My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

At the Lu Mansion, beside the lotus pond, Wen Qiqi was soaking wet, lying on the ground in a weak and miserable state.

"Mother... mother..."

The boy knelt in front of her, hugged her shoulders anxiously, and gently shook her and called out.

Wen Qiqi spat out two mouthfuls of water before opening his eyes.

"Xingcheng."

Wen Qiqi shouted out the boy's name in disbelief. The boy turned around in surprise and shouted to the followers behind him: "That's great, luckily I rescued her in time, mother was just frightened... She recognized me, mother is fine!"

The next second, a hard slap almost broke the eardrum of the boy in front of him.

The boy was caught off guard by the blow and fell to the left with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

The attendant behind the young man was in disbelief. He hurriedly went up to support him and shouted at Wen Qiqi in anger, "Madam, did the water choke you? You slipped and fell into the water and almost drowned. The young master almost drowned to save you... How could you hit him!"

Wen Qiqi's face was cold, and her heart was even colder.

If her followers hadn't stopped her, she would have killed someone...

"Is the Madam crazy? Send her back quickly! She has become more and more outrageous in recent years!"

"Yes, she is infertile, and Aunt Mei kindly gave her her son for adoption. She actually treated someone else's child like this. After all, he is not her own child!"

……

After being sent back to the familiar bedroom, Wen Qiqi looked around. The dark red curtains, the turquoise tablecloth, and the mahogany wedding bed that she and Lu Zhanyao had carefully built when they got married were all there.

Her thoughts gradually became clear, and Lu Xingcheng, who had just changed into dry clothes, came over to accompany her again.

"Mother, I was wrong. I should have followed you all the time today so that you wouldn't fall into the water. I am unfilial. Please punish me."

Wen Qiqi looked at Lu Xingcheng carefully. He seemed to be several years younger.

"how old are you?"

"Mother...my son is fourteen years old this year."

Lu Xingcheng answered doubtfully.

Fourteen?

No wonder he looks a lot younger and has no beard on his cheeks yet.

"Where does your mother live?"

"Mom is in the side room. Mother, do you want to talk to my mother? I will go and call her over now."

"No need."

Aunt Mei still lives in the wing room in her own courtyard?

Didn’t you move to the newly built luxurious Lu Mansion?

Wen Qiqi has confirmed that she was not drowned, but was reborn three years ago.

Yes, she vaguely remembered...

Three years ago in the middle of summer, it seemed to be early July, she also slipped and fell into the lotus pond.

At that time, the Lu Mansion was still at its old site and the water in the lotus pond was still very clear.

She was secretly pushed into the lotus pond by Aunt Mei's men from behind, and then her own son Lu Xingcheng pretended to jump in and risked his life to save her.

At that time, Wen Qiqi was deeply moved. From then on, she wholeheartedly supported and protected her adopted son with all her heart.

But she never dreamed that all this was just a conspiracy of family feud.

Three years later, also in this lotus pond, her beloved adopted son Lu Xingcheng held her head with his own hands and pushed her into the dirty pond water again and again.

He laughed cruelly, and felt extremely satisfied as he watched his adoptive mother wailing and begging for mercy.

"Do you think I really treat you as my mother? You don't deserve it! If my mother hadn't cared about my future, how could I be so respectful to you!"

"You've disgusted me all these years, and you still let me call you mother!"

"Now, your Wen family is finished, and there is no need for you to live in this world!"

These words pierced Wen Qiqi's heart like a knife. She lost all hope and stopped struggling, drowning in the smelly and dirty lotus pond.

……

"Mother?"

Lu Xingcheng called out again tentatively.

The left side of his face was swollen so badly that it looked like he had a bun in his mouth.

Wen Qiqi raised her eyes and looked at him. He subconsciously avoided Wen Qiqi's gaze and lowered his head again.

Could it be that my mother discovered my arrangement?

Impossible, my mother has always been easy to fool, and she treats me as her best sister. My mother plays with me like she plays with a stupid dog...

"I'm going to hit you today, do you know you're wrong?"

Wen Qiqi asked, fiddling with the folding fan in her hand.

Now that everything is starting over again, the best is definitely yet to come.

Lu Xingcheng was stunned, then said obediently: "My mother is angry, it's my son's fault, so what's a slap in the face?"

He is good at speaking, and Wen Qiqi always falls for his tricks.

I must be feeling remorseful and blaming myself for hitting him today, and tomorrow I might even go back to the Wen family to ask for help.

Then, it would be just around the corner for me to enter the palace and serve as the prince's tutor.

"What's the point of your vague answer? Have I been teaching you to be eloquent and to please others these years?"

"what……"

Lu Xingcheng panicked, but saw Wen Qiqi walking towards him.

There was murderous intent in her eyes, but now, she had to hold back her anger and take it one step at a time.

Otherwise, people all over the world would not understand the great shame and injustice suffered by the Wen family.

What's more, she would not understand how she, as the mistress of the Lu family, worked so hard to raise a tiger that would bring trouble to her!

"Mother, what do you mean by this? Have you believed the gossips from the third and fourth rooms and started to doubt your son's sincerity towards you?"

The third and fourth wives are indeed not good people, but Aunt Mei, who treats her like a sister, is even more cruel and vicious!

At the beginning, she heard that Qiqi was pregnant, and Aunt Mei, as her husband's maid, served both her husband and her.

However, other people serve their husbands in bed, but serving her involves her three meals a day and her food preparation...

Soon, she had a miscarriage for no apparent reason.

Aunt Mei tried to comfort her in various ways at the time, saying that one would always be young again.

It was during that period that Wen Qiqi and Aunt Mei became as close as sisters, and Aunt Mei helped her deal with the third wife who had just married into the family.

The third wife is an arrogant person. Aunt Mei stirs up trouble and stands on the side of Wen Qiqi.

Haha, thinking of those past events, Wen Qiqi’s teeth itched with hatred.

"Xingcheng, as the eldest son of the Lu family, you are always like a woman, talking about the third and fourth wives all the time? Aren't you ashamed? Besides, you are a student, how can you understand the right and wrong of women? Did your mother tell you that?"

"No. Absolutely not!"

Lu Xingcheng waved his hands quickly: "Mom never told me these things. Mother, calm down. I just don't understand. I fell into the water today and I rescued you. Why did you..."

He felt very aggrieved, his eyes reddened: "Mother, don't you think that your son is not your own and is not to your liking?"

Every time he said this, no matter how big a mistake he made, his mother would soften her heart.

“It’s really not what I want.”

Wen Qiqi raised her eyebrows coldly, then raised the corners of her mouth and smiled faintly: "The relationship between you and me as mother and son is too shallow. You can go back to your mother."