Hearing the old lady's words, Tian Huiliang felt his eyebrows throbbing. Just as he was about to refute, he saw tears in his mother's eyes. He had never seen such a hurt look in her eyes before. Tian Huiliang took a step back.
The old lady said, "You are already grown up and have your own ideas. I am sixty now. Even if I can live another ten or fifteen years, it is all my luck. I just want to find someone to accompany me, right?"
"What's wrong with being sixty? People online say that sixty is the age to make a breakthrough. Dating is normal for me. I raised you two siblings and have fulfilled my obligations. You have no right to interfere in my life."
"Don't say that our family is rich. Even if we don't have money, it's normal for me to want to find a partner." After being a widow for more than 30 years, her self-sacrifice should come to an end. It's time for her to enjoy her life.
"You were the ones who advised me to quit my job and enjoy my old age, to go out and see the world. But now, you don't agree with me. What do you want me to do to satisfy you?"
The old lady stood up and looked at her son. Tian Huiliang looked down and found that the old lady was not as tall as he remembered. She didn't know when she became so short and needed protection.
The daughter-in-law heard the noise and walked in. Seeing her mother-in-law getting angry at her husband, she felt angry and said, "Mom, Wan Liang is doing this for your own good. What if you get cheated by that professor? People are always suspicious. He has a family and children. We have to be careful!"
Mrs. Wan looked at her daughter-in-law and asked, "So you also think I shouldn't find a partner?"
Wang Caiping choked. It was okay if she didn't want to do it in her heart, but she didn't dare say it out loud.
Mrs. Wan was no fool. She sneered and said, "What do you want to do?"
"Mom, now it's not about what we want to do, it's about what you want to do!" Wan Liang said angrily, hands on his hips, "If you insist on marrying Professor Zhang, then just pretend you don't have a son like me."
When he said this, his heart twitched violently, but when he thought that his family property would be divided up by others, he became more determined. He would protect his father's company even if he had to sever ties with him.
Old Mrs. Wan didn't know what he was thinking, but she could guess roughly. Even if they were family members, once interests were involved, it all came down to conscience.
"Okay! Since you think so, I'll pretend you're not my son. You move out now!" The old lady said decisively, "If you want to keep your father's property, I'll give it to you. The rest is mine, and you don't want to take a single cent!"
"Mom! How could you do this?"
After hearing what the old lady said, Wan Liang felt like the sky had fallen. He and his wife looked at each other and knew that the old lady had been brainwashed by the professor. Now she didn't even want her own son and wanted to go out and help others raise their sons!
Wan Liang said with a hurt look on his face, "Mom, why can't you understand? As your son, I don't want to take all your property for myself. I'm just afraid of being cheated by others. We know exactly how you've been through all these years."
"Why should an outsider take your things without any effort? Do you think he really loves you?"
Wang Caiping also said, "Yes, Mom, it's not that we don't support you, it's just that business is not doing well right now. We have no objection even if you use the money to travel or do something else."
"No problem?" The old lady laughed angrily. "Is this your attitude of not having a problem? I give my money to whoever I want. What right do you have to control it? If I don't give it to you, you have no right to say anything."
The old lady is stubborn. Whatever she says is what she sticks to. If she were weak, she wouldn't be able to run the company and expand its scope.
Wan Liang was really troubled by her. He was at his wit's end. Even if the old lady wanted to break off relations with him, she would still be with the professor. She definitely didn't want to take care of them anymore. If she left, the family property would have to be taken with her.
The thought of his family's money being taken away by someone else made Wan Liang feel uneasy. He had no choice but to give in and said, "Even if you two want to be together, you have to get to know each other better. How long have you known each other?"
Old Mrs. Wan didn't even look at him. She walked around the two of them and took out a file bag from the cabinet, and took out a red notebook and an agreement from it.
"This is my marriage certificate to your Uncle Zhang." She shoved the red booklet in front of Wan Liang and said, "Whether you recognize it or not, he and I are already husband and wife!"
The moment he saw the marriage certificate, Wan Liang felt like he was hit by a hammer. He thought it was outrageous enough that his mother was having a twilight romance, but he didn't expect that she would act without their permission and even get the marriage certificate back without their knowledge.
Wan Liang looked carefully and saw that the wedding date was just three days ago, which meant that she got the marriage certificate first and then came back to test their attitude!
"Mom! Why didn't you discuss with us before getting the marriage certificate?" Wan Liang was completely defeated, feeling that most of the family property would be divided away.
Wang Caiping also looked like she had lost all hope in life, as if she had not expected her mother-in-law to do such a thing. She covered her heart and quickly sent a message to Wan Liang's sister Wan Li, telling her that something big had happened at home.
"Discuss?" Old Lady Wan said unhappily, "When you were forcing me to break up with Old Zhang every day, why didn't you think of discussing it with me and asking for my opinion?"
"Hmph, Professor Zhang is a teacher, but he doesn't even know that such an important matter should be notified to us, his children. He is so anxious to get you married because he is afraid that we will not agree." Wan Liang said angrily with his face flushed.
"What a good trick! What a good trick!"
He quietly took his mother to get the marriage certificate. Now, no matter whether he came for the family property or not, the old man, as his mother's other half, had to share her property.
This news was like the sky falling for Wan Liang.
Wan Liang's mind was filled with images of his mother being plotted against and the family property being divided up by jackals, tigers and leopards.
The old lady clenched the documents in her hand. She looked at her son and her heart grew colder.
Just then, someone broke in.
"What happened?" A woman who looked 80% like Wan Liang walked in wearing high heels. She was on her way home, but the news from her sister-in-law made her feel particularly uneasy, so she stepped on the accelerator and rushed over.
Wang Caiping said with a sullen face, "Mom and Professor Zhang got their marriage certificate three days ago." She nodded in the direction of Old Lady Wan.
Wan Li looked in the direction of the gaze, and her brain froze for a moment, unable to react. Her mother and the professor got married?
Still carrying them?
Old Madam Wan raised her eyes and stared at Wan Li, saying softly, "Why? Do you also think I shouldn't get this certificate? Do you also think I'm too old to pursue my own happiness?"
Wan Li was about to speak out, but seeing the old lady's increasingly sharp eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little scared. She smiled bitterly and said, "You've already produced your marriage certificate. What's the point of me having an opinion?"
Like her brother, she felt her future was bleak. Professor Zhang already had a son, so did her mother have to raise him? They couldn't accept the idea of having multiple brothers.
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