"Don't try to play the victim in front of me, I'm not buying it!" Du Jianshan's face revealed an almost cruel sense of satisfaction.

"Tomorrow your precious son will be marrying into the family and becoming a furnace for the widow, hahaha!"

"Guess how her first three husbands died? None of them lived more than a month!"

"I think your precious son is going to die soon too!"

"You little beast! I'll fight you to the death!" Li Guodong was so enraged by the vicious curse that his vision blurred and he couldn't catch his breath.

The next second, she fell straight backward with a "thud," and actually fainted from anger.

"Old Li! Old Li!" Liu Xiuqin screamed and rushed over, frantically shaking Li Guodong.

Du Jianshan watched coldly, his face showing no emotion whatsoever.

Liu Xiuqin raised her head, her voice shrill and distorted: "Du Jianshan! You heartless bastard! I'm your mother! I gave birth to you!"

"Without my ten months of pregnancy, would you be standing here today, swaggering around in front of me? I gave you your life! You should repay me! You should listen to me!"

"So what if I made you take the blame for your brother? So what if I made you marry into the family? That's your fate! You owe me! You owe this family!"

These utterly shameless words completely severed the last vestige of Du Jianshan's connection to his "mother."

He smiled.

That smile was cold and mocking, carrying a sense of utter relief and resolute determination.

"Hahaha!" Du Jianshan chuckled softly, the laughter growing louder and louder, sounding particularly jarring in the quiet night.

"You gave birth to me?" He stopped laughing and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Just because I gave birth to you, does that mean I deserve to be leeched off? Does that mean I deserve to be trampled on like trash? Does that mean I deserve to be schemed against to death by your whole family?"

He took a step forward, looking down at Liu Xiuqin with eyes as sharp as knives:

"If you're so good at calculating and understand the saying 'the debt of life is greater than heaven,' why the hell didn't you have ten or eight more children in the first place? You could have just had one of them!"

"When they grow up, they'll receive money from one person today and food from another tomorrow. While other parents receive one share of retirement income, you can receive ten or eight shares! That's real skill! That's what it means to have been born into a family that wasn't wasted!"

Du Jianshan's voice suddenly rose to its highest point, carrying an unwavering resolve, and boomed through the small courtyard:

"Enough! Liu Xiuqin! Stop with your disgusting 'gratitude for giving me life' nonsense! I, Du Jianshan, am saying this right now! We're severing ties!"

"From now on, you are you, and I am me! I don't have a mother like you who would risk her own son's life just to please some random man!"

"Besides giving birth to me in the animal realm, what the hell makes you worthy of the title 'Mom'?"

Liu Xiuqin was so shocked by the scolding that she trembled all over, her old face turning pale and then red, before she suddenly jumped up with a loud "Aow!"

"You've gone too far! Du Jianshan, you think you're all grown up now? How dare you talk to me like that!"

Du Jianshan picked at his ear and scoffed, "Strong wings? You didn't shield me from the wind when my wings were weak!"

"You blew all your warm breath onto that bastard Li Fuqiang, and now you remember I'm your son?"

Liu Xiuqin slapped her thigh in anger: "You heartless ingrate! I raised you with my own hands..."

"Stop!" Du Jianshan waved his hand: "They fed Li Fuqiang all their excrement and urine, I didn't get to eat any!"

"You!" Liu Xiuqin's fingers trembled, and she suddenly sat down on the ground, slapping her thigh and wailing, "Neighbors, come quick! My own son is trying to drive his mother to her death!"

Du Jianshan sneered: "Keep howling! It's good that the militia has come; let's settle the score for Li Fuqiang's thuggish behavior!"

Liu Xiuqin's crying stopped abruptly.

Li Guodong, who was lying on the ground, suddenly twitched twice and his face turned deathly pale.

"Old Li! Old Li, don't scare me!" Liu Xiuqin panicked and rushed over to pinch his philtrum.

Du Jianshan watched the show with his arms crossed: "Oh, is this some kind of staged accident?"

"You little bastard..." Li Guodong pointed at him weakly, "You just wait..."

"Wait my ass!" Du Jianshan waved his hand dismissively. "I'm going to the countryside first thing tomorrow morning. You three can have your fun!"