Chapter 82

Chapter 82: The King of Scumbags

As it turned out, women in love really do lose some of their brain power. That was true for Du Lian Shuang, and even more true for Liao Jing Yi.

If Cui Cheng Ye told her to take birth control, she took it. If he told her not to tell her parents, she kept quiet.

She had been manipulated so badly that she obeyed his every word.

And that was exactly why things ended in tragedy.

Cui Cheng Ye’s heart was even greedier and more vicious than his father’s. From the very start, he never planned to let Liao Jing Yi carry his child or play some “carry on the family line” trick like his dad. His plan was to make sure she could never have children of her own and would unknowingly and willingly raise a child for him.

Du Lian Shuang: “!!!”

According to Cui Cheng Ye’s plan, after he started dating and sleeping with Liao Jing Yi, he always took care to use contraception himself and kept having her take birth control pills again and again.

Everyone knows that all medicine has side effects. Long-term use of birth control pills affects the body in many ways, and can especially lead to early ovarian failure.

In this way, preventing pregnancy slowly turned into not being able to get pregnant at all.

However, considering modern medicine and the Liao family’s wealth, just to be safe, Cui Cheng Ye secretly switched her birth control pills for an even stronger drug that would make her sterile.

After taking it for a long time, Liao Jing Yi’s periods became irregular and her body grew visibly weaker.

Yin Bai Lu had thought about taking her for a checkup, but by then Liao Jing Yi had been brainwashed into treating every word from Cui Cheng Ye like a sacred rule. She didn’t dare let her parents know she was secretly dating, having sex, and taking birth control for a long time, so she kept putting it off. In the end she really… became infertile.

Once things reached that point, the story naturally arrived at its biggest turning point: Cui Cheng Ye met his true love, a woman who was as gentle, kind, and considerate as his mother.

Du Lian Shuang: “…”

She no longer knew what to say. She was afraid that if she opened her mouth, she would just die of anger.

To put it plainly, Cui Cheng Ye had a bit of a mother complex. After years of brainwashing himself, he hated rich girls like Du Lian Shuang, but felt pity for weak “dodder vine” women who, like his mother, endured everything in silence. So when he met his so-called true love later, he fell completely.

He even said that Liao Jing Yi had only been lucky enough to meet him earlier than Miss Fang. In his heart, Miss Fang was his real wife, while Liao Jing Yi was just a mistress occupying the space of his legal spouse.

When Du An Rao read this part, she had the same stunned face as that “old man on the subway looking at his phone” meme.

[I have to say, this logic is truly insane!]

For the situation between Du Lian Shuang and Cui Dong Mei, you could still argue about it. One was a marriage in fact, the other a legal marriage, and Cui Dong Mei had even married Cui Jue Yan earlier than Du Lian Shuang, just without getting a marriage license.

If you really had to argue over who counted as the mistress, both sides could fight over it.

But in Cui Cheng Ye’s case, it was obvious he was cheating during the marriage, yet he could twist it around like this. This “my true love is the real wife” theory that these scumbags use was really unbeatable.

Du Lian Shuang strongly agreed, nodding. When she thought about how the perfect marriage she had always believed in was, in his eyes, actually the story of a mistress using trickery to steal another woman’s family, she couldn’t help grinding her teeth again.

But what Du An Rao said next made her realize that these scumbags were called scumbags because they had no bottom line at all and did not deserve to be called human.

After Cui Cheng Ye met Miss Fang and fell into a passionate romance with her, they soon had a so-called “love child”.

Around the same time, doctors found that Liao Jing Yi’s ovaries were aging early. She might never have children of her own in this lifetime.

The blow was so heavy that she fell seriously ill and never fully recovered.

During this time, Cui Cheng Ye stayed by her side, taking care of her and comforting her. He poured out sweet words like they were free, until even people who had not approved of their relationship before began to waver.

The ironic part was that, in another wing of the same hospital, his so-called true love was happily resting while carrying their child.

After another three or four years, when Cui Cheng Ye felt the time was right, he had the people around Liao Jing Yi casually bring up the idea that the two of them could adopt a child, pushing her to take the initiative to discuss adoption with him.

And of course, the child they had long ago decided they would “adopt” was the one his true love had given birth to for him.

So, without knowing anything, Liao Jing Yi took away the illegitimate child of her husband and his mistress, raised him as her own son until he reached adulthood, and before she died, left him all the inheritance her parents left her. She died without ever knowing the truth!

Du Lian Shuang: “!!!”

Mother Du: “!!!”

Du An Rao: “!!!”

[Ahhhh, what a tragic person, what a vicious scumbag, what a cruel book! Why is it called “Legend of the Cui Clan”? It should be called “Legend of the White-Eyed Wolf”, that would be so much clearer. Aunt and Miss Liao were really cursed with bad luck to meet this father-and-son pair, the top scumbags among scumbags. They were picked clean, not even a scrap of bone left. This is a human tragedy!]

Hearing this, Du Lian Shuang finally could not hold back the wild anger in her heart. She slapped her spoon down on the table and shouted: “Yin Bai Lu!”

Poor Ms. Yin jumped in fright and, once she came back to herself, almost wanted to hit her.

“What the heck is wrong with you? Why are you suddenly yelling so loud? Do you want to scare me to death?”

“Let me ask you. If your husband secretly drugged you so you couldn’t have children, then secretly put his illegitimate child with another woman into an orphanage and tricked you into adopting him, what would you do?”

Yin Bai Lu froze, but quickly reacted and said in a cold voice: “Of course I’d castrate him first. If he dares make me sterile, then this lady will make sure he never has any children, either!”

Du Lian Shuang was stunned by how decisive she was, while Du An Rao’s eyes lit up.

[Good idea! If we could really make Cui Cheng Ye sterile, it would definitely break their whole family’s defense.]

You have to know that after Cui Jue Yan framed Du Lian Shuang and had her sent to a mental hospital, he couldn’t wait to change the two children’s surnames, saying it was to let them “return to the ancestors”.

But the dragon-and-phoenix twins already understood everything by then. They had been raised personally by Du Lian Shuang and Old Master Du, and their feelings for the two of them were much deeper than for Cui Jue Yan. There was no way they would change their own surnames just to suit his selfish wishes.

This made Cui Jue Yan furious. He had always treated the pair of siblings as proof of his years of “enduring humiliation and hardship”. Because of their disobedience, he felt more and more that Du Lian Shuang had “spoiled” them and that their bodies only carried half of the Cui family’s blood, which was not pure enough.

So, not long after they became adults, he sent the two of them overseas, letting them fend for themselves, and treated only his son Cui Cheng Ye as his one and only blood heir.

When Cui Cheng Ye learned about this, on one hand he was happy that Cui Jue Yan was now completely his own father alone, and on the other hand, he felt he ought to learn a lesson from it. He decided he would not let Liao Jing Yi get pregnant, and would instead have another woman outside give birth to a son for him.

That way, Liao Jing Yi would not be the biological mother. If the child knew the truth from an early age, he would not have any especially deep feelings for her.

Once she died, he could change the child’s surname however he liked.