How shocking is the older generation's gossip?

In our village, there's an old man in his seventies who, during the New Year, said he plans to remarry. He asked for a bride price of 188,000 yuan and wanted his children to chip in.
His children were stunned, and after asking carefully, they found out that the old man’s first love, who had married far away, had returned. Not only had her spouse just passed away a month ago, but she also had difficulty walking and sat in a wheelchair. She didn’t want to burden her children and said she wanted to marry the old man. Besides the bride price of 188,000 yuan, she also demanded that the old man’s son and daughter-in-law serve her, and explicitly said that a hundred years later, she must be buried together with her former partner.
Each of these conditions was more outrageous than the last, yet the old man agreed to all of them. The children expressed their disapproval, and the old man flipped the entire New Year’s dinner table in a fit of rage and desperation.
Seeing their firm stance, the old man finally revealed the truth: when he was with his first love before, she was already pregnant. His parents disapproved, and the families had a big fight. The first love, in anger, married far away, and the child was born and took someone else’s surname. The old man cried, saying he owed his first love and that child a debt. If he didn’t repay it, he wouldn’t rest in peace after death.
The children were distressed for several days but eventually agreed. However, they demanded that the old man and the other boy undergo a paternity test. The results surprisingly showed they didn’t match. The old man went to question the other party, who was also confused and said: “I always thought I was yours. Could it be that xx( childhood friend of the old man)?”
The old man immediately broke down.