Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 273 - Chapter 273 Chapter 273 What are you doing Are you crazy

Chapter 273: Chapter 273 What are you doing!? Are you crazy!? Chapter 273: Chapter 273 What are you doing!? Are you crazy!? With no mother, Jing Zheng was taken back to live with the Jing Family.

After enduring the hardships of being kidnapped and losing his mother, he learned that his father had another family and additional children.

Whenever his father was not at home, his legitimate mother would show him videos of his and his mother’s plight, repeatedly severing his will to live.

His body rapidly lost the ability to keep living and he began to reside permanently in a private hospital in Port City, clinging to life.

Even so, his legitimate mother was not satisfied and even found the person who had bullied him in the past, reappearing in the hospital room, attempting to bully him once more.

It was during this time that Lu Xining saw him and saved him.

At that time, Jing Zheng was so thin he seemed like a piece of paper that could be blown away by the wind.

Lu Xining, already dependent on others and having no place to keep him, was worried that he might continue to be bullied outside or have desperate thoughts.

Eventually, she used the little money she had managed to save and borrowed some from Zhou Jiawang to find a very tiny room for rent in the poorest area of Port City.

And there, she began the daily routine of feeding him and taking care of him.

Lu Xining could feel Jing Zheng’s increasingly delirious mind; he seemed to perceive her as his mother.

Perhaps his pitiful plight reminded her of her own family-less state.

Gradually, Lu Xining came to consider Jing Zheng as her family.

When he grew to dislike his own name, she gave him her own surname.

From that day, Jing Zheng became Lu Jingzheng.

Lu Xining, attending classes by day and returning to the Zhou Family by night, seldom had the chance to visit Lu Jingzheng in the tiny room, only managing to do so when she had no classes and on weekends, traveling by public transit.

As an exchange of memories, she also shared her own story with him.

Fortunately, he seemed to slowly recover from the tragic past.

Initially, she thought Jing Zheng had moved on, until one night, he stood on the rooftop of the tiny room’s building, and Lu Xining realized he had never truly escaped from his sufferings.

She no longer tried to persuade him to come out, instead, trying to transform those illusory forces into hatred.

It proved true.

Hatred really could sustain a person’s will to live.

During her three years in Port City, dependent on others, were also the two years of mutual redemption with Jing Zheng.

The week before Lu Xining decided to return to Yunqiao Village, she had prepared to take Jing Zheng back with her, but he said a friend of his mother found him, intending to take him abroad and sponsor his continued education.

She accompanied Jing Zheng to meet this person, a very gentle woman.

An advocate of staying unmarried, she had immigrated to Country C long ago, returning specifically for Jing Zheng.

She did so because Lin Yan, just before her suicide, had sent her an email, but since she hadn’t used that account for a long time, she only saw her final plea three years later.

Jing Zheng recognized her; initially, his mother had planned to take him in her womb to join her in Country C but was intercepted at the airport.

The woman looked at Jing Zheng with affection and indeed came to treat him as her son, leaving him all her possessions after she passed away from illness.

Even during the stressful time of college entrance exams, Lu Xining never lost contact with Jing Zheng.

After getting into her desired university, she regularly transferred the money she earned tirelessly to Jing Zheng’s account.

Having spent two years together, she knew better than anyone the sensitive and fragile world hidden beneath Jing Zheng’s exterior.

Like syrup crystallizing at low temperatures–seemingly robust, yet shattering upon touch.

Although Jing Zheng was willing to be adopted, he definitely would not use too much of her money.

With living costs being high abroad, to keep Jing Zheng from feeling inferior, Lu Xining took whatever part-time jobs she could during her four years of college, regardless of others’ opinions, just to ensure they both could continue to survive.

Meanwhile, she also had to repay the debts to the Zhou Family.

Those were the hardest four years of her life, but she relished them.

Because Jing Zheng really survived.

Perhaps because their first encounter was in a hospital, Jing Zheng stayed in C Country after graduation to become a doctor.

And he, too, developed certain psychological stress disorders from flying.

Lu Xining never once urged him to return to his home country.

The memories from home were too sorrowfully intense, she preferred him to stay there, saving lives as a doctor.

When she saw Jing Zheng again, it was the night before her wedding to Ji Muye.

He personally delivered a wedding gift to her.

When her second set of twin sons was born, he overcame his fear of flying and appeared before her again, bringing peace charms for his two little nephews.

Later, she divorced and returned to Yunqiao Village.

Upon learning about this, he flew over to take her to C Country and personally witnessed the birth of Lu Nuonuo.

If all the optimism he previously displayed was merely a facade to keep his loved ones reassured,

then the moment he held the baby, and his fingers were grasped by the wide-eyed Little Dumpling, the joy that emerged after initial blankness was the first time Lu Xining saw in his eyes a genuine desire to keep living.

The birth of Lu Nuonuo gave her hope and gave Jing Zheng a different feeling.

After the child’s birth, he took over all the responsibilities, including changing diapers and preparing formula milk, so Lu Xining need not worry.

Seeing his positive changes, she did not stop him from giving his all.

She even intentionally began to make more demands of him.

This let Jing Zheng see how important he was to her and the children.

Even when Lu Nuonuo began to speak, the first word was not “mama,” but “uncle.”

During the phase when Little Dumpling began to crawl, his favorite activity was to crawl to his uncle, nourished by her smiling encouragement and playful whining for “uncle,” Jing Zheng’s eyes brightened more and more.

During this time, she also established the ZN Laboratory.

In the following two years,

she traveled between the laboratory and Yunqiao Village, searching for the ideal place to grow medicinal herbs.

Lu Xining’s impressively beautiful almond-shaped eyes were now filled with worry; she thought Jing Zheng had fully recovered and was willing to continue living, only to find his acting had improved.

The black Bentley raced swiftly, soon arriving at the most impoverished section of Port City.

This area was chaotic and disorderly, where not just Bentleys, but even ordinary cars were seldom seen,

because there were no parking spaces; people here couldn’t afford cars.

Their car stopped at the entrance of an alley outside the neighborhood, and they had to walk a long dark path, even during the day, to reach the tiny apartment Jing Zheng had previously rented.

A several-story building without an elevator, they had to climb the stairs on their own.

Fu Junhang had already run ahead, fearing Jing Zheng might do something drastic.

While Haozi accompanied Lu Xining, climbing the stairs a bit slower than Fu but still taking two steps at a time.

Lu Xining was panting heavily, having never climbed such high stairs in such a short time.

The door to the rooftop of the tiny apartment was pushed open.

Lu Xining’s pupils contracted as she exclaimed, “Lu Jingzheng, what the hell are you doing!”