After I Cut Ties with My Family, They Still Knelt and Begged Me - Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: If I’ve Been Reborn, Who Still Cares About Family!?
“Chen Zimo! You are absolutely incorrigible!”
“Your father and I brought you back home two years ago, and you still refuse to behave. Not only did you cheat on the exam, you even dared to push your younger brother Zixuan down the stairs.”
“How could you do something so cruel and disgraceful? You’ve completely shamed the Chen family!”
“Right now, immediately, kneel down and beg your brother for forgiveness. Kneel for three days and three nights to seek forgiveness from this family. Otherwise, I’ll chop off that hand of yours and feed it to the dogs!”
Inside the grand hall of the Chen family villa, Chen Qingya, with a face like a celebrity that once drove fans wild, was now filled with fury. She pointed at Chen Zimo standing in the center of the hall and shouted at him. Yet where no one could see, the corner of her lips curled upward slightly.
Chen Zimo’s eyes were hazy as he looked around, shock spreading across his face. “I… have I been reborn?”
A sharp pain throbbed on his forehead. He reached up and wiped it, only to find his palm covered in blood. Staring at the eerily familiar scene before him, memories surged back.
“Isn’t this the moment in my last life when they framed me and stole my Qingbei University admission spot?”
At that instant, Chen Zimo was certain. He had been reborn, reborn at the turning point when he gave up his special admission spot to Qingbei University.
Just moments ago, the adopted son Chen Zixuan had invited him upstairs under the pretense of congratulating him. After Chen Zimo had taken just three steps up the staircase, Chen Zixuan suddenly changed his expression and accused him of cheating in the provincial physics competition.
Chen Zimo had barely begun to explain when Chen Zixuan suddenly leaned backward and tumbled down the stairs.
Chen Zimo had been stunned at the time and hurried forward to check whether Chen Zixuan was hurt. Suddenly, the Chen couple pushed the door open and entered with their two daughters, witnessing the scene.
They flew into a rage on the spot.
This useless Chen Zimo had dared to hurt their precious son Chen Zixuan. It was absolutely unforgivable.
Chen Tinghao grabbed an ashtray and smashed it against his biological son Chen Zimo’s head. Third Sister Chen Qingya was equally furious, pointing at Chen Zimo, whose head was bleeding continuously, and scolding him viciously.
Thus, the earlier scene unfolded.
“Unfilial son! Kneel down!” Chen Tinghao, with his square-shaped face, looked stern. The imposing aura of a listed company chairman radiated from him.
Yet Chen Zimo stood there as if he had been struck stupid, staring blankly without speaking, without begging, without kneeling.
Did that blow just now make him foolish? Chen Tinghao muttered inwardly.
At that moment, his wife Lin Jiangxue said, “Chen Zimo, I don’t blame you for not studying as well as Zixuan. I don’t blame you for your frequent foolish behavior. But how could you cheat on an exam and push Zixuan down the stairs? I am utterly disappointed in you. You are not worthy of being my son.”
The fair-skinned young man who resembled Chen Tinghao by three or four parts stepped forward and held Lin Jiangxue’s hand. “Dad, Mom, please don’t blame Brother. Brother isn’t good at studying. He only cheated because he wanted your approval. As for pushing me down the stairs, I believe Brother didn’t mean it. It’s just that my body is weak. I must have fallen by accident.”
Hearing this, Chen Tinghao and Lin Jiangxue immediately felt heartache.
“Zixuan, we all saw it clearly. Chen Zimo pushed you down the stairs. He also cheated, which caused you to lose your Qingbei special admission spot. And you’re still speaking up for him. How can you be so kind? You’ll suffer for it in the future!”
Lin Jiangxue hugged Chen Zixuan lovingly, as if holding a priceless treasure. When she turned to look at Chen Zimo, her face was filled with resentment.
Chen Tinghao shouted, “Chen Zimo, look at your brother. Even after getting hurt, he’s still defending you. How can you be so heartless? You dared to hurt my precious Zixuan. It’s absolutely unforgivable! You! Right now! Immediately kneel down and kowtow to Xuan’er to admit your mistake. Otherwise, I will no longer acknowledge you as my son!”
Lin Jiangxue added, “Chen Zimo, Mom is doing this for your own good. As long as you admit you cheated and admit you pushed Zixuan down the stairs, I won’t pursue it further.”
Watching the couple perform so earnestly, Chen Zimo sneered inwardly. He understood these so-called parents far too well.
