Ch 26: The Unfilial Children Trembles in Fear (QT)

Fu Junjie and Yan Zhixin quickly registered their marriage.

Fu Junjie proudly posted on social media, showing off their marriage certificate and declaring that he had found the only woman who truly mattered in his life.

Many people from similar social circles were shocked and left comments.

【Holy shit, Brother Fu, you’re serious? Does Chairwoman Fu know about this?】

Fu Junjie replied: I make my own decisions. She doesn’t need to know.

【Fu Junjie, you actually got married? Are you deliberately going against Auntie Fu? Are you trying to make her furious?】

Fu Junjie replied: Absolutely true. I’m just living my own life. Whether other people get angry has nothing to do with me.

【Damn, impressive. Strike first and report later. Force Chairwoman Fu to compromise. Hurry up and have a kid, she’ll calm down eventually haha.】

Fu Junjie replied: We’re child-free. No need for her to calm down.

Yun Xi’s executive assistant happened to have Fu Junjie’s social media account and reminded Yun Xi to check his post.

After seeing it, Yun Xi posted a statement she had already prepared.

Announcement:

Fu Junjie has voluntarily relinquished all claims to the Fu family’s assets and left the Fu family as of yesterday.

From this day forward, Fu Junjie and I have no relationship whatsoever.

My will has been amended, and Fu Junjie has been removed as an heir.

Any actions taken by Fu Junjie from this point onward have no connection to me or the Fu family.

Please take note.

— Fu Yunxi

The statement was concise, direct, and explosive.

Everyone who saw it was stunned.

A disagreement between mother and son was one thing.

A public declaration severing ties was something else entirely.

Even when wealthy families punished younger generations and temporarily kicked them out, they never announced it publicly. After some time, they would quietly welcome them back.

No one had ever seen someone like Fu Yunxi issue a public statement.

What did this mean?

Had she really abandoned her son?

The phrases “relinquished family assets” and “amended my will” were not things people threw around casually.

All because of a marriage?

Had things really escalated this far?

Most people assumed Fu Junjie only dared behave this way because he was an only child.

That was certainly what everyone thought.

People from families with multiple children, especially those who had no chance of inheriting the family business, would have gladly traded places with him.

If Fu Junjie didn’t want to be the heir to the Fu family, plenty of others would.

The statement spread rapidly.

Within a short time, everyone in their social circle had heard about it.

Previously, when people saw Fu Junjie posting his marriage certificate, they had viewed him as rebellious, standing up to his mother and challenging authority.

Now that they knew Yun Xi had already kicked him out the day before, many began to think there was genuinely something wrong with him.

Especially his comment about finding “the only woman who matters in my life.”

A lot of people scoffed at that.

Without Fu Yunxi, who even knew who he was?

He had grown up pampered and privileged, enjoying every advantage his mother provided.

And now a girlfriend he’d only known for a relatively short time had somehow become the only important woman in his life?

People’s initial shock gradually turned into speechless disbelief.

Most simply stopped responding to him.

Only a few friends he had been relatively close to called and asked what had happened.

Fu Junjie hadn’t expected Yun Xi to be so ruthless.

On the very day of his marriage, she had publicly humiliated him and turned him into a laughingstock.

He was furious.

“It’s exactly what it looks like,” he snapped.

“I’ve cut ties with her.

What does she care about besides money?

She can spend the rest of her life hugging her money for all I care!”

That response convinced even more people that something was wrong with him.

She was the chairwoman of a massive corporate group.

If she wasn’t focused on making money, what exactly was she supposed to do?

Play pretend with her grown son?

Some people asked what his plans were now.

Fu Junjie confidently replied,

“I’ll find a job first and earn my first pot of gold.

Once I’ve accumulated enough capital, I’ll start a business.

Then we can gather a few people together and discuss which industries have potential.”

The moment they heard that, everyone started laughing awkwardly and changing the subject.

They congratulated him on his marriage and quickly ended the conversation.

Did he really still think he was the young master of the Fu family?

Chairwoman Fu had clearly cast him out.

Whether she truly intended to disown him or was simply teaching him a lesson, everyone had to show respect to her position.

No one was going to help Fu Junjie.

Besides, he was still the only descendant of the Fu family.

People assumed that after enough drama, mother and son would eventually reconcile.

Fu Junjie would lower his head, admit his mistakes, and get everything back.

There was no need for anyone else to get involved.

On top of that, he had been abroad for years.

Most people had already drifted apart from him.

There was little reason to maintain contact now.

Fu Junjie had no idea how many people were secretly laughing at him.

