“Bang!”
Overturning the seafood porridge that was handed to her mouth, Shen's mother leaned against the head of the bed and shouted hysterically: "Get out of here. I don't want to see you, you cuckoo in the magpie's nest. Give my son back to me."
"Mom!" Shen Yu's hand was burned by the boiling seafood porridge. He subconsciously retracted his hand and took two steps back: "Mom——"
"Don't call me mom!" Shen's mother shook her head more and more desperately: "I'm not your mom. You're not my son, you bad guy who took my son away. Get out! Get out of the Shen family! I don't want to see you anymore. Get out!"
Shen's mother screamed frantically, suddenly reached out and grabbed the family photo frame on the bedside table, and smashed it hard at Shen Yu. Shen Yu was unable to dodge and was hit hard on the forehead by the edge of the photo frame, leaving a wound. Blood flowed down the wound, slid over his brow bone, and fell into his eyes. The scene in front of my eyes immediately turned blood red.
Shen Yu moved his lips, touched his forehead in disbelief, looked at the blood on his hands, and felt his heart hurt more than his head: "Mom..."
"Mom, please don't do this anymore!" Chen Yan, who had been hiding in silence, couldn't stand it anymore. She rushed out and hugged her younger brother, crying and shouting, "Mom, please don't blame my brother. It's my fault, it's all my fault. I was naughty at the beginning, so I replaced my brother. It has nothing to do with Xiaoyu. Please don't scold Xiaoyu anymore. He is innocent too!"
When these words came out, everyone was shocked. Even Father Shen looked at his daughter in disbelief: “Yan’er, what did you say?”
"It's me! I replaced my brother." Shen Yan burst into tears and hugged Shen Yu tightly, "When mom gave birth to my brother, you were all good to him. All you had in your eyes was my brother, and no one cared about me. But my brother is not cute at all..."
Shen Yan, who was only five years old, was neglected at home because her mother gave birth to a younger brother and the whole family's attention was on her younger brother. When she went to the hospital to see her brother, he just kept sleeping and ignored her. Not as cute as the crying and laughing baby in the bed next to him.
I don't like this brother!
Just like I don’t like this toy, five-year-old Shen Yan secretly swapped the two children’s hand cards while the medical staff were not paying attention. Because she had heard the nurse say that the way they identify babies is through the small tag on the wrist.
So as long as I change the cards in my hand, I can get a younger brother that I like.
At that time, Shen Yan didn't understand anything and thought it was just a prank. She also thought that when her parents saw the new younger brother and fell in love with him, she would stand up and tell everyone that their younger brother was not that cute at all and that he was someone else's younger brother. Just like parents always praising other people's children.
But Shen Yan didn't expect that on the night when she quietly changed her hand cards, the brother in the next bed was taken away. Shen Yan was terrified when she knew she was in trouble, and she didn't dare to tell her parents the truth.
Over the years, Shen Yan has been particularly good to Shen Yu just to hypnotize herself. Shen Yu is his younger brother. He was her favorite brother whom she replaced with her own hands.
"It's all my fault. If you want to blame someone, blame me. Don't blame Xiaoyu. It's because of me that Xiaoyu didn't grow up with her biological parents." Chen Yan cried and told the truth of that year.
Mother Shen simply collapsed. She had been conspiring for so long, always thinking that the woman didn't want her own son to suffer, so she deliberately replaced the two children. He never imagined that all this was caused by his own daughter's love of play.
"What sin have I committed!" Mother Shen covered her chest and cried out in heart-wrenching pain: "My son!"
Mother Shen didn’t catch her breath, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted immediately.
"Mom——" Everyone in the Shen family panicked. Shen Yan crawled to the bed and shook Shen's mother hard: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me?"
"Mom!" Shen Yu, with blood all over his head and face, also moved to the bed. Drops of blood fell on the pure white quilt, which was even more shocking.
Shen Chen frowned as he looked at his embarrassed brother. He called the family doctor to come up and bandage Shen Yu's wound first, and then see how Shen's mother was doing.
"Mrs. Shen is fine. She just fainted because she was too excited. She just needs to be carefully nursed back to health."
"But the young master's situation is a bit troublesome." Shen Yu's character is timid and obedient, like a rare flower raised in a greenhouse. Although it has elegant appearance, it also needs careful care.
But now, because his background has been exposed, he cannot get the recognition of Mrs. Shen. Shen Yu had already suffered severe damage from the operation, and now he was unable to rest in peace. He was in a state of fear all day long, just like a pampered greenhouse treasure that was suddenly exposed to a storm. If you don't take good care of yourself, there may be sequelae.
This family doctor has been serving the Shen family for many years. Shen Yu was someone he had watched grow up. He liked this innocent, kind and gentle young master very much, even though this young master was brought up too ignorant of the world and occasionally made some jokes showing his ignorance of the sufferings of the world.
