Vireo was stunned. "Abigail, what did you say?""I said you are an illegitimate child! A poor ghost! You've had your eyes on our family's properties as soon as you're born! You are deliberately here to snatch away our family's properties!" Abigail roared at Vireo with incomparable viciousness."What…family properties?" Vireo asked.In fact, Abigail also had not much clue. She had often heard her grandparents muttering about it, so she committed it to memory."Family properties? Family properties are all the delicious food and drinks in my house! Vireo, listen to me carefully. In the future, all the delicious food and drinks in the house are mine! I am the truly youngest one in the family. Grandpa and Grandma, and also Dad and Mom, had always taught the four of us that the older ones have to let the younger ones have their way. All the good food and drinks and also the fun things had to be given to the youngest child."However, you're not the youngest child. You're adopted so you'r
He thought that his son would say that. If his son had said that, then he would be thinking what he and his wife were thinking.However, Vireo cried even more. He looked straight at his father. "Dad, I am adopted by the Payne family and I am not your biological child, right?"Lucius was stunned. His wife also said in a panic, "Vireo, what nonsense are you talking about? How could you say that? Who told you that?"Holden's voice was still very miserable. It was both miserable and helpless. He was having a sense of fear and his tone was very dejected. "I had often heard you say that I am here to snatch away the family's properties. I don't know what the family's properties are and I had never thought of snatching it away. It's our family's things, so what is the need for me to snatch it?"Both Lucius and his wife were speechless."But, Dad, Mom, I understand what it means to be adopted. Being adopted meant that I am different from my sisters. I am not your biological child. My siste
Vireo was stunned when he heard that. "Dad, what are you…talking about?""Don't go to college. Money is very tight for the family this year, we won't be able to support you," Lucius said."Dad!" Vireo immediately got so emotional that tears were streaming down his face.Logically speaking, he was an eighteen-year-old young man and was at the age where he never cried easily anymore. However, he was unable to hold it back. He truly could not take it. He had endured the fact that his parents' love for him made him feel isolated growing up. He had endured the fact that his grandparents did not love him. He had also endured all the mocking and sarcasm from his sisters.All he had in his mind was being able to get into college one day, and then he would no longer need to rely on his family anymore. He would not inherit the family's properties as well. If he was able to make a name of himself working out there, he would still come home and treat his parents well. Therefore, he put in his
Vireo was speechless.After a long while, he coldly asked, "Dad, am I you and Mom's biological son?""Why are you not? Are you making blind guesses again? Who do you take after to have such a suspicious character!""I think I didn't take after you for that. You're not suspicious of anything!" Vireo was so angry that he started to talk back to his father."You! You're talking back to me now?" his father said."If your biological son had been accepted by a college, would you have gotten in the way of his future?""Of course, not!" Lucius blurted out.Vireo laughed. "Haha!"He cried. "And yet, you said I am your biological son?""You're very capable now, aren't you? You play tricks to get words out of my mouth and you even talk back to me. Don't pull all this nonsense on me! No matter what, your mother and I are the ones who raised you. We have raised you since the day you were born! The kindness of raising a child is greater than just delivering the child! Has it been easy for
When Vireo heard his parents saying those words, he was extremely saddened. His heart felt as if it had been sliced by a knife. Fortunately, he was no longer a child. He knew how to conceal his broken heart. There were many things that he had to endure by himself.He found it very amusing when he thought about it. This family wanted to keep him around to care for the elderly til the day they die, but they were not going to let him inherit a single penny of the properties? Vireo was very tempted to barge in the door and fiercely question his parents, 'Where is my share of the properties? What of the properties do you intend to let me inherit?' His hand was already going to knock on the door, but he stopped.His ambition was not in this small county. If he were to barge in and question his parents like that, because his parents' actions were unjustifiable, they would promise to give him a portion of the family's properties. At the very best, his parents would divide the family properti
"I promise you that I will not fight with my sisters for any of the family properties. Also, I will care for you for the remaining years of your life."Their son had already said it so sincerely, how heartless must they be to not allow their son to go to college? His parents then agreed on the spot. Vireo's grandmother, who had always been very frugal with her love for him, even took out two thousand dollars for him. His three sisters also forked out a thousand dollars each. Vireo, who was about to go to college, even left the house with a warm and fuzzy feeling.Vireo spent seven years in college. In those years, he did not dare to date anybody in college. Even though many girls liked him because he was handsome, he was working and studying very diligently, and also because he was calm and sensible, Vireo knew that he had to return to the small county. Therefore, if he dated someone in college, he would hurt the girl.Seven years of college life flew by very quickly. Vireo had also
Vireo was speechless. If the people standing in front of him were not his parents, he truly wanted to just throw a punch. Perhaps if he made up his mind, he might just dismember his parents' limbs. However, at that moment, Vireo could only be so pissed off, but he had no way to retort at all.He did his best to calm his anger and then said to his parents calmly. "Mom and dad, I also have a little savings from my internship while I was in college in the past few years. That also includes the years that I have been working while studying. I had never used a single penny from this family, but I have saved some instead."Vireo took out the bankbook with the records of the money he had worked hard to save in the past eight years and handed it to his father."There are ten thousand dollars in there," said Vireo. "I'll use these ten thousand dollars to rent two of your stores. I know the money is not enough, but I will first let you have these. I still have a little money on me, but that i
That wound has been cleaned by himself in the dead of the nights when he was growing up without the help of anyone. He needed affection from family. He was afraid of being abandoned. He had already made the most absolute decision. He did not want the family's properties and he did not want anything. As long as his parents were willing to care for him and acknowledge that he was a part of the family, he was willing to compromise.He was a firm and unyielding man. He has good grades and good character and has a great talent in arts. He was gentle, calm, kind, and reliable on the surface, but no one knew how fragile he was in his heart.How desperate was he for his family's affection? If his grandparents, parents, and his three sisters were able to give him a little bit of warmth, just a tiny would do, and true affection, Vireo would have given his heart to the Payne family. He would have done it even if he were to die. However, when Vireo needed affection and care the most, he did not