Mr. Bo, Madam Is Pregnant!
Chapter 159 Self-Blame

Chapter 159: Chapter 159 Self-Blame

Su Zhe remembered Shen Xun had mentioned before that he suspected Su Lu was his sister who had been stolen.

"Qianqian was stolen," Jing Su said.

Shen Xun took a deep breath and let out a long sigh, a breath spanning over twenty years, as if he could only release half of it at this moment. The other half might only be released when he was truly able to confirm that Su Lu was indeed his long-lost sister. Otherwise, he would have to keep hanging in suspense, not knowing how long it would last. If he couldn’t find his sister, he would probably be left hanging for a lifetime.

He would never swallow that breath even in death.

Shen Xun’s story continued. His father, Shen Jiming, despite never bringing troublesome matters back home and always maintaining the persona of a good husband and father at home,

that did not mean others wouldn’t come knocking.

Thinking that being passive, unrejecting, and unaccountable meant others didn’t want him to be accountable.

He didn’t want such troublesome matters to destroy his family, but that didn’t mean others didn’t want to destroy his family.

"There was a woman who couldn’t accept that my dad broke up with her. In fact, aside from the serious relationship he had with my mom back in the day, all his later relationships were messy trysts that couldn’t even be counted as dating. He would lose interest and leave, settling it with some money, but just because he was willing to let it go didn’t mean others were willing to do the same."

Shen Xun smiled, his smile clearly mocking, mocking his father.

"There was a woman who thought she was truly in love with my dad and couldn’t accept that he broke up with her unilaterally, and then she seemed to have become somewhat mentally unstable. The money my dad gave her at the breakup, she didn’t use it for herself but instead bribed our nanny and doorman."

"With so much money, bribing the nanny and the doorman was too easy. That day my parents happened to go out to buy me toys, but I knew they were actually going out to argue. They never argued at home, always saying they were going out to buy me toys, but actually, they went to resolve their conflicts. That day must also have been because of the messes my father had outside; my mother went out with him to argue."

"And while my parents were not at home, the nanny and the doorman took the opportunity to let that woman in. Besides the nanny, there were only my sister, me, and my cousin, my uncle’s son, at home."

"That year I was less than ten years old, at my most mischievous age. When my sister was awake, I always accompanied her, but after all, being a boy, I always had my own toys and video games to play with, so when my sister and cousin took a nap, I was not by their side but went off to play on my own."

"That was when she came in. She arrived in a hurry and probably didn’t expect two children to be there. And because my father never spoke of our family matters outside, she couldn’t tell who the children from our family were, so she stole both children."

By this point in his story, although so many years had passed, Shen Xun still struggled to remain composed, his emotions becoming somewhat heightened.

He raised his hand to press his eyes, "It was my fault; I should have been beside her."

Jing Su frowned, "You were so young at the time, what could you understand? Don’t blame yourself."

Shen Xun, overwhelmed by his emotions, found it hard to continue.

Jing Su helped him continue the story.

Later, when Shen Jiming and Zhao Ying came back, they found both their daughter and nephew were missing. Their eldest son was still there, but the nanny and the doorman were nowhere to be found.

Of course, the matter was very serious, and the police soon captured the nanny and the doorman.

Originally, everyone thought that it was the nanny and the doorman who had kidnapped the two children for ransom, but it turned out that they had just been bribed, and someone else had actually taken the children.

When Su Lu learned that her daughter and nephew had been kidnapped, it turned out to be by people Shen Jiming had provoked.

Zhao Ying almost went mad at the thought, her young daughter’s life hanging in the balance. Her hair turned white overnight.

Shen Xun was filled with self-blame, he dearly loved his sister, and nearly developed acute stress disorder in just one night, on the verge of shutting down.

And that woman, it wasn’t for money, there were no ransom demands at all.

The police gathered from the nanny and doorman that when the woman bribed them with money, she only mentioned using the kids to threaten Shen Jiming into settling matters with her, without intending to harm the children.

But at that moment, no one could be certain.

A few days later, this woman called Shen Jiming, already in a terrible mental state. In such a state, it wouldn’t be surprising if she did something drastic. When everyone arrived, she was standing on top of a bridge.

Only she was there; the two children were not.

At that moment, under everyone’s watchful eyes, Zhao Ying knelt down, pleading with the woman, telling her she was willing to divorce Shen Jiming, willing to give him up, just if she would spare her children.

But the woman had already lost her sanity. She laughed for a while and before dying, didn’t reveal the exact whereabouts of the children, leaving only a few ambiguous words suggesting the children had been sold.

Then, she jumped from the top of the bridge into the rolling river waters, sinking a few times before disappearing.

Back then, it wasn’t like now with surveillance everywhere, blanketing the sky.

To find two children in a big city like Beijing, especially when the key witness was already dead, was near impossible.

The already strained atmosphere at Shen Xun’s home now completely shattered, the fragile facade they had couldn’t be maintained any longer.

Zhao Ying hired the best lawyer and divorced Shen Jiming, who left with virtually nothing, all marital assets went to Zhao Ying, and even Shen Xun’s custody was granted to her.

Losing her daughter, if it wasn’t for her son, Zhao Ying could hardly hold on. And at the time, Shen Xun’s condition wasn’t good either. He always blamed himself for his sister’s disappearance, thinking that his recklessness was the cause. He thought if he hadn’t been careless just that once, everything would have been different, none of this would have happened.

But he overlooked the fact that he was just a child too.

So Zhao Ying, as a mother, stood resilient. She couldn’t fall apart. She returned to her parents’ home and, with their help, started running her own business while also consoling her son, who was persistently blaming himself.

As time went on, although Shen Xun managed to ease his self-blame, deep down, he still believed it was his fault.

Thus, after graduating, he didn’t follow his mother into business or take over the family business.

Instead, he unhesitatingly joined a search and rescue team.

His parents, of course, tried to stop him because it was indeed too dangerous. He clearly should have been in an office, strategizing from a safe distance.

But he invariably found himself in the most dangerous places.

"He’s obsessed," Jing Su said, "He’s driven mad by the desire to find his sister."