Chapter 423: Heartless Man
Chapter 423 Heartless Man
"But Xie Xinyuan, this faithless scoundrel, seeing that I wouldn’t listen and that I wouldn’t abort the child as he demanded, stopped caring about me altogether.
His new love even came to curse at me, unfairly accusing me of having affairs with other men, saying the child wasn’t Xie Xinyuan’s. As for the Xie Family, they called off our engagement on the grounds that arranged marriages by parents are no longer the practice.
At that time, an unwed Miss carrying a child, abandoned by her fiancé, could practically be drowned by peoples’ spit.
My family urged me to abort the child, but I couldn’t bear to do it and resolved to bear the scorn and give birth. My sister-in-law wouldn’t let me have the illegitimate child at home, so I had no choice but to give birth in the cowshed.
Afterwards, raising the child by myself and bearing the stigma, one can only imagine how difficult life was." Mengyu sighed to herself and then asked, "Zhou Wangmei, if life was so hard, why didn’t you send your son back to the Xie Family?"
Zhou Wangmei spoke with resentment, "Chen Xinyu, Xie Xinyuan’s wife, already hated me. If I sent my child to the Xie Family, could they actually accept my child?
Even if the Xie Family could accept my child, could Chen Xinyu ever accept him?"
Mengyu secretly reflected, indeed, no wife could tolerate a child born to her husband’s mistress. That would not only agitate her but also create a rival for her own children concerning inheritance and resources.
Zhou Wangmei had understood this, which was why she would rather remain unmarried all her life and raise her child herself rather than send the child back to the Xie Family.
Zhou Wangmei then wiped away non-existent tears and said, "Despite the hardships, I managed to raise my child until he was five years old. My Xiao Qiang was good, and we, mother and son, depended on each other for survival. I thought spending a lifetime like this with my child wasn’t so bad.
But fate is unpredictable, and my child fell gravely ill. Without money for medical treatment, I had no choice but to go to the Xie Family with my son in my arms, hoping Xie Xinyuan could give three hundred yuan so that the child could be hospitalized.
He was clearly at home, yet he refused to see me, only sending someone out to say that the child wasn’t a member of the Xie family and to disregard my request for money to treat the child. I pleaded at their door for a long time, the Xie Family didn’t give a single cent, and even had his wife come out with a broom to chase me away.
By the time I carried my son back home, he had already fallen into a coma and passed away that night.
My son was all my hope, and with his passing, after arranging his affairs, I too lost the will to live and died in the cowshed three days later from illness."
I harbored resentment in my heart; although as a girl I should not have slipped up, why did Xie Xinyuan sleep with me if he already had someone else in his heart?
Since he slept with me, why didn’t he take responsibility and instead found a new love?
Even if he had started another family, my son was still his bloodline. When the child was on death’s door, I plead for money to save his life. Even a stranger would have helped, and yet he let his wife drive me away. Where was his conscience?
My son and I died before our time, unable to be reincarnated and without anyone to worship us, became wandering ghosts.
And he, Xie Xinyuan, after committing such an injustice, never dared to return to his hometown, until the year before last when he had to visit my house’s doorstep on official business. It took me a great effort to see him, and then accompanied by my son, we stayed by his side day and night.
Immortal, tell me, did I do wrong in beating him?
Mengyu glared fiercely at Xie Xinyuan and said, "You did nothing wrong; such a faithless and heartless man deserves to die!"