Behind the Murder Volume I

Chapter 16: Continuing the Family Line

After hearing what Ren Yumeng said, Leng Hui lowered her eyelids and remained silent. Her attitude was tantamount to agreeing with what Ren Yumeng said, which made Ren Yumeng even more sad. She covered her face and sobbed softly, her shoulders shaking. Leng Hui watched with heartache and reached out to touch her daughter's shoulder, but Ren Yumeng turned away. Seeing that she was crying so sadly, Gu Xiaofan squatted down and carefully put the tissue into Ren Yumeng's palm, but Ren Yumeng shook her hand and threw the tissue on the ground without any appreciation.

Zhong Han sat aside and watched all this without saying a word.

After a while, Ren Yumeng's emotions finally stabilized again. She wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve, looked at the tissue at her feet, then looked at Gu Xiaofan who was standing beside her, pursed her lips slightly, and said nothing.

"So the reason you hate your father is because he wants a son who can carry on the family line and inherit the family business?" Zhong Han waited for her to calm down before continuing to ask.

Ren Yumeng wiped her eyes, and her brows, which had just relaxed a little, wrinkled again: "If he just favors boys over girls and wants my mother to give him another son, I have no complaints. What I can't tolerate the most is that he has so many women outside."

"Yumeng, your father is already like this, don't talk nonsense and ruin his reputation." Leng Hui's face darkened slightly, and her tone of voice was still as calm as ever, but there was a little bit of warning in her calm tone that was not easy to be noticed.

Ren Yumeng didn't care about her mother's bland warning at all. She glared at her mother and said, "When did I say anything nonsense? How long are you going to be a coward? Have you ever fought for your own legitimate rights in your life? Even now, it's like this, and you're still speaking for him with your eyes closed, whitewashing for him. I really despise you for being like this!"

Leng Hui's face froze, she lowered her head and said nothing more.

"Do you know that your father has another woman outside? How did you know? To what extent did you know?" Gu Xiaofan felt extremely complicated when she asked Ren Yumeng. In her opinion, it was a very cruel thing for children to find out about their parents' extramarital affair, and it would leave people with deep emotional trauma.

"I have secretly looked at his phone, many times." Ren Yumeng said expressionlessly, as if she was narrating something that had nothing to do with her. "Since I got a little older, he didn't spend much time at home. He and my mom often didn't say a few words all day long. Many times, my mom talked to him for a long time, but he didn't even respond at all, as if my mom was a mental patient who talked to herself! How old was I at that time? Only thirteen or fourteen years old. I felt that my dad was a very unromantic person. Unlike those men in TV dramas, he never said sweet words to my mom. They were both only in their thirties, but they lived like an old man and an old woman. So I always thought my dad was such a dull person, such a dull and boring person. Unexpectedly, one time, when I was about fifteen or sixteen years old, I was bored at night, so I secretly took my dad's phone to play the addictive Snake game. As a result... I saw a lot of text messages, all sent between him and a woman. From that moment on, I realized that my dad was not dull at all. He could also say those cheesy love words. As long as the other party was a woman and not my mother, he could be like a romantic and amorous man, saying sweet words endlessly. "

"Do you know who that woman is? How long did your father have a relationship with her? Who else have you told about this?" Gu Xiaofan asked impatiently.