However, such a family had never given him any opportunities as well. Vireo had to pour his own blood, sweat, and tears into obtaining everything he wanted. I f that was not a man from a lowly background who had to earn his place with his might and main, then what was it? If he was labeled as that, then so be it. Vireo was originally an illegitimate child who did not even know his own name, to begin with, so being given the title of a diligent man from a lowly background was already a compliment to him.
Within a blink of an eye, Vireo had already accepted being called a man from a lowly background by Mira, and he had also already accepted the fact that Mira was here looking for him to give him an opportunity because he had no other way out anymore. When he turned his head back, the hostility on him had vanished. What was left in him was a dispirited sense and also helplessness.
He looked at his future father-in-law, Phil, with a helpless smile. "I am so sorry, Mister Turner. I was rude just now. The Heartland Hospital is very famous i n the provincial capital, and I have long heard of your good name as well. It was just that when I was stitching your daughter's wound, I had no idea that she was the only daughter of the Heartland Hospital. Please pardon me for my impertinence. If, and I am only saying if, Mister Turner is willing to give me an opportunity, then I am willing to be at your service for the rest of my life."
Phil's impression of Vireo was already very poor, and when he saw Vireo's attitude changing so quickly, his impression of Vireo got even worse. Phil sneered. "The way you act is just like a chameleon!"
"Thank you," Vireo replied. Phil was speechless.
"If you're willing to give me an opportunity, I will be at your service for the rest of my life, I will never ever... return to this place."
What he said, to put it bluntly, was not actually meant for Phil's ears. He was actually saying that to his parents. His parents had raised him, but they had actually just raised him from his childhood to high school. Through his entire college years, he had been providing for himself and was self-sufficient in his basic needs. Not only that, but he also saved up some money.
That was not all. In the past couple of years, not only had he been paying his family rent at a rate higher than others, but just the money that he had earned and spent on the house to purchase all sorts of things alone had cost him half a million dollars. He was a young doctor and his clinic had only been in business for two years. All of the savings he had on him had been taken out to support his parents.
He did not value money at all. He has the skills to practice medicine, so he was never afraid that he could not make money. He only wanted to protect the affection between him and his family. Just a sense of love between him and his family. That was all! However, what happened in the end? The entire family joined hands to beat him up. All of his sisters' husbands pinned him to the ground to hit him. At that moment, if he had not fought back, he might have been crippled by them. Therefore, he fought back. 1
When Vireo fought back and ripped the hands of his brothers-in-law, it had already crossed his mind that h e could no longer stay in the Payne family anymore. Since he could no longer stay anymore and since there was an opportunity in the provincial capital, he certainly had to make his stance clear to his adoptive parents. He was never going to return anymore for the rest of his life. All the kindness that he could have repaid his adoptive parents had already been settled. He simply was going to make a clean break with his adoptive parents that day.
After saying those words, Vireo did not care about how shocked Phil was, but he just turned his head back to look at his adoptive parents. "Dad, Mom? Let m e address you like this one last time. Today is the day that I have been released from prison, and it's also the day I am reborn. From now on, we don't owe each other anything anymore. From now on, we will no longer have a parent-child relationship anymore.
From now on, I have absolutely nothing to do with the Payne family anymore!"
His words were spoken with ruthless resolution and calmness, which made his adoptive parents
dumbfounded.
Initially, his adoptive parents had come out of the house as they wanted to criticize Vireo so that he would steadfastly work for the Payne family and care for the four elderly people in the family. They wanted t o make him obedient. However, they did not expect that his son, whom they had raised since childhood, was actually here to sever their parent-child relationship.
Lucius simply thought that he had heard it wrong. His voice was trembling and he almost cried. "Son, you... what did you say? Say it again!"
Once again, Vireo calmly emphasized. "I am here to sever the parent-child relationship between us. From now on, we're strangers."
As soon as Vireo finished his words, he heard his mother suddenly shout in tears, "You...you rebellious thing. You have no conscience at all. You should be struck by lightning!"
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