Mom, Please Help Me

If he gets blacklisted, his entire life will truly be ruined.

And he’ll forever be trampled under Lin Xuan’s feet, never able to turn things around.

He doesn’t want this!

Lin Li looked pleadingly at Grandpa Jiang, hoping he would spare him.

The security guards also turned their gaze to Grandpa Jiang.

Grandpa Jiang said coldly, "Take him away."

Lin Li slumped to the ground again, drained of strength.

The Jiang Family was truly this heartless. He had taken care of that old fool Jiang Liangjun for so long, yet the old man didn’t show the slightest bit of gratitude!

Now he was finished—completely finished.

"No, you can’t take him away!" Jiang Shuqin suddenly rushed over, her emotions running high.

She pulled the security guard’s hands off Lin Li.

Butler Wang sighed in admiration, "Young Master Lin, you’re truly impressive. You predicted this would happen."

Jiang Shuqin had indeed shown up.

Lin Xuan’s face was full of mockery. "It wasn’t a prediction. I just understand how much Jiang Shuqin loves Lin Li."

In his past life, he had never received Jiang Shuqin’s maternal love or attention.

But Lin Li? Jiang Shuqin valued him more than her own life.

After cutting ties with Jiang Shuqin, Grandpa Jiang had stopped paying attention to her. The only time he had seen her in all these years was when they briefly crossed paths.

Yet, Grandpa Jiang immediately recognized Jiang Shuqin’s voice.

He stood frozen in place.

Jiang Yutong and Jiang Manting, who knew the inside story, looked at Grandpa Jiang with concern.

Seeing Jiang Shuqin arrive, Lin Li’s eyes lit up.

It was his mother.

His mother was here!

Jiang Shuqin was a daughter of the Jiang Family. Even if they had severed ties, blood was thicker than water. If she personally pleaded for him, the Jiang Family would surely let him go!

He was saved!

"Mom!" Lin Li clutched Jiang Shuqin’s hand and sobbed. "Please beg them to spare me. I’m begging you!"

Though Jiang Shuqin resented Lin Li for hiding the truth and coming to the Jiang Family to claim kinship, she couldn’t bear to see him suffer.

Gritting her teeth, she turned to Grandpa Jiang. "Lin Li is my son. You can’t treat him like this."

Jiang Yutong sneered. "Ms. Jiang, your real son is Lin Xuan. Besides, you’ve already left the Jiang Family. What right do you have to interfere in our family’s decisions?"

Grandpa Jiang never once looked at Jiang Shuqin.

"How dare a junior interrupt when elders are speaking?" Jiang Shuqin glared at Jiang Yutong.

Jiang Yutong scoffed.

When the Jiang Family was at its lowest, Jiang Shuqin had taken all the company’s money and given it to Lin Chang, risking Jiang Corporation’s bankruptcy.

She had even cut ties with her grandparents.

Grandma had died from the shock, and Jiang Shuqin hadn’t even returned to see her.

What kind of heartless monster did something like that? How could she call herself an elder?

Grandpa Jiang spoke up. "Yutong is right. You have no right to plead for anything from the Jiang Family."

The guests murmured among themselves.

"Grandpa Jiang is so cold toward his own daughter. Could the rumors be true? Did Jiang Shuqin really take the money and give it to Lin Chang when the Jiang Family was in trouble?"

"Probably. Otherwise, why would Grandpa Jiang treat his own daughter like this?"

"Tsk tsk. If that’s the case, Jiang Shuqin is truly ungrateful. No wonder the Jiang Family disowned her. Now that Lin Chang cheated and Starlight Group went bankrupt while Jiang Corporation thrives, she must regret her choices."

"First a daughter of the Jiang Family, then Lin Xuan’s mother—if she hadn’t ruined everything, she’d be living the dream by now."

These words reached Jiang Shuqin’s ears.

Her reaction was fierce.

"What are you all saying? I don’t regret anything! None of this was my fault!" she shouted at the guests.

She had done nothing wrong.

Back then, Lin Chang had treated her so well. If the Jiang Family hadn’t opposed their relationship, hadn’t cut ties over a bit of money, she could have relied on the Jiang Family’s influence, and Lin Chang would never have dared to betray her.

Yes.

It was all the Jiang Family’s fault!

As for Lin Xuan—he was the one who refused to be filial. No matter how successful he became or how much money he had, what good was it if he wouldn’t share it with her?

"If it weren’t for him!" Jiang Shuqin pointed at Grandpa Jiang. "If he hadn’t insisted on tearing me and Lin Chang apart, I would never have cut ties with the Jiang Family! I was forced into this!"

Grandpa Jiang closed his eyes wearily.

"Jiang Shuqin, you are not welcome at the Jiang Family’s banquet. Leave."

As far as he was concerned, he no longer had a daughter named Jiang Shuqin.

He only had one son, a daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters.

No—now he also had Xiao Xuan, his grandson.

Jiang Shuqin clenched her fists.

Just like over twenty years ago, her father remained cold and heartless.

Jiang Liangjun had once claimed to adore her, but ha! It was all lies.

Jiang Shuqin wanted to turn and leave.

Her pride wouldn’t let her bow to the Jiang Family.

But…

She glanced at Lin Li. If she walked away now, Li’er’s future would be ruined forever.

She couldn’t let that happen.

Lin Li, too, feared Jiang Shuqin might abandon him.

He tugged at her hand, pleading, "Mom, I’m begging you, help me!"

"I can’t let my life be destroyed like this, Mom!"

Jiang Yutong found this display of mother-son affection sickening.

Hah. Jiang Shuqin and Lin Li were so close.

What about Lin Xuan?

She had driven Lin Xuan out of the family!

Her heart ached for Lin Xuan.

Coldly, she ordered, "Someone, escort Jiang Shuqin and Lin Li out."

"Yes!"

The security guards had been waiting for this. At her command, they stepped forward to forcibly remove Jiang Shuqin and Lin Li from the banquet.

"Mom, please save me!" Lin Li’s eyes were red.

He knew that if the Jiang Family didn’t relent today, he’d never get another chance.

He couldn’t be blacklisted.

If he was, he’d never recover—he’d spend his whole life beneath Lin Xuan’s heel.

"Mom, help me!" Lin Li pinned all his hopes on Jiang Shuqin.

Only she could change the Jiang Family’s mind now.

The security guard said impatiently, "If you two don’t leave on your own, we’ll drag you out."

Lin Li’s desperate eyes bore into Jiang Shuqin.

Her heart twisted in pain.

This was the first time Li’er had ever begged her like this.

She couldn’t let him down.

Jiang Shuqin gritted her teeth—then, with a heavy thud, her knees hit the ground as she knelt before Grandpa Jiang.