Chapter 305 I am Meng from the Meng Family
Anyone in this world can say that they are doing it for Lu Bingtian's own good, but that person should not be Lu Yuanze.
Meng Li burst out laughing at these words. She wondered why Lu Yuanze was so confident his son should side with him. Was it because he knew Lu Bingtian was his illegitimate child? If he had truly doted on Lu Bingtian from the start, would he have kept his true mother secret from him and reunited the family? Would he have waited until the child was older to tell him his current mother wasn't his mother, but his mistress?
Do you think any normal child would accept that his mother, who is of noble status and treats him well, becomes a useless mistress?
Lu Bingtian was questioned by his father at this time. If it were in the past, he would probably endure it, try to please his father, or make up a lie because he was afraid of leaving the Lu family. But now his mother knew everything, and they had become strangers. The final outcome might be that he would be driven away by his mother and would never see her again.
But Lu Bingtian had already made all preparations. He looked at the man lying on the ground with an expressionless face and spoke calmly.
"Dad, you were so good to me that you told me after my sixteenth birthday, when I was at my happiest, that I wasn't actually my mother's child, nor was I Xiaoyi's brother. I was just a dark, despised illegitimate child, right?"
Lu Yuanze was stunned for a moment and tried to save his face.
"In my heart, you will always be my eldest son. No one can surpass your status. Besides, you have always been raised by me and brought up by Meng Li. How can you say you are an illegitimate child? As long as we keep it secret, no one will know."
At this time, he still needs others to pay for his mistakes, and he doesn't think that he is the most disgusting one in this matter.
"No, I'm not the eldest son. I'm an illegitimate child, the son of a mistress whose mother was kept as a concubine by a married father. Do you know how much I hated myself at that time? I wanted to die! I didn't dare to look at my mother's eyes at that time. I was afraid of being looked at by her with disappointment, afraid that she would say she didn't want me anymore. I have always been so proud of being Meng Li's son. When I heard people outside praising me, I just thought that this was all taught to me by my mother. Would my mother be proud too when she heard others praising me? I wanted to be a child that made my mother proud, but you ruined it all!!!"
Lu Bingtian's eyes were red and his voice was choked. The pain that had been suppressed for many years finally poured out. He rolled up his sleeves to let everyone see the scratches on his arms near his shoulders.
"See? I cut all of this myself, one by one. How much I hate that this body of mine is a bastard, not my mother's! And what you just said, Dad, listen to yourself, is it normal? You said that I was raised by my mother and no one knew I was a bastard. I am the normal heir of the Lu family, but in your heart, you also look down on Bai Huilan, right? So you didn't want to let her raise the child, and chose to let my mother raise me. When I was sixteen, you suddenly took me to see Bai Huilan. It was because my mother asked me to go to the company for an internship, right? You hate me, you don't want me to join the company, so you use such an excuse to destroy me."
That's right, the situation at that time was actually very simple. Lu Bingtian was trained very well by Meng Li, and he was already extraordinary at the age of sixteen. So that summer Meng Li originally wanted Lu Bingtian to go to the Lu family's company for internship in advance, but Lu Yuanze did not allow his power to fall into the hands of others, so he deliberately took Lu Bingtian to meet his biological mother and delayed Lu Bingtian's entry into the company for two years.
Lu Bingtian has been in great pain in the past two years.
"So, Dad, don't say that everything is for me. You are only doing this for yourself. You won't allow me, who was raised by Mom, to take your place. So you deliberately brought me to see Bai Huilan in order to destroy the relationship between Mom and me. But you are wrong. I am not a heartless person. I know who is truly good to me."
After Lu Bingtian finished speaking, he saw Bai Huilan who was shocked beside him.
"Bai Huilan, you don't have to tell me that you were willing to stay with Lu Yuanze for all these years for me. Back then, Lu Yuanze was attracted to my mom and wanted to be with her. You were in a relationship, but he cheated on you. If you really didn't want to do all this, you could have left him and found someone else to live a normal life. But you couldn't bear to give up the Lu family's wealth and glory. You chose to be someone else's mistress. You even proudly replaced me and Bai Bingbing after giving birth to a child. You even faked your own death and abandoned your parents. Do you think I would believe your hypocritical love?"
How can there be love for a person who doesn't even care about his parents, a person who will do anything to curry favor with the powerful?
In fact, Lu Bingtian felt that Lu Yuanze and Bai Huilan were a perfect match and deserved to be together. After all, both of them were people who would do anything for profit.
...Bai Huilan was speechless. Her son almost called her a gold digger and a bitch.
Even Lu Yuanze looked at Lu Bingtian in a state of sudden realization, wondering what he had been thinking at the time. Was it true...was it to stop his son from joining the company?
When Meng Li saw Lu Bingtian crying, she felt a little sad, but she didn't say anything.
Only when Lu Yi stood behind his brother did he realize how much pain he was in. He had always thought that his brother was cold and difficult to approach. Now, seeing the injuries on Lu Bingtian's body up close, and thinking that he really had depression, Lu Yi didn't even know for a moment whether he should hate the man who had occupied his sister's identity.
He knew all this and felt pain, but was reluctant to leave. In the end, he found his sister and supported her. Sometimes, it was really difficult for Lu Yi to evaluate what kind of person Lu Bingtian was.
