NFBE Chapter 1585 Xu Xiaoxiao has a younger sister
Chapter 1585 Xu Xiaoxiao has a younger sister
Du Yunwei stood there, her body trembling slightly, her eyes filled with shock and anger. She widened her eyes and raised her voice, saying, "I didn't want to get rid of you. I just came back to see my child. What's wrong with that? As a mother, is it wrong for me to want to see the child I carried for ten months and gave birth to?"
The newcomer was a young woman dressed in fashionable but slightly exaggerated clothes, with heavy makeup on her face and a mocking smile on her lips. Upon hearing Du Yunwei's words, she let out a piercing laugh:
"Heh, you abandoned them and eloped with my father, giving birth to me. Now, you want to play the good guy and come back begging for their forgiveness. Du Yunwei, how shameless are you? Back then, you left without a second thought for your own selfish desires, abandoning those two children. Now that you see they're doing well, you want to come back and reap the benefits of their affection. There's no such thing as a free lunch. If they knew you faked your death to deceive them, would they even acknowledge you?"
Du Yunwei trembled with anger, her face flushed red. She suddenly raised her hand, full of rage, wanting to slap him, but her hand stopped halfway through the air as if frozen by some force.
A flicker of struggle and pain flashed in her eyes, and her raised hand finally fell limply to its side.
"What? You want to hit me?" The woman looked at Du Yunwei's hand, which was suspended in mid-air, and laughed even louder, her eyes full of disdain and provocation. "Hit me, you bitch. If you have the guts, hit it down and see what you can do to me."
Du Yunwei's face was as pale as paper, and her lips trembled slightly. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, and said in a pleading voice:
“Yan Yan, I was young and naive back then. I was blinded by my feelings and made that wrong decision. Now, I regret it, I really regret it. I just want to see them, to see the children I never took good care of. Is that not allowed? They are my children too. I love them just as much as I love you.”
"Love, haha, Mother, stop pretending to love me here."
The woman sneered, her eyes filled with doubt and disdain. "You don't love them. You've only come back to see them because you're desperate. You know they're doing very well. Their husbands are Fu Yanchen and Nan Yifeng, two of the most important figures in the capital. You just want to use their connections to live a good life."
Du Yunwei frowned, a hint of displeasure and determination flashing in her eyes. She said loudly, "What their identities are has nothing to do with you. Put away your filthy thoughts."
“I’m here simply to fulfill my responsibility as a mother and make up for the mistakes I’ve made. No matter who their husbands are, they will always be my children, and that will never change.”
Wen Yanyan's face, already flushed with anger, became even more distorted, her features appearing as if being wantonly kneaded by an invisible hand, her eyes burning with insane jealousy and resentment.
She clenched her fists, her nails digging deep into her palms, and shouted hoarsely, "Mother, how can you say this has nothing to do with me? If you hadn't given birth to those two, either Fu Yanchen or Nan Yifeng would have been my husband! They are so outstanding, not only powerful and influential, but also elegant and talented."
“If I could marry one of them, my life would be completely different. I wouldn’t have to face setbacks and suffer the cold stares and ridicule of others like I do now.”
"Imagine if I were Fu Yanchen's wife, I would be the center of attention, enjoying endless wealth and luxury. I could wear gorgeous gowns, attend various high-end social events, and chat and laugh with social elites."
"Or, if I were Nan Yifeng's lover, I would be surrounded by his gentleness and thoughtfulness, and live a happy and fulfilling life every day."
"But all of this has been shattered because of your decision. Why did you give birth to those two? Didn't you know it would change my fate? Now, I can only watch them with other women, and I get nothing in return. How unfair this is to me!"
"You came to see Fu Yanchen, wasn't it to see that bitch Xu Xiaoxiao? Hmph, don't be delusional, she won't see you at all! You're still hung up on her, it's utterly ridiculous! Who do you think you are?"
