Fighting Again

Tears continuously rolled down Jiang Shuqin's face.

Scene after scene from the past flashed through her mind.

When Lin Xuan was just a baby, she would pinch him hard, leaving his tiny body covered in black and blue bruises.

On a night with heavy rain, she abandoned him at the entrance of an orphanage.

At that time, she actually wanted to strangle him to death, but she was afraid—afraid that people would find out and say she murdered her own biological son.

So, she threw Lin Xuan at the orphanage's door.

She didn't place the swaddled baby under the eaves; instead, she left him out in the open.

Leaving him to be soaked by the torrential rain.

It was late at night, and the orphanage doors were closed.

Left in the rain all night, a baby would surely die.

She never expected that Lin Xuan would actually survive.

Later, when it was discovered that Lin Xuan was her biological son, he was brought back to the Lin family.

The moment she saw him, she felt that this jinx had returned and would surely bring her bad luck.

She was also terrified that everyone would find out she had abandoned him.

Therefore, she never treated Lin Xuan well.

She constantly beat, scolded, and blamed him.

She made him kneel outside the villa in the freezing snow, wearing only a single thin layer of clothing.

That time, he suffered from a high fever for two days.

When Lin Xuan broke a glass jar, she forced him to kneel on the broken shards.

Seeing the glass pierce his knees and blood dripping down, she remained completely indifferent.

She also refused to let him eat at the dinner table.

She actually knew he was often hungry, but she completely ignored it, thinking his life was worthless and that it wouldn't matter if he starved to death.

"Retribution. It's all retribution."

Jiang Shuqin frantically beat her chest. "Xuan'er is estranged from me, and I have been reduced to absolute poverty. Ending up like this is all retribution from the heavens."

She sobbed uncontrollably.

If she hadn't believed those fortune-tellers back then, would she have doted on Xuan'er endlessly?

They would have been a loving mother and a filial son.

Xuan'er wouldn't be as ice-cold towards her as he was now.

"Xuan'er, my Xuan'er, Mommy is so sorry."

Jiang Shuqin's tears continued to fall.

Suddenly, she thought of something.

She snapped her head up to glare at Lin Chang.

At this moment, Lin Chang was also filled with regret.

He had actually pampered an ungrateful wretch while completely ignoring Little Xuan.

Feeling Jiang Shuqin's stare, Lin Chang broke out in a cold sweat.

"Jiang Shuqin, why are you looking at me like that?" Lin Chang took a few steps back.

"Lin Chang."

Jiang Shuqin lunged at him.

She tackled him to the ground, straddled him, and began scratching and clawing at him like a madwoman.

Her nails were very long.

She left deep scratches all over him, blood oozing from the wounds.

Right now, she looked exactly like a lunatic.

"Lin Chang."

"I know you definitely had a hand in me abandoning Lin Xuan! You are the main culprit behind all of this!"

Jiang Shuqin screamed hysterically, "If you hadn't messed around with Wang Yajun and gotten her pregnant, she wouldn't have plotted to make me mistakenly believe Little Xuan was a jinx! And she certainly wouldn't have sent your illegitimate son to my side!"

"Xuan'er is my own flesh and blood. When he was just born, I loved him so much. If it weren't for you adulterers, I would have treated Xuan'er so, so well! It's all your fault! Lin Chang, you are the one who ruined my family!"

Lin Chang's face was covered in bloody scratch marks left by Jiang Shuqin.

The three Lin sisters also deeply hated Lin Chang.

If Lin Chang hadn't cheated.

Their family wouldn't have ended up like this, and Little Xuan wouldn't have suffered so much.

Lin Qingwan just felt extremely exhausted.

"Yan'er, Xiu'er."

Lin Qingwan said in a hoarse voice, "I'm heading back first."

Seeing that Lin Qingwan wasn't in a good state, Lin Qingyan quickly said, "Eldest Sister, let me go back with you."

She then turned to look at Lin Qingxiu. "Xiu'er, you stay here and keep an eye on Mom and Dad."

Although Lin Qingxiu didn't want to stay here either, looking at the current situation, she was ultimately worried about what might happen between Jiang Shuqin and Lin Chang.

She nodded anyway. "Okay."

Lin Qingyan and Lin Qingwan walked out of the company together.

"Second Sister," Lin Qingyan pursed her lips and asked, "What should we do now?"

Lin Qingyan was very lost, completely unsure of how to handle the current situation.

And what about her future?

She had always hoped to become a Best Actress.

But Xinghui Group went bankrupt, and Shengshi Medicine, which she had pinned her hopes on, also collapsed.

Furthermore, all the money she had was invested in Lin Li's company and could not be recovered.

Now, she was completely just an ordinary person.

A homeless, ordinary person.

"What else can we do?" Lin Qingwan said with a mocking tone. "We can only take things one step at a time now."

"Everything happening now is our retribution. If we had treated Little Xuan well back then instead of only being good to an adopted son, we wouldn't be in this situation at all," Lin Qingwan continued.

Now.

Heh.

Ending up like this was entirely their own doing.

Even though Lin Li was the illegitimate son produced by Lin Chang's affair.

But they were also blind and foolish, ignoring their own biological brother to dote on an adopted son.

Outside the entrance.

Butler Wang, Lei Hui, and Lin Xuan's group were still waiting for the driver to come pick them up.

Jiang Yutong happened to pass by.

She saw Lin Xuan and immediately pulled her car over to the side of the road.

Jiang Yutong walked up with a sweet smile.

"Little Xuan, why are you here?"

Lin Xuan, with one hand in his pocket, replied, "Nothing much, I'm just here to take care of some business."

Jiang Yutong said, "Little Xuan, do you want to go check out Second Sister's company? Let me tell you, the skincare products at Second Sister's company are doing exceptionally well right now. They are selling like crazy overseas too. Very soon, you'll be getting your dividends."

"Mm."

Lin Xuan nodded.

He had to admit, Jiang Yutong did have some talent for business.

"Little Xuan, wait here. I'll go get something for you."

Jiang Yutong went back to her car and took out something she had spent a long time preparing over the past few days.

"Xuan'er, look, what's this?"

It was a carved statue, a statue carved in Lin Xuan's likeness.

Lin Xuan was taken aback. "What is this?"

Jiang Yutong smiled and said, "This is you."

Lin Xuan: "..."

This person with such a crooked and distorted appearance was him?

Was... was this a mistake?

"Little Xuan, isn't it beautiful? I spent hours carving this. It's the statue I'm most satisfied with."

Lin Xuan's lips twitched. "It's quite... beautiful."

"As long as you like it," Jiang Yutong smiled.

Lin Qingwan and Lin Qingyan watched Jiang Yutong and Lin Xuan getting along so harmoniously.

A surge of jealousy inevitably welled up in their hearts, accompanied by a lingering sense of bitterness.

If only they had treated Little Xuan well back then, that picture of deep sibling affection would have been them and Little Xuan.