Novel Bin Chapter 460 - There Must Be Two
Chapter 460: There Must Be Two
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
A dead silence pervaded the room.
There were some things that they shouldn’t be say, and they both knew this very well.
The things they shouldn’t say were taboo.
In this family, if one wanted to live well, one would have to put up with it.
However, Zhu Xueyan had endured this all her life, yet she couldn’t endure it anymore at this very moment.
After yelling out what she had been feeling all these while, she suddenly felt a lot better...
However, that was only for a few seconds.
After getting those words out of her chest, what replaced her feelings were... anxiety and fear.
Bai Zhenhua’s facial expression looked extremely dark. His gaze was so cold that she had never seen it like that before.
She knew that she had violated her husband’s taboo.
Would he fall out with her?
A woman who had relied on her husband all her life had already lost herself long ago. She could not find her own place in this world...
This was crazy!
Maybe she really went crazy.
She adjusted her clothes, and her well-maintained face suddenly scrunched up.
“I...”
In the silence, Bai Zhenhua asked slowly, “Do you know what you just asked me to do, Zhu Xueyan?”
There was not a trace of emotion in his tone when he spoke her name.
They were unlike any other long-time couple.
They were like two enemies who hated each other.
Yup! He had put her on his opposing side.
Zhu Xueyan felt her heart trembling while she looked at Bai Zhenhua’s indifferent face. She found herself unable to speak like a mute.
“You’re crazy! You’re crazy!” Grandma Bai said what Zhu Xueyan and Bai Zhenhua could not say. Then she pointed at Zhu Xueyan’s nervous face and rebuke angrily. “He is my eldest grandson, a descendant of our Bai Family! He’s the only heir of our Bai Family! Whoever wants to give him a hard time means you also want to give me a hard time!”
The moment the word “heir” came out of Grandma Bai’s mouth, Zhu Xueyan’s ashen face immediately regained its former color...
It was anger! Her anger was burning again.
She could tolerate and endure matters relating to her, but in matters relating to her son, she would not back off.
“Mom! You’re the one who’s crazy!”
Zhu Xueyan’s eyes reddened while she stared at Grandma Bai. There was even a tinge of sarcasm.
“The adopted son is the only heir? What about Xuanzi, my son!? Is he not your grandson and not a descendant of the Bai Family?... Hah, do you think of him as a lovechild I had with another man or something?”
Her sarcastic retort was rather harsh.
However, the old lady only looked confused. “... Who is Xuanzi?”
She turned to Nanny Li, looking bewildered.
Nanny Li was an outsider. At that moment, she felt like she was in a difficult situation.
However, Grandma Bai employed her and she had served her for many years. Naturally, she would place the old lady’s interests first.
“Madam, that is your other grandson. He got abducted when he was young... He’s been found and returned to the family! Just not too long ago, he came back and visited you, have you forgotten?”
Nanny Li had said this many times too.
When Bai Muxuan returned to the family, Grandma Bai would ask the same question every time she saw him.
When she was not muddleheaded, her heart would also go out to her poor grandson, Bai Muxuan, who had suffered a lot all these years. She would even shed tears for this grandson at times. Nonetheless, time was a huge factor for kinship... Spending time with each other was a very important part of a family relationship. The old lady would frequently forget about Bai Muxuan’s existence whenever she fell ill.
These were her helplessness.
Which was one of the sources of Zhu Xueyan’s pain.
“Mom, I don’t think you have your grandson in your heart... I pity my son. He suffered so much, but in the end, he has to put up with all these...”
When she said so, tears rolled down her cheeks.
“Grandson?” Grandma Bai seemed to have recalled something and nodded. “Oh yeah, where is my other grandson now?”
Nanny Li sighed. “He’s still in the military camp!”
The awkward atmosphere at home was not only intolerable to Bai Muchuan, but it was also the same for Bai Muxuan.
For the past few years, Bai Zhenhua and Zhu Xueyan wished they could make it up to him for all these years for not being able to fulfill their roles as his parents. However, Bai Muxuan usually used the excuse of “strict discipline” in the army for not going home. He had a very low sense of existence in the family.
“Oh, oh, oh!”
They were unsure if the old lady really remembered.
After a pause, she held out two fingers.
“That means there are two heirs! There must be two.”
Hearing this, Bai Zhenhua frowned but said nothing.
Zhu Xueyan, however, felt that the arrangement was unfair. She sneered and turned to Bai Zhenhua.
“So you will say nothing? All these years, you’re helping the Cheng Family raise their kid. Isn’t that enough? Do you really intend to let him take a share of your son’s inheritance?”
Bai Zhenhua rubbed his forehead, and he suddenly felt like he had a bad headache. “His surname is Bai and is under our household registry. He is my son.”
“Did I hear wrong?” Zhu Xueyan let out a mocking laugh. “Your son? Haha... Why don’t you just admit directly that the vixen had an affair with Cheng Weiji and you? What good buddies you both are for coming up with such a good trick. Cheng Weiji told Cheng Wenzhu that the child is your kid, and you tell me that the child is Cheng Weiji’s kid. Don’t you think that this is a laughingstock? Do you think we should arrange for a time and let you two do a DNA paternity test together? You should give him a proper identity...”
