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

As the meal was drawing to a close, Jiang Yu suddenly remembered that there was something else she hadn't told Shen Chengyan.

After swallowing the food in her mouth, Jiang Yu said directly, "I've seen your father."

Shen Chengyan paused in his drinking motion.

Jiang Yu: "My biological father, the one surnamed Song."

Shen Chengyan put down his water glass, his brows furrowing. "Weren't you supposed to be meeting Deng Wen?"

"The main purpose is to see your dad."

Jiang Yu told Shen Chengyan what Deng Wen had said to her in the underground parking lot: "Your father has lung problems. Song Yanjie ruined his health and can't have children. Also, their youngest daughter is too young to be the heir of the Song family."

On the way back, Jiang Yu carefully considered Deng Wen's meaning and intentions, and then said to Shen Chengyan with a gossipy look, "Deng Wen is so eager to recognize me, she probably misses that little fat boy Shen Mo."

"Your dad wants you to go home, but I guess she doesn't want you to go back, so she wants to bring me and Shen Mo back so that your dad can raise Shen Mo as the heir of the Song family."

"Once Shen Mo and I return to the Song family, we'll be so easy to control. A child and a woman who's never worked before—it's all been shown in TV dramas. Once your father is gone, I, the useless empress, and Shen Mo, the young crown prince, will rule from behind the curtain, becoming the powerful empress dowager."

"You've got a really good plan." Jiang Yu was genuinely impressed. "No wonder you spent a million on me today without even flinching."

Shen Chengyan remained silent.

Jiang Yu's gaze shifted to him, and she noticed that the muscles on his face were twitching slightly.

"Are you angry?" Jiang Yu asked him.

Shen Chengyan didn't want to reveal his negative emotions in front of her, so he shook his head and said, "No."

Jiang Yu glared at him: "They tried to take your son away, and you're not even angry?!"

Shen Chengyan: "...I'm angry."

Jiang Yu nodded: "That's more like it. If you're angry, just admit it. I was angry at first too, so angry that I wanted to fight them. How can there be such shameless people?"

Shen Chengyan frowned immediately: "You have to hold it in even if you're angry."

He said to her earnestly, "If I'm not by your side and encounter something I can't handle, I should back down and not confront it head-on."

Jiang Yu wasn't stupid; of course he understood this principle.

She asked him, "Are you going back to the Song family? What if your dad calls you first?"

Shen Chengyan only said one thing: "Ignore him."

Jiang Yu nodded. After the two finished their meal, they checked out and called Wei Zongming. He told her to go back first, as he had business to discuss here.

"The boss stays to discuss business, and the employees go home first?" Jiang Yu was quite dutiful. "That's not a good idea."

Wei Zongming said, "This is my own business, not a company's."

Jiang Yu immediately explained that she understood and left without any burden.

On the way to the airport, Jiang Yu suddenly asked Shen Chengyan again, "Did your father abuse you when you were little?"

Shen Chengyan seriously considered her question: "If someone doesn't care about their children and partner, has no sense of responsibility towards their family, and uses a ruthless parenting style, does that count as abuse?"

Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment.

Come to think of it, if he were a good father, how could he let his child be bullied like this?

"He treats me like this, and he treats Song Yanjie and Deng Wen the same way. He's not like a wife; he's more like a subordinate," Shen Chengyan said calmly. "What he loves most is the company he built from scratch, into which he poured all his heart and soul. He can give up everyone else, but not the company."

Young Shen Chengyan had also sought help from his father. When Song Yanjie tortured and killed the stray cat he had taken in, he ran to him and cried out about the cruel things Song Yanjie had done. What he got in return was Song Hongyi's cold question: "Are you that incompetent? All you can do when you encounter difficulties is cry? My son shouldn't be so weak, crying over every little thing. He's not like a man."

Unable to get any help, he was tormented by the bloody and cruel images in his mind, keeping him awake night after night.

He had made many requests for help, big and small, but Song Hongyi ignored them every time.

