Chapter 727: A Couple Performing a Double Act

After the meal, the couple went their separate ways.

Shi Youxuan went to accompany her daughter and gave her daughter a lecture on great principles.

She enlightened Shi Ran: "There is no banquet in the world that doesn't come to an end; this separation is for the sake of the next meeting..."

Shi Ran smiled, putting on an indifferent appearance: "Mom, what are you saying? I don't understand at all. Can you go out? I need to do my homework."

She blinked her large eyes mischievously, looking unconcerned on the surface, as if there were no problems at all.

But Shi Youxuan understood what her daughter was like.

The more she acted like this, the more serious the problem was, yet she refused help from others.

Shi Youxuan had no choice but to pin her hopes on her daughter thinking it through herself.

On the other side.

The Study.

Sheng Zichen was asleep, sprawled on the sofa.

Sheng Hanyu glanced at the wall clock; it wasn't even seven o'clock yet.

Eating and then sleeping, is the son a pig?

Thinking about it carefully, he really is.

"Wake up, don't sleep; it's not bedtime yet."

The little guy opened his sleepy eyes and discovered he was still in the wicked Study.

He looked at his father pitifully: "I'm so sleepy, let me sleep for a while, I beg you."

It should have been nap time in the afternoon, but he was called to the Study to read; he was so tired of reading that he only cried and wailed, forgetting to sleep.

If he had slept then, Sheng Hanyu would not have disturbed him and would have even covered the child with a small blanket, letting him sleep on the sofa, because children need naps.

But now that it wasn't nighttime rest time, he could not sleep.

The plan could not be changed; it had to be strictly executed.

Sheng Zichen started crying and making a scene again: "Ah Ah Ah—I don't like it here, I don't like Dad."

"You can dislike me, but you cannot leave." Sheng Hanyu was expressionless.

"Sob sob sob..."

"You are a bad dad, I want to find Grandma, find Grandpa, find Grandma..."

Sheng Hanyu: "I remind you, this room is soundproof, people outside can't hear you."

Sheng Zichen:...

Tear drops still hung on his chubby little face.

But he stopped crying immediately.

Because it was meaningless.

A child cries only to satisfy their own needs, not like adults who are complex and need to vent emotions and such.

Children are very simple; their emotions are demands that need to be satisfied!

Knowing it couldn't be done, why cry?

He wasn't stupid.

Finally, it was bedtime; the little guy was released from the Study, ran back to his room without looking back, and "Bang!" slammed the door shut.

He wouldn't open it even if others knocked.

Grandma was worried, used a key to open the door and enter, and tears fell after just one look!

The little guy was asleep, sprawled on the bed.

There were tear stains on his chubby little face.

One chubby little leg had climbed onto the bed, while the other chubby little leg remained in the posture of climbing onto the bed.

Falling asleep just like this, how sleepy must the child have been?

She helped her grandson take off his outer clothes, put him into the quilt, and covered him up.

She brought warm water again to wipe his little face, hands, and feet clean.

When wiping his hands, Wang Yinghao's heart was almost broken!

The little guy's chubby palms were full of nail marks; he had pinched himself.

In order to keep himself from falling asleep.

Usually, when the little guy slept, he needed stories told before bed and had to act spoiled and cute for a long while before he could fall asleep.

When was it ever like it is now?

Wang Yinghao rarely lost her temper, but now the anger in her heart couldn't help but "surge" upward.

She closed the bedroom door and went to settle the score with her son!

"Knock, knock, knock."

In the room, the couple was talking.

Shi Youxuan was asking about the son's situation, and Sheng Hanyu was just about to answer when his mother came to knock on the door.

"Sheng Hanyu, get out here." His mother's voice carried irrepressible anger.

Sheng Hanyu pulled the door open: "Mom, you are looking for me..."

"Slap!"

He received a slap on his face.

Shi Youxuan was shocked.

It was something that had never happened before.

"Please don't be angry, come in and talk." He had no reaction, as if the slap hadn't landed on his own face.

Wang Yinghao walked in, tears falling before she could even speak.

Tears were like beads with a broken string, sliding down her cheeks incessantly.

"Sheng Hanyu, put your hand on your heart and tell me, how have I treated you from childhood to adulthood? Have I ever laid a finger on you?"

"No."

He brought a cup of hot water and handed it to his mother: "Please don't be angry, I was wrong. If you have anger, feel free to vent it on me. As long as you aren't angry, anything is fine."

Sheng Hanyu knew exactly how many grievances Wang Yinghao had suffered and how much bitterness she had endured for him over these many years.

But no matter how bitter or tiring it was, she would always keep her grievances in her heart, always putting on a very happy appearance on her face.

From childhood to adulthood, she had never even laid a finger on him!

Being like this now, his mother must be very angry.

"Heh, how would I dare to vent my anger on you? You aren't a child anymore; your wings have hardened, and you've grown capable. I haven't seen you grow any other skills, but you're certainly very good at bullying a child..."

Wang Yinghao was biting and sarcastic, her tone more acidic than it had ever been.

Sheng Hanyu stood before his mother, listening with a very good temper, not talking back.

Shi Youxuan tried to butter her up, helping her mother-in-law knead her shoulders, but was met with disdain.

"I dare not trouble the Madam of the Sheng family. If you have the heart, why not look at how pitiful your own child has become? That would be better than fawning over me with hypocrisy."

"We are old and young, all relying on you two Chairmen to live. Since your word is law, how would I dare to trouble you?"

Shi Youxuan turned and left without hesitation, went to the table, picked up the feather duster used for decoration in the vase, and handed it to her mother-in-law: "Mom, use this to hit us."

"We are both your children; you can hit us as you please, as long as it lets you vent your anger."

Shi Youxuan's attitude was sincere; how could her mother-in-law really hit them?

The slap she had given her son earlier was just because she was extremely angry, and she was already regretting it now.

"I won't hit you; I don't have a heart as cruel as yours."

She still spoke harsh words, but her tone had softened.

As Wang Yinghao spoke, she shed tears: "The little one I cherished in the palm of my heart since childhood, so chubby and cute—you are parents, the child is your own flesh and blood, how could you have such a cruel heart..."

She lectured her son, and dragged her daughter-in-law along to be lectured as well.

Although Shi Youxuan hadn't participated in the process of "disciplining" the son, she had stopped her mother-in-law from "visiting," hadn't she?

Shi Youxuan stood over obediently, standing together with her husband, sharing the adversity!

Wang Yinghao was still a reasonable person.

After venting, and with her son and daughter-in-law's good attitudes, her anger had dissipated quite a bit.

Her tone softened: "Hanyu, Xuanxuan, just consider it Mom begging you two, can you be a little better to Zichen?"

"You two didn't see it just now; the little guy fell asleep while trying to climb onto the bed because he was so sleepy. He has never been this sleepy before..." She said, wiping away tears again.

"Sheng Hanyu, what is going on?"

Shi Youxuan didn't wait to hear her mother-in-law finish before immediately defecting to her mother-in-law's side.

"Boys should be trained..."

He only got the beginning out before being immediately retorted by his wife: "There is no such thing as training like this. Zichen is your own biological son, and he is still small..."

Every word Shi Youxuan said hit the mark in her mother-in-law's heart.

Her mother-in-law held her hand, the two of them "united against a common enemy"!

"Zichen is too young, you should be better to him."

"How can the little guy be so cute? How can you have the heart?"

Sheng Hanyu:...

He told the truth.

He explained that the child hadn't napped in the afternoon, had used all his energy to deal with him, and then after dinner, he had insisted on making him stay awake for over an hour before he could sleep...