Domineering CEO Is My Son

Mr. Kang paused at the door for a moment, then hurried upstairs, holding the child.

Little Kangkang had already fallen asleep on his shoulder. Children tend to get sleepy easily, which made things easier for Mr. Kang.

He always felt a bit uneasy doing these things in front of Little Kangkang, afraid the child might learn bad habits.

The couple had raised their child well, and if he were to spoil it, they probably wouldn't let him play with Little Kangkang anymore.

He had prepared a grand surprise, but when he came down, he found only three people left in the ward.

The middle-aged man who was raising someone else's son had already left.

Although… although the matter of raising someone else's son felt like a punch to the gut for Mr. Kang…

He didn't dwell on it.

Mr. Kang came in holding Little Kangkang, who was sound asleep, a hairband he had just bought from a little girl at a high price adorning his hair.

Xia Sheng sat beside the hospital bed, silence filling the ward.

No one spoke.

"Little Bao said he missed you, so I brought him over," Mr. Kang said.

Xia Sheng hummed in response, not saying he shouldn't have come.

Yue Qin stood up and said, "I'll go buy dinner for you."

He left the ward to the awkward mother and daughter. They had a lot to talk about.

Both mother and daughter were silent for a while before Xia Sheng asked, "Did you two get divorced… because you hit that child?" She tried hard to calm herself down.

The person on the hospital bed's eyes reddened. "Alright, I know I haven't been good to you sisters. I don't know where your sister went. She's hated me since she was a child. I don't even know if she's still alive. You were obedient when you were young, but now you can't stand me. This is my karma."

Xia Sheng didn't know what to say. The person in front of her had a cut on her forehead. The doctor said it took 18 stitches. Her vitality was unusually tenacious, just like when she was young. But now, she was old and had gray hair.

"I don't know what I was thinking at that time. At first, I was happy. I just loved sons. I just wanted a son. But that night, your dad was so happy that he couldn't sleep. Your grandparents kept saying that if I took good care of myself, I would be blessed and have two older sisters when the baby was born."

"It was all too familiar. My mom gave birth to four daughters. I was the oldest. I never told anyone, but every time she was pregnant, she hoped for a son. And every time, I would hide in a corner, watching them busy themselves, praying to God that it wouldn't be a brother."

"I was only a few years old at that time, but I was smart and vicious enough to know that if I had a brother, my life would be miserable."

Xia Sheng suddenly realized that she had never had any emotional exchange with this person. She didn't know what had been going through her mind all these years.

"My mom had been hoping for a son all her life but never got one. I got my wish. Looking at the two of you, you were going to have a brother."

"I would love your brother, your dad would love your brother, and your grandparents wanted your brother."

"Without a brother, you could at least live the life you had at that time. But with a brother, you would truly become orphans because I wouldn't love you, your dad wouldn't love you, and your grandparents would hate you even more. You would become your brother's servants for the rest of your lives."

"I know how that feels because that's how I grew up. All my older sisters lived like that. So every time, I would kneel and beg God not to give me a brother. The only difference was, every time I made that vicious plea, God helped me. But he didn't help you."

At that time, it was as if she was possessed. She suddenly couldn't tolerate the child in her belly.

But after she really got rid of it, she had nightmares every night. She began to feel that she was truly vicious, so much so that she could abort her own child!

But she was a vicious person to begin with and never regretted it. She didn't regret aborting the child at all.

She took her two daughters and left to live their lives. It wasn't easy.

But it was better than how the women around her lived. The only problem was that she could never face her own viciousness.

"I'm sorry to you sisters too. I really don't love you. When we divorced, I took you with me only because I wanted everyone to blame your father. I didn't want to be accused of abandoning my children."

When Xia Sheng heard the words "I don't love you," she felt relieved. She didn't know why, but she wasn't angry at all when she heard those words. It was as if a huge weight had been lifted from her heart. She said, "Thank you for holding back."

Xia Sheng had realized long ago that when she was a child, she had viewed adults, her parents, as too sacred, too powerful.

In fact, they were just a bunch of pitiful children who had grown up physically but hadn't figured out their own lives. In reality, they were even more emotional than children.

Yet she had hoped that these pitiful children could give her love, could avoid hurting her.

"Thank you for telling me all this." Xia Sheng suddenly realized that she was also quite hateful. Her mother had clearly never loved her, yet she had to constantly endure the narrative of how much her mother loved her.

Looking at this person, Xia Sheng suddenly felt liberated. It turned out that what she sought wasn't the other person's love.

But for the other person to generously admit that they simply didn't love her, that hurting her was just hurting her.

It turned out that she could bear not being loved by her parents.

She just couldn't bear the false pretense of being loved when she clearly wasn't.

The root of her pain stemmed from "You treat me so badly, yet you keep saying you love me, forcing me to acknowledge your love, making me feel obligated to give to you, as if all the grievances and pain of the past were what I deserved."

When Yue Qin and Little Kangkang returned, Xia Sheng was a completely different person. All the things that had been weighing her down were gone, and she seemed to have relaxed all at once.

Xia Sheng even chatted with the person on the bed calmly.

Mr. Kang was touched. His mind was filled with images of the mother and daughter hugging each other and crying, telling each other that many things were misunderstandings, that they actually still loved each other.

Mr. Kang couldn't help but think of himself…

His violent mother had already made amends. Should he consider making amends too?

His second uncle?

His grandparents?

Just like Big Guy… Yue Qin had said, let go of past grudges and be brave enough to try things he hadn't dared to try before.

Look, how relaxed and happy Xia Sheng was now!

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