Chapter 202 Ex-husband and Mrs. Xiang turn against each other
If the child simply doesn't want to acknowledge his parents, Shao Muyan and Yu Yan are at their wits' end.
It was their fault to begin with, and there's no reason to force the children to acknowledge each other.
To be honest, I'm more used to the terms "uncle" and "aunt" than "mom and dad".
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Xiang Jingheng brought Xiang Chu back to the Xiang Mansion after a long absence.
Upon seeing Xiang Chu, Chairman Xiang and Mrs. Xiang immediately called him "my good boy" and hugged him tightly, checking him over from head to toe.
Mrs. Xiang kept asking, "What happened? How did you get kidnapped again? Are you hurt?"
Just as Xiang Chu was about to shake her head and say no, Xiang Tai's mouth started firing like a machine gun.
"Is it related to Yu Yan again? I told you not to send the child to her, but you wouldn't listen! What good is it to be near that jinx? The Gan family has already been ruined by her, and if this continues, our Xiang family will be doomed sooner or later..."
These words caused the men of the Xiang family to change their expressions.
"What nonsense are you spouting!"
The first person to utter a curse was Chairman Xiang.
Business people are superstitious; they like to hear good things but dislike bad things, especially at such a sensitive time.
"If you can't speak properly, then shut up! The Gan family's misfortune is their own family's misfortune, what does it have to do with us!"
In short, the long-standing friendship between the two families was completely severed.
Xiang Jingheng listened to his father's selfish and callous words, and all he could feel was a cold laugh.
Seeing that his grandson was alright, Chairman Xiang was relieved and didn't stay at home for long. He was quickly driven away by his driver. Now, he didn't want to stay at home any longer, let alone his son and grandson.
Mrs. Xiang only showed concern for her grandson briefly. After her husband left, her eyes filled with resentment. She complained to Xiang Jingheng in a low voice, "Your dad's been having a lot of affairs lately, going to clubs all the time. I heard he's got his eye on a young girl in a cheongsam, younger than you. Humph, an old cow eating young grass, what a shameless old man..."
"mom!"
Xiang Jingheng covered Xiang Chu's ears and rudely interrupted Xiang Tai, "If there's nothing else, we'll be leaving now."
He was about to leave with Xiang Chu in his arms.
"Where are you going! We've only been home a short while. What, this house can't fit you two anymore?"
Mrs. Xiang dared not vent her anger on her husband, so she could only take it out on her son and grandson, her face dark and gloomy: "Have you grown too big for your britches, or have you been bewitched by Yu Yan? You're not coming home at all!"
She rushed at Jing Heng and yelled, "You're really something! A divorced ex-wife has become a hot commodity? What, now that Yu Yan is about to get together with the third master of the Shao family, you can't bear to let her go and are starting to get restless? How shameless, son?"
A mother knows best how to break someone's heart.
Xiang Jingheng's face turned pale and then red, he was so angry that his throat felt metallic, and he was choked and unable to say a word.
"And you too!"
After yelling at her son, Mrs. Xiang then yelled at her grandson, "Who raised you? It was your grandma, me! You used to despise your mother so much, but now that she's become a professor and a scientist, you're all scrambling to get close to her. You two are such snobs!"
"I don't!"
Xiang Chu was struck where it hurt and immediately became agitated, yelling back, "I wasn't raised by you, I was raised by my mother! You don't care about me at all, you only talk badly about my mother in front of me, you only know how to stir up trouble!"
"Smack!"
Enraged, Mrs. Xiang slapped Xiang Chu across the face, "You little brat, who are you calling a troublemaker!"
Xiang Chu felt a burning sensation on her cheeks and burst into tears.
"Mom, what are you doing!"
Xiang Jingheng looked at Xiang Chu's red face, his brows furrowed, and his heart skipped a beat with anger.
The son was well-fed and chubby at Yu Yan's place, and he became more lively and playful. Even when he encountered danger, Shao Yun would risk his life to save him, and he escaped unharmed... But he never expected that when he returned home, he would be slapped by his own grandmother.
Before they returned, he urgently ordered them to come back over the phone, but after they got home, he started hitting them.
Not only did Xiang Chu feel wronged, Xiang Jingheng's heart also sank.
This is the home where he grew up, and this is his family.
Despite being the one who hit someone, Mrs. Xiang seemed more aggrieved than Xiang Chu, constantly talking about how much she had sacrificed for the family and how much she had suffered for her siblings, and how now they were all siding with outsiders...
"Enough!"
Xiang Jingheng was utterly fed up with listening to these stale and trivial stories, like those of a broken record.
Mrs. Xiang was stunned by his shout, but what she feared even more was her son's sharp eyes.
There was no warmth inside, only coldness.
"Why is no one close to you? You're always blaming others, but have you ever reflected on yourself?"
Xiang Jingheng said coldly, "From childhood to adulthood, you've always told me how much you suffered to give birth to me. Did I beg you to bring me into this world? Did I make you suffer this, or did you deliberately invite it upon yourself?"
Mrs. Xiang looked at her son in disbelief, "What, what did you say!"
"You look down on those vixens outside, but didn't you get to your position in the same way? You climbed up to my father because of your vanity, you gave birth to my sister to use her as a womb to advance your status, and you gave birth to me because you couldn't enter the Xiang family without a son. Everything you did was for your own selfish desires. What's wrong with admitting that? Why are you using this to morally blackmail us?"
Xiang Jingheng ignored his mother's trembling body and spoke in an extremely indifferent tone.
"The reason my sister is so love-obsessed and why I don't understand love is because we've never experienced love from you, and this family has never given us a sense of security. You've ruined both of our children. The reason I moved Xiangchu out and sent him to his mother's place is because I'm afraid that you'll ruin your son and then ruin your grandson too. My son can't be ruined by you either."
Mrs. Xiang shuddered violently, her face turning deathly pale.
Xiang Jingheng wasn't unaware of what was happening; he simply wouldn't soften his heart anymore.
“You don’t care about me or Xiao Chu, so we might as well not come back to this house. But Mrs. Xiang, you should at least care about your own future. If you keep making trouble like this, you won’t be able to keep my father’s identity, and you won’t even be able to keep your identity as Mrs. Xiang.”
Xiang Jingheng chuckled coldly: "If my dad wanted a divorce, I might not object. I wouldn't mind having a stepmother either."
After saying that, he carried the sobbing Xiang Chu away in the car.
Mrs. Xiang slumped dejectedly in the yard, waving her arms as if to hit someone, but she was too weak and could only wail.
Inside the car, Xiang Jingheng gently stroked his son's face, "Does it hurt?"
"A little."
Xiang Chu pouted, "Dad, Grandma only slapped me and it hurts so much, but my brother took a knife for me and bled so much. How much pain must he have been in?"
After she finished speaking, her eyes and nose turned red again, and tears streamed down her face.
Xiang Jingheng sighed inwardly, and was about to speak when his phone vibrated. He frowned as he looked at the caller ID.
He hired a private investigator.
The detective said on the phone that he followed Shao Muyan and Yu Yan and watched them enter a forensic center.
He finally managed to get in touch with them and found out that Yu Yan had gone for a paternity test.
Xiang Jingheng's body suddenly stiffened, and his brow twitched.
Yu Yan is getting a paternity test? And with whom?
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