Reborn back to the time before I sold my blood to support my scumbag boyfriend's college educat

"Mom, you once tried to smother Zhiqian to death, and Yang Yunxian saw it, didn't you?"

Yang Yunxia stared wide-eyed at Xia Zhiheng in disbelief. How could he know about this? Wasn't Yang Yunxian already dead?

In those few short seconds, Yang Yunxia's mind raced, and then she calmed down, having already come up with a plan.

"Yes, but I didn't mean to. I had no idea what I was doing at the time. I'm especially grateful to Yunxian for this; if it weren't for her, I would have made an unforgivable mistake."

You suspect I killed Yunxian because of this? That's utter nonsense. If I wanted to kill her, I would have done it long ago. Why wait so many years?

"Zhiheng, please don't tell him I almost smothered your brother. I don't know why I grabbed a pillow and tried to smother him; I regretted it for a long time afterward. If it weren't for the fact that you and Zhiqian need care, I really would have preferred to die."

Yang Yunxia covered her head, her face contorted in pain. She went over and grabbed Xia Zhiheng's sleeve, pleading desperately, tears streaming down her face.

"Mom, what about my aunt? You've never met her or spoken to her. Why are you trying to match Yang Yunxian with my uncle?"

"No, Zhiheng, where did you hear these things from? How could I do such a thing?"

"I started trying to matchmake Yang Yunxian and your uncle after Yang Yunxian's divorce, when your uncle received a letter from Lin Weihong announcing her remarriage. But after your uncle refused, I abandoned the idea."

Yang Yunxia spoke from the heart; only she knows the truth.

"These things were told to Xiao Chu by Yang Yunxian when Xiao Chu last went to see her."

Xia Zhiheng didn't take out the recording pen because he wanted to hear what his mother would say, and also wanted to see her true character.

"Zhiheng, you'd rather believe Xia Yichu than me. She hit me and never treated me like an elder. I don't believe Yunxian would say such absurd things to her."

Our relationship was already bad, and now that Yunxian is dead, whatever she says is law? I can't argue with her. If you believe her and not me, there's nothing I can do.

Yang Yunxia meant that Xia Yichu had fabricated those words to sow discord between her and her son. Xia Zhiheng remained silent, listening with a dark expression the entire time.

"Your grandpa, your grandma, and you and Zhiqian all feel sorry for Xia Yichu. So you all get extremely worried when she suffers even the slightest grievance."

Your maternal grandmother and I have both been beaten by her. I don't want to talk about your paternal grandparents' attitude, but your and Zhiqian's attitude chills me to the bone.

I haven't wronged Xia Yichu and her daughter in the slightest. Yang Yunxian's attraction to Xia Guoan is beyond my control. He also didn't care about Lin Weihong. Why should Xia Yichu pin her mother's death on me?

Yang Yunxia spoke with an air of righteous indignation, as if she were the one who had suffered the most injustice. Xia Zhiheng looked at her coldly, his illusions about his mother gradually shattering.

"Mom, Xiao Chu wouldn't lie to me. Besides, there are guards in the prison. We can just ask them and we'll know if she's lying or not."

"Zhiheng, I heard that Pei Shizhou went to the prison that day too. Pei Shizhou is rich, so bribing a few guards wouldn't be difficult for him."

In fact, Yang Yunxia knew that they had sent the guards away that day, but she couldn't say it. If she did, Xia Zhiheng would become even more suspicious of her. This Yang Yunxian had caused her such a big problem before he died.

"Mom, how did you know Shi Zhou was also in prison?"

Xia Zhiheng's face darkened, and he looked at Yang Yunxia suspiciously. The warden had told him that his mother had visited Yang Yunxian in prison twice. He had always assumed that she visited Yang Yunxian out of consideration for their past relationship.

"It was Yunxian who told me this when I visited her last time."

Yang Yunxia bit her lip, her eyes flickering. Yang Yunxian only said that Xia Yichu had gone to see her. It was she who bribed one of the guards watching Yang Yunxian, who told her that Yang Yunxian and Xia Yichu had spoken alone with Pei Shizhou for over an hour.

He was sent away, and he didn't know what they were talking about inside. It seemed that Yang Yunxian had told Xia Yichu everything that had happened in the past, and she only regretted not resolving this trouble sooner.

"Mom, I'll ask you one last time, why did you encourage Yang Yunxian to get a divorce and try to get her together with my uncle?"

No matter who the younger brother ends up with, it has no bearing on their family's interests.

"I didn't. I admit to smothering your brother with a pillow, but I haven't done anything else. Xia Yichu, don't even think about pinning her mother's death on me."

Xia Zhiheng took a deep breath, took out the recorder, and pressed the switch. Yang Yunxian's voice came through.

After hearing two sentences, Yang Yunxia excitedly stepped forward and tried to grab the recording pen.

Xia Zhiheng gently pushed her, and she fell to the ground, shaking her head and saying, "That's not true, Yang Yunxian is talking nonsense."

Xia Zhiheng hadn't turned off the recorder, and Yang Yunxian's voice slowly came through it. With each word she spoke, Yang Yunxia's face grew paler. Only when the voices stopped did Yang Yunxia get up from the floor.

"Zhiheng, let me explain."

Xia Zhiheng put the recorder away in his pocket. If he lost it, Xia Yichu would be angry with him.

"Why? Why did you do this? Mom, I want to hear the truth, not your explanations."

"Hahaha……"

Suddenly, Yang Yunxia burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh at God for being unfair. I finally managed to marry your father. And what did he do? He had another woman in his heart, and the day after we got married, he went to the army. After I gave birth to you, I called him and wrote to him, but he wouldn't come back."

Hearing this, Xia Zhiheng said angrily, "That's what you deserve. You knew he had someone he liked, yet you still conspired with your family to frame him."

If Xia Guohua were still alive, Xia Zhiheng wouldn't know how to face him. As a child, he might not have understood, but now he's married to the woman he loves and has children.

If this happened to him, and someone plotted against him to prevent him from being with the woman he loves, he would go insane, even contemplating murder. He would be even more determined to marry a woman he doesn't love, who has conspired with her family to scheme against him.

"It was your grandmother who did it, I..."

Before Yang Yunxia could finish speaking, Xia Zhiheng interrupted her, saying he was tired of hearing the same things.

"You dare say you don't know what kind of person my maternal grandmother is? You know she's selfish and will do anything to give her two sons a better life, so why did you insist on bringing my father home?"

*Slap!* Yang Yunxia slapped Xia Zhiheng across the face. Xia Zhiheng didn't dodge, but stared directly at Yang Yunxia. These questions had been bottled up in his heart for a long time; he had wanted to ask them for ages.

"If I don't bring your father home, you won't exist in this world."

Xia Guohua was a pillar of strength, protecting his country and ultimately sacrificing himself for it. If he could, Xia Zhiheng wouldn't want to be born. He wanted to be with the woman he loved and live a good life.

"You finally admit that you deliberately brought him back. Why did you have to be so depraved? There are plenty of men in the world, why did you have to steal someone else's man?"

"No, I didn't know things would turn out this way."

"Let's put that aside for now. What did my uncle do wrong? Why are you treating him like this, causing him to be separated from his wife and daughter for so many years, and he couldn't even see his aunt one last time?"