Chapter 82
Wen Ningshu came alone.
He was always elegant and noble, but in just a few days, he looked much more haggard.
Her hair was still combed delicately and beautifully, but there were a few obvious white hairs.
When she sat alone in the living room, her slender figure looked even thinner against the huge room.
Although she was sitting gracefully at this moment, she still couldn't hide the loneliness and sadness emanating from her inside out.
When Lu Jiuxu came up from the garage, he saw Wen Ningshu like this.
During the few days he traveled with Su Xingyao, several groups of people came to him to inquire about Su Xingyao.
In addition to some relatives and friends around him, it also includes Qin Mingchuan, Fu Qingyan and others.
But Wen Ningshu is the most persistent and resourceful one among these people.
Lu Jiuxu responded by refusing to meet anyone.
She insisted on coming and waiting every day, not forcing a meeting, just waiting quietly for a day.
To outsiders, Wen Ningshu undoubtedly seemed very concerned.
But in Lu Jiuxu's opinion, she treated everyone else the same and was not worthy of meeting Su Xingyao at all.
But in fact, no matter how reluctant Lu Jiuxu was in his heart.
After Su Xingyao comes back today, the other party will definitely find a way to meet him.
Although he had many ways to stop them, he didn't want this group of people to keep harassing Su Xingyao.
Lu Jiuxu didn't want to see the person who had finally been coaxed into relaxing by him, and then face these old friends directly after returning home, which would bring up more bad memories, so he deliberately let him stay with Lu Zhiyun and came back to deal with it first.
As soon as she walked into the reception room, Wen Ningshu immediately noticed the person who came.
She looked up with joy, but what she saw was a handsome and tall figure.
The other person is not very old, but he has a calmness and strong aura that is not expected for his age.
However, Wen Ningshu didn't look at Lu Jiuxu much, but looked behind him.
When she was sure that there was no trace of Su Xingyao in the room, the joy on Wen Ningshu's face instantly turned into infinite loss.
Resisting the urge to ask about Su Xingyao's recent situation immediately, Wen Ningshu nodded slightly towards Lu Jiuxu gracefully.
"Hello, Mr. Lu. Excuse me for disturbing you."
Lu Jiuxu's expression was indifferent, and his response was polite yet distant.
"Hello, Ms. Wen."
Ms. Wen's words immediately made Wen Ningshu understand everything.
Lu Jiuxu actually knew exactly why she came and what she wanted to do.
Wen Ningshu was not surprised by this. After all, she knew that the scheming and skills of the young man in front of her had long surpassed his age.
Since the other party was so direct, she omitted all the unnecessary beating around the bush and went straight to the point.
"Mr. Lu, is Xingyao not back yet?"
Lu Jiuxu did not answer the other party's polite question.
Instead, his eagle-like sharp eyes dropped, and no expression could be seen on his face.
Wen Ningshu didn't say anything either, just looked at the other person patiently.
It was like a silent game going on between the two of them.
In the end, Wen Ningshu was defeated.
Before meeting, the young man had no intention of telling her anything, so she could only speak in a roundabout way.
"Mr. Lu, Xingyao has been bothering me here for too long. I'm here to take him home."
Lu Jiuxu smiled faintly and did not respond immediately.
After a few seconds, he finally spoke.
But there was no warmth in his tone.
"Ms. Wen, this isn't the right time to take Xingyao home."
Neither of them made their words clear, but they could understand each other's meaning accurately.
Wen Ningshu had been sad and haggard these past few days, and the politeness and courtesies she had just shown to Lu Jiuxu were forced.
Now that Lu Jiuxu had pointed out the key to the problem between him and Su Xingyao in such an unkind way, Wen Ningshu's tense nerves completely broke at this moment.
What Lu Jiu said was correct.
As parents, if we want to take Su Xingyao home, this is not the right time.
They should know where the other person is on the first day he leaves home.
Of course Lu Jiuxu deliberately helped Su Xingyao conceal his whereabouts and residence.
But it has never been difficult for them to find Su Xingyao.
It's just that she had never really tried to look for it before.