Without hesitation, he said, “Yes, I did it.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, everyone in the room froze in disbelief. Shock and astonishment were written all over their faces. They simply could not believe that Chen Zimo had just admitted to such fabricated accusations so easily.
Yet looking at their expressions, Chen Zimo’s heart ached faintly.
They knew all along. This was just a show to make him willingly hand over his Qingbei admission spot to the adopted son Chen Zixuan.
In his previous life, he had refused to admit it. He had been beaten until his head was split and blood flowed, then forced to kneel for an entire night. Third Sister Chen Qingya had deceived him, saying that as long as he admitted it, she would plead with their parents not to pursue the matter and even take him on a family trip.
Chen Zimo had believed her. He had admitted it.
The result? The entire family celebrated Chen Zixuan obtaining the Qingbei spot by going on a trip, while Chen Zimo was locked inside his room. The wound on his head was not treated in time. He nearly died.
From then on, he did not believe a single word from the Chen family.
Smack!
A slap landed hard on Chen Zimo’s face, instantly swelling it.
“Unfilial son! Kneel down!”
As expected, words from the Chen family were no more trustworthy than air.
Smack!
Another slap struck the other side of his face, leaving it swollen as well.
“Chen Zimo, I am deeply disappointed in you! The Chen family is a wealthy family in Huacheng worth tens of billions of yuan, and your mother comes from a prestigious family in the capital. How could we have given birth to someone as shameless as you? I regret it. I regret bringing you back two years ago!”
The two slaps left Chen Zimo’s head ringing. Combined with the wound on his head that continued to bleed, he was injured upon injury. He had endured this once in his previous life, and experiencing it again still made his heart ache just as much.
Eighteen years ago, Chen Zimo had been mercilessly abandoned at the entrance of an orphanage and became an orphan. As he grew up, he longed more and more for family, hoping that one day he could find his biological parents like the other children and receive their love and care.
Two years ago, an officer brought a couple and told him they were his parents. Chen Zimo had cried tears of joy. At last, he had parents. He was no longer an orphan. He too had fatherly and motherly love.
But after returning to the Chen family, he discovered there was already someone who had replaced him, the adopted son Chen Zixuan. Adopted after Chen Zimo was “lost,” Chen Zixuan was intelligent, obedient, sensible, polite, and academically excellent. He was the treasure of the entire family.
Chen Zimo had even felt happy to have an extra younger brother.
Yet from the moment he entered the Chen household, all kinds of trouble followed, and every time, it was deemed Chen Zimo’s fault.
Even though he had done nothing.
Over the past two years, he had endured humiliation, corporal punishment, and even deliberate framing, yet never once received genuine care from his family. For the sake of that so-called family affection, he kept tolerating and tolerating, until he had practically become a silent, enduring turtle.
In his previous life, he had been manipulated by this family to the very end and willingly donated a kidney to the adopted son Chen Zixuan. Even at death, he could not understand why, as the only biological son of Chen Tinghao and Lin Jiangxue, he was treated this way.
It was only after his death, when resentment turned him into a wandering spirit and he followed the Chen family for more than ten years, that he learned the reason.
Before his soul dissipated, Chen Zimo had sworn that if he could live another life, he would make the Chen family repay their blood debt a hundredfold. Every evil deed Chen Zixuan committed against him would be repaid ten thousandfold.
Perhaps even heaven could not bear to watch. When Chen Zimo opened his eyes again, he found himself reborn.
Now, the others had recovered from their shock.
Chen Tinghao said, “Chen Zimo, since you admit your mistake, then kneel obediently and apologize to your brother. Kneel until he forgives you. If you dare to do anything excessive again, I, Chen Tinghao, will drive you out of the Chen family. You are not worthy of being my son!”
Chen Zimo’s gaze swept over Chen Tinghao, then Lin Jiangxue, then Chen Qingya and Fourth Sister Chen Shuting, who watched coldly from the side. Finally, his eyes settled on Chen Zixuan.
Chen Zimo exploded.
“Hahaha…”
He laughed wildly, almost like a madman.
“Good. Good. Good.”
A light flashed in his eyes, sharp enough to cut through everything, making it impossible to meet his gaze.
“Genuine affection is precious. I never should have wasted it on you.”
“So… family without love is worthless as grass.”
“I’ve already given you chances. Since you don’t care about even a shred of family affection, and since the Chen family has no place for this so-called useless person…”
“Then I will sever all ties with the Chen family!”
All the family affection from his previous life had been fed to the dogs. If he had been reborn, who still cared about family!?
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