"Godmother, be careful." As they passed a snow-covered area, Ruan Bei reached out and helped Madam Ran.
Not far away, Feng Zhihui heard a few indistinct words carried in by the winter wind through the half-open car window. She didn't hear anything else clearly, but the word "Mom" had already stunned her.
Her mind went blank, and she immediately clutched her chest and slumped into her chair: "How could he call Min Zhenzhen 'Mom'? He's my son! How could he call that woman 'Mom'..."
She watched as Min Zhenzhen was pampered by Ran Yusheng, whom she had once looked down upon, and watched as Ran Yusheng, that poor wretch, rose to prominence and developed his business into one that was even bigger than the Min family's.
Those rumors about Ran Yusheng and his wife were undoubtedly related to Feng Zhihui, but Ran Yusheng, that man, would rather let others think he had health problems than not protect his wife.
For more than a decade, the only thing she could console herself with was that Min Zhenzhen didn't have children.
And what was the result?
The child she carried for ten months actually called Min Zhenzhen "Mom".
This was too much of a blow for Feng Zhihui to bear. Overwhelmed with grief and anger, she felt like her lungs were about to explode.
"Mom, Mom, what's wrong?" Lu Sibai was startled by her deeply shocked appearance. If his younger brother was Madam Ran's godson, that would be a good thing.
Madam Ran is a woman with little ambition, yet she has so much inheritance and the connections left by Mr. Ran. If Ruan Bei needs her in the future, wouldn't she just give it to her godson?
Perhaps once Xiao Bei is taken home, the two families will become even closer.
Feng Zhihui leaned back in her chair, panting heavily, and it took her a while to calm herself down.
In just a short while, she was covered in sweat, tears streaming down her face, and she kept repeating the same sentence she had just heard.
Lu Siyuan felt that she was being too serious. Ruan Bei not only had a godmother, but also an adoptive mother. His mother was so fragile, and she still wanted to go to the Ruan family to find Ruan Bei. Wouldn't she be driven crazy by the shock?
"Mom, why don't we go back?" Lu Siyuan earnestly advised.
"I'm not going back!" Feng Zhihui glared at the group getting into the car. "You follow them and see where they go. I have to tell him that he can't call Min Zhenzhen 'Mom'."
She sobbed loudly, covered her face, and said with aggrieved expression, "If he acknowledges Min Zhenzhen, then he shouldn't acknowledge me. I'll pretend I never had this son, and that I never gave birth to him!"
Lu Siyuan: "..."
He wanted to turn back even more, feeling that if he went to find him, Ruan Bei would happily agree to sever his relationship with his mother.
But Feng Zhihui insisted, and Lu Siyuan had no choice but to follow the Ran family's car.
Inside the car in front, the Ran family bodyguards quickly spotted the car following behind them.
The driver, who also served as the bodyguard, glanced at the car and told them it was the Lu family's car, with Lu Siyuan and Feng Zhihui inside.
The two men stopped talking, and the Ran family bodyguards waiting outside had already noticed and checked the situation inside the car.
Upon hearing that it was these two people, Ruan Bei subconsciously frowned.
He didn't want to deal with the Lu family at all, especially Feng Zhihui. He felt that he and Feng Zhihui were not on the same wavelength and could not even have a normal conversation.
"Xiao Bei?" Madam Ran looked at him with concern.
Ruan Bei puffed out his cheeks and muttered, "Ignore them, just pretend we don't see them, don't pay them any attention. The more you pay attention to these kinds of people, the more energetic they become."
Once they arrived at the mall, they did as Ruan Bei had instructed, completely ignoring Lu Siyuan and Feng Zhihui who were chasing after them.
Feng Zhihui originally wanted to play hard to get and have her eldest son call Ruan Bei over to see him. Lu Siyuan walked over with a huge headache, but Ruan Bei acted as if he didn't see him and just left.
