Chapter 37   – The Story Behind The Villainess Stepmother (1)

Yan Shuyu had not expected that even the late husband of the villainess stepmother was a super handsome boy. She wasn’t exactly envious of the stepmother’s luck, although she was quite the winner in life. Her second husband Zhou Qinhe was already a class A male god, and her late husband was every bit as handsome. Either one of them could have easily attracted thousands to tens of thousands of young girls. Was this stepmother a male-god collector?Yan Shuyu has her doubts. The villainess stepmother was but a cannon fodder who didn’t even make the rank of a villainess boss in the story. Her existent should be that of a theatrical property, so why did she have such a comprehensive and touching backstory? That did not make any sense.

The stepmother’s backstory did not sound like that of a cannon fodder at all; in fact, it was that for a main character!

Nevertheless, the ending of the villainess stepmother was already predetermined, it was meaningless to wonder about that now. Yan Shuyu gently patted her instant son, who was very focused on looking at the picture right now, on his shoulder before she painfully put away the marriage certificate.She felt that she had a better understanding of the original owner’s feelings now and why she had stopped talking about her late husband altogether. She even went as far as getting rid of all his pictures as though he had never existed. There could only be one explanation for her extreme actions – that she loved her late husband so much that she couldn’t move on, except by forcing herself to forget about it. After all, even when she thought about how handsome her late husband her, she almost felt like she had lost $5 million dollars and that her heart ached every time she thought about him. She could only imagine how the original owner must have felt.

She hadn’t expected the villainess stepmother to be so flesh and blood and have such a sensual and mortal side to her.

Yan Shuyu couldn’t help but lament before she decided to follow in the footsteps of the original owner and lock up everything that had to do with her late husband. After all, he was gone and no good would come out of thinking about him.

This was the first time Zhong Yuhuan saw his father that he had always been thinking about. Even though it was just a picture, it was still a precious treasure to him. He leaned all over Yan Shuyu and wouldn’t even blink. When the marriage certificate with closed suddenly and heartlessly, the normally strong little boy looked at his mother. Close to tears, he asked, “Can I look at daddy one more time?”

Yan Shuyu was determined to pay as much attention to her instant son’s mental health as well as his physical health, meaning she couldn’t not explain anything to him like the original owner. She didn’t want that to be the reason the villainous boss thought that he never had a father thus causing him to want to fight over someone else’s father in the future.

She thought about it for a little bit and said to her son in the most serious tone, “Yuanbao, mom showed you your daddy’s picture today to let you know that just like other kids, you have a daddy too. And, just as you have seen, your daddy was much better than other little kids’ daddies. It was very unfortunate that daddy had an accident and was no longer with us, but it was his biggest hope that we will be happy in our lives. That’s why you can’t dwell on the fact that he was gone, okay? He’d be disappointed on the other side. Yuanbao will need to grow up quickly and become a real man like your daddy.”

It was possible that the idea of a father was deeply rooted in every kid’s mind. Even though Zhang Yuanjia had never seen his dad except for the pictures and only heard a few things about him, his little face was still filled with yearning. Looking up, he asked him mother excitedly, “Mom, is dad a well-respected hero?”

Yan Shuyu paused for a bit then, finally, under the hopeful look of the little kiddo, lied through her teeth and said, “Yes.”

Certainly, her late husband was a bum whose life worth less than that of a bug, but he still shielded the original owner and her son the best he could and altered the original owner’s life to a certain degree. If he never ran off with the original owner, she might have already been sold by her parents and her life was ruined completely.

After they had the accidental child and were living in abject poverty, he still tried to give the original owner the best that he could. The first thing he had done when he became a small leader in the gang was to change the identity of the original owner to her current name.