Book 2 : She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement

Chapter 19

Chapter 667: He’s Not An Illegitimate Child!

Xander was stunned. He chose not to tell Trueman the truth but instead replied, “It’s nothing.”

Then, he suddenly asked, “Daddy, do you think I really won’t be able to get along with my new father?”

Trueman sneered, “Of course. Do you think Justin Hunt treats you well?”

Xander thought for a moment and answered, “Not too well, but not that bad either, I suppose!”

“Then what about Nora Smith?”

Xander tilted his head and answered, “She treats me okay too. She didn’t drive me away, nor did she quarrel with Justin to get him to send me away. Instead, she’s very calm, as if she doesn’t care about my existence.”

“Really?”

Trueman sounded a little unhappy. “That woman sure is big-hearted. Or should I say that she doesn’t love Justin Hunt at all? Otherwise, why wouldn’t she care that her man has another child?”

Xander touched his nose and suddenly asked, “Is there a chance that she thinks I’m cute, so she can’t bear to do anything to me?”

“Heh,” Trueman suddenly laughed. “Do you think a woman would find her husband’s illegitimate child cute?”

Xander felt very uncomfortable being called an illegitimate child.

But he didn’t get angry.

Because Trueman was right.

He didn’t have a mother but was instead Justin’s child from some unknown woman. Didn’t that make him an illegitimate child?

Trueman went on. “Don’t be fooled by their superficial actions. Adults’ affairs are much more complicated than you think. They don’t care about you at the moment only because you haven’t grown up; you’re not a threat to Peter Hunt’s position yet. If you become outstanding enough to become the next heir to the Hunt's, do you think they would still treat you well?”

For a while, Xander didn’t speak.

Trueman scoffed, “Have you forgotten about Prince Charlie? He is also an illegitimate child. His stepmother deliberately raised him into a good-for-nothing… That’s why you must find a way to drive Pete out of the Hunt's! This is the only way you can become Justin Hunt’s only son, understand?”

Xander narrowed his eyes. “Yes, Daddy.”

Although he felt that Trueman was wrong, he did not refute him.

Since he was a baby, he had known that there would only be severe punishment waiting for him if he rebutted his father’s words.

He heaved a small sigh.

Then, he stood up and walked out. He was going to tell them that his birthday was also on September 8, so they could hold the birthday party together.

Xander had long forgotten Trueman’s instructions.

The excited boy went to look for Pete and Cherry, but when he walked up to the door of the room where Pete and Cherry were, he was instead stopped by a few children.

These children were all from his uncles and aunts’ families. They were about ten years old, so they roughly knew what they were doing. From a young age, their parents had told them to curry favors with Pete and had also forbidden them from bullying him.

When they heard that Pete was back, they specially came over to play with him.

However, they didn’t expect Pete to refuse visitations again. This made them feel rather bored.

Just when they were about to leave, they happened to run into Xander.

A kid said very loudly, “Is that Uncle Justin’s illegitimate son?”

Someone replied, “He does look a little like Uncle Justin, but what a pity that he is a little bastard without a mother! There’s no way he can inherit the Hunt's!”

“Yes, yes! I even heard that he grew up with monsters in the wild. Can you speak human language?”

“C’mon, make a sound and let us hear it…”

The few of them surrounded Xander. They pushed him and bullied him. “Xander, right? Who is your mother?”

“He doesn’t have a mother, and he doesn’t even know when his birthday is! So, did he pop out of a rock?”

“Are you here to play with Pete? What makes you think you can play with him? Are you worthy of playing with him? He is the rightful son of the master of the household, what about you? You’re an illegitimate child! You can’t even compare to Pete’s little finger!”

“Why are you keeping quiet? Are you stupid? Pete is the smartest of us all, you know! I bet your IQ is not even a fraction of his. Also, do you know a birthday party will be held in a few days? Uncle Justin is holding it so that he can announce to everyone that Cherry is his daughter! It has nothing to do with an illegitimate child like you!”

The children were just repeating what they had secretly heard from the adults.

A boy named Xander had arrived, and everyone was talking about him. When someone asked if Pete’s status would be threatened, everyone had immediately refuted him.

Not only had Pete exhibited a high IQ since he was a baby, but his mother was even the young lady of the Smith's. With a status like hers, how would she not be able to protect Pete?

Therefore, everyone looked down on Xander.

