Chapter 72 Mother and Son Break Off Ties
Thump.
Duan Xi'er clenched her fists, which were hanging down on her legs.
It's obvious without even thinking that Si Wuwei, that bastard, must have complained to him.
But she had her own explanation, and wasn't particularly guilty: "Are you blaming me for not helping Sister Zhenzhen last night?"
Behind me were the servants carrying things, their footsteps clanging and clattering.
"No matter what kind of person Zheng Yaozong is, it doesn't change the fact that they are a legally married couple."
Duan Xi'er spoke with great conviction, without even blinking, "Last night, Sister Zhenzhen saw him being affectionate with another woman and got jealous. Zheng Yaozong chased after her to coax her, and the two of them went into a private room alone. Anyone with eyes could see what they were up to. If you were me, do you think it would be appropriate to rush in at that moment?"
Hearing that argument, which was both unreasonable and arrogant, Shen Jingsi coldly withdrew his gaze, chuckled, and said vaguely, "You are quite considerate."
Duan Xi'er lowered her head and bit her lower lip. When she looked again, her eyes were wet.
"And what about you? I don't care what you or outsiders think of me. I don't even care that Siwei slapped me in front of so many people, but what about you?"
When she spoke of her deepest pain, a wave of grievances washed over her, and large tears streamed down her face.
She was really crying.
Thinking back to Siwei's slap, it was far more humiliating than Feng Manman's.
Mother Shen quickly pulled the person into her arms, "That bastard Siwei, he actually hit you?"
He turned to Shen Jingsi and shouted, "Call him over here right now! I want to ask him why he hit someone from our Shen family."
Duan Xi'er comforted her instead, "Mom, it's all in the past. It's okay if I suffer some grievances. Don't let me affect the relationship between the brothers."
The way she said that made her seem so sensible.
Mother Chen's face was scrunched up in a frown. "Xiao Si, look at Xiao Xi. She has suffered so much for you all these years. And look at you!"
Shen Jingsi didn't even bother to lift his eyelids. "What's wrong with me?"
Mother Shen slammed her hand on the coffee table. "The Zheng family came to our door first thing this morning demanding our people back. What do you say we should do? Besides, Old Master Zheng isn't even dead yet, and you've already beaten that kid half to death. Aren't you afraid the Shen family will repeat what happened back then..."
Chen Mu suddenly stopped mid-sentence!
As far as the eye could see, Shen Jingsi glanced over with a cold smile.
"Why did you stop talking?"
Ms. Shen, her face clearly showing her guilty conscience, remained silent.
He clutched the gemstone button in his hand, his knuckles silently revealing white bone in a corner unnoticed by anyone.
"Then would you like to tell me in more detail how you forced your daughter to marry a beast back then, and made everyone think she was a 'phoenix girl'?"
As he spoke, Shen Jingsi slowly leaned forward, his smile growing increasingly chilling. "Tell me about it. I'm quite curious about your conversation back then."
Duan Xi'er's scalp tingled instantly.
He actually knew all along?
How much do you know? Did Lu Zhenyu tell you?
Shen's mother was even more shocked than she was, but she quickly recovered.
The man blinked and smiled bitterly, "I understand, Zhenzhen told on you and your son, right?"
She said that she had kept it a secret for so many years, so how come her child burned his arm? When her husband found out, he immediately started arguing with her.
It seems someone was confiding in the father and son behind their backs.
Shen Jingsi's smile vanished, and he stared coldly at his mother, whose face had darkened.
"So what? What is she still trying to do behind your back? To unite against a common enemy and drive out this wicked foster mother of yours?"
The worst-case scenario has come to pass.
Shen Jingsi closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself down.
But the mother in front of him continued to chatter on and on, as if she had become a different person in the blink of an eye.
All the former kindness and warmth were gone; the face that was once called "mother" gradually became grotesque and distorted in her son's eyes.
Snap!
The phone crashed onto the coffee table, and the water glasses and fruit plates that were knocked over fell to the ground one after another!
Unable to bear it any longer, Shen Jingsi jumped up and glared at his mother, who was startled by the loud noise.
Shen's mother immediately glared and stretched her neck, "What are you doing! Are you trying to rebel against your mother?!"
