Chapter 165: Severing Ties (4)_1
Xiu Jianlin’s face grew paler and paler as he listened to the words of the Ruanlin Family.
He involuntarily thought back to the scene when Xiu Xi’s mother passed away, a supremely beautiful woman who, despite her beauty, died with a fierce countenance.
She died from complications during childbirth, and even in death, her eyes remained open. Up to her last breath, she didn’t close her eyes but kept staring straight at the doorway, her hand suspended in mid-air as if she were a fierce ghost grasping at something...
Xiu Jianlin shivered and suddenly felt a chill at the back of his neck.
Seeing that her words were taking effect, the member of the Ruan Family continued, "Our Ruan Family might not have much, but we do have a lot of children. Jiaojiao has nine brothers above her, we really don’t covet a son from the Xiu Family. It’s just that Xiu Xi has some connections with our Ruan Family. This old woman genuinely pities him and wants to take care of him by her side without changing his surname, just raising him by her side, having no relation to my four sons."
"In the future, if one day he wishes to return to the Xiu Family, I won’t stop him."
"You, as a father, can also save some energy to care for your wife and children, can’t you? I know that in these times, raising a child isn’t easy." If the previous words were threatening, the latter were effectively putting a tall hat on Xiu Jianlin.
To slap one’s face and then offer a sweet date works best with someone as hypocritical and selfish as Xiu Jianlin, who still wishes to save his own face.
Indeed.
Upon hearing these words, the resistance on Xiu Jianlin’s face noticeably diminished.
As if he had found a reason for his own inaction.