Chapter 338 The Mistress of a Wealthy Family Turns Her Own Tide After Opening the Book (36)
Lu Gu stared coldly at his mother.
This is her home!
"Ah Zhao, have you been bewitched too? Have you been assimilated?! How did I raise you from childhood? Did I go through all the trouble of giving birth to you just so you could come here and make me angry?!"
Lu Gu's eyes were red, and the overwhelming sense of loss and anger in his heart made him take deep breaths.
"You're the ones who dumped me here! I didn't want to come, but you forced me to! And then you chased them away!"
You are the intruders in this home! You have ruined my life!
"You, you... fine, you're just like your father, trying to drive me crazy, aren't you?! Do you also want to go with Jin Shu?!"
Lu Gu stared intently at her.
"She guessed it! She guessed I'm your illegitimate child! She doesn't want me anymore! She doesn't want me anymore!!"
The boy let out a low growl, and the next second tears streamed down his face as he cried so hard he could barely breathe, his face filled with grievance and sorrow.
He didn't understand why Jin Shu hadn't taken him with her; he wanted to go with her too!
When he finished packing his luggage and was about to follow, Jin Shu said something to him expressionlessly.
"Your home is right here. Your parents are back. Why are you coming with me?"
At that time, Lu Gu had an unprecedented wish that he could be an orphan like Lu Xu and Lu Huai, someone no one wanted.
He was extremely panicked and frightened, grabbing Jin Shu's sleeve and asking her how she could take him away.
Jin Shu simply turned back and glanced at him with a helpless and sad expression before pulling her hand away and leaving without looking back.
At that moment, Lu Gu realized that his existence had completely hurt Jin Shu.
For the sake of the Duke's mansion and her husband who had been "dead" for many years, she endured hardship all by herself. Even though she suffered many grievances and was covered in wounds, she never uttered a single word of "bitterness".
Yet this wonderful woman, after giving everything, was kicked out by the man she had loved for many years.
At that moment, Lu Gu understood a principle.
What kind of bullshit love is this? My own parents are a pair of scoundrels!
And he himself was an illegitimate child who couldn't be brought into the light!
How could someone like him possibly be accepted by Jin Shu? His very existence is a mistake!
"Since you eloped, why did you come back? How could you want both? How could you treat her like this?!"
"Lu Zhao!!"
A slap landed hard on Lu Zhao's face.
Deng Qiao was panting heavily, her eyes bloodshot with anger.
She never imagined that her own son would speak ill of her for that woman!
"You ingrate!! You're such an ingrate!! Who did I do all this for? It's all for you!! If it weren't for you, why would I have come to this godforsaken place? Do you know how your grandmother treated me? I suffered so much for you, and in the end, I raised such an ingrate!"
Enraged and hysterical, Deng Qiao suddenly realized that her son was staring at her with a hateful and desperate look, as if the person standing in front of him was not his own mother, but his enemy.
At that moment, Deng Qiao's heart sank, and she even held her breath.
“Mother, you’re not doing this for me. You and Father are the same; you’ve done so much for yourselves.”
You were raised by your grandmother before, but now that she's old and no match for Jin Shu, you sent me here so that someone else could take care of you!
Parents, I'm not stupid.
Although you two are my biological father and mother, I feel that Jin Shu is more like my biological mother!
At least she won't use the guise of doing what's best for me to exploit me!
Each word, each sentence, struck like a heavy hammer, turning the faces of the two people opposite them pale and leaving them in identical silence.
Faced with her son's accusations, Deng Qiao was initially shocked. Her expression changed from surprise to fleeting shame, but these emotions were eventually overwhelmed by a stronger sense of grievance and anger. Deng Qiao uncontrollably covered her face and burst into tears, her whole body trembling, her voice hoarse and sorrowful.
"What's the point of me living? Since you all hate me, I might as well just die!!"
After saying that, she rushed straight toward the wooden stake. Just as her head was about to explode, Lu Gu grabbed her, and Lu Mingqian also rushed over to stop her.
"Ah Zhao, apologize to your mother!"
Under these circumstances, Lu Gu suppressed his grief and indignation, his voice hoarse and choked with sobs.
"Mother, I was wrong."
Deng Qiao certainly didn't really want to die; she had no other choice in that situation.
Finally, the family of three returned to their former harmony. After apologizing, Lu Gu became incredibly obedient, as if nothing had happened. Deng Qiao even promised that as soon as everything in the capital was settled, she would immediately take the whole family back to live in seclusion.
That night, Deng Qiao lay on Lu Mingqian's chest and suddenly said something.
"Why don't we sell the shop, pack up all our belongings, and then take Ah Zhao back to live in seclusion?"
“Sold? This is our family business passed down through generations, how could we sell it?”
Deng Qiao frowned, her tone tinged with coquettishness.
“You don’t know how to do business, and Ah Zhao is blaming me for sending him here to suffer. Since that’s the case, why not just abandon everything in the capital and go back to live a secluded life? Anyway, the money we made from selling the goods is enough for us to live on for the rest of our lives. Why bother staying here?”
A while ago, I went shopping. Beijing is so big that you could throw a stone on the street and it would hit a rich person. When I went to buy things in the shops, the shopkeepers ignored me.
"The capital is no good at all; I don't like it here."
In other words, there are too many wealthy people in the capital, and the Duke's family's small fortune is nothing in the eyes of truly wealthy people.
She can no longer enjoy the feeling of being the center of attention she once had.
Upon arriving here, she felt as if she had returned to modern times, becoming that mediocre, ordinary corporate slave, destined to live her entire life at the mercy of others.
Back in the mountains, she thought the Duke's mansion behind Lu Mingqian was already wealthy enough, but when she arrived in the capital, she discovered that the Duke's mansion was nothing in the vast circle of nobles in the capital.
In fact, some of the newly emerging nobles didn't even know who Lu Mingqian was.
Deng Qiao felt a little uncomfortable. This feeling of being ignored or even despised made her feel that the air in the capital was filled with a suffocating smell.
But Lu Mingqian could never have guessed her thoughts.
He thought the woman in his arms was just being silly, so he gave her a perfunctory reply.
"Let's talk about it after I get back the power to manage the household. Right now, all these things are in Mother's hands."
“You are the head of the family, why don’t you just have Mother hand over the power of the matriarch to me?”
(End of this chapter)
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