Confrontation

Sun Liangzhi had always had a vague understanding of what happened back then, perhaps only 50%, with the rest being guesswork. But after hearing what he said today, he was completely curious about what happened back then. 50%, he thought he probably only knew 20%.

Bing Jie and Meng Jingxuan were both shocked. His last words were like a bolt from the blue. It was understandable that his parents went to find Qi Jixin, but why did Qi Jixin take the initiative to find them?

Without Meng Jingxuan's help, Bing Jie pulled his arm out of his hand and walked away on his own. His back was almost filled with loneliness. Meng Jingxuan glanced at him, then squatted on the ground in panic, gritted his teeth and asked the man: "Where is the child? Is the child really dead?"

The man opened his bloodshot eyes innocently, shook his head silently, and said with a wry smile, "Any wife would be hysterical if they heard the boss come back and say the child was gone."

When Meng Jingxuan and Sun Liangzhi chased after him, Bing Jie's car had already sped away, leaving them without even seeing its taillights. The two men looked at each other, and it was Sun Liangzhi who spoke first.

"Let's go and have a couple of drinks."

The celebration party that should have been filled with toasts and singing and dancing completely devolved into two men with tears in their eyes, drinking one cup after another in a depressed mood.

"You always say that I'm cruel, but the fact proves that it's Mr. Bing's parents who are the cruel ones. That's their own grandson, how could they have the heart to kill him? Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs!" As he said that, Sun Liangzhi drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and the ice cubes in the glass were also poured into his mouth and crushed into pieces with a crackling sound.

Meng Jingxuan's headache was so severe that he pounded his fist on his forehead a few times. "His parents are indeed cruel. They really don't like this daughter-in-law. They pretended to be nice to her all these years, but they didn't expect that they would eventually break them up."

Sun Liangzhi is a gangster. He is not afraid of any bloody fighting scenes. But today, even he has to sigh, "My scalp is tingling. My scalp is tingling just listening to it." The sinister nature of human beings is always more shocking.

Another glass of wine was handed to him, and he drank it again. Sun Liangzhi frowned and asked again, "His wife, why didn't she dare to tell Mr. Bing directly at the time? Or was she threatened by her parents-in-law?"

Meng Jingxuan shook his head, his tone full of helplessness: "People like me only have some say in the family after following Bing Jie to invest. Before that, everything was given by my family, which is even sadder than being a grandson." As he said this, he drank his first glass of wine tonight.

"Bing Jie's situation is actually similar to mine, but simpler. This is because his future plans closely mirror those of his parents, so it appears he has the power to decide everything. This illusion deceived him for years, as he simply didn't have the strength to challenge his parents at the time."

Meng Jingxuan lowered his head and gave a bitter smile, then looked up at Sun Liangzhi, "Didn't I tell you that his wife is very smart? Now it seems that his wife saw the truth before him and me. If she had told Bing Jie then, everyone would have been doomed to die. Bing Jie would have lost either her or the child."

Smoking and drinking, he inevitably choked. Sun Liangzhi put out his cigarette, rubbed the rim of the wine glass with his fingertips, and said, "It's smart, but now they still lost their child, didn't they?"

Meng Jingxuan frowned and asked, "She was a pregnant woman about to give birth at that time. What else could she do?" Sun Liangzhi laughed and admitted that he was confused and didn't know why he asked such a stupid question.

"Actually, for Bing Jie, nothing is more important than Qi Jixin, not even their children." Meng Jingxuan picked up his phone and said before sending a message, "The current situation is the best solution for him."

Meng Jingxuan thought that Bing Jie might be filled with fear now, afraid that she had done something to hurt herself in order to protect the child. But the fact was right in front of him, Qi Jixin was standing right in front of him, and he hoped that Bing Jie would not worry about it.

Thinking of this, he sent a message to Bing Jie. In fact, he didn't say anything else, just advised him to look at the current results and not worry too much about what happened at that time.

Based on his understanding of Bing Jie, Meng Jingxuan knew that Bing Jie would not go back to find Qi Jixin, and would definitely go to find his parents. Bing Jie is no longer the same person as before, and can even compete with his parents, so he will no longer swallow his anger.

Sun Liangzhi was a playboy, he didn't understand these lifelong relationships, but today he was also somewhat touched: "The only hardship that can make you rich boys endure is the failure of love."

As he spoke, he raised his glass and clinked it with Meng Jingxuan. Just as Meng Jingxuan was about to drink, he heard him say again: "It's better for a prodigal like you and me not to endure this kind of suffering. Just listening to it is enough to make us suffer."

Meng Jingxuan immediately put down his glass and waved him off, "Don't say that, bro. I'm also looking for someone I love, okay?"

