If Madeline and the child are harmed because of mother’s sake, it will only show his incompetence. Patrick closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

When he opened them, his deep pupils looked at Lina, "Mom, I know you don't like Madeline, but all the grudges from the past generation have nothing to do with Madeline. You shouldn't vent your hatred on her."

"Whether you like her or not, she is the woman I will marry in this lifetime. Moreover, she is carrying my child in her womb, who is also your grandchild. How can you be so cruel to your own grandchild?"

He endured it because Lina was his mother.

It was Lina who gave birth to him and raised him, leading to the Patrick today. He has always been understanding towards her because he knew she had been emotionally hurt and needed comfort in her lonely and helpless heart.

However, that could not be the reason for her to keep hurting Madeline repeatedly. Patrick clenched his fist tightly, his eyes filled with coldness as he looked at Lina.

This was the first time Lina had seen her son look at her like this, and she felt a chill run down her spine. But she had always been fierce since she was young, how could she just give in like this? She stared at Patrick in disbelief, tears streaming down her face even faster.

"Patrick, so you choose this woman and abandon me as your mother?" Patrick walked up and held Madeline's hand, interlocking their fingers before saying, "Both you and Madeline are the most important women in my life. As a man, I have to protect my wife and child. If mom doesn't like Madeline and to prevent further conflicts between you two, mom... you should go back."

"Patrick, are you driving mom away?" Lina looked at her son in disbelief, he had always been filial since childhood but now, for a woman, he was going against her multiple times. And now, he was asking her to leave?

Lina felt as if she had been struck by lightning, collapsing to the ground. Her eyes were filled with tears, directing all of her hatred towards Madeline. The Luna family, not ying of them was decent.

Patrick abondoned her back then and even forced her to attempt suicide. Now Patrick's Yara is entangled with her son and is urging her son to drive her away. Lina pounded her chest in anguish, first cried for a while, and then went crazy as if she wanted to hit the wall. Patrick's heart softened for a moment and wanted to step forward to stop her, after all, whenever his mother throws a tantrum, she likes to use this trick. The key is, she's not just pretending, she is determined to die! While he naturally protects his wife and children, he cannot just watch Lina die. "Mom..." "Patrick, let me handle this matter!" Before Patrick could finish speaking, Madeline interrupted him. Since the cause of this matter originated from her father Patrick, she actually wanted to ask Lina how exactly her father had hurt her back then, leading her to attribute the past grievances to herself.

Even my grandson doesn't want me, he just wants to die.

"Madeline, don't make trouble, this matter is not suitable for you to intervene." Patrick squeezed her palm, using warmth and strength to tell her that he was incompetent for making her suffer before. If he allowed her to be bullied now, then he would not be a man.

Madeline's heart warmed, tears welling up in her clouded eyes, looking deeply at him.

She was once so angry with herself for not being loved by Patrick until now. She realized that this man had been silently protecting her all along.

Freya was right, as a son, as a husband, he was caught in the middle and it was difficult. At this time, she should not be adding pressure to him, but instead giving him support to handle this matter better.

Madeline suddenly felt that she had been too willful when she had thrown a tantrum with him before.

Even just now, she should not have poured washwater on Lina. What Lina did was wrong, but she should not treat her elders like this.

Moreover, this woman is Patrick's birth mother!

So, at this moment she chose to step forward, personally resolving the grievances with Lina. Because she knows, the ying who started it should be the ying to finish it. Since it was her father's fault that caused Lina's resentment, and now that her father has passed away, as his Yara, she has a responsibility to resolve this matter for him.

"It's not suitable for you to intervene, don't forget, the person in front of you is your mother, but I am different. I am just a tree raised by others, suddenly uprooted and transplanted in your family's yard, with no blood ties to your family. That's why no ying is more suitable than me for this matter."

Madeline looked resolutely at Patrick, smiled at him, and walked towards Lina.

"Auntie Lina..."

She first called out politely.

But Lina stared at her fiercely, "Who are you calling auntie, don't call me that!"

Madeline smirked at her reaction, changed her address, and said, "Alright, Mrs. Patrick, may I ask when you and my dad met?"

As the conversation turned to Patrick, the hatred in Lina's eyes grew stronger, even clenching her fists and gnashing her teeth, "Why are you asking about this?"

"I think there must be some misunderstanding between you and my dad, maybe you've been hating the wrong person all along!" Madeline's mother had mentioned that when her father was young, although he was a playboy, he had never dying anything outrageous. The reason her mother had married her father was solely because he had pursued her persistently with romantic gestures all over the place until she finally agreed to marry him. Madeline remembered clearly that their parents had a loving relationship since she could remember, even though her father was busy with work, he always made time to be with them. If it weren't for the sudden economic crisis that hit the Luna family business, leading to bankruptcy and debt crisis, their family would have been happy. "Misunderstanding?" Lina burst out laughing, "Your dad almost committed suicide because of me, do you still call that a misunderstanding?" Upon hearing this, Madeline was dumbfounded. So...the woman who drove her father to attempt suicide back then, was Lina? Damn. How could she not have realized earlier that someone with Lina's personality could indeed do such a thing.

"Isn't suicide an option? What does it matter to Lina after holding a grudge for so many years?

"You have no idea how despicable your father is. He chased me with sweet words and promises, but once he caught me, he left me aside and pursued new prey. I even had an abortion for him and suffered from depression. Then he turned around and hooked up with your mother."

"I was unwilling to accept it, so I went to confront him, but he told me that we were not compatible and wanted to break up. I didn't agree, but the next day he went to register marriage with your mother."

As Lina reminisced about these past events, a deep-seated hatred filled her eyes, she clenched her fists and roared like a madwoman, "If he hadn't driven me to a dead end, would I have thought of suicide?"