I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 947: Is It Fun to Play with Your Own Foster Mother?

Chapter 947: Chapter 947: Is It Fun to Play with Your Own Foster Mother?

After taking Chen Tong’s medicine, the middle-aged man stopped wheezing in a short while, and his complexion gradually returned to normal.

Staff from the theater brought over some antiseptic solution, and Suizi helped Ma Dong with a simple dressing.

Fortunately, Ma Dong had only suffered a superficial wound and did not have a concussion like the last time.

The cut didn’t look too bad, so they decided to wait for the wind to stop before going to the hospital for further treatment.

While the opera singers were performing melodiously on stage, Suizi couldn’t help but reflect that life was more dramatic than theater.

Suizi told Ma Dong to go inside and listen to the opera while she stayed back with Chen Tong to take care of Chen Tong’s uncle.

The staff arranged a resting room, leaving only Suizi and Chen Tong alone with the sleeping uncle.

"When did you come back?" Suizi, with her back to Chen Tong, casually flipped through the faded calendar on the wall and asked nonchalantly.

The question seemed light, but it weighed heavily on Chen Tong’s heart.

"I don’t understand—" he said.

"Chen Tong, what kind of person I am, others may not know, but how can you not know? Wouldn’t it be unreasonable to say otherwise?" Suizi’s words held a double meaning.

Chen Tong knew he couldn’t keep it a secret any longer and had to tell the truth: "I fell at the Working School, and when I woke up, I found myself back here."

"Is being reborn interesting?" Suizi asked.

Chen Tong gave a bitter smile, his eyes filled with a sadness that only he understood.

One moment he was in the laboratory, and the next he woke up to a group of troublesome kids. The person he wanted to see the most was already a wife and a mother. How could he possibly find such a missed opportunity interesting?

"Answer me, is it interesting?" Suizi asked again.

"It’s not interesting..." If he could choose, he would rather come back a few years earlier, back to when she hadn’t married and didn’t have children.

Heaven played a big joke on him.

"Oh...." Suizi slowly turned around, her smile forced and her gaze icy, "So, is toying with your foster mother interesting?"

"I wasn’t toying with you. I wanted to explain as soon as I got back, but you’re biased against me; you didn’t even want to see me—" Chen Tong defended.

Suizi slapped him across the face, causing Chen Tong to turn his head.

That slap was one Suizi had been holding back since her past life; she had wanted to hit him for a long time.

Not for herself but for her country.

In her previous life, this damned bastard had fled overseas where she couldn’t find him, and later she died.

After her rebirth, seeing Chen Tong’s face made Suizi want to beat him several times, but considering that what happened in her past life was irrelevant to this one, and that the present Chen Tong hadn’t yet committed those despicable acts, she refrained.

Now that Chen Tong was also reborn, she naturally wouldn’t hold back.

"If hitting me makes you feel better, then go ahead," Chen Tong stood upright.

"Unfilial son! Kneel before me!" Suizi roared, and Chen Tong didn’t dare let out a breath of protest.

"I’m already this old—" he started to say.

"Kneel!"

With a thud, Chen Tong knelt.

Suizi struck him twice with such force that her hand ached, but it didn’t relieve her anger, so she kicked him as well.

"I’ve gone through hardships raising you,

so you could do things that shame our ancestors? Even dead, I’d have no face to see our ancestors. You ungrateful wretch, do you still dare to show your face in front of me? I’ll beat you back to death right now so you can die again and apologize!"

Chen Tong took the beating without daring to move, kneeling stiffly. Suizi was totally different from the person in his memories; her temper was more volatile, and now she was willing to hit and scold with harsh words readily on her lips.

In his past life, she wasn’t like that. Before he went abroad, no matter what he did, she was always a reasonable and kind parent, leading by moral example.

Everyone envied him for having such a gentle mother.

But what Chen Tong disliked the most was the phrase "mother." Since he came of age, he only referred to Suizi by her name, hoping she would understand his meaning.

But she didn’t understand.

She still didn’t understand.

Her eldest uncle groggily woke up and, in his confusion, saw a woman punching and kicking his great-nephew.

"What’s going on?" The eldest uncle sat up, his face pale.

"Eldest Uncle, you had a dream, this is a dream." Chen Tong sprang up from the ground and pleaded with Suizi through his eyes. Suizi responded by giving him the middle finger—she hadn’t had her fill of beating this unfilial son!

"Oh, a dream..." The eldest uncle sat there, holding his forehead with his hand.

Suizi grabbed Chen Tong by the collar, dragging him out the door.

"What a realistic dream..." The eldest uncle was still not fully awake.

Suizi had fantasized countless times about what she would do if this unfilial son stood before her, how she would educate him, how she would persuade him to turn away from the darkness to the light.

But now that he was really in front of her, all she wanted to do was to gouge him, to gouge him until he was at death’s door.

After the gouging, it felt as though there was an empty space in her heart.

In this time and space, even if she beat this kid to death, what would it matter?

The losses he had caused could not be undone, and she ultimately failed in teaching her child, too ashamed to face anyone.

Chen Tong, dragged by her to a deserted corner, braced himself for another beating. But, Suizi just waved a hand, as if all her energy had been drained.

"You are a disgrace to the care I gave you. I will beat you and be done with it—don’t let me see you again in the future."

"Suizi..."

"Get lost!"

"I’m not a traitor."

"I told you to get lost—huh?" Suizi grabbed his collar, "What do you mean? Explain yourself clearly!"

"In my past life, I did join the Laboratory, but my goal was to find evidence, not what you think. I didn’t dare tell you because I feared for your safety. By the time I had the evidence and wanted to come back to you, you were already—"

Chen Tong choked up, thinking of the sorrowful events of his past life.

"Trying to fool me? Telling me what I want to hear?"

"I admit, I’m not a good person. To benefit myself, I will harm others, but I could never hurt you. I didn’t do this because I have lofty ideals, I don’t have the same sense of duty to the country that you do. I simply wanted to be a hero, to make you happy," Chen Tong said, not mentioning that behind his desire to make her happy, there was also a bit of his own scheming.

Suizi fell into silence.

She didn’t know whether what Chen Tong was saying was true or false.

But there was one thing he hadn’t gotten wrong.

This boy was inherently cold-hearted and calculating, a bad seed to the core, something that Suizi’s subsequent attempts at teaching could never change.

Even when he was just a kid, he had the audacity to mix pig feed into Yu Jingting’s food for his own benefit.

But towards Suizi, he was indeed good to her, and Suizi interpreted this goodness as "filial piety."

"I, Chen Tong, swear to heaven and earth that if there’s a single lie in what I said today, let me be struck by lightning five times and in the next life become a pig or a dog rather than a human!"

Suizi had already believed him somewhat, and as she calmed down and thought everything over, her impression of Chen Tong began to change a bit.

He had stayed because he knew his great uncle was fated to face a disaster, to be crushed by a wall, so he brought medicine in advance and waited.

It was unexpected for him to encounter Suizi; knowing full well that she could guess the truth by his unusual behavior, he did it anyway to save his great uncle’s life.

"Consider yourself lucky, kid, that you still have some conscience and know the value of human life over all else."

"You believe me?" Chen Tong was overjoyed.