Chapter 178 - 73: Mom on the Offensive
Ye Qiu was intentionally leaving Lizhi Kong hanging, naturally not picking up his phone calls.
After dialing three times to no avail, Lizhi Kong’s face twisted with fury as he spat out the word "bitch".
He was about to report to the police, accusing Ye Qiu of abducting the child, but then he received a call from Granny Kong. She had already taken a bus to City C and wanted Lizhi Kong to pick her up and take her to see her grandson.
Lizhi Kong had always been understanding towards his mother, who struggled as a widow to raise him and his sister by herself. He naturally wouldn’t disobey any requests from Madam Kong. This was one of the reasons the relationship between Ye Qiu and the Kong Family had grown increasingly tense.
Madam Kong herself was born into a family that favored boys over girls and was brainwashed from a young age to believe daughters were inferior to sons. Especially after her husband died, without her son Lizhi Kong, everything in their household would have been taken away by her husband’s elder and younger brothers. From that point on, she became even more convinced of the uselessness of women and the necessity of relying on men.
Later, when the family planning policy was strictly enforced and if other families had a daughter, she would mock them. Even her own younger daughter Zhenzhen was not loved by her. If it wasn’t for her son Lizhi Kong’s intervention, she wouldn’t have even wanted Zhenzhen to go to school.
So when Madam Kong found out that Ye Qiu had given birth to a granddaughter, her attitude towards Ye Qiu worsened. She claimed she came to the city to take care of Ye Qiu’s postpartum recovery, but in the end, it was Ye Qiu who ended up taking care of her, frequently being nitpicked and faulted.
Ever since Ye Qiu had a daughter, Granny Kong felt that everything was going against her. It was only after learning that her son’s mistress had given birth to a grandson for her that she finally felt contented. She became visibly more at ease and even demanded that Lizhi Kong arrange for the mistress and her son to live next to Ye Qiu’s complex, which was simply callous and insane.