Sun Liangzhi frowned at him. Because he had a very close relationship with Meng Jingxuan, he started to tease, "Come on, Mr. Meng, you've been with all these beautiful women around you. Which one hasn't been with you before? If you really want to find someone as compatible as Mr. Bing and his wife, you'll have to go to another city, right?"

"Hey, shut up your crow mouth."

The fact was just as Meng Jingxuan guessed. Bing Jie drove directly back to his parents' home. Although everyone had maintained superficial decency in the past, Bing Jie was always in a bad mood every time they met, and his cruel parents naturally would not take no measures.

The last time he came back, two scandals broke out online: one about him and Hua Shaoshi, the other about Qi Jixin and Yan Jia. His parents valued privacy above all else; how could they allow reporters to secretly film them outside their home? Bing Jie no longer wanted to play along; he needed a showdown.

From the moment the car drove through the manor gate, Bing Jie had already seen the guard on the phone. He didn't stop for a moment, nor did he stop the man from tipping off. After all, he had to wake them up.

The timing was just right. He had just closed the car door and entered the house when he saw them slowly coming down the mahogany stairs from the third floor, one after the other. Neither of them looked surprised at all. Although they had changed into pajamas and were no longer as delicate as usual, they were still professionals in their intimidating manner.

"What exactly did you do to Ji Xin back then?" Bing Jie went straight to the point and questioned the two of them directly, but the two of them just looked at each other. When they walked to the first floor, they waved at him and motioned him to sit down first.

"What did you do? You should know that we never opposed you marrying her back then, so what would we do to her?" Bing Shanhui crossed his legs as soon as he sat down, and the sandalwood bracelet in his hand rustled, but his expression was as old-fashioned and serious as usual.

Cen Huayun, who was standing by, patted his arm, and Bing Shanhui finally stopped moving. Cen Huayun then said, "Son, did someone tell you some nonsense? How could we possibly do that to her..."

"That's enough!" Bing Jie stopped his mother from defending herself and stared at them. "I've found the person you bribed back then. I know everything about how you used the child to blackmail her. I just want to ask you why and on what basis did you do this?"

On the way to the scene, Bing Jie had only one thought in his mind: the ones who destroyed his family were actually his own parents! He just wanted to know clearly, just wanted to understand why.

Bing Jie had also imagined their various reactions: denial, denial, admission... But he never expected that his father's first reaction would be to laugh.

He had seen that smile countless times. It was a smile full of satisfaction. As he grew up, he had seen that smile countless times, and that smile was often accompanied by a compliment: Good boy, you have made progress again.

Bing Jie's heart was bleeding. He looked at his parents in disbelief, as if he was staring at some monster. Bing Shanhui put down his crossed legs and clapped his hands to his son with satisfaction:

"Good boy, I've been waiting for you to find out."

Bing Jie snorted in despair, questioning why he was still so proud. "Ever before you attacked my wife and child behind my back, I was no longer your child."

Bing Shanhui gave Cen Huayun a look, and she immediately began to explain, "Son, everything we did was for you. Besides, we were just joking with her when we said that."

"A joke?" Bing Jie couldn't bear to listen any longer. He endured the pain in his heart and forced himself not to think about Qi Jixin's situation at the time. He said with gritted teeth, "Your joke cost my wife and child their lives, and now you tell me it's a joke?"

The two people opposite stopped talking and looked seriously at their only son who was furious. When Bing Jie was about to speak again and question what right they had to do this, Cen Huayun spoke out of helplessness.

"The child is not dead. We raised him secretly. Son, that is your child. Do you think we will really kill your child?" She said with a frown. Bing Jie frowned and looked up at her, his face full of helplessness.

After a long while of reacting, he lowered his eyes, looked around helplessly, and muttered, "How is that possible?" Only then did Bing Shanhui come out to make the final decision.

"Child, you two couldn't go on. You might care whether she stayed or went, but we would never allow our granddaughter to take her away." He put aside all his airs of authority and said earnestly, "The reason we didn't tell you all these years was because you were constantly mourning for her. Your condition was very poor, and we were worried about the impact on the child, so..."

"Where is the child?" Bing Jie didn't care about his complicated feelings and regrets. He just wanted to see his child whom he hadn't seen four years ago.

The old couple looked at each other, putting away their previous tender affection. Bing Shanhui said, "It's easy for you to see the child. Just promise us one thing and we'll let you see the child."

He guessed that his parents' conditions would be ridiculous, but he didn't expect that they would forbid him from having any contact with Qi Jixin. The child's mother could be anyone except Qi Jixin.

Bing Jie was so angry that he laughed. He asked back, "Do you think I should, or can only, marry Hua Shaoshi?"

This was just a word spoken in anger, but he never expected that his parents would give such a response.

"It's not that she has to be the one. After all, we only let your daughter call her aunt, but we didn't prejudge her to call her mom."