sjar Chapter 451: How to be bright when you are born with beauty
Chapter 451: How to be bright when you are born with beauty
Chen Shufen was so shocked by the scene that she was speechless.
Chen Xiaolin knew she couldn't hide it anymore, so she looked up at her mother, expressionlessly staring at her, with resentment and alcohol still in her eyes. After a long while, she raised her lips and asked her, "What's wrong, Mother Chen? Are you heartbroken to see me hurting your little master?"
"Xiaolin?" Chen Shufen felt worried and a little scared, but she didn't dare to show too much emotion, for fear of upsetting her daughter who was on the verge of collapse. "Shouldn't you be in Yuncheng? Tell me what happened. I'll give you some advice, okay?"
"Give me some advice?" Chen Xiaolin almost laughed out loud. She pointed a fruit knife at Lu Xingchen in the photo and said, "I want Lu Xingchen to disappear from this world. Can you give me some advice?"
Chen Shufen's fear could no longer be suppressed and she let it reach her maximum. The thing she was most worried about had happened. "Xiaolin, Mom has said that you are my daughter. I can't love Lu Xingchen more than you."
"It's because I am your daughter. If I were not your daughter, how great it would be if I were Lu Dingsheng's daughter!" Chen Xiaolin suddenly shouted hysterically.
This sentence was like a sharp knife stabbing Chen Shufen's heart. She felt heartbroken and guilty at the same time. It was indeed her incompetence that failed to give Chen Xiaolin a complete home.
Because Chen Xiaolin was not good enough, her biological father had another woman outside and he often abused her and even the young Chen Xiaolin.
Because of her cowardice, she did not divorce the man when she first suffered domestic violence. Instead, she continued to suffer domestic violence for several years. She and her daughter almost died at the hands of the man. Only then did Chen Xiaolin, who was full of fear of her father, leave that home and that man.
Afterwards, she took Chen Xiaolin to work everywhere. Fortunately, Chen Xiaolin had some talent in catering and was recommended to the Lu family. Also, because Xu Fanghua liked her cooking skills very much and sympathized with her as a single mother working with her daughter, she kept her by her side.
Her salary also became more and more reasonable following Xu Fanghua's decision. Later, because she replaced Lu Xingchen and had a finger cut off, Lu Dingsheng and Xu Fanghua allowed her to bring their daughter Chen Xiaolin to live with the Lu family and enjoy the same education as the Lu family's children to express their gratitude.
Because she was grateful for the help the Lu family had given to her and her daughter, she tried her best to repay Xu Fanghua and Lu Xingchen, and never dared to neglect them in work or life. However, she ignored her daughter's heart, causing her to misunderstand that she loved Lu Xingchen more than her.
Chen Shufen felt extremely guilty.
"I'm sorry, Hyolyn, I couldn't provide you with a better living condition, but everyone has their own destiny, so don't dwell on things that we are not destined to have."
"What do you mean by destiny?" Chen Xiaolin looked at Chen Shufen and said, "Lu Xingchen, she is not a child of the Lu family, right? But Xu Fanghua was able to get her into the Lu family and let her live as Lu Dingsheng's daughter for so long. If it weren't for this, would she have the ability she has today?"
Chen Shufen's heart ached again, but she still patiently persuaded him: "But you also received the same education in the Lu family."
"When Lu Xingchen went abroad, did they let me go with him? They were just pretending, but you worked like a slave for them because of their great favor. For Lu Xingchen, you could even risk your life, not to mention your hands."
"Xiaolin!" Chen Shufen knew her daughter was feeling unbalanced, but she didn't expect it to be that unbalanced. "They also asked me if they wanted you to go out with Xingchen, but I refused because I couldn't afford such a big favor."
"So why did you refuse?" Chen Xiaolin asked angrily, "Don't say you can't bear to part with me, how can Xu Fanghua bear to part with me? Can't you think more about my future like her? If I can be like Lu Xingchen, will I be one step slower than her in everything?"
Chen Shufen was so shocked by these words that she was speechless again. Her heart suddenly felt like it was tied in a knot, and she didn't know whether to untie it from herself or from her daughter.
"It's not about whether I'm willing to give up or not, but because of the Lu family, we have lived a better life than we have paid for. The Lu family doesn't have to give us so much, but they gave us so we should be grateful and respectful, instead of asking for more, Xiaolin."
"Don't preach your so-called great truths to me."
"But you should know that the life you lead now is hundreds or thousands of times better than that of most children from ordinary families."
"But I didn't get anything I wanted!" Chen Xiaolin didn't want to hear any reason at this moment. Instead, she felt that her mother was still talking to Lu Xingchen, so she said while stabbing Lu Xingchen's photo with a knife in frustration, "And how did she get everything I wanted? If it weren't for her, all those things would be mine!"
"If it weren't for her, you might still be working everywhere with me, without a stable place to live! Even if we were divorced, your biological father would still be chasing you and begging you for money!"
Chen Shufen couldn't help but raise her voice. She really wanted to scold her daughter to wake her up.
Chen Xiaolin's distorted expression froze slightly because of these words, because these words evoked the memory of being scolded by her biological father when she was a child, which made her instinctively afraid. She also couldn't help but compare her current life with that kind of fear.
Seeing that she remained silent, Chen Shufen continued, "The reason why we were able to escape from our previous swamp-like life was because of the Lu family and Lu Xingchen. She was so grateful for the finger I gave up and did her best to help us mother and daughter. Why can't we also look at everything we have now with a grateful heart?"
This once again irritated Chen Xiaolin. She laughed and said, "Yes, I won't be grateful, but she will. I am not as good as her in everything, so you made me learn from her since I was a child. No one has ever seen my efforts and achievements. You think I have everything now, but what do I have?!"
Chen Shufen felt like crying but had no tears. In her opinion, her daughter's academic qualifications, knowledge, job and current wealth were things she could not even imagine before. She felt very satisfied with them and only hoped that she would continue to live so well. However, she did not expect that these were nothing in her daughter's eyes.
"Xiaolin." Chen Shufen grabbed her knife-wielding hand and held it tightly. Looking at her eyes that were as deep as the abyss of desire and hatred, she said bitterly, "Mom knows that you like Li Zhen and have liked him for a long time, but Li Zhen doesn't like you."
"If there's no Lu Xingchen..."
"He doesn't like you even without Lu Xingchen, just like you don't like other men chasing you. This kind of thing can't be forced. Let it go. Don't cling to something that never belonged to you."
Chen Shufen's words were like a knife to Chen Xiaolin, stabbing her already frustrated heart and making her bleed. Her emotions collapsed instantly, and she waved Chen Shufen's hand away and shouted, "How do you know he doesn't like me!"
"Ah..." Chen Shufen screamed as she moved.
"...Mom, Mom!" Chen Xiaolin was so angry that she forgot that she was holding a fruit knife in her hand. When she shook Chen Shufen's hands off, the fruit knife also cut Chen Shufen's arm fiercely. The splashing blood suddenly woke her up. She hurriedly grabbed Chen Shufen's wound and said, "Mom, I'll take you to the hospital. I'll take you to the hospital right away!"