The children’s words made Xander clench his

fists.

He stared at the kids in front of him. Although he wanted very much to charge forward and scratch their faces, he couldn’t do that. Every one of them was much stronger than him.

He focused on the leader of the group.

The kid was mocking him. He said, “Did you grow up with cats and dogs? Do you sleep together with them? Then can you talk like a dog?”

Xander narrowed his eyes and touched his nose. Suddenly, he smiled and replied, “Of course. Not only can I talk like a dog, but I can even…”

He whispered something.

The leader of the children immediately took a step forward and asked curiously, “What else do you know?”

Xander grinned. “Come over here, I’ll only tell you about it.”

“Okay.”

The child leaned into his face. The next moment, Xander’s sharp little teeth clamped down on his ear!

“Ahhh!” An ear-piercing scream went right through the roof into the high heavens.

The kid shoved Xander away, but he didn’t let go. The rest of the children rushed forward and started beating Xander up, but Xander still refused to let go.

It wasn’t until his teeth had pierced all the way through the child’s ear that he finally let go. He ignored the pain all over his body.

He grinned and said, “In addition to knowing how to bark like a dog, I also know how to bite like one.”

He stretched out his hand and looked at the others. “Who’s the next one that wants to be bitten?”

Xander had blood at the corner of his lips at the moment. After saying that, his malevolent eyes looked at the other children. When the children saw the boy bleeding profusely, they became so frightened that they dispersed at once. “Run!”

Even the child who was bitten held his ear and rushed out with the other children.

Seeing them leave, Xander wiped the corners of his mouth. He rolled his eyes and walked towards Justin’s study.

He was going to tell his father that his birthday was also on September 8 and that he was not an illegitimate child!

He would get his father to announce to everyone on his birthday that he was his son!

In the study.

The seated Justin was musing after he saw Nora off.

He wondered when Xander’s birthday was…

If it was also September 8, then it would pretty much confirm that Nora was his mother too.

Chapter 668: Who’s The Naughty Boy?

Xander hid outside the door and secretly observed Justin.

He saw the man frowning, seemingly troubled. The man looked like he was contemplating, and while he did, he kept touching his nose.

Xander’s hand, which was also touching his nose, paused. He blinked and put his hand down.

Before coming, he had wanted to tell the tyrant about his birthday and also wanted to get him to publicly announce that Xander was also Justin’s son on that day.

But after he arrived, he was a little afraid to go in.

What if Daddy Tyrant refused to celebrate his birthday for him even after he told him about his birthday?

He spent too much time thinking about it. Suddenly, he heard a commotion coming from a distance away. Xander turned over to see that the group of misbehaving kids who had just left had returned!

It was just that this time, they had also brought their parents with them.

Jack Hunt, the leader of the group and the boy whose ear Xander had bitten, was crying. His eyes had become completely red. He held his mother’s hand as he walked over. His ear hadn’t been bandaged yet. Although he wasn’t bleeding anymore, the wound still looked shocking

As soon as he walked over, Jack pointed at Xander and complained, “Mommy, that’s him! He’s the one who bit my ear!”

Jack was a child from the Hunts’ side family. His family had attached themselves to the main family and depended on them for their livelihood.

SO

Jack’s mother could also be considered someone from a wealthy and prestigious family. She looked straight at Xander, her finger nearly jabbing his face as she demanded, “What’s the matter with you, kid? What makes you think you can bully my son? Can’t you talk it out properly with them? Did you have to bite him? Are you a dog?”

Her voice was rather loud, causing everyone around them to look over.

Because they were at the door to Justin’s study, Justin also heard the commotion. He opened the door.

When Jack’s mother saw Justin, she immediately started crying. She said, “Justin, look! That boy nearly bit off Jack’s ear! He is too much!”

She cried and said, “My little Jack has always been a sensible boy. Because he’s a few years older, I’ve always told him to give in to Pete and keep him happy-after all, Pete is still young. But how can this little devil be so naughty? How can he be so quick to bite other people? He’s too much!”

Justin frowned and looked at Xander.

He’d had relatively little contact with Xander during this period, so he didn’t actually know what the boy was like.

However, a child that Trueman had brought up would undoubtedly be a little unorthodox.

What stood out, in particular, was the time when he first arrived at the Hunt Manor. When the bodyguard tried to take a sample of his DNA, the boy had bitten the bodyguard’s hand and almost broke it.

