Chapter 180 Pleasure

"Xie Qi..."

Xie Sanniang stared at Xie Qi, her smile cruel: "Do you hate me? Do you despise the Xie family?"

"Then I'll tell you today, you've hated the wrong person."

After talking for a while, Xie Sanniang breathed heavily, exhausted. Then she said, "You should be grateful, grateful that you have survived to this day because of me and the Xie family."

"Otherwise, you would have died long ago, in the house your parents, who were having an affair, built with their pretense."

Xie San Niang waved her hand, and Granny Li brought over a teacup. After moistening her throat, she continued, "Your mother is a vicious and ruthless woman."

"She hid for so many years, just to get revenge on Xie Shan. After disappearing for many years, she returned with a fake gentleness and kindness, completely fooling that fool Xie Shan."

"You ungrateful father, you've fallen head over heels in love with a woman, taking most of the money my Xie family gave him, and you want to elope with your mother."

"But who knew..."

Xie San Niang slapped her thigh and burst into laughter.

"Who knew that your vicious and ruthless birth mother was after all this. The two of them agreed on a date to leave, but your birth mother abandoned you, who had just been born, in the house outside, and ran away with Xie Shan's money, disappearing just like many years ago."

"Xie Shan was not willing to give up and spent countless efforts to find the whereabouts of your birth mother."

Guess how?

"It turns out that your birth mother married a consumptive man. She came back to Xie Shan not only to swindle some money to pay for the consumptive man's medical treatment and health care, but also to take revenge on the two of us."

"How could Xie Shan, that treacherous and cowardly scoundrel, allow the other party to betray him when he had given up everything?"

"So after he realized it was all a scam, he hired some street thugs to strangle your mother."

Upon hearing this, Xie Shan shouted angrily, "Enough!"

"enough?"

Xie Sanniang shook her head: "Not enough? How could it be enough?"

Xie Sanniang continued, "All these years, you've stayed in the Buddhist hall every day because you know your hands are stained with blood and your sins are grave."

"You didn't dare to leave the house, and even after the local thugs were sent out, you didn't dare to step out of your home for more than half a year."

"You're afraid that your crimes will be exposed, afraid that one day the yamen runners will suddenly burst in and drag you to the execution ground..."

"You think I know nothing? You think I could only swallow my anger after you slunk back to the Xie family?"

"But in reality..."

Xie Sanniang slapped her thigh: "But actually, when I think about how frightened you were back then, I laugh out loud even in my dreams."

At this point, Xie San Niang smacked her lips lightly, as if savoring something.

After a moment, she said, "But what you don't know is that the people you sent out were stopped by me before they even left the city."

"That ruthless woman is still living well with her consumptive husband, and she might even give Xie Qi a few more younger brothers and sisters."

"If Xie Qi finds them in the future, the family will be reunited and happy."

Xie Sanniang gave a sinister laugh, while Xie Qi stood there stunned.

"What?"

Xie Shan suddenly stood up, his face filled with disbelief.

Seeing him like this, Xie Sanniang couldn't be happier.

She had been secretly watching Xie Shan all along. How could she possibly let a son-in-law elope with someone else, making her the laughingstock of the entire Suzhou Prefecture once again?

Stop dreaming.

Even if she trapped Xie Shan within the Xie family compound, she would never allow him to betray her.

Therefore, she was very clear about his every move.

Xie San Niang laughed, a happy laugh.

She had kept this secret for so many years, all for this moment. Seeing the chapped, shocked expression on Xie Shan's face, she felt incredibly relieved.

Xie Sanniang sat in the soft chair, feeling completely relaxed, as if she had taken the best tonic in the world.

She hadn't felt this relaxed and happy in a long time.

The pain caused by the chronic illness seemed to disappear instantly, making people feel incredibly relaxed.

Looking at Xie Shan's face, Xie San Niang said leisurely, "Over the years you have hated me to the bone, hated me for using tricks to seduce you back then. You blamed me for all your crimes of betrayal, murder and arson, that's why you hate me."

"You even blamed me for the ugly lies that made you claim to be deeply in love because of that woman's betrayal."

"So you want me to die with my eyes open in disgrace..."

Xie Shan clenched his fists, his eyes filled with resentment at being exposed.

Why can't he hate her?

He negotiated all of Xie's business deals little by little.

It was he who brought the Xie family to prominence, and it was because of him that the Xie family became one of the leading families in Suzhou Prefecture in just a few decades.

But in Xie San Niang's eyes, he will always be that poor, destitute, and disrespected beggar.

So what wrong is it for him to burn down half of the Xie family's assets that he managed?

Xie San Niang said, "I know you hate me and that woman, so I brought back the child that neither of you wanted."

"Because that woman knows that the existence of this child will make you remember the shame of betraying her and being abandoned by her for the rest of your life."

"As long as Xie Qi exists, you will suffer every day. As long as Xie Qi is in your presence, you will always remember the murder you committed."

The woman taught her that to destroy someone's spirit.

She is doing very well.

After saying that, Xie San Niang looked at Xie Qi: "After your mother ran away with the money, she abandoned you, who was just born, in the 'love nest' she and Xie Shan built outside."

"She wanted to use the shameful bloodline that Xie Shan could never get rid of in his entire life to remind him day and night of the disgusting things he had done in his life."

"As for Xie Shan, he wants you to die there quietly."

A faint smile appeared on Xie San Niang's face.

How could she let Xie Shan get his way like that? She wanted to help that woman so that Xie Shan would remember what she had done for the rest of his life.

So after the wet nurse left that room, she had someone bring Xie Qi back and raise him at Jiu Cai Ju.

Even if she saw Xie Qi...

I loathe, hate, and feel utterly disgusted.

"So Xie Qi, it was me. It was me who gave you the chance to survive, the chance to stand in the Xie family, and the chance to live in the Xie family. So you shouldn't hate me."

"You should thank me, thank me for not only bringing you back, but also giving you a respectable and prestigious identity."

Upon hearing this, Xie Qi's face drained of all color.

His face was pale, and he didn't know how to face his complicated past.

Over the years, he resented the Xie family for giving birth to him but not raising him, and he was jealous that Xie Xuchuan, though a twin brother, was treated by Hua Nanzhi as if they were worlds apart.

He had hated for so many years, felt wronged for so many years, and been confused by it for so many years.

But today, Xie Sanniang told him that the person he should be most grateful to is the one who has been tormenting, humiliating, and abusing him.

His biological father, however, saw him as a disgrace and wanted him to die silently on the spot.

His birth mother carried him for ten months and gave birth to him only to avenge the person who betrayed her, to make him an indelible stain on that person's reputation.

His birth mother probably thought of it, that Xie Shan would most likely want to kill her after discovering her betrayal.

But she didn't care, because even so, she was happy and hopeful.

For her, the fact that the unfaithful man murdered her own child must have been a very comforting ending.

As he was thinking, Xie Qi suddenly laughed.