Yuna whispered into her son’s ear, “I’m sorry… Youyou…”Youyou opened his little mouth to speak but hesitated. He really wanted to ask: Did his daddy really not like him – not want him – so he threw him away and did not bother with him anymore?Was he really what those adults said? ‘Born to a father but acknowledged by none’?These questions sprang to his lips, but he forcefully swallowed them back.Youyou flipped his hand and held his mom’s tender, delicate fingers. He lifted his small face and gazed up at the night sky, speaking softly, “Mommy, even if my daddy doesn’t want us, I still have mommy! I love mommy the most, so don’t be sad! It’s all because of daddy that mommy is sad! When I grow up, I will definitely protect mommy!”Yuna raised her eyes, followed his line of sight, and gazed outside as well. She eventually gave a long sigh and hugged him even tighter.“Youyou is such a good child….”*The Azhe residence*In the living room, Yuki Azhe, who was sitting on the sofa, sudden
When Yuna returned from her meeting with the department head, she was shocked by what she saw, but she quickly regained her composure.Once the few bossy youngsters saw her, they immediately recognized her. They approached her and forcibly dragged her by the arm outside the office.One of them, who seemed to be the leader, ruthlessly slapped her on the face. He was evidently vexed. In a threatening manner, he asked, “You’re that b*tch’s sister?!”Yuna was stunned. She cradled her stinging cheek and studied them. She then realized who the ‘b*tch’ that they were talking about was! Nasi!“Y’know how much that sister of yours owes me?” He chewed on gum, his eyes looking her up and down a few times.Yuna docilely pursed her lips and kept her silence. Very quickly, she sorted everything out and understood the entirety of the situation.Calling Nasi to mind, she probably incurred this huge debt while she was out having fun. Her family’s financial situation was still unstable, so she had no m
Unsure whether it was the pain or something else, Yuna’s eyes suddenly filled with moisture. Tears soon streamed unabatedly down her cheeks and steadily dripped onto the ground. She was so upset that she wept. From a young age, she had led a wandering life. Although she later had a place to call home, other than Chang, no one welcomed her. She was, all alone, reliant on no one. With her job gone, she really did not know what to do. Her deeply suppressed indignation finally burst out. The unforeseen events over the past few days had mentally and physically taken a heavy toll on her, and she was already at her limit of what she could endure. On top of shouldering Nasi’s debt, she also lost her job. At this very moment, she was without a penny to her name. What should she do now? She was very resilient to the point of unyielding even when she was in a difficult situation, she fended for herself. No matter how tough or how tiring it was, with Y
She did not even look at his expression. Messily wiping off the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand, she indignantly said, “Mister, I know it’s my fault for not looking at where I’m going, but you don’t have to act so condescending as to ‘pity’ me! I don’t need it!”After saying these words, she was no longer bothered with him and treated him as if he were non-existent. She bent down to pick up the documents on the ground, and turned to leave quickly, not bothering to look at him again.Weston fixed his gaze upon on her swiftly departing back. He was somewhat in a daze, unable to retract his sight from her for a long time.Her words caused his unwavering gaze and stance fly far out from his mind all of a sudden!Just by rewinding his memories, he could vividly recall the night he shared with the blindfolded, young girl – the girl who was forced to withstand all of him.He still remembered how he had delved into her delicate body and suffocated in her tightness.He willfully
Aaron was Weston’s right-hand man. Therefore, he was expected to be reliable in whatever he did, and investigating a regular citizen was truly a simple task. He conducted a thorough investigation within a day and brought everything over to Mr. Azhe’s office. However, he did not expect to run into Manrou. In front of her, he was a mere subordinate, naturally having no say in things, so he did not stop her from looking through the documents.The information collected was indeed very thorough. The thick stack of documents contained pictures and texts.Manrou flipped through them all. From the person’s family background and the institute the subject had graduated from down to the subject’s résumé, everything was listed out explicitly.At first, she was puzzled. This was clearly just a normal girl, and she could not fathom why he would order an investigation into her identity. However, the more information she read, the more uncertain she felt.“Yuna Shire?!” She had a vague impression of
The elderly man took out a similar keepsake to the jade she was holding. When the two were put together, they fit perfectly.She was unaware of the jade’s importance and simply lied that it was something her mother had left for her. The elderly man believed her words and brought her back to the family residence, naming her Manrou Azhe and just as quickly setting her as Weston’s fiancée when he was fourteen…*****Back to the present, in the CEO’s office, Manrou weakly dropped down on the sofa. She supported her forehead with a palm as cold sweat drenched her back.She tightly gripped the documents in her hand, her fingertips shuddering out of her control. She was very flustered.She could not guess why he had someone investigate all this. Could he have noticed something unusual about her origin, and he started to cast doubt on her real identity despite her being brought back by Grandpa Azhe personally back then?Her heart jumped once she considered this possibility.In actuality, she
These past few years, she thought that she had not given herself away even once. Moreover, with the DNA results as a piece of ‘evidence’, she had nothing that would cause suspicion.Manrou quickly cast her doubt away, but the weight did not lift off her shoulders.Could it be because of that child? Perhaps, Weston had known all along that the child was alive and was only hidden away by that woman, so he had someone investigate her identity when he suspected her of harboring malicious intentions toward the his family.It was surely because of that!Manrou suddenly raised her head. She looked at Aaron while feigning her calmness, and coldly ordered, “Don’t tell anyone that I saw these documents, get it? Just treat it as if you didn’t see anything!”Aaron slightly stiffened. He obviously did not know of the reason behind her warning. He only knew that she had removed the information about Yuna’s life at the welfare center ten years ago and her son Yun, from the pile. Not lifting her head
Her friend nodded in agreement. She brought the mother-son pair to a western restaurant that she used to patronize, and booked a private room.After ordering, Zula hurriedly pulled her into the washroom to probe. Yuna did not want to hide anything from her, so she just laid everything bare to her without going into much detail.Her friend listened until her heart ached terribly.“To actually treat you like that, your stepmom is simply too cruel and unscrupulous! Six years ago, when my dad told me about how the Shire family was able to pay off all their bulging debts within a year, I thought it was strange. Never did I expect that you sacrificed so much… What is the point of doing that?”Yuna laughed self-deprecatingly and unaffectedly. “Just showing my gratitude. Moreover, these are all in the past. Since I did it for the family, it counted as me repaying my dad for bringing me up.”The hellish period in the welfare center, where she suffered from all kinds of bullying, was a shadow in