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    father and son

    Shen Meng cried until her eyes were swollen before she remembered the surveillance camera in the living room. She played it frame by frame. It showed that only Su Ji had been here, but none of them knew about it.

    She called Su Ji again, and instead of making a fuss, she asked him to go home.

    When Su Ji arrived, it was already evening, and the afterglow of the setting sun splashed all over Shen Meng’s face, hanging precariously on every hair of hers. Su Ji sat down and said, “Why do you want me to come back in such a hurry?”

    Shen Meng asked him calmly: “You came the day before yesterday, why didn’t you tell me?”

    Su Ji’s expression remained normal. He recalled it for a moment, and then said, “I just came back to get something, and there was no one at home, so I was busy and forgot about it.”

    “Why do you want to use your account number?” Shen Meng was not in the mood to play charades with him anymore and told him directly.

    “I’ll be back in two days.” Su Ji said calmly without feeling embarrassed about being exposed.

    Shen Meng said reluctantly: “Why do you want to use your account number?”

    “Mom, actually I have never understood why you hate Shen Luo so much even though we are both your sons, even to the point of being decisive.”

    Su Ji’s words made Shen Meng stunned for a second, and then he took a deep breath and said, “Because he is just like Su Shangjun.”

    “Same?” Su Ji asked doubtfully, “Just because it’s the same?”

    Shen Meng’s calmed down mood instantly collapsed, tears bursting into tears, she looked through him with hatred and said, “Yes, it’s because they are both gay.”

    Su Ji frowned and looked at her, tilting his head slightly, his eyes full of disbelief, and his pupils kept rising and falling with his breathing.

    She cried: “After Shen Luo was born, I found out that Su Shangjun was gay. I witnessed the two men entering the hotel together and doing disgusting things in the room. After the incident was exposed, he knelt down and begged me not to divorce him. I agreed to him because I was weak and cowardly. I thought this matter would go over peacefully, but later I realized that I couldn’t get over the hurdle in my heart, but for you… I endured it.”

    “…”

    Su Ji had never heard about Su Shangjun. He only thought that they had an arranged marriage, so they treated each other with respect. Now that he knew the truth, he felt that everything they had done before made sense.

    “But now, Shen Luo turns out to be gay. Just like Su Shangjun, as long as I see him, the unpleasant sound becomes clearer. I can’t accept that I was born a gay. It’s disgusting…”

    Su Ji interrupted her and asked weakly: “Then you will send him to a mental hospital and then be tortured until he has half his life left, right?”

    Chen Meng’s eyes suddenly became clear for a moment, and he whispered: “Torture? I don’t know what you are talking about.”

    “You know Shen Luo is lying on the hospital bed now, and he can only leave it to fate as to when he will wake up,” Su Ji looked at her in disbelief, tears already welling up in his eyes and refusing to fall. He continued, “And all this is just because he fell in love with a worthy person.”

    “He clearly told me that if I send him in, he will give me an obedient son. How could he torture him?” Shen Meng was intoxicated in his own world and could not extricate himself, and did not trust his words at all.

    “Who told you?”

    Chen Meng hypnotized herself in just two or three words. She said confidently: “Even if he suffered a little, it was because he was disobedient and he deserved it.”

    “Looks like I made the right decision.”

    Seeing that there was no need to continue communicating with her, Su Ji stood up and left.

    She sat in the living room for a long time, until her lower body was a little numb, and until Su Shangjun came home from get off work.

    Su Shangjun called Shen Luo many times in the afternoon, but no one answered any of them. He looked at the call records one after another and felt a little lucky. If the call went through, Su Shangjun didn’t know what to say to him, so he should comfort him.

    The two did not communicate. She was still sitting there after Su Shangjun took a bath. Shen Meng suddenly stopped him before entering the room.

    “Shangjun Su.”

    Su Shangjun turned around hesitantly. Seeing that she had no intention of continuing, he seemed to move forward. As soon as he took a step, he seemed to be unable to hold back. He sat over and asked cautiously: “How… do you know?”

    “Because you’re all equally disgusting.”

    “Then Xiao Luo…” Su Shangjun seemed a little worried about him.

    Shen Meng sneered and questioned him: “You are happy and satisfied now. Your son inherits your mantle and is gay.”

    “What do you mean I’m happy and satisfied? He’s your son too, how could I know he was too.” Su Shangjun’s hands tightly grasped two sections of the towel and hung them around his neck.

    “You don’t know? You are such a disgusting person, what kind of good thing can he be.” Shen dreamed of what Su Shangjun said and did when he chased her. Everything was frozen in the beginning.

    “Chen Meng, I don’t care what you say, but no matter what, he is your son.” Su Shangjun has been blamed by her for so many years, and he no longer cares, but Shen Luo is still young, and he cannot live without maternal love.

    “Just because he is my son, I will not let him go further down the wrong path.” Shen Meng clenched the cushions on the sofa into a ball to vent her inner anger.

    “What are you going to do?” Su Shangjun asked her.

    Shen Meng kept silent to him, as if he had used all his strength to utter one word, “Get out.”

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