Although they were not biological siblings, they treated each other as if they were.
Therefore, their affection was naturally something Mrs. Zhao could not compare with.
Mrs. Zhao's opinion didn't concern Ye Jiu much; what she cared about, time and again, were Ye Gaoshui's attitudes and those of his children from the second wife.
Luckily, Ye Gaoshui did not disappoint her this time.
"Everyone's heart aches for Wenyu leaving home, but this has nothing to do with the young sister.
You're well aware of how she usually treats the children—no worse than we as parents do.
I understand your distress. He said he was going to join the military, didn't he? I'll pack up the stuff right now and personally go to the frontier border to find him. Stop making a scene here and come back with me..." Ye Gaoshui said as he reached out to pull Mrs. Zhao.
"What, you want to go to the frontier border?
The place is currently at war. Everyone is fleeing toward this side. You are the backbone of our family head; how can you just go and throw away your life?
I do not agree, I absolutely do not agree!" Mrs. Zhao refused adamantly.
Ye Gaoshui sighed, "Let's go back home first and talk there."
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhao suddenly went crazy and lunged at Ye Jiu. "It's all your fault, you curse-bringer. If you hadn't given the horse, Wenyu wouldn't have left, and we wouldn't be risking our lives to find him. This is all your fault..." Official source ıs 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⟡𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕥⟡𝕟𝕖𝕥
Mrs. Zhao was frenzied, but Ye Jiu's years of martial arts training were not for naught.
With a reverse grip, Ye Jiu grabbed Mrs. Zhao's hands as she lunged at her, "You keep saying it was me who instigated Wenyu to leave home. Yet you have never looked for reasons within yourself. Mrs. Zhao, you are Wenyu's mother. Did you not notice that your son has changed drastically during this nearly one-year period?"
As she spoke, Ye Jiu revealed a mocking smile. "Indeed, how could a selfish fool like you, who only hopes for the younger son to be successful, care about the anomalies in your elder son whom you've decided has no prospects for his whole life?"
"You... you're just shirking responsibility!" Although Mrs. Zhao was still unwilling to accept this, her heart inevitably recalled this past year's performance of Ye Wenyu.
Indeed, since the family had money and sent Wenxuan to study, Wenyu had become increasingly reticent and sometimes indifferent to others talking to him.
Since he had always been a quiet child who did not fight for attention, Mrs. Zhao had never really worried about it.
Especially after Mrs. He agreed to pay for the children's tuition, and Wenyu also went to school. Yet, he didn't take his studies seriously at all.
While others revised their lessons when they went home, he was the only one who would sneak here to learn martial arts from a servant.
As Ye Wenyu grew older, Mrs. Zhao had no expectation for him to achieve academic or official success, so she never intervened.
Mrs. Zhao swallowed hard, disbelief in her voice. "Could it be... could it be that this child had long harbored thoughts of joining the military?
No wonder nothing could deter him from learning martial arts—not even wind or rain. So, he had this in mind all along!"
But, how could this be possible?
Mrs. Zhao's tears flowed freely. Although she verbally showed more concern for Wenxuan, Ye Wenyu was still her biological child.
Every pitiable person has their detestable side, and isn't Mrs. Zhao just like that?"
"It's tough on you, yet you're still not completely foolish," Ye Jiu said expressionlessly. "You always praise Wenxuan in front of Wenyu and expect Wenyu to make way for Wenxuan all the time, but have you ever thought about what Wenyu might feel?"