Chapter 33

"Xiao Yunzhe, Xiao Yuchun, Xiao Jingrou, sounds pretty good……" Xiao Ming added his surname to each of the children's names and recited them once.

This news is simply too delightful.

Since confirming that those children were his, he has thought about this matter a lot.

But thinking that Wen Zihan is already gone, and the children all follow their mother's surname, he worries that bringing up changing surnames will touch the children's sensitive nerves.

He didn't expect that the children actually share the same idea as him.

This is exactly to his liking.

"Change, change the surname to Xiao." Xiao Ming was overjoyed: "I'll have someone arrange it right away; once arranged, we'll go change it."

"Okay, listen to Dad." The family of four looked at each other, and hearty laughter spread.

After walking and returning home, the two sisters went to wash up and prepare for sleep, while Wen Yunzhe was also preparing to return to his room when Xiao Ming suddenly called out to him: "Yunzhe, wait a moment, I have something to say to you."

"Hm?" Wen Yunzhe looked at his father's serious expression, inexplicably a little afraid: "Dad, what's wrong?"

The two daughters preparing to return to their bedrooms also stopped, curiously looking over: "You two also want to know, huh?"

Xiao Ming thought it over; the matter he wanted to discuss had previously caused the two girls to suffer quite a bit, and they too should know the full story: "Alright, you two come over and sit."

After the family of four sat on the sofa, Xiao Ming looked at the children with heartache, then slowly began to speak.

"Yunzhe, what I want to say concerns you." Xiao Ming said with a pained expression.

"Dad, go ahead, what exactly happened?" Wen Yunzhe seeing his father like this was almost dying of anxiety.

"I just think I should tell you all about it; you three, after hearing it, don't take it too to heart, everything I, your father, am here for." Xiao Ming first gave that advice, then proceeded to recount the matter in detail.

"Half a year ago, the investment you spoke of being scammed—there's a problem."

Wen Yunzhe, upon hearing this, panicked: "Dad, I truly wanted to start a business to make money; everything was following proper procedures, I never expected to fall for someone else's scheme, the so-called good brother ran off, the investors couldn't be found either; back then they said they wanted to develop a special effective drug for heart attack emergency rescue, but in the end there was nothing, the money was also gone……"

"Just bad luck, nothing can be done……"

"This has nothing to do with luck." Xiao Ming patted his son's shoulder: "You were set up by someone."

"This matter, from the very beginning, was a setup."

"Your so-called good brother is Su Mohan, right? Wasn't he the one who first brought up the investment? Later, many things were also through his connections—what research on the emergency rescue drug, did he perhaps also let you see the research report adulterated with ethylene glycol?"

"After the investors ran away, he then told you he also hadn't expected to be scammed, that he too was swindled out of everything? After that, you heard nothing more from Su Mohan?"

"Actually, Su Mohan had been scheming against you from the start; he was bribed by someone else."

Xiao Ming's words left Wen Yunzhe stunned, unable to regain his composure for a long while.

He drew in big breaths, unable to believe it.

Anger— he felt like he was about to explode from rage.

Wen Jingrou and Wen Yuchun, the two sisters, also looked at each other in great shock, too incredulous.

"You and Su Mohan each put up one million to start the business, but actually, the person who bribed him gave him four million."

"When you were pressed by external debt to the point of being unable to breathe, he held that four million, likely able to laugh awake even in his dreams."

"The person who planned all this is Wen Fengshu, the Household steward of the Wen Family, your grandmother."

"I think the reason she did this needs no further explanation from me."

"It's to force my older brother to agree to go to the Wen Family." Wen Yuchun said in shock.

Xiao Ming nodded,

Wen Yunzhe had always thought it was just his bad luck, but he never expected that all this was the doing of that old witch.

Thinking about how, over the past six months, he's been living in pain each day, Wen Yunzhe became so angry he couldn't bear it.

In his eyes, there was full hatred.

Heaven knows how he got through these six months; how many times, unable to bear the pressure, he wanted to end it all.

"Dad, that old lady is also too much."

"Brother, don't be sad, it's all in the past." Seeing Wen Yunzhe's emotions near collapse, Wen Jingrou felt great heartache for her brother.

"Jingrou, I, I'm still okay." After a while, Wen Yunzhe suppressed his anger somewhat, then forced a smile and replied.

But anyone could see that he was restraining himself.

"Yunzhe, I told you beforehand, as long as I'm here, whoever dares to scheme against my son, I won't easily let her off; you don't need to worry too much." Xiao Ming said solemnly.

"Hmm, thanks Dad, I'm fine, don't worry." Wen Yunzhe gave a cold snort: "That old hag is truly ruthless; she treated my mother that way before, and now she treats me the same—she deserves to have her vast estate with no heir."

No matter what, the three siblings are blood-related to her; how could human hearts be so cruel?

Their mother's tragedy, as well as the tragedy of the three siblings, were all caused by that old lady.

At this moment, Wen Yunzhe's heart held only endless hatred.

Hmm. Xiao Ming nodded, then said: "I heard from your two sisters about your investment matter, felt something was off, so I sent people to investigate."

"Dad, my mother is too pitiful." After hearing this, Wen Jingrou and Wen Yuchun thought of their mother's ordeal, both crying with tears like pear blossoms in rain.

It's all because of that vicious old lady; their mother, left with no choice, had to leave their father, give birth to the three siblings on her own, painstakingly raise them, and ultimately, from excessive exhaustion, passed away early.

The parents would separate, the mother would suffer so much, the mother would die early, and the three siblings would spend over twenty years not knowing who their father was—all of this is that old lady's fault.

When the mother was near death, she said she wanted to see her grandmother one more time; no matter what, that was her biological mother.

Thus, the three siblings borrowed a neighbor's pedal tricycle, from dawn until dusk brought their mother to the Wen Family's gate, only to be turned away.

Later, they even tried to come and snatch Wen Yunzhe back.

All those past hardships became a pain in the hearts of the three siblings.

Usually no one mentions it, but whenever they recall it, at the moment of remembering, the hearts of the three siblings drip with blood.

They hate that old lady, down to the bone.

"Dad, we must seek justice for brother; the greatest tragedy in our family is all caused by that old lady." Wen Yuchun said fiercely.

"Hmm, I will." Xiao Ming nodded: "From now on, I will properly protect you; the Wen Family had better not dare to move against you in the slightest, and as for what the old lady owes our family, I will definitely demand double repayment."