Chapter 1: New World 07
"I've done something really sinful. I've been cuckolded for so many years. If I hadn't seen the physical examination form for the college entrance examination, I wouldn't have known that I had a bastard."
A loud slap hit my mother's pretty face with light makeup. My father was furious and cursed at my mother who fell to the ground.
Mom wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, looked behind Dad with resentment, climbed up with difficulty, and laughed hysterically.
"Didn't you rush to marry me in the beginning? You knew clearly that I would be a widow after my wedding, but you saw that my family was rich, and you didn't care about anything and wanted to marry me. What about now? You are rich now, and you hid from me that you had someone outside, and now you come to say something bad about me. I just got married, and a few days later I was forced to marry you again. It's only been a few days, how could you let me know whose child I was pregnant with! And you, how could you raise such a big bastard, and even dare to bring that woman home. Ai Sheng, do you still have a conscience! If it weren't for me, you would still be working as a lathe operator in the factory. How could you be where you are today?"
"What's the point of talking about this now? If your brother hadn't embezzled such a large sum of funds from the company and sold the plan to others, would the company have gone bankrupt? Would I have become like this? Now that we've talked about it, let's do this. You take your bastard away, and A-mo and I will take my son away. Let's get divorced!" The father angrily smashed the things on the dining table beside him, grabbed the trembling young woman and child behind him, and spoke coldly to the mother who was still smiling in front of him.
"People say that men have no conscience, but I finally see it! Ai Sheng, you are an ungrateful person! When you had money, you gave all your money to this woman; now that you have no money, you actually want to divorce me and live with her. Do you really think I'm stupid? You owe so much debt, and if we divorce I have to share it equally. Even if I die, I will never let you succeed." Mom yelled, reaching out to grab the teapot on the coffee table and throwing it at Dad.
Dad didn't dodge, and the teapot hit him on the forehead, leaving a purple bruise . The woman next to him named A-mo hurried to rub his forehead, her expression looking very nervous.
"Yes, I married you for money, but I have been very dedicated to you for the past 18 years. If I hadn't met Ah Mo, I would have thought I would have lived with you like this for the rest of my life. Ah Mo was pregnant with my son, and she was afraid that I would ask her to abort the baby, so she ran away secretly. If I hadn't found her, I, Ai Sheng, would have been childless in this life. I feel guilty about you, so I have been hiding Ah Mo's affairs from you, and have always kept Ah Mo in a position where he can't see the light of day. If the company hadn't gone bankrupt, if Ye Zi's blood type hadn't matched mine, I wouldn't have come to this point. Don't worry, Ah Mo has no money, we all have no money, and all the money has been used to pay off the company's debts. Except for the money your brother took, I have paid off the rest. They will ask your brother to settle the remaining debts, and even if we divorce, you don't have to share the debt with me, let alone worry about Ah Mo and I living freely. I raised your daughter to this age, and my son is only three years old now. For the rest of my life, I will fight for my son."
After the father finished speaking, he took out a divorce agreement from his arms and threw it at the mother. Then he picked up the ignorant child at his feet and walked out the door mercilessly with A-mo, who had not said a word from beginning to end.
My mother didn't cry. She kept smiling and looked at me who was standing silently beside her with her mouth wide open.
"Ai Ye, your father said you are a bastard! You will have no father from now on! Do you understand?"
After she finished speaking, she turned around expressionlessly and walked towards the bathroom.
"boom!"
The door was closed, and then shrill crying sounds were heard from the bathroom.
"Ai Sheng, you have no conscience! Ai Sheng!"
I quietly swept the broken glass on the ground, listening to the gossip of the neighbors who were watching the fun outside the door, with an indifferent expression.
Am I too indifferent?
No, just used to it.