Helpless, Lu Siyuan stopped him, saying that his mother wanted to see him.
Ruan Bei chuckled, thinking that this was just like Feng Zhihui's behavior—self-righteous and assuming that everyone should fawn over her.
He simply tossed Lu Siyuan two words: "No time."
Lu Siyuan choked and wanted to stop him again, but Qin Gu had already pushed him back several steps with a palm, almost hitting the wall.
Feng Zhihui watched from afar and saw her eldest son being "beaten." She rushed over in despair, abandoning all pretense of modesty.
She glared at Qin Gu first, then looked at Ruan Bei: "How could you stand by and watch someone beat your brother? Don't you have any conscience!"
Ruan Bei: "?"
"Huh? Brother?" Ruan Bei laughed in exasperation, rubbed her face, put her arm around Qin Gu's shoulder, and turned her head to ask him, "Brother, did someone hit you just now?"
Qin Gu suppressed a laugh: "No, it was just someone trying to scam me."
Mrs. Ran and Ruan Xi were stunned by Feng Zhihui's bizarre thought process for a while before they came to their senses. Ruan Xi looked at Feng Zhihui in disbelief and finally understood that Ruan Bei's stories about his past life were really because there were such oddballs in real life.
Madam Ran said impatiently, "Feng Zhihui, I used to think you were just not very bright, but I didn't expect you to be so blind. Tell your husband Lu to get treatment for his illness as soon as possible, don't delay."
Feng Zhihui instantly exploded: "You insulted me!"
Madam Ran said innocently, "I was just telling the truth, trying to give you some advice..."
"You insulted me!" Feng Zhihui's eyes instantly reddened: "You don't have a son yourself, so you tried to steal mine. You have no shame!"
Ruan Bei couldn't bear to implicate others because of him, so he rushed forward and stood in front of Madam Ran, saying aggressively, "What nonsense are you talking about? Who stole your son? Your son is a big lump right there. Take him home quickly, he's so precious. There are a lot of people here, you mustn't let anyone bump into him."
Then she glanced at Lu Siyuan and said sarcastically, "Mommy's little darling, hurry up and go home with her."
Lu Siyuan blushed and said weakly, "How can you talk like that..."
Feng Zhihui pointed at Ruan Bei, her finger trembling: "You...you..."
"What do you mean, 'you'? Ma'am, didn't your mother teach you that pointing at others is impolite?"
"Auntie?" Feng Zhihui screamed, her vision went black, and she almost fainted.
Lu Siyuan quickly caught her. Feng Zhihui leaned against her eldest son, tears streaming down her face. She felt so wronged. How could she have given birth to such an unfilial son?
"I'll tell you..."
Feng Zhihui glared at Ruan Bei, crying, as if Ruan Bei had done something wrong to her: "You actually scolded me for Min Zhenzhen's sake! I don't recognize you as my son anymore! I will never acknowledge you again, even if you beg me... Ah—————— What are you laughing at!"
"I thought of something happy!" Ruan Bei was genuinely happy, and his bright smile was so genuine that no one could doubt that he was faking it.
He took out his phone and, unusually, his attitude towards Feng Zhihui improved: "Could you repeat that again? It was too sudden just now, and I didn't have time to record it."
Feng Zhihui: "..."
"Mom, Mom, what's wrong? Mom, wake up!" Lu Siyuan was devastated as he held the unconscious Feng Zhihui.
Ruan Bei peeked out in disbelief, then clicked her tongue regretfully: "You really are dizzy? You should at least finish talking before you faint."
Lu Siyuan: "...How could you do this? She's your mother, your biological mother!"
Ruan Bei jumped three feet high, looking at him with full vigilance: "Don't try to play dumb. This lady just said that it has nothing to do with me. You still want to blame me? Have you no shame?"
Lu Siyuan: "..."
