The Stepmother’s Counterattack: Raising a Child in a Bygone Era

Chapter 886: Chapter 885: Fortunate to Have, Fated to Lose

In the opulent, dimly lit VVVIP room of a luxury bar.

Pei Ziheng was twirling his brandy glass, his dark eyes playfully turning to Zhao Yun beside him, “No regrets?”

Zhao Yun swirled the alcohol in his glass, saying, “My brain isn’t as sharp as yours, but I have self-awareness. The Earth will keep spinning without me, and Director Zhao’s company will be just the same with or without me.”

Pei Ziheng took a sip of his brandy, his fair Adam’s apple moving up and down with the swallowing motion, set against his handsome, sculpted face, both abstinent and alluring.

Zhao Yun found it somewhat difficult to look away.

He was sure he was straight, but he just couldn’t stand Pei Ziheng’s face.

Pei Ziheng, oblivious to his brother’s discomfort, said in a voice made hoarse by the alcohol, “Seniority is both your advantage and your disadvantage.”

The Zhao Family had two sons, Zhao Yun and Zhao Cheng.

Today, Zhao Cheng was only three years old, and obviously posed no threat to the adult Zhao Yun, but twenty years later, Zhao Yun would be over fifty while Zhao Cheng would be in his prime.

“Ziheng, you know I don’t like competing for fame and fortune. I grew up motherless, and Director Zhao didn’t have the time to bother with me. I was raised on handouts. When I was a kid, I envied you the most, jealous that you had Auntie Mingzhu, such a good stepmother.”

“Back then, I thought, when I have kids in the future, I definitely won’t let them walk the path I did. Compared to running a business, I’d rather be a good father and husband. You might think I’m ambitionless, but I’m just a person without much ambition. The greatest luck of my life was meeting you and becoming your brother.”