Chapter 179: Scumbag (from Jiang Yanyu’s perspective)
Jiang Yanyu divided his past life into three stages. In the first two stages, he was a madman, but in the last stage, he finally became a human being.
The first phase lasted fifteen years.
Jiang Yanyu thought that it was understandable that he became a madman, because there were no normal people in the Jiang family and the Mayfield family. They were all disgusting scumbags in well-dressed clothes.
Love is a clichéd story, and all the evil begins with Mayfield.
Because of love and desire, Miss Mei cheated on her driver Mr. Huang and gave birth to Alina.
Fearing that her husband would find out, Miss Mei hid her daughter and her lover in an old villa by the Seine, and assigned two servants to keep their mouths shut.
At the beginning, Miss Mei would go to Paris regularly, once every two months, to see her so-called lover. Her love was overflowing with longing, and the meeting once every two months was particularly precious.
But no one can endure being locked up in a house for a long time. Even if it is for love, a person's spirit will be worn out in the waiting.
After hiding in that small villa for more than eight years, Mr. Huang finally couldn't stand it anymore and proposed to take Alina away. He would not go back to London, but to China, and not let anyone know about this.
Miss Mei would never agree to it. Her husband was indecisive and she couldn't afford to lose her lover again.
Taking advantage of the night, Mr. Huang pried open the door several times, secretly opened the window, fled with Alina in his arms, and ran towards the city on foot.
The first time, Mr. Huang took his passport and cash, hitched a ride in a private car on the road, and headed for the airport. However, he was stopped and taken away when he was still half a kilometer away from the airport.
The second time, they had nothing, including their passport and cash. Mr. Huang wore a hat and a mask, and walked through the city holding Alina. They hid in the kitchen of a Chinatown restaurant, but they could only hide for two days before they were caught again.
The third time, Mr. Huang said good night to his daughter, tied up the servant, and ran away alone. He was very cautious this time and spent several months wandering all the way to the French-Italian border, but was caught before he could smuggle himself across the border.
The man's mental state gradually collapsed after escaping and being caught again and again. Even if Miss Mei came once a month, it was of no use.
After several failed escape attempts, Mr. Huang finally collapsed. He was left with only hatred for Miss Mei. He no longer called her "Mrs. Mei" in the gentle Chinese dialect, but refused to even look at her. Even if he did, it was with cold hatred, no longer any love.
When Alina was ten years old, the man who had been imprisoned for ten years finally went crazy.
On the same day as Mayfield's husband's funeral, Mr. Huang stabbed all the maids' legs with a knife, locked Alina in the room, and jumped out of the window again.
This time, Mr. Huang did not run away. Instead, he tied stones to his body, ran straight to the Seine, and jumped into the cold winter breeze without any hesitation.
Alina stood by the window, looking out quietly, numbly watching Mr. Huang go crazy again, watching when he would swim back to the shore.
But this time, Mr. Huang never came back. His body was found three days later and cremated immediately.
Miss Mei did not follow Mr. Huang's will and send the ashes back to China to let his soul return to his hometown. Instead, she casually sent an urn back and kept Mr. Huang's ashes for herself.
Without Mr. Huang, the product of the affair was a burden, no longer a connection between Mayfield and his lover.
Mayfield left the house to Alina and never came to Paris again. He arranged an identity for Alina, sent her a fixed amount of living expenses every month, and let Alina fend for herself.
Alina and her father are completely different people.
Mr. Huang is rigid, forbearing, gentle, can't say nice things and can't act, while Alina is just the opposite, cunning, smart, and good at disguise.
The two people Alina hated the most in her life were Mayfield and Jiang Ligang. The former made her childhood unhappy, and the latter made her life unhappy.
After she turned 18, there was no more living expenses deposited into her account, and she had no savings to go to college. The old house by the Seine was so dilapidated that it could not be sold. Alina could only make a living by modeling during the day and working in a Chinese restaurant at night.
Thanks to Mr. Huang, Alina can speak Chinese, but her accent is Chinese-American, non-standard, and with disordered flat and retroflex tongue.
When Alina saw Jiang Ligang at the Hua restaurant for the first time, she thought she had met the opposite of her father. Every aspect of him was the opposite of the incompetent man she hated.
Mr. Huang's appearance is just like his personality, gentle, with soft facial lines, and his smile is like a warm breeze.
