Ch 29: The Unfilial Children Trembles in Fear (QT)

Qin Yue came out after putting on the jewelry, and everyone praised how beautiful the set was and how perfectly it suited her.

The birthday banquet officially began, and the lively atmosphere quickly returned.

Fu Junjie and Yan Zhixin were pushed to the sidelines.

Neither of them had the courage to join the crowd. It was painfully obvious that they did not belong here.

No one at the banquet cared about them.

Yan Zhixin grew increasingly anxious. Not only was she out of money now, but her credit cards were maxed out. If things didn’t turn around soon, what was she supposed to do? She carefully observed Yun Xi, trying to determine whether Yun Xi was merely pretending.

But Yun Xi chatted and laughed throughout the banquet, looking exactly as the saying described:

“When happy events occur, a person’s spirit shines.”

Yan Zhixin nudged Fu Junjie.

“Think of something. This is a rare opportunity. Go apologize to her. Or what about your friends? Your classmates? The people you used to hang out with? Is there really not a single person you’re close to?

Even if you treat this purely as a networking event, go talk to people.

Build some connections.

Even getting a job opportunity would be good.”

Fu Junjie’s face darkened.

He had once been the center of attention everywhere he went.

Now she wanted him to wag his tail and beg people for help?

He couldn’t do it.

Yan Zhixin felt a headache coming on.

“Now isn’t the time to be stubborn or throw a tantrum.

We have to face reality.

It’s obvious your mother isn’t going to take you back anytime soon.

So we need to earn money, pay off our debts, and raise the baby until the day she finally accepts you again.

Even if you lose face during this period, once you return to the Fu family, you’ll get everything back.”

Sometimes people desperately don’t want to do something.

But if they have a strong enough reason, they can force themselves through it.

Fu Junjie took a deep breath and, together with Yan Zhixin, began approaching people.

A fake smile hung on his face as he forced himself to seek opportunities to make money.

What he didn’t realize was that nearly everyone he spoke to found him ridiculous.

If he wanted to make money with people, shouldn’t he at least have some ideas?

If he wanted a job, shouldn’t he know how to do something?

Fu Junjie had spent so many years rebelling against his mother’s efforts to train and educate him that he had very little of substance to say.

In everyone’s eyes, he was little more than an uneducated rich kid.

Perhaps the only thing he excelled at was conversational English from studying abroad for several years.

But everyday spoken English and business English were completely different things.

Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. In short, there were countless new graduates more qualified than he was.

No one had any reason to hire him.

Even Yun Xi’s competitors wanted nothing to do with him.

They genuinely couldn’t see any value in him.

By the end of the banquet, people once again marveled at the close friendship between the Fu and Qin families.

Yun Xi practically looked like Qin Yue’s second mother.

By publicly showing how highly she regarded Qin Yue, Yun Xi had created an immediate effect.

Qin Yue’s value skyrocketed.

Her commercial worth doubled almost overnight.

Even more prominent families became interested in arranging marriages with the Qin family.

Qin Yue was treated like a princess.

People constantly surrounded her.

After the banquet, they were even planning to continue the celebration elsewhere and spend the entire night at a private club.

For a brief moment, Fu Junjie found himself thinking:

If I had listened to Yun Xi and married Qin Yue, then Qin Yue and I would be standing in the center of that crowd right now.

Instead, because he had chosen Yan Zhixin, he could only stand outside the circle and watch.

Suddenly, he saw Yun Xi leaving and getting into her car.

He hurried over and leaned against the window.

“If this was your way of teaching me a lesson, then I’ve learned it.

You were right.

Yan Zhixin isn’t as perfect as I thought.

She cares about money and status.

But she doesn’t have any malicious intentions.

She just wants a better life.

Now she’s pregnant.

Can you really not accept her?

The Fu family has had only one heir in each generation.

What if this is the only descendant of my generation?

Can you really bear to let your grandchild grow up outside the family?”

Yun Xi turned toward him.

“Are you very angry inside?

It must feel awful suppressing your anger while saying all of this.

In the future, you don’t need to force yourself to humble yourself in front of me anymore.

Because we probably won’t have many chances to meet again.”

She looked at him calmly.

“Fu Junjie, let me give you one piece of advice.

Treasure what you have.

