Su Xiaomeng has never been so gentle with her own parents.
She patiently explained to Yin Huaiyu, yet still received no response from him.
"Huang Huang, what did you see in Paris with Elder Zhou this time? Did you meet Matthew Moore? Did you enjoy the concert that Elder Zhou praised so highly?"
Su Xiaomeng switched topics.
"Mom, please leave, I don’t want to talk to you."
Yin Huaiyu said coldly.
Su Xiaomeng felt her patience drop to a negative level instantly because of that one sentence, and she took a deep breath and said, "So you’ve decided not to communicate with Mom, have you?"
"..."
"Yin Huaiyu, I’m asking you a question! When an elder asks you a question, you should answer! Do you not even have this little bit of manners? Did I raise you to come and get unpredictable and sullen?"
Su Xiaomeng clenched her fist, and her anger surged!
To her surprise, her fierceness not only failed to intimidate Yin Huaiyu, but instead made him feel even more stifled. He looked at Su Xiaomeng and countered,
"Then why do you like Xiao Xiaoang so much? What’s so good about him? Except for that birthmark on his forehead that’s like a little demon! What else does he have that’s special—"
"Pa!"
The crisp sound froze the air in the room!
Su Xiaomeng didn’t use much force, but she felt her palm numb intensely.
She... slapped Yin Huaiyu.
Yin Huaiyu just stood there, filled with anger after Xiao Meng slapped him...
Su Xiaomeng’s hand was still trembling, yet the slap had been delivered. Possibly becoming a wedge between them as mother and son, the slap had landed, so... Su Xiaomeng intended to make this slap serve its purpose,
"Is this how I taught you? To casually call another child a little demon?! Just because he has a red birthmark on his forehead, does that mean he deserves to be called a little demon by those born with both parents and basking in boundless affection like you, young masters and misses! Yin Huaiyu, what gives you the right!"
Yin Huaiyu stared at her fixedly, Su Xiaomeng’s slap didn’t use much force, but to Yin Huaiyu, it was a genuine wound to his heart.
"Your dad and I have never required you and Shuangshuang to do anything. At this age, other people’s children are already forced to attend various extracurricular classes, forced to study things that parents and family expect but which they themselves do not like!"
"And you, and Shuangshuang, are allowed to learn what you want and do what you’re interested in! But whatever you do, learn, or pursue as a career in the future, at the very least you have to become a kind and honest person! This is the bottom line!"
"The words you said just now, what’s the difference between you and those uncultured people who look at others with colored glasses?"
Su Xiaomeng knew that no matter how angry she got, she shouldn’t have slapped him, but hearing the jarring term "Little Demon" come out of her own son’s mouth, her hand... simply rose on its own, dropped without any gap for thinking.
Yin Huaiyu kept staring at Su Xiaomeng, that gaze... Su Xiaomeng couldn’t identify it, but if the two elders of the Yin Family were here, they could feel it clearly.
This gaze was exactly like Yin Shixiu’s... filled with anger, an inborn king’s arrogance unrefined.
This gaze would never be likable...
Su Xiaomeng felt the same way, just thinking after all she said, Yin Huaiyu still had that gaze, honestly, Xiao Meng felt... a bit disappointed.
"You asked me why I like Xiao Xiaoang, now you know the reason, don’t you?"
Yin Huaiyu spoke indifferently, his voice cold and lacking any semblance of childlike warmth.
For a moment, mother and son confronted each other, neither backing down, the atmosphere extremely tense. Fortunately, Yin Shixiu arrived just in time, a bit stunned upon entering, having thought that Xiao Meng was soft-tempered and that their son was reasonable, that the two would sit down and talk, and quickly resolve their issues as mother and son.
Now, looking at it...
"Xiao Meng, go back to your room first."
Su Xiaomeng didn’t want to stay a moment longer. Before leaving, she looked at Yin Huaiyu and said,
"If Little Treasure’s sister hadn’t been so unfortunate and died early, she would have had a red birthmark on her forehead too... have you forgotten?"
With that, she walked out of the room, brushing past Yin Shixiu and venting her anger on Yin Shixiu, "It’s all because of you spoiling him!"
Yin Shixiu immediately felt wronged by this accusation, how was this his fault?
After Xiao Meng left, Yin Huaiyu sat down. Turning his back to Yin Shixiu, he said, "Dad, you should go out too; I want to be alone for a while."