When people congratulated him on his marriage, he genuinely believed they supported him.

When people called him impressive, he genuinely believed they admired him.

He truly thought he was courageous.

Defying his chairwoman mother.

Treating wealth like dirt.

Giving up an inheritance.

At that moment, Fu Junjie felt an overwhelming sense of satisfaction.

He honestly couldn’t remember ever feeling so fulfilled in his entire life.

Seeing his confidence, Yan Zhixin naturally assumed he had everything under control.

As a result, she stopped worrying and didn’t take Yun Xi’s statement seriously.

In fact, she found it amusing.

To her, Yun Xi looked like someone throwing a powerless tantrum.

She even felt a little sorry for her future mother-in-law.

Why make such a huge scene?

In the end, wouldn’t she still have to accept reality?

When the time came, a powerful chairwoman lowering her head to her son and daughter-in-law would only make her a bigger laughingstock.

Surely Yun Xi wasn’t naive enough to think a statement like that would scare Yan Zhixin into abandoning Fu Junjie.

That would be absurd.

Yan Zhixin wasn’t that stupid.

In her mind, she had already seen through all of Yun Xi’s tricks.

From now on, all she had to do was continue acting like a woman deeply in love with Fu Junjie.

No matter what happened, she would stay by his side.

She would prove to everyone that Fu Yunxi was wrong.

The newlyweds spent a sweet and affectionate wedding night together.

The next day, Fu Junjie thought about Yun Xi’s public statement and still felt irritated.

He wanted revenge.

But now that he had left the Fu family, he couldn’t exactly return home to confront her.

After some thought, he sent a mass message to many of his contacts:

【Thank you all for your wedding blessings. I wish all of you happiness as well.

Leaving the past behind and looking toward the future, a new journey begins today.

Please take care of me in the future.】

He wanted Yun Xi to know one thing.

He had abandoned her.

He had abandoned the Fu family.

It wasn’t Yun Xi who had kicked him out.

The message had barely been sent when he noticed a red exclamation mark.

Yun Xi had blocked him.

Fu Junjie stared at the symbol in disbelief.

Immediately, he tried calling Yun Xi.

Blocked.

He called the family residence.

Blocked.

He called the executive assistant.

Blocked.

Every single one of them had blocked all of his contact information.

For a brief moment, panic surfaced.

Then it was replaced by anger.

What was Yun Xi trying to do?

Scare him?

Did she really think this kind of tactic would force him to submit?

Ridiculous.

She blocked him?

Fine.

He would block all of them too.

If they ever wanted to add him back in the future, they could forget it.

He would go find a job right now and show them how free and happy he was without the Fu family.

Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. The newly married couple both dreamed of making something of themselves and proving Yun Xi wrong.

Unfortunately, dreams were beautiful.

Reality was cruel.

When Fu Junjie went out looking for work, he immediately ran headfirst into reality and got nowhere.

Fu Junjie returned home cursing furiously.

“Those shameless opportunists! A bunch of snobs with dog eyes!

They used to suck up to me every chance they got. Now that I’ve lost my inheritance rights, they’ve all turned their backs on me.

No matter what I say, it’s always no.

I’m only asking for a job. That’s all!

Other people can get hired, so why can’t I?

It’s obviously deliberate!”

Yan Zhixin cautiously suggested,

“Could it be that Auntie contacted them and told them to teach you a lesson?”

Fu Junjie’s expression darkened.

The more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.

How despicable.

How underhanded.

To use tactics like that against her own son.

Yun Xi really was a cold-blooded capitalist.

Fine.

Then he would stop applying as the heir to the Fu family and simply look for work as an ordinary overseas graduate.

Yun Xi might be able to influence the CEOs of major corporations, but surely she couldn’t control every ordinary HR employee.

Then he looked at Yan Zhixin and corrected her,

“We’re married now. You should call her ‘Mom.’”

Yan Zhixin shook his arm playfully.

“I’ll call her that when I receive a proper change-of-address gift.”

Fu Junjie laughed.

“You’re right.

It’s already unfair to you that we got married like this.

In the future, I’ll definitely give you a grand wedding.”

Yan Zhixin’s smile grew brighter.

Of course she couldn’t call Yun Xi “Mom.”

Yun Xi looked down on her.

Rejected her.

Turned her into a joke throughout the wealthy social circle.

She was waiting for the day Yun Xi would beg her to return to the Fu family.

Beg her to change the way she addressed her.

As long as she became pregnant, Yun Xi, whose family had passed down a single heir for generations, would definitely lower herself and come pleading.

Yan Zhixin understood that mentality all too well.

