Well, she had been pleading poverty just a moment ago, but a mere 5% interest had made her show her true colors.
She gave up on acknowledging him as family, and on borrowing the money, too.
Shu Mei and her son left, while Qiu Xiao looked dejected. He felt like a clown who had imagined he mattered.
What had he been agonizing over?
The things he had agonized over meant absolutely nothing!
No one cared about so-called family bonds at all!
"Master Xiao, I don't understand. I really don't understand. I'm her son, after all. Did she have to go this far?"
Watching the mother and son walk away, Xiao Yu shook his head. "You lacked a mother's love growing up, so you long for it. But she's different. She has a son, a family, and people to invest her feelings in. To her, you're optional.
"She's actually changed by now. In her earlier years, she only had eyes for money. She was a pure materialist. To her back then, you were a burden she couldn't get rid of fast enough.
"Affection takes nurturing and time. It doesn't appear just because you say a few words. You're mother and son, yes, but only in name and by blood. There's no foundation of affection whatsoever. You're no different from strangers!
"Now that she can't get anything out of you, naturally, she can't be bothered to pretend to love you as a mother anymore."
"Ah, thank you, Master Xiao. I'll be leaving, too! Sorry for the trouble!"
Absurd. Utterly, unbelievably absurd.
Though Xiao Yu had managed to offer an explanation, that was what he truly thought.
Shu Mei had overturned and lowered his understanding of just how far "a mother's love" and "family bonds" could fall.
All he could say was that