Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 342 - 342 339 Father and Son Reunited

Chapter 342: Chapter 339: Father and Son Reunited Chapter 342: Chapter 339: Father and Son Reunited Several distant branches of the Yu Family had left Jade City years ago to settle elsewhere, a fact that was not so surprising, considering how the Old Madame Yu herself had to take her family abroad to escape the turbulent situation. Even though they had handed over Jade City to the nation, they couldn’t avoid being targeted by certain malevolent elements.

Only when the situation improved did Yu Zekun’s two uncles move back to Jade City one after the other. Yu Xinrui and Yu Zongmei, for example, are cousins from his third uncle and fourth uncle’s families, respectively.

With the older generation gone, the younger family members’ attachment to their clan gradually waned. Practices like ancestral worship lost their importance, and fewer and fewer people returned for the New Year celebrations. As a result, some members of the Yu Family hadn’t been back for many years.

But Yu Heng, as the legitimate eldest grandson of this generation’s Yu Family, and bearing double doctorates and a professorship at Beijing University, managed to have an exceptionally full turnout of family members at his grand wedding, whether for networking or a family visit.

The backyard boasted gardens with gazebos and pavilions, and there were plenty of stone tables and chairs, offering a spacious venue. Groups of people sat or stood in twos and threes, creating a buzzing atmosphere.

Yu Zexiao wore a pink shirt on his upper body and white casual pants on the lower, tucking the shirt into his pants to highlight his slender waist and long legs. His captivating face, together with the fair skin from last night’s facial mask, gave him a look of both charm and flirtatiousness.

A few young women who had come along with the Yu Family to join in the fun kept glancing his way, especially after hearing he was still single. One of them couldn’t help blushing and nervously walked over, mustering the courage to ask for his contact information when a bustle of footsteps came from outside the courtyard.

Then, they saw an old man known as Uncle Meng, accompanied by several youths, walk in.

“Xiaosi!”

Upon spotting Mu Jiawen, Yu Zexiao’s eyes immediately lit up. Hurriedly excusing himself from the people around him, he said, “My niece is here, I promised to take her out, please make yourselves at home.”

Quickly making his way to Mu Jiawen, he said, “You little girl, didn’t you say you’d arrive by twelve? Look at the time now—haven’t you seen…”

“Axiao!”

Yu Zexiao was interrupted mid-sentence by Yu Zekun, who said, “Xiaosi is here to recognize people, don’t just take her wandering off.”

Yu Zexiao had to suppress the urge to roll his eyes and thought to himself, does your daughter even listen to you? Planning to have her recognize people, don’t you know she hates crowded places the most?

Many knew about Mu Jiawen’s disappearance at the age of three, and after missing for over a decade, she was found again. Most of the people here had yet to meet her, and there was the fear that someone with a loose tongue would bring up her past years… Gossip was a natural instinct; the less one knew, the more one wanted to find out, regardless of whether their probing might touch on a painful subject. No matter, if it does, I’ll be the one to comfort you!

He really detested such people.

Yu Zexiao himself disliked these gatherings and had wanted to take his little niece away with him, so as to save her the displeasure and save her father from losing face.

With everyone’s attention focused on Mu Jiawen, nobody seemed to notice Wei Yue, who was trailing at the very end.

It was Uncle Meng who voiced a reminder to Yu Zexiao. Mu Jiawen, Jiang Yan, and the third brother shifted to the side, revealing Wei Yue, suddenly exposed for everyone to see.

The instant Yu Zexiao laid eyes on Wei Yue, he felt as if struck by lightning!

This guy… why does he look so familiar?

On a second glance, he understood why; the young man bore a striking resemblance to himself, but appeared younger than his own reflection in a mirror.

Of course, that wasn’t the problem. The issue was, who was he? Why did he look so much like himself? This absolutely couldn’t just be the result of plastic surgery, could it?

Yu Zexiao stared at Wei Yue in shock and bewilderment!

Most of the Yu Family members in the backyard knew about Yu Zexiao’s two decades of being a cuckolded fool and how the daughter he raised had died, leaving him effectively a man without wife and child, truly alone.

But now, suddenly, a young man who looked a lot like him had appeared out of nowhere. What was this all about?

The previously bustling and noisy backyard had quieted down so much that you could hear the breathing of the person next to you.

Mu Jiawen didn’t see Mu Chenyan and figured she must have taken Aunt Tang and Aunt Ning out shopping. She tugged Jiang Yan’s hand and the two of them quietly made their way through the backyard toward the innermost courtyard where her room was located.

…

“Who did you say your mother is?”

In the small living room of Yu Zexiao’s courtyard, Yu Zekun and his three sons sat on one side, Yu Zexiao on another, with Wei Yue sitting in the middle, looking like he was facing a tribunal.

The bruise on his face from the fight with Yu Ci had mostly faded after a few hours. Wearing a black tracksuit, he looked rather ordinary.

At least, he looked more pleasing to the eye than the ostentatiously dressed Yu Zexiao.

“Mo Wanyi!”

As he said his mother’s name, Wei Yue stared straight at Yu Zexiao. Seeing his face change from shock to a dejected expression, Wei Yue felt an unexpected sense of relief in his heart.

He remembered her!

Before deciding to come back to the country to find him, his mother had hesitated for a long time before telling him that perhaps, Yu Zexiao had already forgotten her.

More than twenty years ago, the two were just university classmates. Although their relationship was decent, they were not close friends. After all these years, it was normal for him to not remember her.

She repeatedly reminded Wei Yue that it was not Yu Zexiao’s fault back then. She had been drugged by someone and had lost her reason before barging into Yu Zexiao’s room and then locking the door from the inside…

Despite this, Wei Yue still harbored resentment against him, especially after seeing him surrounded by a group of women in the backyard just now. It made his blood boil!

A man in his forties, still dressing up like a fancy butterfly, what was he trying to do?

Become a social butterfly?

Wei Yue inwardly criticized his biological father, while Yu Zexiao sank into his memories.

The party that night had been organized by an active member of their university. His alcohol tolerance was actually quite good, but after only two drinks that night, he felt dizzy. Since he had arranged a room in advance, he left early to rest.

He distinctly remembered that he went to the room alone, but while he slept in a daze, he felt a scorching body press against him. At the time, however, his consciousness was so unclear that he couldn’t open his eyes no matter how hard he tried.

It wasn’t until the next day when he woke up to find Tan Min lying beside him that he assumed she was the one he had been intimate with. So when she said she was pregnant a month later, he did not doubt it.

As for Mo Wanyi… there were many men pursuing her at the time, but everyone knew she was engaged. Back then, the Wei Family wasn’t very conspicuous, definitely not comparable to the Mo Family at the time, so some people scoffed at her fiancé.

The alumni who hosted the banquet that night didn’t seem to have invited Mo Wanyi’s fiancé. As for whether any of her suitors were there, Yu Zexiao didn’t remember, but there probably were. So someone targeted Mo Wanyi with drugs, but she ended up hiding in his room…

Life was truly a bitch. The Yu Family had raised someone else’s daughter, while his own son had been raised by another man!

Damn it, should he be thanking the Wei Family?