When you had wealth and status, you looked down on them.

You longed for ordinary life and true love.

Now you have ordinary life, a lover, and a child.

And you don’t like those either.

Now you want wealth and status again.

You can’t have both fish and bear’s paw.

The only secret to a good life is appreciating what you already possess.

The three of you should simply live honestly and steadily.

Life will improve.

After all, many people don’t even have the education and experience that you have.”

Xiao Lin, the executive assistant, added,

“That’s right, Mr. Fu.

The money you received from selling your luxury items was more than I’ve managed to save during all my years of work.

It’s unfortunate that you spent it all.

My suggestion is that when you earn money in the future, try to spend it more carefully.

After all, you’ll be supporting a wife and child from now on.

That shouldn’t be too difficult, right?

Chairwoman Fu supported both you and your father all these years and provided you with such a luxurious lifestyle.

You’ve always believed you’re better than Chairwoman Fu.

I’m sure you’ll succeed.

Have some confidence in yourself.

Don’t start regretting your choices and begging for help so quickly.

It’s not a good look.”

After speaking, Xiao Lin signaled the driver.

The car window rolled up.

The vehicle pulled away.

Fu Junjie was left standing there, his face dark and livid.

Even one of Yun Xi’s assistants looked down on him this much.

If he continued pleading now, wouldn’t that be admitting he was worthless and incapable of surviving without Yun Xi?

His stubborn pride flared up again.

Clenching his fists, he strode away, escaping the mocking gazes around him.

Yan Zhixin stared at him in shock as he walked farther and farther away.

Feeling the eyes of the crowd on her, she hurried after him.

People watched in confusion.

“Shouldn’t they have held out a little longer?

Why did they come back and bow their heads to Chairwoman Fu so quickly?”

Someone who knew some of the details replied,

“I heard Fu Junjie spends money like water.

He spent all his own money, spent all his wife’s money too, maxed out the credit cards, and still can’t find a job.”

No income.

No money left.

Was Yan Zhixin, who was pregnant, supposed to support the household?

Even if she wanted to, could she afford it?

Rent wasn’t cheap.

Credit card bills had to be paid.

Where would the money come from?

Everyone sighed.

“It’s hard to go from luxury to frugality.

Living an ordinary life isn’t nearly as easy as people think.

Take the wine we drank tonight. I love this stuff.

If I lived an ordinary life, could I afford it?”

“Exactly. He completely overplayed his hand. If you ask me, since we were born in Rome, we should just enjoy it and appreciate our parents for working so hard to give us a good life. Don’t create trouble for yourself. Keep causing drama and you’ll end up with nothing.”

“Right.

And don’t lose your head over a woman.

Whether she’s true love or a demon in disguise, who knows? Hahaha.”

The young people laughed and joked.

They continued mocking the situation in their group chats.

When Fu Junjie got home and saw the messages, he became furious and quit every single group.

Yan Zhixin couldn’t stop him.

Angrily, she said,

“Those are connections!

One of those people might help us someday.

What does doing this accomplish besides making you feel better for a moment?

Can you stop being so childish?”

Fu Junjie had finally reached his limit.

“What do you think about besides money these days?

You wanted me to act like a pathetic bootlicker, and I did.

And what happened?

They all laughed at me.

So should I keep giving them more opportunities to laugh?

You keep saying you love me.

But aren’t I just a tool for you to climb higher?

Do you even know what self-respect means?”

Yan Zhixin raised her voice as well.

“Can self-respect pay the bills?

We can’t even afford next month’s rent.

What are we supposed to do, live under a bridge together?”

Fu Junjie stared at her.

Where was the innocent, shy girl he had fallen for?

Not a trace remained.

So everything back then had been an act.

The real Yan Zhixin was exactly what Yun Xi had said:

A gold digger.

Yan Zhixin sharply sensed that something was wrong.

She placed a hand over her stomach and said tearfully,

“I’m doing all of this for the child.

Who doesn’t want peaceful days?

Who wants to argue loudly?

I just don’t want my child to suffer.”

Fu Junjie had always felt that he had never received paternal or maternal love.

He had sworn that he would become a good father.

When he saw Yan Zhixin’s stomach, he swallowed all his anger, slammed the door, and left.

“I’ll think of something.

You don’t need to worry about it.”

