Listening to Fu Mengchuan’s words, Fu Xiyan was almost certain that Fu Yingying and their family’s third child were swapped. Even if Fu Mengchuan wasn’t involved, he definitely knew about it.

With a cold laugh, he looked at Fu Mengchuan, "Forced into it?"

"Fu Mengchuan, how come I never knew you were this hypocritical?"

At this point, he was still finding excuses for himself.

No matter the reason, it was not an excuse to hide the truth.

Seeing Fu Xiyan call his name directly and curse him as hypocritical, Fu Mengchuan’s temper flared instantly, "Rebelled against heaven, have you? Dare to curse your father?"

Fu Xiyan continued to laugh coldly as he spoke, "What, am I not speaking the truth? Aren’t you hypocritical?"

"Haven’t you gotten tired of acting all these years?"

Fu Mengchuan was filled with anger, wanting to curse something but not knowing how to refute.

Because he indeed was acting, and he’d been acting for nearly eighteen years.

For all these years, he had been deceiving himself.

As time went on, even he was starting to believe it.

The anger in his heart was instantly doused. Fu Mengchuan spoke somewhat self-mockingly, "Yes, I’m hypocritical."

Seeing him like this, Fu Xiyan felt a pang of hurt in his heart. After all, he was his father, but he felt even more hurt for his mother.

After being kept in the dark for close to eighteen years, raising someone else’s daughter for so long.

In the end, discovering the person who deceived her was her own husband. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

The more Fu Xiyan thought about it, the more his heart ached. Coldly gazing at Fu Mengchuan, he said, "You were hypocritical all along, you deceived us for eighteen years."

Fu Mengchuan was stunned upon hearing this, frozen on the spot and not speaking for a long time.

After a while, he turned away from Fu Xiyan, facing his back to him, "I have wronged your mother."

"I failed to fulfill the promise I once made to her."

"I have also wronged..."

Fu Mengchuan didn’t continue with the latter words, only adding one last sentence, "Yingying, I have wronged her too."

Fu Xiyan’s cold eyes were dark as he said, "The one you have wronged most is Mother."

Wronged Fu Yingying?

What about their family’s third child?

Is it destined to live outside?

Fu Mengchuan’s body stiffened slightly again, "Yes, I wronged her, but feelings cannot be forced."

Fu Xiyan furrowed his brows.

Feelings cannot be forced?

So, this man’s feelings for his mother were fake too?

Fu Mengchuan continued speaking, "Not liking means not liking, no matter how outstanding she is, I couldn’t treat that child as my own daughter, and you couldn’t treat Fu Yingying as your real sister. How could I just suddenly accept her?"

"Other than acting, what else could I do?"

"You all, you didn’t want to treat Fu Yingying as a real sister, you could show it openly, but could I do that?"

"I couldn’t."

"An innocent child shouldn’t be unwelcome in this family, right?"

"I said before that I would raise her as my daughter, so even if it was all an act, I couldn’t let the child feel unnoticed in the family."

After finishing, Fu Mengchuan exhaled deeply.

Some things being bottled up for too long, saying them out loud made him feel somewhat relieved.

However, Fu Mengchuan’s words caused Fu Xiyan’s brows to furrow deeply again, "Not liking Fu Yingying?"

"If you didn’t like Fu Yingying, why did you swap our family’s third child with her back then?"

As soon as Fu Xiyan finished speaking, Fu Mengchuan was dumbfounded, turning and glaring at Fu Xiyan, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"What swap are you talking about?"

Fu Xiyan’s brows furrowed sharply, "Even at this point, you’re still acting?"

"Even if you didn’t swap the child yourself, didn’t you know she wasn’t our family’s third?"

Since it’s known that Fu Yingying wasn’t his biological child, how could he not know Fu Yingying wasn’t their family’s third?