After that, his personality and way of handling things became even more unpredictable.

But when Justin interrogated Ruth, he realized that Ruth had abused the boy before. That must be how Xander had developed such a vicious and cruel personality despite his young age.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Xander. He asked, “Did you bite him?”

Xander’s eyes widened.

He looked at Jack’s mother, and then back at Justin.

The other boy’s mother had defended her son right away when something went wrong, but what about his Daddy Tyrant?

Xander suddenly became very angry.

He clenched his jaw, lifted his chin, and nodded stubbornly. “Yeah, I did.”

He hated being looked down upon the most.

Therefore, after he spoke, he even grinned at Jack and said, “Ha, you are already ten years old while I am only five, yet you can’t beat me in a fight. That’s already embarrassing enough, yet you even ran to your mommy just because you couldn’t beat me? What kind of man are you?!”

Jack: “!!”

Upon being ridiculed, he felt even more aggrieved. He hugged his mother at once and burst into tears.

Jack’s mother’s eyes reddened. “You saw that, right, Justin? That boy is simply too arrogant, his upbringing is horrible! He shows no sign of remorse! Justin, you have to stand up for Jack! They are all children of the Hunt's. Even if he is the clan head’s son, he can’t just bully other people so casually!”

Justin narrowed his eyes and looked at Xander. He asked, “What exactly is going on?!"

He didn’t know what had happened. Even if he was prejudiced against the boy, he couldn’t just assume so easily that Xander was in the wrong.

But he was asking the wrong person.

If it was Pete, Pete would think that his father was asking him about what had happened, and would explain everything clearly and truthfully.

But the one he was asking was instead Xander…

The boy was sensitive. Without the love and care from a mother, he had grown up relying only on himself. When he met with trouble, all he knew was to shoulder everything head-on by himself.

Justin’s question broke his heart.

To think he didn’t trust him.

Ha, what’s the use of having a father like that?!

His gaze turned cold straightaway. The little fellow scoffed and ignored Justin. Instead, he looked straight at Jack. “Yeah, I bullied you. So? Weren’t you asking for it? It’s your ear this time, but next time… Heh!”

Jack was so scared that he took a step back.

Xander became smug at once.

However, Jack’s mother stood right in front of Jack. She pointed at him and yelled, “You’re really a wild child from god knows where! You have no manners whatsoever!”

Xander folded his little arms. “What are manners? After all, I don’t have a mother. Even though I have a father, he is pretty much non-existent too. Without anyone to teach me, how would I have any manners? If you find me an eyesore, then why don’t you hit me?! But do you dare to? I’m Justin’s son, you know! If you have the guts, then just slap me across the cheek instead of prattling on and on forever over there!”

The child’s attitude made Justin’s expression darken.

Xander was simply too arrogant and domineering. There was no trace of Pete’s temperament in him at all. His expression turned cold and he said, “Xander, I’ll give you one more chance. Tell me what exactly happened!”

“What happened? Nothing much? It’s just what you saw. I, your son, bullied someone. What? Do you also want to hit me?”

Xander said stubbornly, “What gives you the right to lecture me? Have you ever raised me?”

Justin clenched his jaw. Suddenly, he narrowed his eyes and said, “Aren’t you living in the Hunt Manor right now?”

His one-liner made Xander even more sensitive.

He looked at Justin angrily.

What Jack and the other children said just now resounded in his ears: “Uncle Justin is holding the birthday party so that he can introduce Cherry to everyone! Who do you think you are? You are just an illegitimate son! Uncle Justin has never thought of acknowledging you as his son at all!”

And sure enough!

He must be trying to drive him away!

Xander clenched his fists and sneered, “Really? But aren’t I living in the Hunt Manor because you begged my father to send me here?”

Seeing how stubborn he was, and how he simply refused to tell him anything, the big and tall Justin slowly squatted down. He said, “Xander, I hope you can talk to me if you meet with trouble. Don’t learn from Trueman…”

But before he could finish, Xander slapped him and then took a step back. “What did I learn from him? My father was the one who brought me up, so I would definitely be like him! I was born a bad person! You really wish you could get rid of a son like me, right? I don’t want a father like you either! I didn’t want to come back here at all! It’s all because you used Aunt Ruth to force me back here! If you find me annoying, then why don’t you send me back?! In my heart, my only father is Trueman Yale!”

