"You cannot be serious about this, Rong!"
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu, who were also in the hospital to meet their son, couldn't believe Gu Rong's decision.
"You want to raise this kid?"
"Yes," he firmly said.
Mr. Gu was flabbergasted. "Absolutely not, you moron! Why would you raise an illegitimate and a bastard child!?"
Gu Rong shot him a cold glare. "Don't call Yating with those names."
"And now you are defending him too? Are you out of your mind? He is the son your wife gave birth to with another man! How could you tolerate something like that? Why will you take his responsibility? Either dump him to his real father or in an orphanage!"
He clenched his fists and remained undeterred. "I have already decided, Dad. Yating has nowhere to go and I won't leave him alone."
"I am not telling you to leave him alone. Just leave him in his real father's care!"
"I don't know who or where he is and I don't care about it either. Yating will live with me."
Mr. Gu gritted his teeth. "Then leave him in an orphanage!"
"That's as good as leaving him alone."
Like hell..." the cane shook as he trembled with rage, "I will let someone else's child have Gu family's name!"
Gu Rong said nothing. He had no way to convince his parents. He was fully aware that it was impossible to make them accept Yating either.
Mr. Gu wryly laughed at the lack of his response. "Good. This...this is what we get for raising you. We...we just wanted to see you live a happy life with your wife and child. But now you are throwing away that forever.
You are forgiving that woman's mistake that we cannot. It's just one wrong decision after the other."
For the first time, Gu Rong saw his father completely beaten up and defeated. He stared at the helplessness in his eyes which brought tears to his own. Mr. Gu had hoped that at least now, his son would come back to them.
"Yet again...yet again, you choose somebody else over us. First it was her and now it is her son. We simply just don't mean anything to you, do we Rong?"
"It's not like that Dad and you know it too..." Gu Rong lowered his head, sobbing quietly with his cheeks wetting with tears. "Please...please don't leave me alone."
Mrs. Gu held a similar wry and lost expression as her husband. "We are not leaving you alone, Rong. We are telling you to leave the child be. Right now...you look so pathetic, Rong."
Her own words hurt her crudely but to her, that was the harsh truth.
"You look so blind and desperate in Liuxian's love that you are ready to forget your self-respect by wanting to raise her illegitimate son. It might look like a prideful sentiment to others for having such a big and kind heart. But to us..." her wrinkly fist trembled. "To us, it's simply foolishness."
Mr. Gu slowly turned his back. The conversation was over. Neither was ready to back down. Mrs. Gu broke down into tears.
Seeing her son let go of the happy future he could have had with his own hands tore her heart apart.
"Rong," he whispered in a crushed voice with his back to him. "Do not...show your face to us ever again. Yating might be the son that you can love, but he is not the grandchild that we can adore. I won't see my son stooping so low and lose his dignity like this. If you cannot let go of this decision, then so be it. From now on, you are dead to us."