The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Chapter 321 – Except she wasn’t the original owner! (3)

Logic would dictate that they would just blame the original owner but not ignore their grandson who was related to them by blood. Except that by the time they wanted to do something about them, the original owner had already learned about her husband’s death from others long ago. She cried day in and day out for a long time but life must go on. The two of them were never wealthy and there was also a not-too-strong child that needed to be fed. The original owner had no choice but to wipe off her tears and go earn money to support the two of them.

She had tried but many of the positions that she had applied for led up to nothing. Even when she was able to finally secured herself a job, she knew that it would not work out after a day or two. She couldn’t leave the child at home. So she finally gritted her teeth and went to work at a nightclub.

The parents of “Zhang Xiaolu” had a negative preconception about her from the very beginning. When they learned that she had went to work at a nightclub shortly after their son had “passed away”, they only thought that she was an unscrupulous and rapacious person. The mother of “Zhang Xiaolu” was born of high status and had only came across what was innocent and positive in her life. She even suspected that Yan Shuyu was a tramp and that the child might not even be related to them.

As such, how would it be their responsibility to take care of the two of them?

As “Zhang Xiaolu” had amnesia, his family took the opportunity to erase all traces of his past and had the original owner mother and son thought that he was dead. No matter what the two did in the future, it would have nothing to do with his family…

Listening to the original owner’s husband talking about what had happened after his “death”, all Yan Shuyu could think of was how cliché that was. They wouldn’t even write scripts like that for drama. Also, she didn’t really feel empathetic either. She was neither emotional nor angry as she was, after all, not the original owner.

Quite the contrary, the handsome man who should have been sunny and positive looked very apologetic when he was done with the recounting and looked like he would repay her with his life. That gave her a lot of pressure. She finally said dryly, “There, there are so many twists and turns. What happened after that?”

“Zhang Xiaolu”’s reaction was quite interesting as well. He looked at her with his eyes widened for a little while and suddenly broke into a smile. His eyes curved, and even though his skin was now a few shades lighter than before, the warmth radiating from him was still very infectious.

He seemed to have finally overlapped some with how he was in the original owner’s memory and Yan Shuyu, too, smiled with him reflexively.

“Then I stayed in the hospital for another year and spent another year doing physical therapy before I could stand again,” said Zhang Xiaolu jokingly as he patted himself on his own leg. “They weren’t being very cooperative.”

Yan Shuyu pursed her lips a little. The smile had eased things a lot, so she asked, “Then you must have changed back to your original name. What is it?”

“My real name is Ye Rongchen.”

“Ye, huh? So Yuanbao will become Ye Yuanjia?” Yan Shuyu couldn’t help but frowned a little. “That sounds a little odd.”

Ye Rongchen just smiled at her. He wasn’t surprised by the jump in her train of thought at all. His lips cracked opened and he said, “We don’t have to change it if you don’t like it.”

Yan Shuyu didn’t care about that one way or another. Her son’s name was even changed to Zhou Yuanjia in the original novel. She knew that he was her son and that was enough. Everything else was secondary. As such, she said generously, “You are his father. You have the right to make that decision too.”

Ye Rongchen continued to smile at her.

Even though his smile overlapped with the original owner’s memory, but his mannerism still gave Yan Shuyu the creeps. She remained silent for a little while before asking, “I thought you had amnesia. How did you find me here then?”

She seemed to have nailed the question. Ye Rongchen slowly stopped smiling and asked a little dispirited, “Aren’t you… going to ask me how I was in these last few years?”

Yan Shuyu was a little stumped. She knew that her reaction wasn’t reasonable. If the original owner was here, her biggest concern would probably be whether he was in a relationship or has been married after all these years. Her first reaction would not have been asking about his name.

Except that she wasn’t the original owner!

Yan Shuyu felt that her behavior was justified but she didn’t know how to explain that. It seemed that Ye Rongchen was just asking casually and was not too concerned about her answer. He then said, “Truth was, starting last year, bits and pieces had been coming back to me. I have been going to a therapist. But then I was sent to college and was also learning business management from my mother so I didn’t have the time to come looking for you. All my memories only returned when I saw the video of your playing the piano a while ago…”

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