Chapter 43: Severing the Mother-Child Relationship

"Wang Shu! I'm here!" Shen Yuan shouted.

The little old man, who always responded to her cheerfully in the past, just looked at her quietly today.

He did not open the door immediately.

"Wang Shu?" Shen Yuan called out again.

Wang Shu nodded, "Please wait a moment; I will go inform the Miss."

Shen Yuan was stunned for a moment.

Then she saw the little old man run into the Si Family estate.

The Miss? Her mother?

Why was there a need to ask for permission? Shouldn't she be invited in directly?

However, she did not want to appear so rude in front of the Si Family members; no matter how many doubts she had in her heart, she stood there obediently waiting, so that the Si Family could see the demeanor of a young lady of the Shen Family.

"She's here?" Si Rong guessed Shen Lan's intentions, and also guessed that Shen Lan and Li Xuan had not told the two children about their parentage.

Children cannot hide their thoughts.

Si Rong set down her coffee cup, her pale pink lips faintly shimmering, "Let her in! Go to the living room."

Shen Yuan was brought to the living room, feeling somewhat puzzled; in the past, she had always gone directly to her mother's room.

"Mom!"

Seeing Si Rong, Shen Yuan immediately bloomed with a big smile.

She felt that she had been completely wrong some time ago; there was no benefit in being angry with her mother.

It had caused her quality of life to drop quite a bit.

Si Rong's smile was faint; she lifted her waist slightly and sat on the stool, the hem of her light emerald glowing cheongsam cascading down.

The first sentence exploded like a thunderclap in Shen Yuan's ears.

"Your father and I have already divorced."

"What?" Shen Yuan jumped straight up from the stool.

How could this be possible?

All these years, who didn't know that her parents had a good relationship? Who in the residential complex didn't envy them?

She simply did not believe the things said on the television broadcast.

How could she possibly have been born to Aunt Li Xuan?

In their daily lives, Aunt Li Xuan had never said much when she saw them.

She hadn't even spent as much time with them as Aunt Ming Zi had.

Aunt Li Xuan was so ordinary; her only shining point was perhaps her status as her mother's friend.

How could she be her and her brother's biological mother?

And how could she be worthy of being her biological mother?!

"It is true." Si Rong looked at her with eyes that were calm and undisturbed, "Your father and I have already divorced, and there is no possibility of reconciliation; the bond of mother and daughter between us ends here!"

Shen Yuan was extremely shocked.

This, how could it come to this?

"Mom..."

It would be impossible for Si Rong to say she was not moved at all in her heart.

After all, she had raised her from such a small size, but Si Rong chose to believe that phone call and believe in her future self.

As long as she endured the pain for a moment, she could eliminate future troubles forever.

Let the mother-daughter bond be severed today!

"Do not call me Mom when we meet in the future," Si Rong suppressed the sorrow in her heart and issued an order to leave, "You may go!"

"You, you really don't want me and my brother anymore?" Shen Yuan's eyes filled with tears, "I hate you!"

"You adults and your affairs, you have to drag us children into it! You are all selfish!"

She did not understand; just because of that little matter, why couldn't her mother forgive her father and go back to live a good life with them?

She was at the critical moment of preparing for the College Entrance Examination this year; couldn't she just make up for her sake?

"Si Rong!" Shen Yuan retreated toward the door step by step, calling Si Rong by her full name, "Don't you regret this!"

No matter how wealthy the Si Family is, Si Rong has no children; who will provide for her in her old age?

Now that she has severed the mother-daughter relationship, don't come looking for her when she gets old!

Seeing her departing figure from the window, Si Rong could not help but recall how she used to hold her tightly in her arms when she was small.

So light, so soft.

But from now on, there would be no relationship between them.

The entanglement with Shen Yuan ended here; there was still Shen Chi left.

As expected of twins, no sooner had Shen Yuan left than Shen Chi came looking for her.

His personality was much more tactful than Shen Yuan's; he brought a bouquet of carnations when he arrived.

Shen Chi had always felt that his mother liked carnations, because every time he gave them to her, she liked them very much.

She would put them in a water bottle in the living room until they withered.

She would even dry them and collect them.

"Mom, I hope you can forgive Father."

Shen Chi felt his reasoning was sound, "I plan to get engaged to Xi Xi this year; next year you can be a mother-in-law, and the year after that you can be a Nainai."

And as a man, he would of course continue to work hard with his eldest uncle from the Si Family.

The eldest uncle of the Si Family has no son, only one daughter, who will eventually be married off.

He had even planned to have the eldest uncle of the Si Family become his godfather after some time.

"Your father and I are already divorced." Si Rong found his words laughable.

It seemed as if being a mother-in-law or a Nainai to his wife and children was some sort of glorious matter.

"But you can remarry." Shen Chi sighed and said with deep concern, "Mom, do you know what Xi Xi said? If you don't remarry my dad, she's going to break up with me!"

Mei Xi is the daughter of a cousin of Si Rong, a relationship that originally had no connection at all.

But that cousin insisted they were related, and as time went on, she didn't seem like such a wicked person.

Her age was similar to Mother Si's, so gradually they began to treat each other like cousins.

Actually, Si Rong used to quite like this Mei Xi, but if these words were truly her own, it only proved that she had misjudged her again.

Is she trying to threaten her by breaking up with Shen Chi?

But now, the Shen Family and Shen Chi are no longer her weak points, so it is impossible to threaten her.

"If you want to break up, then break up! That is a matter between the two of you."

Shen Chi simply could not believe his ears; what did she mean by "if you want to break up, then break up"?

Could it be that his happiness and his marriage were so unimportant to Si Rong?

"But Mom, didn't you also like Xi Xi before? You said she was a good girl; don't you want Xi Xi to be your daughter-in-law anymore?"

Si Rong:...

"You watched the live television broadcast of the Dance Competition, didn't you?" Si Rong rubbed her temples, "So you must know about your father's betrayal of me. We have already divorced. As for the bond between mother and son, it should also come to an end."

The mother-son relationship is gone? What is there left to say about a daughter-in-law?

Everything regarding the Shen Family has nothing to do with her anymore; she only feels lighthearted and free now.

"I watched it, but I do not acknowledge Li Xuan as my mother!" Shen Chi's gaze was very firm, and his voice was even more resolute, "I was raised by your own hands; the grace of raising is greater than the grace of birth. You are my forever and only mother, the only mother-in-law for my future wife! The only Nainai for my future son!"