Chapter 265
Chapter 265
A noise suddenly came from outside. Xiaoshuai immediately had everyone hide in Liu Sibo’s room.
Liu Sibo’s mother dragged her exhausted body inside. Just as she was about to drink some water, a voice sounded outside.
“Stop rushing me! I’ll get you the money in a moment!”
Then Liu Sibo’s father strode in and put down his phone.
“Hurry up! Give me some money!”
“There isn’t any left. Didn’t we use everything to repay your debts?”
Zhaodi spoke fearfully.
“That money is gone, but what about this month’s? Didn’t you just get paid?”
Zhaodi said nothing.
Her husband immediately understood.
“You sent it to Xiao Ze again? Are you stupid? Does he need your little bit of money?”
Yet his tone softened as he spoke.
“It’s different. That’s money from his mother. And precisely because he lives in a family like that, he has more places where he needs it. I visited him recently. He’s lost weight!”
Zhaodi choked up.
Inside the room, Liu Sibo’s aura became extremely unstable. His fists were clenched so tightly that blood continually ran from his hands.
The viewers online fell silent. Those words struck Liu Sibo like a bolt from the blue.
As the saying went, if you must kill me, don’t use the blade of emotion. Every cut was fatal!
Outside, his father smoked.
“What do you plan to do about that boy?”
“You mean Xiao Bo?”
Her husband nodded.
“Xiao Bo will be fine. He may not be able to speak, but he’s stronger than anyone. He’s a good child. I believe he’ll understand me.”
Her husband looked at her mockingly.
“Zhaodi, I thought I was rotten, but in some ways, you’re worse. I never treated him as a son, and he never treated me as a father. But you’re different. He truly sees you as his mother. You really are…”
“Don’t say that!”
Zhaodi wiped her tears.
“What choice did I have? Everyone has feelings. What mother doesn’t ache for her own child? I know I’ve wronged him. I owe him. In my next life, I’ll be his mother again and repay him!”
“Forget it. You ruined one lifetime and want to ruin his next one too? How convenient. And don’t pretend you’re innocent. You’re the one who switched him out of the Zhao Family!”
Bang!
The bedroom door was kicked open. The couple stared in shock at Liu Sibo’s cold expression.
“Xiao Bo… W-why are you back? N-no, it isn’t like that! It isn’t what you heard. Let me explain…”
Whoosh!
Liu Sibo appeared before Zhaodi and clamped a hand around her throat!
“Ah… ah…”
She struck his arm repeatedly, unable to speak, her eyes nearly rolling back.
Her husband was so frightened that he dropped to the floor and turned to flee.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out, and he collapsed back onto the floor.
“You should stay right there. We still have questions for you.”
Xiaoshuai stepped forward and pinned the man’s hand.
“Put her down first. We can ask everything clearly before you act.”
Liu Sibo was silent for a moment, then released her.
Zhaodi backed away in terror.
“Y-you aren’t Xiao Bo. Xiao Bo isn’t like this!”
“Please understand the situation. I’m asking the questions, not you.”
Xiaoshuai gestured for Brother Biao to lock Liu Sibo’s adoptive father in a room.
“Tell us what happened, from the beginning,” Xiaoshuai said.
Zhaodi nodded fearfully.
“What made you decide to switch Xiao Bo?”
“I… Back then, I… I lost my senses…”
“Wang Xu!”
Liu Sibo suddenly spoke the name.
Zhaodi stared at him in shock.
“You can talk?”
Liu Sibo ignored her and continued staring.
“I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you everything!”
Zhaodi was frightened now. The Liu Sibo before her was no longer the person she knew and might not even be human!
She dared not hide anything and poured out the whole story.
“It happened more than ten years ago. My son had just been born. You saw what his father was like; we couldn’t support him! At first, I never thought of switching children. I wouldn’t have dared. But then a man named Wang Xu came. He offered us a deal. He said our child could live a good life and even inherit a fortune.”
“So you were tempted?”
“What choice did we have? He was so young and I had no money at all. What could I do? He was my own son! I had no choice but to send him away.”
“Did Wang Xu send you those photographs too?”
“Yes. He said I should see how Xiao Ze was growing, so he mailed photographs almost every month.”
Zhaodi hugged the pictures tightly to her chest.
“Xiao Bo, I beg you! Do anything you want to me. I wronged you, but please don’t hurt Xiao Ze! He’s a good child and had nothing to do with this. It was all my fault. If you must kill someone, kill me!”
Liu Sibo suddenly laughed loudly. Then he crouched before his mother in the chair.
“Mom! This is the… first time I’ve ever called you Mom, and it will also be the last. From now on, we have no relationship.”
He reached out and embraced her.
Relief washed through Zhaodi. She had known Liu Sibo could not bear to kill her!
But she needed to tell Xiao Ze about Liu Sibo’s change and warn him to be careful… Ugh!
Agonizing pain suddenly tore through her, every bone creaking.
“Aah!”
She struggled in Liu Sibo’s arms, clawing desperately at his clothes to make him release her.
“Xiao Bo, let go of Mom! Mom hurts!”
Liu Sibo said nothing. With an affectionate expression, he buried his head against Zhaodi’s shoulder and tightened his arms.
“Aah! You bastard! You heartless… cough, cough… I raised you all these years… cough… Help! Cough…”
Blood poured from her mouth. Her horrific condition left Brother Biao and the others stunned with fear.
Crack!
After one final sharp snap, Zhaodi’s hands slowly slid from Liu Sibo’s clothes.