In this scene, Zhao Yingfang lost control of her emotions after taking a call from the school and then being mocked by Gu Fengyuan.
All these years, as though taking revenge, she had never asked her ex-husband for a penny. She had single-mindedly tried to raise their child well, attempting to prove her worth to him, as if that could avenge her against the man.
Even without him, she and her son were doing well. She wanted to make the man regret abandoning them.
But Gu An, whom she had always taken pride in, had actually slipped in his grades. This was something Zhao Yingfang could not tolerate, and even Gu Fengyuan seemed to know her sore spot.
The man immediately called to sneer, "I told you long ago that you couldn't raise a child alone. Just look at what you've turned An'an into. Do you act anything like a mother?"
Zhao Yingfang straightened her clothes, stuffed her phone into her bag, and pushed the bedroom door open without expression. Seeing the boy fast asleep on the bed, she took a deep breath and yanked him up.
His face full of sleepiness and confusion, Gu An looked at his mother before him, seemingly unable to understand what she wanted to do.
The woman dragged the boy into the living room and casually sat down at one end of the sofa. Anger showed in her eyes as she said flatly, "Kneel."
Gu An keenly sensed the woman's mood. Thinking of his recent grades, he rubbed his fingertips together uneasily, lowered his eyes, and obediently knelt.
"Gu An!! What have you been doing these past few days! Do you know what your teacher told me!" Remembering the man's words, Zhao Yingfang turned livid with rage, launching into furious abuse the moment she