Chapter 625: My biological mother is the heroine of the stepmother novel (15)
"Xiaochu? Xiaochu, I'm your mother!" Wu Shichu and Qi Daiyuan came back from swimming in the swimming pool. Just as they walked to the street outside their home, they were suddenly grabbed by the arm by a middle-aged woman who rushed over from the side.
When Wu Shichu took a look, she found that it was indeed her biological mother Chen Xue who had not appeared for a long time. Ever since Chen Xue married Li Junrong, she seldom came to see Wu Shichu, her biological daughter. As expected, no matter how much she said she loved her daughter when she left, after she remarried, it seemed that this daughter was not important at all. Just like the original owner's life, Chen Xue's love for her daughter was only verbal, but not in action. She treated her stepson much better than her biological daughter.
"Oh, it's mom? Why didn't you call me before you came? You must have been waiting here for a long time, right?" Wu Shichu asked her with a smile, and then without waiting for her answer, he turned back to Qi Daiyuan and said, "Brother, you go home first. Mom and I have something to discuss."
Qi Daiyuan looked at Chen Xue, nodded, and said, "Then you should be careful and go home early."
"Mom, let's find a place to talk first. By the way, have you eaten? If not, let's go to a restaurant and eat while talking." Wu Shichu said to Chen Xue. It was noon now and she herself hadn't eaten, but she didn't want to delay her meal because of Chen Xue. After all, Chen Xue was not worth her going hungry.
"No, then mom will treat you to dinner." Chen Xue shook her head and smiled stiffly at Wu Shichu, as if she wanted to hold her daughter's hand, but she didn't dare to. She had already noticed that Wu Shichu was unfamiliar and polite to her. She had ignored her daughter for so long that she didn't even have the confidence to get close to her.
Wu Shichu took Chen Xue to a relatively luxurious restaurant nearby and chose a private room. When Chen Xue was talking to the waiter, she seemed to be hesitant to speak and could not help but pinch the bag she was carrying.
Wu Shichu saw her actions out of the corner of his eye, but did not care. Chen Xue's current appearance showed that she was not doing well. She was dressed simply and looked haggard. She was no longer the young and beautiful woman who had just divorced. She looked much older and seemed not to be used to appearing in such occasions. It was conceivable that her life in the Li family must have been difficult over the years, otherwise she would not have become timid and petty now.
"Mom, take a look at what you want to eat?" After entering the private room, Wu Shichu handed the menu to Chen Xue.
Chen Xue ordered a meat dish and a vegetable dish, and returned them to Wu Shichu, saying, "Mom has ordered. You order now."
After Wu Shichu took the menu, she unceremoniously ordered several large and hard dishes that she wanted to eat. Chen Xue was so scared that she immediately held her hand and said, "Xiaochu, can the two of us finish so many dishes? Isn't it too extravagant?"
"Don't worry, Mom. I went swimming this morning and consumed a lot of energy, so I can finish it. This is not extravagant at all. I can afford the bill. Dad gives me a lot of pocket money. He is very generous to me." Wu Shichu said, pulling her hand away.
Chen Xue suddenly felt uncomfortable and said, "How can I let you pay the bill? You are a child. No matter how much money you have, it is definitely mom who pays for dinner with you. And mom hasn't seen you for so long. Do you have to pay for a meal with you?"
When Wu Shichu saw her say that, he stopped arguing with her. As a mother, it was only natural for her to treat her underage daughter to a meal.
The mother and daughter started eating. Perhaps because they had been together for a while, Chen Xue found some feeling towards her daughter and began to ask about Wu Shichu's situation at home.
"Are you living well at home? Does your stepmother bully you?" Chen Xue knew that Wu Shichu had remarried a long time ago, so she asked this question.
"No, I'm this old, how can she bully me?" Wu Shichu replied, shaking his head.
"That's good. Is she good to you?" Chen Xue asked again. "After all, you are not her biological child. She may not care about you that much. If she treats you coldly on purpose, you should tell your father. After all, your father only has you as his daughter. He will not ignore you."
Wu Shichu listened, looked at her steadily, and asked, "What about you? You are also someone else's stepmother. How do you treat your stepchildren? Do you treat them as your own children?"
Chen Xue was choked up and was speechless by Wu Shichu's questions. Yes, she herself was someone else's stepmother, so how was she doing as a stepmother? How should she answer her daughter's questions?
If she said that she treated her stepchildren as her own and was a role model for a good stepmother, what would her daughter think? She had ignored her biological daughter for so long, but was so kind to her stepchildren, who were not her biological children. How could she have the face to care about her daughter now?
If she said that she was just average to her step-son, then what was the difference between her and her daughter's step-mother? She didn't even have the nerve to ask if the step-mother was good to her daughter.
Chen Xue only felt her face burning, her eyes flickering, and she didn't dare to look into her daughter's clear eyes.
After a while, she covered her face, sobbed a few times, and asked with a choked voice: "Xiaochu, are you blaming mom? Blaming mom for not being with you these years? Blaming mom for being someone else's stepmother?"
Wu Shichu sneered and said, "Don't say that. I don't blame you. Your divorce and remarriage are your own decisions. I have no right to interfere or stop you. It is your freedom.
I won't blame you. After all, Wu Chengyue is not a good husband. He remarried and still had affairs outside. You were right to divorce him. As for the fact that you were not with me, I didn't care that much. I lived well in the past few years. Wu Chengyue was not a responsible father, but he did provide me with food and drink, and he was generous with his money. "
"Xiaochu, I hope you don't blame mom." Chen Xue sobbed and picked up the tissue on the table to wipe her tears: "Mom hasn't had a good time these years. There have been a lot of troubles in your stepfather's family, especially the three stepchildren. They are very hostile to me and try to sow discord between me and his father all day long. It's getting more and more outrageous..."
Chen Xue seemed to have been holding it in for a long time and actually started complaining to her daughter. She probably had no chance to confide her troubles in her marriage life to anyone, so when she mentioned it to her daughter, she chattered on and on about all the unpleasant things that had happened after her remarriage.
"You have no idea how excessive those three guys from the Li family are. They caused me to have a miscarriage once, which damaged my body. I can never get pregnant again! I was also thinking of giving you a younger brother. Even if we don't have the same father, you can still support each other in the future because of our relationship with me..." Chen Xue didn't seem to notice that Wu Shichu's face was already very ugly, and she actually said such words.
Wu Shichu couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted her: "Stop! Do you think you are pregnant to give me a brother? Did I ask you to give birth? Don't impose your own wishes on me, and even call it giving me a brother to support me. Are you sure you don't want me to support your child unilaterally? You don't live well in the Li family, and you can't get along with your stepson, so you want your own biological child. If you want it, you can have it. Can't you be more honest? It's obviously you who wants it, but you insist on saying it's for me. How can you say it?"
(End of this chapter)
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