It would be fine if Shen Yu had always been the son of the Shen family. With Chairman Shen and CEO Shen protecting him, there won’t be any problems with his character. But now... the family doctor shook his head with a sigh, not knowing how the Shen family would treat this young master whose background was exposed.
Finally, the family doctor gave Mrs. Shen, who had fainted, a sedative and left a medical order for postoperative recuperation before leaving.
After sending the family doctor away, Shen's father and Shen Chen called Shen Yu, who had a white gauze wrapped around his head, to the study: "...You also heard what the doctor said. Your mother's mood is very unstable. You also need to rest and recuperate. So Dad wants to separate you for a while. You pack your luggage and go live in the apartment first."
Are you going to be kicked out by your dad?
The hands hanging by his side clenched suddenly, and Shen Yu's big eyes were filled with tears. Like a fledgling about to be driven out of the nest by its parents, he pleaded in a low voice: "Dad, brother, don't drive me away."
"I'm not chasing you away." Chen Chen explained patiently, "It's just that my mother is mentally weak. When she suddenly found out that you are not a child of the Shen family, it was hard for her to accept this fact for a while. You can see that if you stay at home reluctantly, my mother will only scold you. You are scared at home, so why not leave for a while. I will let Sister Liu live with you in the apartment. With her taking care of you, you can rest assured."
"But I..." I don't want to leave you!
"Be obedient." Shen Chen walked over from the French window and patted Shen Yu's thin shoulder: "It's not that I don't want you anymore. I just want you to live outside for a while so that it will be convenient for you to recuperate. We are at home so that we can counsel mom. After all, you are the son that mom has raised for 19 years. After so many years of love, she won't be so cruel as to abandon you. It's just that she can't let it go for the time being."
is that so?
Shen Yu looked at his father and brother in a daze. His headache was so severe that he really couldn't think. Since Dad and elder brother both said so, it must be like this.
Shen Yu hesitated for a moment, then nodded obediently to agree to this arrangement. He looked at his father and eldest brother with hope: "...You will definitely find the real young master of the Shen family, right? As long as you find him, mom will forgive me, right?"
The Shen family father and son felt a little softened in their hearts when they saw Shen Yu, who was shivering like a newborn kitten and trying to open his eyes wide and look at them expectantly. Two big hands fell on Shen Yu's head and rubbed it, and responded in a gentle voice: "It should be like this."
When the Shen family's father and son came out of the study, Shen Yan, who had been waiting in the corridor, hurried over and asked nervously, "Dad, brother, what are you talking about when you called Xiaoyu to the study alone? Is there anything you can't tell me?"
"It's not that I can't tell you. I just want Xiaoyu to live in an apartment outside for a few days."
"What?" Shen Yan was shocked. "No, I don't agree. Dad, brother, you can't be so cruel. Even if Xiaoyu is not the biological child of the Shen family, he is still our brother who we have raised for 19 years! How can you drive him out? He just had an operation and his body is not healed yet!"
Shen Yan really felt sorry for Shen Yu. She immediately hugged the frail Shen Yu and started crying.
"Okay! Stop making trouble!" Faced with Shen Yan's unreasonable behavior, the Shen family's father and son had a different attitude. Father Shen scolded him harshly: "Instead of feeling like pleading for Xiaoyu, you might as well think about what you should do. If you hadn't caused such a big disaster, your brother wouldn't have been missing for nineteen years!" Our Shen family would not have raised someone else's son for nineteen years for nothing!
When Father Shen thought of this, his face turned pale.
"I know it's my fault. But it's already happened, what can I do?" Chen Yan cried loudly, "Why don't you just find him? Why do you have to drive Xiaoyu away? Can't both brothers stay together?"
"It's easy for you to say. There are so many people in this world, and the person has been missing for nineteen years. Where can we find him?" Chen Chen frowned and scolded, "Okay. Stop making trouble. The reason why we let Xiaoyu move out is for his own good. You heard what the doctor said. Xiaoyu just had surgery and needs a quiet recuperation. Mom is making such a fuss now, Xiaoyu can't live at home in peace. Instead of worrying about what kind of attack Mom will have every day, it's better to go outside and recuperate. Mom won't be so excited when she can't see Xiaoyu. After a long time, she might miss Xiaoyu and even take the initiative to ask to see Xiaoyu." After all, he is a child I have raised for nineteen years.
After hearing this explanation, Shen Yan said nothing more. After a long silence, he said, "I will personally send Xiaoyu to live outside. Otherwise, if outsiders see him, they will think that Xiaoyu was driven out by our Shen family. What if others bully him?"
The Shen family father and son looked at each other, and Shen Chen nodded and said, "That's no problem. I'll let Lao Zhou take you there."
The news of Shen Yu moving out of the Shen family mansion caused an uproar in Shanghai and the entertainment circle, just like in his previous life.
Tao Mu, who had already returned to the capital, was somewhat surprised when he heard the news - he had never expected that Shen Yu in this life would be driven out of the Shen family by Madam Shen.
