Song Qiuxue cried uncontrollably.
"Second brother, I want to ask for your forgiveness. I don't want to go to my grave with regrets."
The host and the program staff quickly stepped forward to help Song Qiuxue up.
A staff member kindly handed me a tissue.
Song Qiuxue was helped back to her seat as a guest. She took a tissue and wiped away her tears, recounting the hardships she faced in her childhood.
She was nearly killed because she was forced into a urinal at birth because she was a girl.
The adoptive mother favored boys over girls.
She had no choice but to study hard and strive to get into university to change her fate.
Only her adoptive mother would give her a kind look.
Song Baogen disliked others speaking ill of his elderly mother.
"Tang Qiuxue, look at your conscience when you say these things! When Mom was alive, she gave you the most, and all the family's money was put on you. When Mom died, you didn't even come to see her. After she died, you sued me for a share of the property. Now you still complain that Mom didn't treat you well. I have nothing to say to you!"
Song Baogen got up angrily and was about to leave.
I'm not recording anymore.
The host quickly advised Song Baogen that since the person was already there, he should make things clear in front of everyone to avoid worrying about it later.
Only after being persuaded by the staff did Song Baogen sit down again.
The host asked Song Qiuxue, "You came to our program to apologize to your adoptive parents' children, right?"
Song Qiuxue nodded while wiping away her tears with a tissue.
The host asked Song Baogen and Song Caixing, "Gentlemen, are you willing to forgive her?"
Song Baogen and Song Caixing said in unison, "No!"
As the show ended, Song Qiuxue caught up with Song Baogen backstage, crying and apologizing to him, begging for his forgiveness.
Song Baogen didn't want to talk to her and turned to leave.
She stopped Song Baogen, "Second brother, whether you admit it or not, we are siblings who grew up together. In my heart, you are my dear second brother!"
"Our son is also a cousin."
“My son is in the hospital now, and as his cousins, your two sons should go to the hospital to take care of him and help him out…”
Song Caixing reacted quickly and immediately understood what Song Qiuxue meant.
"You had the TV station contact your second brother so that his two sons would spend money and effort to discipline your son?!"
Upon hearing this, Song Baogen flew into a rage.
"Get out of here! Get out of here right now!"
Song Qiuxue tearfully begged Song Baogen, saying that she was too old and had neither the money nor the energy to take care of her sick son, and asked his two sons to take care of him.
The program's editors and directors backstage were dumbfounded.
Song Baogen ignored her and stormed off in a huff.
His youngest son took leave from work to come with him.
Song Qiuxue grabbed Song Baogen's youngest son and begged him to take care of her son.
Song Caixing was also brought here by her son. Seeing Song Qiuxue's attitude, she quickly pulled her son away, afraid that she would be entangled by Song Qiuxue.
Song Baogen angrily pushed Song Qiuxue's hand away and left with his youngest son.
Song Qiuxue chased after him backstage, crying.
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Tao Wei was throwing a tantrum at the hospital.
Since he fell ill, his temper has become very bad.
His wife ran away, leaving behind their newborn son.
He himself suffers from a hereditary disease; his father and grandfather both died from the same disease, meaning he too will likely be killed by it.
The thought of death terrified him.
He hated his elderly mother for betraying his father when she was young and having a child with a lover who had a family genetic disease.
He also hated his female student wife.
He abandoned his wife and daughter for her, but she abandoned him and their newborn son after he fell ill.
As soon as Song Qiuxue arrived at the hospital, the nurses urged her to pay the hospitalization fees, treatment fees, and caregiver fees.
Tao Wei saw his elderly mother and snapped at her.
He deliberately spat all the porridge he was fed onto Song Qiuxue's face.
Song Qiuxue kept crying.
Her second brother and his two sons refused to take care of her son.
What should she do? Who should she ask to take care of her son?
As time went on, Tao Wei went from being unable to accept reality when he was first diagnosed, to gradually accepting everything, and finally accepting his fate and bearing it all.
