Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 230 - Chapter 230 Chapter 230 All Villains (Part 1)

Chapter 230: Chapter 230 All Villains (Part 1) Chapter 230: Chapter 230 All Villains (Part 1) Lu Xining looked at Mr. Shen’s hands, which were covered with gloves, gloves that he hadn’t taken off even while indoors.

His overcoat wrapped him tightly all around.

Except for his neck and face, no other skin was exposed.

Noticing that Shen Ruoting was shaking all over, Mr. Shen immediately comforted her, saying, “Don’t be scared, you won’t be harmed.”

The woman looked up at his refined and gentle face, filled entirely with the tenderness he was showing at the moment, and nodded fearfully.

Seeing Mr. Shen take out his phone to call the police,

she suddenly grabbed his hand and said softly, “Ayan, let it be, she’s just a young girl, I won’t hold it against her.”

Hearing Lu Xining’s scoff,

Shen Ruoting’s face turned pale, her heart tightening more and more.

But she showed none of the severe heart condition and emotional swings that Mr. Shen had mentioned.

“I don’t like the smell here, let’s go home.”

She gripped his hand tightly, causing Mr. Shen’s hand to stiffen.

Then he gently patted her back, “Alright, let’s go home.”

Hearing his response, Shen Ruoting sighed with relief.

She was just about to lean into Mr. Shen’s embrace when she noticed he hesitated, stepping slowly; she straightened up immediately, remembering his recent ill health.

“I can walk by myself, are you feeling okay?”

Mr. Shen looked at her tenderly, “I’m fine.”

They walked to the doorway thinking they would be stopped, but Fu Junhang simply lifted his hand, smiling and motioning for them to leave right away.

Shen Ruoting was eager to get away from there.

Just as she stepped out of the room, a soft, affectionate female voice echoed from inside, halting her in her tracks.

“Shen Shiyuan, why were you so slow getting out of class today? I got tired of waiting for you, next time if you’re this slow, I won’t wait for you.”

The girl’s voice made the man stop immediately.

Shen Ruoting turned around as if electrocuted, meeting Lu Xining’s half-smiling eyes; she was holding a remote.

She wanted to immediately pull Mr. Shen to leave.

He, however, did not move an inch.

In front of Shen Ruoting, Lu Xining pressed the play button again.

On the projector in the room, paused was a young boy and girl in white school uniforms, the girl sitting on the back seat of a bicycle, taking a video of herself, the boy’s back also recorded.

The video resumed playing, and the girl’s voice came through.

“Shen Shiyuan, shall we go to Jingzhou for university? I’ve heard the rainy days in the Jiangnan region are so beautiful, with gray tiles, small bridges, and flowing water…”

“When that time comes, I’ll wear a dark green cheongsam, you’ll hold the umbrella for me, and I’ll hide in your arms, being like ducks in the rain…”

Most of the footage was the girl talking.

The boy always looked at her tenderly, occasionally playing along with her antics, sometimes turning away irritated.

But as soon as the girl acted coyly, he would forgive her.

Most of the video was shot from the backseat of the bicycle, sped up to show the changes of all four seasons, but what didn’t change was the boy’s gaze toward the girl.

Lu Xining, glancing past the stupefied Shen Shiyuan to the anxious Shen Ruoting, slowly pressed the play button on the last video.

The girl in the video had now become a gentle woman.

The backdrop was a hospital ward.

“Shen Shiyuan at 50, hello, I am 28-year-old Shen Ruochu, sorry, I can’t watch the 50th sunset with you.”

“Today is your wedding day with my twin sister, Shen Ruoting. I’ve seen the wedding decoration, it’s really beautiful. I convinced myself for a long time, but still don’t want to bless you, am I very bad?”

Until here, her face was already covered in tears.

“For the previous 28 years, you were my Shen Shiyuan, you even proposed to me, how did you become someone else’s Shen Shiyuan?”

After this, the video had a long blank segment.

The phone was placed on a table, aimed at the ceiling, and faint suppressed crying sounds could be heard.

When the woman appeared on the video camera again, she had wiped away her tears, revealing a smile that was more heartbreaking than crying.

“Although I don’t really want to offer blessings, if there can only be happiness for one of us, you, I suppose, it’s not out of the question.”

“Shen Shiyuan, our youth is over.”

“I will not wait for you anymore, I’m going to find our baby, still so small and alone, scared–mom and dad can’t both be absent, right?”

“If possible, in the next life, we…”

The woman paused for several seconds before continuing.

“Forget it, let’s not meet again.”

With a beep, the phone fell onto the bed.

The camera focused on the woman with her eyes closed.

Next to her, the heart rate monitor had flattened into a straight line.

Time seemed to have been torn apart.

The youth in the video had become the nearly 50-year-old Mr. Shen, staring blankly at the frozen image on the projector.

“Shen Ruochu…”

Mr. Shen felt as if his brain was about to explode, clutching his head in pain, “Ruochu… Ruochu…”

Shen Ruoting rushed over, pale-faced.

“Ayan, all of that is fake, synthesized by AI; I never had a twin sister, I’ve always been the only daughter in the family.”

However, before she could get close, Mr. Shen extended his hand, maintaining a distance between them, devoid of his previous affection and consideration.

He strode to Lu Xining, enduring the pain in his brain, and asked her, “I know you, you’re from the ZN lab!”

“Why don’t I have those memories? Why in my memories is the person Shen Ruoting, what is all this about?”

28-year-old Shen Ruochu…

50-year-old Shen Shiyuan…

If the video was real, where had those 22 years gone!

Liu Shiran hurried over, trying to support him.

“Professor Shen, the first time I went home with Moli, the person I met was Aunt Ruoting, this Shen Ruochu must be fake, she’s using it to confuse you, you must not believe her.”

Mr. Shen did not heed her words.

Lu Xining opened her palm, “Want to know? Just watch more, think more.”

He picked up the remote control in her hand and pressed replay.

From the youth and girl full of beautiful aspirations and playfully teasing each other to the woman lying alone on the hospital bed at the end.

That day, the day she died…

It was his and her twin sister’s wedding!

How could he?

How dare he!

Mr. Shen, sitting on the chair next to him, was trembling so much he could no longer hold the remote control; the video kept repeating.

Lu Xining watched the video intently, looking at the radiant smile of Shen Ruochu, pure and flawless like a jasmine flower, forever lost to the mountains of freedom.

“Shen Ruochu really existed.”

She narrated the story she knew.

Shen Ruochu was kidnapped from the hospital by human traffickers, and after being passed around, was eventually rescued by the police and taken to an orphanage.

The kind-hearted person who adopted her was Shen Shiyuan’s neighbor, all from the same village demolished, all with the surname Shen.

Shen Ruochu and Shen Shiyuan grew up together as childhood sweethearts.

They were almost inseparable for the first 28 years.

The accident happened on the day of Shen Shiyuan’s parents’ birthday. Both families had planned a trip together to Jingzhou, but a car accident occurred there, colliding with a large truck, both their parents protecting them beneath.

Four died, two were severely injured.

At that time, Shen Ruochu was already pregnant with Shen Shiyuan’s child.