Mrs. Ran chimed in, "That's right. Xiao Bei has a biological mother and a godmother. Her biological mother is at home, and her godmother is me. So where did this so-called mother come from? Our Xiao Bei has grown up and has never seen this so-called mother."
That's because...
"Alright, alright, we have things to do, don't block the way."
Lu Siyuan wanted to explain, but no one wanted to listen. He was supporting his unconscious mother and couldn't stop her. He could only watch helplessly as Ruan Bei skipped past him and entered a clothing store.
Feng Zhihui didn't remain unconscious for long; she woke up before the ambulance even arrived.
She was still groggy after waking up for a while, and recalling the scene before she fainted, she grabbed her eldest son's arm and started crying: "Waaah, how could he do this? I'm his biological mother, how could he not recognize me..."
Lu Siyuan was in a panic and was about to speak when he saw Ruan Bei come out of the store in a new outfit.
He has a great physique, a straight back, and long legs, making him very suitable for wearing long clothes. Young girls passing by all look at him.
But Lu Siyuan felt a headache coming on, so he quickly turned around to block his mother's view and also to block his mother's view, so that Ruan Bei wouldn't see that his mother was awake and come over to record again, and what if he made her faint again?
Once Ruan Bei and his group had gone some distance, Lu Siyuan quickly helped his mother, who was in a daze after being greatly shocked, to her feet: "Mom, let's go home first."
"Okay, let's go home. He doesn't recognize me, waaaaah..."
Lu Siyuan: "..."
In his previous life, Ruan Bei was taken back to the Lu family and lived in their house. He was nominally a child of the Lu family, but he was controlled in every way and suffered a lot of grievances at the hands of Feng Zhihui.
Today he went all out and found that Feng Zhihui was utterly weak and vulnerable. He was in a great mood and smiled the whole time he was shopping.
Everyone was happy because he was happy. Madam Ran picked out several outfits for the children. Ruan Bei and Qin Gu were both good-looking and had good figures. They would look good even in a burlap sack, let alone in a well-tailored dress.
Ruan Xi is also a pretty girl. Madam Ran got addicted to dressing them up and thoroughly enjoyed the experience of dressing up real people.
On the same day, at the Qin family's old residence in the capital.
Qin Shen secretly turned off his constantly vibrating phone, his expression extremely respectful.
Old Master Qin half-closed his eyes and said slowly, "Alright, there's nothing more to say. You young people have your own things to do, go and do your own thing. You don't need to keep an old man like me company."
Qin Zhengping glared at Qin Shen with a dark expression, then turned to the old man with a forced smile: "Dad, you're not old at all, you're in good health. Shen is fine, let him keep you company for a while longer. He always says he misses Grandpa..."
Old Master Qin seemed to be moved by his words, and he lifted his eyelids to look at Qin Shen. Qin Shen quickly said a bunch of nice things to express his loyalty.
So Grandpa Qin stopped insisting on sending them away, and the three of them continued to sit and chat. Most of the talking was done by Qin Zhengping, who flattered and praised his own son, while Qin Shen occasionally chimed in with a few words.
Qin Shen's phone rang again. This time, he didn't wait for it to vibrate before pressing the power button in his pocket. He felt rather annoyed, thinking that Lu Sibai was becoming increasingly unlikable. He had already said he was busy, but Lu Sibai still insisted on calling.
The old man was getting on in years and his spirits were failing, so he asked them to leave after a short while.
Qin Zhengping wouldn't be so tactless as to stay at this time. He respectfully bid farewell to the old man and left with his son.
After the father and son had walked away, the old man tapped his cane, and the old butler who was waiting nearby immediately came forward.
"Where's Zhengze? Is he back?"
The butler hesitated for a moment: "Young Master... hasn't returned yet, he's probably busy with work..."
"Busy, busy, busy, what's he busy for!" The old man still had a lot of momentum when he scolded people: "Tell him that if he doesn't come back, I will really give everything I have to Qin Shen and not leave a single penny to his son!"
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