"What are you doing?" Shen Jingsi curled his thin, cold lips. "I'd like to ask Ms. Chen, what exactly do you want?"
"I want you to send her back to the Zheng family immediately, give up your schemes, and settle down and marry Xi'er!"
Shen Jingsi laughed, and when his anger flared, his eyes flashed with malice as he looked at his mother. "Gone?"
"And another thing." Mother Shen straightened her neck, not even caring about Duan Xi'er who was still there, "I know what you're thinking, and I know that girl's scheming ways this time she came back, but go back and tell her that as long as your mother is alive, the two of you can forget about any possibility!"
In her anger, Chen Jie didn't realize that if Lu Zhenyu heard these words, their mother-daughter relationship would truly be over.
Shen Jingsi was relieved that he hadn't brought Lu Zhenyu with him on this trip back.
How heartbroken the girl would be if she heard these words from her beloved godmother.
Shen Jingsi's eyes reddened. "So, you had the housekeeper find the court president, Fang Qihua, and have him suppress Zhenzhen's divorce application, throw her back into that heartless Zheng family, and leave her to fend for herself?"
Enraged, Chen's mother didn't hesitate, "Yes! It was all my doing, all done by you, you wicked mother, against your conscience. Are you satisfied now?"
Shen Jingsi's heart was breaking, and he licked his lips, which were burning with heartache.
"Why? Do you know she doesn't want to get married at all? Do you know she said she wanted to marry Shen Jingsi? She said in her dream that she couldn't, she was in too much pain, she really couldn't go on living. I'm asking you why!"
"Because she's a jinx! If you don't marry her off, you and your father will both die in the end!"
Shen Jingsi gasped.
Having weathered so many storms in the first half of his life, this was the first time in his life that he looked at his mother with eyes full of disbelief and shock.
Who would have thought that, after all the investigation, it turned out that the biggest villain in his relationship with Lu Zhenyu was actually his mother.
Their mother.
Now that things have come to this, what else can he say, and is there any need for him to say anything?
There's nothing left.
Shen Jingsi laughed, his eyes filled with desolation. He slumped over, turned around, waved his hand, and left.
Watching that retreating figure, Mother Shen cried out in tears, "I promised the Zheng family that I would send them back within a week. If you don't send them back, I will send them back myself!"
Without turning his head, he walked with his back straighter and straighter. "Let's see whose bones are harder!"
Shen Jingsi left.
The mother was left alone, weeping uncontrollably.
Duan Xi'er, who had been silent until now, finally spoke up and went forward to comfort Chen's mother, "Mom, don't get so angry."
Seeing the girl's worried face as she tried to soothe her, Shen's mother felt that fate was playing tricks on her.
With a guilty look on her face, she hugged her tightly and said, "I'm sorry, my daughter, I messed things up."
Ironically, over the years of pursuing Shen Jingsi, Duan Xier's relationship with this mother was even better than that with her biological mother.
"Mom, this is not your fault."
It doesn't matter whether it's her fault or not; Chen Jie now has only one obsession—
Those two children absolutely cannot be together!
Shen Jingsi returned home a little late that night.
Lu Zhenyu was still fiddling with the books in the study when someone quietly hugged her from behind.
Smelling the strong smell of alcohol, Lu Zhenyu frowned. "You've been drinking?"
Shen Jingsi didn't say anything, just quietly held her tightly, resting his chin on her shoulder.
Sensing that he had something on his mind, Lu Zhenyu didn't ask any more questions and took his hand to lead him back to the bedroom.
The drunken Shen Jingsi was very clingy, lying in her arms with his face buried in her chest, his hands around her waist refusing to let go.
A moment later, a muffled, hoarse sound came from below her.
"Zhenzhen, do you like this home?"
He added, "Tell the truth."
Lu Zhenyu didn't hesitate much, "Of course I like it, but why do you ask?"
He looked up at her with drunken eyes, his gaze deep.
He looked at it carefully for a while, then buried his head back down.
"Then this is our home. From now on, we'll only have this one home, okay?"
Looking at her, Lu Zhenyu smiled faintly, her fingertips brushing aside the bangs that were scattered across her chest.
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
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