Song Qinian was very worried about Gu Zhiyan. Coupled with the fact that Li Junshen's dark eyes had been staring at her from the moment he entered, she felt extremely uncomfortable, so she gently squeezed Shen Chi Yan's hand.
Shen Chi Yan looked back at Song Qinian. Song Qinian slowly gestured to him, "I'm going upstairs to see Mom."
"Mhm, stay upstairs obediently. Don't come down unless I call you."
Song Qinian nodded. When she married Shen Chi Yan, Shen Zhenghao and Gu Zhiyan had already divorced. She had never met Shen Zhenghao and didn't have much impression of him.
But it was too much for Shen Zhenghao to bring another woman home on the first day of the Lunar New Year!
As she went upstairs, Song Qinian could feel a pair of eyes staring at her back, making her feel as if thorns were on her back, quite uncomfortable.
The atmosphere downstairs was quite tense. The old lady sat on the sofa in the living room, looking coldly at Shen Zhenghao. Her authority put everyone present under a lot of pressure.
Especially Ji Luofei, who didn't dare to look at the old lady at all.
Shen Zhenghao patted Ji Luofei's hand, and after comforting her for a while, he said to the old lady, "Mom, this is Luofei, the woman I love. This is my son, and also your grandson, Jun Shen..."
As soon as Shen Zhenghao said this, everyone's expression changed. Except for Shen Chi Yan, who was full of gloomy coldness, and the old lady, who had no expression as usual, others exchanged glances in disbelief.
Before the old lady could speak, Shen Huanling, who was pale, rushed to Shen Zhenghao, grabbed his hand, and asked with a choked voice, "Third Uncle, what did you say? Mr. Li... Mr. Li is your son? How can he be your son?"
Shen Zhenghao was already struggling to explain this matter to everyone, so when Shen Huanling asked, he took the opportunity to say, "Yes, Jun Shen is indeed my son, Ah Yan's biological brother. When Luo Fei and I broke up, I didn't know she was pregnant. They have suffered a lot over the years, so I want to compensate them as much as possible."
Shen Huanling seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, shaking her head and crying, "How could this be?"
She had finally met an excellent, handsome, and wealthy man, and now he was her cousin?
Shen Qiwen was even more surprised that such an angry and stimulating scene would unfold in the Shen family on the first day of the Lunar New Year. He thought that the matter of him being an illegitimate child would add a significant stroke to the Shen family's history, but unexpectedly, his so-called third uncle was even more remarkable.
However, he was indeed very surprised that Li Junshen was Shen Zhenghao's son, Shen Chi Yan's biological brother. That Li Junshen had been hiding deeply enough.
For a moment, he was worried that if Li Junshen and Shen Chi Yan teamed up, it would be difficult for him to handle.
Now, seeing the expressions of Shen Chi Yan and Li Junshen, and remembering what Li Junshen had said before, Shen Qiwen curled his lips into a smile. It seemed that life was becoming more and more exciting.
Everyone's gaze turned to the old lady, after all, the old lady was still in charge of this family.
After a long while, the old lady chuckled, "Mr. Shen San, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, a day for our Shen family to gather. We don't welcome outsiders. Please take your woman and your son and leave my house."
Shen Zhenghao's face immediately turned very ugly. After placing the gifts he brought on the table, he knelt directly before the old lady, "Mom... I know you're still angry with me, I..."
However, his words were interrupted by the old lady, "Mr. Shen San, have you forgotten that when you divorced Zhiyan, I already severed ties with you? I don't have a son like you, and please don't call me Mom. I'm too old for that."
Although the old lady was over eighty years old, her words were sonorous and powerful, each sentence striking Shen Zhenghao's chest like a knife.
Shen Zhenghao had guessed this would happen, but he did not give up, "Mom, I never thought of severing ties with you. Moreover, Jun Shen is my son. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, but you can't not recognize Jun Shen."
Shen Zhenghao thought that if his brother's illegitimate son could be acknowledged by the Shen family, why couldn't his son?
Besides, his son was not an illegitimate child. If he had known that Ji Luofei was pregnant at the time, and Li Junshen was his eldest son, he would not have had Gu Zhiyan, let alone Shen Chi Yan.
As he spoke, Shen Chi Yan even looked at Li Junshen, "Jun Shen, come and greet Grandma."
Li Junshen walked up to the old lady, bowed respectfully, "Grandma..."
The old lady's face turned green with anger. She did not look at Li Junshen but looked at Shen Zhenghao with disappointment, "Shen Zhenghao, you are willing to be a naive fool, willing to find your first love or your son and have nothing to do with me or the Shen family. Under my name, I only have Ah Yan as my grandson. If you have any brains and heart, take them away from the Shen family immediately, or don't blame me for being merciless and having you thrown out!"
Shen Zhenghao did not expect the old lady to hate him so much. Logically, what he did was much better than his brother Shen Zhengming. Why could the old lady accept Shen Qiwen but not accept Jun Shen?
"Mom..."
Shen Zhenghao wanted to say something else, but Li Junshen directly knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times to the old lady, and then said with neither subservience nor arrogance, "Grandma, I know you don't welcome my mother and me. I also know you won't acknowledge me, but to me, you are my grandma. Without you in this world, I wouldn't exist, so I am very grateful to you."
Then, he stood up and bowed slightly to everyone, "I apologize to everyone for causing unpleasantness. We will leave now."
Li Junshen walked to Ji Luofei's side, "Mom, let's go."
Ji Luofei glanced at the old lady cautiously, leaving an apologetic "I'm sorry." Then she looked at Shen Zhenghao, "Zhenghao, you've come home so rarely, you should stay and accompany the family properly."
Shen Zhenghao saw Ji Luofei and Li Junshen leaving and immediately stood up, "Luofei, Jun Shen..."
He called out to them, and seeing that neither of them looked back, he frowned and looked at the old lady displeasantly, "Mom, I brought them to see you, how could you treat them like this?"
The old lady was so angry that she laughed, "Are you expecting me to welcome them into the main hall? Shen Zhenghao, the only mistake I made was doting on you too much, letting you grow in body but not in brain."
Shen Zhenghao felt his face burning under the old lady's scolding in front of so many people, and his expression became even more unpleasant.
"Zhengming, throw him out!"
The old lady had not asked Shen Chi Yan to kick Shen Zhenghao out, which was already giving Shen Zhenghao the last bit of dignity.
Shen Zhengming never expected to witness such a scene in his lifetime. It was said that emperors loved their eldest sons, and commoners loved their youngest. Both the old lady and the old man doted on Shen Zhenghao, who had grown up under the protection of his parents and elder brother, living a very simple life.
He had been obedient and well-behaved since childhood. When his parents told him to break up with Ji Luofei and marry Gu Zhiyan, although he was in pain, he complied. He never expected that when he learned Ji Luofei had not married, his rebellious phase would begin.