Liu Qing was dumbfounded. For a moment, he was speechless. He thought to himself, "Do all rich people play such a dangerous game?"
He suddenly felt that the life of a rich second generation was not that attractive anymore.
At the same time, he understood why Ding Yun did not like Su Qi.
It would be strange to like someone after something like this.
Then, there was a tinge of disappointment in his heart.
"She came to me because the son she had with that man was dead. That's how she came to remember me, her abandoned son."
He felt that Ding Yun only saw him as an abandoned pawn, the son that she had abandoned.
He had already been disappointed in this woman, his mother, more than 10 years ago. Yet, when he heard such a piece of news, he still could not help but feel lost and bitter.
No matter how bad this woman was, she was still his mother.
Even if he refused to admit it, deep down inside him, he still hoped to feel she would shower him with motherly love.
He was this woman's child after all.
Right now, it may seem that this woman might still possess a mother's love for him, it was the amount of love that was doubtful.
He was simply her last choice after she ran out of options.
In that instant, he felt those long-lost emotions again.
He was an abandoned pawn.
A child abandoned by this woman many years ago.
He opened his mouth to say something, but the moment he did, he forgot what he was going to say. Instead, he wrapped his lower lip around his upper lip and exhaled, blowing his hair across his forehead.
He was in a bad mood.
Then, he felt ridiculous for being in a bad mood.
Didn't he already know more than 10 years ago what kind of person she was?
Why was he being so melodramatic about now?
There was no need to be in a bad mood, he should feel really happy right now.
Without that incident, if his half-brother was still alive, how would he get the chance to inherit billions now?
He sighed and put on a sad face, though he did not know if he put on the expression too late, as he spoke to her.
"That woman is too insane. How can she be so cruel?"
Ding Yun said, "She's originally mentally unstable. She probably thought that if she killed my son, her daughter would be able to inherit all that man's wealth."
"No," Liu Qing said doubtfully. "You're the spouse, so you should rank first on the inheritance list. Half the joint assets of the couple should already belong to you. As for the inheritance, since you're the spouse, you should get at least half? How did she get that idea?"
Ding Yun sneered. "What joint assets? Do you think that the old thing didn't guard against me? Before I married him, we signed a prenuptial agreement. All his premarital assets were notarized, including all his shares in the company."
Liu Qing gasped. "Is that so?"
"It's not just that," Ding Yun said. "After I married him, he reduced his annual salary at the company to one dollar. If you want to talk about the joint assets we share after marriage, it's one dollar per year."
At first, Liu Qing thought that it was very exaggerated, but as he thought about it, he seemed to have read similar stories in the news before. This might be the typical setup when a tycoon got married for the second time.
At the same time, he made a decision in his heart. "I'll do the same if I have to get married in the future."
If he looked at things from a different point of view, Ding Yun was a woman getting married for the second time and already had a child with her ex-husband. It was not too far-fetched for the tycoon to guard against the possibility of her getting a divorce after a few years of marriage and using his money to raise someone else's child.
Ding Yun clearly resented Su Yi's actions. She spoke coldly as she recounted the past.
"In the period of more than 10 years that I've been married to him, although it looks like he's quite good to me, he has always kept tight control when it comes to money. I can only have it if he gives it to me. If he doesn't give it to me, I can't ask him for it. He can give his money to whoever he wants and I can't interfere. It's for this reason that the woman wanted to kill my son. That way, her daughter will be the old thing's only flesh and blood, and the inheritance will definitely go to her daughter."
"Then why did he indicate in his will to give you most of the inheritance? " Liu Qing was confused again.
Ding Yun said, "I was devastated at the time. He made that will to appease me."
All citizens had the right to dispose of their assets in any way they wanted. For those who made a will, the instructions in the will would take precedence, and the inheritance would be distributed according to the will.
Only those who had not made a will would have the inheritance distributed in accordance with the intestacy law.
Su Yi's greatest asset, which was his shares in Tianyuan Group, was his notarized premarital asset. It belonged to only him and he could give it to whoever he wanted.
Liu Qing said, "That's not too bad. At least he made a will that's very beneficial to you to appease you."
Ding Yun chuckled. "That's what I thought at first. Then I accidentally overheard him talking to his daughter on the phone. He said he made such a will for the purpose of temporarily stabilizing my emotions, as he was afraid that I would hurt his daughter after I got provoked in that way. He said that he will change the will again after two years when I'm feeling more stable."
"Uh…" Liu Qing did not know what to say.
The contents of a will could be changed at any time. As long as the person who made the will was not dead, they could change it whenever they wanted.
This was something that Liu Qing understood.
For some reason, he felt jealous. "She was willing to perish together with someone else for the sake of that son. She could even give up her own life. But even though I'm also her son, in her eyes, I can be thrown away at any time."
Ding Yun said, "After your brother was killed by that crazy woman, I was very agitated. He was likely afraid that I would go mad like that crazy woman and die together with that girl. He probably made that will so that I would have the desire to live and would not be too impulsive."
When he heard her relate that her desire to live was tied to how the inheritance was distributed, Liu Qing quickly understood what she meant.
The inheritance represented Ding Yun's desire to live.
When Liu Qing thought of this, another idea suddenly appeared in his mind. "At that time, was her agitation caused by the fact that when the son she had with Su Yi died, she felt that she had lost his inheritance rights and therefore lost her desire to live? And not solely because her son had died?"
Such a thought was very disrespectful towards Ding Yun.
However, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth.
Perhaps Su Yi thought so too. That was why he had made the will that was so obviously unfair to Su Qi to appease her and to give her the desire to live.
The desire to live on to inherit a vast fortune.
As he thought of this, he suddenly felt a chill.
"Fortunately, after only a month and before the old thing could change his will, he died in a car accident. The will that he made to appease me became his actual will."
After saying this, Ding Yun finally smiled.