After saying those extreme things, Xander stared at Justin stubbornly.

Justin: “…”

He fell silent.

With Xander behaving like this, he suddenly didn’t know how to communicate with him.

Instead, he got back up and looked at Jack’s mother.

Jack’s mother shouted, “You saw that, right? Justin? Having a child like him at home really makes me so scared. Since he can bite my son today, then he may just bite someone else tomorrow. We are not part of the main family, so I can put up with it. But what if he bites Pete?”

Justin frowned. Then, the woman added, “And what if he bites Cherry?”

That one line of hers made Justin’s gaze turn cold.

Fights among little boys were nothing much, but if it involved Cherry… He looked straight at Xander. “No matter what the reason, you are not allowed to bite anyone in the future!”

Xander looked at him angrily. “Heh, how can a dog’s son not bite?”.

His words made Justin frown again. “Xander! Yale!”

Xander stood there stubbornly, the expression on his little face all strained.

Jack’s mother sighed. “Don’t ask him about it anymore, Justin. I’ve already found out what happened. Jack came over to visit Pete and play with him, but Xander saw him. He rushed over immediately and said that he is also your son, so he also has the right to order them around. He wanted Jack to play with him, but Jack refused, so he bit him.”

Justin narrowed his eyes. He stared at Xander and asked once more, “Is that what happened?”

He wanted to know the truth.

The child was still young. Some habits could be corrected. Who Trueman had led astray could also be forced back onto the right path.

However, Xander did not speak.

Jack’s mother suddenly turned to look somewhere. At the sight of something, she immediately said, “Justin, even if you don’t believe us, won’t you believe Pete? Pete, quick, come here and tell your father what happened just now. Did Xander bully Jack?!”

Hearing this, Justin looked into the distance to see that Pete and Cherry had also heard the commotion and walked over.

After they approached, Justin looked straight at Pete and asked, “Is that what happened?”

He trusted Pete.

Because he had brought him up.

Jack’s mother was relieved. Pete had never been a kind and sweet dimwit. Rather, he was very clever. He understood the power of such schemes and conspiracies very well.

Besides, Jack had said that Pete wanted to drive Xander away. Wasn’t this exactly a great opportunity for him to do that?

Therefore, as long as Pete was not stupid, he would know what to say. By virtue of the incident, Jack would also be able to cling to Pete. When they grew up, his life in the Hunt's would also improve!

Jack’s mother made beautiful plans in her mind and looked at Pete expectantly.

Chapter 669: This Family Is Actually Not That Bad Either

Jack’s mother had not taken her child to the hospital to have his wound dressed right away in order to please Pete.

For so many years, their family had been trying their best to turn Jack into Pete’s right-hand man. Unfortunately, both Pete and Justin were very indifferent to others.

This was especially true since Pete also had mild autism, which led to him not having anyone close at home.

That was why Jack’s mother saw this incident as an opportunity, despite his injury.

She said, “Yeah, Pete, tell him what happened. Quick, tell your dad just how annoying that boy is. He often loses his temper and bullies others for no reason. He’s too domineering. He’s also very savage and has no manners whatsoever. Get your father to kick him out of the house, or take him out and have him educated before he moves back in! Otherwise, with so many children in the house, who knows who would be bitten next?”

Her hints were already so obvious. Pete should have understood.

Yet Pete didn’t speak.

Jack’s mother was stunned. Suddenly, she realized that perhaps Pete didn’t want to be involved in the dispute. If word got around that it was Pete who had driven Xander away, his reputation would be badly affected.

She narrowed her eyes at once, feeling like she had ultimately still underestimated Pete.

His skill at infighting within the household was simply too great.

He was planning to just watch from the sidelines.

But since she wanted to express her loyalty to him, Jack’s mother spoke presumptuously again. “I suddenly remembered something. Pete had been busy when Jack came to visit him. Pete, did you not see them fighting?”

As soon as she said that, Pete suddenly replied, “I did.”

Jack’s mother was taken aback, but then she immediately became overjoyed. “Then hurry up and tell your father what the truth is!”

Pete was really getting involved?

She was ecstatic. Elsewhere, Xander looked at Pete and thought of the conversation held overheard just now.

Pete wanted to drive him away.

Just like Daddy said, no one in this family welcomed him. He was just an extra. The woman’s children were undoubtedly filled with hostility towards him.

