Guan Lian's parents were stunned and remained silent for a long time, while Chen Junsheng's tone became more and more firm and smug.

"I'm not a child anymore, don't try to fool me. You don't want Dad to know where we are because you're afraid he'll bring me back..."

He was still saying this when Guan Lian slowly closed her eyes. "Why?"

Did I really do something wrong?

Guan Lian really couldn't understand why this child insisted on staying with Chen Wei, even though Chen Wei hadn't cared much about them before, and even though she, as their mother, had put in all her effort to give them a better life.

She endured it for so many years, but finally couldn't take it anymore and got a divorce. She was confident that she could raise them both on her own after the divorce and give them a better life.

Why?

The parents standing to the side looked at their daughter with heartache. They loved the two children because they knew that they were their daughter's flesh and blood, born after she had gone through countless hardships.

Upon hearing the young man's words, the two women's first reaction was to feel sorry for their daughter.

"Alright, young man, stop talking nonsense."

"Your mother..."

Not only the two of them, but even the neighbors who hadn't left yet stared wide-eyed, completely unable to understand why this usually well-behaved child was so determined to return to Yang Chunhua and her son's side.

Everyone suspected that their memories were faulty. Indeed, during the time that Chen Wei had brought Xiaosheng back from Northeast China, the mother and son had treated him quite well.

But what have these two given him before?

However, thinking about it, one can understand some of the reasons. The most serious arguments in their family were when Xiao Liang was a child. After Xiao Liang grew up, A Lian almost never argued with them in that house anymore.

She had long since given up on Chen Wei, knowing that he was unlikely to change, and had no intention of wasting her time and energy on him.

Aside from herself and her two children, she didn't want to get involved in anything else at home.

When Chen Wei occasionally had money, his fatherly love would overflow, and he would give his two children some money or buy them some things. Xiao Liang usually watched coldly, but Xiao Sheng didn't understand at all. He would just happily take the little benefit his father gave him and run away. Yang Chunhua was even more so.

When Xiao Liang was a child, she would sometimes trip him or pinch his arm if she was upset outside. But as Xiao Liang grew up, she rarely laid a hand on her two children anymore, probably because she was getting old. She would just say sarcastic things about them.

However, those sarcastic remarks didn't cause much harm, and he didn't dare say them in front of Guan Lian again.

Ah, thinking about it this way, in his heart, Chen Wei, the father, and Yang Chunhua, the grandmother, were really not some heinous people.

“I was young then, but I knew about you and that uncle… *slap*!”

Guan Lian couldn't take it anymore and suddenly stepped forward and slapped him across the face. Chen Junsheng stood there, stunned, covering his face. Chen Wei got up, pulled him behind him, and yelled at Guan Lian:

"How could you hit the child? Xiaosheng, let Dad take a look."

Chen Junsheng covered his face and started crying. Yang Chunhua started wailing again. Guan Lian roared at her to shut up. Her shout not only silenced Yang Chunhua, but also silenced Chen Junsheng.

His mother's gaze was so cold, like a sharp sword piercing his heart, freezing him like a block of ice.

The unfamiliar and cold scrutiny made his toes curl up, and he wished he could immediately lower his head and avoid looking at her.

"You're telling me to shut up? The child isn't stupid. He can't hide what you did from him. Don't be afraid, young man. Your grandma and your dad are standing here. Do you know something? Tell me!"

She didn't make things up out of thin air back then. If there weren't some real clues, would Guan Lian have made up her mind to divorce her son just because she made a few random remarks at home?

Nonsense, he definitely had someone else outside, it's just that this person didn't go to Northeast China with them later.

"I……"

Chen Junsheng's face stung with pain. His mother had never laid a hand on him before. Even when she criticized him, she would make him stand in the corner. She would never look at him like that. In that instant, his heart sank uncontrollably.

He even began to regret saying it.

After a long while, Guan Lian let out a long sigh, as if she were an exhausted person. She took one last deep look at her youngest son hiding behind Chen Wei.

"Back then, the factory gave me an opportunity to attend night school to train me, but your dad and grandma were very opposed to it. I don't want to mention their true thoughts now."

They don't want to take you under their wing, so I can only have your brother start studying as soon as he gets home, and then go to sleep after he finishes studying, so he can take care of himself.

You were very naughty during that time, and I couldn't always have your brother take care of you, since he was just a kid himself. So sometimes I had to take you to night school.

You were very well-behaved and obedient. At home, I can't even catch you, but during that time you sat quietly at the back of the night school without making a sound.

Chen Wei and Yang Chunhua were arguing fiercely at home. I don't know where they got the news that she was getting close to a classmate from night school, and they used this to make a big fuss, trying to get her to come back from there.

Every time I step into this house, I feel like I've been working for days without a break, so tired that I don't want to say a word. But when I'm working or studying at night school, I feel very relaxed.

What makes her most gratified are her two children. Xiao Liang takes care of himself without her having to spend much time on him, and Xiao Sheng obediently goes to night school with her.

"They said it's one thing for me to have dealings with that person, but you're my son..."

He was just an ordinary classmate. Guan Lian had asked him questions because they attended night school together. After Chen Wei and Yang Chunhua made a scene at her home, she took the initiative to keep her distance from him.

But she never expected that the dirty water they threw on her would be thrown at her by her own son, who had always been by her side and whom Guan Lian thought would believe her. Guan Lian took the basin of dirty water from his father and threw it on her. Guan Lian's heart had never been so cold.