Lin Bo hadn’t expected him to say such a thing and raised his hand to prepare to hit Lin Luoqing.
Ji Yuxiao grabbed his hand and stopped him from moving.
Lin Luoqing smiled. “Why? Do you want to hit me? It is a pity that you can’t fight.”
He looked at Father Lin with a mocking smile on his face. “Aren’t you surprised? You must be very angry and unable to accept that your son is like this.”
“It was the same when my sister was kicked out by you. She was 18 years old at the time and a girl who hadn’t entered society, but she was hit hard by you, Dad. She was also surprised and wondered how her father could be like this. She was angry, depressed, sad and couldn’t accept that she had such a father.”
Father Lin was stunned. He never thought about what mood Lin Luoxi had at that time. He didn’t expect that one day, he would have the same mood as Lin Luoxi.
Among his three children, he undoubtedly favored Lin Luojing the most. For various reasons, he wasn’t happy with Lin Luoxi or Lin Luoqing.
Therefore, he obeyed Chen Feng’s words and drove Lin Luoxi and Lin Luoqing out when Lin Luoxi became an adult.
Of course, he knew that a newly grown child with an underage child wouldn’t be okay, but he didn’t care.
He knew that once the two siblings left, everything left by Qiu Yongxin would be his.
For the sake of profit, he personally drove away his two children. Even in his memories, he rarely recalled Lin Luoxi.
He thought that the past was over and everyone had turned the page a long time ago. Now Lin Luoqing stood in front of him and shattered his illusions, telling him that Lin Luoqing wanted to avenge his sister.
Lin Luoqing really hated him and hadn’t forgotten the past.
“Do you think that every time I came to the door, wanting to go home and wanting you to recognize me back was because I really loved you? Of course not. I just wanted money so that my sister and I could have a better life.”
“Do you really think I admire you, like you, care about you and respect you? Dream on. Who would like a father like you if it wasn’t for money? In order to keep my mother’s property from falling into the hands of Chen Feng and her son, so I pretended to be reluctant to part with you. In fact, I have long disliked you.”
Father Lin listened to his words and his anger was fierce. His chest rose and fell violently.
“You shut up!” He roared. “Lin Luoqing, you shut up for me!”
“Why?” Lin Luoqing looked at her with a smile. “Are my words unpleasant? Are you dissatisfied? There is no other way. The truth is so hard. The lie was nice but it is fake. Do you think I am obedient and treat you as my only family? How is that possible? Like Lin Luojing, I don’t take you seriously at all.”
He looked at the man in front of him and said cruelly, “It is really sad. You have two sons. One wants to kill you and the other doesn’t care about you. As a father, you are really a failure.”
Father Lin was so angry that he almost coughed up blood.
He looked directly at the person in front of him. This was his son, the son he always looked down on but was secretly reassured by.
He looked down on Lin Luoqing for being cowardly and stupid and for acting like a dog even though he was driven away, running back and begging him, again and again, to recognize him.
However, it was because Lin Luoqing was cowardly and stupid, wanting to go home again and again that this subconsciously reassured Father Lin. He felt that Lin Luoqing wouldn’t betray him and that Lin Luoqing wanted his recognition and affirmation.
He didn’t expect that all of this was just a pretense to gain his trust. Once Father Lin gave him trust and an opportunity, Lin Luoqing wouldn’t hesitate to pull out a knife to stab him.
Father Lin felt bitterness in his throat and couldn’t figure it out. “Am I not good enough to you?”
“If you want money then I will give you money. If you want to join the company, I will let you join the company. If you want shares, I will give you shares. Even your younger brother thought I was biased toward you and harmed me because of it. I might be sorry toward your mother and sister but is there any area where I need to be sorry to you?”
“Now you want to do this to me. Luoqing, why did I transfer my property to you before? Wasn’t it out of trust and because I love you? Then what about you? You treat me like this in return! How can you let me down like this?!”
Lin Luoqing hadn’t expected this person to play the emotional card with him at this moment.
He laughed, contemptuous and sarcastic. “Are you feeling aggrieved because you think you are good to me? Is your love selfless? You really have an illusion of yourself.”
“Didn’t you give me money in exchange for more money? Didn’t you let me into the company to cooperate with the Zhuang family? You gave me shares so that Yuxiao will trust you and match you with the Zhuang family. Isn’t everything you do so you can get more benefits and profit? It isn’t for me or your great fatherly love.”
“Even when you transferred the property to me, it was only because you didn’t want to give it cheaply to Chen Feng. Now that your divorce from Chen Feng is over and she is gone, you couldn’t wait to find me and get those things back. Yet you still have the nerve to say you trust me?”
“Your trust in me is that you kicked me out of the house before I became an adult and your love for me is ignoring me for so many years? If it wasn’t for the fact that I got married to Yuxiao, would you have looked at me like I had any usage value? You wouldn’t. You would pretend that you never had such a son.”
“But I’m different.” Lin Luoqing looked at him. “I have a benevolent heart. So long as you are obedient in the future and don’t cause trouble, I will still regularly pay you alimony when you get old.”