I always took it for granted that Su Xingyao, my son, would never really leave this family.
She had taken it for granted for so many years that she had forgotten that no matter how much Su Xingyao loved them, they would be deeply hurt by their parents' partiality and indifference.
As a result, through repeated pain, the last bit of love for parents and relatives is completely exhausted.
The child has been away for so long, and as a mother, I have been constantly neglecting him.
It was too late for her to take the child home at this time.
When Lu Jiuxu pointed out so bluntly what she had done to Su Xingyao, Wen Ningshu did not get angry, but became even more distressed.
She had no way of disguising any expression on her face anymore. She just explained to Lu Jiuxu anxiously with a trembling body.
"I know... I know... We really didn't care enough about him in the past, and we did a lot of wrong things..."
Lu Jiuxu was an outsider after all, and no matter how guilty Wen Ningshu felt, she would not say many things in front of him.
So she held it back and said in a tearful voice, "But now I really want to make it up to him..."
Lu Jiuxu looked at the tears in Wen Ningshu's eyes.
The other person cried so sweetly.
But in Lu Jiuxu's eyes, it was extremely annoying and disgusting.
The more repentant the other party is and the harder he cries, it shows how bad Su Xingyao's experience was in the Shen family.
Thinking about what the other party might have experienced in the past, nothing Wen Ningshu said now would work on Lu Jiuxu.
Wen Ningshu's soft sobs continued to reach Lu Jiuxu's ears, which made him even more annoyed.
Years of upbringing made him resist the urge to kick people out.
So he threw a cold word to Wen Ningshu who was pretending to be sincere.
"He used to stay in the Shen family."
Wen Ningshu suddenly stopped crying, and she looked as if she had been slapped in the face, and she fell silent.
Lu Jiuxu knew how to hurt Wen Ningshu's heart.
Because Su Xingyao had been living away from home before, and when Wen Ningshu took her home, she vowed to make it up to him.
But in the end...
Reality gave Wen Ningshu a hard slap in the face.
Suddenly she realized how ridiculous she was when she said she wanted to take Su Xingyao back to make it up to him.
Wen Ningshu was too embarrassed to cry any further, so she gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. After adjusting her expression, she looked back at the man in front of her who always protected her son.
She knew very well that she would not be able to get any more information from Lu Jiuxu today.
But she missed her son so much that she couldn't help but want to contact him directly through the only friend of Su Xingyao she knew.
However, before Wen Ningshu could speak, Lu Jiuxu seemed to have seen through her thoughts and interrupted her without mercy.
"Ms. Wen, please don't disturb Xingyao anymore, your family and friends."
"He's doing very well now."
Wen Ningshu stood there in a daze.
The other party's words "He is living a good life now" once again hurt Wen Ningshu's heart.
But Lu Jiuxu didn't want to appreciate how her expression changed at this moment, and he directly and mercilessly asked the driver to send the guest away.
Wen Ningshu, who returned empty-handed, looked at Lu Jiuxu's back as he left indifferently.
Finally, I heard the last warning left by the other party.
"If you really want to, please let your adopted son take care of himself in the future."
*
When Wen Ningshu returned to the Shen family mansion, Shen Huaixi had just come out after making a phone call.
He had been troubled these days because he hired a lot of internet trolls to influence Su Xingyao's rhythm and it was exposed.
It’s no big deal that netizens scolded him. The key is that Lanxing Entertainment was too tough, which made him too passive.
What Wen Ningshu saw when she came back was Shen Huaixi's impatient and furious look after he hung up the phone.
She vaguely heard Shen Huaixi curse "damn waste", so she asked the other party directly in a trance.
"Huaixi, what are you talking about?"
Shen Huaixi looked down and found Wen Ningshu who had returned at some point. She immediately came down from upstairs, hugged Wen Ningshu and acted coquettishly, smiling, "I didn't say anything, Mom."
Ever since she saw the unusual interaction between Shen Huaixi and Aunt Liu, Wen Ningshu began to doubt Shen Huaixi from the bottom of her heart.
But after all, I am watching my children grow up, so there is always a filter through them.
