"S-Son.." Lucius stuttered."I am not your son." Vireo's tone was still very calm.At that moment, Lucius' wife had also arrived in front of Vireo. She also looked eagerly at Vireo. Originally, she also wanted to call out her son just like Lucius did, but before she was able to do so, she was interrupted by Vireo.Vireo sighed. "There's actually only one reason I came here today, submitted an entire day's worth of paperwork, and handed assurance letters to all the departments, which is that both of you are already very old. If I were to take a million steps back, I still owe it to you for raising me. Therefore, this is considered the last thing I'm going for you. As for the things that you said, we are indeed not related by blood, and I am not your son. Even if you didn't say that to me, I will also tell you that today."Now, both of you, please listen carefully. I am Holden Payne! I am the son of Sean Ford, who was the former director of the Ford family in South City. I am not you
Vireo smiled miserably. "Also, ever since I could remember when I was about seven years old, I had to cook for myself. Whenever the family has any good food, it's all for my three sisters. There was never any for me. My sisters will have money for breakfast every morning when we go to school, but not me. The feeling of hunger was unbearable, so what could I do? I had to get up very early to cook for myself in the kitchen. Even so, grandma would still beat me up with her walking stick as she said I was wasting the gas. If I were your son, and if you had cared for me even a little, would you have let your son go without food in the morning?He continued. "When I was eight, and I was only in second grade, you sent me to a cannery at the south border of our county during the two months of my summer break. You let me, an eight-year-old child, work for them and wash the cans. At that time, washing a can will only earn me a single penny. I was only able to make thirty cents after washing thi
Lucius and his wife were really unable to answer him. Both of their faces turned red and then turned white. When their faces were red, they were as red as blood. When their faces turned pale, they were as white as sheets.Vireo raised his head and looked at the sky, and then he continuously sneered. Only then did he say again, "When I was almost finishing high school and was about to go to college, you didn't allow me to apply for college. You were afraid that I would leave and never return after getting into college. It was at that time that I finally understood everything. I was not your biological son. You only had one purpose for buying me—to let me take care of all of you until the day you die. Because in our county, a family would be deemed as a family with no heir if there were no sons in the family. A family without an heir was considered to be inferior to others in status."All of you did not mean to care for a child that you had bought. Not only could you not invest in this
"You had never spent much money raising this child since his childhood. You had not spent any money supporting his education. However, you were able to get a lifetime of inexhaustible wealth from him. Not only that, but all of you, the four elderly people, also would be well taken care of for the rest of your lives. Not only will you benefit from him, but even your three daughters will also be able to squander his inexhaustible wealth. Is that not it?"Vireo had never spoken to his parents so frankly about all that before this. However, at that moment, since he wanted to completely cut all ties with them and never be involved with them anymore, he had to tell them everything!"Originally, I could ignore all of these. Since I, Vireo Payne, am the Payne family's child, I didn't intend to pursue the matters anymore. There's something very good about me. I am very optimistic. As long as the world could give me a little smile, I will be able to beam like the sun. Later on, I got together
Vireo was not surprised at all. He already knew that they were already at a dead end. He turned his head around, laughed coldly, and said, "You're already at a dead end, so you came to South City to ask me for help. However, you still didn't forget to make trouble for me! You were either accusing the people by my side as scammers or saying that I am an ungrateful jerk. But, how were you planning to set me up behind my back? You wanted to not let me get married because you're afraid that I will have children. That way, all of my fortunes and my house in South City would be yours. Not just you, but even your daughter's children would be able to move to South City because of my position in South City. You simply wanted to leech off everything from him until I am bone dry, isn't it? Am I not the unluckiest adopted son in this world to have such adoptive parents like you? Since I have solid evidence proving that you're not my biological parents, and you can't produce the adoption papers, th
"If you were to come looking for me again and behave like a lunatic in the hospital, then what awaits you is a lifetime in prison. Mister Payne, please get out of my way. If you don't, I'll call the law enforcement officers."Vireo was very calm when he said that. He no longer has any feelings for the Payne family anymore. It was already good enough that he did not resent them. Seeing that Lucius did not get up, Vireo had no choice but to call the law enforcement offices. Within a few minutes, the law enforcement officers came over. They forcefully restrained Lucius and his wife and made way for Vireo."Sir and Madam, just be content with what you have. We've been working for decades, and this is the first time we see a person who was abducted let the people who had abducted him back then off the hook. Hurry up and go back. If you make trouble here, then I'm sorry, you will have to go back to prison!"While the law enforcement officer was talking, Vireo's car slowly started as well.
"Holden." Isadora called out.She found that it was easier for her to call him Holden, to begin with. Elsa, even more so, did not have much of an opinion on her son's name because her son had been stolen from her before she had the time to name him back then. As long as she was still able to see her child, why did it not matter what her son's name was?"Holden, my child, wash your hands and let's eat," Elsa gently called out."Alright, Mom," Holden said with a smile. He felt very relieved. From then on, he would no longer have any more worries. He would no longer have those nightmares of being entangled, blackmailed, slandered, and defamed. However, he really had to thank a person, even though that person was the true culprit.While they were eating, Holden said to his mother, "Mom, I have a request, and I hope you don't blame me for it."His mother smiled calmly. "My child, I understand. That man and I are not fated, but he is your biological father, after all. If he didn't step
"We could have been the relatives of the richest man in the country. What happened in the end? Everything is now screwed because of you bunch of greedy people. We're going to be homeless! We are being chased by debt collectors! We may even die in the streets tomorrow…" Abigail sobbed.Abigail, being the youngest daughter, had always been used to being a spoiled and wilful person. When things have developed to such a state, she would be the best at pointing fingers at the others. She even had the cheek to say that she was the closest to her brother growing up. Since childhood, Abigail had beaten up Vireo countless times. She had always bullied her brother as she wished. Nobody knew how she still dared to say such things without a sense of guilt at all at that moment. Hmph! She could say whatever she wanted to because her days were numbered, anyway. They were homeless and they had a crushing debt from gambling. These were enough for the Payne family to be stuck at a dead end with no way