Published at 22nd of November 2020 07:44:11 PM
Chapter 95
Translator: RandomAlex
Editor: Makoto
Wei Mingyan had always been a sweet guy, but this was the first time he dragged Xuan Lele with him on a call until late.
Xuan Lele listened to the voice of the man who was obviously drunk, worrying that he would get into an accident, and asked where he was. Wei Mingyan smiled stupidly and stopped talking.
By dawn, Wei Mingyan should have fallen asleep, and there was no movement over there. Xuan Lele worried and waited downstairs at his dormitory. She then came across her boyfriend’s roommate, but he said that he never came back last night.
Because they did live broadcasts together, Xuan Lele wasn’t worried that Wei Mingyan wouldn’t have a place to stay, but his current state was really worrying her.
After she couldn’t find him at the dormitory building, she wanted to look for him but realized she didn’t know anywhere else to look for him. Xuan Lele discovered that she and Mingyan had been together for so long, but they never even talked about their family situation to each other.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been at such a loss as to what to do now.
Wei Mingyan was drunk last night, and he talked about how much he hated his Mother, so Mingyan’s unhappiness was related to his Mother.
She couldn’t help but try calling him again. Fortunately, this time it connected, and Wei Mingyan’s tired voice came. “Lele, I have to go home. Can you do the live broadcast side by yourself for a few days?”
Just from hearing his voice, how could Xuan Lele, who was so distressed, question him? The girl’s voice was soft as she replied, “You go ahead, and take care of yourself.”
They spoke briefly, and Wei Mingyan’s mood remain low throughout. By the time they hung up, Xuan Lele was even more worried and felt her boyfriend was acting a little strange today.
Mingyan’s temper had always been very steady. What happened, that made him so lost like this?
It must be something to do with his Mother …
She thought for a moment, then looked for the recording of last night’s broadcast and watched it.
Wei Mingyan washed well, changed himself into a neat shirt, and got into a car for the ride home.
Father Wei had bought a big house after settling down because Wei Mingyan liked to run around since he was a child. Father Wei, on the other hand, was busy in the hotel every day, so the house was usually empty.
However, it was quite lively today. Wei Mingyan opened the door with his house key and heard a deliberately prolonged female voice as soon as he entered the door. “Old Wei, why hasn’t Mingyan come back yet?”
“I have called him over. If you can’t wait, just leave.”
Father Wei was a handsome middle-aged man. Although he was engaged in the catering industry, he doesn’t have the big belly that most big bosses have because he was always busy. Although his hair was mixed with some white strands, his face was still so handsome.
He was a good-natured man. Right now, he was facing his ex-wife’s temper, his tone very impatient. “I have to go to work at the hotel soon, so if you don’t have anything important to do, don’t stay at my house.”
Toward this ex-wife, who cuckolded him, leaving him and his son without saying a word and directly eloping with someone else, Father Wei worked very hard to restrain his impulse to hit her.
“If you really want to see Mingyan, you can give him a call. Why are you sticking around here in my house?”
Mingyan, as a child, grew up looking and waiting for his Mother, and his personality became odd because of his parents’ divorce. Although Father Wei couldn’t stand his ex-wife, if he could make his beloved son happy, he could still put up with it.
“Look at what you’re saying, we, mother and son, haven’t seen each other for such a long time. There are endless things to say, how can we just talk on the phone?”
Ding Luxin smiled amorously. While smiling, her eyes that fell on Father Wei had a little regret.
If she had known that this guy could actually build such a big hotel, what would have happened if she had waited a little longer?
If nothing else, his face was a thousand times better than her current husband.
After thinking more, however, Ding Luxin knew that her and Father Wei getting back together was no longer possible. At the beginning, the two came from the same small village, were childhood friends, and made a promise to live together for a lifetime. But, in the end, she disliked Father Wei’s lack of money and left with a big boss. Although the two later negotiated for a formal divorce, she can also imagine what the neighborhood would say about the good old man.
Ding Luxin always felt that she had done the right thing. She wanted to live a good life, and sometimes she just had to be cruel. Although she left Old Wei, she also gave birth to a son for him, and that was as kind as it gets.
What’s wrong with her wanting a good life?
Unfortunately, after so many years, the good life she imagined wasn’t so beautiful. Now the old man who she followed was old. Although he could still ‘exercise’ in bed, he was out of breath after a few strokes, and Ding Luxin wanted a child of her own at first, to inherit the old man’s estate.
But after all these years, she just couldn’t get what she wanted.
She had no choice but to take care of the old man’s son carefully, and wasn’t close to the son that wasn’t her own. Who made the old man think so highly of his only son?
