Chen Dongxu paused, then looked at Chen Changqing with some resentment: "Dad, I clearly have my own mother, why don't you stop me from calling that woman 'Mom'?"
That calling went on for over ten years. Looking back now, I feel really sorry for my mom!
"How can I stop it? No matter what, she and I are legally married and she moved into this house. She's your, your brother's, and your sister's stepmother."
Your brother was already old enough to understand things and didn't want to call your stepmother "Mom." You were only two or three years old, and your sister was even younger. Even if I said she wasn't your mother, would you understand what I meant?
Besides, she took very good care of you three siblings. You yourself unknowingly started calling her "Mom." Even after your older brother told you she wasn't your and your sister's biological mother, did either of you listen?
Hearing Chen Changqing's words, Chen Dongxu was speechless for a moment. After a while, he said, "That woman's care for me, my brother, and my sister was not out of sadness, but rather she was trying to flatter us to death!"
It's just that my older brother matured early and was more self-disciplined than me, and he joined the army when he was around ten years old, so he wasn't tormented by that woman for a long time. My sister and I, on the other hand, were pitiful.
Like two silly little fools, they thought the other would give them whatever they wanted, believing it was for their own good. Over time, my sister and I developed tempers that everyone disliked. Why don't you, Dad, or Grandpa and Grandma, stand up and say a word?
Are you sure your grandparents and I didn't discipline you and your siblings?
Chen Changqing stared intently at his simple-minded son, his gaze deep: "Every time before I can even discipline you siblings, you burst into tears, and then your stepmother will defend you and speak ill of me."
Your grandparents said that while your stepmother doesn't openly protect you and your siblings, you've gradually become less inclined to be near your grandparents. Am I telling the truth?
Chen Dongxu lowered his head: "That woman told us to keep our distance from my grandparents as much as possible, saying that as long as my grandparents can't see us, they won't say anything bad about us anymore."
He paused, then continued, "I was truly stupid. Before my legs were broken, I didn't see through that woman's malicious intentions. I never imagined that she actually neglected me, only indulging me and letting me become useless."
She disciplining her own son harshly, even bringing up minor mistakes Chen Dongze repeatedly, and I felt happy seeing it, thinking Chen Dongze deserved it… Dad, am I stupid?”
"He's not very smart."
Chen Changqing casually uttered a sentence.
"dad……"
Chen Dongxu clutched his chest, feeling as if he had been hit by a billion points of damage. He cried out with a long face, "I'm devastated!"
"You're not a kid anymore, can't you be a decent person?"
Chen Changqing made no attempt to hide his disdain.
"Dad, I'm only in my early twenties."
He's still so young!
"Someone said before that Dr. Song is not yet twenty years old, but his medical skills are extraordinary."
As soon as Chen Changqing said this, Chen Dongxu's face immediately turned bright red.
"Dad, you can't compare people. Besides, you can't compare me to a genius like Dr. Song!"
Chen Dongxu felt wronged and resentful.
"Don't you have a brain?"
In Chen Changqing's view, his second son wasn't stupid; he just hadn't used his intelligence for anything worthwhile since childhood, only knowing how to eat, drink, and have fun.
He managed to get a high school diploma, but while he was a bit of a slacker and didn't do anything productive, he wasn't the kind of person who was full of bad intentions and despised by everyone.
"Dad, you're criticizing me again!"
Chen Dongxu felt increasingly aggrieved: "I have a brain, otherwise, how come I haven't done anything outrageous all these years?"
But every coin has two sides; comparing me to Dr. Song is clearly a mismatch!
"Alright, go back to your room and rest. Be more careful in the future, so you don't fall into someone's trap and get beaten up in an alley."
"Dad... why are you bringing up something I shouldn't talk about? The reason I was trapped in the alley was because they outnumbered me and attacked from multiple directions, leaving me nowhere to escape, which is why I met with this misfortune!"
"By the way, Dad, haven't you found any leads on those people yet?"
"No, but the long arm of the law will eventually catch them and bring them to justice."
"Dad, did my older brother tell you his guess?"
"Um."
"So what's your opinion?"
Everything must be based on evidence.
"Dad, what do you think her motive was?"
"..."
If the eldest son's guess is true, Chen Changqing thinks it's not hard to guess his wife Zhang Hua's purpose: to put everything in the Chen family into her own son's hands.
With his eyelids lowered, Chen Changqing lightly tapped the table with his fingers. It seemed that... he would have to get his stepson to change his surname back to his biological father's.
After all, Zhang Hua's ex-husband only had a son and a daughter. When her daughter left when she was young, if her only son continued to take his stepfather's surname, it would be unfair to the hero who sacrificed his life for the country and his former partner!
Years ago, Zhang Hua suggested that her ex-husband's son change his surname to hers, that Chen Changqing should take his as his stepfather's surname. At the time, Chen Changqing refused, feeling it was completely unnecessary. Unexpectedly, Zhang Hua cried every day, saying that there were several children in the family.
Because her two children have different surnames, they will definitely be treated with prejudice when they go out, and they will likely be ostracized by their classmates when they go to school.
She was bullied, and as a mother, she didn't want to see her children suffer, so she begged to change their surname to Chen first, and then change it back to their biological father's surname when they came of age.
Since Zhang Hua had already said all that and was pleading with tears in his eyes, Chen Changqing finally had no choice but to back down and change the surnames of Zhang Hua's two children to his own.
However, due to his busy work schedule, Chen Dongze did not immediately consider changing his stepson's surname back to that of his biological father after he came of age.
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