Chapter 126 – Wealthy Bastard (part 1)

Li Su needed to go to the bathroom when she awoke. She tried to sit up, but felt that something was holding her down. She touched a smooth, towering belly.

Li Su suddenly became sober. All the other times, she had already had a child. Now she could experience the pain of pregnancy and childbirth in October.

This felt a bit strange. Li Su touched her stomach and her eyes widened in surprise. She pressed her hands against her stomach and felt the movement of the foetus.

Li Su suddenly felt like crying. It felt really wonderful.

Li Su lowered her head to encourage the child in her stomach. “Baby, move again! Would you like to move again?”

Li Su happily played for half an hour. Suddenly she felt a wetness under her body and remembered that she originally wanted to go to the bathroom.

The auntie came in. When she saw Li Su’s embarrassment, she smiled and said, “It is the same for everyone who is pregnant. As the pregnancy progresses, this often happens. There is nothing to be embarrassed about.”

Li Su watched awkwardly as an auntie cleaned the sheets.

In fact, when she was first introduced by the housekeeping company to work at Miss Li’s house, she was very unhappy. Although she wasn’t a fan of celebrities, she had a daughter who was and had watched the show a few times. This Miss Li was a member of a popular TV series. Although she was female number 3, the show had a good set of characters. Therefore, she was a small celebrity in the entertainment circle.

Li Su, who just got popular, was reported to have gone to study abroad; however, it was just her hiding to raise a baby.

The child was more than 6 months pregnant. The father of the child had never shown up. Only her agent came once in a while to give her something.

The auntie looked down at Li Su at first since she thought Li Su was vain. When the housekeeping company had asked her to come, she had been very unhappy. But, after spending some time together, she found that Li Su was actually not that bad. Both of Li Su’s parents had died when she was young, so Li Su grew up in an orphanage. Later, because of Li Su’s beauty, she was discovered by talent scouts and became a star.

Without a normal family atmosphere and no parental education, a person ending up greedy, vain, or hungry for power would be understandable. The auntie saw that Li Su didn’t know anything about being pregnant, had not prepared anything, and had nobody to help her. Her friends and classmates weren’t around. The agent was pretty good, but was busy and rarely showed up. The auntie had to accompany Li Su to several prenatal check-ups, so the auntie had increased sympathy for Li Su.

“The weather is good today. Do you want to go for a walk and bask in the sun? I will clean up the house later. There must be a lot of dust.” The auntie prepared something quickly and handed it to Li Su. Although it was phrased as a question, the intent was clear.

Li Su nodded and took the bag. It was a little heavy.

She then went out.

She looked down at the bag full of fruit, biscuits, bread, milk, and a thermos.

This auntie was very careful.

Li Su began to consider whether to cooperate with her.

In Li Su’s last life, she had suffered a bit in the first half of her life. But, she was very happy in the second half. Whether she was in Yong An Mansion or later travelling with Li Qi Cheng, she was well taken care of. Later, her daughter became the empress dowager and she herself gained high status. She had even more people waiting on her. She was even able to eat grapes that someone had peeled and deseeded.

However, in this life, she had nobody to rely on. She had to do it all herself.

Li Su silently calculated the money the original owner had. The original owner grew up in an orphanage, so she attached great importance to money. The reason why she went against her financial backer and secretly got pregnant was for money. The original owner was only 24 this year and already had 7-8 million in the bank. In addition to the remuneration for filming and advertising, the rest of the money was given by her financial backer.

Li Su had figured it out. If she could invest well, then it should be enough for the two of them to live. She could buy a house! It was the 2000s. She could take advantage of the low prices now, buy a few apartments, then rent them out. Rent is also income. When the child goes to school, she will be able to make money and get a job again. There was no need to worry about her life.

Coincidentally, the contract between the original owner and her managing company had expired. The agent only came to see her occasionally due to their previous good relationship.

Later, the original owner successfully gave birth to a boy and called her financial backer to tell him that he should divorce and marry her. She didn’t expect that the child was taken away by her financial backer just after a month. Someone left behind a paper bag that contained documents of Li Su’s immigration status as well as a bank card containing $10 million USD and a house abroad.

The financial backer had clearly told Li Su that it was impossible to get married. Either the two would continue their previous relationship, or they would send her out of the country! The original owner hesitated after and didn’t dare to offend the financial backer, so she went abroad happily. She found true love overseas, got married and had children, and lived a happy life. The original owner completely forgot about this son.

But the son left behind by the original owner was not so lucky.

The financial backer, Su Wanzhe, was married. He and his wife, An Wei, had a business marriage. Although they didn’t have feelings for each other, they could not separate. An Wei had one daughter. When she gave birth, she had an amniotic embolism and her uterus had to be removed. She could no longer get pregnant. Therefore, An Wei had always turned a blind eye to Su Wanzhe raising the celebrity abroad. She just had one condition: no children. Even if he wanted to have a child, he had to find a good mother. He couldn’t go around and get any old woman pregnant.

Su Wanzhe also thought of finding someone to give birth to a child, so he was still looking for someone suitable. He didn’t expect that Li Su would call him and tell him that she gave birth to a boy.

Although Su Wanzhe was angry, he felt a little reluctant when he heard he had a son. He went back to discuss things with An Wei and then decided to take the child back first. They just didn’t want their child to have a celebrity for a mother, so after discussing things, they decided to spend some money to buy the mother-child relationship.

