Chapter 304 Lu Bingtian’s Hatred
Lu Yuanze was lying on the ground, feeling a heart-wrenching pain in his legs. However, after hearing his wife's words, he felt an inexplicable expectation. His eyes began to scan everyone in the hall.
He looked at Bai Huilan, who was a beautiful woman in a mansion, and suddenly found that Bai Huilan was no longer the gentle Bai Yueguang of the past. Her hair was disheveled and her face was swollen from being beaten by her parents, which made her look uncomfortable. She was no longer as gentle as before, and her eyes were filled with terrible hatred.
For some reason, Lu Yuanze looked away and looked at his outstanding son Lu Bingtian, whom he had carefully nurtured. However, after meeting Lu Bingtian's gaze, he only felt vigilance and a kind of disgusted tiredness. This made Lu Yuanze's face twitch. He couldn't believe that everything he did was for this son, but now Lu Bingtian actually resented him?
There is also Lu Yi, the youngest son hiding behind Lu Bingtian. He has always thought that this youngest son has a loose and free character and is useless. Knowing that his wife wants to send this son to inherit something from his eldest brother-in-law, the jealousy in his heart makes him hate Lu Yi even more. Because he is a businessman, he has been servile in front of officials for so many years. Lu Yuanze thought that if he pursued the daughter of an official, he could truly change his class, but in the end he could only become the money bag of the Meng family. How could Lu Yuanze not be angry?
What he wants to do is to be the best, not someone who needs to kowtow every day!!!
There is no need to look at the rest of the people any more. His arrogant wife may never have looked down on him. And Lu Yuanze does not like his daughter Bai Bingbing. He has been planning all this since his wife was pregnant. No matter whether Bai Bingbing is a boy or a girl, it is impossible for her to stay in the Lu family. This is Lu Yuanze's revenge on Meng Li for not supporting him.
It seems that men's revenge on women often comes from the harm caused by maternal love. Taking away a mother's cub is enough to make the mother suffer for half her life.
But now, what he did was exposed, and the person he was nice to didn't even appreciate it, which made Lu Yuanze feel an inexplicable pain in his heart.
Meng Li admired Lu Yuanze as he walked to the end, and then spoke again.
"I've gathered everyone here today to find out the truth about what happened back then, to make everyone understand what happened over the years, and to make everyone pay for their actions."
She was obviously the person who was hurt the most in this incident, but she was the calmest one at this moment. The next moment, Meng Li looked at her ex-husband and stated her request.
"Lu Yuanze, I can let you off the hook for drugging me. As long as you hand over all the Lu family's assets, companies, real estate, and all the funds you have to Lu Yi, I will show mercy and let you go. Otherwise, based on the evidence that you drugged me, I can easily send you to jail."
Probably the only time in Meng Li's life that she acted on emotion was when she chose to marry Lu Yuanze. Perhaps... there was also a transaction of interests involved.
At that time, Meng Li's brothers needed to use money to accumulate political achievements and needed businessmen to invest. Meng Li happened to meet the extremely handsome Lu Yuanze. Lu Yuanze was even pursuing her and was willing to pay the price of money for her, so Meng Li "insisted on her own will" to marry Lu Yuanze, and left Shangjing City for S City despite being scolded by all her friends in Shangjing City as a fool.
But did Meng Li really lose?
For so many years, Meng Li has been providing funds to the Meng family. When other officials may take risks for money, the money in Meng Li's hands can not only support her brothers, but also create political achievements for her brothers. Lu Yuanze can also rely on the reputation of the Meng family and will not be embarrassed.
When the business world meets the government, it is not like the popular sense that you have to give gifts before others will do things for you. Instead, as long as others don't make things difficult for you, you can live a good life.
With the name of the Meng family, S City was gradually occupied by the Lu family. The Lu family became the real local tyrant in S City, paying more than ten billion in taxes every year. Every official who was transferred to S City could benefit from this political achievement. Isn’t this the ability of the Meng family?
What was called true love back then was actually a form of arranged marriage. Meng Li has never been a person who acts on emotion.
After so many years, why is it that Meng Liyuan has been able to maintain the most friendly relationship with her natal family and is missed by her three brothers every day? It is because Meng Li is smart and her intelligence far exceeds Lu Yuanze's.
As for Lu Yuanze's original intention to step on her to enter the political circle, I'm sorry, how could he allow it as the money bag chosen by Meng Li?
All Meng Li could do was to give birth to two children, one to guard the Lu family's empire and the other to enter politics, which could be regarded as her final return to the Lu family.
If everything had gone according to Meng Li's arrangement, within three generations, the Lu family would have truly entered a new class, but all of this was ruined by Lu Yuanze.
"...So the company's document approval is stuck because of your brother? Meng Li! We are husband and wife after all, why do you have to force me like this? I can accept Bai Bingbing returning home, and you can even let Bingtian and Bai Huilan go as you please, but why do you have to do this? Why do you have to make things awkward for everyone?"
Lu Yuanze, lying on the ground, was still arguing, but unfortunately he had no bargaining chips left.
"Aren't you the one who's not looking good right now?"
Meng Li spoke lightly, with a smile in her eyes.