Song Qiuxue gave away her newborn grandson for 30,000 yuan.
We sold our house, car, and everything else that could be sold.
But it still couldn't fill the bottomless pit that was his son.
She could only turn to her son's ex-wife and granddaughter.
When they divorced, Tao Wei showed no mercy and even resorted to underhanded tactics to force his ex-wife to leave with nothing.
He didn't even ask for custody of his daughter.
He didn't contribute a single penny to child support for his two daughters after the divorce.
He focused all his attention on the female student who was pregnant with his son.
The more ruthless he was back then, the more pathetic he is now.
His ex-wife and two daughters don't want to see him or care about him.
After spending all her money and owing the hospital a large sum of money, Song Qiuxue moved into the stairwell outside her ex-wife's house with her son, who had been kicked out.
Eating, drinking, and relieving themselves in the stairwell has caused dissatisfaction among other residents in the community.
The ex-wife asked the property management to kick them out, but Song Qiuxue refused to leave, demanding that the ex-wife take care of her son and let them move into the house.
After the property management intervened several times to mediate, they gave up when it became ineffective.
In an attempt to force his ex-wife to take over the mess, Song Qiuxue went around the neighborhood telling everyone that his ex-wife had abandoned him and divorced him because he was paralyzed and refused to help him.
She even had someone carry her son to her ex-wife's doorstep, put him there, and then left.
His ex-wife opened the door and almost stepped on Tao Wei. She immediately called the property management to have him removed.
After several confrontations, Song Qiuxue and her son moved into the stairwell of her ex-wife's house and settled there permanently.
Tao Wei was very successful before he fell ill.
They have enviable, respectable jobs, some social status, and are quite wealthy.
Now he looks like this.
He couldn't accept himself like this.
They were afraid of dying, but they didn't want to just live like this.
He went on a hunger strike, but ultimately succumbed to the fear of death.
Seeing his elderly mother acting like a scoundrel towards his ex-wife, he could only resign himself to his fate.
When his ex-wife cursed him for getting his comeuppance, he was forced to listen without saying a word.
The winter was bitterly cold. He slept on the cement floor of the stairwell, with only a blanket underneath, and his hands and feet were freezing.
When he was urinating or defecating, if a resident happened to be passing by, he felt utterly humiliated.
He could sense that his elderly mother was becoming less and less attentive to his care.
Song Qiuxue is over seventy years old. She had a glamorous life when she was young and never suffered any hardship.
Now that she's so old, how could she possibly endure taking care of a patient 24/7?
Looking back on her childhood, she was very much loved by her adoptive parents, her biological grandfather, and her biological aunts, and she enjoyed a lot of good fortune.
Because of the elders' favoritism, she never suffered a loss and took advantage of her sisters. She was even complacent and thought she was excellent, which is why she was favored by the elders. She felt at ease taking advantage of her sisters and adoptive parents.
Aside from being abandoned by her patriarchal grandparents and aunts at birth, she was incredibly lucky and had a very smooth childhood.
She couldn't afford to go to school, so her older sister earned money to support her.
The family couldn't afford to support two children, so they made the fourth sister drop out of school and burned the second brother's college admission notice.
She successfully gained admission to a university in the provincial capital.
If she wants to marry a rich man, she will meet one.
Even if she damages her health by visiting an unlicensed clinic, she can still get pregnant unexpectedly and give birth to a son, and then rise in status by virtue of her son.
Back then, she was incredibly successful and could get whatever she wanted.
Her adoptive parents' biological children are not as successful as she is.
She thought she would live a life of glory and happiness, while her adoptive parents' biological children would be trampled under her feet and live a life of poverty and misery.
Therefore, she never paid any attention to her adoptive parents' children.
I despise them from the bottom of my heart, and I look down on my rough and uncultured adoptive father and cowardly adoptive mother.
When her adoptive mother passed away and she sued Song Baogen, it was during the height of her son's fame.
After his daughter-in-law's father passed away, the son no longer had to live under the thumb of his father-in-law and had his daughter-in-law completely under his thumb.