Jiang Ligang, however, had a pair of extremely aggressive fox eyes and sharp facial lines. The first thing he said was a sneer of contempt. He asked in French: "Can you speak Chinese? Why are you working here?"
Although both of them speak Mandarin, his father's accent is rustic, while Jiang Ligang's pronunciation is clear and melodious, with a lazy feeling that looks down on ordinary people.
"Of course I can speak (suō) Chinese." Alina frowned and spoke Chinese with her undifferentiated Chinese accent.
Jiang Ligang was stunned at first, then he curved his fox eyes and corrected: "It's not suō, it's shuō."
Once again, the clichéd "love" comes.
Jiang Ligang is just an exchange student in Paris for one year and will return to London after a year.
People who fall in love become irrational. A year later, Alina followed Jiang Ligang to London and lived in his bungalow.
Jiang Ligang's study abroad lasted only six years.
He met Alina in the second year. He was strongly opposed to bringing Alina home in the third year. His living expenses were cut off from the fourth to fifth years. He was stubborn but only managed two years. In the end, he achieved nothing and returned home in disgrace, leaving Alina, who was pregnant.
Jiang Ligang's promise was that once he had established a firm position in the Jiang family, he would bring Alina and the children to China.
Alina returns to Paris.
At first, the monthly living expenses were enough for Alina to live on, but later, vomiting, prenatal checkups, pregnancy, and financial difficulties almost drove her crazy.
So when Louis was just born, she tried to strangle him to death several times, and also wanted to poke out his amber, fox-like eyes.
When Louis was born, he and Alina lived in an old house by the Seine.
When Alina is in a good mood, she will play with Louis, but when she is in a bad mood, Alina will lock Louis in a cramped closet like a madman, just like what Mr. Huang did before.
When she cried as a child, Mr. Huang couldn't stand the noise, so he would lock her in the closet and let her out until she cried until she was silent due to suffocation.
Alina also followed this method and locked Louis in, but Louis' crying would not stop, but became louder and louder. She had no choice but to cover his mouth to block out the noisy crying.
Before the age of five, Louis had never met anyone other than Alina. After the age of five, Alina finally realized that Jiang Ligang's promise was nothing but a false lie and could no longer be believed.
So Louis was moved to the downtown area and lived in a cramped little house, where he was taken care of by a French-speaking Filipino maid, and from time to time enthusiastic neighbors came to help.
Alina gradually became twisted in the mental and physical torture, and in her nightmares, she found the source of all her suffering - Mayfield.
Alina returned to her old job, changed her name to Elena, and went to work at the fashion show like crazy. Brands, designers, no matter who they were, no matter what they wanted from her, as long as they could let her stand in front of Mayfield, she would agree.
Finally, at another High Fashion show, Alina met JL and her husband Starla, a branch of the family as famous as the Mayfield family.
In five years, Alina became close friends with JL, seduced his husband, married him, and took the last name of Starla. Finally, Alina was able to abandon Louis, the burden, and send him back to China. She could then stand in front of Mayfield, accuse her, and disgust her.
So at the age of ten, Louis moved out of the warm little house and moved into an extremely luxurious and beautiful villa, but that was the beginning of a nightmare.
Due to language barriers and different eye colors, Louis was changed to a completely unfamiliar name - Jiang Yanyu.
After Jiang Ligang returned to China, he married the daughter of a wealthy family just two years later and gave birth to a boy, Jiang Yin.
The servant looked at his employer's expression. Mrs. Jiang didn't like Jiang Yanyu, so she wouldn't get angry in front of Jiang Ligang, but she would let the servants get angry behind his back.
Sleeping in a small room, not changing clothes and quilts during the winter, and not having enough food were nothing to Jiang Yanyu. Being held down by a servant and beaten by Jiang Yin, and then resisting and beating up Jiang Yin, and finally being beaten up by Jiang Ligang without any reason, were also nothing.
He could go to Bai Shengyun's house to eat, and after the meal he could return the beating he received at Jiang Ligang to Jiang Yin several times the amount. Although this was a vicious cycle, as long as Jiang Yin was beaten black and blue by him, he would feel relieved.
But these are just small tricks, the most vicious one is Mrs. Jiang.