But it makes sense if you think about it. In his previous life, he and Shen Yu were involved in a coercive accident. After being sent to the hospital, his life experience was directly exposed during the blood transfusion. He took the opportunity to return to the Shen family, and because of his resentment, he wanted to expel Shen Yu from the Shen family.
Although the Shen family was surprised by Shen Yu's background at that time, their biological son had already appeared, so naturally they would not feel any heartache over the loss of a flesh and blood. Those with darker mentalities might even make many assumptions about him because of this coincidence. Facts have proved that as soon as he returned to the Shen family, he was labeled as a scheming, cunning, and eager for quick success and instant benefits, who wanted to compete with Shen Chen for the family property. Everyone dislikes him.
And in this life, he is too lazy to get involved in the Shen family's affairs. When Shen Yu had the wire accident, in order to confirm their bloodline, Shen's family had to find the family who had been pregnant and given birth to a child with Shen's mother to do a DNA test. Finally, the cause was traced back to the Tan family and the surrogate mother. I had a preconceived notion that the surrogate mother had ulterior motives. Therefore, influenced by the halo of the plot, Mrs. Shen, who had lost her own flesh and blood, replaced Tao Mu's role in the previous life and wanted to drive Shen Yu out of the Shen family to complete this part of the plot.
As for Chen Yan's initiative to expose the secret of the swap that year -
To be honest, because Tao Mu and Shen Yu returned to the Shen family at the same time in their previous life, I don’t know whether it was due to the negligence of the plot or other reasons, the Shen family did not take the initiative to investigate Shen Yu’s life experience. So the plot about the Tan family and the surrogate mother did not exist in the previous life. Since there is no threat to Shen Yu's position in the Shen family, Shen Yan, the culprit, will certainly not take the initiative to expose herself.
However, in this life, because of Mrs. Shen's preconceived ideas. She was convinced that Shen Yu's biological mother had evil intentions. If this speculation was accepted by others, it is conceivable that Shen Yu's situation in the Shen family would become even worse and more difficult. After all, the nature of taking over someone else's nest and being innocently implicated are different. Shen Yan, who truly regarded Shen Yu as her own brother, certainly could not tolerate such speculation. So she took the initiative to expose the secret that even Tao Mu didn't know, just to make Shen Yu's living environment in the Shen family a little better.
After all, the story with Shen Yu as the protagonist in the previous life was a sweet love story. Shen Yu’s biggest supporter is the Shen family. If the Shen family no longer supports Shen Yu because of his background, and think about how Shen Yu always inexplicably offended all kinds of villains after he was kicked out of the Shen family in his previous life... I'm afraid the sweet pet story will turn into a sad one. I guess the plot master doesn't want this to happen.
——And combined with Chen Yan’s proactive revelations, Tao Mu could also understand why Chen Yan hated him so much in his previous life. There are two kinds of people in this world. One kind, the more they owe, the more guilty they feel and the more they want to make up for it; the other kind, the more they owe, the more justified they feel and the more they hate the debtor to death. I think Shen Yan is the latter type of person.
Maybe after Tao Mu returned to the Shen family, Shen Yan was still privately blaming him, blaming his appearance for making the Shen family, which had always been happy and harmonious, become tense. Maybe she was still secretly hoping that he would disappear again so that the Shen family could return to its previous happiness and tranquility.
"So what exactly are the family members I was looking forward to in my previous life?" Tao Mu stroked his chin and pondered secretly.
The father and brother who are always indifferent and profit-oriented, are influenced by the halo of the plot and are willing to protect or criticize others without thinking. The mother who exists only to follow the plot, and the sister who wishes the victim to die first even though she has done something wrong.
Putting aside the Shen family father and son, Tao Mu always felt that the existence of Madam Shen and Shen Yan once again proved the importance of IQ and strength.
——A person with strong will can find ways to minimize the harm caused by the plot even if he is at the center of the plot; the same is true for people with strong strength and far-reaching influence. As for ordinary people who have low IQ and are easily instigated, it is best to stay as far away from the center of the vortex as possible.
So the reason why Mrs. Shen has such obvious changes in two lifetimes is because her IQ is too low, right? Being controlled by the plot, cooperating with the male protagonist to follow the plot, it turns out that everyone can make money if the earth is gone. Even if the melodrama is over, anyone can continue to perform!
Tao Mu chuckled, and decided again to "cherish his IQ and stay away from Shanghai". He must protect his vest tightly in this life.
For things like the cliché idol dramas at the 8 o'clock show, he should just be a loyal audience. As for such an important task as following the plot, it is better to leave it to others.
"What are you thinking about so happily?" Li Xiaoheng, who was busy processing documents, heard Tao Mu's laughter and couldn't help but look up and asked.
"It's okay, I'm just eating watermelon and watching the show!" Tao Mu said, and really picked up a piece of watermelon from the coffee table and ate it slowly.
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