Chapter 4: Furious Xue Huiyu

◎ (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ Pei Wenyu! What kind of parenting is this?! ◎

“What do we do now…” Xue Hongjun started to panic.

After Huiyu got married, Xue Qingyu had assigned a subsidiary to each of them to manage. He got Xue’s Furniture.

It wasn’t said out loud, but everyone knew it was a test—whoever performed better would inherit the Xue Group.

With Pei Wenyu’s help, Huiyu’s company soared. With even the company’s senior members whispering, and the gap between their results widening, Xue Hongjun couldn’t stand it.

In desperation to catch up, he chased after major contracts and fell into a business trap. The other party vanished, and he was left with a loss of several hundred million yuan.

There was no way he could cover such a huge hole on his own. If his father found out, he’d be dead. So he gritted his teeth and ordered fake accounts… hoping to make up the money over time.

But after years of tax evasion and embezzling future profits, the hole was still there. That’s when he started eyeing Xue Huiyu’s inheritance.

Whether it was the shares in Xue Huiyu’s hands or the subsidiaries under her name, they should all be transferred to him!

And there was also that large insurance payout…

Yet, bizarrely, Xue Huiyu’s body could never be found, and Pei Wenyu dragged it out for over three years without issuing a death certificate. As a result, the inheritance had not been divided up.

That’s why Xue Hongjun strongly suspected that Pei Wenyu had lost one of Pei Group’s subsidiaries and was now eyeing the Xue family’s assets—deliberately refusing to file the death certificate.

It was even possible that the reason Dad insisted on keeping Xue Huiyu’s seat on the board was due to Pei Wenyu’s manipulation.

Now that Pei Wenyu was finally willing to proceed, that money… he couldn’t even get it?!

“My accounts aren’t even balanced yet, I’m just waiting for…” Xue Hongjun momentarily felt at a complete loss.

“Shhh!”

Xia Lanzhi gave him a cold warning glance. Xue Hongjun irritably rubbed his head and asked in a low voice, “Why not? Isn’t Xue Huiyu dead? If Dad doesn’t hand the company and shares to me, her only heir, then who else? Surely not the Pei family?”

On the side, Xue Huiyu was seething with rage.

She knew Xia Lanzhi was greedy, but she hadn’t expected that both she and her son were even coveting her inheritance!

Her mother, Shen Huilan, was the only daughter of the Shen family and a strong woman in her own right.

Her father was a live-in son-in-law who had agreed their child would take the Shen surname. They built a company together from the ground up. As their business grew larger—even surpassing the Shen family—they rejected the son-in-law status and registered the child with the Xue surname, publicly slapping the Shen family in the face and causing a complete fallout between the two families. Her mother became an outcast on both sides.

After giving birth to her, her mother’s health declined, and she passed away when Xue Huiyu was twelve.

Her father remarried immediately after her mother’s death. Although she had some reservations, she still treated Xia Lanzhi and Xue Hongjun with sincerity when they entered the family.

It wasn’t until she turned fifteen that she found out Xue Hongjun wasn’t some other man’s child with Xia Lanzhi—he was her father’s illegitimate son! Her dad had cheated on her mother with his first love while her mother was still in postpartum confinement!

What a joke—this illegitimate child was only one year younger than her!

And that woman—after waiting for her mother to die—boldly stepped into the role of stepmother when she was just twelve, transforming from mistress to lady of the house.

Her stepbrother was even formally added to the family registry. From bastard child to legitimate young master of a wealthy household.

That woman knew how to put on a show in front of her father, pretending to be a good stepmother who cared for her. If she ever gave Xia Lanzhi or Xue Hongjun the cold shoulder, her father would scold her harshly.

He told her that Xia Lanzhi was her stepmother and deserved her respect. That Xue Hongjun was her little brother and she, as the elder sister, should give in.

Screw that! A mistress and her illegitimate child, and they dare act all high and mighty?

After learning the truth, her relationship with her father hit rock bottom.

They argued constantly—minor fights every three days, major ones every five. In the end, she just went abroad to study and get away from it all. While studying, she also trained in ballet.

