Chapter 50 Little Brother or Big Brother
Ethan drew a mind map on his iPad and started organizing everything, one thing at a time. First mommy was bullied by a bad person in Country M, and then that bad person took mommy back to their homeland, why did mommy suddenly decide to stay there?
Then Mommy started making clothes for Sam and got hit by the bodyguards because of Sam. Mommy treated Sam as someone very special, so special that it seemed like Sam was her own child.
Ethan's eyes widened suddenly. Could it be that Sam is really mommy’s child? But why didn’t mommy tell him and Emma about it? There were just too many questions that made Ethan’s head ache and he couldn’t figure them out.
There was only one way to find out. Investigate mommy’s relationship with the bad person! That meant he had to dig in to mommy’s past. Ethan frowned, his delicate face very serious, as if he were a little grown-up pondering.
Mommy's past must have been painful because she never talked about it with them. He and Emma even used to see Mommy cry at night when they were little. Ethan hesitated, should he investigate mommy’s past?
Mommy definitely wouldn't want him and Emma to know about those things, but if he didn't investigate, how could he share Mommy's worries? Thinking about mommy’s wrinkle brow, after returning to their homeland, Ethan made up his mind. He would just do it.
After all, five years had passed, and Sophia and Gabriel's marriage had been kept very low-key. They didn't announce it to the public, and even now, not many people knew that Gabriel had been married before. Ethan searched for a long time but couldn't find any useful information.
...
This weekend, Sophia stayed at home with the two children. She personally took them to their extracurricular classes and played with them everywhere. By Monday, Sophia still had not figured out how to handle the situation after her sample clothes where ruined. As soon as she arrived at the office in the morning, Larry came over very excited.
"Sophia, Fiona is getting her comeuppance."
"What?" Sophia looked at him confusedly.
Larry handed his phone to Sophia.
"It happened last week before work ended, and I witnessed it myself. Fiona is now being exposed online."
The video of Fiona hitting a child had been spread that evening. It initially spread internally within the company, but someone must have shared it on Weibo, and then it was reposted by netizens. With the tag of a Lancaster employee, hitting someone, it gained even more attention. It suddenly became a very hot topic. Fiona was also being criticized by netizens. She did not come to work today.
After watching the entire video, as a mother of three children, Sophia couldn't stand such behavior of hitting a child and felt no sympathy for Fiona being exposed online. It was already unfortunate that Fiona was not reported to the police by the other child’s parents. From the video, although the child made a mistake, he genuinely apologized. It wasn’t intentional and the child had good manners, while Fiona was aggressive, forcing the child to clean up after making a mess.
Losing money, unbelievable! It seems Fiona is finally getting what she deserves. However... why does the child in the video look a bit familiar? The child is wearing a mask, and their eyes are blurred. The video has been heavily forwarded and filtered, so the resolution is not as clear as the original video.
"Who are the child's parents?" The incident happened at the company, so it must be someone's child who works here.
"I don't know. That day, I personally took the child to the hospital. But halfway there, she woke up and insisted on drinking water because she was thirsty. When I got out of the car to buy her water, she ran away, leaving me worried for a long time."
Thinking about this, Larry is still worried now.
"She ran away?"
This style, why does it resemble the little demon so much?
A thought flashes in Sophia's mind, that there is no better way to know a woman than through her mother.
"Can you find the original video?" Sophia asks.
"You're asking the right person. I recorded the video and I can show it to you."
Larry takes out his phone, scrolls through it, and hands it to Sophia.
Now, the video is as high-definition as it gets.
Although Emma is wearing a mask, Sophia can instantly recognize her.
It's Emma!
She got bullied and didn't even tell her!
I have to spank her tonight.
The little demon lets out a delicate little sneeze, rubs her nose, and sits on the chair with Ethan, swinging her legs. They listen to a group of kids discussing who looks like mommy and daddy.
One of them says solemnly, “my grandma says if you look alike, then you are biologically related, if you don’t look alike then you are not.”
Someone asks, "What about those who don't look alike?"
"They were probably picked up from the trash."
The more they talk, the more outrageous it becomes. Each of them try their best to prove that they are their parents' biological child, not picked up from the trash.
Emma finds it boring and decides to play a prank. Suddenly, Ethan grabs her wrist.
"I just thought of something." Ethan is excited. He finally figured it out! No wonder he couldn’t find anything for so long, now his thoughts are clear. “What are you thinking? Let go of me,’ Emma struggles.
Ethan whispers a few words in Emma's ear, and her eyes widen in disbelief.
"Really?" she asks, unable to believe it.
Ethan says earnestly, "I need to investigate further to confirm."
"Mhmm."
Emma no longer has the mindset to pull pranks.
After class, Ethan excuses himself to the restroom and quietly sneaks into the teacher's office to use the computer.
Previously, his mind was fixed on investigating the relationship between mommy and the baddie, so he couldn't find anything. But the conversation from just now woke him up. It reminded him that Sam looks a lot like mom, while he and Emma resemble the baddie!
He suspects that the baddie is their father.
In no time, Ethan finds mommy's birthing records at Renin Hospital.
The records show that mommy gave birth to triplets, but the adults and two of the children died due to complications, leaving behind only one child.
Survival.
That child is Sam!
After Sam was born, he was kept in an incubator at the hospital for a month.
So Mommy faked her death and took him and Emma abroad, changing their names and starting a new life.
Ethan was shocked, staring blankly at the computer screen.
His mind couldn't keep up for a moment. The idol is a big villain, and the big villain is their father.
Humph, even if he's their father, he's a big bully who mistreated Mommy. Ethan and Emma won't acknowledge him.
Now it makes sense why Mommy wanted to hide their traces of life in Country M.
Mommy definitely didn't want them to be discovered by the big villain, afraid that he would take them away.
No wonder Mommy treats Sam so well.
Is Sam his little brother or big brother?
The information doesn't show.
Oh well, let's consider Sam as the little brother. He's so thin, definitely a little brother.
Ethan's sense of responsibility suddenly skyrocketed. As the older brother, he felt obligated to help his little brother return to Mommy's embrace.
And Mommy definitely wants his little brother to come back.
As for the big villain, he's not within his considerations.
Ethan closed the page, restored the computer to its original state, and quickly returned to the classroom.