When Deng Wen was mentally controlling him, he also sought help from Song Hongyi, only to be met with a disappointed look. "Did she hit you? Did she scold you? You can't handle the slightest setback, all you do is complain and make unreasonable demands. Spoiling you will turn you into a useless person. Do you want to become a useless person?!"

Gradually, he learned not to ask any relatives for help.

Because no one can help him except himself.

**

It was still early when they arrived at the airport. Jiang Yu checked the time and asked Shen Chengyan, "Are you going back to the company?"

Shen Chengyan shook his head: "I'll take you back first."

Jiang Yu: "I don't need you to deliver it."

Shen Chengyan thought she disliked him again, but the next second, he heard her say somewhat awkwardly, "Do you want to come with me to pick up Shen Mo from kindergarten?"

Shen Mo attends an international kindergarten. Usually, his nanny or housekeeper picks him up after school, and sometimes Tang Yun comes too.

But after school today, when Shen Mo followed the teacher out, he saw a young couple standing by the car.

He knew the man; he was his father.

He knew the woman well; she was his mother.

What's surprising is that they ended up appearing together at the kindergarten gate.

The teacher had already received a message from the nanny saying that Shen Mo's parents would be picking him up today, but still went through the motions and asked, "Shen Mo, are these your mom and dad?"

Shen Mo stood there without saying a word.

Jiang Yu knew he was up to something as soon as she saw him like that, so she immediately nudged Shen Chengyan with her elbow and said, "Go over there and bring him here."

Just as Shen Chengyan was about to go over, he heard Shen Mo say very loudly, "Teacher, they are not my parents."

Jiang Yu: "..."

Sure enough, as soon as he bent over, she knew what kind of poop he was going to take.

The parents around immediately looked over, their eyes wary.

Those who had already picked up their children then shielded them behind them.

The teachers' eyes all turned to look, and some were even thinking of calling security.

Before things got out of control, Jiang Yu quickly grabbed Shen Chengyan's arm and glared at the boy, saying, "Shen Mo, don't talk nonsense! Come here quickly, Mom and Dad will take you to eat something delicious."

Shen Chengyan glanced at the hand on his arm.

The teacher held onto Shen Mo's hand tightly and patiently asked again, "Shen Mo, are they your mom and dad?"

Under Jiang Yu's warning gaze, Shen Mo reluctantly said, "They are. But..."

Teacher: "But what?"

Shen Mo: "But they have never picked me up from school together, so I think it must not be my parents, it must be a monster in disguise."

teacher:"……"

Jiang Yu: "..."

Shen Chengyan: "..."

After verifying twice to confirm that Jiang Yu and his family were their parents, the teacher finally handed Shen Mo over to them.

Shen Mo looked up at the two adults several times, "Are you two really together?"

Shen Chengyan squatted down and took the backpack off his shoulder. "What do you think?"

Shen Mo poked his cheek. "It's true."

Then he looked at Jiang Yu: "Are you serious?"

Jiang Yu was speechless: "I'm not, I'm a monster."

"..." Shen Chengyan tugged at her hand, and Jiang Yu reluctantly squatted down, turning her face towards him. "Go ahead and poke."

Shen Chengyan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Jiang Yu glared at him.

Shen Mo poked it and nodded to confirm, "You're real too."

Jiang Yu said helplessly, "Then we can go now."

Shen Mo's big eyes darted around. "Wait a minute, I need to talk to Dong Jiaqi about something."

After saying that, he nimbly slipped into the crowd like a fat eel, grabbed a little girl, and said to her, "Dong Jiaqi, look, those are my mom and dad. Aren't they not fat at all?"

Then she grabbed another child and said, "Xu Qilin, look, those are my mom and dad, they're not big fat guys."

Finally, he glared fiercely at a child and said, "Wang Zilong, look at those! They're my mom and dad, and they're not ugly at all."

Jiang Yu, who was initially speechless, suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable as she listened.