“Liu Yiran!”
Liu Yaozong was furious, trembling with rage. “I thought I was the only scumbag, but I didn’t expect you to be even less human! What the hell is wrong with the Liu family’s genes? I’m never getting married or having children, and I hope the Liu family dies out!”
Bao Fang gasped, her mouth open wide. “Wh-what are you saying… Don’t talk nonsense…”
Xia Yiran suddenly grabbed her brother’s collar. “I’m warning you, don’t call me that! I don’t have the surname Liu, I have the surname Xia!”
Liu Yaozong roughly shoved her hand away. “You’ve been a Xia family young lady for a few days, and you really think you’re someone now? You have the surname Xia? Heh, dare you go get a paternity test with Mr. and Mrs. Xia? If it wasn’t for Third Uncle Cousin at the testing center back then, do you think you could have pulled it off?”
“Shut up!”
“Don’t you have the surname Xia? Then you have nothing to do with us. I’ll say whatever I want! Not just now, I’ll say it in front of the media too!”
Xia Yiran’s gaze sharpened. She raised her hand and slapped him!
“Damn it! You dare hit me?”
Liu Yaozong, who had been suppressing his emotions for too long, finally erupted. His eyes red, he lunged forward—
“Yaozong… Yiran… Don’t fight, don’t hit each other…”
Bao Fang’s breathing grew more rapid. Watching her son and daughter wrestle, tears fell helplessly down her face.
Xia Weiliang and Song Yuan, who had been waiting outside, heard the commotion. They entered, and Song Yuan went to separate the two, while Xia Weiliang rushed to the bedside to check on Bao Fang.
“How are you?”
Bao Fang looked at her blankly, tears sliding silently down her cheeks. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
Her condition was dire, and Xia Weiliang knew it. “They’ll be fine. You… you can rest assured.”
Bao Fang’s lips trembled. Her lingering gaze fell on her daughter and son. They were still shouting insults at each other, especially Liu Yaozong, who was like a madman, desperately trying to lunge forward.
Song Yuan frowned and unceremoniously kicked the back of his leg. Liu Yaozong immediately fell to his knees—
Bao Fang slowly closed her eyes, her face growing even more sallow. As if using the last of her strength, she clutched Xia Weiliang’s clothes.
Xia Weiliang looked down and instinctively leaned closer. Bao Fang opened her mouth, her voice intermittent, “Back then…”
Xia Weiliang maintained her posture, her gaze gradually becoming stiff.
Meanwhile, Liu Yaozong and Xia Yiran continued to curse each other. Anyone seeing them would have thought these siblings harbored a deep hatred for one another.
In reality, Song Yuan saw clearly.
It wasn't so much that the siblings were fighting out of hatred for each other as they were trying to escape.
Neither of them wanted to face their mother, to face the mere tens of seconds or minutes she had left in this world.
The line on the monitor went flat.
Xia Weiliang slowly raised her head. Liu Yaozong froze, and Xia Yiran turned her face away, standing there without any intention of stepping forward.
“Mom—”
Liu Yaozong was the first to cry out, rushing forward and collapsing onto Bao Fang’s body, weeping like a child.
Whether for his mother or himself, Liu Yaozong cried with all his might, repeating, “My mom is gone, my mom is gone… I’m an orphan, I’m an orphan…”
Xia Weiliang looked at him, then shifted her gaze back to Bao Fang. Her chest felt heavy, as if something was blocking it.
“I don’t want to be alone… Why did you all leave me? I, I’m scared… Mom, can you wake up? I’ll go back to the old home with you, I’ll listen to you, I’ll find a proper job, I won’t do business anymore… Mom, please open your eyes and look at me?” Su Dan Novel Network.
Not only Xia Weiliang, but even Song Yuan was moved.
Xia Yiran’s body trembled slightly. She bit her lip fiercely, refusing to shed a single tear for this woman.
She hated the Liu parents, without a doubt.
They favored the son over the daughter, giving him the best of everything. No matter what he wanted, even if the family was poor, they would never shortchange him!
Conversely, she was the superfluous one.
When there was good food and drink, it never reached her. Even if it did, it was only what her brother had left!
Even though she studied better, they selfishly demanded she give up going to university, keeping the money for her brother’s business.
Even when he wasn’t cut out for it, losing money time and time again, they never complained, even finding excuses for him!
But her?
They were unwilling to buy her even a decent piece of clothing!
So, she hated them, hated them since childhood! Back then, she wondered if she had been picked up by this family, otherwise why wouldn’t they love her?
As a result, she struck gold, becoming a wealthy young lady overnight.
But how had they treated her?
Besides threatening her and demanding money, they had never shown her any concern, only caring about how much money she brought home!
When parents like these died, why should she cry?
Who would cry for her?
Liu Yaozong suddenly turned his head, his tear-reddened eyes glaring at Xia Yiran. “Get out! Get back to your Xia family!”