Mrs. Xiao only felt that her entire body was submerged in an extremely cold pond; the chilling waves were slicing at her flesh, scraping at her bones, too painful, too painful… those words pained her too much.
That was her son, her own son whom she had borne for ten months and given birth to, but he hated her, hated her down to the bones!
Oh god, oh god! She was such a failure that even her only flesh and blood hated her!
Supreme Commander Xia doesn’t have the habit of smoking. After hearing those words, he poured himself a cup of tea, then sipped on it with small mouthfuls, and didn’t interrupt Xia Jinyuan.
She won’t give up until the end, he wanted to leave her some face, but she was the one who tried to tear it down,… she’s already someone in her fifties, after embarrassing herself like so, who knows how she’ll live the rest of her life?
Xia Jinyuan was a decisive person, especially when he saw Mrs. Xiao had a friendly relationship with the Xia family’s political rival; he knew if he doesn’t cut ties, it will leave behind future trouble!
Mrs. Li wasn’t a kind person; when some people grow older, their appearance and heart will grow kind, while the older some people get, the more cold-hearted they get, and Mrs. Li was one of the latter!
In her eyes, only the Du family was the best, and the Xia family had long been a thorn in her eyes!
Who asked Old Man Xia to always outrank her husband!
“Since we encountered you today, then I’ll have to state things clearly, to prevent you from blaming the wrong person and still thought that it was the old man who was stopping me from seeing you.”
“You’re wrong, Mrs. Xiao; you’re really wrong. My father is a very responsible man; he’s a good old man who wouldn’t want his son to carry hatred in his heart.”
“The one who doesn’t want to see you is me, not the old man. And those girls that you introduce to me, I don’t dare want them. Those that were placed in your eyes, the ones that you think are good, it’s better for me to avoid all of them.”
“I don’t dare to want them; I’m also afraid to want them, I’m afraid after taking your goodwill after I get married after I have a son, I’ll retrace the old man’s past, along with a child in my arms, acting as the father and the mother, turning into an old man that nobody wants.”
“Ah, Yuan, stop… stop talking…; it’s Mom’s fault… it’s Mom’s fault.” Mrs. Xiao sobbed, “Mom’s selfish; I was only thinking for myself and wasn’t thinking for you, stop talking, … it’s Mom’s fault, it’s Mom’s fault.”
She cried really sadly, yet Xia Jinyuan wasn’t moved in the least, “I do not have a mother, I only have an old man who took the role of both father and mother, would you please stop calling yourself ‘Mom,’ I Xia Jinyuan had never called you that, not once in the past, never in the future.”
“It’s too late to blame yourself now; I’m already a grown-up. When I was sixteen, it was all thanks to you scolding the old man, scolding him for being irresponsible, and raising me into the trash; I sincerely thank you right here right now, Mrs. Xiao, it was all thanks to what you had said that I woke up, that’s why I Xia Jinyuan had reached where I am today.”
“With tea instead of wine, thank you for scolding me awake that year. If it wasn’t for you saying ‘trash,’ I think I would have really turned into trash, and not like right now, having devoted myself to the military like the old man.”
“I toast you, at your discretion.”
With heart-stabbing words, Xia Jinyuan downed the warm tea in one mouthful, looking at Mrs. Xiao whose makeup was flowing down her face, he placed the napkins on the table onto the rotating tray and rotated it over, “You should wipe your face, I already have a heart of steel, I would feel nothing even if you shed blood and tears.”
Mrs. Xiao was already crying till she had trouble opening her eyes, oh her son,… hated her so, so much, it was certain she was the one being ‘opinionated,’ she thought with a relationship bound by blood, it was bound to be different.
