M Country, Xu Residence.

"Xu Feng, don't get too excited too soon!" Xu Qing coldly stared at his half-brother who was less than two years younger than him, unable to hide the disgust in his eyes.

This younger brother of his inherited eight parts of their father's looks, plus he had an extremely favored birth mother. Only because of this was Xu Feng able to receive special attention and love from their father among the many illegitimate children in the Xu family.

After the only proper female master in this residence passed away, their father couldn't wait to bring Xu Feng and his birth mother into the Xu residence.

Thinking of the scene that day, where his father, who had always been extremely harsh on him, looked at Xu Feng with a face full of kindness and affection, urging him to get along well with this "younger brother", Xu Qing couldn't help but feel a surge of disgust in his heart!

Xu Feng was a very smart person. Knowing that he was not welcomed, he always appeared very docile at home. However, the greed and hostility that occasionally leaked from his eyes were still keenly noticed by Xu Qing. Xu Qing had always extremely disliked his father's illegitimate children, and Xu Feng directly offended him in front of his eyes.

So in the past few years, he had used some means to suppress and torment this little bastard. Although his father was very fond of this illegitimate son, he still valued him more as the heir. So Xu Feng had never been able to gain an advantage in front of him and could only tuck his tail and behave. This made Xu Qing quite complacent.

He was the proper heir of this family, the heir born from the marriage of two major families in M Country. An illegitimate child who entered the Xu family by relying on a woman's favor also dared to fight him for the position?

Until this time, his birth mother, who was said to be his father's "first love", was pregnant with a second child. Seeing the hope of being legitimized, Xu Feng became tough again, and his hostility towards Xu Qing gradually became obvious.

Xu Feng's face, which looked so much like their father's, had an innocent smile, but the corners of his eyes were a sarcastic arc. "Brother, what are you so excited about? Instead of wasting time here sarcastic towards me, why don't you think of a way to quench Father's anger?

"I heard that as soon as Brother returned to the country, he offended the head of the Mo family for the sake of a woman, causing the Mo family to now say they want to re-evaluate the contract with us for the next quarter. Brother... is really a man of deep affection and righteousness ah."

"You!"

As soon as Xu Qing heard this, he felt a breath stuck in his chest, so stuffy that his heart ached.

Half a month ago, he received a call from his father and learned that he was going to legitimize this woman in the residence. He immediately dropped the mess in the country and hurried back, ready to lobby the forces on his mother's side of the family to put pressure on this marriage.

Even if the wedding could not be stopped, he would try his best to get his father to agree to abolish Xu Feng's inheritance rights. His mother's family would definitely not sit idly by and watch him have his inheritance rights divided by a son born of a commoner.

His plan was not bad, but he didn't expect that as soon as he returned, he was scolded by his father.

The reason was that their family signed a contract with the Mo family two years ago that was neither big nor small. Although the profit brought by this contract itself was not high, it was a symbol of maintaining a friendly relationship with the Mo family.

Now the Mo family has let out word that they are considering whether to renew the contract with their family this year, which is undoubtedly a kind of warning and threat to the Xu family.

The Mo family is now a bright future giant ship, and almost all companies are scrambling to let this giant ship bring them along for a ride. Now the heir of their family offended the head of the Mo family for the sake of a woman, and was personally thrown off the boat by the head of the Mo family. If this kind of news spreads, he was afraid it will make other companies laugh their heads off!

So, in a fit of rage, the head of the Xu family directly stripped Xu Qing of his position as general manager of the domestic branch and let him face the wall and reflect at home. He then arranged for Xu Feng to enter the headquarters, although only as an ordinary employee.

But the implications represented by this series of actions by his father still made Xu Qing's heart turn cold.

And on his mother's side of the family, after hearing about the ugly things Xu Qing had done, naturally they had no standing to demand that Father Xu not cultivate other heirs.

It can be said that the two things of Father remarrying soon and Xu Feng about to squeeze into the ranks of Xu family heirs have almost become a foregone conclusion.

Xu Feng maintained the smile on his face and said hypocritically, "I still have to go to the hospital later, so I won't keep you company first. To say Dad is really making a fuss over nothing. My mom just sprained her ankle a few days ago, and he's so worried that he runs to the hospital every day, more diligently than me. I just called him and he's still at the hospital with her. But my mom is pregnant now, so she really needs to be careful. Don't you agree, brother?"

With that said, he walked around Xu Qing, whose face was ashen, and headed for the door.

The servant very perceptively opened the door for him.

But Xu Feng suddenly stopped, looked back at Xu Qing's somewhat distorted expression, and revealed a malicious smile: "Brother, when you tortured me back then, you didn't expect there would be this day, right?" After saying that, he turned around and strode out of the Xu residence.

After Xu Feng left, Xu Qing stood in the quiet living room for a while. He coldly swept his eyes over the servants who didn't dare to breathe, his expression unfathomable. He soon also went upstairs and returned to his own bedroom.

*

Xu Qing's situation in M Country was not good, and Mo Lanyu's situation in the country was not much better than his.

That day Xu Qing left in a hurry. She couldn't get through to Xu Qing's phone after several tries. She waited anxiously for four or five days before Xu Qing finally contacted her.

Just when she hadn't relaxed for a few minutes, her mood was pulled down to the bottom by her boyfriend's situation in the family. After barely mustering the energy to comfort her boyfriend, she couldn't hold back after hanging up the phone and knelt on the ground, crying out loud.

After a few more days at home, when the prison's visitation time opened, Mo Lanyu barely pulled herself together and went to the prison to visit her parents.

The last time she went to visit, Mo Lanyu hinted to them that she had a rich and powerful boyfriend, and would be able to get them out soon. So this time, as soon as they met, Shen Cuiwei asked anxiously, "Lanlan! My good daughter, how are things going? This place is really not fit for people to stay, wuwuwu... hurry and have your boyfriend take mom out! Hurry!"

Shen Cuiwei had only been in prison for five or six years, but she looked like she had aged more than a decade, all skin and bones, with no flesh on her cheeks, making her eyes look terrifyingly large. When she got excited, her eyeballs almost popped out.

Mo Tiangao also had a sallow face. He looked at Shen Cuiwei with distress, silently staring intently at his own daughter, his eyes full of longing.

Under her parents' gaze, Mo Lanyu cried in shame.

Why did it turn out this way? Her parents were accused of being murderers; her wealthy and powerful boyfriend suddenly lost his power and was unable to take care of himself; she even lost her job!

In the depths of her heart, she had a misconception that she should have had a harmonious family and a successful career at this time.

So, where did things go wrong?

Mo Lanyu was in a daze, her mind wandering. Inexplicably, the image of a thin and weak teenager wearing loose hospital clothes, sitting on the hospital bed with dark eyes, appeared in her mind. It was from six years ago when she and her mother visited Mo Qig in the hospital after he suddenly went blind.