Even though she had long felt that something was wrong with Shen Huaixi, she had not really turned against this adopted son.
But today, Lu Jiuxu's words suddenly woke her up completely.
Looking at Shen Huaixi as if nothing had happened, Wen Ningshu felt for the first time that those eyes were not innocent, but full of shrewdness and calculation.
Wen Ningshu felt sick and gently pushed Shen Huaixi's hand away.
She lowered her eyes and asked in a low voice, "Huaixi, why do you always target Xingyao?"
As soon as Wen Ningshu came back, she gave him a cold look again. Shen Huaixi, who had already noticed something was wrong, also stopped smiling.
Where Wen Ningshu couldn't see, he asked the other person with cold eyes and a soft tone, "Mom, what are you saying? I don't quite understand."
The voice that used to inspire pity in people now sounded extremely harsh in Wen Ningshu's ears.
Seeing that Shen Huaixi was still pretending with him, he simply pointed it out.
"The accompaniment music was interrupted by an accident during the live broadcast of that game..."
"The Internet trolls who were abusing him a lot a few days ago..."
“Fu Qingyan asked about the truth of the fire… Shen Huaixi… why did you frame Xingyao…”
Listening to Wen Ningshu's questioning, Shen Huaixi's face turned completely cold.
He sneered, "Mom, you must have misunderstood something... I really didn't do any of these."
"I never said that I saved Fu Qingyan. Didn't you who were present at the time say so?"
"As for framing Su Xingyao? What did I frame him for?"
Shen Huaixi's eyes opened very wide, making him look very innocent.
"I just had a cooperative relationship with those marketing accounts in the past. I don't know what happened this time. I even suspect that they deliberately framed me. How can you say such nonsense without any evidence..."
After Shen Huaixi finished speaking, he deliberately stood in front of Wen Ningshu and asked her with tears in his eyes.
"Mom, didn't you love me the most before? Why do you suddenly doubt me for no apparent reason?"
"Is it because Su Xingyao doesn't want to come back at all? But what does this have to do with me?"
It was obvious that Shen Huaixi also knew how to sting and anger Wen Ningshu.
Listening to the other party's sophistry and provocation, Wen Ningshu finally couldn't help it and slapped him directly.
Pointing her slender finger at the other person, Wen Ningshu was already so angry that she was almost out of breath.
"How dare you say that!"
Shen Huaixi's head was buzzing from the beating, and the left side of his face swelled up instantly.
Shen Huaixi, who was slapped for the first time, raised his eyes and stared at the woman in front of him in disbelief.
He was originally angry and furious, but after seeing Shen Liangyu's figure, he immediately suppressed his anger and abuse and burst into tears, his tears flowing down and he felt extremely aggrieved.
"Mom...Mom, what's wrong with you..."
"It's okay to hit me if you're unhappy, but don't let your body get hurt by anger..."
Seeing that Shen Huaixi was still pretending in front of her, Wen Ningshu warned him coldly, “You!!”
She couldn't bring herself to curse Wen Ningshu, so she could only warn her, "If you do anything to Xingyao again, get out of the Shen family!"
This was the scene Shen Liangyu saw when he arrived.
He looked at his adopted son in disbelief, who was crying miserably because of the slap, then looked at Wen Ningshu, who looked unhappy, and asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"
Wen Ningshu didn't want to say anything more, so she just whispered, "You should ask him what he did to your son."
Seeing this, Shen Huaixi immediately hid behind Shen Liangyu, covering her face and crying even more miserably.
"Dad, I don't know anything."
"Wow, wow, when mom came back she got mad at me straight away... and... hit me for no reason."
Shen Liangyu had seen Shen Huaixi’s red and swollen cheeks before.
He felt that it was inappropriate for Wen Ningshu to slap his son in such an unseemly way.
In addition, Wen Ningshu has been looking for Su Xingyao these days, which makes him even more uncomfortable.
So after he patted Shen Huaixi to comfort her, he spoke harshly to Wen Ningshu for the first time.
"I understand that you feel bad after being turned down, but please don't take it out on Huaixi."
