Chapter 1469: Compared to Profit, the Son is More Important

Just as Shi Youxuan understands her own daughter.

Shi Ran has the same understanding of her mother.

Shi Youxuan finally asked her daughter: "Think carefully, what if Shi Yuan grows up to become the same kind of person as his parents?"

"He won't. My godmother even said that a child turns out like whoever raises them; it doesn't have much to do with who gave birth to them."

Shi Youxuan:...

This Jian Yixin, I will settle the score with her when I have time.

"Your godmother's situation is different from yours. Moli's biological mother keeps her word; she will never acknowledge him in this lifetime..."

Shi Ran retorted: "Is that so? What you're saying isn't the truth. A huge scene was made back then; don't think I don't know. I wasn't small at that time, and you all treated me like a child and didn't avoid me for anything, but I remember it all."

She remembers it clearly.

Back then, Aunt Shi Yuke wasn't the way she is now. When she was celebrating Moli's birthday, Aunt threatened godmother Jian Yixin for the child, and ended up almost being killed by godmother.

Although Shi Yuke didn't die, her head was severely injured, and she was foolish and silly for many years!

"Right, it's good that you remember."

Her mother caught the logic and began to hold onto it: "When those things happened back then, you saw every single event with your own eyes. Thinking back on those thrilling moments, I still have lingering fears. Do you really want to experience it all over again?"

Shi Ran did not answer her mother's words directly, but said: "It is precisely because I saw Moli's growth process from childhood to adulthood that I firmly insist on raising Shi Yuan. If Moli had grown up by his biological parents' side from childhood, he would absolutely not be the way he is now. He would be like his parents, or even worse."

"I don't want there to be another Qi Heng in this world. Mother, do you understand what I mean?"

Shi Ran choked with sobs, and Shi Youxuan also remained silent for a long time.

But she was persuaded by her daughter, and sincerely decided to help her.

"Miss Yuan, let's meet, shall we? I am Shi Ran's mother. I have what you want here." Shi Youxuan dialed Black Widow's phone, getting straight to the point without a single wasted word.

"I know who you are. Where shall we meet?" Black Widow's expression was very serious.

Shi Youxuan wanted to see her.

Although she is only a full-time housewife, she has heard this name many times.

The people who mention "Shi Youxuan" are all top-tier, formidable figures, yet not one of them mentions this name without a tone of admiration.

Even Qi Heng did.

Qi Heng was very arrogant; he rarely praised people, and even more rarely admired anyone.

When he was alive, the only person he admired was Shi Youxuan, even though they were opponents and enemies at the time!

Black Widow raised her guard, but still agreed to meet. The two arranged to meet at a coffee shop; the location was set by Shi Youxuan, yet it was very close to where Black Widow is currently staying.

Black Widow went out as soon as she hung up the phone, but when she arrived, she found that Shi Youxuan had already arrived.

Shi Youxuan was sitting by the window, smiling and waving at her: "Miss Yuan, over here."

Shi Ran and Shi Youxuan look like they were cast from the same mold; the mother and daughter share the same face, making them very easy to recognize!

Black Widow walked over: "Hello, Auntie, I am Yuan Li."

"Sit. You are even prettier than I imagined. Your skin is so good; what method do you use to maintain your skin..." Shi Youxuan never plays by the rules. Black Widow had already prepared herself to face a challenge, yet she suddenly asked for the secret to skin maintenance.

"What did you say?"

Black Widow could not figure out what medicine Shi Youxuan was selling in her gourd.

She has a way of dealing with men, but she is not very skilled at dealing with women.

"I asked how you maintain your skin? It's so tender you could pinch water out of it. If you don't mind me saying, I remember you are already over thirty. Tsk tsk, you look like a young girl in her early twenties..."

No woman can refuse someone complimenting her on looking young.

Black Widow is no exception.

Although she still hadn't completely let down her guard against Shi Youxuan, she became much more amiable.

She shared two simple maintenance methods, and at the same time, she complimented Shi Youxuan on looking younger than her actual age. Out of politeness, she also asked Shi Youxuan how she maintained herself.

Shi Youxuan said: "I'm a lazy person; I don't have such exquisite maintenance as you, but I don't worry much. I don't have to manage any of my children, so I look young."

"You see, usually women who have become mothers look older than those who haven't. A large part of the reason is because of worrying..."

Black Widow understood. This woman was beating around the bush saying all this, and it turned out she wanted to indirectly persuade her to give up the child.

Impossible.

She got straight to the point: "I understand what you mean, but please tell Shi Ran that I will not give up Shi Yuan. He is my biological son, and the laws of any country will support me."

Shi Youxuan said: "That's right. If you want to fight for the child, Shi Ran basically has no chance of winning, but what I want to know is, how do you plan to raise the child in the future?"

"How I raise him is my business; you don't need to worry about it. You should care more about your own grandchild."

"You've been out for so long, aren't you afraid that your property has already been snatched away by the people of your husband's Clan?" Shi Youxuan changed the subject.

Black Widow's expression stiffened.

How could she not be worried?

She was worried to death.

But there was no other way, was there?

Bringing the child back would increase her chances of winning by fifty percent. If she couldn't bring the child back, then there wouldn't be a single chance of winning!

The state where her husband lived had a bizarre law.

A stepson enjoys the same inheritance rights as a biological child, but the wife has no inheritance rights. After the husband passes away, the wife can only rely on the meager offerings provided monthly by the husband's Clan to live, until she remarries.

Didn't she marry someone that old for the family fortune?

Now, only a child is missing for the fortune to be within her grasp, which is why Black Widow was pursuing this so tightly.

Black Widow wanted to say, you don't need to worry about it.

But before she could speak, Shi Youxuan seemed to see through her heart and continued: "I have studied the laws of that state. Your idea is very good, and if it were me, I would do the same, but there is a point here that is very difficult to handle."

"You and my daughter signed an abandonment agreement back then, so legally speaking, the relationship between you and Shi Yuan is no longer that of mother and son in the legal sense, and your husband passed away during this period. Even if you fight for custody of Shi Yuan now, he has no inheritance rights."

Black Widow's face was flushed red.

Between the urgency and the anger, for a moment she did not know what to say.

She certainly knew this point, which was why she did not want to blow things out of proportion at all.

But Shi Ran would not yield to soft or hard tactics, and only because she truly had no other choice would she file a lawsuit!

No one else had noticed the loophole here, yet Shi Youxuan had spotted it.

Shi Youxuan laid her cards on the table: "I have a good method that can allow you to get what you want to get, while also preserving my daughter's current peaceful life; do you want to hear it?"

"Speak."