“Enough!”
Before Zhu Xueyan could finish her words, someone interrupted her coldly.
Everyone looked over to the source of the voice.
Bai Muchuan got up from his seat and held Xiang Wan’s hand.
“There are two things I want to make it clear. First, I’ve never hankered over your son’s inheritance, nor am I interested in it. Second, the reason I bring my girlfriend here is to show my respect for this family who raised me. However, I’m not here to listen to what your views are. You can hurt me as you’ve brought me up, and I owe you for that. But if you want to hurt my woman, then I have nothing to say to any of you!”
After that, he pulled Xiang Wan up.
“Let’s go up to get our luggage. We’ll leave now!”
...
The living room suddenly fell into silence.
Bai Muchuan had grown up.
He was no longer the little boy who just arrived in this family.
Bai Zhenhua knew that very well. It was the same for Zhu Xueyan.
When Bai Zhenhua led the young boy into the Bai Family back then, the stubborn, thin little boy was wearing a white shirt while carrying a small suitcase with him. When he stood at the door of the living room, Zhu Xueyan could still remember that day... the first time that she met him.
She did not like him.
She did not like him when she met him for the first time.
He was an illegitimate child of Cheng Weiji with his mistress. Cheng Wenzhu did not like him; it was the same for Zhu Xueyan...
At that time, she had just lost her son.
Back then when he came, she had lost her son for a few years. Although they never gave up looking for him, their efforts were futile.
She had also thought of treating Bai Muchuan as her real kid...
However, when he came to the Bai Family, he was already a sensible little boy whose thinking and level of maturity far exceeded the kids his age. He was wary of Zhu Xueyan. Zhu Xueyan also could not establish a close mother and son relationship with him... In the beginning, in order not to make Bai Zhenhua and Cheng Weiji lose face, she had also tried to play her role as a mother to Bai Muchuan.
However, there was once when Cheng Wenzhu made a mindless remark about Bai Muchuan which grew in her.
She said, “Did you notice? That kid’s eyes looked similar to your husband...”
That remark shocked Zhu Xueyan.
Because of that, she unwittingly spilled whatever Bai Zhenhua had told her to keep a secret to Cheng Wenzhu as well.
“Wenzhu, in actual fact, I shouldn’t tell you this... My husband told me that this child is actually related to your husband.”
“What? Impossible.” Cheng Wenzhu immediately denied that. “Xueyan, maybe you got fooled? That kid’s definitely not my husband’s.”
“It can’t be my husband’s kid either. I understand my husband very well...”
“My husband... no, could it be...?”
“They are both fooling us?”
Which woman would want to admit that their husband had a mistress and even bore a love child?
They were both friends.
They were familiar with each other in the social circle of the rich and influential.
Both of them did not want to bear such humiliation.
Both of them hoped that... the illegitimate kid would belong to the other party’s husband.
Both of them had worries, and they dared not discover the truth as well.
For all these years, they couldn’t find a proper outlet to vent their emotions...
That kid became a thorn in their flesh and an outlet for them to vent their anger.
Nonetheless, all children would grow up one day.
Not only did Bai Muchuan grow up, but he also turned out to be very outstanding as well—
When he was in the military, he was one of the elites.
When he transferred to the police, he became a great detective.
Times flies. He was completely independent, and he could get away from them anytime he wanted.
“Ah, my obedient grandson, don’t go!”
Bai Muchuan left with a cold expression. No one else said a word, but Grandma Bai was anxious. She maneuvered the wheelchair by herself to follow him with a sad look on her face.
“Don’t go! My good grandson, Grandma will protect you and treat you well. No one else will dare to bully you...”
In Grandma Bai’s eyes, Bai Muchuan was still the thin little young boy back then...
Seeing him leave in such a determined manner started to hammer her chest.
“Good grief, my eldest grandson bringing my granddaughter-in-law to see me is such a happy occasion.” Then she turned to her son and daughter-in-law. “What are you both trying to do? You two can’t go on like this anymore? I can’t continue living like this anymore too... Just scram, don’t be an eyesore to me...”
In the living room, everyone fell into silence.
That also included Bai Lu, who had wanted to leave the living room, but didn’t have the guts to do so.
Grandma Bai didn’t want Bai Muchuan to leave. Nonetheless, after ten minutes, Bai Muchuan took his luggage at one hand and held Xiang Wan’s hand the other when they appeared in the living room. He spoke before leaving, saying that he would visit Grandma Bai again another day and directly left the house.
“Oh heavens! What did I do to deserve this!?”
When Grandma Bai threw a fit, it was a hundred times worse than Zhu Xueyan.
“All of you must never forget this day... don’t you ever forget this... our Bai Family ancestral wealth is what my husband left to me... The will has stated this clearly... It’s mine, mine... I can give it to whoever I want... You two... will be the death of me...”