Whose brothers and sister are you, anyway!

Tang Beichen had remained silent the whole time.

Tang Nanzhou knew it would be hard to get him to talk anytime soon, so she simply approached the subject from another angle.

"So when are you planning to divorce Xia Jing?"

Tang Beichen: "..."

He abruptly looked up at her. "Sis, do you want me to get divorced that badly?"

"What else would you do? Do you have a better solution than divorce?"

"The old man did something that outrageous to Tangtang, and you still expect Xia Jing to pretend nothing happened and keep getting along with someone who wanted to abandon her daughter?"

"Never mind Xia Jing. Let me ask you this: can you face the old man now without any resentment?"

"Don't forget, Tangtang is your daughter too."

There were things his older brothers couldn't conveniently put too bluntly, but an older sister he was close to had fewer reservations.

That was why Tang Dongcheng and Tang Xifeng could only talk around the issue and lecture him on general principles.

Today, someone who could say those things had finally returned.

Her questions left Tang Beichen speechless. As he lowered his head in shame, he sneaked a glance at his two older brothers. Sure enough, both looked as though they had been waiting a long time for this.

"You're right about all of it, Sis."

Tang Beichen rubbed his face in frustration. "But do you have to put it so bluntly?"

"I'm Tangtang's father. This hasn't been easy on me either."

"Can't you be a little more tactful? Couldn't you at least pretend and offer me some comfort?"

Even though he told himself every day that he had brought this on himself and should bear the consequences, Tang Beichen still felt wronged whenever everyone misunderstood him and blamed him for something that hadn't happened yet.

Everything had happened so suddenly. He hadn't even had time to prove himself or make amends before it all hit him in the face, leaving him completely dazed.

"Would a few insincere words of comfort actually make you feel better?"

Tang Dongcheng glanced at him. "And if you felt better, would that erase the hurt Xia Jing and Tangtang suffered?"

Tang Beichen: "..."

"Beichen, it's not that I don't want to comfort you. What you did was just too outrageous."

Tang Xifeng sipped his tea and said mildly, "If I sided with you without caring about right or wrong, I wouldn't deserve to be called human."

Tang Beichen: "..."

Yes, yes, I'm not human.

Seeing that he had taken their words to heart, Tang Nanzhou changed tack. "If you truly love Xia Jing and Tangtang, you should give them real freedom and happiness."

"Yeah, I know."

Tang Beichen answered bitterly, "I know what I should do."

But clearly, none of the others believed him.

Tang Beichen finally lost his patience. "I mean it! So stop meddling and making things even messier! I'll handle it myself."

"Oh, then we'll wait and see."

"..."

After the siblings finished talking and were getting ready to go home, Su Xiajing went to the restroom.

When she came out, she saw Tang Nanzhou waiting outside.

"Sis."

"Did I startle you?"

"No."

"Sorry. I just really wanted to say a few more things to you."

Tang Nanzhou stepped forward and hugged her. "You must have felt so helpless back then, right?"

Su Xiajing froze, her eyes growing warm, and quietly let her hold her.

"Before you arrived, I talked to Dongcheng and Xifeng. When it comes to you, Beichen, and the Tang Family, whatever you decide, we're on your side."

"Whether you're Beichen's wife or the Tang Family's daughter-in-law, you're yourself first, and you're Tangtang's mother. You have every right to fight for yourself and your child."

"So do whatever you want to do. Don't hold back out of concern for us."

Everyone in the Tang Family had seen how infatuated Tang Beichen had been with Su Xiajing.

Su Xiajing was indeed an outstanding woman, worthy of everyone's affection, and their marriage had received everyone's support and blessings.

Tang Beichen and the Tang Family were in the wrong here, outrageously so. Even their own family couldn't deny the obvious.

Besides, Tangtang was such a special child.

The moment she was born, she had discovered that her own grandfather wanted to throw her away and separate her from her parents. How hurt must she have been?

"Even if you and Beichen get divorced, we'll still be family because of Tangtang. We can get together anytime."

"And that little brat Tang Jian got snubbed by Tang Tang today. He might end up pestering Tangtang all the time from now on..."

Tang Jian was extremely confident and vain. When he wasn't ill, his favorite pastime was showing off his good looks. After getting snubbed by a tiny baby today, he had wandered over to Tangtang whenever he got the chance. Clearly, it mattered a great deal to him.

"Okay."

Remembering how eagerly Tang Jian had tried to show off in front of Tang Tang, Su Xiajing smiled too. "Thank you, Sis. I'll remember that."

"Good."

"Come on, let's head out."

Tang Nanzhou hadn't deliberately hidden the fact that she had gone to see Su Xiajing. Anyone could guess what she wanted to say.

Thinking about how his older brothers and sister had lectured him to his face, only for his sister to immediately go and offer Su Xiajing her support, Tang Beichen felt decidedly unhappy.

For a moment, he could barely tell whose brothers and sister they were anymore.

He held it in the whole way home, but finally couldn't help himself. The moment they stepped through the door, he asked sourly, "Did my sister talk to you about us again?"

"Yes. She said she would support me."

Su Xiajing glanced at him and carried Tang Tang farther inside.

"There they go saying that again!"

Tang Beichen followed behind, pushing the stroller and protesting, "Every last one of them only knows how to upset me."

Well, well, so my aunt is this reasonable too.

Tang Tang had woken up just in time to hear this exchange between her beautiful mommy and her scumbag dad.

That makes sense. What my scumbag dad and the Tang Family did was just inhuman. Nobody in their right mind could support them.

Tang Beichen: "..."

Over the past month or so, he had grown completely used to his precious daughter calling him a scumbag dad, and had long since given up trying to clear his name.

But today, his three older siblings had taken turns lecturing him, then his sister had supported Xia Jing "behind his back." After coming home, he still had to listen to his daughter call him a scumbag dad and urge him to get divorced.

Tang Beichen couldn't take it anymore. He felt it was absolutely necessary to clear his name. Even if it ultimately did no good, he had to make sure Su Xiajing knew he had never betrayed her!

"Honey." Tang Beichen pushed the stroller aside and hurried after her. "I really haven't fallen for someone else. If you don't believe me, you can look at what I had my secretary hire a private investigator to investigate..."

Of course an investigation wouldn't turn up anything now. You're not cheating yet.

But so what? After I was thrown away before, didn't you start out looking after my beautiful mommy like the perfect husband? And in the end, didn't you fall for someone else while my beautiful mommy was in a bad mental state?

And the person you fell for was my... hmm...

Su Chuchu should already be pregnant by now, right?

Tang Tang said after thinking it over.