Feng Tianyi thought that nothing could hurt him any longer. He endured the physical pain and mental trauma that his father inflicted on him over the years, but his words against his mother tore apart whatever that remained in his heart.

  "Heh, don't you think you have a choice back then, father? If you truly didn't want to be with my mother, you could have refused to marry her. You could have given up wealth and riches to be your loved one." Young Feng Tianyi then glanced at Wang Ruoxi whose face had turned ghastly pale from his words.

  "Maybe if you've been man enough to stand up against grandfather, you and my mother would be happy leading lives away from each other. Perhaps, I wouldn't have been born either, if you had chosen your woman instead of your greed."

  Feng Tianyi had lost every ounce of respect he had for his father. Right now, he could only see a selfish man who was willing to abandon his lover in exchange of wealth and stability in life that he could never achieve in this lifetime without Song Huifen's help.

  As a husband and father, it was Feng Zuyi's duty to at least love and care about his own wife and son, but he never did. Instead, he kept Wang Ruoxi on the side and produced a child outside his marriage.

  "The Song family was the one who drove Ruoxi away from me. If it wasn't for your mother, I wouldn't have to abandon the woman I love. Ruoxi wouldn't have to raise our son on her own. This is all because of your mother!" Feng Zuyi tried to push all the blame on his ex-wife, but young Feng Tianyi knew better than to believe his lies.

  He might be a child, but he wasn't stupid. After hearing the true sentiments Feng Zuyi held for him, Feng Tianyi lost his innocent mind overnight and became a devil in the making.

  "If you really feel sorry for your new wife and your bastard son who can never be part of the Feng family, then feel free to take responsibility for them. From now on father, you support your wife and son financially without relying on the Feng family's finances. You are on your own, father."

  It was young Feng Tianyi's declaration of war against his father. However, years later, during Feng Tianyi's absence while staying abroad, Feng Zuyi had managed to take over the control of Feng Conglomerate, using underhanded tricks to force the board to support him during his eldest son's absence.

  Only when Feng Zuyi died did Feng Tianyi find out about the greatest betrayal by his own father. In the end, his father had chosen Feng Tianhua and forsaken him, his eldest son. While Feng Tianyi retained his title of the heir of the Feng family, he lost the control of Feng Conglomerate, their family business to his half-brother, Feng Tianhua.

  "How dare you to speak to your father like that?"

  "No, you've never been a father to me." Young Feng Tianyi replied with such coldness in his eyes. "You were never a father to me." He repeated.

  "I'll say it again just in case you didn't hear me earlier." Feng Tianyi narrowed his gaze to this cheating couple. "Get out of my house! You should be happy that I'm allowing you to live in the courtyard house!"

  "How dare you!" Feng Zuyi seethed in anger. He knew that he'd lost this battle against his young son, but he would never accept defeat. Not like this. Never like this.

  "Take that insolent child away and lock him in his room right now! It seems like Tianyi is forgetting who's in charge here!" He yelled to the servants, but his order was only met with silence.

  The butler standing beside young Feng Tianyi didn't budge and only stared blankly at Feng Zuyi. Just like what their young master said earlier, the owner of this place was Feng Tianyi and not his father.

  Feng Zuyi's face turned red seeing the servants refusing to follow his orders. It didn't matter if Feng Tianyi was just a kid, there was no doubt that he was the rightful heir of the Feng family.

  The servants of the Feng family were personally picked by Old Master Feng. He brought them in even before Feng Tianyi was born. Some of them were picked up after meeting them under unfavorable circ.u.mstances, saving their lives in the process.

  And now that the Old Master Feng had died, their new master now was the young heir, Feng Tianyi, and not Feng Zuyi.

  Feng Zuyi had no other choice but to back down and follow the heir's orders.

  The courtyard house was still within the premises of the Feng Mansion. While Feng Zuyi lived with his new family in the courtyard house, Feng Tianyi remained at the main house, living on his own, with only a butler and the maids to attend to his needs and run errands.

  His mother came to see him once in a while, promising that she would do her best to win his custody against his father so he wouldn't have to live in the same place where his father and his new family was.

  However, the custody battle between the old couple dragged longer than expected, until Song Huifen eventually won in court and took away his young son from her ex-husband's custody.

  Feng Tianyi met his Uncle Yang and Song Fengyan in Beijing after that. He also met Gu Yuyao during his short stay in the capital. He then went to Guilin with his godfather and Song Fengyan. It was his first trip in ages.