A lifetime has gone by, with her playing mahjong every day and shopping with other rich wives. Then, some time ago, she actually learned that one of the big hotels nearby was her ex-husband’s property.
She knew it because this hotel was a newly opened branch, and because it wasn’t far from her current husband’s hotel, and the fact that it had just opened with a big discount on prices was very disruptive to other hotel businesses.
Ding Luxin lived a rich woman’s life every day, and had never paid attention to the family business. She was still with her current husband when the old man, who was already in his 60s, told her that the owner of this hotel was her ex-husband, and he needed her to find out what was going on.
It has to be said that Ding Luxin really felt regret when she found out the news.
Later, she quietly went there with her sisters. The decoration and lots were at least on par with those opened by the old man she followed. This was just a branch! How developed is her ex-husband now?!
Although she was green in the gut with regret, Ding Luxin knew from the first moment she saw Father Wei that he would never accept her again.
After all, being cuckolded by his own wife was too difficult to forgive.
But, she still had a trump card.
Her son, Mingyan.
When the child was a little, he couldn’t live without his mother, and he always wanted to get her back. The mother-child relationship couldn’t be destroyed by Old Wei.
Hearing the sound of the door open, the woman quickly adjusted her hair, put on the most gentle and dignified expression, and looked at the door with a smile.
Ding Luxin was full of confidence, but she didn’t expect that Wei Mingyan wouldn’t act according to common sense.
“Dad, did a perfume bottle spill at home? I could smell it from far away, and it’s choking me half to death.”
The young man who inherited his parents’ good looks opened his mouth in disgust as soon as he entered. Then, as if he hadn’t noticed Ding Luxin, who put on a dignified posture, he dropped his schoolbag, and sat down beside his Father.
“Mingyan …” Ding Luxin was certainly capable since she could get married to the big boss as a married woman. She barely needed to muster up emotions before tears rolled down her beautifully makeup painted eyes.
“Mom misses you so much, my Mingyan. Come and show Mom, have you grown taller …?”
Wei Mingyan directly put his legs up on the coffee table. A pair of eyes similar to Father Wei looked indifferently at the opposite woman. Ding Luxin cried sadly, but he was just watching as if looking at a show with a dull look and no response at all.
After crying for a while, Ding Luxin also noticed something was wrong. She sobbed and dried her tears, and her red eyes looked pitifully at the son who had grown into a fine young man in front of her. “Mingyan, are you still blaming Mom?”
“No.”
Wei Mingyan didn’t want to answer directly, and his lips raised a mocking smile. “My Mom died early, how can I blame her?”
“Aunt, may I ask, why are you in my home?”
Ding Luxin’s face turned ugly under her son’s undisguised rejection, but she tried to adjust her mood as she thought of the task her husband had set, “Mingyan, I know you still hate me, but Mom had difficulties at the beginning …”
“When Mom was sick and needed money, Mom was afraid of getting your Dad into trouble…” She choked and took out the medical records from her bag.
This medical record was prepared by her husband. The woman opened the medical record with a beautifully manicured hand. “In the beginning, I did what was best for you two, and I…”
Father Wei frowned at the medical record, and he was no longer the good, naive old man he was. There was no way he would believe his ex-wife’s words, but Mingyan was still so young, and had grown up yearning for motherly love. If he believed her…
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Under the gaze of the two, Wei Mingyan took the medical records.
“Were you really sick?”
He looked at the above contents, date and year, which were all consistent and accurate.
Seeing that he asked, Ding Luxin breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly lowered her head and made a sad expression. “Mingyan, what mother in the whole wide world would want to leave her child…”
Father Wei’s eyes sank, and the hand on his knees gripped fiercely, wanting to open his mouth to burst the woman’s lie, but felt afraid that his son would have a grudge against him for it.
He was distraught after being cuckolded by his wife, and had been working hard ever since, and didn’t have much time spent with his son. Now he has finally settled down, and he worked hard to make it up to his son, but he just didn’t know what to do.
He just gave him whatever he wanted, and tried not to upset him financially.
Children were close to their mothers by nature, and Father Wei was afraid that his son would be bewitched, and that he would hate himself if he stopped him. For a while, his two eyebrows were sandwiched together, feeling anxious and regretful.
While Father Wei was busy worrying, Wei Mingyan looked at the words on the medical record and whispered, “You had a headache at that time…”
The youth lifted his eyes, a pair of slightly upturned eyes that took on a bit of pity, “It must have been hard when we weren’t with you during the operation…”
That’s a softened attitude!