That night, Fu Junjie contacted every person he could reach.

To borrow money.

In the past, when he and his friends went out together, one person would pay today and someone else would pay tomorrow.

If someone forgot their card, another person could pay first and they would settle it later.

Sometimes people forgot to repay each other, and no one cared.

After all, they were all in the same circle. No one would truly lose out.

But now that he was actually asking to borrow money, he realized how difficult borrowing money really was.

It was harder than climbing to heaven.

He spent the whole night asking everyone he knew.

In the end, he only managed to borrow a few thousand yuan.

Not even ten thousand.

The few people who did lend him money all told him he didn’t need to repay it.

Then, with a sigh, they said,

“You really didn’t know how blessed you were.”

Fu Junjie scoffed.

They weren’t him.

How could they understand how he felt?

What he wanted was love.

Companionship.

A warm family.

Parents who loved each other.

Not parents with no emotional bond, who had only given birth to an heir.

If that was the reason he had been born, then what difference did it make whether the child was him or someone else?

What he wanted was to be unique.

But if others didn’t understand him, he didn’t need their understanding either.

He had only panicked and lost his footing, which had given Yun Xi the chance to mock him.

He wouldn’t do that again.

He would work hard and build a life worth showing her.

Only after leaving her would he truly live like a person.

From that point on, Fu Junjie formally left the wealthy circle behind.

Using the money he borrowed, he rented a small apartment in an old walk-up building in a remote area.

The rent was cheap.

Most of the people nearby were migrant workers from other cities.

Yan Zhixin could hardly believe that Fu Junjie had actually brought her to live in a place like this.

But there was nothing she could do.

Even though her salary wasn’t bad, the credit card debt they had to repay every month was enormous.

It simply wasn’t enough.

She could only think that once the child was born, Yun Xi surely wouldn’t truly let a Fu family bloodline live in this kind of shabby place.

By then, they would definitely turn things around.

So she swallowed her bitterness, forced a smile, and moved with Fu Junjie.

In the middle of the night, she sometimes regretted everything.

If she had chosen another wealthy heir back then, even if she couldn’t successfully marry him, at least getting a villa out of the relationship shouldn’t have been a problem.

How could she have ended up this miserable?

She could only hope that Fu Junjie would return home soon.

Only then would all her endurance be worth it.

Yun Xi’s company launched a new business and began hiring many new employees.

Fu Junjie submitted his resume too.

It was rejected immediately.

He tried to argue with HR.

HR replied that the Fu Group did not hire employees named “Fu Junjie.”

Even people with the same name were excluded.

In other words, HR did not need to know whether he was the same person or not.

As long as the name was Fu Junjie, he was automatically ruled out.

That alone showed just how determined Yun Xi was to separate herself from him.

She had practically cut off every possible avenue of contact.

Fu Junjie tried other interviews.

This time, he lowered his standards.

He had thought things through.

He would get a job first and earn money.

At the very least, he needed to accumulate some work experience.

Unexpectedly, his resumes were either rejected or received no response at all.

Later, one employee saw how dejected he looked and took pity on him.

“Buddy, did you offend someone? Someone gave instructions not to hire you.”

Fu Junjie froze.

His first thought was Yun Xi.

Furious, he posted a long passive-aggressive essay on social media targeting her.

Didn’t Yun Xi refuse to contact him?

Fine.

Then he would let everyone in their social circle see it.

They could pass it on to Yun Xi.

He would turn her into the laughingstock of the entire circle.

Unexpectedly, within minutes of posting, someone replied:

Idiot.

Then another person replied:

You don’t even know who’s messing with you. Pure idiot.

Someone else even wrote:

Your mom would’ve been better off giving birth to barbecue pork. Where’s your brain?

Fu Junjie frowned.

What did that mean?

They knew who was targeting him?

It wasn’t Yun Xi?

He called around to that group of so-called friends and asked one by one.

Finally, he learned the truth.

It was Mr. and Mrs. Qin who had given the word.

They had told people not to help him because they wanted to teach him a lesson.

In the past, Fu Junjie had humiliated Qin Yue and refused to give her face.

Now Mr. and Mrs. Qin were recovering that lost face.

Yun Xi had no objections.

Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. Everyone else was perfectly happy to watch the drama unfold.

