“There is no curse.”
Xing Yeze looked at Xing Li’s dark eyes indifferently. Though father and son shared strikingly similar features, the aura they exuded couldn’t have been more different.
Xing Li was nonchalant and laced with mockery, but if one looked closer, they might catch a glimpse of the frustration and disappointment buried deep within. Xing Yeze, on the other hand, stood firm and fearless, radiating the boldness of a calf unafraid of tigers. Yet in Xing Li’s eyes, that was nothing more than ignorance and naivety.
But is Xing Yeze really ignorant and naive?
“You are too greedy. You and Lin Yin are the same.”
As soon as the words fell, Xing Li and Lin Yin’s faces changed drastically.
Xing Yeze curled his lips into a cold smile and continued, word by word, to tear away the last shred of dignity from Xing Li and Lin Yin. “Grandpa and Grandma on both sides always left themselves a backup plan. The world’s top hospitals are storing their frozen sperm and eggs—they can cultivate a new heir anytime they want. Don’t even talk about how healthy they were back when you were getting married—look at them now, they’re still in great shape, even though I’m already grown.”
The more elite the aristocratic family, the more they value a marriage of equals. Families like the Xings and the Lins—perched at the very pinnacle of the social pyramid—often forge powerful alliances through arranged marriages, all to ensure their continued dominance at the top.
But no one can guarantee that two ‘tools’ in a marriage alliance will just happen to fall in love. So to ensure the alliance proceeds smoothly—or even threaten their own children—many heads of top-tier aristocratic families freeze their sperm and eggs in advance.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t obey the family arrangement. We can cultivate new heirs at any time. You’re replaceable.
So, to put it bluntly, Xing Li and Lin Yin were simply too greedy to let go. They couldn’t bear to part with the wealth and status their families gave them, yet they also couldn’t give up the people they loved. So they played the victims—marrying their alliance partners while clinging tightly to their lovers in the shadows, seducing them into becoming shameful, hidden mistresses.
Setting aside whether the mistresses themselves were also tempted by the wealth and status of their families, the children of Xing Li and Lin Yin—whether born within wedlock or out of it—suffered deeply.
Xing Yeze had barely interacted with Xing Li’s other two children, so he had no idea what their mental state was like. But as for Lin Yin’s illegitimate son, Si Xuanhe—Xing Yeze had long since seen just how twisted his psyche truly was.
Of course, Xing Yeze’s mentality was also more or less abnormal. Before he fell in love with Liang Huan, he rejected all Omegas for no reason and was extremely disgusted with marriage and love.
“I can tell you clearly today that I will not obey the family’s arrangement. You two should go to the hospital to cultivate new heirs. I know you two already have a backup plan.” Xing Yeze said without hesitation and reluctance, “I’m different from you. I’m not greedy.”
I only need Liang Huan. I will create the wealth and status by myself. Even if I try my best and cannot compare with the Xing and Lin families, who have experienced hundreds of years of accumulation, I will not regret it, and my Omega will definitely not mind.
After Xing Yeze finished speaking, he ordered the servants to bring the meal to his room.
He is no longer the heir of the Xing and Lin families, and therefore, Xing Li and Lin Yin do not need to accompany him for dinner.
“…What the hell?” Lin Yin came back to her senses after a long while and said angrily: “I’m greedy?! Cultivate a new heir?! Damn, I will have to eat with a child for another 20 years!”
Xing Li held back his anger. Compared to Lin Yin, his response was far more composed. “Don’t believe everything he says. Just because he claims he won’t obey—does that mean he really won’t? A newborn calf may not fear a tiger, but once he loses the privileges that come with the family, we’ll see how long that defiance lasts. Not greedy…”
What a joke. He and Lin Yin once swore they’d give up everything for love too—but in the end, reality beat them down, and they slunk back home with their tails between their legs.
You carry the blood of both Lin Yin and me, Xing Yeze. You won’t be any different…
Makes me so sad when parents, instead of making sure their children don’t have to go through the same painful experience as them, try to make their child suffer just as much as them ;A;