Having watched his mother die right before his eyes, how could he not hate him?
From then on, Qin Yuheng became sharp-edged and violent, the emotion in his eyes fading until they grew colder and colder.
He was no longer the outstanding heir Qin Feng had once seen in him. Every time he looked at Qin Feng, he seemed to want to kill him.
Father and son had turned against each other completely. Naturally, Qin Feng could not keep an "ungrateful wretch" who no longer had any loyalty to him by his side, so he sent him away under the pretext of studying abroad.
The blow had also been too much for Old Master Qin. Anger drove him into illness, leaving him with no energy to deal with any of it, and he passed away not long afterward.
Although Qin Yu had always done well in school, he inevitably seemed mediocre beside the brilliant example who had come before him.
It was not that Qin Feng had never considered bringing Qin Yuheng back.
But even if he starved to death, Qin Yuheng would not ask him for money. He had not asked for a single cent in all those years, and that stubborn defiance displeased Qin Feng immensely.
He disliked the feeling of losing control.
Had Azure not later faced a major crisis and needed someone to take the blame, he would never have given Qin Yuheng the chance to take it over.
The pawn who should have been discarded had survived all this time, while the heir on whom such high hopes had once been placed had become a discarded pawn himself, adrift and alone.
Yet when Qin Yuheng returned to the country, he was met with Qin Yu's hostility and provocations, and found that he had grown into