Aside from Hua Yingrou, Xie Cheng looked even grimmer.
"That's impossible. My wife is kindhearted. She may be strict with her child, but everything she did was to help Hua Jian succeed. As for your claim that she tried to strangle her child, that's utter nonsense!"
Liu Anping sneered. "Hua Yingrou was already a lunatic when my son was three. He was a perfectly good child, but all she did was hit him and curse at him. She only put on that devoted wife and loving mother act so she could marry you."
Hua Jian interrupted him calmly. "I haven't acknowledged you as my father. Legally, Liu Anping is already dead. If you have any brains at all, tell us who sent you here today and what you're after. Maybe I'll let you off this once."
Liu Anping turned his gaze toward Hua Jian, his cloudy eyes full of calculation. "Son, I'm your biological father! Whatever you say, a DNA test can prove our relationship. Even if I didn't raise you, now that you've made it, you still have to support me in my old age!"
Those few sentences were enough for everyone in the room to see him for what he was.
Shameless, greedy, vicious, rotten.
While everyone's attention was on Liu Anping, no one noticed Hua Yingrou suddenly raise her head.
Her face held a twisted hatred and boundless fear.
"Liu Anping, shut up! Mr. Poulton, this man has bad intentions. Are you just going to let him spout nonsense here?"
"And you, Hua Jian! However much you hate me, I'm the one who raised you all those years. This man shows up here to slander both me and you, and you're just going to let him?"
Her outstretched finger trembled, clearly shaking with rage.
Poulton's eyes shifted