"Do you think she'll change her mind because of you? Don't dream! And don't expect the Nan family to let you see Nan Weiwei. If they knew what you did back then, their hatred for you would run deep!"
"Mother, how shameless are you? You were so resolute in abandoning them back then, and now you're begging and pleading for their forgiveness. You're so hypocritical, so disgustingly hypocritical!"
Hearing Wen Yanyan's vicious curses, Du Yunwei trembled with anger, her face turned ashen, and her lips lost all color.
She stared intently at Wen Yanyan, her eyes filled with disappointment and determination. She took a deep breath and said, word by word, "Wen Yanyan, look at yourself now, you're like a madwoman! If it weren't for you, would I have ended up like this? Back then, for you, I gave up my noble status as a princess, gave up my comfortable life, and followed your father through a life of hardship and displacement."
Later, you smashed up someone's shop while fighting over a man, made a mistake, got sued, and ended up in that kind of place. I used all my savings and pulled strings everywhere to get you out. Why can't you change?
“You are my mother, isn’t it only right that I do these things? You’ll be counting on me to take care of you in your old age and see you off when you die.”
"Yan Yan, Mom is not doing all this to condone your continued misbehavior! Mom wants to see a sensible and well-behaved daughter, not someone like you who is throwing a tantrum like this! Your behavior really disappoints Mom!"
Du Yunwei's voice trembled slightly. He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and continued, "You need to know that all these years, your mother has truly exhausted all her energy and resources for you! Your mother worked tirelessly to create a good living environment for you, so that you could grow up healthy and happy. But what about you? You don't know how to cherish it at all, and you're always causing trouble, making your mother worry about you!"
Du Yunwei's brows were tightly furrowed, and her eyes revealed a hint of helplessness and exhaustion. Looking at her daughter in front of her, her heart was filled with disappointment and heartache.
"Mom doesn't have any more money to support you anymore! If you continue to be disobedient and willful, Mom really doesn't know what to do. Mom also has her own life and her own pressures. I can't keep giving to you endlessly like this!"
Du Yunwei's voice gradually lowered, his tone carrying a hint of determination, "So, Yan Yan, you'd better behave yourself from now on and stop making your mother worry about you. If you still don't repent, then your mother... your mother will probably have to pretend she never gave birth to you..."
"Back then, I resolutely gave up everything, even my noble status as a princess, just so I could stay with your father forever."
“I disregarded societal norms and resolutely followed him away, even giving birth to you for him. However, now, I can just as resolutely abandon you in pursuit of my own happiness. I mean what I say.”
"Yan Yan, you must not be so naive as to think that just because you were born from my womb after ten months of pregnancy, you can easily and naturally control me tightly in your little hands for the rest of my life!"
"Listen up! I, Du Yunwei, am not so easily trapped! In this world, no one has the ability to trap me!"
"I have my pride and self-respect, and I have bottom lines that I absolutely cannot cross! Yet you so brazenly trample on my dignity, challenging my bottom line time and time again. Do you really think I'm easy to bully? Let me tell you, I will absolutely not tolerate you continuing like this!"
Upon hearing her mother Du Yunwei's resolute and chilling words, Wen Yanyan's face turned deathly pale, as if she had been swept away by an invisible gust of cold wind, and she froze on the spot.
Her legs felt as heavy as lead, making it almost impossible for her to stand, and her body trembled slightly uncontrollably.
She knew Du Yunwei's temperament inside and out. After all these years of getting along, she had a clear understanding of Du Yunwei's personality traits.
In the past, whenever I made a mistake, my mother would always show obvious emotional fluctuations, either scolding me angrily or reprimanding me with great indignation, and sometimes even getting so angry that she would fly into a rage.
That intense reaction was like a sudden storm; although it came on fiercely and violently, it at least made her truly feel her mother's care and attention.
Although the mother's anger and scolding were somewhat unbearable, they also proved to some extent that the mother cared a lot about everything she did; otherwise, why would she be so angry?
