Xu Si sat by the roadside, his body touched by the cold outside. His entire body felt frozen except for the warmth of the cat in his arms.
Just then, Xu Hengyu called again.
“What exactly do you want?”
“Xiao Si, I advise you to be obedient. Come home quietly, and I might consider calling off my men. You’ll still have a chance to return to that house in the future.”
“…”
“Xiao Si, my patience has limits. You should know I can easily demolish that building…”
Xu Si’s fingertips turned white from clenching.
He hung up.
Xu Si stood up and walked a few steps.
The street was bustling with traffic and people, but he felt dazed.
His hands were frozen stiff.
Xu Si gave a self-mocking smile.
A City’s top villa district.
“Young master, you’re back.” Yang Guan saw the injuries on Xu Si’s face and body: “Young master, how did you get so many injuries?”
Xu Si glanced at him without answering his question, instead asking: “Is he inside?”
“You mean the master? He’s eating with madam and young master.”
Xu Si made an “mm” sound and pushed the door open.
Xu Hengyu was feeding a spoonful to Liang Jieran: “Ranran is so good.”
“Mama, brother’s back.”
“Xiao Si.”
Xu Hengyu didn’t even look up, telling the two: “Ignore him.”
Xu Si walked straight to the dining table, expressionlessly watching Xu Hengyu feed a child who shared no blood relation with him: “Call off your men.”
Xu Hengyu put down his chopsticks and looked up: “Is that how you speak to your father?”
Xu Si said nothing. His phone beeped, and he took it out to see Jiang Rong asking if the dumplings were good.
He typed back: They’re good.
“Xu Si, where are your manners and upbringing?”
Seeing Xu Si keep his head down looking at his phone, Xu Hengyu snatched it and smashed it on the ground.
Xu Si stared at his shattered phone.
He crouched down to pick it up.
Xu Hengyu couldn’t stand his behavior and kicked the phone away.
Xu Si looked at his kicked phone, stood up, and gave the man before him a mocking smile.
“Heh.”
Xu Si looked at the person before him with amusement: “Father? Manners and upbringing? I only know that since grandmother’s death, I will never forgive you.”
Xu Hengyu stood up, looking at the injuries on his face and body, each word stabbing at Xu Si’s heart: “You’re my seed, no matter how much you hate me, you’re still my seed. You have my blood. With your terrible grades and only knowing how to fight, without me, you’re nothing but trash.”
He said: “Xu Si, you’re just trash.”
Xu Si’s hand paused while picking up his phone.
He stuffed the shattered phone into his pocket.
He didn’t care that the screen cut his hand.
Yes.
He was trash.
How dare he profane the moonlight?
This farce should end here.
He had bothered her for too long.
He was just mud in the gutter, meant to rot and stink in darkness forever.
And she was such a wonderful existence.
They were never meant to be together.
The dream should end.
It was time to wake up.
Liang Jieran had never seen Xu Hengyu like this and started crying in fear.
Xu Hengyu lowered his head to pat his head, saying softly: “Don’t cry, Ranran, did that scare you?”
“So scary, wuu wuu wuu.”
Xu Hengyu looked at Shen Yuchun, speaking gently: “Take him upstairs first.”
Shen Yuchun hesitated, looking at Xu Si: “But…”
“Take him up first.”
Shen Yuchun took Liang Jieran’s hand upstairs. Liang Jieran kept crying, held in her arms.
“Don’t cry, Ranran, don’t cry.”
Xu Si watched all this, finding it both glaring and ironic.
So why did he need to exist?
If they didn’t like him, didn’t want him, why did they let him appear?
Why give birth to him and then abandon him?
He was just the extra one.
His existence was simply ridiculous.
Xu Hengyu looked at him: “I saw your final grades. You’re not cut out for studying. No matter how hard you try, it’s useless.”
Xu Si coldly stared at him.
“Stay home properly, I’ll arrange company matters for you.”
“I’m not interested in your worthless company.”
Xu Hengyu smiled at this: “I wasn’t planning to let you take over anyway. I’ll leave you five percent of the company shares, the rest goes to Ranran. You just need to assist him in the future.”
Xu Si found his words somewhat laughable. After listening, he smiled sarcastically: “I won’t take your shares, and what makes you think I’ll pave the way for someone else?”
“Because I can level that old house to the ground anytime I want.”
Xu Si nearly cracked his back teeth from clenching, looking at the person before him, his hands creaking from tension: “Xu Hengyu, search your conscience, are you even human? Do you have any filial piety left? Grandmother kept calling your name before she died but you never came back. Yet for her, who married another man and had his child, you flew to another city just for a small fever. Grandmother died with regret, her eyes unable to close.”
Xu Hengyu showed no guilt, only saying: “I regret not making it.”
Xu Si really wanted to cut open his heart to see if it contained anything besides Shen Yuchun.
“How can I not see even a trace of guilt from you? That house was left to me by grandmother, what right do you have to set foot there? What right? You use this to threaten me, do you have a heart at all? Do you have grandmother in your heart at all?”
Xu Hengyu looked at him: “Xu Si, this is not how you should speak to me.”
“Don’t talk to me about how I should speak. I see you’re quite happy raising someone else’s child. Hahaha, if you’re so kind why don’t you adopt all the orphanage children? If you give birth but don’t raise, why have me? Why should I exist? Tell me why?”
The youth’s veins bulged as he shouted hoarsely at the man before him, seeming to want to vent all his years of resentment.
“Your mother’s child is my child.”
Xu Si’s veins bulged in anger, “She is not my mother.”
Hearing this, Xu Hengyu raised his hand to slap Xu Si’s face, but Xu Si blocked it.
Xu Si glared at him.
Xu Hengyu looked at Xu Si: “You’re nothing but a failed experiment. Without her, you’re nothing to me. Even with my blood in you, you’re still nothing to me.”
Xu Si’s whole body trembled with anger: “So why have me?”
“I told you, you’re just a failed experiment.”
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