The Villain’s Mother

Chapter 131 – You have to hold onto your moral bottom line (1)

As soon as Li Jing heard her older brother say those words, she abruptly looked up at him. She did her best to pretend to be unperturbed and faked a smile. “Older brother, what are you saying? I don’t understand.”

As a very straightforward guy, Li Yuanhang truly didn’t know how to speak in a roundabout way and hint at the matter. Seeing that she was obstinately refusing to come to her senses, he felt a bit vexed too. He put away the smile on his face and said, “Little Jing, our Li family could be considered to have an unspotted background. You’ve always been obedient and sensible. You’ve never done anything to make dad, mom, and I worry.

“But Little Jing, how much money a person can make and how good-looking they are, that’s of secondary importance. Integrity is the most important quality. People must keep a moral bottom line. Otherwise, what’s the difference between them and animals?”

Li Jing’s face paled, even her hands were shaking. She carefully looked at her older brother and asked, “Older brother, did you hear someone say something?”

Could it be that her crush on Song Tingshen had already spread to her older brother’s ears? But who would tell him? Was it her cousin? Her sister-in-law?”

“It wasn’t an outside party. Old Song told me.”

Those words defeated Li Jing. She incredulously looked at Li Yuanhang. Even her voice was trembling as she asked, “H-He… What did he say?”

Li Yuanhang sighed. “He didn’t say anything too clearly to save face for me. But Little Jing, you probably don’t understand him. Under normal circumstances, Old Song wouldn’t say anything to me. This proves that he’s already dissatisfied about your intentions towards him. At the very least, he dislikes it a lot.”

Li Jing almost started crying after she heard her older brother’s words.

If it was someone else gossiping about her, she would bear it. But the way that her older brother put it… that Song Tingshen disliked her intentions towards him a lot… It felt as if her heart was being cut a thousand times.

Seeing how hurt Li Jing looked, Li Yuanhang almost couldn’t bear to continue. However, he knew that if he didn’t wake her up now and let her continue down this path, it would be even crueler to her.

“Little Jing, older brother will tell you the truth. Don’t believe it when other people say that he and his wife have a bad relationship. They’re just talking sh*t. They don’t know anything. Old Song and I have such a good relationship, and even I don’t know how his relationship is with his wife, let alone outsiders. But I do know one thing. Old Song won’t divorce his wife. Marriage isn’t as simple as you think it is. They have a child together too…

That being said, with my understanding of Old Song, there’s no way he’ll like you. First, you’re my sister. Even if he was still single today, he wouldn’t like you for that reason alone. Second, he’s a very responsible person. Even without considering what feelings he has for his wife, just the fact they’re married and have a child together, he wouldn’t do something outside the bounds of propriety. Not even if there was a knife resting on his neck.

If dad and mom know that you’re coveting a married man, they’ll be angered to death by you. This isn’t anything honorable. Have you thought about how your intentions and behavior is hurting another woman and a child? There’s nothing wrong with pursuing love, but if it’s built on the suffering of others, that’s unacceptable. When it comes to destroying someone’s marriage and family, you shouldn’t even touch on that idea. You have to hold onto your moral bottom line.”

Translator Ramblings: Since Li Yuanhang is around the same age as Song Tingshen and Li Jing is a newcomer at her first internship/job, that means there’s a 15 years or bigger age gap between these Li Yuanhang and Li Jing. That’s probably why he treats her as a little kid? He’s more like a third parent figure than a sibling. I like that Li Yuanhang thinks his little sister is a good person, who’s just making a mistake and needs a nudge back onto the right path. Hopefully, she won’t disappoint him.