From background dancer to soloist, then the youngest principal dancer! She starred in many classic ballets and won nearly every major domestic competition. She even gained over ten million followers on Weibo.

However, just as she was about to be named a national first-class dancer, she was forced to get married. If she didn’t, the group would use its influence to blacklist her ballet troupe in all major domestic theaters—no troupe would dare hire her again.

So she compromised. She met the suitors on the list her father gave her and eventually chose Pei Wenyu. As an act of revenge, she demanded a subsidiary from her father.

Of course, she had zero interest in the so-called Xue Group and wasn’t planning to fight Xue Hongjun for control—she just wanted to irritate Xia Lanzhi and make her think she’d teamed up with the Pei Group to steal the company.

Her father, wanting to hand the company to Xue Hongjun, found that the veteran shareholders who built the business with Shen Huilan did not accept him as an heir. So, after agreeing to give her a subsidiary, he gave one to Xue Hongjun too—saying it was to test their abilities. But in truth, it was to prove that Xue Hongjun was better at running a business and to help him rise by stepping over her.

She had no interest in company management and went back to touring with the ballet troupe. Meanwhile, Pei Wenyu helped run her company smoothly, winning over many of the fence-sitters inside the company.

Now that she was “dead,” the happiest people were Xia Lanzhi and Xue Hongjun.

Looking back on her foolishness at the time, Xue Huiyu was filled with regret!

Fight! Why didn’t she fight back?

Why should an illegitimate son take her place? She had to take back everything that was rightfully hers!

As she seethed with rage, Xia Lanzhi glanced sideways at Xue Hongjun and said, “That son Xue Huiyu left behind—sure, he has a different surname, but he’s still a grandson. I figured your father might leave him a little something, but I didn’t expect it to be that much. Plus, those old veterans in the company all followed Shen Huilan back in the day. Who do you think they’ll support—you, or Shen Huilan’s grandson?”

“That autistic brat?”

Sure, he wasn’t that capable yet, but how could he be compared to that fool?

Xue Hongjun sneered in disdain. “That kid is already three and a half and can’t even talk. Are those people in the company idiots? Putting the company’s future on an autistic kid?”

Her son… is autistic???

Her son still couldn’t speak…?

Indeed, thinking back to her time with her child—he had never uttered a single word…

Xue Huiyu’s heart sank sharply.

Then she heard Xue Hongjun mockingly say, “And that cripple, Pei Wenyu—sure, he’s good at management, but he’s still an outsider. Once Dad sees how crazy that fool of a grandson gets when he has an episode, he’ll surely give up the idea of letting him inherit.”

Xue Hongjun and Xia Lanzhi knew about Pei Yuqi’s condition?! From the way they were talking, it seemed their father didn’t know the truth after all these years… So how did Xia Lanzhi and Xue Hongjun find out?

Pei Wenyu would never tell outsiders something like this, so the only person in the house who truly understood Pei Yuqi’s physical condition was… Zheng Huiwen!

Zheng Huiwen not only abused her child, but was secretly colluding with Xia Lanzhi?!

Actually, it had always felt a bit odd—even if she was a “wolf nanny,” Zheng Huiwen’s behavior was far too extreme. She found Pei Yuqi’s crying too annoying, and if she were just fed up, she could’ve easily walked away. But what if she wanted Pei Yuqi to become more and more “slow”?

Pei Yuqi already had autism. Under such abuse, his condition would only worsen… Maybe, it was exactly this abuse that caused his autism in the first place!

All to seize the family fortune—plotting against a child who knew nothing? That’s pure evil!!!

And most importantly—

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ Pei Wenyu! What the hell kind of parenting is this?!

Your son is three and still can’t talk! Don’t you realize your son became autistic thanks to that wicked nanny?!

You fool! If I were still alive, you’d be dead meat!

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Pei Yuqi woke up in the morning to find himself lying in bed.

He cautiously peeked his little head out from under the covers.

The room was silent. Empty.

He turned his head, looking around uneasily, only to see a head pop up from under his own blanket, waving excitedly at him: “Son! Good morning!”

Terrified, he screamed and kicked off the covers.