Mr. Shen, your love-struck wife doesn't want you anymore!

It was still early, and there was a commercial street nearby. Jiang Yu hadn't eaten dinner, and after being disgusted by Song Yanjie at the event, she only ate a little fruit.

She said to Shen Chengyan, "I'm hungry."

Shen Chengyan: "What do you want to eat?"

"It's been so long since I've had barbecue."

"Walk."

The two arrived at the commercial street and found a less crowded stall to sit down. The aroma of charcoal made Jiang Yu's mouth water, and she ordered a lot of food in one go. She then asked the stall owner for tissues to wipe the table.

Realizing she was wiping halfway through, she tossed the tissue to Shen Chengyan beside her: "You wipe it yourself."

When they were dating, Jiang Yu always carried wet wipes with her when she went out, because every time they ate out, he wouldn't say anything, but his face clearly showed his disgust.

Especially in cheap restaurants, if you come across a greasy table, it looks like you're there to collect a debt, not to eat.

Shen Chengyan, halfway through wiping the table, answered her earlier question: "You asked me why Song Yanjie and Deng Wen dislike me."

Jiang Yu looked at him.

Shen Chengyan paused and said, "Actually, Song Yanjie and Deng Wen are a little different. Deng Wen didn't ostracize me at the beginning."

"Song Yanjie is not. He was hostile to me from the very beginning."

Moreover, Song Yanjie is very good at pretending. In front of adults, he is a caring older brother who plays with his younger brother and takes good care of him.

Even when no adults are around, he still takes care of his younger brother, plays with him, and shares food with him.

Adults all thought he was sensible and obedient.

But only Shen Chengyan knew that when he was playing with him, he would secretly trip him up and make him fall.

The food shared with him was either spoiled or moldy.

Shen Chengyan has fallen down the stairs and drunk sour milk before. These minor incidents won't kill him, but they can damage his body.

Moreover, even if the matter is exposed, Song Yanjie will have an excuse to deny it.

Moreover, at that time, Deng Wen was in charge of all the household affairs, and she turned a blind eye to these matters.

Song Hongyi was busy with his business and didn't care about such trivial matters at all.

Jiang Yu said, "Didn't you ask your mother for help back then?"

Shen Chengyan transferred the barbecue from the grill to her bowl, thought for a moment, and said, "The frog didn't know at first that there was a raging fire under the lukewarm water, and Song Yanjie and Deng Wen didn't do anything too intense at first either."

It was a gradual escalation process that took several years.

For the first two years, Song Yanjie showed almost no malice. On the contrary, he was really like a caring older brother, and would even pick him up from school with the driver.

Only after he settled down in the Song family did his inherent wickedness begin to show.

At that time, he didn't act like a villain in a TV series, hitting and cursing people right away. He only verbally attacked and criticized. It wasn't until Shen Chengyan turned ten that Song Yanjie started to take action.

Whenever the two brothers had a conflict, Deng Wen would always comfort and enlighten Shen Chengyan, telling him not to take it to heart, and that he was a big kid now and should be more sensible.

"Your mother has a heart condition and was recently hospitalized. Don't bother her with the children's affairs, so as not to cause her worry."

"And your older brother, he's older than you and has a lot of worries too. You're the younger brother, so you should be more tolerant of him. I'll have him come and apologize to you."

Deng Wen was so good at manipulating people's hearts. With just a few words, she made a bullied child afraid and embarrassed to complain to his ailing mother.

Song Yanjie would always come to apologize, saying that it wouldn't happen again, but there always was a next time.

Jiang Yu listened in silence, but bit down hard on the meat in her mouth.

Putting aside her current relationship with Shen Chengyan, as an outsider listening to these things, she had only one feeling.

angry.

I'm just very angry.

Why bully a child?

Do they have absolutely no conscience?

"What did Deng Wen do to you again?" Jiang Yu asked, taking a sip of beer.

"Actually, she wasn't that hostile towards me at first." Shen Chengyan recalled the distant past, his brows furrowing slightly. "When she first arrived at the Song family, she probably tried to please me for a while, but later her eyes were full of hostility towards me."

When Deng Wen arrived at the Song family, it was Shen Chengyan who did not welcome her.

Although he was young at the time, he knew that this woman would replace his mother.

No child wants to see the woman standing next to their father who is not their mother.

On the first day Deng Wen moved into the Song family home, she bought him many gifts. In the days that followed, she was even more considerate. She cooked for him herself and played parent-child games with him, as if she were treating him like her own son.

Then one day, Deng Wen's attitude towards him suddenly changed.

His eyes were filled with wariness and suspicion; any attempts to be friendly were put away, and he no longer cared about the man's life or death.

Jiang Yu: "Could it be that she had the same mentality as Song Yanjie? She was nice to you at first to solidify her position, and then her true nature was revealed later?"

Shen Chengyan: "I don't think so."

Why?

"Because her change in attitude was very obvious. She was very kind to me that morning, but the way she looked at me that evening was strange."

Jiang Yu put herself in Deng Wen's shoes and tried to figure out why she had such a change in mindset.

"Something must have happened to cause her attitude to change so drastically in just one day."

Jiang Yu seemed thoughtful. "What happened between morning and evening?"

Shen Chengyan shook his head: "I basically stay in my room doing homework and reading, and nothing unusual has happened."

"Let's deduce this: what time did you notice her attitude towards you change that evening?"

Seeing her serious expression, Shen Chengyan almost laughed: "So many years have passed, I don't remember the exact time anymore."

"Just tell me the approximate time, I'll think about it."

"Around seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Whenever Song Hongyi came back, the Song family would always have dinner around seven or eight o'clock. And every time we ate, Deng Wen would put food on my plate, but she didn't that night."

"Can you remember anything else?"

"She would bring me a glass of warm milk to my room every night, but that night she poured me iced milk."

"You said she made breakfast for you this morning, what time was it?"

"Eight or nine o'clock."

"So what happened during those dozen or so hours of the day that caused her attitude towards you to change?"

Shen Chengyan: That's how it is at the moment.

Jiang Yu pondered carefully: "What could be the reason?"

Shen Chengyan couldn't give her an answer.

Jiang Yu then asked, "Didn't Deng Wen go to work that day?"

"That day was Qingming Festival. The family's housekeeper took the day off to sweep the tombs, and Deng Wen cooked lunch herself."

"Were you and Deng Wen the only ones home that day?"

"right."

"Where is Song Yanjie?"

"He went to a classmate's house."

Jiang Yu asked many questions, and Shen Chengyan answered all the ones he remembered. For the ones he didn't remember, she forced him to think of them.

The two of them went over the events of that day several times, but couldn't find anything amiss.

"I suddenly remembered something."