Because after Wei Tianxi learned that the transfer student was named Jian Yi, and after confirming that Jian Yi was truly Jian Zhan Guo’s son, he finally realized that the Guan Shen Ju from the Experimental Class was the deadweight freeloader from Jian Zhan Guo’s original household. But what happened next? Not only did that guy’s status flip overnight, he even managed to bring Jian Zhan Guo’s son along for the ride, letting even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
On top of that, even Han Chengfeng—the guy Wei Tianxi had to painstakingly butter up—was proactively cozying up to Guan Shen Ju… How could such a thing happen in this world?!
And then there was Guan Mulin, Pei Haochuan, Ke Sheng…
The more Wei Tianxi thought about it, the more he couldn’t let it go.
His mindset twisted even further.
Especially after learning later that Guan Shen Ju was actually getting tutoring from Pei Yan…
Wei Tianxi had previously tracked down the person who spent 100,000 to buy Pei Yan’s study notes.
Unfortunately, he still hadn’t managed to get his hands on those notes.
He couldn’t wrap his head around it—why did the things he racked his brains to obtain end up in the hands of someone he never even bothered to glance at?!
And not only that, that person even climbed over his head…
Why?!
On top of it all, Jian Yi had the nerve to mock and ridicule him!
Because of this, Wei Tianxi didn’t know where he summoned the energy from, but he stayed up late studying with his tutor at home, grinding away to prove something.
Luckily, even though the final exam scores and rankings hadn’t been released yet, his home tutor kept saying he had made huge progress… He was sure to jump a big chunk ahead when the parent-teacher conference revealed the final exam results and rankings. So for this parent-teacher meeting, Wei Tianxi not only demanded that Wei Jing attend, he even unprecedentedly suggested bringing Jian Zhan Guo along.
Jian Yi’s excellence wouldn’t make Wei Tianxi feel like he could slap Jian Zhan Guo’s face; it would only make him feel pissed off and humiliated.
So for this parent-teacher conference, he was determined to see just how Jian Yi and Guan Shen Ju scored.
“It doesn’t matter how you score, baby.”
Qin Soxi had come alone.
Guan Lifeng had wanted to come too, but Qin Soxi worried it would put too much pressure on Shen Ju, so she kicked Guan Lifeng out.
The two classes combined filled an entire small conference room.
Students even greeted parents at the door, and many of the parents had dressed very formally.
Shen Ju had never seen a scene like this.
He didn’t even know the school had arrangements and events like this.
Qichen really opened my eyes.
It felt like a parent-teacher conference, but not quite—more upscale, more high-class.
He couldn’t help feeling a bit nervous.
996 comforted him too: [No worries, Host. Remember, you were dead last before. What does that mean… It means you have a lot of room for improvement! ]
Shen Ju: [……Thanks, Brother 996……]
[You’re welcome!]
Qin Soxi and Guan Mulin both turned their heads at the same time and coughed lightly.
Actually, Shen Ju wasn’t that nervous about the scores. He was just worried his progress wasn’t big enough—it would be a waste of all the effort Pei Yan had put into tutoring him lately.
But I shouldn’t be that dumb, right?
Shen Ju felt pretty good about his performance.
He hoped he could bring home a report card showing massive improvement to show Pei Ge.
As he thought about it, he spotted Jian Yi and Xu Ru appearing together, walking over from the opposite side.
They had lived under the same roof for over a decade, seeing each other day in and day out. But once separated, opportunities to meet weren’t that frequent anymore. At least since the last time Shen Ju left, he hadn’t had a chance to go back. Meeting Xu Ru again now, of all places, was at an event like this. For some reason, Shen Ju felt a bit awkward.
But he still opened his mouth and called out, “Auntie.”
Xu Ru paused, her lips twitching a few times as if she wanted to say something.
But before she could speak, her gaze shifted, as if she saw something—her expression changed abruptly…
The man not far away had spotted her too.
His well-maintained face seemed even more shocked than Xu Ru’s, as if he never expected to see her here.
Jian Zhan Guo’s changes were too obvious. Wei Jing turned her head: “What are you looking at?”
Then she saw Xu Ru too.
“How is she here?!”
