She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Enraged, Chen Weijun suddenly shoved Chen Lingling, a child, outside, causing her to fall to the ground.

Chen Lingling didn't cry. With candy in her mouth, she hadn't even reacted when her biological father, Chen Xiangnan, came over on his bicycle and picked her up.

Chen Xiangnan saw his second uncle, who had come uninvited, and also witnessed the entire process of pushing the man.

He was currently taking Tang Jiao to serve tea to his parents and didn't have time to pay attention to her. When he noticed that Chen Lingling wasn't crying, he breathed a sigh of relief and hugged her, asking Chen Lingling to call Tang Jiao "Mom".

Although Chen Lingling still remembered her biological mother, she had no objection to calling someone else "Mom" and obediently did so. Everyone cheered, and Tang Jiao gave Chen Lingling a small red envelope, which made everyone even happier.

He handed Chen Lingling to Chen Xianghong, who was closest to him, asking her to take care of her. As soon as Chen Xianghong reached out, Yu Hongzhen snatched the child into his arms. Bystanders looked at him and Chen Xianghong with mocking eyes, and Chen Xianghong blushed again. The three of them looked like a family of three.

After the tea ceremony, everyone was invited to eat in the large tent that had been set up outside. Chen Xiangnan had really spent money; the dishes were quite good for the time of year, and he had even specially hired a chef to cook them. Now that the weather was getting colder, everyone would be shivering while eating without the tent.

However, Chen Weijun remained a major concern for him. Chen Xiangnan was genuinely afraid that his second uncle would cause trouble again, and if a fight broke out, it would be all his money that was wasted. So, he asked Grandma Xia to take Tang Jiao to meet the relatives first, and he immediately went to find Chen Weijun.

Chen Weijun was about to sit down at the wedding banquet, and had already taken out an aluminum lunchbox to pack the food. Although Chen Xiangnan and the others hadn't invited him, he was already there, so they couldn't just not let him eat.

He was about to put his chopsticks in his mouth to suck on them when someone pressed his arm down.

"Second Uncle, I have a few words to say to you. Let's go inside."

Looking at the lively scene in the courtyard, Old Ma's wife felt a pang of resentment. Her son was crippled, and Old Ma only cared about Guan Tao, treating her like a servant. Although she knew in her heart that Guan Tao was just a tool in their family, being treated like this made Old Ma's wife feel very unbalanced.

Seeing that Chen Xiangnan's second marriage was going so well, Old Ma's wife felt even more displeased. She glanced at Xiao Ma, who was locked in his room, and inexplicably wanted to see the wedding banquet turn into a complete mess.

When Wang's eldest son got married last time, Old Ma's wife didn't feel this way. She even mocked Old Ma for being willing to give her son away to someone else as a live-in son-in-law. At that time, she went to the wedding banquet with the intention of watching a good show and hoped that the wedding banquet would go smoothly.

But when it came to Chen Xiangnan, she was very unhappy. Chen Xiangnan seemed smart as a child, but he couldn't even become a factory worker, and he married a woman who practically lived off her family. He was nothing like her son, Xiao Ma. But after that wretched woman ruined Xiao Ma, he was rendered useless. So why was it that this good-for-nothing Chen Xiangnan's second wife was better than Xiao Ma's first?

Old Ma's wife felt resentful. Seeing that everyone's attention was on the newlyweds and the dishes, she stood up from the wedding banquet and walked home. Her hand was on the lock of Xiao Ma's room, and she quickly opened the door. She wanted Xiao Ma to go crazy at Chen Xiangnan's wedding banquet.

Xiao Ma was inexplicably pushed out. His mother hadn't even put a cotton-padded coat on him in the freezing cold. He was standing in the wind wearing only a thin shirt and an old, pilling wool vest when he bumped into Chen Xiangnan and his second uncle.

Before Chen Xiangnan could even bring Chen Weijun home, he locked eyes with Xiao Ma. Not knowing what to say, he pulled out a handful of candy from his pocket. "Xiao Ma, here's some candy. Go home early in this cold weather."

Little Ma wanted to go home too. He was cold, and he didn't want to go crazy today. Even if he did go crazy, he wanted to wear a cotton-padded coat first. But his mother was too ruthless; she simply closed the door and locked it from the inside.

He could see his mother crouching by the window peeking at him. Xiao Ma started to tremble. He looked left and right, but in the end, he still felt that the greenhouse had more people and could block the wind, so it looked warmer.

He took off running in that direction, and Chen Xiangnan, seeing this, abandoned Chen Weijun and chased after him. Xiao Ma's destructive power might be even greater than his second uncle's; he had to stop him.

The people in the courtyard, who were happily eating, all assumed a defensive posture upon seeing Xiao Ma. They could run away before because Xiao Ma was mentally unstable with a knife in his hand. But today they couldn't run. First, Xiao Ma wasn't carrying a knife, so he was less dangerous. Second, they had only just begun eating this delicious meal; how could they let Xiao Ma ruin it?

Wasn't he supposed to be locked up? How did he get out?

There was an empty seat between Guan Tao and Lao Ma, which belonged to Lao Ma's wife who had said she needed to use the restroom. They were surprised to see Xiao Ma rush out, as they were certain before coming out that the room where Xiao Ma was kept was locked.

Guan Tao: "Dad, why did he come out?"

Old Ma shook his head: "Who knows him?"

After the two walked over, Old Ma shouted, "What are you doing out here? This is a wedding. If you get tainted by bad luck, you'll be annoyed every time you think about it. Go back now and don't embarrass yourself."

Xiao Ma's body, which had just warmed up from running, suddenly turned cold; his body was cold, but his heart was even colder. He knew he was useless as a man, and he knew what his parents were doing, but he still thought they had some feelings for him.

But now, in front of so many people, his mother kicked him out of the house, wanting to embarrass him in front of everyone and ruin the wedding banquet. His father, in front of everyone, said that he was a bad luck person and told him to go back home and not embarrass himself.

Xiao Ma's thoughts immediately drifted back to when he had just passed the factory worker's exam. Back then, everyone in the compound praised him, and his parents were proud of him, saying that he was their lifelong honor. How triumphant he was back then!

But because of that incident, he lost everything and will have to wear the shameful green hat forever, and he will have to keep it to himself for the sake of the Ma family line.

Why should he have to endure so much pain? All he did was beat his wife, why should he bear all the suffering? He's just following in his father's footsteps. His father beat his mother his whole life and nothing happened to him, so why is it that he's the one who's in trouble?

After his accident, his father still...

Xiao Ma was furious, truly furious. His whole family felt he was a disgrace, and he didn't want his parents to have an easy time either. Speaking of disgrace, after that incident was brought up, he would compare himself to his father to see who was the greatest disgrace to the Ma family.

A hint of madness flashed in Xiao Ma's eyes.