Bright's voice was firm and his eyes were calm, with an unquestioning strong aura.
"Brother Bright, don't blame me for interrupting, but I heard with my own ears that Doris admitted that
she is not your own daughter! Children don't lie, so why do you insist on... telling lies?" Lina couldn't
help interrupting, "It's a lie that everyone knows. You can't cover it up."
Francis looked at his son with burning eyes. "I think you are enchanted! You can't even distinguish
between truth and illusion. What drug has she given you to make you lose your mind!"
Francis looked at Rose and found that it wasn't that he did not accept her, nor did he dislike her, but
she even asked Bright to lie and admit that the child she had with someone else was the child of the
Lee family!
What he could not accept was lying and cheating. The Lee family had been generous enough to accept
Rose, and they could understand and accept her child as long as she told the truth, so Francis was
very disappointed at Rose.
"Rose, you have married into the Lee family. You know exactly what Ms. Hallie and I think about you.
You are also a mother. I understand you care about your daughter, but Zoe is our daughter. We also
care about her." In spite of his dissatisfaction, Francis was kind to Rose.
"As the daughter-in-law of the Lee family, you should always think about the family. We are family, not
enemies. There is no need to fight each other. We both make concession, shall we?"
"Zoe deserves to be punished for what she did, but we can change the punishment instead of sending
her to the police station to be detained and prosecuted. I will cut off her monthly large amount of pocket
money, and only give her basic living expenses. We would also let her to do volunteer jobs, so as to
make up for the wrong doing. Is that okay?"
Hallie agreed, "Rose, I'm going to monitor Zoe and educate her so she doesn't make that mistake
again."
"Dad, Ms. Hallie, I'll do whatever you want." Rose made concession because she didn't want Bright to
argue with his father. She didn't want to be the reason for their quarrel.
"That's settled, then." Francis said.
"Dad, are you really going to make that decision? Are you really indifferent to your granddaughter's
grievances?" Bright asked his father again.
"Why do you want when Rose has agreed to it? It's the best way, isn't it?" Francis rebuked him. "I don't
want to talk about the child, and I don't want to care about it."
Now that Rose had taken a step back and let Zoe go, he would accept Doris.
"Dad, I care about it, and I want you to know that you're wrong, very wrong." Bright emphasized it again
and again.
"Bright, thank you for thinking about Doris and me, but dad is right. We are a family. We should live in
harmony." Rose was in a dilemma. She only hoped that Bright could understand her choice.
Bright held her hand in his. "Even if you concede, there is something I want them to know."
Rose did not understand what he meant. Bright got up and said, "Wait for a second, I'll get something
and then come down."
And then he released Rose's hand and went upstairs.
Francis, Hallie, Lina, and Rose sat quietly in the living room, waiting.
A moment later, Bright came downstairs with a cowhide file in his hand.
"Dad, here's the truth you want to know. I think that's more powerful than just words." Bright pushed the
brown paper bag to the coffee table in front of his father.
Francis reached for the paper bag, glanced at him, and then slowly opened it and took out the
documents.
At the top of the paper, the titles of paternity test reports caught Francis's eyes, including Hallie's.
Francis scanned it, turned the page and saw the identification results at the bottom that said the DNA
similarity was 99.9 percent, confirming that they were father and daughter.
Francis held the paper more strongly. He looked up at Bright and said, "Really?"
He was afraid that it was a fake report made by Bright to deceive him and make him feel at ease.
"It's not easy for identification institute to fake a report. I took Doris with me to the identification center
to collect the specimens. You can go to the identification center to check the CCTV, and the medical
staff can testify that it. I don't need to lie to you about that sort of thing, because I want to know more
about it than you do." Bright was leaning back on the sofa; his eyes were deep. There were so many
things hidden in them that people couldn't see him through.
Rose also heard what Bright meant. He had taken Doris secretly to take a paternity test, which proved
that Doris and he were the father and daughter. Did he guess what happened five years ago?
Her heart beat fast, and her hands were wrung together in a disorderly way.
Bright glanced at Rose, whose face was gloomy, and he knew she had known about it too by her
flustered appearance.
But now was not the time to settle things between them, but his father and Ms. Hallie.
"Dad, so Doris is my own daughter, your own granddaughter. Is it appropriate for you to do this to your
own granddaughter when you're standing up for your stepdaughter?" Bright's mellow, low tone was full
of irony.
Lina was surprised and worried. "It... Doris herself said she wasn't your real daughter... How is that
possible? She is a child but she told a lie!"
"What does a child know? You believe everything she said? Lina, you seem to be stupid." Bright looked
at Lina, whose face was pale, and said, "I suggest you go abroad for study again."
Lina gritted her teeth and hated Doris.
Francis's fingers trembled as he held the document. He could not say anything for a moment.
Hallie was a little worried. "Bright, you can't blame your dad, can you? Your father doesn't know that
Doris is your own daughter. It is my fault. I asked your father to advise you to let Zoe go... It is me who
should be to blame."
"I'll make it up to her later." Francis put the report on the coffee table.
"No, she is my own daughter. I'll take good care of her." Bright refused his father's offer.
"Is she at home? Can I see her?" Francis had never met his own granddaughter.
Today, he wanted to meet the Lee family's child, to see who was she like more.
"No." Bright said coolly, "Now that Zoe's matter has settled, I won't keep you here either."
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