Chapter 665 - 664: Like a Fishbone in the Throat
"As a man, it’s completely normal to have three wives and four concubines. In the future, you’ll have a proper lady as your wife to manage your household, and you won’t have to worry about social interactions outside. As for the Wang Family Young Lady you fancy, just dote on her a bit. If it weren’t for you, could a country girl like her ever receive such fortune? Even if she could make money, with our kind of family status, why would we need to make money ourselves? That would only downgrade our status!" Chongjin had been very stable emotionally before the mention of Wang Yongzhu, but upon hearing Song Hong casually dictate another person’s life as if everything was taken for granted, a suppressed rage burst forth from his heart.
"Thanks to Lord Duke for your kindness, but unfortunately, I do not have such fortune. Yongzhu and I have already taken our wedding vows before the heavens and our parents, and in this lifetime, I, Song Chongjin, will only have her as my wife! We country folk don’t have so many cunning schemes, nor so many ambitions and excuses!"
"Moreover, as a human being, especially a man, you must have a conscience! Back when I was nearly suffocated by the filial ties used by the Song Family and Song Chunhua, when I was forced to take poison by the person you sent to take care of me and even went blind, She did not abandon me. I swore then and there that I would not wrong her in this lifetime!"
"Of course, such feelings are incomprehensible to Lord Duke, otherwise how could you have made my mother your mistress and kept her on the outside? If you truly cared about my mother, you would have either sent her to the Qi family’s place of exile or simply made her an official servant, cared for by the Eldest Lady, and found her a proper status in the future, rather than having her die inexplicably in a foreign land, leaving behind me, an illegitimate child without clarity."
"Now that I think about it, my mother decisively left the Duke back when she was pregnant with me; perhaps she had seen through it all," Chongjin said with a sarcastic laugh.
He strode out of the courtyard with his head held high.
Song Hong’s personal soldiers watched as Chongjin left and then turned back to look at Song Hong.
Song Hong felt as if his face had been stripped off and trampled on the ground by this defiant son. If not for the last shred of reason reminding him that this child wasn’t like the others at home, that he owed him, he would have picked up a whip and struck him!