Chapter 464: So, Is It for Your Own Good?

The aunt was being taken away, and the man beside her, for the moment, had no idea what to do — he even felt like dying.

Old Song comforted him, saying: "Don't do anything foolish, you still have a daughter… someone you need to take care of."

The man said in a low voice: "Do you know, this house of mine — it was bought for me by my current wife?"

Old Song was completely dumbfounded.

The daughter at the side said: "My previous mom already left. My dad and this mom — it's a second marriage."

For a daughter to be able to call someone 'Mom' so wholeheartedly shows that this now-deceased woman was truly good to this family.

The man sat on the sofa, silently lit a cigarette, and said: "At the very beginning, I actually brought her home. Back then our whole family lived in the village, we didn't have much money, we farmed every day. She didn't complain either — she came with me into the fields. I worked, she kept me company. I was really happy."

"But she was very pretty, very good-looking. The villagers all said a woman like that wasn't suited for settling down. My mom also said a woman like that wasn't suited for settling down, that she'd run off sooner or later. I refused no matter what — I stuck it out with my girlfriend. But later my mom threatened me with her own life."

"After that, she found me a very ugly woman — ugly and fat."

"After I had a child with her, I just moved straight into the fields and never went home again. When I was hungry, I ate the vegetables I'd grown myself in the field. When I was thirsty, I drank some water. Anyway, I just wouldn't go home. I still earned money — every bit of it went to the family."

"Later that woman ran off. Before she left, she came to find me and told me that she had married into the family because of her parents' arrangement too. She didn't blame herself either — the young man she'd originally liked was still waiting for her, and they discussed it: if possible, they'd divorce."

"We divorced. I kept the child. To this day we're still in touch — she comes to visit the child regularly, and I'm on great terms with that buddy of hers too."

"After that, my current wife found me and said she was still waiting for me. I told her everything. She didn't look down on me — she married me, even took out money to buy me an apartment in the city, and told me we didn't need a child, that just having this one daughter was enough."

The man took a hard drag of his cigarette and said bitterly: "I don't get it, I really don't get it — why, why did my mom have to target her, why did she have to target her, why?"

Chen Fan sighed and said: "Let me give you a bit of common sense. Among women, there is no purely good relationship — there's always a certain amount of jealousy. Most mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships are terrible, and it's simply because the mother-in-law is jealous that her daughter-in-law is doing well."

"The ugliest part of human nature is this: when your own life isn't going well, you don't want others to do well either."

"And most fathers care about the man their daughter chooses, while most mothers care about the woman their son chooses — it's just a kind of possessiveness."

"A mama's boy is really just about control…"

The man looked at Chen Fan and said: "Was it… my fault?"

Chen Fan said: "I don't know. With your situation, I can't judge — I don't know how to judge it either…"

The group left; the follow-up investigation needed to be handed over to the police.

Everyone returned to the forensic office. It was already noon, and the cafeteria was preparing the meal.