“And the one next to her—is that your son?”
Wei Jing couldn’t help furrowing her brows, displeased to see Xu Ru and Jian Yi here.
But glancing at Xu Ru’s outfit…
The corners of her mouth hooked up unconsciously in a smile as she walked toward Xu Ru.
Wei Tianxi frowned beside her because he saw Guan Shen Ju and Guan Mulin there too—the woman next to them must be Guan Shen Ju’s biological mother, right? He originally wanted to hold Wei Jing back, but then he thought better of it. Guan Shen Ju had only recently been acknowledged by the Guan Family—how much importance could he really carry? Jian Yi’s mom was overreaching by showing up here; she clearly didn’t know her place. Was she clinging to the Guan Family or something?
Guan Shen Ju was even “dragging his whole family” along—hadn’t Guan Mulin refused to acknowledge them? Clearly, they didn’t want much to do with that family.
Fine then. It would be good to let Guan Shen Ju’s biological mother see that a low-class family like theirs wasn’t fit to be seen in public at an event like this.
As for the beef between his mom and Xu Ru…
In this world, justice didn’t always stand with the righteous.
Especially not in their circle.
“Long time no see.”
After Shen Ju greeted Xu Ru, he didn’t expect her to respond. Feeling awkward, he pulled out his phone to distract himself and saw a message from Pei Yan asking if the conference had started yet. He was just about to type a reply when he suddenly heard this unfamiliar voice. Looking up, he saw that Jian Yi and Xu Ru’s faces had both changed—especially Xu Ru’s, which looked awful.
No matter how many years passed, seeing Wei Jing and Jian Zhan Guo again stirred up everything Xu Ru couldn’t let go of.
How could she let it go?
Back then, a car accident took her younger sister, cost Jian Yi his left arm, left Shen Ju unwanted, and forced her to raise him while caring for Jian Yi. She powered through it. But less than a year later, Jian Zhan Guo cheated, and his mistress barged in, flaunting herself in front of Xu Ru, telling her not to cling to Jian Zhan Guo, even slapping a stack of cash in her face.
Xu Ru didn’t take it. She could never forget that scene, or Jian Zhan Guo pointing at her, saying the family fell apart because of her.
But Jian Zhan Guo was the one at fault!
She raised Shen Ju with her own money!
Even setting that aside, how could Jian Zhan Guo so heartlessly abandon his own flesh and blood?! Jian Yi hadn’t even fully recovered from the trauma back then!
She could never forget these two.
She always believed she had done nothing wrong.
If she hadn’t raised her own nephew, was she supposed to send Shen Ju to an orphanage?!
But in the end, the nephew she raised turned out not to be blood-related… How could she face her insistence all these years that she was right? She knew Jian Yi was correct—she was stuck in a rut. If she’d known earlier, before Shen Ju’s true parentage came out, he’d grown up as her “nephew” anyway. But she just couldn’t get past it; she couldn’t help but…
Think of the humiliation and accusations she’d endured, the thorn in her heart, the hurdle she couldn’t cross…
Think of how Jian Zhan Guo would probably point at her nose even more mockingly now, saying the child she stubbornly insisted on raising wasn’t even hers—why bother taking it on herself?
But Xu Ru never imagined she’d see Wei Jing and Jian Zhan Guo again.
Especially not in a setting like this.
Her face turned ugly, even pale.
She didn’t want to drag Jian Yi down because of herself.
So when Wei Jing spoke, Xu Ru even felt a flicker of cowardly urge to shrink back.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want revenge.
But what did she have to fight back with…
“Mom.”
Jian Yi reached out and grabbed Xu Ru’s hand, sighing inwardly.
He hadn’t expected his suspicions to be true.
If only… if only I’d insisted she not come.
But Xu Ru never mentioned Jian Zhan Guo or the woman he’d cheated with, so Jian Yi didn’t know more details. He couldn’t exactly ask and rip open her wounds.
In the end, his guess proved right.
He felt a twinge of regret too.
After Wei Jing greeted Xu Ru and saw no response, she turned her gaze to Jian Yi beside her, glancing at his left arm, about to use him as a conversation starter.
At that moment, a figure stepped in front of her.
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