After Qiao He finished speaking, Li Ling looked at him in shock, "Are you going to kick me out?"

"Qiao He!" She suddenly shouted excitedly, "I've suffered so much following you all these years, and endured so much hardship in front of Qiao Ruyi! I've given you my whole life, and you actually want to drive me away!"

"Even if Xile is not your son, so what!"

Li Ling's roar was heard in the Qiao Mansion.

Her eyes were red as she glared at Qiao He. "But I'm not wrong. You're the one who's wrong, Qiao He! Do you think I want to give birth to him? If I hadn't found out it was a son, I wouldn't have given birth to him. All this is because of you!"

She screamed heartbreakingly, her eyes full of resentment.

Qiao He fell onto the sofa with weak legs and feet, his whole body numb.

"How selfish you are, Qiao He! In the past ten years since Ruyuan and I entered the Qiao family, you haven't thought about us at all! That year, I heard every conversation you had with others in the study clearly!"

Li Ling covered her swollen face and pointed at Qiao He with red eyes. "You said I'm not well educated and not suitable for managing the company. That's fine, but you said Ruyuan is a girl, not very smart, and unlikely to achieve great things. You're worried about leaving Qiao Group to her in the future!"

That year, Qiao He's words played over and over in Li Ling's ears for more than ten years, and every word pierced her heart.

Her face was filled with tears. "You said I couldn't help you, couldn't even give birth to a son, leaving your Qiao family without a successor! You said if Yin Rufang were still alive, she might be able to help you share a lot of your burdens, and maybe even give you a child!"

She clutched her aching chest and sobbed, "You even said that Ruyuan was inferior to Qiao Ruyi in every way, and that she wasn't up to the task! If Qiao Ruyi hadn't been so arrogant and unwilling to acknowledge you, you would have trained her as your heir long ago!"

"But Qiao He!" She wailed. "I've had two miscarriages for you, and aborted two daughters. Is it my fault alone that I can't give birth to a son?"

Qiao He angrily threw the teacup on the table to the ground, and fragments flew everywhere!

"So you hooked up with someone else and cheated on me!"

Li Ling wiped the tears from her face and looked at Qiao He indifferently, "It was just a drunken accident. I just thought of it as a happy affair. I just didn't expect to get pregnant after just one try."

She walked up to Qiao He and said, "Don't you want a son? I saw it was a son, so I left it to you. You like him very much."

The more she knew what Qiao He cared about, the more she wanted to say it.

"Ever since Xile was born, you've never mentioned giving the Qiao Group to Qiao Ruyi again. How wonderful! A son can put you off such thoughts."

"Ruyuan and I have suffered for ten years outside, while Yin Rufang and her daughter have enjoyed ten years of happiness. Why should I ask you to give everything my daughter deserves to Yin Rufang's daughter? Why do they deserve it? Do they deserve it?"

Li Ling bent down and glared at Qiao He, "Don't you want to know who raised your son for six or seven years?"

Qiao He also glared at her, his chest heaving violently. He felt the blood in his body surge up and choked in his heart, and the pain made him unable to breathe.

Li Ling moved closer to him, "You helped the Ling family raise a son, but Xile is Ling Che's cousin, hahahaha——"

"Ling, Ling Xiu De!" Qiao He covered his chest with one hand and pointed at Li Ling with a trembling hand, "You, you and Ling Xiu De——"

"That's right! It's him!" Li Ling smiled proudly. "I have to say, he's much better than you. Even though he's been arrested now, you can't do what he can do for me!"

"You vicious woman! You vicious woman!"

Qiao He wanted to reach out and slap her again, but the slap went into slow motion and it was extremely difficult to raise his hand.

His face turned increasingly purple, his breathing became rapid, and the hands covering his chest tightened.

Qiao Ruyuan noticed something was wrong and quickly grabbed Li Ling, "Mom, Dad doesn't seem to be okay, stop talking!"

Li Ling not only wanted to say something, but also wanted to say something more heart-wrenching.

"Qiao He." She looked at Qiao He's increasingly pale face and bruised lips, then leaned over to whisper in his ear, "Is your blood pressure rising again? Is the blood pressure medication no longer controlling it?"

She chuckled softly, "Of course I can't control my blood pressure if I take health supplements."

Qiao He suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Li Ling's vicious face.

"you you--"

"As early as when you started to favor Qiao Ruyi, I replaced your blood pressure medication with health supplements. Qiao He, don't blame me for being cruel. You were the one who wronged us mother and daughter first!"

Qiao He stared at her, gasping for breath, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Qiao Ruyuan didn't know what Li Ling said in Qiao He's ear. She only saw that Qiao He's expression was becoming more and more abnormal, and he seemed to be in great pain.

"Mom! Is Dad's blood pressure low? Call an ambulance!" Qiao Ruyuan said as he was about to make a phone call, but was held down by Li Ling.

She looked at Li Ling in surprise, only to see Li Ling shaking her head at her.

"Your father is just angry. He'll be fine once he calms down."

Qiao Ruyuan listened to Li Ling's words and stood there in a daze, watching Qiao He with his eyes wide open, looking like he was about to die.

Just as Li Ling was watching the countdown of Qiao He's life, suddenly a pair of hurried footsteps ran over.

"Mr. Qiao!" Qiu Gui came down from upstairs with a cup of water and antihypertensive drugs and quickly handed them to Qiao He.

Li Ling frowned immediately. She had forgotten that there was an old man named Qiu Gui by Qiao He's side!

She pretended to be anxious and said, "Butler Qiu, Old Qiao just got angry and became like this. What happened?"

Qiao He just stared at her, unable to utter a word. He couldn't even swallow the medicine and water Qiu Gui handed him, so anxious that he quickly called the emergency number.

......

In a coffee shop.

Qiao Ruyi looked at the slightly embarrassed woman opposite her and asked, "Is what you said true?"

"It's really the eldest lady!" The nursery lady burst into tears, "Master Xile has suffered a lot. The injuries on his body, big and small, were all caused by Madam Li and the second young lady..."

At this point, she lowered her head in self-blame. "You rarely came to the Qiao Mansion before, and you didn't care about things here, so I didn't dare tell you. I was afraid that Madam Li and the Second Miss would blame me. It would be fine if they scolded me, but I was afraid they would fire me and make me lose this job... I really need this job."

"Seeing Master Xile's accident, I feel very guilty. I wish I had told you these things earlier. If I had told you earlier, Master Xile would have suffered less and lived happier days..."

Qiao Ruyi's tears fell and were gently wiped away by her.

No wonder she saw scars on Xile's forehead and face many times when she saw him. She thought he was too young to have hurt himself.

It was all her fault for being so careless that she didn't realize Xile was in the same dire straits as she was. If she had discovered it sooner, she would have found a way to take Xile away, and Xile wouldn't be lying in the hospital like this today...

Tears fell into the coffee cup on the table, creating ripples.

The phone in the bag rang rapidly.

Qiao Ruyi wiped away her tears and picked up the phone, "Uncle Gui, what's going on—"

"What!" She frowned and her face darkened.

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