As soon as he reached the door, Yan Shizhong saw his son, Yan Tailai, pacing back and forth. The moment he spotted him, his eyes lit up and he immediately pulled him aside to talk.
“What are you doing? What did you do to your third aunt?”
Yan Tailai pointed at the person nearby. “Dad, he’s looking for you.”
Yan Shizhong: “????”
Who?
The national team?
When he entered the room, his mind was still foggy and confused.
What agreement did he just sign again?
A confidentiality agreement?
What did it say?
Oh… there was a certain probability he would hear his younger sister Ruan Yaoyao’s inner thoughts…
Yan Shizhong’s gaze collided with Ruan Yaoyao’s. Before he could speak, he suddenly heard that so-called “inner voice.”
【As expected. I knew it. In this kind of novel background, how many “background character” families ever end up well? Look, didn’t they die?】
【And he’s just a background character too!】
【His son is dating someone, but while others are dating normally, he’s dating tragedy.】
【The mother was stabbed on the spot. The ambulance didn’t even arrive in time. The father, on his way after hearing about his wife’s accident, died in a car crash.】
【In one go, both parents were gone. That woman also got arrested. Total family destruction.】
【Even Yan Tailai himself couldn’t accept that his relationship killed his parents. His family blamed him too, and in the end he jumped off a building.】
Yan Shizhong: “?????”
Is his sister’s inner voice always this explosive?
Stabbing, car crashes, jumping off buildings—does it always get this tragic?!
He looked up and saw his son Yan Tailai’s expression: Yes, it’s exactly that bad. Dad, now you understand why I reacted like this, right?
Yan Shizhong: “……”
You little brat caused this mess, and you still have the nerve to say that?
At this moment, Yan Shizhong felt like beating him up and demanding to know what kind of girlfriend he had gotten involved with—how could it involve stabbing his mother?
Was she mentally ill?
If it weren’t for Ruan Yaoyao being present, and if he hadn’t just signed a confidentiality agreement, and his head wasn’t still “buzzing”…
He really would have acted already.
“Why are you giving me that face? What, coming to our house embarrasses you?” Ruan Yaoyao said coldly, not even inviting him to sit.
In her mind, she angrily thought:
【If you weren’t my brother, I wouldn’t bother saving your whole family even if they all died!】
【So annoying!】
【Bit the hand that feeds you—no gratitude at all!】
What did I even do? I didn’t say anything yet… Yan Shizhong felt helpless. He touched his face.
“Do I look that bad? Maybe I’m just a bit unwell. I rushed over too quickly. Didn’t you say on the phone that something was wrong? What is it? Why did you insist I come here?”
【Unwell?】
Ruan Yaoyao glanced at his “detail panel” in her mind.
【It doesn’t show any illness.】
【This broken panel either leaves things out or writes useless junk. What it should write, it doesn’t. What it shouldn’t, it writes a ton. What’s the point of it?】
【Even if he’s a cannon fodder character, what? Cannon fodder doesn’t deserve proper records?】
She complained internally while speaking coldly: “If you’re not feeling well, why don’t you see a doctor? Your annual checkups are just for show. Are you running some shoddy ‘tofu-dreg project’ on your own health?”
“You’re only in your fifties. Don’t end up dying before old age and making me laugh at you.”
Though her words sounded harsh, they were clearly concern.
Yan Shizhong pretended not to hear it.
“Did Tailai offend you? If he did something wrong, tell me. I’ll teach him a lesson.”
“Fine. Then teach him. Best case, take a kitchen knife and split him in two.”
Yan Shizhong choked. “Splitting him is too much. I can beat him up.”
“Heh. Beat him up? He causes disaster and you just beat him up? Why don’t you break his legs instead? No wonder he’s so brainless—he’s been spoiled into this. If he blows up the sky one day, you’ll still have contributed to it.”
“You know what he did? He got involved with your wife’s enemy. Your wife’s enemy—a woman almost forty years old. She couldn’t get at your wife, so she went after your son instead…”
“Do you even have a brain?! You already knew that woman named Xia is not a good person, and you still let her linger around your wife and children. Now look—your home is on fire!”
Yan Shizhong was stunned.
“What… what did you say?”
“Your wife’s enemy. The woman who once tried to seduce you—Xia Yue.”
“Her?! Impossible! She’s that old already. Tailai would go for her?!”
“Ask me? Who should I ask? You and your son! How would I know how you raised him? A perfectly good man in his twenties, and he ends up falling for someone almost forty. Has his brain been eaten by you or what?!”
Yan Shizhong felt helpless. He truly had no idea about his son’s affairs.
Yan Tailai was already grown and working—he couldn’t possibly follow him around all day.
Besides, his son had always been worry-free. He never expected him to cause such a mess.
Yan Shizhong tried to calm Ruan Yaoyao down, saying he would handle it and not let Yan Tailai ruin the family.
“Heh! You say you won’t let it be ruined and it won’t be ruined? That woman is crazy. If she can’t get to your wife, she’ll go after your son. That’s either extreme revenge or mental illness.”
“You still dare let her wander around your wife? What, has your brain been soaked in water? Eaten by zombies?!”
“Do you enjoy having a woman orbiting you and showing off in front of your wife? Is your brain the size of a walnut, only capable of thinking about petty romantic rivalries? Trying to prove your male charm so the whole world revolves around you? Are you daydreaming or building a utopia?!”
Yan Tailai lowered his head silently.
Third aunt is getting more and more terrifying—she can insult people without even using curse words, and still hit harder than anyone.
Yan Shizhong glared at him several times.
Wasn’t he being scolded this badly because this brat caused the mess?
And he still dared not look at him?
Where is his shame?!
Ruan Zhihe, Yu Xiangqiao, and the others sat on the sofa, silent as chicks.
Yu Xiangqiao had already experienced this level of “family scolding” before, so she wasn’t too shocked—just a nostalgic replay.
But Ruan Zhihe was different. She had never known that the usually elegant and composed “Aunt Xu” in front of her could be like this in her own family!
Ahhhh…
Aunt Xu, so this is who you really are!
For the first time, she realized how terrifying Ruan Yaoyao could be when she stopped reasoning.
Thankfully, although she scolded intensely, she didn’t actually hit anyone.
In the end, she kicked the father and son out and warned her eldest brother to quickly deal with his son’s “old flame.” If he couldn’t clean it up properly, she wouldn’t mind coming personally to “settle things.”
She still hadn’t finished settling old accounts with him from all these years.
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