However, this time the situation was completely different from before. Her mother went through countless hardships and spared no effort to rescue her from that hellish, dark prison. Surprisingly, however, her mother didn't show the slightest bit of anger throughout the entire ordeal.
The mother maintained a calm and composed expression throughout, as if all of this was within her expectations, or rather, she didn't care at all about the mistakes her daughter had made.
Such calmness and composure raises the question: what could possibly make a mother so unfazed by such a situation?
After she was released, her mother coldly left her some money, which felt like a cold stone, heavy in her hand but unable to warm her heart.
Then, the mother resolutely left without saying much, without a warm embrace, leaving only a resolute silhouette.
If someone hadn't told her by chance that her mother was in the capital, she wouldn't even know where her mother was. Like a kite with a broken string, she had lost her way in the vast sea of people.
At this moment, the images of Xu Xiaoxiao and Nan Weiwei involuntarily surfaced in her mind.
They were Du Yunwei's biological daughters! Yet, on a certain day in the past, they were cruelly abandoned by their own mother.
The mother treated them like old, worthless objects, discarding them without hesitation and without showing the slightest bit of lingering affection.
In Wen Yanyan's mind, Du Yunwei was such a cold-blooded person; her heart was like a hard stone, and no matter how much you hit it, it was difficult to warm it up.
Wen Yanyan knew her mother too well. Her mother appeared gentle and soft-spoken, with a faint smile on her face, like a white lotus blooming in the spring breeze, pure and harmless.
But in reality, she harbored untold schemes and tactics deep within her heart.
Otherwise, how could she have completely fooled that foreign prince? That prince, of noble birth and likely to inherit the throne in the future, was infatuated with his mother. For her, he was even willing to give up the supreme throne, only wishing to be with her forever.
In the end, his mother still abandoned him, just like she abandoned a toy she was tired of playing with.
Thinking of this, Wen Yanyan felt a chill run down her spine. She wondered if she would be the next one abandoned by her mother.
Wen Yanyan's mind kept conjuring up images of herself struggling to make ends meet in the future—a picture full of hardship and suffering.
She seemed to see herself toiling under the scorching sun and shivering in the cold wind for a meager salary, every penny hard-earned, every moment filled with exhaustion and despair.
Thinking of these things, a deep fear welled up in her heart, her body trembled uncontrollably, her legs went weak, and she almost collapsed to the ground.
No, no, you can't...
She frantically raised her head, her eyes filled with pleading and helplessness, tears welling up in her eyes. Her voice trembled with sobs as she choked out, "Mom, I...I was wrong. I really won't do it again. I promise I'll listen to you from now on. If you tell me to go east, I'll never go west."
"Could you...please ask Xu Xiaoxiao or Nan Weiwei to help get Dad out? Dad got locked up because of me. He did those foolish things because he loves me so much. He must be suffering so much in there. Please, Mom..."
"Heh," Du Yunwei let out a cold laugh, a laugh that was icy and sharp, like a blade piercing straight into Wen Yanyan's heart.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze filled with disdain and disgust, and said coldly, "Do you think your father is imprisoned in the capital? Even if your father is imprisoned in the capital, do you think the prison is run by the Fu family or the Nan family? Do you think they can just release people whenever they want? Don't be naive! I know very well what kind of person your father is. He is a selfish and unscrupulous person."
“If he hadn’t gone astray with you, would you be in this situation today? He not only failed to fulfill his responsibilities as a father, but also led you astray. If you still want me to take care of you in the future, you’d better get back to your studies.”
“I have already contacted schools abroad. The environment and learning atmosphere there are very good. You can start over there, learn something properly, and stop thinking about these unrealistic things all day long.”
"If you still have any ulterior motives or are thinking of solving problems through crooked means, I will immediately sever ties with you. From now on, we will go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other!"
Wen Yanyan...