Chapter 58: Shark‑Dropped

Ring~

Zhu Xueheng instantly took out his phone and saw an unknown number.

"Who is this?"

Zhu Xueheng hung up. He hasn't been expanding business lately, so he doesn't answer unknown numbers. If the child's mother called, missing it would easily make her overthink.

Pregnant women are the most sensitive!

If it weren't for the child's mother strongly refusing, wanting to be alone, and he had once wronged her, feeling guilty, he would have wanted to be a stalker, but not to loiter around his brother like this.

The screen lit up again, Zhu Xueheng tapped it, held it to his ear, "Mom, what's wrong?"

"It's me. What's wrong with her?"

"What did you say?!"

"Thud!"

Zhu Xueheng's phone fell to the floor; he hurriedly tried to pick it up, but only pushed it farther away.

Su Yu saw something was wrong, went over to help pick it up and handed it to Zhu Xueheng.

Zhu Xueheng trembled as he took the phone; the other end hadn't hung up yet, "She, did she really do that?"

Whatever was said on the other end, Zhu Xueheng's face turned grim, "Okay, I'm coming right now."

Zhu Xueheng staggered to his feet, but after two steps he fell to his knees on the ground.

"Do you want me to take you?"

Zhu Xueheng looked at his own trembling hands and legs and nodded silently.

Su Xi asked for the address, had Qin Tao drive, and took Su Yu along there.

Upon arriving, Su Xi had Qin Tao stay with Zhu Xueheng, while he stayed in the car with Su Yu.

【What happened? Why can't I go see? Isn't this a police station?】

Su Yu, bored, "Uncle, what's wrong with the uncle? Why aren't we going in to help?"

"The things inside, children aren't allowed to see."

Su Xi also felt a bit regretful for coming without asking clearly. On the way he saw the news and learned the reason for Zhu Xueheng's disgrace.

Su Xi, seeing Su Yu truly bored, stuffed a plate of fruit for her.

"The fruit you need to eat today!"

【Why can Uncle pull out a box of fruit in the car?】

Su Yu wore a sour expression, watching the pedestrians outside while chewing the fruit in her mouth with a lifeless sigh.

【Why are there reporters outside again? Could they be here to squat on us?】

The car windows had privacy film, so Su Yu wasn't afraid those people would spot her; she observed openly and honestly.

Su Xi typed on his computer nearby, privately forwarded the situation here to his and Zhu Xueheng's mutual friends, asking anyone free to help Zhu Xueheng. He also asked Meng Xianle to investigate the parent‑child relationship between the Liang Family's young lady's daughter and Zhu Xueheng.

Su Yu was chewing the last piece of cantaloupe when Zhu Xueheng was finally helped by Qin Tao back into the car.

"Can you take me to the Lin family?"

"Mm!"

Qin Tao silently drove to the Lin family.

On the road, the car's atmosphere was silent; Su Yu was bored, but she didn't dare speak.

"I didn't know she hated me so much."

【Maybe you didn't ask her before?】

No one in the car responded.

Zhu Xueheng's expression was somewhat dazed and collapsing, then he said, "She knew the consequences, yet she still did it. She never thought she still had a son waiting for her!"

【What did she do?】

"Maternal Grandparents bluntly said they have no such daughter!"

【A lineage that doesn't like the big ones?】

"Her most beloved family members, no one is willing to see her."

【They sold her off; how could they truly love her?】

"To me, there was only a single dying word."

【Huh? Someone died? My condolences! No wonder they wouldn't let me go in with them.】

"The rakish wanderer says he wants a home; that's a hellish joke!"

【That line seems to have some truth!】

"I don't know if she's talking about me or about herself. Her whole life is also a hellish joke!"

【It's because of her personality, right? She gave birth to you, let you inherit the Zhu clan, secretly got rid of your dad, and she's the biggest, isn't she?】

How many ancient empress dowagers rose to power like this! Zhu Xueheng's mother should learn a thing or two; her husband died, yet she can still suppress her son, and she wouldn't fear criticism even if she took on ten male models!

Su Xi: At such a young age, what are you learning? How could you have such brutal thoughts?

Su Xi hurriedly sent a message to his grandmother, requesting that Su Yu learn more strategies. If one day Su Yu ends up in a life‑or‑death standoff with someone, she must kill in a way that no one can tell it was her! At worst it must be an accidental killing, so Su Yu's own life can be preserved!

On the way back, from Zhu Xueheng's fragmented words, Su Yu also summarized what had happened today.

Zhu Xueheng went to retrieve the child's mother that his own mother had locked up, and vengefully exposed his mother's lover's affairs.

Zhu Xueheng's mother learned that the lover hadn't died and was still in the city, so she rushed to his current home with the child demanding an explanation. The lover had originally claimed he was divorced, which is why Zhu Xueheng's mother agreed to be with him.

The two fought, and the lover's family naturally protected the lover. Zhu Xueheng's one‑year‑old brother was terrified and wailed. The lover's grandson was older than that child, so they couldn't possibly want the kid.

They also blamed Zhu Xueheng's mother, asking why she felt moved to give birth to the child. Their whole family wanted her to abort it!

In the scuffle, the lover accidentally pushed the child down the stairs, and the child died on the spot.

Yet the lover's parents defended him, claiming it was Zhu Xueheng's mother who was too aggressive. They told her that even though the person was dead, she kept coming to the new house to cause trouble. It's not because she could help pay social security or some dirty money—who needs her? And she brought the child here, harming both others and herself!

Zhu Xueheng's mother couldn't endure the successive provocations, directly killed her lover and his parents, took care of her own affairs, left some words on her phone, and then committed suicide.

The crushing blow for Zhu Xueheng is that his mother's will stipulates that after her death all assets go not to him but to the Lin family. His mother, until she died, probably never regarded him as a son. What he can take are only the worthless belongings his mother owned, the relics the Lin family intends to discard as trash.

Lin family gate

Zhu Xueheng got off the car, looked at the items thrown onto the ground, and carefully picked them up.

Qin Tao and Su Xi got off the car to help, while Su Yu stayed in the car watching.

【Isn't this too heartless? Didn't they say all the assets were left to the Lin family?】

Zhu Xueheng picked up some clothes, a broken wooden box, a photo album, and some apparently very old love letters that his mother had left.

【Doesn't Zhu Xueheng still have a portion of the Zhu Clan's assets now? Why does the Lin family look down on him so much?】

Back in the car, Su Xi asked Zhu Xueheng, "Aren't you going to demand an explanation from the Lin family?"

"They probably think I'm still the same as before, that I'd act like a dog, that they'd sweet‑talk me a bit and I'd come running back, clinging to them, so they don't even bother to put on a show. Even if I asked, they'd say it's fine that I didn't have to dig through the trash can."

【emm... Isn't it a bit harsh to blame Zhu Xueheng for having been lowly before at a time like this?】

Su Yu silently handed over her precious candy.

Zhu Xueheng took it, his eyes blurry with tears, and said, "Thank you!"

"Back to your apartment?"

"Mm!"

On the road, Zhu Xueheng's phone rang again.

He didn't want to answer, but the call rang three times, and he half‑heartedly held it to his ear.

"Speak."

"Dong!"

The phone fell onto the seat, and Zhu Xueheng fainted.

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