A child would become her greatest bargaining chip against Yun Xi.

The two of them spent all their time thinking about Yun Xi.

Meanwhile, Yun Xi had long since forgotten about them.

Blood ties couldn’t be erased.

But she had already raised Fu Junjie to adulthood.

She no longer had any obligations toward him.

Their assets had been completely separated.

There was no reason for them to have any further involvement in each other’s lives.

As for his legal duty to support her in old age?

She didn’t need it.

So from the moment Fu Junjie left the Fu family, he had effectively disappeared from her world.

Whether he got married, found a job, or had children no longer had anything to do with her.

Nor did she care.

Yun Xi’s current company produced household goods.

That was different from the businesses she had run in her previous life.

The difference gave her an idea.

Shouldn’t she memorize the formulas for various consumer products?

If she ever ended up in another world, she could potentially build a business from scratch using that knowledge.

One idea led to another.

Not only did Yun Xi have people gather formulas for all kinds of products, she also collected countless recipes.

She memorized them all and hired teachers to show her how to make them properly.

The butler couldn’t help feeling concerned.

In the past, Yun Xi had been a workaholic who spent most of her time at the company.

Now, the moment work ended, she came straight home.

She either conducted little experiments and craft projects or spent her time cooking.

Was she trying to distract herself?

Trying to numb the pain?

But Yun Xi seemed genuinely interested in everything she was doing.

She enjoyed herself immensely.

She even learned flower cultivation from the gardener.

Every day she chatted and laughed with the staff.

No matter how he looked at it, she didn’t seem unhappy.

If anything, she appeared more energetic than ever.

Almost as though something wonderful had happened.

Could it be…

Could getting rid of Fu Junjie actually be a happy event for Yun Xi?

The butler shook his head and dismissed the absurd thought.

Seeing that she truly seemed fine reassured him.

He instructed all the servants not to mention Fu Junjie and to focus on taking good care of Yun Xi.

The servants unanimously felt that the household was better off without him.

When he lived there, he was always angry, shouting, and creating tension.

Everyone had constantly walked on eggshells around him.

Now the atmosphere was peaceful.

Yun Xi was happy.

And so were they.

This peaceful routine didn’t last very long.

Barely a month later, Fu Junjie returned.

At the gate, he tried using facial recognition.

Access denied.

His face filled with disbelief.

Then he tried his fingerprint.

Another red warning light.

Immediately, his temper exploded.

“Where is everyone? Open the gate!”

The security guard looked at him calmly.

“Hello. Who are you here to see?”

Fu Junjie sneered.

“You don’t recognize me?

You’ve worked here all these years for nothing?

You tell me who I’m here to see.”

The guard replied,

“I’ve worked here for over ten years.

And Miss said you’re a stranger.

So you’re a stranger.”

“Miss?”

Fu Junjie froze.

Then he suddenly realized what the guard meant.

Back when his family had lived together, the household referred to them as “Sir,” “Madam,” and “Junjie.”

But this was ultimately the Fu family estate.

It belonged to Fu Yunxi.

Now that both he and his father were gone, Yun Xi was the only remaining master of the house.

So the household had reverted to calling her “Miss.”

A wave of discomfort washed over him.

Yun Xi had gone too far.

Was she trying to erase all traces of his and his father’s existence?

Angrily, he snapped,

“Open the gate already. I need to talk to my mother.”

Please wait.”

Hearing whom he wanted to see, the guard simply followed normal procedures and called inside to report the situation.

It was an entirely ordinary process.

But it was the process used for outsiders.

Separated by a single gate, Fu Junjie glared at the guard.

His anger intensified.

If this humiliation had been orchestrated by Yun Xi, then she had succeeded.

At that moment, he felt utterly humiliated.

Being stopped outside by a security guard he had never even paid attention to before was humiliating.

More humiliating than being rejected from job after job.

More humiliating than selling off the jewelry and luxury items he had taken with him.

More humiliating than running out of money and finding himself unable to support his wife.

All he had done was fall in love with a girl he liked.

Why did Yun Xi have the right to treat him this way?

He waited a long time.

In the end, all he received was a single message from the guard.

“I’m sorry.

Miss doesn’t wish to see you.”

The guard paused before continuing.

“Miss also asked me to pass along a message.”

Don’t forget what you said back then. If you truly didn’t care about it, then don’t come back looking over your shoulder.”

For the first time, standing outside the gates of the Fu estate and unable to take even a single step inside, Fu Junjie felt as though the world beyond those gates belonged to someone else.

And for the first time, genuine panic gripped him.

Did Yun Xi really no longer consider him her son?

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