"...I care about you. You are my first son, and I want you to inherit the Lu family's business."
At this time, Lu Yuanze was still trying to save his reputation, but Meng Li exposed his lies.
"Okay, I don't want to hear any more of this useless talk, Lu Yuanze. You say you care about him, but from the age of sixteen to now, twenty-six, for a full ten years, did you know he suffered from severe depression? Do you know how many times he's cut himself? You don't know, and I don't know either. So if you don't love him, I... I'm not a good mother either."
Meng Li admitted that she was careless and didn't even know about such a thing. After her son turned sixteen, he kept his distance from her. Meng Li rarely saw her son with bare shoulders. She thought the child had grown up, but she didn't expect that he had experienced all this.
She admitted that she was not a good mother and did not notice Lu Bingtian's pain, but she also resented Lu Yuanze for bringing pain to her son.
"Mom, it's not like that. I deceived you, I hid things from you, I lied..."
Lu Bingtian was a little flustered. Even though he was 26 years old this year, he was mentally dependent on Meng Li. The more he knew about his illegitimate identity, the more he wanted Meng Li's love. He tried hard to behave just to avoid being abandoned.
"Okay, Bingtian, I know it's not your fault. You were young back then and were also a victim. I just want everyone to get justice."
Meng Li comforted the other person, then looked at Lu Yuanze.
"Lu Yuanze, I don't want to waste any more time talking nonsense. Everything here has been revealed today. Everyone knows the bad things you did and what you really think. There's no need to hide it. Now you only have two choices."
"The first thing is to hand over everything you have to Lu Yi. I will arrange for Bingtian to help look after the company temporarily, and my eldest brother's people will come over. When Lu Yi grows up, he will become the heir of the Lu family, and you can continue the Lu family in the future."
"The second is that I will send you directly to prison. Once you're in prison, I will change the name of everything in the Lu family to the Meng family, and take Lu Yi with me. You don't have to tell me how I'm going to send you in. After I found out about Bingbing's situation, I installed cameras in my house and captured you drugging me several times. The drugged water has also been carefully examined. This is all evidence of your murder. I have a way to keep you from getting out forever."
Lu Yuanze didn't want either of these options, but he was powerless to do anything about it.
No one present was able to rescue Lu Yuanze, as he had fallen into the trap that Meng Li had set for him from the beginning.
So Lu Yuanze finally chose the first option. He chose to give all the family property and many other things to Lu Yi. At least he was sure that Meng Li, the vicious woman, would not harm her own son.
Bai Huilan was taken away by the police on charges of stealing Lu's company's finances. Lu Bingtian wanted to resign and return everything he had once obtained to Lu Yi, but was stopped by Meng Li. Before Lu Yi grew up, the company still needed someone to look after it, and she had hundreds of ways to make Lu Bingtian work for her.
"Bingtian, although you are not my biological son, I raised you for twenty-six years. Is there really no love between you and me? After what happened, am I, your mother for twenty-six years, so cruel in your heart that I want to take away everything from you?"
She stroked her son's head, just like she did when he was a child, and then stroked Lu Bingtian's scar.
"I didn't know you were sick. It was my fault. If I could go back ten years, I would rather the truth be known than let you suffer so much. In my heart, you and Xiaoyi are still my most beloved sons and my proudest sons. The mistakes were all made by your father and have nothing to do with you."
Lu Bingtian's eyes turned red again. He didn't know what to say. He knelt on the ground, hugged his mother's knees, and put his head on them, just like he did when he was a child.
"Mom, I will take good care of the company for my brother. As long as Xiaoyi is capable, I will let him go immediately. When the time comes, I want to come back and be with you, okay? I don't want anything, I just want to be your son."
His broken sixteen years old finally seemed to start growing up. There was no smile on Meng Li's face. She just gently stroked Lu Bingtian's head and agreed.
"Okay, Mom believes you."
This mother and son, entangled in interests and emotions, are destined to be tied together for life. Lu Yi did not expect his brother to suffer so much, and he and his sister Bai Bingbing were also deeply moved.
"Do you hate him? I don't think I hate him that much anymore. Everyone seems to be living in such pain."
Lu Yi sighed, but Bai Bingbing said.
"I don't hate him, because I'm not a weak person. Even without Lu Bingtian's help, I have become an internet celebrity with three million fans. I can live a good life with my own hands and abilities. But I'm very happy now."
Bai Bingbing no longer concealed her ambition, and Lu Yi looked at her curiously.
“If Dad hadn’t switched you with Lu Bingtian, you would be my sister, the eldest daughter of the Lu family. You have suffered a lot over the years, so why don’t you hate me?”
Lu Yi is really naive. Bai Bingbing couldn't help but reach out and rub her brother's head.
"Because I won't have the surname Lu, my mother will take me to Shangjing City. I will change my name to Meng, the Meng of the Meng family. So, my dear brother, I won't hate others, because I know my path is still ahead and I will go further."
Lu Bingtian? Mr. Lu from the Lu Group?
In the future, he will be Meng Bingbing's purse and the person in her mother's hand. How could she feel resentment?
In the face of interests, sometimes love and hate are actually the least worth mentioning things...
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