Chapter 598: The Reason Why You Lost the Custody Battle
“I admit that I had been selfish and wanted Yuan Yuan back. More than that, I wanted you to return to my side. I know that you couldn’t bear to part with Yuan Yuan but it wasn’t suitable for him to continue living with the Ye household. The Ye family, including Ye Hao, did not truly like Yuan Yuan, neither would they accept him as one of their own. Yuan Yuan’s existence was like a thorn lodged in their throats,” Mo Yixuan said with a wry laugh.
He paused for a moment and noticed that she was no longer crying but she looked at him with a mixture of confusion and rage.
He guessed that she would react this way and stopped for a brief moment before he continued, “You may not know this but I wasn’t certain that I’d be able to win custody of Yuan Yuan and even my uncle said that it was unlikely that I’d be able to win custody of the child. However, I managed to win custody of Yuan Yuan because of the Ye family.”
“What do you mean?”
He Xiyan finally broke her silence and an angry flush stained her cheeks as she looked at Mo Yixuan in disbelief. She couldn’t understand why he had credited the Ye family for obtaining custody of Yuan Yuan.
Mo Yixuan smiled and there was a tinge of irony in his voice as he said, “Did you really think that my uncle was so influential that he could be able to influence the decisions of the court? You’re wrong. It was Ye Snr., Xia Jingshu, and obviously, Ye Hao, who secretly had a meal with the judge and juror two days before the verdict was due to be announced. They told the judge that they were not willing to accept Yuan Yuan and requested that the judge grant me custody of Yuan Yuan. Did you really think that the judge would still think that Yuan Yuan would be able to have a healthy childhood at the Ye household after they had made their stance known? This was how I managed to gain custody of Yuan Yuan.”
Mo Yixuan spoke in a low voice and pursed his lips after he told her the truth. There was a flash of something complicated in his eyes, he looked resigned but at the same time, there was a trace of shrewdness in his eyes.
He had wanted to tell her all these some time ago but had merely been searching for the right opportunity, and this time, he had finally managed to do so.
He Xiyan’s chest suddenly started to heave violently after she heard Mo Yixuan’s words and she found that she couldn’t stop coughing. She placed one hand on her chest and felt that her chest felt tight, as though she was having difficulty breathing.
Her pale face suddenly turned red and her face was flushed from the anger and pain she felt but couldn’t express in words.
“Yan Yan, what’s wrong?” Mo Yixuan said as he patted her back. He suddenly felt terrible when he saw how agitated she was.
He Xiyan waved his concern off but her hand remained on her chest, where it was so painful that she felt like a knife had twisted through her heart,
“Come, have a gla.s.s of water first and try to calm yourself down,” Mo Yixuan said as he handed her a gla.s.s of water.
He Xiyan took two large gulps before the cup fell from her hands and landed with a crash on the floor. The sound was so loud that Ms. Li who was sleeping on the guest bed woke up with a start.
“Are you okay? Do you feel unwell?” she asked as she quickly got off the bed and looked at He Xiyan in concern.
He Xiyan shook her head. She did feel unwell but this discomfort came from her heart, and it wasn’t a physical discomfort.
She had merely a.s.sumed that the Ye family had not helped her win custody of Yuan Yuan and thought that the Mo family had used their connections and spent large amounts of money bribing the judge and juror to win custody of Yuan Yuan. She would have never imagined that they had never planned to allow Yuan Yuan to remain in the Ye household from the very beginning and even personally expressed their att.i.tude to the judge and pressured him to award Yuan Yuan’s custody to Mo Yixuan.