When Jiang Yanyu first arrived at the Jiang family, she didn't know how to speak French, but in order to let Jiang Yanyu know clearly that he was a bastard, she forced herself to learn French.
"Son of a bitch."
"Your mother is a bitch."
"You bastard from the gutter, you maggot, you're just wasting air."
"You should be hit by a car."
"You deserve to die. You deserve to die."
When Jiang Ligang was away, no one knew what Madam Jiang was saying to him. Jiang Yanyu seemed to be isolated in a vacuum, and became distorted by Madam Jiang's curses.
At first, he would curse back, hoping that Alina would come and pick her up.
But later, Mrs. Jiang showed him Alina's wedding photos and read the gossip reports in the media. Not only one person said that Alina was a bitch, but everyone said she was a bitch.
What broke Jiang Yanyu was not any reports or insults, but a photo of Alina holding her new son in one hand and smiling happily at the camera.
It turned out that Alina would not take him back. The ten-year-old Jiang Yanyu thought in despair that he might live in this shabby house forever until he died.
Later, Jiang Yanyu became numb. No matter what Mrs. Jiang said, Jiang Yanyu was too lazy to talk back. If Mrs. Jiang scolded him in a way that made him uncomfortable, he would punch Jiang Yin and knock out his teeth.
Every time Madam Jiang scolded him, Jiang Yanyu would beat Jiang Yin. Jiang Yin and Madam Jiang would go to Jiang Ligang to complain, and Jiang Ligang would come and beat him with a whip again. It was a vicious cycle and they tortured each other.
During those two years of chaos, Jiang Yanyu couldn't count how many times he was punished and how many times he went hungry.
But as long as he couldn't count how many times Jiang Yin was beaten by him and how many teeth he had knocked out, Jiang Yanyu felt that he had not lost but was the winner.
Life will never remain unchanged. Everything started to change when Jiang Yanyu was twelve years old, but this was not a good turn, but a change for the worse.
One day, Mayfield, wearing gorgeous clothes and a top hat, came to the door of the Jiang family with a smile on his face.
Jiang Ligang learned for the first time that his son had mixed bloodline, both noble and humble, so he offered a very high price and sold Jiang Yanyu to Mayfield.
Moving from Guangdong to Manchester, across thousands of miles, Jiang Yanyu went from one beautiful nightmare to another even more beautiful nightmare.
During the two years he stayed in the Jiang family, Jiang Yanyu had become very vigilant and never easily trusted anyone except Bai Shengyun, the brainless fool.
He felt uncomfortable the first time he saw Mayfield, and he couldn't tell why, even though Mayfield had a gentle smile and gray hair, and looked like a kind old lady.
He didn't understand why Mayfield took him away. When he arrived at the castle the next day and saw Alina with a stunned look on her face, he finally understood why.
This is indeed a mother and daughter, both of them are crazy.
Jiang Yanyu later thought that since Alina went to Mayfield and mentioned Mr. Huang from time to time to disgust her, she took Jiang Yanyu back, showed her infinite love in front of Alina, and allowed Jiang Yanyu to disgust her back with vicious words.
The reason why it is superficial love is that Mayfield is indeed not stingy with money and material things, and will not take away anything Jiang Yanyu likes. He will only "gently" correct the habits he brought back from the Jiang family.
If the knife and fork hit the plate and made an annoying sound, Mayfield would smile and say in Chinese: "Louis, you shouldn't be as rude as a dog paddling rice."
If Ingram brought a puppy over to play, Mayfield would smile and praise the puppy for being cute, but the TV screen would always show scenes of other puppies dying in bloody ways until Ingram broke down and cried, saying that he would never like puppies again.
Mayfield would not yell at her, nor would she whip Jiang Yanyu. She would only use indirect means to make Jiang Yanyu hate the things she once liked, in order to achieve the purpose of discipline and restraint.
Jiang Yanyu can resist and collapse countless times, but everyone will say that he is being unreasonable and failing to live up to Mayfield's education. He will then slowly recover from despair and piece together his spirit into a monster with only a human form.
After every outbreak of oppression where resistance was futile, Jiang Yanyu would either destroy things or run to the forest to go crazy and hurt himself. He would be locked in the attic and starved to calm down.
The discipline, which lasted more than two years, finally eased after the death of Mayfield's son's family.
Mayfield finally trained him as the heir of the group, sent him to public school, and socialized with other children...
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