Chapter 382: Chapter 382: The Origins of Sheng Tang
Mr. Sheng called Sheng Sidong to the study alone.
His face didn’t look good.
Others secretly felt schadenfreude, thinking it was about Sheng Tang hitting Sheng Zhang last time, and the old man was about to reprimand Sheng Sidong.
The old man in the study was indeed in a bad mood.
He valued Sheng Tang very much, but now it seemed that Sheng Tang might not be his granddaughter.
"What’s going on?" he cut to the chase, "Tangtang and Cheng Ruojun look exactly the same, don’t you have any explanation?"
Sheng Sidong: "Sir, this is a private matter of our family, I don’t really want to discuss it."
The old man knew his son’s temperament.
He contained his anger: "So, back then, the one who gave birth to your child wasn’t Meng Ying, but Cheng Ruojun? You were two-timing and even made Meng Ying raise the child for you?"
Sheng Sidong’s face changed drastically.
The old man had been through the ups and downs in the business world and understood his son’s character.
As long as he poked at his loyalty, it would hit the mark every time.
Sure enough, Sheng Sidong’s face changed, and he couldn’t recover for a long while: "That’s not how it was."
"Cheng Ruojun also attended Geological University. How many of her classmates could forget her appearance back then? She was so beautiful, it was universally acknowledged.
Tangtang is your daughter. What if someone sees her at school someday? Won’t people gossip? Cheng Ruojun’s classmates, some of them stayed on to teach, right?" the old man said.
Sheng Sidong: "...."
He had also worried about this issue with his wife.
It was impossible to make Sheng Tang’s identity public.
"She is indeed Cheng Ruojun’s daughter," Sheng Sidong finally said, "but she is not mine, she is Xu Bingzhi’s."
The old man frowned slightly, "That Xu Family?"
"Yes. Back then, there was a mismatch in social standing, Xu Bingzhi broke up with her due to family pressure. Half a year later, he got engaged to someone else.
Cheng Ruojun was unwilling. They still had feelings for each other. Under Cheng Ruojun’s careful scheming, she became pregnant with Xu Bingzhi’s child. Unfortunately, she still didn’t have the fortune to marry into the Xu Family as a young lady," Sheng Sidong said.
The old man understood.
Given the circumstances back then, how could the high and mighty Xu Family possibly take a liking to an orphan like Cheng Ruojun?
"....You know, my mother-in-law has always felt that the Fang Family owed the Cheng Family. Cheng Ruojun’s hope of marrying into a wealthy family was shattered, her overseas scholarship with a full scholarship application was also approved.
If she had given birth out of wedlock, the school would have expelled her, she wouldn’t get her diploma, and her application to go abroad would be void. The school rules were much stricter back then.
She begged my mother-in-law for help, so Meng Ying had to cover for her. Fortunately, her later stages of pregnancy were in winter, so it was easier to conceal," continued Sheng Sidong.
Sheng Tang was born on January 3rd.
At this point, he was very calm emotionally.
He and Fang Mengying had been troubled before, but time had proven that they had gained more.
They had a daughter.
That was incomparable to anything else.
The joy a child brings to a family is unimaginable.
"You were all too foolish!" the old man said, a bit angry, "Back then, university graduates were so valuable, Mengying always had excellent grades. If it weren’t for Cheng Ruojun, she would be a professor by now."
A professor and a library aunt, their statuses are worlds apart!
The old man became more and more distressed the more he thought about it.
"Life is full of gains and losses," Sheng Sidong said, "If Tangtang had been with Cheng Ruojun, given Cheng Ruojun’s temper, she would have vented her grievances on the child; Tangtang would definitely have had a hard life.
We’re doing well, Tangtang is now lively and healthy, all the sacrifices are worth it. At least, we’ve saved a child’s entire life," Sheng Sidong said.
The old man: "..."
This son of his was so saintly, fortunately, he was just an academic; otherwise, he would have been eaten alive by others.