Ha.

Did they think that he wanted to be here?

Xander lifted his chin and turned his head stubbornly to the side. Then, he heard Pete say, “It was indeed Xander who bit Jack’s ear.”

Xander clenched his little fists and became even more disdainful.

He snorted coldly. “Yeah, I bit him. What about it? If you’re that great, then why don’t you…”

Before he could finish, Pete went on. “But it was Jack who picked a fight first. He called Xander an illegitimate child who didn’t have a mother and even said that Daddy won’t want him and would throw him out. The group of them even beat Xander up. Xander only bit him in self-defense.”

As soon as he said that, everyone present fell silent.

Everyone looked at Pete incredulously.

After giving a clear account of what had happened, Pete didn’t speak any more. Instead, he took a step back and exchanged a look with Cherry.

Cherry had a big smile all over her face, and she gave her brother a big thumbs-up.

Pete raised his eyebrows.

The boy who used to be frosty and autistic in the past could now exchange vivid and enthused looks with others.

Jack’s mother was dumbfounded. She stood where she was in a daze and looked at Pete in disbelief. She swallowed. “Pete, do you know what you just said?”

Pete lowered his eyes. “Yes, I do.”

Although he did want to drive Xander away, it wasn’t going to be through such despicable means. Besides…

A tinge of anger flashed across Pete’s eyes.

Xander was Daddy’s son. He only wanted to drive him away because he was worried that his existence would affect Mommy’s emotions.

But this did not mean that outsiders could bully him!

If Xander was up to no good, or if he made Mommy uncomfortable, then Pete definitely would not be soft-hearted. However, he couldn’t lie in this instance.

Justin looked at the son, whom he had brought up, with satisfaction.

No matter the situation, Pete had never disappointed him. He would play little tricks to make him neglect Xander a little, but in the face of what was right and wrong, he was never ambiguous.

He ruffled Pete’s hair gently. Then, he looked at Jack’s mother. With a sharp look in his eyes, he said, “It seems like Gordon has been a little too busy lately. That must be why he hasn’t been educating Jack properly. In that case, I’ll just let him come back and spend some quality time with his son!”

Gordon Hunt was Jack’s father.

Although he wasn’t a prized member of the company or family, Justin would still assign him some jobs and projects so that he could earn a bit of extra money from them.

But now that they had the audacity to call Xander an illegitimate child.

In that case, he didn’t need to continue with those jobs and projects anymore.

Justin could dislike and ignore his son-in fact, he could even lecture him—but other people were not allowed to!

As soon as Justin said that, blood drained from Jack’s mother’s face. She said, “Justin, I… I… Let me explain…”

“I only believe what Pete says.”

Justin interrupted her. Then, he looked at the butler. “Since Jack misbehaves so much, he needs to be educated properly. Don’t let him attend classes at the Hunts’ private school for a while.”

“Yes, sir.”

The butler answered. Then, with a wave, security officers rushed in. They grabbed Jack and his mother immediately and took the two of them out.

Jack’s mother was dumbfounded.

All the children of the Hunt's studied in the Hunts’ private school in order to build relationships with one another. After all, there were fewer and fewer people in the direct lineage. If the people in the side families were too far away, who would still remember them in the future?

Yet Justin had straight-up barred Jack from attending classes with just a word!

This showed that the Hunt's were intending to abandon their family.

She screamed and cried. She wanted to apologize, and she wanted to speak, but Justin didn’t give her the opportunity to. He drove them out straight away.

Xander stared blankly at everything happening in front of him.

He hadn’t expected Pete to speak up for him, nor had he expected the tyrant to deal with the problem like that.

He remembered that he had also fought with a kid before in the past, but Daddy Trueman had told him that he had to find a way to deal with it himself. If he beat them up and made them bleed, then they wouldn’t dare to bully him anymore.

It was only then that Xander had started attacking others. In the beginning, he only used his tiny little fists. It was only when he found that it didn’t make the other party bleed that he started to bite.

Every time he bit someone and made them bleed, Trueman would applaud and say, “Good job! Keep that up!”

But now…

Justin was actually dealing with the kid who had bullied him on his behalf?

He suddenly felt like this family was not that bad either.

Just as his imagination was running wild, Justin squatted down again and looked straight at him. He asked, “Xander, were you here looking for me?”