"Dad, you see? This is him. This is what he says about his son. He's not a good father at all—" Mo Youyou was about to jump up and start cursing again.
Fortunately, Jiang Rongmei quickly subdued him.
"Youyou, be quiet and listen to what your dad and Dekai have to say first," Jiang Rongmei reminded her.
Having said all that, Liu Dekai no longer wanted to hide anything.
It's a good opportunity to lay everything out on the table, since it's not easy to find such an opportunity again later.
“Dad, I know you’re blaming me for not protecting Youyou and Xiaorui, but I really couldn’t do that. I know Xiaorui is the one who did wrong, and protecting him would be pointless in the end. Once that cleaner showed up, all my excuses became meaningless.”
"As for Youyou... as you've seen, she still refuses to admit that it was Xiaorui's fault. I want to stand by her side, but what's the point? Facts are facts, and being stubborn won't change anything."
"Why do you think that?" Mo Cheng asked again, his brows furrowing deeply.
He finally realized what was wrong: Liu Dekai's attitude. Liu Dekai seemed very pessimistic, even somewhat desperate.
Even if Liu Shengrui did make a big mistake this time, Mo Cheng did not think it was hopeless. After all, he was only three years old. With proper education, there would still be a chance to correct his behavior. A sapling has time to grow into a big tree, so there will be opportunities to prune its branches.
But Liu Dekai, the father, seems to have sentenced his child to death from the very beginning.
This is not right, this is very wrong!
“Dekai, Xiao Rui is only three years old. Although his mistake today was indeed very serious and offended Yancheng and the others, it can still be remedied—”
For the first time, Liu Dekai interrupted his father-in-law.
"Dad, stop talking!" The attitude of those around him, who thought it was a "minor matter," greatly provoked Liu Dekai.
He doesn't care what others think. If others are willing to play dead or continue to hold onto futile hope, that's their business. But he doesn't want to do that anymore. He's been deceiving himself long enough. Does he really want to never face reality?
If running away had been effective, he wouldn't have missed the opportunity for promotion, and none of this would have happened!
“Dad, Xiao Rui is a genetic disorder, he is a genetic disorder, it’s a fact determined at the moment he was born, no matter how much we educate him, it can’t be changed, it can’t be changed, it can’t be changed! No matter how hard we try, it’s impossible to change, he is a genetic disorder, he is a genetic disorder,” Liu Dekai shouted.
After shouting those words, he finally felt comfortable, completely at ease, from the inside out.
"Smack—"
The moment Liu Dekai shouted, Mo Youyou jumped up and slapped him across the face.
"Shut up! Liu Dekai, shut up! I won't allow you to talk about Xiao Rui like that, I won't allow it!" Mo Youyou shouted, her face looking like she was crazy, her eyes were red.
"Chao Xiong?" Mo Cheng frowned. This wasn't the first time he'd heard the term, and he understood what it meant. They had discussed it before, and he'd even considered causing trouble for Su Yueya by suing her for defamation. Unfortunately, he couldn't produce any strong evidence, so the matter was eventually dropped.
There's always something fishy about bringing up old stories.
"Didn't you say it was a misunderstanding? Why are you bringing it up again?" Mo Cheng asked.
This time, he wasn't looking at his daughter, but at Liu Dekai.
“Dad, this is not a misunderstanding,” Liu Dekai said. No matter how Mo Youyou tried to stop him, he ignored her and was determined to explain the matter to Mo Cheng.
Do you know what Xiao Rui has done?
“He abused dogs and bullied small animals. This is not hearsay; I saw it with my own eyes, there’s no mistake!” Liu Dekai said, feeling horrified as he recalled what he witnessed.
He witnessed dog abuse, but how many other things did he not witness?
Like today, pushing someone down the stairs?
That's terrifying.
"Dad, do you remember when I got injured? I fought hard for the opportunity to participate in the mission. Do you think I would give it up so easily?" Liu Dekai asked, reliving the pain and despair once again.
Mo Cheng remembered that he was particularly angry about this, feeling that Liu Dekai did not know how to cherish the opportunity and had no sense of propriety. He even injured himself at a crucial moment during training, missing such a precious opportunity.
Now it seems that things are not as simple as he imagined.
"What exactly happened?" Mo Cheng's tone became much more serious. The dog abuse he had just mentioned had also had a certain impact on him, causing him to unconsciously look at Liu Shengrui with disapproval.
A three-year-old child abusing dogs?
It's simply unimaginable, utterly absurd!
“I saw him abusing a dog with my own eyes. When I tried to teach him a lesson, he headbutted me. I tripped and fell, injuring my arm. But that wasn’t all. After I fell, he rushed over and started punching and kicking my injured arm, which aggravated the injury. The doctor said I had to rest, and in the end, I missed the opportunity to go on a mission,” Liu Dekai said, a sarcastic smile on his face.
“When Teacher Mao came to our house to teach him before, I saw that he had changed and become better. But the truth is, he was just pretending to be good to us. The real him would abuse other people in private. I can’t even tell which one is the real him… Dad, I don’t want my son to be such a monster, but the truth is right in front of me. I can’t pretend I don’t see it, and I can’t continue to deceive myself like Youyou did!”
"Liu Dekai, have you said enough?!" Mo Youyou could no longer bear it.
Even though Jiang Rongmei kept pulling Mo Youyou, she couldn't hold her back at all. Every word Liu Dekai said was like a sharp blade, stabbing her heart.
Her heart had been pierced through a sieve, leaking air everywhere.
“I’ve explained it to you many times. It was an accident, all of it was an accident. Xiao Rui isn’t like you think at all. He’s just a three-year-old child. How could he be as bad as you think? Why do you have to think of him as a bad person to feel comfortable? I know you’re upset because you missed the opportunity for the mission, and I understand you, but you can’t blame everything on him! That’s even more unfair to him!”
“It’s not that I want to think that way, it’s just the truth, Youyou, can you face reality? We can talk about this again when you can face reality,” Liu Dekai said.
"In the end, isn't it because Su Yueya told you this? You still have feelings for her, so you believe whatever nonsense she says. That's the truth!"
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