Chapter 426: Chapter Four-Hundred and Twenty-Six: Heartbreak and Torment

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

However, even greater torment was yet to come. That night, a p*ss-drunk Xi Cheng finally came home to reason with his mother, bolstered by alcohol-induced courage.

Han Yuan used a remote control to open the curtains of Lin Yu’s locked room, allowing Lin Yu to witness the entire coming conversation between her and her son.

Xi Cheng kneeled before Han Yuan with a thud, his expression gloomy and depressed. “Mom…” he called out.

Han Yuan looked at her son placidly, her emotions as calm as a lake. Her heart had already been broken by him during the time she was under Lin Yu’s control. She’d long accepted her son’s incompetence.

Han Yuan didn’t speak. Xi Cheng lifted his head to look at her. “Mom, I was wrong. Can you forgive me?”

Han Yuan softly sighed, “Son, I’m your mother. What’s there to forgive? If you blundered, it means that my mistake is more serious than yours because I gave birth to you!”

“Mom, I shouldn’t have trusted Lin Yu, shouldn’t have been taken in by her, leading to this kind of situation,” Xi Cheng said remorsefully.

Han Yuan gazed at the wall that was actually a floor-to-ceiling window to Lin Yu and gave it a faint mocking smile as she commented, “You can’t push all the blame on her. After all, she is your wife. She’s been with you for so many years.”

Xi Cheng indignantly replied, “She may appear gentle and virtuous on the surface, but she’s secretly capable of doing all sorts of insidious deeds. If it wasn’t for her driving Fang Xi away, I wouldn’t have been so dispirited during that period of time.”

He went on, “It’s all my fault for trusting her. Shi Gao and Gu Man warned me to be wary of Lin Yu, but I didn’t give it much thought. It’s because I put too much trust in her that I’m in this mess today!”

Han Yuan couldn’t help but take a deep breath and stare fixedly at her son. She didn’t even have to imagine what Lin Yu must be feeling behind the window. Even she was rendered speechless by her son’s shameless words.

“Mom, I’ve truly learnt my lesson this time. Please, help me. Help me get the companies back, okay? Help me talk to the elders and let me return to the Xi Corporation, please? I can’t lose everything, Mom!” Xi Cheng entreated, tone turning upset as he finished.

“Son, you are the Xi family’s young master. Even if you do nothing at all, the Xi family’s funds are enough to support you and your children for generations. How is that ‘losing everything?’” Han Yuan said calmly.

Xi Cheng shuffled closer to Han Yuan’s wheelchair on his knees. “Mom! I know you punished me in front of our family’s elders for my own good. But that’s just what is said and done on the surface; you’ll still have to help me in secret, don’t you?”

Han Yuan raised her eyebrows. “Oh, so you know I punished you in front of everyone for your own good?”

Xi Cheng lowered his head. “John said that if you didn’t do that, I would only be in a worse state.”

Han Yuan nearly choked on her anger. ‘Something so clear and simple, and he actually needed John to point it out for him! Did this son of mine lose his brain or something? How did he become this way?’

Emotionally exhausted, Han Yuan stated, “What is said can’t be taken back. Since you know that I’m doing this to appease the public, how do you expect me to help you now? I can’t find even a single excuse, son.”

Xi Cheng held his mother’s knee and looked up at her as he offered, “Mom, just tell them that everything was Lin Yu’s doing; I took the blame to protect her, to protect the Xi family’s reputation. We announce that before the public, and I can take the opportunity to divorce Lin Yu. This way, the Xi family’s reputation is preserved, and everyone can turn their target to Lin Yu. It’s the best of both worlds!”

Han Yuan stared at her son numbly before slowly lifting her head. She didn’t look toward the one-sided window this time. She didn’t notice her voice was trembling as she uttered, “Xi Cheng, Lin Yu is still pregnant with your child.”

“Mom, why are you still concerned about the baby at this point?” Xi Cheng retorted hastily. “What’s so good about the child of such a vicious woman? I can easily give you more grandchildren in the future. I’ll go look for Fang Xi after Lin Yu and I are divorced. Fang Xi’s just upset that I’m already married. She’ll surely come back to me once I’m single again, and we’ll have children together. A child raised and taught by her will definitely not go wrong. Mom, you don’t know how outstanding Fang Xi is—”

Han Yuan slapped Xi Cheng crisply across the face. Xi Cheng held a hand to his injured cheek, dumbfounded. “Mom, wha—”

Han Yuan pointed a quivering finger at Xi Cheng as she berated him, “You’re still entertaining thoughts about Fang Xi? You still have the nerve to think about Fang Xi?! She’s about to get married to Ye Kun!”

“Our entire family did Fang Xi wrong, but despite that, Ye Tang and Ye Kun still helped us when the Xi Corporation was in trouble, and you—you’re still dreaming about Fang Xi at this time? Xi Cheng! Have some shame! You—how did you become like this? How can you be so shameless and despicable?”

Han Yuan was so infuriated that her breathing sped up.