Seeing that Shen Liangyu was still stubbornly protecting Shen Huaixi, Wen Ningshu seemed to understand how Su Xingyao felt when they both stood on Shen Huaixi's side without thinking, regardless of right or wrong.
Thousands of words came into her heart, but in the end Wen Ningshu chose to remain silent.
You deserve all this.
On the other side, Shen Liangyu did not feel Wen Ningshu's pain, but instead blamed her.
"Don't forget, it was you who wanted to adopt Huaixi!"
Hearing this, Wen Ningshu smiled.
"Yes, I adopted him."
"It's my own fault."
Wen Ningshu looked up at Shen Liangyu, who was still defending Shen Huaixi everywhere, and felt that the other party was so strange.
She felt unfair for Su Xingyao.
"Xingyao is your child!"
In response to Wen Ningshu's correction, Shen Liangyu emphasized, "Huaixi is also my child!"
Wen Ningshu didn't say another word to Shen Liangyu.
After that, she sat alone on the sofa in the hall.
After quietly recalling the various details of Su Xingyao's life at home, she woodenly opened the WeChat account that had been blocked.
After carefully reading the messages between her and Su Xingyao one by one, Wen Ningshu realized that there were only a handful of chat records between her and her child over the years.
In the short ten-page record, most of the time it was Su Xingyao who took the initiative to greet him.
The other party went from being enthusiastic and attentive at the beginning, to being cautious, and finally being polite and not daring to disturb...
Wen Ningshu covered her cheeks in pain, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
What went wrong?
Why did the relationship between me and my own son end up like this?
*
Lu Zhiyun didn't send Su Xingyao back until nine o'clock in the evening.
As soon as they landed, Sunset and Coral, who had not been home for several days, ran towards their nest.
After running around the entire familiar area, they returned to Su Xingyao. Luo Ri was holding a toy ball in his mouth that he had found from somewhere.
Su Xingyao took the ball and took the cats and dogs to the lawn in the backyard to practice catching the ball with the animals.
Lu Jiuxu looked at Su Xingyao from afar, who was smiling gently under the dim light, and walked to his side with a smile unconsciously.
Su Xingyao played with the cat and dog for a long time. Only after hot sweat ran down her cheeks did she stop and walk back.
Su Xingyao walked to Lu Jiuxu and looked at the shadows of the two people standing side by side, stretched out by the light.
As they walked past the intersection of two street lights, at the moment when the shadow quickly faded, moved, disappeared, and reappeared, Su Xingyao spoke.
"Did anyone come to see me today?"
Lu Jiuxu did not ask Su Xingyao how he knew it, but just told him honestly.
"Well, a lady named Wen came here today."
After Su Xingyao heard this, she stopped throwing the ball, and her right hand failed to catch the ball, causing it to fall.
Fortunately, Luo Ri immediately and accurately helped his master catch it.
Looking at Luo Ri's expression that seemed to be asking for praise, Su Xingyao touched its head.
When he stood up again, he was back to normal.
He smiled and asked Lu Jiuxu, "Did she say anything?"
Lu Jiuxu looked at the other person and said calmly, "She said she wanted to see you."
His eyes never left Su Xingyao's face.
After a few seconds, the man continued, "But I turned it down for you."
The air was silent for several seconds.
Su Xingyao just said "hmm" softly and didn't ask any more questions.
He deliberately threw the ball down again and let Luo Ri continue to pick up the ball, as if he didn't care too much about it.
It was not until Luo Ri picked up the ball again that Su Xingyao calmly explained to Lu Jiuxu about his relationship with him.
He said, “She is my biological mother.”
"But our household registration books are not together, so it shouldn't matter now."
After saying this, Su Xingyao exhaled lightly and smiled at Lu Jiuxu, "And I really don't want to see her either."
"Thank you."
When saying the last three words, Su Xingyao walked to the backlight.
With the light behind him, Lu Jiuxu couldn't see the other person's expression at the moment.
But now he just wants to give the other person a hug.
He wanted to give Su Xingyao a good hug.
The Su Xingyao of the past who was alone and suffered all kinds of grievances.
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