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Chapter 659: I’ll Listen to You (200+ Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 659: Chapter 659: I’ll Listen to You (200+ Monthly Tickets)

Chen Tong, as a person, may have many labels. Some might say he is a refined egoist, or a traitor to his country. But no matter what, "unfilial" definitely isn’t on the list.

In fact, he was incredibly kind to his foster mother, who was only fourteen years older than him.

No natural child would likely surpass his obedience. During his college years, he would save and scrimp to buy Suizi the most expensive cosmetics with his scholarships, and even promised to make her the happiest mother in the world.

However, this most dutiful son stabbed Suizi in the heart, so much so that in the end, their mother-son relationship became so strained that he even refused to call her "mother".

"He studied all the way through to postdoctoral research and solved a world-class problem."

"Even though I can’t see him as having the brains for it, but is this something worth making yourself sick over?"

His wife dreamed of raising a scientist; in Yu Jingting’s eyes, a scientist can bring honor to the family.

If Jiaojiao were to become a scientist, her parents would likely throw a three-day feast back in the Wang Family village, and bounce around joyfully on their ancestor’s tomb in the old Yu Family cemetery, to spite those who had wrongfully switched their child at birth.

"What if... this scientist... contributes to another country instead?" The mere mention of this made Suizi lose her breath.

"Did he grow up to be a traitor?"

"If his research was on anything else it might be slightly better, but his field of study will cause us a lot of trouble...you know."

She had been suppressing this matter in her heart. From the moment she returned home until now, she completely refused to think about it.

Each time she remembers this matter, she feels she has let down the country, the party, and the people.

She had invested quite a lot into the education industry, and she was sure that her work was completely dedicated and mindful.

However, the son she had painstakingly raised had developed such a big problem with his values. Only after Chen Tong changed his nationality did she find out about this. She was so angered she severed relations with him and fell ill.

Even to this day, Suizi still does not know where she went wrong.

"On moral education, I’ve always placed great importance. Later I even wondered if I went too far, causing him to develop a rebellious mentality."

This caused Suizi to now have a psychological shadow when raising children. The two little radishes didn’t need much education yet, but regarding Jiaojiao’s education, Suizi often found herself at a loss, constantly reflecting upon whether she made any mistakes despite making sure she gave the correct guidance.

Yu Jingting had noticed this issue before, that Suizi seemed lack confidence when educating children. The root of this problem began there.

"When encountering problems, don’t blame everything on yourself. Everyone is like their roots. Look at his father, he is a selfish man, such genes are already inside their bones. Even the most powerful god won’t be able to teach a bad seed."

Like father, like son. Yu Jingting believes this deeply.

Hereditary traits are truly fascinating, as seen in his own children.

LuoLuo and BoBo are still young, and the family hasn’t really taught them anything, but the two little ones already have the temperament of the Yu Family. When they go out and play with other kids, they never bully others, but they also won’t let others bully them.

They stick together closely. If anyone offends one of the twins, they indirectly offend the other. They inherited this trait of holding grudges from Yu Jingting.

The neighbor, Auntie Li, carelessly said that BoBo was "stur(d)y" three days ago, and even now, whenever the little one sees her, he turns his head away, feeling his baby pride pricked at.

"Let’s not go too far off topic. Just look at Chen Tong’s dad. Yes, his family had encountered some difficulties, but does that give him a reason to swindle others?"

Chen He is still unaware that Suizi and her husband have seen through his plan, believing that Yu Jingting was on the hook, ready to be deceived big time.

When it all comes down to it, he was simply desperate for money.

"Jingting, if you were Chen He, the one with a terminal illness was me, my father wasn’t Fan Huang, and your father wasn’t Fourth Master. We were just ordinary farmers who exhausted all our savings. To go on with the treatment would require us to do something against our conscience and our ancestors, what would you do?"

"Stop saying such unlucky things, I don’t want to hear it."

"I’m just making a hypothetical scenario."

"I refuse to accept this kind of analogy."

Yu Jingting refuses to answer, but Suizi believes she already knows the answer.

Rules were never his first consideration.

He could stay on the right path because she was holding onto him, but if that day really came, he may—

"Firstly, I don’t think we’ll ever reach a point where we have to make an extreme decision. Your assumption is unreasonable. Secondly, if such a day really comes, I’ll follow your advice."

"Huh?" Suizi didn’t understand.

"Although I’d like to solve the problem in my own way, I know that if I did so, you wouldn’t be happy. I won’t do anything that would make you unhappy, and I can’t use the excuse of ’doing it for your own good’ to go against your wishes. What I can do is to avoid the occurrence of such things as much as possible."

Yu Jingting learned a simple truth when he was very young. Money isn’t everything, but it can solve 9,999 out of 10,000 problems.

That’s why he knew all sorts of ways to make money even before marrying his wife, and even until now, he hasn’t changed this habit.

"Wife, touch this, what is this?" Yu Jingting grabbed her hand and placed it on his chest.

Suizi pinched it.

"Pectoral muscles." The feel is nice, she wanted to pinch more...

"It’s my conscience!! Don’t you feel I’ve grown a little conscience?"

In the past, he joked and asked Suizi to feel his conscience. When she asked why he wouldn’t touch his own, Yu Jingting proudly retorted that he didn’t have one!

"Umm, forgive me, but I just can’t tell that you have such a valuable thing as a ’conscience’. You’ve just opened a can of peaches for the kids."

"How could it be gone? I grew some conscience, however little it is. If it were before, I would have tied him to a tree and let him watch me finish eating. Then, I would even pee into the empty can, so he wouldn’t be able to lick the can."

".....Are you kidding me?"

"Poverty breeds cunning, while wealth nurtures the conscience! Now that I have some savings, I have a little bit of conscience. In the future, when I have more money, I might have even more conscience. So your hypothesis of ’being forced by life to take the wrong path’ doesn’t apply to me."

Suizi felt a bit better after hearing his words. His comment "I don’t want to do anything that would upset you" really was healing.

Having a warm-hearted husband, Suizi’s illness was healed without medication. She didn’t need to eat the miraculous canned peaches, and the fever was gone the next day. Despite Yu Jingting telling her to stay at home and rest for a day, she ran off to teach her class.

Although she looked like she had returned to normal, Yu Jingting knew that she wasn’t as carefree as she portrayed.

Until this matter is resolved, it will keep bothering Suizi.

If Chen Tong was a bit older, Yu Jingting could still manage him. But now, he was just a kid, he couldn’t possibly pee into a tin can to make him cry, could he?

After much thought, Yu Jingting decided that taking Chen He down would be the most suitable option. But doing so would require them to alter the plan he had previously discussed with Suizi.

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