Chapter 2: Because of partiality, I don’t love
Donghai City.
The second largest city on the East China Sea coast of the Sun and Moon Federation. An important port, marine transportation, and marine resource development city.
The city has a permanent population of more than three million and is very wealthy thanks to its utilization of marine resources. Even in the entire Sun-Moon Federation, it can be considered a second-tier city.
Donghai City has a long history, and the city's appearance still maintains a simple style. In recent hundreds of years, the Sun-Moon Federation has paid special attention to the protection of some ancient buildings. Therefore, in this ancient city, you can see many buildings that are thousands of years old.
It was summer, and Donghai City was adjacent to the seaside, so it was normal for it to be hit by typhoons.
But this typhoon is different from those in the past. Compared with this one, the previous typhoons seemed to be just minor troubles.
The color of the sky quickly changed from deep blue to leaden gray, as if foreshadowing the coming storm. The waves began to roll, changing from calm blue to violent white, rushing towards the shore one after another with a thunderous roar.
The wind gradually increased, turning from a breeze to a strong wind, blowing the parasols and flags on the beach. The leaves were flying in the wind, as if they were dancing wildly in the air.
As the typhoon approached, the rain began to pour down, hitting the windows with a crisp sound. Rainwater flows along the streets, forming small streams, making the city's scene hazy and mysterious. Water began to accumulate in some low-lying areas, causing high splashes of water when soul-guided vehicles passed by.
In the central villa area under the typhoon and rain, the Xu family's family storm was even more violent than the rainstorm.
"Go kneel outside!"
The harsh words with overwhelming anger hit the young man in front of him in his mind, making him stunned.
Under the pouring rain and the storm, the teenagers stood outside the door, feeling the raging storm.
The rain soaked his thin clothes, and the storm roared through his body. He was like a piece of paper, and he might be swallowed up by the violent storm at any time.
Raindrops fell on the young man's handsome face, making the originally high-spirited young man a little embarrassed.
But under the rain and in the darkness, those bright eyes remained stubborn and resolute, not affected by the external environment at all.
And his firm eyes were looking directly at the people at the door of the house.
"I asked you to kneel down, don't you understand?"
The person who spoke angrily was a middle-aged man, wearing a blue government uniform. His name was Xu Junwen. He was the head of the Xu family and the chief financial officer of Donghai City. He held a high position, so his face was not angry and intimidating. At this time, he became angry. It is even more oppressive.
There were two people standing next to him, a man and a woman. The man was older and looked to be a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. The woman was about the same age as the boy standing in the rain.
Xu Xiaoyu's face was full of gloom, and the eyes he looked at the boy in the rain were extremely cold.
Behind him, the girl had two pigtails, her hair was light blue, she looked pink and beautiful, but she looked a little anxious and looked unbearable. She looked at her father Xu Junwen several times, Want to say something.
But under Xu Xiaoyu's cold gaze, she could only timidly withdraw her head and swallow her words.
No matter how the violent storm roared, no matter how unwarranted scoldings came, Lin Xiuran still did not choose to kneel down. No matter how monstrous Xu Junwen's anger was, it never overwhelmed him.
In fact, Xu Junwen's anger today was not unreasonable at all. Of course, for Lin Xiuran, it was absolutely innocent.
In order to train Xu Xiaoyan, the Xu family spent a huge amount of money and finally got three entry cards to the Soul Ascending Platform during the riot period and sent Xu Xiaoyan to enter. However, Lin Xiuran and Xu Xiaoyu were actually protecting her, but in the end, because of Xu Xiaoyu's momentary arrogance, they were Just like that, the journey to the Ascension Platform ended.
In the early stages of this trip, because Xu Xiaoyan was timid and did not dare to hunt soul beasts, Lin Xiuran and Xu Xiaoyu basically took action. Because Xu Xiaoyu is powerful and takes the most shots. But the spiritual power after killing the soul beast is randomly distributed to a few people who are closer to each other. Xu Xiaoyu disliked Lin Xiuran's weak strength and did not want to give him spiritual power. So he left him behind and took Xu Xiaoyan to act alone. Later, he was eliminated from Class Zero because of his carelessness.
That's what happened, but now it was Lin Xiuran who was scolded and punished. It was because Xu Xiaoyu told Xu Junwen when he came back that Lin Xiuran was eliminated because he left them without permission.
Hence the current scene.
"If you don't kneel, you will never come back to this house!" Seeing that Lin Xiuran still refused to give in, Xu Junwen only left these words and took Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan back to the house.
"Home?"
Lin Xiuran smiled bitterly, with a bit of bitterness in his eyes. He would rather not have this family!
It's not that he doesn't explain or refute, but Xu Junwen simply doesn't believe it.
He has been in this family for many years. Xu Junwen and Lin Xinran are nominally his parents, but he has never received the slightest bit of treatment that a child of this family deserves.
My parents have never cared about her. My brother Xu Xiaoyu needs a sparring partner. Regardless of the huge gap in strength, my parents let Lin Xiuran go. My sister Xu Xiaoyan is even more talented, so this sister has countless things to do.
He was not allowed to eat at the table, had no new clothes, and his room was smaller than that of a servant. This was how he had been treated in this house for so many years.
Didn't Xu Xiaoyu blame him for many things?
How many times have the Spirit Transferring Tower been monitored in real time? Everyone inside has a dedicated staff member recording their whereabouts. Although Xu Junwen was not at the scene, as long as he wanted to investigate, everything would come to light easily.
But, he won't!
Not only Lin Xiuran knew this clearly, but Xu Xiaoyu also knew this, which was why he framed her so unscrupulously.
Letting the rain wash away, Lin Xiuran still didn't understand why his parents were so partial.
He had no parents in his previous life, so he was very respectful to his parents in this life since he was a child. Because of the memory of his previous life, he matured precociously and became sensible very early, but his family still didn't want to see him.
Especially after awakening his martial spirit at the age of six, his martial spirit was just the most ordinary wind elemental martial spirit, Fengniao. After that, his family's attitude took a turn for the worse.
He originally thought it was because of his martial arts, but no matter how hard he practiced in the future, he could not change Xu Junwen and his wife's view of him.
Later, Lin Xiuran roughly guessed that he was not the biological son of the Xu family. After all, his martial soul inheritance was neither Xu Junwen nor Xu's mother.
Moreover, he was not allowed to have the surname Xu since he was born. He once asked his so-called father, Xu Junwen, why he was not allowed to have the surname Xu, but he was still scolded for no reason. Later I found out that his name was given by the Xu family elder.
But if they were all biological children, they probably wouldn’t be so partial...
The rain was still falling, and his heart had already been watered as cold as a river by the torrential rain. All his warmth and expectations for the Xu family were washed away by the ruthless rain.
From now on, no matter how difficult the world is, no matter whether it is sincere or not, as long as you no longer expect it, you will no longer be hurt.
There is no blood relationship. It will be gradually explained later why the protagonist’s adoptive parents dislike him so much. It is not just because there is no blood relationship.
(End of this chapter)