This kind of quarrel has been going on for a long time. Ever since the family company went bankrupt and my mother knew that my father had an affair outside, there have been fierce quarrels in my family. But this time was different from the past. In the past, my mother was the main accuser. Ai Sheng just smoked and kept silent, and did not fight back when he was scolded or hit. This was the only time he took the initiative to lose his temper, and it was also the first time I heard some different words in such quarrels, such as, I am a bastard.
After cleaning the hall, I quietly closed the door, locked out the group of peeking aunts and uncles, and then went to pick up the medical examination report on the ground.
Originally, the school was not going to issue the college entrance examination physical examination form, but as fate would have it, I happened to have a fever on the day the school organized the physical examination and was unable to go, so I went to the hospital with my dad to get a make-up application.
I think, the moment I went to pick up the medical examination form, I still felt in my heart that Ai Sheng was my father.
But when I saw the blood type column on the form said "Type B", my head felt like it was hit hard. I squatted on the ground, feeling dizzy.
My mother is type A blood, Ai Sheng is type O blood, and I am type B.
Not surprisingly, I am a bastard.
For eighteen years, I always thought that I was Ai Sheng’s daughter. Ai Sheng thought so too, and my mother thought so too.
I know that before my mother married Ai Sheng, she had an engagement with someone else. But that man died in a car accident right after they got married. Some people said that my mother was a jinx, and my grandparents were afraid that she would not be able to get married. It happened that Ai Sheng came to propose marriage, and before the man's funeral was over, my mother was forced to marry Ai Sheng.
The daughter of a wealthy family seems to have a glamorous life, but unfortunately she has a tough father and she does not have much control.
Even if they are not in love at first, after two people spend a long time together, the woman's heart will soon be tied to her man and she will follow him wholeheartedly.
It is normal to give birth a few days earlier than the due date. Who would have thought that in those few days, the child's father would be different.
I am a bastard, a bastard who doesn’t even know who my biological father is.
For so many years, I have been living a happy life. I thought my life was so smooth, but I never expected that the hardest blow fate gives you is often when you think you are happiest.
I held the medical examination form tightly, and tears fell on it.
Growing up, I was a heartless child. I didn't seem to have cried in my memory. But on this day, I cried so miserably and ugly because I didn't know how to cry.
My eyes were wet, I buried my head in the quilt, closed my eyes, and fell asleep, but the memories were still surging in my dreams.
Is it true that when people grow up, they become hypocritical? I wanted to wake up, but my mother's miserable cries pulled me tightly. The elders' contemptuous curses and the ugly words "bastard" rushed towards me like a tidal wave. In the end, I collapsed on the ground with a pool of blood under my hands, which was my mother's.
She lay in the bathtub and looked at me, with a hideous bloodstain on her white wrist. What a beautiful woman my mother is! She was nearly forty years old but still as beautiful as a young woman in her early thirties, with such an elegant temperament, but that day she was like a withered lily, grinning at me with difficulty.
"It's all your fault, you bastard! If it weren't for you, he wouldn't have left so easily. Why, why aren't you his child?"
Yes! If I wasn't a bastard, she could still support this marriage that had gone bad, and could still deceive herself and continue to live with Ai Sheng.
I also want to know why I am not his child. I also hope that Ai Sheng is my father. I also hope that the father I have loved for eighteen years will not change his kind face. I also hope that my father who has always loved me like a treasure will not point his finger at my nose and shout "bastard" with red eyes!
But can I control all this? Can I choose who will be my biological father? What should I do? What do you want me to do?
If possible, I would rather not be born, so that I wouldn't be blamed by so many people.
Everyone is blaming me, just because a bastard like me survived.
If only I had died!
"Ai Ye! Wake up! Wake up! Ai Ye! We have to gather at the playground this morning for military training! Ai Ye! Ai Ye!"
I was woken up by an urgent shout.
I opened my sleepy eyes and Cai Miao's face gradually became clear.
"Oh! It's daybreak!"
I grunted, got up, rubbed my sore eyes, and turned back into the heartless Ai Ye.
