CHAPTER 341: CHAPTER 341: OLD MASTER PENG

The viewers watching the livestream at the moment.

"Is Lucas Pierce talented? Such a great actor? Or is it that our President Kane is so wise and brave, he didn’t fall for Lucas Pierce’s trick! Ah~ What do I do if I’ve fallen for President Kane?"

"Why didn’t Lucas Pierce fall to his death?"

"Lucas Pierce should just die."

They sent these comments one after another.

Sarah Pierce was also watching the livestream at this moment. She exclaimed "Damn" and exited the livestream room, immediately calling her mother.

"Mom, guess what I just saw?"

"I don’t guess, speak quickly. I’m very busy right now."

"Busy? At home every day, what’s there to be busy about except housework? Mom, stop for a moment, I have some incredibly explosive news."

"Just this bit of housework? You lazy girl, you speak so easily of it. Come home this weekend and try doing housework for two days."

"Haha... Did I say anything? I didn’t say anything. Mom, you heard wrong."

"Hmph." Shirley Pearson rolled her eyes: "If there’s nothing, hang up. Your grandpa wants to eat dumplings, and he wants homemade dumpling wrappers. Your mom is very busy and tired."

The joking expression on Sarah Pierce’s face disappeared, she frowned: "Why is grandpa still at our house? He’s been with us for five months, why hasn’t he gone to Uncle’s house yet?"

Mentioning this made Shirley angry. She said cynically, "He says the food at our house is good, doesn’t want to leave, wants to stay a few more days."

"Grandpa said the same thing two months ago. I think he just doesn’t want to go to Uncle’s house and is staying at ours on purpose. But why? Uncle’s family is much better off than ours, why does grandpa bully our family?"

Why?

Because the third son’s family gave the Price family a great-grandson with the Pierce name.

Old Mr. Pierce cherishes the grandson and doesn’t want to trouble the third son’s family, so he exerts his utmost to bully their family. Shirley Pearson’s husband ranks second in the Price family, being the most honest and simple among the three brothers. As long as Old Mr. Pierce speaks, he takes it as a royal decree and submits entirely to him, leaving Shirley with no options.

Because Perry Pierce is very persistent in taking care of the elderly and would not listen to any of her suggestions.

"Ah~ your father is too honest. Honest people are easily bullied by elders. Lily, don’t bother with the mess at home, focus on your job, and in the future, find a family with an only son. Never find a family with brothers like your mom did. From pregnancy till now, without giving birth to a son, it’s been grievances all the way through."

It wasn’t that she couldn’t give birth to a son. Her first pregnancy was actually a boy, but Old Mr. Pierce was superstitious and had a fortune teller do a prediction for her. The fortune teller talked nonsense, saying that her unborn child was a girl.

Old Mr. Pierce was unhappy, openly and subtly suggesting that she abort the child. The eldest of the Pierce family had already given birth to three daughters, and the Pierce family was not short of girls; what they lacked were boys.

Shirley Pearson didn’t agree. Regardless if it was a boy or a girl, it was a piece of her flesh and blood!

Seeing she insisted on giving birth to a ’daughter’, Old Mr. Pierce thought this ’omen’ was very bad, because back then the eldest brother’s wife also had a daughter first, then consecutively two more daughters.

Old Mr. Pierce got scared, afraid that Shirley Pearson would be like the eldest brother’s wife. It was from that point onwards that he started to act up.

Old Mr. Pierce picked on Shirley Pearson over every little thing, insulted her harshly over tiny matters, and every time reduced her to tears. Yet he never admitted it to Perry Pierce, claiming Shirley was too sensitive.

Living like that for a long time, anyone would break.

So, the first pregnancy wasn’t preserved, and she miscarried due to the stress that Old Mr. Pierce caused.

When Old Mr. Pierce heard about Shirley’s miscarriage, he was not remorseful; instead, he celebrated with drinks. Later, when Perry Pierce called to tell him it was a son, Old Mr. Pierce instantly fainted from anger.

Old Mr. Pierce held a grudge against Shirley Pearson because of this. He would never admit any fault of his own, always blaming Shirley for being a delicate little spirit, also blaming her ’useless’ womb.

Shirley Pearson had considered divorce.

But Perry treated her well regularly, and Shirley’s parents did not support her divorce. Thus, she muddled along with Perry until Sarah Pierce came into her belly, giving Shirley a new glimmer of hope.

The birth of Sarah Pierce did not bring Shirley Pearson any good fortune.

Old Mr. Pierce had a severe preference for boys over girls, looked down on Shirley, and disliked Sarah too. Word came from the third son’s wife’s pregnancy later.

The third son being sharp, secretly took his wife for an ultrasound, discovered it was a boy, and immediately delivered the good news to Old Mr. Pierce, even showing the ultrasound picture.

Seeing it, Old Mr. Pierce couldn’t close his smiling mouth. To this day, that ultrasound is still cherished by Old Mr. Pierce, framed and kept in his suitcase for easy carrying.

Shirley Pearson chose not to dwell on the past; thinking about it brought a strong impulse to throw Old Mr. Pierce out.

"Mm, mm, mom, I know, rest assured, I won’t follow in your old path."

"By the way, mom, let me tell you some explosive news. Tell grandpa, and he will soon voluntarily leave our house."

Sarah Pierce did not like Old Mr. Pierce because when she had conflicts with Lucas Pierce as a child, she often got beaten by him.

Old Mr. Pierce’s favoritism reached a sickening level.

Sarah Pierce couldn’t wait for Old Mr. Pierce to leave right now.

"What good news?" Shirley Pearson asked curiously.

"Lucas Pierce attempted suicide."

"What?"

Shirley Pearson was taken aback.

She clutched her chest, feeling it was unreliable: "He has such a good life, what is he, full and bored, trying to commit suicide for?"

"Some people are just never satisfied no matter how good they have it! Big-tail wolves always wanting more." Sarah said, "His suicide attempt is because the Kane’s little Micro-Finance is heavily in debt under his management. He’s trying to scam money out of Leon Keane using a fake suicide act... But mom, don’t tell grandpa the truth, just tell him Lucas Pierce committed suicide and has been taken to the hospital by an ambulance."

"Okay, mom got it."

After hanging up, Shirley Pearson was in a great mood. The third son’s family had always looked down on her, and Lucas Pierce never called her aunt. She utterly loathed the people in the third son’s family.

Without hesitation, Shirley went to deliver this news to Old Mr. Pierce.

As expected.

Upon hearing it, Old Mr. Pierce nearly fainted, trying hard to stay conscious, his old face flushed red: "Hand...phone..."

Shirley Pearson coldly watched, handed the phone to Old Mr. Pierce, who failed to reach Lucas Pierce’s phone.

Old Mr. Pierce dialed the third son’s home instead.

Meanwhile, the third son’s family was on their way to the hospital.

"Jackie... Jackie... he committed suicide. Do you know?" Old Mr. Pierce asked painfully.