Chapter 149 - Yujie Discovers the Surveillance Video (2)
“Mother, I’ve talked to Yumin about this. It’s fine if we don’t manage the company. We can still get shares and earn profits off the dividends.”
Jian Yujie countered He Yan’s point of view. He tried to prove to her that things were not as bad as she thought.
“Don’t be so naive. Do you really think that we’ll still have a foothold in the Jian family if that were to happen?” He Yan wasn’t willing to listen to any of the things that Jian Yujie said.
“Mother, things are not that bad…”
“You think that I’m imagining things to be worse than they are?” He Yan began to laugh maniacally. Tears streamed down her face as she did so. She started to speak again:
“When I was eight years old, my father died at a construction site. However, the construction site refused to give us a single penny. My mother was watching the little money that we had dwindle away, day by day. We didn’t even know what the next month would be like. We were in danger of being evicted by the landlord.”
“Later, my mother married a divorced man. She had to bring me into her second marriage. Our days were a little better. However, whenever that man got drunk, he would hit us. Every day, I lived in fear. I was so cautious. I was so incredibly scared that I’d be beaten for doing something wrong. I didn’t want to end up on the streets.”
He Yan came up to him and squatted down to hug her son, “Yujie, listen to your mother. Forget about what happened today. If you don’t disclose the video, nothing will happen. Jian Yiling won’t be hurt. She still has her grandma to protect her. However, your mother is different. I’ll be forced to divorce your father. I’ll be forced to leave the family. I’ll lose all of you. I’ll have nothing left.”
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“Go! Leave me alone!” Jian Yujie’s voice was hoarse as he choked out those words.
“Okay, I won’t force you to make a decision. Think about it.”
He Yan knew that she shouldn’t keep pressing her son to make a decision.
He Yan left the room. She left Jian Yujie alone in the study.
Jian Yujie stayed in the study until midnight.
He numbly looked outside the window.
He saw the night sky. The moon. And the shadows of the trees.
He felt cold. So incredibly cold. It was a chill that he had never felt before.