Chapter 803 - 773 Invitation (2)_1
"Liu Yun, just give me some peace. Haven’t you understood by now? All these years, what we’ve done has truly hurt my father and our son, Muli. Moreover, I think my father and Muli chose this way to inform us of Muli’s engagement news because they were afraid you would do just this, interfere with Muli’s engagement banquet," Xiao Guobing calmly said to Liu Yun.
"So what if I interfere? He’s my son. I have to consent to who his wife will be. Hmph, that little vixen from the Situ Family dreams of entering our Xiao Family’s door." For years now, whenever Liu Yun mentioned Situ Xin, she’d recall past events, and her hatred for Situ Xin was something she couldn’t diminish no matter how hard she tried.
She knew she was no match for that little vixen Situ Xin, so, for all these years, she’d been quiet, not causing trouble for Situ Xin. But now that Situ Xin was going to become her daughter-in-law, she would never agree, no matter what.
"Liu Yun, wake up. In the hearts of my father and Muli, who do you think weighs more, you or that girl from the Situ Family?" Xiao Guobing said with a mocking tone, "Take the simplest example—If you and that girl from the Situ Family fell into a river together, who do you think my father and Muli would save first? They would make a choice without even thinking. That would be the girl from the Situ Family. Moreover, you keep saying you won’t let that girl from the Situ Family cross the Xiao Family’s threshold, but I think you know best in your heart that you have never been recognized by my father and mother as a wife of the Xiao Family." Xiao Guobing, overwhelmed by the provocation, spoke without his earlier caution. He wanted to wake Liu Yun up and have her face reality. "Liu Yun, can’t you see clearly by now? My father and Muli are truly disappointed in both of us. All these years. I could only be protected by my father because of my late mother’s sake."
At this, Xiao Guobing released Liu Yun’s head and sat back on the sofa, pain written all over his face.
Xiao Guobing’s words struck exactly where it hurt Liu Yun the most. All these years, she’d been running away, deceiving herself. But even so, she still felt uncomfortable, "No matter how many wrong things you and I have done, Muli was carried in my womb for ten months before I gave birth to him. No matter what, you and I are his parents. How could he do this?"
"Heh. Precisely because you and I are his parents, he sent us this invitation. It’s also because he considers that we’re his parents that he didn’t strike out at us back then. Do you think, with Muli’s concern for that girl from the Situ Family, that he would have easily let us off?" After today’s event, Xiao Guobing felt he had truly seen things clearly. Though it was heartbreaking, he knew that everything happening today was the direct result of his and his wife’s own doing.
"Liu Yun, just stay out of it. About Muli’s engagement, don’t you meddle. I don’t want us to end up losing our son as well," Xiao Guobing said, exhausted. "Otherwise, we truly won’t have anyone left to care for us in our old age."
After saying this, Xiao Guobing stood up and went upstairs. He didn’t look back at Liu Yun. And Liu Yun, after Xiao Guobing went upstairs, collapsed onto the sofa, maintaining the same position without moving for a long time.
After sending out the invitations to his parents, Xiao Muli had his subordinates keep a close watch on their movements—especially his mother, Liu Yun. Xiao Muli knew well the kind of person his mother was and feared she could do something outrageous, disrupting the hard-won engagement banquet he had managed to secure.
Fortunately, his subordinates reported that apart from their bad moods, his parents hadn’t made any moves, particularly his mother, Liu Yun, which slightly eased Xiao Muli’s mind.