chest, Shen Ying sobbed sadly, couldn’t hold on any longer, and fainted.
“Mom!”
“Ah Ying!”
In the chaos, An Xing only remembered Ning Rong looking over from afar, with those lone wolf-like cold eyes.
……
“Mommy …… daddy …… no ……”
On the big bed, the teenager was curled up in the comforter, his small round face burned red, his breath rolled in, and his brow was furrowed. He looked like he was having some kind of nightmare, tears slowly seeping from the corners of his eyes.
Hearing clearly what the teenager was mumbling, Shen Ying’s heart tip was sour, turned her back and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
“Yesterday, when I went to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor said that there was no infection in his lungs, why is he still burning up?”
An Zhaoming was anxious and asked the family doctor.
“There is indeed no murmur in the lungs, it’s an upper respiratory tract infection. It should be the inflammation that caused the fever after falling into the water and getting cold after being frightened yesterday.”
The family doctor diagnosed and said.
“38 degrees, not a very high temperature. His constitution has been bad since he was a child, it’s easy for him to burn up more, I suggest hanging a bottle directly along with physical fever reduction, what do you guys think?”
An Xing has been weak since he was a child, and often suffers from upper respiratory tract infections caused by the cold. Usually sneezing and coughing is not a problem, if it is a viral cold, the fever will be high, and the fever will be two or three days. Shen Ying also knew An Xing’s physique and agreed to the doctor’s treatment plan.
The teenager’s left hand still has some abrasions and redness, Shen Ying only looked at it, and then turned her head sideways in pain.
The intravenous injection took a long time, and after hanging the bottle, the doctor went to the living room first. Shen Ying sat on the edge of the bed, touched An Xing’s hot forehead, held his left hand that was cold from the injection, and felt terrible in her heart.
“This silly child.”
The doctors are not sure about it, how could know. Not only because he fell into the water yesterday, but also because the truth was finally revealed, one of the child’s tight strings was loosened, which is why the fever is so fierce.
Shen Ying sat on the edge of the bed in tears, An Zhaoming was again heartbroken for his son, and heartbroken for his wife, his hand held the woman’s shoulder, and he comforted in a low voice.
“It’s okay, I will definitely find our son.”
Shen Ying put her hand over the man’s hand.
“And the parents of the Xingxing. This child has a strong sense of responsibility, and when he was laughed at before he hardened his heart and went into the company, wanting to earn face for you. He knows the truth, he must be worried about both our child and his real parents ……”
The woman looked at her husband with tears in her eyes.
“Zhaoming, you have to find them. Xingxing shouldn’t have to take this on!”
Looking at her son, who was burning to the point of not knowing what was going on, An Zhaoming was also heartbroken.
“I know, don’t worry. You take good care of your son, and pay attention to your body as well. I’ll take care of things outside, I’ll have someone check right now, who was in the hospital where you gave birth back then.”
As well as, which hospital Ning Rong was born in.
*
An Xing was woken up by thirst, his whole body ached, his head hurt, and his body was gripped with chills. He was confused for a moment, and when he saw his mother at the bedside with the bang, he realized that he had a fever again.
“Xingxing you’re awake? Don’t move yet, the doctor is pulling the needle out of your hand.”
With a glance, he saw the doctor tearing the tape from his hand, An Xing hurriedly closed his eyes again.
Ooohhh really scared of the hanging needle!
An Xing didn’t have much strength, Shen Ying pressed the needle holes on the back of her son’s hand. The doctor packed up his things, left the medicine, and took An Xing’s temperature one more time before leaving.
When Shen Ying returned from seeing the doctor off, she saw An Xing struggling to reach the water cup. She went over to help her son up and handed the cup over again.
An Xing drank several mouthfuls before he felt his throat wasn’t burning with thirst, and his voice was very hoarse when he opened his mouth.
“Mom, did you not rest well? I’m fine, go rest now.”
The woman’s face was very haggard, and An Xing felt guilty.
He had told the truth in advance to avoid Shen Ying from being stimulated and falling ill with physical discomfort. Unexpectedly, telling the truth yesterday did avoid stimulating Shen Ying, but he fell ill again and still had to strain Shen Ying to take care of him.
The young man’s look was very clear, and Shen Ying saw it, only to feel even more heartbroken. She stroked her son’s little curly hair and softly said:
“If you want mommy to rest well, you have to get better quickly, understand?”
An Xing obediently nodded his head.
Shen Ying hesitated for a moment before continuing:
“As for the things outside …… you don’t care, your father will go to check.”
An Xing understood that this meant for him not to worry, An Zhaoming would go and find the real child of the An family.
He was not worried, after all, An Zhaoming had already seen Ning Rong’s ID card, and when he found out that the two of them were born in the same hospital back then, he would definitely look for Ning Rong to verify first.
Thinking of Ning Rong, An Xing remembered the dreams he had intermittently had when he was burning up and confused. He dreamed again about Shen Ying fainting from excitement after the truth came to light in his previous life.
At that time, his entire being was confused, and he was rendered powerless by Uncle An and Second Aunt An’s sentence after sentence, and he didn’t know how to retort at all. Later, when he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he felt that the words of that family always had a kind of provocation in it.
Just at that time he was in an awkward position, and many words could not be said because of the scruples in his heart.
“I am not worried ah, dad is awesome, surely can quickly find …… your children.”
The teenager nestled in a small ball on the bed, his lips were pale as he smiled, and it was heartbreaking to see. Shen Ying grabbed his son’s hand and rubbed it.
“You’re our son too, you always have been.”
“I know mom and dad feel sorry for me, but ……”
An Xing revealed some hesitation to come.
“When we find your children, mom you don’t favor me too much ah. He …… he may have been suffering in the past, maybe is having some difficulties, if you see you guys favor me, and then be picked on by people with ulterior motives …… that’s not good.”
He didn’t want the Ning Rong of this life to still have that lone wolf like cold eyes.
The teenager was well-behaved and understanding, but Shen Zhen Zhen would only feel heartbroken. She would rather An Xing not be so understanding, but to be a little pampered, or even unreasonable. In this way, at least this child would not suppress all the things in his heart and would not suffocate himself.
But again, she knew that this child would not do that.
She had raised An Xing from a small ball into a young teenager, and knew that although her son was lazy, greedy, dull, and occasionally cautious and overbearing, he had always made a clear distinction between right and wrong when it came to important matters, and would never do anything to break through the bottom line of morality.
For example, if An Xing didn’t say anything, they wouldn’t have thought of it, and they wouldn’t have realized it easily. But this little twerp couldn’t do it by pretending to be deaf and dumb, and still said it.
“Mommy knows.” Shen Ying touched An Xing’s face and softly said, “Rest well and don’t worry about anything.”
An Zhaoming stood outside the bedroom door, heard his son humming and pampering, and sighed with mixed emotions. He didn’t go in, turning around and signaling the driver to follow him towards the study.
Once inside the study, An Zhaoming looked at the driver with a serious expression.
“Old Li, the last time Xingxing saved the whole process of that Ning Rong …… you tell me about it.”
T/N: My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.
