Ruling the Historical Romance Novel as the Female Supporting Character-Chapter 104: Just to Beat You Fair and Square
"That’s fine. However, the herbs for the Great Strength Pills are expensive, we can discuss it later. We have to wait until you fully recover and let you submit them. What if you want to go back to the military? You’ll need to bring some gifts." Su Yijia muttered, massaging Qin Kaize as she spoke.
She claimed it was to ensure his blood circulation as he had slept too long. However, she couldn’t help but feel the muscular and toned lines on his body and his balanced muscles were truly the source of her motivation every day. In the past, she had restrained herself, but after sleeping together for so long, she had grown thicker skin and openly enjoyed touching him while grinning.
Qin Kaize always felt as if his wife’s saliva was about to trickle down from the corner of her mouth. However, the current Su Yijia also increased his sense of crisis.
Originally, he had no hope of recovering, but now he was eager to start the treatment quickly, because if he lost all these muscles, his wife would probably leave him.
After moving Qin Kaize to a wheelchair, the two of them left. Ke Zeming, sitting in the yard, immediately looked over. "Sister-in-law, Lin Cuifen confessed. Do you want to talk to her personally?" His tone was slightly heavy, and he looked at Su Yijia with a hint of sympathy.
Su Yijia felt a shiver run down her spine and quickly rubbed her arms. "You don’t have to look at me with that expression. They are not my biological parents, and for me, this is quite good. After all, if they were my real parents, I might have spent my whole life questioning them about why they didn’t treat me well. Now that it’s confirmed there’s no blood relation, I can naturally face their biased treatment. Isn’t that so?"
Her words seemed casual, but even Gao Huabin, who was quite insensitive, could hear a touch of self-mockery, a hint of bitterness, and a dash of reluctance. If Su Yijia found out what they were thinking now, she would probably say that overthinking didn’t suit them.
Although they were only going to the detention center, Su Yijia still took Qin Kaize with her. As a husband, he should be there for such a significant event, and it was also good for him to get out and about.
Su’s mother, who was detained in the detention center, had been sitting quietly in the corner since she honestly confessed. It was only when the iron railing was opened and the police took her out again that she looked up. Her eyes, filled with dead silence, burst with intense, almost twisted hatred when she saw Su Yijia.
The two were brought to an interrogation room. Ke Zeming directly left the room empty for them and gave them privacy.
"Sister-in-law, when you finish the discussion, you can just come out. Lin Jiayao should have been asked almost everything they need to ask by now, and you can visit later if needed."
"Thank you," Su Yijia replied with sincerity. Once the others left, she pulled up a chair and sat in front of Su’s mother.
Su’s mother raised her head and sneered, "Do you really think that you can go get a rich and powerful biological father just because your big uncle says so? You don’t even realize your own background. If he truly remembered you and your mother, why did you spend twenty whole years with me? And you end up marrying a paraplegic... Ah!"
Su Yijia slapped her directly, thinking she was screaming too rudely, then followed up with another slap. "As for my man, it’s not your place to pass judgment."
However, Su’s mother couldn’t care less. She just covered her face and stared angrily at Su Yijia. "I’m your mother!"
"But you’re not my biological mother," Su Yijia rolled her eyes. "Do you think I want to find my true identity to have more elders to boss me around? I just need an identity that allows me... to do whatever I want to you, to all of you."
After all, regardless of how she felt justified, being known by others for slapping and scolding her biological parents would still get her pelted with rotten eggs and vegetables, with people saying she’s worse than a beast. Now that she was sure they weren’t her biological parents, she felt entirely unburdened.
"What did you say?" Su’s mother couldn’t believe her ears. "You’ve made such a fuss, even resorting to public and private means just for this? Ha! Have you forgotten that adoptive parents are still parents, and their nurturing kindness outweighs the bond of blood."
"The nurturing kindness? Did my biological parents just throw me away as soon as I was born? After you guys had me, you all immediately got jobs. Do you think that after all these years, I can’t figure out how you got those jobs? Do you think just because you’ve accumulated so much money, but treated me like a servant since I was three, making me wash the entire family’s clothes, you can now come and talk to me about nurturing kindness? Do you even qualify for it?" Su Yijia spoke as she grabbed Su’s mother’s hair, forcefully pulling her head back, making her look straight into her eyes.
Su’s mother hadn’t expected to be humiliated repeatedly by Su Yijia in such a manner. She reached out to scratch Su Yijia, but ended up being kicked along with the stool, crashing to the ground with a loud thud. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Hearing the commotion, Ke Zeming rushed in. However, upon seeing Su’s mother in a disheveled state on the ground while Su Yijia and Qin Kaize sat calmly, he decided to step back.
"It’s okay. I’ve said what I needed to say," Su Yijia called out to the man who was about to close the door, and then she and Qin Kaize walked out.
"Your big uncle has already confessed, and this is his statement. Take a look," Ke Zeming handed an interrogation notepad to Su Yijia.
With a quick scan of the contents, Su Yijia pieced together the whole story. Twenty-two years ago, a distant cousin of the Lin family had come to the county, and fell in love with a man. After dating for a year, he held a wedding in the county with her.
However, less than a month into their marriage, he claimed to have urgent business and left town but never returned. At that time, many people would hold wedding banquets without formal marriage registration. Though it was common to turn a blind eye, for this man, the woman had rejected another man who had pursued her relentlessly for three years.
The man had just joined the local discipline department at the time, and this distant cousin had become a typical example with no disciplines. Not only was she heavily criticized, but her parents were also sent to a labor camp for not educating her properly.
Seeing no way out, she had run to Xiangwang Village during the night to seek help from her cousin, Lin Cuifen. Lin Cuifen, feeling that she was the only blood relative in the uncle’s family, had hidden her.
However, the distant cousin was very frail, and due to the daily shocks she endured during her pregnancy, she experienced complications during childbirth and succumbed to excessive bleeding. Even Su Yijia had barely survived and was raised with great effort, as she had been born with congenital frailty.
"Sister-in-law, do you have any thoughts?" Having just read the contents himself, Ke Zeming didn’t know how to comfort or proceed.
