In other words, a British businessman named Richard Mason made headlines.
Richard Mason, 55, is a successful British businessman in his own right, and the 1980s were arguably a fortunate time for Richard, when the young man met his beloved girl while working at the West Midlands branch of Barclays Bank and married shortly thereafter.
Soon he harvested love and ushered in a turning point in career success, and after accumulating a certain amount of work experience, he cooperated with others to establish the uk's first price comparison website.
The website was a huge success in 2007, and his personal stake in the company became a staggering £10 million (86.35 million yuan) overnight!
Unfortunately, in 2008, the year after his career harvest, Richard's 20-year-old marriage with his ex-wife Kate broke down completely....
This divorce not only brought him a heavy blow to his life and psychology, but also made him pay a huge price financially.
Since they were raising three children together, Richard had to pay his ex-wife a lump sum of up to £4 million in the financial settlement of the divorce that had been processed for almost a year at the time to pay for the children's future private school tuition!
In addition, Richard had to pay around £3,000 a month in alimony to his ex-wife and children after that, following the childcare agency's assessment and his own income!
But Richard told the media that Kate was still not satisfied with this, not only constantly looking for various reasons to get him to give money, but even hired consultants to investigate his financial situation in an attempt to make him pay more...
However, thinking that the money is mainly spent on his three beloved children, and richard has always wanted to make up for the damage caused by divorce in some way, he also tries to "cooperate" with his ex-wife's series of financial demands.
However, this all ushered in an unexpected change after a medical examination after Richard...
One day in 2016, Richard, who had been plagued by "pleurisy" for nearly a year, was accompanied by his current wife Emma, who drove to Liverpool's Broadgreen Hospital for a medical examination.
Unexpectedly, after the test report came out, he was told by the doctor that he had cystic fibrosis:
This is a common genetic disorder that affects the body's internal organs and the entire respiratory system, and patients usually suffer from lung infections and derivative conditions such as imbalanced pancreatic secretion.
Richard's sister died earlier due to complications of the disease, and his sister is now suffering from a variety of serious illnesses due to this genetic disease!
However, the most crucial point is that this disease can also lead to natural infertility!
In fact, male patients with this disease can produce sperm normally, but physiologically lack the vas deferens that connect the testicles with the outside world, so normal and healthy sperm do not exist in their natural ejaculate semen...
The doctor told Richard: "I understand that you may have plans to have children, but I have to tell you that there is no way for a male patient with cystic fibrosis to get a woman pregnant unless it is in vitro artificial insemination." “
Is it impossible to have children with this disease? Richard was momentarily flustered, and this result showed that there were only two possibilities:
Either he was given a green hat by his ex-wife, or the doctor diagnosed it wrong...
Richard immediately asked, "I have three sons, you must have made a mistake, right?" “
(Richard and his ex-wife's three children)
The doctor frowned when he heard this, looked at the nurse next to him, and then helplessly opened his mouth again:
"Richard, let me tell you this, I have received more than 2,000 cases of cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and only one of them actually has a child of his own, and that person's child was eventually confirmed to have been born to another man after his wife cheated on him. So I think you should go talk to your ex-wife..."
The doctor's last words were simply a fatal blow to Richard, smashing into his mind, and the memories of the first 21 years came up at once, and richard always said confidently whenever he introduced himself to others for so many years:
"I'm a father, the father of three boys in the family!"
And now, not only does he know that he has no chance to "give birth again", but the father role that he has always been proud of has also collapsed in an instant!
That is to say, one of the most important self-positions in his heart for more than twenty years is actually wrong, and the name of father has never belonged to him, and he will not have it in the future...
Battered, Richard fell into a sluggish state and sent a text message to his ex-wife in a trance:
"Hi, I went to Liverpool Hospital for a medical examination today and finally got my diagnosis report.
It turned out that I had cystic fibrosis, and the doctor told me based on years of experience that there had never been a single male patient with this disease who could have children, let alone three.
They later said there was a 98 percent chance that I wasn't the father of any child.
I hope that if the truth is what they say, you can tell me now so that I don't have to accept more of the humiliation of this aspect of the test.
I'd love to follow your advice on how to tell the kids about it. “
Shortly after the text message was sent, he received a reply from Kate:
"No matter what you think, I'm sorry for the psychological blow you've matured at the moment.
But no matter how science explains it, these three boys are still your children. “
This ambiguous answer made Richard unacceptable, so he chose to continue undergoing DNA testing...
Just before the results came out, Kate called Richard to confess to him that he had cheated on him 20 years ago!
She said she had an affair with a colleague at the bank shortly after the two of them got married, and from time to time she would go to a hotel in London on business behalf, during which they probably had 6-12 sexual acts, but Kate said that condoms were used every time!
So although she admitted to being pregnant during the infidelity, she still insisted that the child was Richard's and not her lover's...
However, Richard was skeptical of Kate's clarification and felt that she had always known who the child was without telling the truth, and the most evidenced by this was that after her first pregnancy, she suddenly expressed her interest in Judaism and insisted on giving the child a Jewish middle name!
It was a little strange at the time, but Richard didn't think much about it, but in retrospect it feels so abnormal...
Richard felt that his ex-wife was still full of lies, so he had to find his children to do DNA paternity testing together in order to verify.
The eldest son, who was 21 years old at the time, was furious when he learned of the incident and said that he would not talk to him again if Richard sued Kate!
However, the youngest son of the two twins, 16 years old, after being tested with him, was indeed proved to be not related by blood...
The evidence was already in front of him, and Richard was sure of the fact that he had been greened more than once!
But what hurt him the most was Kate's years of deception, and the ripple effect of this lie caused Richard's life to fall into a bottomless pit:
"If it had been an adoptive child, it wouldn't have been the case, because it was done without any deception or lies.
And now I am in a state of being devoured by deception, and this cruel truth is constantly flashing back and forth in my mind and torturing me. ”
Kate is content to live in the living room worth £1 million with her three children and her new boyfriend, and there are four luxury cars in the family, and there is no worry about eating and wearing, all of which can be said to be given by Richard, and the biological father of the three children has never shown up to do a single responsibility!
Poor Richard is still struggling to learn how to describe his relationship with his three children, not only in conversation with others, but also in his own heart:
"I'm not their father, not even a friend of the family, I'm just a person who was with them when they grew up."
I used to talk to people about them with pride and say 'my sons', but today, 21 years later, I have to stop and correct myself and say ' They're just the sons I think are my sons'. ”
Even more tragically, richard has now indicted Kate on charges of "paternity fraud", and the final trial should be based on the actual situation, which should be compensated by Kate 250,000 pounds.
Although this amount of compensation is a dime a dozen for what he has paid before, at least it is a "proof" of recovering the truth and justice.
But after this outing, Kate and the children may really have to break off their relationship with the Richard family, and when Richard returns home to visit his 85-year-old mother with Alzheimer's disease, the old man always wonders when the three boys will come back to see her...
(Richard with his current wife Emma)
Today, Richard is trying to delay the progression of his illness as much as possible and buy more time to live the rest of his life.
He still hopes to attend the children's graduation ceremony, wedding ceremony and grandfather as he imagined.
Fortunately, the two younger sons' attitude towards him has improved. He also sent him this message:
"Dad, as I said at the beginning, although you will not be my biological father anymore, I will always be in touch with you.
I will always be by your side and you will always be my dad. ”