She thought her good days had returned.
Upon learning of her adoptive mother's death, she immediately called Song Baogen to demand a division of the property, only to be scolded by him.
She then sued him without hesitation.
The famous lawyer who helped her with the case was a relative of her son's student.
At that time, she thought her son would live a life of glory, so she didn't take Song Baogen seriously.
They were all children of their parents, and after their parents passed away, she, as their child, was entitled to a share of their parents' property.
Why is it that everyone else gets a share of their parents' property, but she doesn't, even though they are all their parents' children?
Back then, she thought that after dividing the property, she would never have any contact with Song Baogen again in her life.
But she never expected that her son would suddenly fall ill at the age of fifty.
He developed the illness after divorcing his ex-wife, forcing her to leave the house, marrying a young and beautiful female student, and having her give birth to his grandson.
At that time, she and her son were immersed in the joy of having a great grandson and a precious son.
In the blink of an eye, everything was gone.
His wife is gone, his grandson is gone, and his money is gone too.
Her son is paralyzed, leaving her with such a huge mess.
She's an old woman in her seventies who never suffered this hardship when she was young, but now she has to endure it in her old age.
Her second brother, as her family member, also refused to help her.
She apologized to him on television in front of so many people, but he wouldn't even acknowledge her.
He's still blaming her for suing him for a share of the assets.
They are all their parents' children, so she should have a share.
Besides, almost twenty years have passed since then.
He's still fussing over this little thing.
They have absolutely no compassion.
There were younger colleagues present backstage at the TV station at the time, and he should have set a good example for them.
One should be generous and kind.
We cannot stand by and watch someone die.
Although she and he are not related by blood, that does not change the fact that they are siblings.
Her son had an accident, and her two sons have a responsibility and obligation to take care of him.
Thinking of these things, Song Qiuxue's tears kept falling.
My second brother is too cruel.
She complained to her son about Song Baogen's heartlessness and lack of brotherly affection.
Tao Wei lay numbly in the cement stairwell.
When he was young, he often heard his biological mother talk about how hard she worked and how difficult it was for her when she was a child. Her biological parents didn't want her, and her adoptive parents favored boys over girls. She got into a university in the provincial capital through her own efforts. Her adoptive parents' children felt unbalanced, jealous of her, and prejudiced against her.
At that time, he felt sorry for his own mother.
She only learned the truth when she met her biological father.
Song Qiuxue kept nagging, and when she smelled something, she lifted the blanket and found that her son had wet the bed.
Why didn't you tell me you needed to pee?
"You wet the bed and it smells terrible. How am I supposed to clean it up in this freezing weather?"
"You're in your forties, not a child anymore. Don't you understand this little thing?"
"If you keep doing this, I'm not going to take care of you anymore!"
"All you ever do is drag Mom down!"
"Mom is getting old and still has to take care of you!"
Tao Wei lay numbly on the bedding on the cement floor, ignoring his elderly mother's scolding and nagging; he was like a soulless shell.
Amidst the sounds of firecrackers on New Year's Eve, Tao Wei was fed some porridge and then fell asleep.
She fell asleep and never woke up again.
A few years later, Song Qiuxue's own health also deteriorated.
She wanted Song Baogen's two sons to take care of her, so she deliberately bypassed Song Baogen and went to see his two sons alone to ask them to take care of her in her old age.
I've approached them several times, but I've been politely declined each time.
She then found out Song Caixing's address and begged Song Caixing and her children to take her in, but was flatly refused.
At this moment, she wanted to find Song Yinhua and apologize to her in person, but she couldn't even reach the hem of her clothes.
On a quiet midnight, Song Qiuxue also died.
Upon receiving the news, Song Baogen called Song Yinhua.
Xiao Hua rushed to the city where Song Qiuxue lived and took charge of her funeral arrangements. She planned to bury her ashes in the Tang family ancestral cemetery, but the Tang family descendants disagreed.
She was finally buried in an open space not far from the Tang family ancestral graves. [The End]
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