Chapter 399: Falling out
After Ye Lanxin walked out of the room, she asked the servant where Zhou Yuxiu had gone, and went straight to the study in the backyard.
As expected, Zhou Yuxiu locked himself in there alone, and no servants were allowed to enter or get close.
“Get out of the way…”
Ye Lanxin ordered Zhou Yuxiu's personal guard to leave, and all the bad emotions were already visible on her face.
She has been in a really bad mood these past few days. What happened last night has not been fully clarified yet. Zhou Yuxiu, as the prince, not only did not stabilize the situation of the Zhou family, but instead said those words to Ye Lingyue who had a miscarriage.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She kicked open the study door and rushed in.
"Zhou Yuxiu, where are you?"
Her aggressive look just happened to fall into the eyes of Zhou Yuxiu, who was holding a tablet in a daze in the corner.
Seeing his action, Ye Lanxin was stunned.
"What's in your arms?"
"You won't let me worship my mother's tablet in the ancestral hall, but can't I take it out and look at it when I miss her?"
Zhou Yuxiu's words were indeed choking.
It seemed that Ye Lanxin could not find a suitable way to vent all her anger.
"Mother is so angry, is it because she just finished talking to Lingyue?"
Ye Lanxin felt relieved that Zhou Yuxiu would take the initiative to give her this opportunity.
"That's right. Now that you know, you should understand what I want to say. I've been willing to do whatever you want for all these years, but I never thought I'd spoil you like this. You've already married Ling Yue, and she gave birth to a child for you. Even though she didn't keep the child, she's still willing to go forward with you. I only found out about what happened before today. She was even willing to hide it from me, the person who watched her grow up, just for you. And you still don't know how to cherish her feelings. What do you want? This is what I taught you."
Ye Lanxin's series of questions instantly brought the atmosphere in the study to freezing point.
Zhou Yuxiu looked up, his eyes deep and complicated. He slowly placed the tablet in his hand on the table, wiped it carefully, then stood up and looked at Ye Lanxin.
"Even now, I'm still willing to call you mother. Do you really have no guilt?"
Zhou Yuxiu's reaction was completely different from what Ye Lanxin had imagined.
"You, what did you say?"
Zhou Yuxiu said, "I'm not entirely sure what you've taught me over the years, but I do know how you teamed up with my father to sideline my mother. Using my grandmother's hand, you pushed her away, making the three of us brothers completely unfilial. We've been separated from our real sister for so many years, and we've lost all our affections. We've even become enemies. How can I thank you, mother?"
Ye Lanxin's face turned pale in an instant. She seemed to be deeply touched by Zhou Yuxiu's words, and her whole body was trembling slightly.
"You, are you blaming me? Don't forget that I didn't drive her away back then. She insisted on leaving, and you three sons dealt her the most fatal blow!"
Ye Lanxin's voice was a little flustered. She obviously didn't expect Zhou Yuxiu to suddenly bring up these old things.
Zhou Yuxiu remained unmoved. His eyes were firm and indifferent, as if he had completely seen through Ye Lanxin's disguise.
"Haha, at this point you still want to use such words to absolve yourself of all responsibility? How long do you think you can deceive me? I've figured out what happened back then a long time ago. We were completely used by you and father. When you look back on the things you and the Ye family did together, you shouldn't feel any guilt, only pride, right? Especially my grandmother, my grandfather's good stepmother. She was finally able to force the original wife's daughter away and replace her everything. She must be very proud of you, right? How did you have the nerve to agree every time we called you mother all these years?"
Ye Lanxin's body shook. She seemed to want to refute, but found that she no longer had the energy to curse.
The study fell into a deathly silence, with only the breathing of the two people echoing in the air.
After a long time, Ye Lanxin finally spoke, her voice had become hoarse and low.
"Even if I did these things, it was with your father's tacit approval, and I have never harmed you three brothers..."
“That’s enough!”
Zhou Yuxiu suddenly interrupted her, his eyes full of disgust.
"Stop using my father as an excuse! I never said that these things were only to blame on one of you. You were wrong, and he was even more wrong. So I don't want to continue to be the prince of the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion. I don't want to be his heir. Are you satisfied?"
"How dare you speak to me like that!"
Ye Lanxin just realized that she was raised by someone.
Zhou Yuxiu wasn't buying it, and said directly, "Then what should I say? Thank you for leaving us three brothers behind to protect your daughter after you became infertile. Or thank you for all those years of mentioning my mother and sister in a sarcastic way, making us hate them even more. Or thank you for marrying your niece when the Ye family really couldn't maintain its prestige, so that her son would become the Marquis of Jing'an and make the Zhou family a stepping stone for your Ye family?"
Ye Lanxin's face was extremely ugly. She felt that the puppy she had raised had shown the fangs of a wolf.
"You...you are simply rebellious!" She said with all her strength, but her voice no longer had the confidence it had before.
Zhou Yuxiu sneered, his eyes full of indifference: "Rebellion? I know everything you have done to the three of us brothers. If my mother were alive, she would have gone to the Ye family to ask for justice when my third brother was in trouble. Do you dare? In your eyes, when did the Zhou family become more important than the Ye family? I'm afraid that the old lady of the Ye family and those two so-called uncles have been on guard against the three of us brothers all these years, afraid that we are not on the same side with you, right? To tell you the truth, if it weren't for Gu Nian getting along well with you over the years, I would have turned against you long ago. As for Ling Yue, what happened back then had nothing to do with her. I once tried to make myself a fool, an unfilial son, and a bitch for her to maintain this superficial stability, thinking that I would go down and apologize to my mother after I died, but now I can't. I don't want to endure it anymore. I don't want to delay her. I still want to divorce her and do what I want to do."
Ye Lanxin felt a sharp pain in her heart. The words spoken by this ungrateful little bastard were so hurtful.
"Did your father have a stroke because of what you said?" She seemed to have figured something out.
"These things have nothing to do with you. Don't use your kindness in raising me to lecture me in the future. When my mother left, I was already eleven years old and understood a lot. The teachers I hired and the writing materials I used over the years were all paid for by the Zhou family. It has nothing to do with you."
Ye Lanxin looked at Zhou Yuxiu's indifferent expression and finally couldn't help asking, "What on earth are you going to do?"
Zhou Yuxiu said, "Of course it's for atonement..."
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