The Kitty Became a Cutie and Was Pampered in the 80s
Chapter 165: Severing Ties (4)_1

Chapter 165: Chapter 165: Severing Ties (4)_1

Xiu Jianlin’s face grew paler and paler as he listened to the words of the Ruanlin Family.

He involuntarily thought back to the scene when Xiu Xi’s mother passed away, a supremely beautiful woman who, despite her beauty, died with a fierce countenance.

She died from complications during childbirth, and even in death, her eyes remained open. Up to her last breath, she didn’t close her eyes but kept staring straight at the doorway, her hand suspended in mid-air as if she were a fierce ghost grasping at something...

Xiu Jianlin shivered and suddenly felt a chill at the back of his neck.

Seeing that her words were taking effect, the member of the Ruan Family continued, "Our Ruan Family might not have much, but we do have a lot of children. Jiaojiao has nine brothers above her, we really don’t covet a son from the Xiu Family. It’s just that Xiu Xi has some connections with our Ruan Family. This old woman genuinely pities him and wants to take care of him by her side without changing his surname, just raising him by her side, having no relation to my four sons."

"In the future, if one day he wishes to return to the Xiu Family, I won’t stop him."

"You, as a father, can also save some energy to care for your wife and children, can’t you? I know that in these times, raising a child isn’t easy." If the previous words were threatening, the latter were effectively putting a tall hat on Xiu Jianlin.

To slap one’s face and then offer a sweet date works best with someone as hypocritical and selfish as Xiu Jianlin, who still wishes to save his own face.

Indeed.

Upon hearing these words, the resistance on Xiu Jianlin’s face noticeably diminished.

As if he had found a reason for his own inaction.

He lifted his head, looking at Xiu Xi holding Ruan Jiaojiao’s small hand as if giving him one final chance, he asked, "Do you really want to go to the Ruan Family? You won’t regret it later?"

Xiu Xi nodded, never once looking back at him from beginning to end.

Xiu Jianlin took a step back, appearing quite disappointed and helpless as he sighed deeply.

"Well, if that’s your own wish, then I shall fulfill it for you. Just remember, if you regret this later, you can’t come back!"

Xiu Xi remained unmoved as a mountain.

Xiu Jianlin’s face showed embarrassment and annoyance, yet he had to pretend as if nothing had happened, and turned to the Ruan family member, "Auntie Ruan, then from now on, you will be in charge of this child. He has nothing to do with the Xiu Family."

A few words for just over a hundred yuan.

He was thus abandoning his own son.

The woman from the Ruan Family had achieved her goal but felt no joy at all.

With a stern face, she made Xu Jianguo draft a written agreement, and in front of the village officials, both sides signed it, stating that all responsibility for Xiu Xi would fall on the woman from the Ruan Family and he would have no connection with the Xiu Family whatsoever.

When Xiu Jianlin left the Ruan home, his face looked quite unsightly, forlorn, while Liu Mei was all smiles, her grin almost reaching her ears!

In her eyes, the people of the Ruan Family were simply insane. Why would they bother taking an unrelated child to raise, spending money, provisions, and effort, without even a drop of shared blood? She truly couldn’t comprehend what they were after.

Delighted, she patted Xiu Jianlin on the side, even forgetting the stifled resentment of being slapped, cheerfully saying to Xiu Jianlin, "Dad, let’s eat chicken tonight, and we’ll get some liquor from the village head, you drink up well."

"Drink what!" Unlike Liu Mei’s mood, Xiu Jianlin knew how people would talk about him after this, how he would be criticized, they might even point at his spine and curse him. He found absolutely nothing to be happy about.