The uncle was a little stunned when he received the call. He didn't expect his nephew to call him, let alone that he would suggest coming to live at his house.
The uncle glanced at his wife furtively, and his aunt noticed the guilt in his eyes. She stepped forward, snatched the phone from him, and put it on speakerphone.
Yanling continued speaking on the other end of the phone: "Uncle, I've been with you since I was little. Now I have nowhere to go. Besides you, I don't know who else is willing to help me. Please come pick me up from home tomorrow."
Jiang Wei's mouth moved as if he wanted to say something, but his wife pinched him hard, causing him to cry out in pain. Yan Ling hurriedly asked, "Uncle, are you alright?"
"No, it's nothing. Yanling, I'm still living at my father-in-law's house. It wouldn't be convenient for you to come and stay with us, would it?"
"Uncle, you are my own uncle, are you going to abandon me too?"
Auntie stepped back a few paces and shouted into the phone, "Jiang Wei, who are you talking to? Don't forget, you're staying at my parents' house right now. Stop playing the good Samaritan! Come over and mop the floor!"
Having said all that, Yanling understood perfectly well. He didn't say anything more and silently hung up the phone.
Hearing the phone hang up, his aunt was about to explode when Jiang Wei made a gesture of surrender: "Wife, wife! I didn't mean to agree. Believe me, even if you weren't here, I wouldn't have agreed."
His aunt looked at him suspiciously. Had the old man finally come to his senses? Why was she so skeptical?
In Jiang Wei's mind, his nephew was much closer than his wife. His nephew was his family, while his wife was just an emotionless old woman who served him and his son.
The uncle gave a fawning smile: "I really think so, absolutely! I know what I did in the past was pretty awful. I shouldn't have dumped all the housework on you and then stood by and did nothing. You've already worked hard enough taking care of the family, and instead of helping you, I've added to your burden."
Jiang Wei took a sip of water and continued, "What my sister said that time woke me up. I have no right to make decisions for you, let alone make decisions on my own. I was wrong before. I always felt that you didn't have your own ideas and would only do everything according to my requirements. So every time I took it upon myself to make decisions for you. Wife, I'm sorry."
Auntie never expected to hear Jiang Wei's confession in her lifetime. She knew this man too well. In his eyes, she used to be just an accessory, a mute nanny who only knew how to work silently.
He felt that he had no opinions of his own and no thoughts of his own, and since he was the head of the family, he never sought her opinion or cared about her thoughts.
When did it start? It seems that it started when she began to run away from this home. Jiang Wei stopped being so domineering. He dared not speak out against her, and he no longer had the audacity to order her around.
It seems that letting him experience the joy of working appropriately is the only way to help him recognize his own identity, and the effect is surprisingly good.
"We all watched Yanling's live stream today. This time is different from the past; he might be subjected to cyberbullying. Doesn't he know the consequences of being cyberbullied?"
He actually tried to drag us down with him! We raised him to adulthood, and while good things happen, he never thinks of me, his uncle, but when it comes to something dire, he remembers me. My parenting has been a complete failure; I haven't raised him well, and I'm so sorry to my older sister.
When her aunt saw the glistening tears in her husband's eyes, she felt a pang of sadness. Her foolish husband had devoted decades of his life to that ingrate Yanling, only to be met with his insincere affection.
If Jiang Wei hadn't taken Yan Ling in back then, she would have been sent to an orphanage long ago!
There's also Jiang Xin, who was deceived by him. That girl gave up a life of luxury for him, but he didn't even give her a proper wedding. The marriage was just a hasty registration of the marriage certificate without any ceremony. Outsiders had no idea that the two of them were married!
Yan Ling cheated Jiang Xin out of so much money, but he didn't even buy her a ring. She still can't figure out what Jiang Xin saw in Yan Ling.
Later, when she gave birth and went through postpartum confinement, it was her own ungrateful aunt and her own ungrateful uncle who took on the responsibilities he should have fulfilled. Did he ever say a word of thanks to her and Jiang Wei?
Later, I helped them take care of their children unconditionally, but the two of them still acted as if it were their right.
The thought of the child reminded the aunt of the video that had just appeared in the live stream. Yanling! How could you do this to An'an!
The child he had cared for so much was being abused by Yanling. He doesn't deserve to be An'an's father!
Even for An'an's sake, she and Jiang Wei could no longer help Yanling; he was truly worse than a pig or a dog.
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