Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 246 Love or Not Love is Clear

Everyone in the room fell silent upon hearing this. They had initially thought it was a story of a heartless scumbag cheating on his wife with two women, having an affair and fathering an illegitimate child. Little did they know that there were so many twists and turns in the past behind it all.

The group of people were still unable to determine who was right and who was wrong, which explained why Mr. Liu said the matter was dishonorable. If it were them, they would probably be even less willing to bring it up than he was.

However, since Mr. Liu's younger brother is still alive, it means that his girlfriend did not abort the child as Mr. Liu's grandparents had suggested, but instead gave birth to him safely.

“I remember you told me that you and your brother grew up together. If you weren’t born to the same mother, why did you live together?”

When Ms. Qi met her husband, her mother-in-law had been dead for a long time, and the two had never lived under the same roof.

Based on her husband's occasional descriptions over the years and his descriptions of her when mentioning their parents' past, Ms. Qi does not believe that she is the kind of person who can magnanimously accept her enemy's child and allow him to grow up in harmony with her own son.

When his wife asked him about this, Mr. Liu's expression became even more embarrassed.

"That's because my second brother's birth mother unfortunately suffered a massive hemorrhage during his birth and died. My dad brought him back and lied to my mom, saying that she had given birth to twins."

"...Can't your mother even tell whether she's carrying one or two babies?"

"Back then, pregnancy wasn't checked as thoroughly as it is now." Many people didn't even have prenatal checkups. Whether the baby was healthy after birth depended entirely on unpredictable events, and whether they were pregnant with one or two babies also depended on unpredictable events.

Not to mention, Mr. Liu's mother gave birth at home without ever going to the hospital, so naturally she believed whatever her husband told her.

She probably never expected that her husband would be so heartless towards her, even thinking of putting another woman's child into her womb.

"And when did you find out that you and your brother didn't actually have the same mother?"

"When my mother was dying."

Mr. Liu still remembers that he was only thirteen or fourteen years old that year and was still in junior high school. His mother was critically ill at the old house. He went back to see her during his vacation, but unexpectedly heard her arguing with his father.

In Mr. Liu's memory, his father was rarely home from childhood to adulthood, and his mother was always eccentric and didn't care about family matters at all. He and his younger brother were raised by their grandparents.

Moreover, his father was extremely cold to him every time he came back. Even if he and his younger brother stood in front of him together, he would only look at his younger brother, smile at his younger brother, and play with his younger brother, while ignoring his older brother and not even saying a word.

Mr. Liu never understood why this was the case. They were both his sons, yet their attitudes were so drastically different, until that day…

“I have never seen my father so angry and out of control, nor have I ever seen my mother so hysterical. My father deliberately chose to tell my mother this when she was sick, just to anger her. He wished my mother would die sooner so that he could be free sooner.”

“My dad said that when his girlfriend was dying after giving birth to my brother, he stayed by her side and listened to her talk about how much she hated my mom and my grandparents. He watched her being tormented by this hatred until the very last moment of her life, struggling to close her eyes. His heart was breaking.”

"But in fact, the person she hates the most is my dad. If he hadn't betrayed their relationship and had an affair with my mom, and then cowardly chosen to marry my mom as arranged by his family, she wouldn't have gone from being the wife to the mistress, wouldn't have suffered the humiliation and accusations from her grandparents while pregnant with their child, and wouldn't have been in such an embarrassing situation." The people in the private room remained silent. They had to admit that this girlfriend was quite clear-headed. While blaming Mr. Liu's grandparents and his mother, she didn't forget to bring up Mr. Liu's father, the instigator, insisting that a family should be united!

“After that, my dad went crazy. He wanted to take revenge on my mom, my grandparents, and everyone in the family except my brother. Bringing my brother back and lying that he was my twin, and making my mom and grandparents raise his son with his girlfriend, was his first step in taking revenge on the family.”

Ms. Qi couldn't help but lean over and hold her husband's cold hand, offering silent comfort.

Mr. Liu smiled gently. After so many years, he had long since stopped caring.

Even back then, he felt like he had been struck by lightning, suddenly realizing that even though they were both sons, there were differences.

Love or not, it's really obvious.

After listening to Mr. Liu's description, Du Anrao felt that being love-struck was truly a terrible thing. Three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere. Why insist on competing with someone who already has someone they love? You might end up ruining your whole life and harming the next generation. What's the point?

[This is a melodramatic love story where she loves him, he loves her, and she loves him too; she hates her, she hates him, and he hates her too. The relationships are so tangled, they're harder to untangle than a knotted ball of yarn. No wonder they managed to pull off something as messy as swapping fates.]

Xi Jingyue: "..." Isn't that right? Just listening to this summary, he felt his brain starting to get tangled up.

"Just because you two are half-brothers, you suspect that it was your younger brother who switched your fates?"

“Of course, it’s not entirely because of that.” Mr. Liu pursed his lips and turned to look at his wife. “I can’t really explain it, it’s just a gut feeling. Do you remember when we first got married, my second brother was a bit of a troublemaker, but then for a while he suddenly became a better person…”

Ms. Qi was stunned. She had forgotten about it if her husband hadn't mentioned it. When they first got married, her brother-in-law was indeed not very reliable. He was like a good-for-nothing, always coming to her husband to ask for money to go out and enjoy himself. He never thought about finding a stable job and just stayed at home waiting for his husband, who was like an older brother, to support him.

Ms. Qi didn't quite understand her husband at the time. She felt that her brother-in-law was the same age as her, had hands and feet, and didn't think about supporting himself. Instead, he asked his married brother for money every day, which was really unreasonable.

But since the two were blood relatives, she couldn't voice her dissatisfaction to avoid marital discord.

Unexpectedly, not long after, my brother-in-law seemed to have become a different person. He not only found a job, but his personality also changed. He became more mature and humorous. Although he would still ask my husband for money from time to time, he was inexplicably much more likable.

Not long after, he quickly found a girlfriend, got married and had children. Within three years, he had two children, achieving his wish of having both a son and a daughter even before the two of them.

Ms. Qi recalled the period when her brother-in-law's personality changed, which seemed to coincide with the time when she was pregnant with her first child.

Thinking back to the timing of her marriage, especially the time when her sister-in-law became pregnant with her first child, it seems... to have happened shortly after she had a miscarriage and lost the baby!

(End of this chapter)