CHAPTER 838: CHAPTER 749: DISLOCATED LIVES 37

Liu Yun was different. She immediately suspected that the Fang Family had bullied her precious daughter. In Liu Yun’s heart, her daughter was perfect in every way. Everyone at the company loved her daughter; her daughter’s charisma was undeniable.

The Fang Family were Shuangshuang’s biological parents. Shuangshuang was always smiling and welcoming to outsiders, so it wouldn’t make sense for her to be cold to her own family unless she was bullied. Why else would she leave so quickly after going there? She must have been bullied and couldn’t stay any longer.

The more Liu Yun thought about it, the more her heart ached. She imagined countless scenarios of her precious daughter, whom she cherished, being bullied at the Fang Family, and her face flushed with anger. She just wanted to roll up her sleeves and stand up for her daughter immediately to get justice and have a serious talk about it.

"It’s nothing, really. I just couldn’t stand the atmosphere there. I understand why my biological father and mother aren’t warm towards me because I can’t get close to them either. In my heart, I’m only thinking of you.

When I arrived at the Fang Family, the grandparents weren’t home, which shows that they didn’t want to see me, their granddaughter. There’s also a brother who gave me a hard time right on the first day, which really upset me.

Mrs. Bai and Mr. Fang think I’ve never had a hard life and don’t believe I have any right to feel aggrieved. They are focused on their adopted daughter. I felt oppressed staying there, so I gave them five hundred thousand and agreed to give them fifty thousand each year as support, then left to live on my own.

Just as well, it makes it easier for me to stay close to you. From now on, you can treat it as if I’m away for school or work. We’ll often gather together. I’ll cook lunch for you every day, and you can host guests at my place every weekend, just like before. Nothing has changed."

Wen Shuangshuang did not hide anything or tell lies in front of Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun. In front of their parents, children won’t hide their grievances or little thoughts, whether it’s a narrow-minded or a sad side.

This is what a normal parent-child relationship is like—a complete closeness. Even if there are personal matters, there are no real secrets because there is complete trust in the parents, who will never reject you for your shortcomings, only endlessly tolerate you.

Of course, Wen Shuangshuang could have sugar-coated her words to express her thoughts, but that’s not how one talks to close parents.

Children do not disguise or embellish when speaking to their parents, because to do so would mean a defense and distrust, or treating oneself as an outsider.

Similarly, parents truly close to their children view them with rose-tinted glasses. Whatever the child says is right, even if it’s just petty grievances, because the parents feel deep down that their own child is the best.

Whatever comes out of their child’s mouth, true or not, the parent’s first reaction is to believe it. So no matter how clever the parents are, they are easily deceived by the obvious lies of their kids.

Of course, Wen Shuangshuang didn’t lie. She merely openly poured out her grievances in front of Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun, and incidentally complained of being bullied.

Sure enough, upon hearing Wen Shuangshuang’s words, Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun’s hearts immediately ached. They believed every word without the slightest doubt and were convinced the Fang Family had wronged their precious daughter.

Even though Wen Shuangshuang stated the facts, they felt their daughter downplayed the grievances she suffered, and there must be many things she hadn’t said, with the Fang Family doing even worse things. Thinking this, the couple immediately felt that their daughter, raised with love and care, should not be raised by someone else.

Upon realizing this, they felt more distressed, seeing how their cherished daughter was so mistreated on her first day at the other family.

If it weren’t for their child’s ability to quickly establish independence, setting up like it was, she could only have weathered hardship in a household where no one appreciated her. Such a scenario pained their hearts to even imagine.

Though Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun were heartbroken, they couldn’t criticize Wen Shuangshuang’s birth parents in front of her. After all, they were her biological parents, and even Shuangshuang herself knew not living with the Fang Family involved first securing financial surface relations.

Moreover, because they loved Shuangshuang, the daughter they raised since childhood, more, they could also understand somewhat how the Fang parents might love Fang Zhijin more. But that didn’t stop them from feeling worse about the Fang Family.

Though they loved Shuangshuang more, they had never shown any indication of that to Fang Zhijin and had always taken care of their biological daughter’s feelings. After all, the children were blameless; it was the adults’ fault that led to the misplacement of the two children’s lives.

Yet the Fang Family was completely inconsiderate of Shuangshuang’s feelings. Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun, who loved Shuangshuang dearly, couldn’t stand it. Although logically, they should have urged Shuangshuang to befriend her biological parents, the couple didn’t want to see their daughter ingratiate herself, sticking a warm face to a cold backside, enduring cold stares and grievances. They couldn’t bear it.

Before, Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun considered that since their daughter was the Fang Family’s biological daughter, they should give the Fang Family a helping hand for Shuangshuang’s sake. According to Wen Jianyun, Fang Zhan’s company boss was a business partner of his. If Wen Jianyun said something to him, asking the boss to promote Fang Zhan, it should be doable.

In their past life, Fang Zhan did indeed quickly become a company executive from a simple white-collar worker due to Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun’s assistance. Unfortunately, Fang Zhan didn’t treat his biological daughter well, still giving Wen Shuangshuang the silent treatment.

This time, Fang Zhan won’t get that benefit, and with no memory of it, Wen Shuangshuang had unknowingly altered Fang Zhan’s climb on the corporate ladder. In this life, Fang Zhan could only stay in that white-collar position until he died. Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun considered it good enough not to suppress him for their beloved daughter’s sake; supporting him was out of the question.

Unpleasant matters were swiftly passed over. The following scene saw Wen Shuangshuang, Wen Jianyun, and Liu Yun reunited as a family, in tacit agreement not to mention the Fang Family, only speaking of joyful things. This meal was full of joy, and until late at night, Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun reluctantly parted ways with Wen Shuangshuang, being driven home by Wen Shuangshuang’s chauffeur.

Meanwhile, at the Wen Family, Fang Zhijin was restlessly pacing back and forth, her expression somewhat irate. She had previously called Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao, initially to show filial piety and say a few things to make them less fond of Wen Shuangshuang, ideally prompting them to teach her a lesson—using cold treatment, similar to how the Fang Family initially treated Wen Shuangshuang in the past life.