From Broken Family to Life Winner: A Reborn Mother's Journey

The supervisor was mortified.

”Su Li, I know this isn’t the right place to treat Tang Mo. I was just hoping you could wait until Tang Yuanxiao gets back before you leave...”

Su Li cut him off without a hint of politeness.

”It would be best if he came back. Supervisor, please inform him that I will be filing a lawsuit against his mother for child abuse and attempted murder. Tell him to watch for the court summons.”

The supervisor’s expression changed.

Su Li looked at his face and gave a scornful smile. ”Since you’re in charge here, I won’t take the extra step of calling the Public Security Bureau. I will sue directly.”

”The Tang Family abused Tang Mo. I will also be suing for custody. It will likely involve a paternity test, so please ask him to cooperate when the time comes.”

Paternity tests existed at the time, but few people knew about them, and the technology wasn’t very mature.

To ensure there were no mistakes and to increase credibility, Su Li had already decided to contact a lab abroad, so the test could be done both domestically and internationally at the same time.

After Little Tang Mo had fallen into a deep sleep, Su Li’s mind became unprecedentedly calm.

In that moment, the supervisor and Aunt Chang were once again stunned by Su Li.

This version of Su Li shocked them even more than the woman they had known during the divorce.

While the supervisor and Aunt Chang were merely shocked, for Mrs. Tang, it was a profound and alienating shock.

Mrs. Tang had witnessed Su Li’s calmness, competence, and ruthlessness back in Xinghua Village, but it had never been as stark as it was now.

She stared at the utterly unfamiliar Su Li before her, and a bone-deep fear crept in as she listened to her words.

She didn’t understand lawsuits or courts, but she heard ”Public Security Bureau.” She also heard the terrifying words ”child abuse” and ”attempted murder.” Her instincts screamed danger.

Her mind uncontrollably flashed back to when Miao Fenghua and Su Dan had caused a scene at their home, only to be sent to the Public Security Bureau and detained by Su Li.

Back then, she had been scared and tried to dissuade Su Li, but Su Li had ignored her and done it anyway.

’She didn’t even go easy on her own mother, let alone me!’

Thinking about what Miao Fenghua and Su Dan had done, and then thinking about what she had done, Mrs. Tang’s hair stood on end.

She didn’t even hear Su Li’s later words about fighting for custody; she just started shouting.

”Su Li, how dare you! How dare you call the Public Security Bureau! I’m your mother-in-law! You have no right!”

She charged straight at her. ”I’m telling you, I won’t go to jail! If you dare call the authorities, the gossip alone will be enough to ruin you!”

Any trace of remorse she had felt moments before vanished completely. ”He’s my grandson, I’ll hit him if I want to! It’s not like you gave birth to him, so what business is it of yours!”

Aunt Chang and the supervisor watched from the side. A vein throbbed on one’s forehead, while the other was already trembling with anger.

Su Li felt nothing. She looked coldly at Mrs. Tang, no longer seeing her as a human being.

’Can someone who has lost all humanity still be called a person?’

’No. She’s just an animal.’

’How could I get angry at an animal?’

Seeing Su Li remain silent, Mrs. Tang thought she was scared.

”I’m telling you, Su Li, if you dare call the authorities and try to send me to jail, I’ll make Tangyuan divorce you immediately! I’ve long wanted to get rid of a daughter-in-law like you. You’re finished!”

As she spoke, her gaze grew more vicious. ”Pah! A slut who was unfaithful in her marriage and should have been drowned in a pond long ago! And a bastard from who-knows-where! You both deserve to die! Your deaths wouldn’t be a loss to anyone!”

Su Li looked at Mrs. Tang’s twisted face, which held a hidden smugness, and laughed out of sheer fury.

”Heh heh... Divorce me... Bastard... Heh heh...” Su Li couldn’t stop laughing, as if she had just heard the world’s greatest joke.

”Tang Guihua, Tang Yuanxiao and I divorced a long time ago. It’s not your place to have him divorce me!”

’How ironic. For the sake of Tang Yuanxiao’s future, I endured and kept it a secret, and this is the result...’

’What was the point?’

’What was the use of going to all that trouble to keep it a secret until now?’

Su Li laughed loudly. Thinking about her recent suffering and forbearance, it all felt like a joke.

”Divorce? What divorce?” Mrs. Tang was completely stunned.

Su Li glanced at the shadowy figures of the sisters-in-law by the door, then at the stupefied supervisor, and couldn’t stop laughing.

”Tang Guihua, your son and I divorced two months ago! I have nothing to do with your family anymore, so stop acting like a mother-in-law and trying to disgust me!”

”I will make you pay for everything you’ve done to Little Tang Mo. Don’t even think about getting away with it!”

Mrs. Tang was so shaken by each piece of news Su Li revealed that she could barely stand. Looking into Su Li’s eyes, she could no longer hide the fear in her heart.

She was flustered but didn’t want to show weakness. ’I did nothing wrong!’

”Get away with what? I’m the one who raised him! He’s only alive today because of me! What’s wrong with hitting him a couple of times?”

She blustered, ”I wouldn’t be wrong even if I strangled him to death! He’s just a bastard! A bastard!”

Su Li stared coldly at Mrs. Tang. ”Still acting tough, still calling him a bastard. Let me tell you, you had better pray that nothing happens to Little Mo. If anything serious happens to him... I won’t let a single one of you get away!”

’Not a single one!’

The murderous intent in Su Li’s eyes was almost palpable.

Mrs. Tang’s pupils contracted, and she unconsciously took a step back.

Su Li swept a cold glance around the room, then left with Little Tang Mo on her back, not looking back once.

No one said a word, not even the supervisor.

The incident had blown up too much to be concealed.

「In less than an hour, nearly everyone in the family compound knew.」

One: Tang Yuanxiao and Su Li were already divorced, which was why Su Li never came to the family compound.

Two: Little Tang Mo might not be Tang Yuanxiao’s biological son.

Three: Because he wasn’t her biological grandson, Mrs. Tang had abused Little Tang Mo. If Su Li hadn’t arrived in time to save him, he would have been killed by her.

When Mrs. Tang had come before, she had caused a scene, threatened to hang herself, and then left before anyone could understand the situation.

But this time, Mrs. Tang had been staying for a while. Although people couldn’t understand why she was always dragging Qin Shanshan over to her house, no one had expected the seemingly kind Mrs. Tang to have such a side to her.

By the time Tang Yuanxiao rushed back from the base, his world and his life had been turned upside down.

He didn’t even know how he got back or how he ended up in the supervisor’s office.

Watching the supervisor’s mouth open and close, he could understand each word individually, but strung together, they made no sense.

’How could the biggest secret I planned to hide for a lifetime have been exposed? And now everyone knows.’

’My mother, my own dear mother... how could she have abused Little Tang Mo? And nearly killed him...’

’How is that possible? No one knew better than him how much his mother doted on Little Tang Mo.’

’How could something that should never have happened, something that was absolutely impossible, have actually happened?’

He hadn’t been gone for a year, or even half a year. It hadn’t even been two weeks.

’How had everything changed so drastically?’

It was all too absurd, as if he were trapped in a nightmare.

But it wasn’t.

It wasn’t a nightmare.

Everything was real.

Tang Yuanxiao was forced to see his mother in a new light, to recognize another side of her.

That terrifying, unfamiliar person was his mother. The mother who had given birth to him and raised him.