"You and Bai Huilan were in a serious relationship at first, but after you saw me, you started pursuing me in order to save yourself fifty years of struggle. After I agreed to marry you, you kept Bai Huilan outside and raised her as your mistress. I guess she hated me for being the mistress. But who was the one who did the bad thing? Wasn't it you, Lu Yuanze? You want the power and status of my Meng family, and you also want so-called true love. You are really greedy. Lu Yuanze, do you think I, Meng Li, am someone you can bully casually? I, Meng Li, am also a well-known official daughter in Shangjing City. Who didn't laugh at me for being blind to fall for someone like you?"
"But I don't care, because I really like your face when you were young, and I like the way you try to please me. The Lu family is rich, and my Meng family has connections. Isn't this a match made in heaven? Since you chose to seek the skin of a tiger and have enjoyed the splendor of the Lu family for so many years, you should be smart and know how your Lu family rose to prominence. The Meng family can lift you up, but they can also make you fall into the abyss."
As for what Lu Yuanze did, even if it was finally exposed, it would be Meng Li who would be sympathized with and occupied the position of the secular world. Lu Yuanze would not be sympathized by anyone.
"So I hope you won't make me so angry. Just be obedient like you did when you knelt before me. Promise me now to hand over the company and everything to Lu Yi. Then I will let you and the rest of your Lu family go. Otherwise, you know what I'm going to do."
Meng Li's light threats seemed to have never changed. Even after becoming Mrs. Lu without a job, she was still so high and mighty, just like the daughter of the Meng family back then.
Bai Bingbing stood behind her mother and looked at her with admiration. For the first time, she felt a shock from the depths of her soul. Meng Li's strength made Bai Bingbing want to become such a person.
“…” Lu Yuanze knew that what his wife said was true, but he still wanted to struggle. As a result, Lu Bingtian on the side suddenly spoke.
"Mom, I don't want anything from the company. I can give all the property Dad gave me to my brother. After all, I'm just a bastard. I know how good you've been to me over the years. It's me who's taken over the bastard's nest. I'm shameless. After knowing I'm a bastard, I still coveted everything in the Lu family, coveted your care and love. Now that all these lies have been exposed, I'm the sinner. I don't want anything, and I don't ask for your forgiveness."
Lu Bingtian knelt on the ground again. He was raised with great care and was a child nurtured by Meng Li with all her heart and soul. That was why he suffered from depression after knowing that incident at the age of sixteen. He was forced to receive treatment for two years. After getting a little better, he was still in great pain and could not sleep all night.
Meng Li had resented Lu Bingtian, but when she saw the pain of that patient, she also felt sorry for the child she had raised since childhood. And the most important thing was that Lu Bingtian also hated Lu Yuanze. After all, they were mother and son of the same kind.
In Meng Li's world, blood ties are important, and interests are also important. Before Lu Yi grows up, Lu Bingtian is the best tool. Meng Li will use guilt to control this son for the rest of his life, and Lu Yuanze will never get a trace of Lu Bingtian's sincerity.
Just when Meng Li was very satisfied with Lu Bingtian's behavior, Bai Huilan beside her broke down!
She looked at her son kneeling on the ground and calling another woman "Mom", and finally broke down and shouted.
"Bingtian! I am your mother! How could you do this to me! I have been doing this for you all these years, so that you can become the heir of the Lu family, but why do you say you don't want anything? This Lu family was originally yours! If Meng Li hadn't snatched Lu Yuanze away, you would never have become a illegitimate child. You are the eldest grandson of the Lu family! You are not a illegitimate child!!!"
She couldn't accept that she had endured it for many years, been kept as a mistress for many years, and ended up like this. Why did her son end up like this?
But Lu Bingtian knelt there and finally gave her, his mother, a last look.
"You're not my mother. My mother has only one name, Meng Li. From the time I was sixteen until now, at twenty-six, my mother has loved me and taught me how to grow in this world. But you only hurt me, praising my abilities and excellence, nurtured by your mother. I'm the medal of your dreams, a fruit you can pick at will after being nurtured by others."
Lu Bingtian was not very straightforward, but he saw through Bai Huilan's thoughts.
"So, ever since I was sixteen, I've hated you. I hated Lu Yuanze for telling me my identity. I hated Bai Huilan for not actually dying in childbirth. That way, I wouldn't be in so much pain. My mother would still be Meng Li. Bai Huilan, ever since you and Lu Yuanze colluded, everything was wrong. I was a mistake, and now it's time to correct it."
Lu Bingtian thought that after returning everything, he would leave the Lu family and live a muddled life somewhere else, or live an indifferent life, at least he would not let his mother see him so sad.
Or maybe he would have a seizure and die in an empty rental house, but so what?
This was the best possible ending for him as an illegitimate child.
Lu Yuanze never expected that the son he had carefully raised would hate him because he had exposed his identity. But why would Lu Bingtian rather kneel in front of Meng Li than see his father who had carefully planned for him for many years?
He couldn't stop asking painful questions.
"Lu Bingtian! Everyone in this room can say they hate me, except you. I changed the child. Everything I did over the years was for you, wasn't it?"
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