GLIHBN Chapter 93
by VolareSu Shi knew that Chi Ye would leave after he fell asleep at night, so he wasn’t disappointed when he woke up in the morning and found no one beside him.
The doorbell downstairs rang. Su Shi put on a cardigan and went downstairs to open the door.
It was Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng’s eyes were swollen like a rabbit’s, indicating that he had cried for a long time last night.
Su Shi felt a moment of guilt and said softly, “Come in.”
Chen Cheng should have been happy to finally be able to enter Su Shi’s home, but at this moment, his mood was exceptionally heavy.
Last night, after Su Shi left, Chen Jingtian and Chen Cheng had a complete showdown.
Chen Jingtian said:
“That’s right, you were the result of my affair with your mother. Because of your existence, Su Shi’s mother couldn’t bear the shock and had a massive hemorrhage.”
“You and I are on the same side. Su Shi will never treat you like a real younger brother.”
“He’s too good at pretending, even I was fooled by him for so many years.”
“You heard it just now too, Su Shi is deliberately praising you to death, he’s not sincere to you at all.”
“You still defend him everywhere, you’re just too stupid.”
“In the future, Dad will give you all the property to inherit, and you will carry forward our Chen family, leaving those two siblings with nothing.”
Chen Cheng kept crying, which annoyed Chen Jingtian. In the end, he forced him to say that he would cut ties with Su Shi in the future.
But Chen Cheng refused, repeating:
“Brother is really good to me, it’s true.”
Chen Cheng couldn’t believe that the brother who had always been obedient to him since he was a child actually hated him and resented his existence.
Su Shi led Chen Cheng into the living room and asked, “Want something to drink?”
Chen Cheng’s throat was dry and hoarse, “Anything.”
Su Shi took a bottle of grape juice from the refrigerator, “Here.”
Chen Cheng liked to eat grapes and everything with grape flavor. Looking at the bottle of grape juice in front of him, his eyes started to sting again.
He called out softly, “Brother.”
Su Shi sat down on the sofa, “You came to me to confirm those things, right? That’s right, I have never treated you like a real younger brother from the beginning to end.”
Chen Cheng didn’t believe a single bad word Chen Jingtian said about Su Shi. He came today wanting to hear Su Shi’s explanation, saying that yesterday his brother was out of his mind, deliberately trying to anger his father, and that Xiao Cheng was of course his good younger brother.
However, Su Shi didn’t even want to pretend anymore and directly told Chen Cheng this devastating truth.
Chen Cheng’s voice trembled with sobs, “Brother, I don’t believe it.”
“Didn’t Grandma and Aunt tell you not to be close to me? Why didn’t you listen?”
Chen Cheng shook his head, “Grandma and Aunt are selfish, they just want the family’s money.”
Su Shi felt his throat dry and swallowed, turning his face away. “Then why didn’t you listen to what Chen Jingtian said, and still come to me?”
Chen Cheng pulled on Su Shi’s sleeve, making Su Shi turn his face back to look at him before saying, “I don’t believe anything Dad says.”
What a fool, an idiot, utterly stupid. The complicated emotions that Su Shi had suppressed last night surged up again at this moment.
Chen Cheng was really terrible, as useless as trash, always crying, willful and reckless, with bad habits all over his body.
However, now Su Shi found a good point in him.
That was purity, a naivety close to innocence.
Su Shi didn’t want to make himself look like such a bad person. He didn’t think he had done anything wrong, and said cruelly, “Don’t be silly, you should know, you and your mother killed my mother, leaving me and Su Qing without a mother since we were young. How could I be sincere to you?”
Chen Cheng still shook his head.
Su Shi looked at the tearful Chen Cheng gently but cruelly, and once again spoke a heart-wrenching truth.
“I always call you Xiao Chen, but it’s different from how the family calls you Xiao Cheng. I’m calling you the ‘Er Dong’ Chen (Erdong Chen).”
Chen Cheng’s eyes widened suddenly. Why, even the way he addressed him was fake. “No, you’ve always been the best to me.”
Chen Cheng couldn’t accept it, finding all sorts of reasons for Su Shi.
“Brother always tries to satisfy whatever I want. Dad scolds you for spoiling me like that, but you say it doesn’t matter. Others scold me for being a good-for-nothing, saying I’m useless, a boy who cries at the drop of a hat. You protect me, you say I was born to be useful, Xiao Cheng will definitely be useful in the future. Other kids bully me, you tell me to hit them back, you say a man can’t be too weak, too weak is easy to be bullied, don’t hold back.”
Then, Chen Cheng said decisively, “These are not fake.”
So these little things, the other party remembered them so clearly. Su Shi laughed after hearing this, “Indeed they’re not fake, but the meaning behind them is not what you understand.”
Chen Cheng squatted down beside Su Shi’s legs, looking up at Su Shi with pleading eyes.
Those big eyes, red like a rabbit’s, looked a little pitiful, and he asked Su Shi in an almost pleading tone, “Then what is it like?”
Su Shi looked at Chen Cheng expressionlessly.
“Satisfying everything for you is just to spoil you, indulging you to be lawless, like now, you cry and make a fuss as soon as something doesn’t go your way. Who can stand you after you enter society? Besides your family, who has the obligation to put up with you? ‘Born to be useful,’ my ass, useless is useless. You’re bullied by other kids, I tell you to hit them back, hit them hard, just to make you cause trouble, so Chen Jingtian will know that his expected son is nothing more than this.”
Tears welled up in Chen Cheng’s eyes again.
Su Shi originally thought that after saying all this, Chen Cheng would definitely burst into anger and then completely break with him. That would be good, once and for all.
But unexpectedly, Chen Cheng leaned on his knees and sobbed, his voice full of sorrow.
“Brother, brother, how I wish I had come out of Su Auntie’s belly, with the same mother as you. But I have no choice, I’m sorry for you, I shouldn’t have existed.”
Su Shi’s nose couldn’t help but sting, and he forced himself to hold back his emotions.
Chen Cheng continued to narrate with his head buried.
“No wonder Chi Ye hates me so much, because he understands you, you hate me so he hates me, right?”
No wonder no one at Su Shi’s studio had heard that Su Shi had a younger brother, only that he had a younger sister, because Su Shi never wanted this younger brother.
Chen Cheng finally understood at this moment.
However, he didn’t blame Su Shi, he blamed Chen Jingtian for betraying his marriage and bringing him into this world without permission.
“Yes.” Su Shi didn’t hide anything.
Chen Cheng’s shoulders trembled, and sobs echoed in the room.
Su Shi unconsciously wanted to reach out and touch Chen Cheng’s hair, but he paused for a moment and then retracted his hand.
Let it be like this.
At this moment, the sound of the door opening came from the entrance.
Chi Ye walked in and saw a person lying on Su Shi’s lap, angrily saying, “What are you doing, let go of Su Shi.”