“Boyuan is the result of the joint struggle between you and my mother. My mother herself owned shares in the company. Now that she is gone, is there any problem with me owning shares as her son? There is no problem. In the future, I will continue to hold this part of the shares and take Boyuan to achieve better development. It isn’t for you but for my mother.”
Lin Bo couldn’t accept it. He glared at Lin Luoqing with gritted teeth. “If you have to do this then don’t blame me for being unkind!”
“Lin Luoqing, you are a celebrity. Fighting this type of property dispute lawsuit against your father isn’t good for you. It is better for you to return the property to me now and I will treat it as if nothing happened. Otherwise, I will send you to court tomorrow if you leave the door like this today.”
Lin Luoqing chuckled. “That’s good.”
He said, “I’m tired of being a celebrity as well. I can just step behind the scenes and become the CEO. But you, will you fight me in court? Those transfer agreements were handed over to me with your own hands. They were signed by you and you personally asked me to accept them. Now you are regretting it but the documents written in black and white can’t be regretted.”
“If you settle down a bit, I will still take care of you according to the law and give you alimony when you are old. If you insist on tearing the facade to pieces, that is really good as well. In the future, just die outside and I won’t look at you any longer. How many years do you have remaining, Dad?” Lin Luoqing asked him, “Do you really want to go that far with me?”
Lin Bo instantly retreated.
He indeed wasn’t young any longer. There was no one else around him. The only one left was Lin Luoqing.
Those transfer agreements were signed by him, not to mention that there was Ji Yuxiao behind Lin Luoqing. If Ji Yuxiao helped then he wouldn’t be able to win against Lin Luoqing. It would just be a dying struggle. The fish might die but the net might not necessarily break.
Lin Bo suddenly felt empty.
His entire body felt empty.
When he gave the transfer agreement to Lin Luoqing, he hesitated, struggled and doubted his decision. Still, he gave it to Lin Luoqing. He hoped that Lin Luoqing could return it to him after the matter was over and hoped that he had someone who truly cared about him.
His son whom he had worked so hard to raise wanted to kill him and his wife who had shared the same bed with him said she hated him. Therefore, he desperately wanted to grab Lin Luoqing’s straw so he could tell himself that he was a qualified father and lover. It wasn’t him who was wrong, but his unfilial son and unreasonable wife.
He also wanted to refute Chen Feng, telling her that he didn’t come all this way with nothing to show for it. It was her son who was rebellious. It wasn’t that he didn’t do well as a father. Lin Luoqing loved him very much and he had people who really cared about him.
He never thought that Lin Luoqing was indeed his last straw, but it wasn’t a life-saving straw. It was the last straw that crushed the camel. Everything he had was just a pretense. Lin Luoqing didn’t have any feelings for him and just wanted to take revenge on him.
Father Lin lost his momentum in an instant and he sat down on the sofa. He felt that he had lived most of his life but in the end, everything was in vain.
There was no love, no affection and nothing left, not even a person to trust.
It was empty, even emptier than an empty room.
Lin Luoqing saw him like this and didn’t bother to speak again. “If you really want to fight me in court, I will accompany you at any time. However, I advise you to think clearly about whether you can bear the consequences.”
After he finished speaking, he walked toward the entrance.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Father Lin raised his head and asked him unwillingly, “Luoqing, even if I did sorry things to you before, didn’t I give you true emotions when you came back later? Didn’t you have a moment when you wanted to give up your revenge and see me as your father?”
Lin Luoqing’s laughter was full of sarcasm. “You really moved yourself while acting. Unfortunately, I wasn’t moved. Every time I came to see you and talked to you, I felt annoyed and disgusted. So in the future, I won’t take the initiative to find you and I hope you won’t take the initiative to find me. You can go to Boyuan if you want but Boyuan is now mostly my people. I hope you don’t make unnecessary struggles.”
“Didn’t you like to make people obedient before? Then now this sentence will be given to you. You had better be obedient. This is good for both you and me. After all, you don’t want to end up in a bad situation, right?”
Father Lin looked at him from a distance. It was only after this person moved far away that he finally realized his son seemed to have grown taller at some point. His back was straight and his eyes were proud and unrestrained.
Lin Luoqing finally no longer had the cowardly, stupid and spineless look that he remembered. However, Father Lin would rather him be like that than pointing the tip of the knife at himself.
In the end, Father Lin had misjudged him and lost the father-son game.
But maybe he had already lost. He had lost the moment he wanted to squeeze out benefits from Lin Luoqing.
Lin Bo didn’t speak any longer. There was nothing to say. He only felt that his life was desolate and ridiculous, going around in circles and back and forth. No one around him treated him sincerely. His lover and his children all hated him, were tired of him and left him.
In the end, he thought of Chen Feng’s words— “No one really loves you or cares about you. You think you are some high-class thing but you are nothing in the eyes of others.”
“Give back my mother and sister’s rooms and restore them to the way they were before,” Lin Luoqing said at the end.
Then he turned around and walked to the entrance. He opened the door and walked out.
The sun was nice outside and the midsummer weather was full of freshness.
Lin Luoqing took a deep breath and turned back to smile at Ji Yuxiao.
Ji Yuxiao rubbed his head and pulled him into the car.
No one could choose the past but everyone could run to the future. They would have an excellent future.
He kissed Lin Luoqing’s forehead and hugged him.
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