Chapter 425 - Chapter 425: Chapter Four-Hundred and Twenty-Five: Revenge (2/2)
“You? Merely a cheap existence left alive after the pros and cons are weighed. As you hoped, your unborn child is a boy. However, thanks to his relation to you, his life won’t be easy. The Xi family will house and have a place for him at the table, but he won’t be inheriting any of the Xi family’s assets. He will have a stepmother in the future, and I dare say she won’t treat him well either!”
Lin Yu was furious at that. “You! Don’t you think you’re being too vicious?”
“Vicious?” Han Yuan looked at Lin Yu in shock and couldn’t help but laugh. “I’m no more vicious than you. Compared to you, I’m as kind as a Bodhisattva! I’ll raise the child of a woman who wanted me dead, and you call me vicious?”
Lin Yu stood up, looking as if she’d made up her mind. “If that’s how it is, me and my son might as well die together right now.”
Han Yuan looked at her. The two looked at each other in silence. Lily clenched her fists nervously, wanting to do something but having no idea what to do. Lin Yu didn’t move a muscle as she waited for Han Yuan’s response to her ultimatum.
Han Yuan chuckled, “Do as you wish! I don’t care! It’s not like I’m going to lose sleep over it. It’s your choice; I haven’t done anything.”
Lin Yu’s tone unwittingly weakened as she said, “How are you going to explain to the people outside if I die? Aren’t you afraid someone will suspect something and come question you if I vanish into thin air?”
Han Yuan gazed at Lin Yu, who was making her last struggles, and took satisfaction at her state, the hostility within her easing slightly. She smiled with evident smugness at Lin Yu, and answered, “What is there to explain? All I have to do is announce to the public that, due to her weak health, the Xi family’s young mistress died from complications during childbirth.”
“Or, I can say the Xi family’s young mistress went and gave birth abroad, and after a few years, announce that the unfortunate mother and son died overseas in a car accident, or a fire, or drowned. All completely reasonable! More reasonable than your mother-in-law dying under your meticulous care, isn’t that right?”
Lin Yu was rendered speechless, and Han Yuan laughed until tears rolled down her cheeks. “Lin Yu, I’ve always thought you were a smart one—it’s why I was willing to put in so much effort to nurture you. But there was one key lesson I forgot to teach you. I forgot to tell you there’s karma in this world. Karma and retribution!”
Han Yuan continued, “You don’t know why I’m doing this, do you? I know you don’t want to die—you can’t bear to! And I’ll do my best to not let you die. You can only get your retribution if you’re alive! Only then can I return to you what you did to me! Isn’t that right, Lin Yu?”
“Lily, your Young Madam is tired and needs to rest. Let’s leave for now.” With that, Han Yuan wheeled herself out with a delighted smile, leaving Lin Yu to digest her every cutting word.