In the future, if the child was smart, then he would be trained as an heir. If he wasn’t, then they would just give him things and let him eat and drink without worry.

The child named Su Qinglin was smart. Not only did Su Wanzhe like him, but Su Wanzhe’s parents also liked him a lot. The Su family began to train Su Qinglin as the heir. Everyone was happy, except for An Wei and her family.

The Su family’s heir wasn’t from An Wei, so this was unacceptable to both An Wei and her family. If Su Qinglin was mediocre, then it would be fine, but he just had to be smart.

An Wei didn’t pay much attention to the issue of heirs at first. After all, she already had a smart and lovely daughter. With her and her family, the share that should belong to her daughter won’t ever be lost. Although she could get her eggs and find a surrogate, she was unwilling to endure the painful process.

But, watching that illegitimate child take away the love and attention that originally belonged to her daughter bit by bit made An Wei feel unhappy.

The An family felt the same.

With the support of the An family, An Wei took her daughter with her to the US for medical treatment.

A year later, An Wei announced that she was pregnant and was expecting to give birth in the US. Eight months later, An Wei returned to China with a lovely, healthy boy named Su Anhe.

At that time, the attitude of the Su family towards Su Qinglin was the same as before. Although An Wei gave birth to a son who was more qualified to inherit the family business than Su Qinglin, the child was still young and they did not know if he was qualified yet. So, they still valued Su Qinglin more.

But, as Su Anhe grew up, he was no less intelligent than Su Qinglin. As Su Anhe had the support of the Su family, he was naturally incomparable to Su Qinglin.

Slowly, the hearts of Su Wanzhe and the Su family’s second elder turned towards Su Anhe. After all, Su Qinglin was just an illegitimate child. Su Anhe was the rightful grandson of the Su family.

Su Qinglin didn’t know his birth origins. He thought that An Wei was his biological mother, so he couldn’t accept this. They had the same parents, so why did his mother only like his sister and didn’t like him since he was young? Now, he even had a younger brother and people didn’t pay attention to him anymore. Even his father and grandparents liked his younger brother more than him.

Therefore, Su Qinglin began to subconsciously make trouble just to try and attract attention. He was like a brother who had younger siblings.

Su Qinglin’s troublemaking worked a bit at first, but after a while, everyone lost their patience with him, especially Su Wanzhe’s parents. When Su Qinglin first arrived, everyone paid attention to him and Su Anyi, An He’s daughter, didn’t make any trouble. On the contrary, she was very sensible and looked after him.

Qinglin was so noisy! The way the mother treated this new child was very different.

After he realised that causing a fuss was fruitless, Su Qinglin began to give up on himself. He thought that the elders would pay more attention to him this way. Nobody cared about his fall since they had a better candidate for a successor.

Many years later, Su Anhe had graduated from Harvard University’s School of Business. He joined the company and began to participate in the company’s management. He successfully completed several large-scale projects and was a well-known business elite.

On the other hand, Su Qinglin graduated from a second-rate college with nothing to do after graduation. Su Wanzhe gave him a company with good profits; however, he liked to take care of small celebrities and college students, so he often made the headlines of entertainment news.

In the circles, the assessment of Su Anhe and him were very different.

Later, Su Qinglin fell in love with a young female star called Xiao Mei. She was smart and kind with good acting ability. Su Qinglin really liked her. He spent a lot of money to invest in filming for her and helped her get connections. He also helped her get her first role as an actress.

In order to give Xiao Mei the best and to prove himself, Su Qinglin changed from being useless in the past and started to improve himself. In just 1 year, the company’s profits increased ten-fold and was successfully listed.

The board of directors saw Su Qinglin’s ability and suggested that Su Qinglin should be added to the Su clan.

For a time, Su Qinglin was energetic.

Su Qinglin carefully prepared a banquet. When he was about to propose to Xiao Mei, she rejected him and suggested breaking up. It was unexpected. She said that the person she actually liked was Su Anhe and the reason she associated with Su Qinglin was to get closer to Su Anhe. She worked hard in order to be worthy of Su Anhe.

Su Qinglin couldn’t accept this blow. He felt that Xiao Mei had played with his feelings. In a rage, he fumbled and pushed Xiao Mei off a high platform. She fell to her death.

It just so happened that this was captured by a gossip reporter.

Su Qinglin was arrested and imprisoned, but the Su clan issued a statement saying that he was willing to accept the legal punishment and would never abuse his power again.

In the end, Su Qinglin was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to 20 years in jail.

When the verdict was announced, Su Anyi visited Su Qinglin in jail and said to him disdainfully, “You are just a bastard born from an actress. Your mother abandoned you for money. If you had stayed quiet and kept to yourself, the Su family would make sure you had food and accommodation. But, you just had to fight with my younger brother. You deserve what you got today!”

It was only then Su Qinglin understood the truth. He was sad, angry, regretful, and disgusted. He was hit with so many emotions and finally couldn’t bear it. He desperately committed suicide.

On the day Su Qinglin committed suicide, Su Anhe announced his engagement. He was marrying the Duke of England’s daughter. The two had met and fell in love during his study abroad at Harvard. They were a match made in heaven and everyone admired them.