DCBS

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DCBS: Chapter 16

The blush on Luo Xiuyun’s face quickly faded. All the blood was drained, as if she couldn’t believe what she had heard.

Pei Qingyuan’s harsh and straightforward sarcasm made the air completely silent for half a minute before their relatives started to awkwardly try to ease the situation.

“What nonsense are you saying? How can you say something like this in front of your mother? How much did it hurt her heart? Quickly apologize to your mother.”

Pei Qingyuan didn’t back down and sneered. “I hurt her heart? Who should apologize to whom?”

Ever since the day he met Luo Xiuyun, the two of them had never talked about the mistake back then.

Luo Xiuyun didn’t take the initiative to mention it to him because all her energy was on explaining it to Pei Minghong and his wife.

Pei Qingyuan didn’t take the initiative to bring it up because he felt he was the one who needed an explanation. He thought that his biological mother would talk to him.

Luo Xiuyun apologized to Pei Minghong and his wife and to her fake son Pei Yan, who had been deceived for 17 years. She even apologized to the hospital leader who had almost been held accountable but she never apologized to him.

Since he seemed to have enjoyed an undeserved rich life for 17 years, was he the one who benefited? Was he excluded from the list of victims?

Pei Qingyuan hadn’t wanted to think about these things before because it would only be an abyss that made him feel desperate the more he thought about it.

Now, in front of the light-hearted attitude of Luo Xiuyun and her relatives, he had to face this problem.

The strange thing was that at this moment, Pei Qingyuan didn’t have the anger and discomfort he imagined. He saw the unfamiliar and panicked faces in front of him and felt even more ridiculous.

The sensitive and fragile emotions that should’ve surged seemed to have been carefully protected, hidden in soft armor. This allowed him to escape this sting.

In a world he couldn’t see, a small robot with lights all over his body was running between the grass and the garden.

A white canopy blocked the heavy rain falling from the sky and a beautiful butterfly that was about to fly away was resting in a transparent glass cover.

Ji Tong tried his best to keep the butterfly.

Under Pei Qingyuan’s sharp questioning, the group of relatives who came here purely for their own interests looked at each other. They all retracted their heads and didn’t dare to speak again out of fear they would be involved in this family matter.

Luo Xiuyun, who was struck by lightning, clutched her apron tightly. She took a few words before finally organizing broken sentences. “At that time, your father had cancer and couldn’t be cured. All the money in our family was spent on treatment… I wanted you to live a better life so I took the risk of changing you with a rich family. I had no other choice. Mom was doing it for your own good…”

It was a set of logic that sounded impeccable so that the hateful person would have pity.

However, Pei Qingyuan asked, “During those years, did you and Pei Yan live happily?”

Staring into her son’s clear gaze, Luo Xiuyun couldn’t give an answer that was against her will. She could only say vaguely, “…It wasn’t too bad.”

Pei Yan was innocent, sensible and kind. He was a good child in everyone’s eyes since he was young and she worked hard to make things up for this innocent child. It might be a single parent family where they were dependent on each other but it could be called happy.