Ding Luxin’s eyes brimmed with joy. Sure enough, she gave birth to the child, so the child would easily believe her.
She put on a weak expression and sighed, “At that time, I really thought that I wouldn’t survive. Mingyan, Mom thinks about you all the time, please believe Mom.”
Wei Mingyan nodded and said seriously, “I believe you.”
Father Wei watched the scene as his face quickly darkened.
As expected, or not?
“Mom, you really paid a lot for me…” The youth’s pleasant voice was full of emotion. Father Wei’s heart grew even more uncomfortable by the second. Although he was also a big boss now, his nature was like this, and he suppressed everything in his heart. Now, he was watching his son believe that woman. Even though he was suffocating, he didn’t know what to say.
“Mom is not suffering anymore. As long as you are living a good life, Mom is content.”
Ding Luxin’s tears washed away, and she held out her hand to touch her son’s face.
Wei Mingyan’s expression, which had just softened, instantly cooled down. He leaned against the sofa behind him, perfectly avoiding the opposite woman’s hand.
With a slightly raised eyebrow, he flipped through the medical records a few times and casually dropped them on the coffee table.
Ding Luxin was startled by the sudden noise of the medical records being thrown on the table, and felt uneasy. She didn’t know why Wei Mingyan suddenly changed his expression.
“Mom…” He called out again, only this time, his tone was full of sarcasm, “Do you really think I’m stupid? It’s clearly written in your medical records that you just had a headache and you’ve never been operated on from head to toe. So why? Isn’t this disease well-known? Don’t you have some common sense?”
“Or did the stepfather you found for me not tell you to read the medical records before fooling me?”
The woman turned pale in an instant, her brain was spinning rapidly, and she stammered to find an excuse for herself. “I… I had other illnesses at the same time that required surgery, Mingyan, why would Mom lie to you? After all these years, do I still need to scheme you for something!?”
“In your heart, is Mom such a person?”
After she stumbled back, she began to cry again, as pitiful as it needed to be.
“Of course not, Mom. You are the most special mother in the world.”
“Selfish, ruthless, and vicious.”
Wei Mingyan looked at the fake documents on the coffee table and hissed, “Didn’t you say you had an operation? How about you lift up your clothes and show us the wound?”
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“You won’t lift it? Then tell me which part of your head was hurting at the time.”
“Is it the forehead, the temple, or the back of the head, say it!”
He was almost shouting as he said his last few words. Ding Luxin was trembling with fear and looked at the youth as if she were looking at a monster.
“You, how can you do this to me? I am your mother…”
“People like you don’t deserve to be mothers at all. Now, get out of my house!”
“You’re not leaving are you!? Get out!!!”
Father Wei looked at his son who stood up and started pushing the woman out of the room. He only felt that his mood was as excited as he would be when on a roller coaster ride.
Ding Luxin was being driven away by her own son.
He watched as his son heaved the door shut and turned around to face him. The moment Mingyan saw his father’s face, the stone cold face he put on the whole time crumbled into one of sorrow.
“Dad…”
Father Wei’s heart wrenched at the mere fact that he called out like that.
In his mind, the last time his son called himself so was long before he divorced Ding Luxin. At that time, the woman only knew to play mahjong, and no one came to pick up their child from school. He had to go to work and take care of the child everyday, and he was very busy.
At that time, Mingyan still couldn’t remember very much. He was always walking around in the yard, giggling and playing by himself, and if he fell down, he wouldn’t get up, as if he knew somebody loving him was watching over him, sitting on the ground and crying out for his Father.
Later, when he and Ding Luxin divorced, Mingyan became irritable and increasingly erratic. After that, the father and son hadn’t talked properly for a long time.
Now, hearing him calling him “Dad” in such grief, Father Wei’s eyes grew hot, nearly bursting into tears.
Wei Mingyan walked back to him, leaning his head gently on Father Wei’s knee as he did when he was a child. Father Wei couldn’t see the expression on his face, but he could hear his child talking in a hoarse voice.
“Mom is a liar. She had been ignoring me since I was a kid. She only picked me up from school once, and it had always been Dad who had taken care of me and protected me…”
“You can’t believe her. She doesn’t love me at all. We love each other, so let’s live our lives to the fullest ourselves and leave her alone, okay?”
Father Wei’s hand trembled as it landed on Wei Mingyan’s head, stroking it gently like when he was a child, like on days he had nightmares and was afraid to sleep, his father held and coaxed by him in the middle of the night.
