TFWYH – Chapter 579 Is it twins?

At this point, Madam Jiang was already sobbing uncontrollably.

“I didn’t do it on purpose! The Second Prince was a man—what could I, a weak woman, possibly do? I explained it countless times, but Elder Sister refused to believe me. She insisted that I had seduced the Second Prince. Before that day, I had only ever seen him once from afar. How… how was I supposed to seduce him? What I never expected even more was that Father and Mother simply stood by and ignored everything, letting Elder Sister bully me. I truly don’t know what I did wrong.”

Ling Yu pressed his thin lips together tightly. It felt as though anger were burning inside him.

But none of it showed on his face as he continued asking, “Mother, don’t cry for now. Think carefully again. When you were pregnant with your son, was there only one child in your womb?”

Madam Jiang froze, then looked at him in astonishment. “Why would you ask such a thing?”

“Your son…” Ling Yu struggled for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, “Your son discovered that the Second Prince also has an eldest daughter who is foolish-minded. This daughter was born in the same year and month as your son, but her mother is Gu Yanshuang!”

Boom!

Like thunder from a clear sky.

Madam Jiang’s face turned pale, and her whole body trembled violently.

She rushed several steps to Ling Yu’s side. “What did you say? Say it again!”

Ling Yu sighed helplessly and repeated himself once more before asking, “Mother, did Gu Yanshuang and the Second Prince have a relationship before marriage?”

“No, impossible. If they had, Elder Sister would have forced Father long ago to ask His Majesty for an imperial marriage decree…”

Madam Jiang shook her head blankly, staggered back a few steps, and collapsed into a chair. Suddenly, she jerked her head up to stare at Ling Yu.

“You suspect that girl is my daughter? How could that be? I… I clearly only gave birth to you!”

“It is possible.”

At that moment, the door was pushed open, and Tang Wan walked in.

Madam Jiang stared at her in confusion. “Wan-niang, you… you…”

“I already knew,” Tang Wan said as she stepped inside, waving the pouch of silver needles in her hand. “I forgot to take this, so I came back. I didn’t expect you two to be whispering secrets!”

Madam Jiang was left speechless. She looked blankly at Tang Wan, then at Ling Yu. “Yu’er… you told Wan-niang?”

“Wan-niang is clever. She figured it out herself,” Ling Yu replied calmly.

He had long noticed Tang Wan eavesdropping outside, but he had not stopped her.

Tang Wan already knew everything, so there was no need to hide any of this from her.

Ling Yu turned to look at Tang Wan and asked, “Wan-niang, what did you mean just now when you said it was possible?”

Tang Wan replied seriously, “Twins! Children born as twins are more likely than ordinary people to conceive multiple babies themselves. Mother and that so-called princess consort are twins, so when your generation has children, the chance of having twins is quite high. Simply put, it’s family genetics.”

“How could that be…” Madam Jiang still could not believe it. “Then… then does that child look very much like Yu’er?”

Tang Wan dragged over a small stool, sat beside her, and began giving her a lesson.

“Mother, twins don’t necessarily have to look alike. There are identical twins and fraternal twins. Identical twins usually resemble each other, while fraternal twins not looking alike is perfectly normal.”

“What identical… what fraternal?” Madam Jiang was completely confused.

So Tang Wan went on to explain the theory to her in more detail, then added, “We can’t rely on appearances to judge it. If you ask me, compared to Huangfu Ronglan, Huangfu Rongsheng’s face actually resembles Husband even more.”

It was Madam Jiang’s first time hearing such ideas, and her cheeks flushed slightly.

She quickly asked, “Then… then how can we tell whether she really is my daughter?”