Du Jianshan stared at his mother's hypocritical face and felt extremely disgusted.
"It wasn't me who spied on Widow Liu, so why should I take the blame?"
Liu Xiuqin's expression changed, and she forced a pitiful look: "Jianshan, after your father passed away, the family relied entirely on your Uncle Li to manage things."
"Mom has had a tough time, this family can't fall apart!"
"I'm begging you, if you're angry about anything, just take it out on me..."
"Ha!" Du Jianshan sneered, "You really have a heart of stone, just so you can survive in this family!"
"You keep saying 'Mom is sorry,' but in order to be a good stepmother, you're willing to wrong your own son?"
He slammed his fist on the table and stood up abruptly: "Even tigers don't eat their cubs! You'd sell your own son to please some random woman, how can you face my dead father?"
The room fell eerily quiet instantly.
The flame of the kerosene lamp flickered violently, casting distorted shadows on the wall.
"Don't think I don't know!" Du Jianshan pointed at Li Fuqiang's nose, his eyes filled with anger that had been building up for two lifetimes.
"After he takes the blame, we'll send him to work in the factory!"
"That's a spot my own father left for me. I still have a bright future ahead of me!"
"Why should we be ruined by you?"
Du Jianshan swept everything off the table and onto the floor: "I'm telling you this now! Nobody's going to make me take the blame!"
"Let whoever wants to go, go ahead. I'm not putting up with it!"
Li Fuqiang, who had been pretending to be dead, spat out the sunflower seed shells on the ground and sneered with a crooked mouth: "Du Jianshan, you don't even listen to your own mother anymore?"
"They've really grown up!"
He turned to Liu Xiuqin and raised his chin: "Aunt Liu, you promised my father this morning that you would never let anything happen to me."
"What, you can't even control your own son now?"
"Do you still want me to call you Mom? Do you still want to be with my dad?"
"Didn't you say you loved me the most? That you treated me like your own son! Is this how you treat me?"
Liu Xiuqin's face turned pale, her fingers twisting her apron: "Jianshan, Mom begs you..."
"Beg me?" Du Jianshan sneered, "When you gave those two assurances this morning, why didn't you ask me?"
"Are you even my biological mother? You're so eager to send your own son away to take the blame for a stepson who has nothing to do with you?"
Upon hearing this, Li Fuqiang became furious and embarrassed.
He slammed his hand on the table, his eyes filled with malice: "No matter what, Du Jianshan must take the blame for this crime today!"
"Aunt Liu, as long as you let Du Jianshan go, I'll acknowledge you as my mother from now on!"
"Otherwise, you can forget about me acknowledging you for the rest of your life!"
Liu Xiuqin burst into tears and reached out to pull Du Jianshan: "Jianshan... I beg you, when you get out, I'll save money to get you a wife..."
"Eight years!" Du Jianshan flung her hand away. "Do you think this is like queuing up at the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"Even if you beat me to death, I won't go today!"
"If you want to live with other men, then go ahead! I'm not putting up with it anymore!"
With that, Du Jianshan walked straight out the door.
Li Fuqiang suddenly jumped up and blocked the door, pulled the confession from his pocket, and shoved it at Du Jianshan's face: "If you don't sign it today, you're not leaving this room!"
Du Jianshan's eyes turned cold, and he grabbed his wrist, his anger pent up for two lifetimes.
He slapped her across the face!
"Smack!"
Li Fuqiang staggered a couple of steps after being hit, covering his face and glaring: "You dare hit me?"
"I'm going to hit you!" Du Jianshan pointed at his nose and cursed.
"How have you and your father bullied me all these years? Now you want me to go to jail for you?"
"You want to take my dad's worker position? Who do you think you are?"
"Want to leech off me? No way!"
Liu Xiuqin rushed forward to break up the fight: "Stop fighting! Get to the bottom of this!"
Du Jianshan shoved her away, his eyes chillingly cold: "Mom, I have only one question for you today!"
"It's either him or me! Do you want your own son, or this stepson?"
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