"S-Son.." Lucius stuttered.
"I am not your son." Vireo's tone was still very calm.
At that moment, Lucius' wife had also arrived in front of Vireo. She also looked eagerly at Vireo. Originally, she also wanted to call out her son just like Lucius did, but before she was able to do so, she was interrupted by Vireo.
Vireo sighed. "There's actually only one reason I came here today, submitted an entire day's worth of paperwork, and handed assurance letters to all the departments, which is that both of you are already very old. If I were to take a million steps back, I still owe it to you for raising m e. Therefore, this is considered the last thing I'm going for you. As for the things that you said, we are indeed not related by blood, and I am not your son. Even if you didn't say that to me, I will also tell you that today.
"Now, both of you, please listen carefully. I a m Holden Payne! I am the son of Sean Ford, who was the former director of the Ford family in South City. I am not your son.
From now on, we have nothing to do with each other anymore. This is the prison and the law enforcement officers here can have you heavily surrounded. If you were to lean on the front of my car and don't let me leave, the officers will deal with you. Of course, if you don't want to leave, at best, I’ll just go and change my statement. My mother, myself, and our neighbors in the county can all come and testify that both of you had bought a baby back then."
He was extremely calm when he said that, and he was also extremely merciless. Lucius and his wife were both crying uncontrollably when they heard what he said.
"Son, you .are you really going to be so heartless? We had taken you home once as soon as you were born. We cradled you at night, cleaned your wastes, fed you milk..." Lucius' wife was still saying the same thing as she cried.
What she said was certainly a tearjerker, but if it was said too much, it would also become like she was rambling. People often say that something will lose its meaning if it was said too much, and this was exactly what they meant. However, speaking of that, since Vireo was hellbent o n severing all ties with his adoptive parents, then he had to make himself clear.
"Nicely said." Vireo smiled miserably. "You had been through so many hardships to raise me, and you're a very loving mother. However, you have never thought about it this way. That kind of motherly love of yours is something you had gotten by depriving the love of a twenty-year-old mother, who had just given birth and had nobody to lean on. You're not a loving mother because of how much you love me! Rather, it's because you needed a son! Your love as a mother itself is selfish! It's all for your own sake!"
The old lady was at a loss for words after hearing what he said. She was dumbfounded for a long time, and then she argued unreasonably, "Who said that I don't love you? You're my son. How could I not love you? Which mother in this world wouldn't love their son?" "Yes, that's right. Which parents would not love their own son?" Lucius said in agreement with his wife.
"Love me?" Vireo asked in return. "If you love me, would you have not given a shit when watching Abigail beat me up when I was still a very young child? I wouldn't have been so upset if you were indifferent t o all of your children. After all, children grow up by playing and fighting with each other. However, you were only indifferent toward me. When I was bleeding out of my nose and mouth from being beaten up by Abigail, once I fought back, even if I had only punched Abigail once, both of you would beat me up.
"Of course, the reason you had beaten me u p was that boys have to be like gentlemen, and boys can't beat girls up. However, after I had given it some thought, later on, the true reason both of you beat me up was not that boys are not supposed to beat girls up. The true reason you had beaten me up was that I had punched your biological daughter, right? Otherwise, after I had married Mira, why would you often urge m e to beat Mira up? Fortunately, I didn't listen to you at that time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to clear the charge of me threatening Mira with a knife at all."
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