“Mingyan, don’t worry. Dad doesn’t believe her, I was afraid you would instead…”
“Dad, I’m not stupid. I remember clearly who was good to me and who was bad to me. ” Wei Mingyan looked up and grabbed his father’s thickly calloused hand, his eyes meeting his father’s seriously, “Dad, I know you’ve been suffering and working hard, both earning money and taking care of me all these years. Thank you, Dad.”
Father Wei’s eyes turned red again. He wasn’t a man of much words, and hearing that, his lips were trembled with deep emotion. He really didn’t know how to respond to his son’s earnest gratitude, and it all finally dissolved into one sentence, “Dad’s not suffering, not suffering anymore…”
In Father Wei’s heart, he always had the deepest worry that his son wasn’t close to him. He was always afraid that the boy would become like his mother one day, and leave him far away, never to return.
If that happened, then what was the meaning of the remaining half of his life?
But now… Today… His child, his Mingyan, said thank you to him.
This kid was so sensible, so filial…
Many people may not know that when children genuinely thank their parents, it was like a piece of soft flesh being kneaded in their hearts, sour and satisfying at the same time.
The father and son pair hadn’t had such an intimate conversation in a long time. For Father Wei, although it was a bad start at the beginning of the day, the rest of the morning was perfect.
However, for Ding Luxin, it was all a nightmare.
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That unfilial son! Fortunately, she didn’t take him with her when she left. Otherwise, he would certainly be an unfilial creature.
She cursed all the way back to her house, and only when she reached the door did the anger on her face turn to fear.
This time, she failed to do what her husband asked of her. What will that man do to her…?
Even with all the apprehension, Ding Luxin was still strong enough to open the door.
Her husband, usually absent all day, was now sitting on the sofa while reading a newspaper. When he heard the door open, he looked up, his gray beard showing, and looked at his wife, who was twenty years younger than himself.
“How did it go?”
“They… they don’t believe me…”
Ding Luxin looked at her husband’s line of sight, and her legs were soft. She hurriedly walked over and carefully gave him water to drink.
As soon as she started pouring water into the teacup, a loud slap resounded as her husband hit her in the face.
“Ah!”
The woman’s scream sounded. Ding Luxin hid her face in horror. In her ear was the old and cruel voice of the man, “Waste!”
She sobbed, this time finally for real, not a pretense.
The man walked away without giving her another glance, and Ding Luxin cried quietly half a dozen times alone. She wanted to vent, but did not dare to make a scene to provoke another beating.
When she first married, she was a fine, young and beautiful woman, and she was spoiled rotten by him. At the time, it was a good period to take advantage of this man’s love, but after a long time, even if she worked hard to get injections to whiten her skin and tighten wrinkles, her face still aged a little.
In these ten years, she hadn’t given birth to a child, and by now, she had lost the chance to give birth. Also, the man she married was a womanizer and lustful. In the first place, he married her because of her looks, even though she was a married woman. So now, he naturally would be out there raising mistresses.
Ding Luxin made a scene at first about him womanizing, but then she was beaten up a couple of times. After that, she never dared to mention it anymore.
She could only submit to the humiliation, suffering behind the scenes, only appearing glamorous on the surface to maintain her rich wife image.
It used to be bearable, and though sometimes she was sad, she would soon get over it. She kept convincing herself, the old man won’t last much longer. When he dies, she can still live happily with her fortune.
But now, having only just left the Wei family’s equally magnificent home, and noticing how luxurious the hotel she had visited only a few days before seemed to be in front of her, Ding Luxin couldn’t help but think, if she hadn’t left the father and son in the first place…
Wouldn’t she be the hostess of the hotel now?
At first, Old Wei was unable to even lay a finger on her.
If she hadn’t abandoned her husband and son, maybe now, she would still be loved by Old Wei and could do whatever she wanted. Mingyan wouldn’t hate her and would be filial to her. Unlike the white-eyed wolf in this family, she has been kind to him for over 10 years in vain, and he still had nasty expression every day.
(TNote: white-eyed wolf = ungrateful.)
It was okay not to want to, but when she thought about it, the remorse she felt was like an ocean wave that flipped her whole body over, and her brain couldn’t stop imagining how happy her life could be now if she hadn’t left without saying a word.
But, no matter how much she thought about it now, it was still too late.
Her husband, her son, will never accept her again.
(TNote: *cough* Ex-husband! *cough*)
After that, Wei Mingyan’s life returned to normal again, with him doing live cooking and exam review broadcasts. Father Wei over on the other side was in higher spirits, and was also working harder and harder in the hotel, with both sides in perfect harmony. Whereas, for Lele…
Xuan Lele suddenly received a phone call from the village head. Her Grandmother was dying, and he asked her to come back to see her Grandmother.