Grand Princess Tantai Jinyu remained unmoved. She sneered. "You say you're Ruoning, and that makes you Ruoning?!"
"Our Ruoning clearly perished in that interstellar spaceship disaster. Where did a fraud like you come from?!"
"You think you can impersonate our Ruoning just by wearing a face mask?!"
Zong Ruoning's smile vanished. He said blandly, "Second Aunt, let's not beat around the bush."
"There's no need for these little tricks, is there?"
"What era are we living in? How could someone pass off fish eyes as pearls just by putting on a face mask?"
"Do you think the Zong Clan's regular genetic tests are just for show?"
Let alone a great noble family like the Zong Clan, even the lowliest baronial families kept a tight grip on their bloodlines.
The Beichen Empire prohibited Gene Therapy, but it did not prohibit genetic testing.
On the contrary, people of the Beichen Empire underwent countless genetic tests from childhood to adulthood. Those melodramatic stories about switched babies simply had no market here.
How could a parent-child relationship that could be verified with one free genetic test possibly drag on for a hundred episodes? A face mask could help one avoid certain visible dangers, but using it to pass off fish eyes as pearls and usurp a major family was impossible.
At Zong Ruoning's words, Grand Princess Tantai Jinyu clenched her teeth.
She had actually been stalling for time. Zong Ruoning's sudden appearance had shocked her so greatly that she had failed to react at first.
But now that she had come back to her senses, she made up her mind. Since things had come to this, she might as well tear off all pretenses! There was no need to preserve this superficial family affection any longer...
She put one hand behind her back and