Chapter 37: Two Little Bitter Melons Depending on Each Other for Survival

Lin Jingshu saw Gu Tingyan enter, filled with baleful energy, yet she could still look at him with a calm expression.

She looked at him as if she were looking at an unruly child.

Qin Shu had taught her son poorly.

She had let him learn to defy his elders and go against her.

Gu Tingyan's eyes were as dark as ink, and he looked at her coldly: "Mother, am I truly your biological son?"

A faint anger appeared on Lin Jingshu's face: "How could you not be?"

"Then why can't you treat Qin Shu better? She is my wife, yet you are so harsh to her."

Lin Jingshu kept her face cold and silent: "She is not worthy of you."

Gu Tingyan laughed coldly: "Heh."

There was naked sarcasm in his eyes: "You think she isn't worthy of me now? When I had just started my sophomore year, and you and the Chu Family colluded to trick her back from school and kidnap her to marry me, why didn't you say she wasn't worthy of me then?"

That was because both Lin Jingshu and Gu Huaiyuan had assumed Gu Tingyan would not survive, and even if he did, he would be a cripple.

They were in a rush to find a woman to bear the next heir for Gu Tingyan.

If Gu Tingyan died, the Gu Family could still have his son inherit, so the family line would not be broken!

Both Qin Shu and Gu Tingyan were nothing more than tools to continue the Gu Family line.

If Qin Shu gave birth to a son, she would be driven out of the Gu Family once Gu Tingyan died.

No one expected that Gu Tingyan would be lucky enough to survive and even be able to stand again.

But Lin Jingshu could not speak such truths; she could only use well-intentioned lies to cover them up.

Otherwise, the bond between mother and son would be completely severed, and it would also affect the relationship between Gu Tingyan and his father.

Gu Tingyan stared at his mother's indifferent face, bloodshot veins appearing in his eyes.

When he was young, his mother loved him very much and handled everything herself.

Gu Tingyan also felt that he lived in a happy family.

It wasn't until he was in a car accident—Gu Tingyan was still in a wheelchair, and Qin Shu was lying weakly in a hospital bed, having just given birth—that things changed.

Lin Jingshu went straight to the hospital with bodyguards and snatched the child away from them.

At that time, Gu Tingyan had begged her to leave the child with them.

But Lin Jingshu only swept a cold glance at him, and his father looked at him with the same indifference.

"Tingyan, with your health, you cannot raise this child well."

"It is better to leave it to your father and me to share the burden for you."

Gu Yichen had been taken away before he even had a chance to look at him after birth.

Qin Shu cried hysterically in the hospital room; she had just given birth and come out of the delivery room, unable to even get out of bed, yet she fell straight off the bed.

The stitches on her body tore open, and she bled profusely; as Qin Shu crawled along, the blood left a glaring, scarlet trail.

"Mother, I beg you, give the child back to me."

She cried hysterically, tears streaming down her face, her entire body nearly drained of strength.

Gu Tingyan couldn't even lift her up; he roared in anger and cried as he looked at his parents, but he did not receive a shred of pity.

As a husband, he could only watch helplessly as his wife bled from her lower body, crawling while crying to grab at their pant legs.

Gu Tingyan's eyes were blood-red, his chest aching so much that his body trembled; he shouted for a doctor, but in the silent corridor, no one answered his terrified, helpless cries for help.

Gu Huaiyuan looked at him coldly: "Tingyan, give us the child, and we will provide her with the best treatment."

In truth, Gu Tingyan probably knew then that it wasn't because his grandmother hoped to see his child before she died, but because they needed an heir to inherit the Gu Family.

The crippled Gu Tingyan was abandoned by the entire family.

They had a new heir: his newborn son.

"Fine." His voice was hoarse, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

Gu Tingyan watched their departing backs, his eyes scarlet, a lump of rage stuck in his chest; he swore that he would, absolutely, stand up again.

After Qin Shu was discharged, she was ill for a long time; the Gu Family placed her and Gu Tingyan in the backyard, leaving them to fend for themselves, treating them as just two extra mouths to feed.

The servants in the Old Residence also followed the wind; in the past, Gu Tingyan was the golden, precious Crown Prince.

Now, he was not even as good as a dog.

The dog Lin Jingshu kept lived more luxuriously than Gu Tingyan and ate better than him.

When Gu Laoyezi found out, he flew into a rage and was so angry he was hospitalized.

After being discharged, he moved Gu Tingyan and Qin Shu into his own courtyard to live; when Gu Tingyan said he wanted to enter the group, Gu Laoyezi strongly supported him.

He did not let the old man down and achieved results.

That was when he understood that family affection was too thin and far less important than profit.

Gu Tingyan suddenly realized that his parents had never loved him.

What they loved was the power and future of the Gu Family.

A thick plume of white smoke rose from the Gu Family Old Residence, and everyone in the residence was in a panic; they had not expected that when the Eldest Young Master returned and saw the Young Mistress being punished by kneeling, he would be so enraged that he set fire to the Madam's courtyard.

Gu Huaiyuan was drinking tea with guests when he saw the thick smoke; looking outside, he asked coldly: "What is going on?"

A panicked servant ran in from outside, terror on their face:

"It's bad, Mr. Gu, the Eldest Young Master has burned Gu Madam's room!"

Gu Tingyan had smashed everything in Lin Jingshu's room to pieces, and finally, he lit a fire and burned her room directly to the ground!

Hearing this, Gu Huaiyuan gasped.

Gu Huaiyuan said in a deep voice: "Has Tingyan gone mad?"

Gu Huaiyuan's face was livid as he apologized to his guests: "Please sit for a moment, I will go out and take a look."

The few distinguished guests looked at each other, their hearts churning with shock.

What kind of heinous, conscience-less thing could the mistress of the Gu Family have done to provoke this Eldest Young Master Gu into such an absurd act!

Everyone knew that Gu Tingyan was not to be trifled with, that he was decisive in his actions, ruthless, and cruel; they had only heard of it before, but now, they had actually witnessed it on the spot.

This is unfilial and disloyal to his elder!

What's more, it is his own biological mother who gave birth to him and raised him!

Gu Yichen watched the raging fire ignite, the flames reflecting in his clear, bright pupils; he felt not a shred of fear, but instead tossed the stack of test papers and textbooks he had brought with him all at once into the sea of fire.

Sparks flew in all directions instantly.

The butler was so frightened he rushed over to stop him, terrified that this little ancestor might be hurt by the flames.

Gu Yichen stood there and said calmly, "I know what I'm doing."

"Grandpa Butler, I really don't like doing these things."

Gu Yichen: "I want to burn them."

The butler's hand paused, also feeling that the tasks Lin Jingshu assigned him were far beyond those of his peers.

He sighed and joined the young master in tossing the rescued textbooks and homework into the fire: "Burn them, burn them all."

Gu Laoyezi sat on a rocking chair coughing, having the family doctor treat Qin Shu's leg; he sighed in a low voice: "Back then, I shouldn't have agreed to let her enter the family."

Marrying one woman ruins three generations.

Qin Shu sat obediently on the chair, letting the doctor apply medicine to her.

No one dared to come to the old man's courtyard to disturb him, so Qin Shu could feel a bit more at ease here.

Gu Laoyezi looked at her with heartache: "Girl, you've suffered."

Gu Tingyan walked in with a cold, biting aura; he picked Qin Shu up horizontally, then glanced at the people beside Gu Laoyezi: "Take Grandfather to stay at my place for a few days."

To avoid the vexations of these next two days.