They even openly told Fu Junjie the truth.

And there was nothing he could do about it.

The Qin family had long since blocked him.

Fu Junjie couldn’t reach them.

He had nowhere to vent his anger.

He couldn’t find work either.

Enraged, he returned home and started smashing things again. Then he had a huge fight with Yan Zhixin.

After Yan Zhixin learned what had happened, she felt that life was more bitter than bitter herbs.

After thinking it over, she said,

“Doesn’t the Qin family just want to see you suffer?

Then go do a job where you suffer.

They definitely won’t stop that.

At least you’ll be able to earn money.”

“What kind of job?” Fu Junjie asked doubtfully.

Yan Zhixin replied,

“Construction work.

High-rise window cleaning.

Food delivery…”

“What did you say? You want me to deliver food?”

They happened to be talking by the roadside.

A delivery rider was stopped beside them at a red light.

Hearing this, he glanced at them.

“What’s wrong with delivering food? Every cent we earn is made through our own sweat and hard work. You got a problem with that? If you do, keep it to yourself.”

Fu Junjie snapped,

“I’m talking to my wife. What does it have to do with you? Go deliver your food. Don’t waste time and get bad reviews.”

The delivery rider sneered.

“That mouth of yours is pretty poisonous, buddy. Then I hope when you deliver food, you get bad reviews every day. Can’t earn money and get fined on top of it. Nutcase.”

The light turned green.

The rider sped away.

Fu Junjie cursed after him several times, still not relieved.

Pointing at the rider’s disappearing back, he said to Yan Zhixin,

“Look at that. What kind of quality is that? And you want me to work with people like him?”

Yan Zhixin frowned.

“If someone does food delivery well, they might make ten thousand yuan a month. Are you looking down on the job, or looking down on the money? Can you find a better job?”

Fu Junjie had nothing to say.

He couldn’t.

In the end, he became a delivery rider.

A tiger fallen to the plains is bullied by dogs.

He swore that once he succeeded, the first thing he would do was acquire the entire delivery platform.

Naturally, Yun Xi learned all of this from the private investigator.

In fact, she knew even more.

For example, Fu Junjie really did receive bad reviews every day.

He worked himself half to death and still couldn’t earn much money.

He was still struggling to adapt.

At the same time, Yan Zhixin had begun wavering.

She had started reconnecting with several wealthy heirs she had known in the past.

In truth, she had begun doubting whether Fu Junjie could actually return to the Fu family.

Her suggestion that he become a delivery rider had only been a test.

In her mind, Fu Junjie had been born with a golden spoon in his mouth and cared deeply about face.

If the Fu mother and son were still testing her, then Fu Junjie would never truly deliver food.

She never imagined he would actually go do it.

What did that mean?

It meant Fu Junjie might truly be unable to return to the Fu family. There had never been any test from beginning to end. Yun Xi simply looked down on her and had abandoned her son along with her.

Was that reasonable?

Not at all.

The Fu family had passed down through a single heir for generations. Fu Junjie was the only successor. And the child in her belly was the only successor of the only successor. Sometimes Yan Zhixin even wondered whether she was dreaming.

Otherwise, why had Yun Xi suddenly stopped caring about bloodline and descendants at all? But no matter what, Fu Junjie’s attitude left her uncertain.

So she could only reconnect with a few backup options, just in case.

Yun Xi remembered how Fu Junjie had argued with her before.

What had he said again?

That Yan Zhixin’s interactions with those wealthy heirs weren’t ambiguous at all. She was simply so outstanding that she naturally attracted their attention.

Yun Xi wondered if Fu Junjie still thought the same now. She was very much looking forward to seeing his expression change. Like watching a theatrical performance.

One face after another.

On Yun Xi’s side, things had also been quite lively recently. Ever since she publicly declared that she no longer acknowledged Fu Junjie, many people had become interested.

A number of men began pursuing Yun Xi. At her age, if she remarried, she could still try for another child.

The Fu family’s vast fortune was like an enormous cake. Plenty of people had their eyes on it.

Some even came from prominent families. Yun Xi’s attitude was simple. Friendship was fine. Business cooperation was fine. Anything further was out of the question.

Her life was free, easy, and full of interesting things every day.

She had no desire to put shackles on herself.