Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess - Chapter 377
Naren became absolutely silent as he heard Shreya… he did not know what to think anymore as everything he had perceived real was suddenly said to be something in his own head. He did not know how to react anymore. His mind froze in place.
For him, his father was everything. Even when he wasn’t around him much when Naren was growing up because of his duty in the army, his dad made it a point to let him know he loved him. His own mother was very vain in nature… She wouldn’t stop complaining about everything and anything while his own father was a person who was very humble and down-to-earth kind of person. All his mother ever cared about was going to parties and showing off her bags to her friends in society while he grew up with nannies. No matter how much his dad earned, it was never enough for her mother and his father actually earned quite a lot for leading a comfortable enough life… after all, he was a senior officer in the army. But his mother was not someone to be satisfied with. Just when she got one thing she wanted, her eyes will always wander around all over again.
His mother was someone who was incapable of caring for anyone or anything other than herself. She never bothered to think about anyone at all… Her own dėsɨrės and her perceived sufferings were above all else… she never ever stopped think if at all others around her might be suffering more than herself.
So, the result was, of course, his mother fighting with his dad everything time he came back home from the army… they fought so much that Naren would prey his dad would work more rather than coming home. And when he retired, things just got so much worse… So, you see… whatever emotional support he got from his childhood, it was from his father.
So, Naren was someone who looked up to him… his father was his aspiration. Naren never knew right or wrong… he just knew his father. He did not particularly care or gave a damn about anything else at all. So, when that was taken away from him… his whole world became colorless… he was filled with hatred. And then he was surrounded by his mother all the time and all the baggage that came along with filling his father’s shoes in the syndicate. People vain praises filled up the hollow of his heart… people boasting him became a high he lived for and he did anything for that. Being in the noise… being in the center of attention filled his emptiness a bit.
“Your dad died to make up a mistake… and he never wanted to involve you in the syndicate in the first place but you were too stubborn… You thought he was trying to deprive you of your inheritance and looking down on you… so, in a way, he did it for your own good too…”
His father did do it for him in a way… After all, he knew his own son and he couldn’t bear to see Naren being shaped into someone like him. He wanted to pull down the syndicate with when he died. His father thought as long as he was not in the picture and the syndicate was down, Naren could turn a new leaf and follow his heart instead of following him around. But the problem was, he actually turned up just like him… And Naren ended up being the person who made all of his efforts to naught by killed Shreya’s parents.
“You can ask around to know whether I was lying or not… you can ask Abimanyu… he knows it better than I did. If you ask him directly he would not lie to you… They came to know of it only after your dad had already died. They found out what he was up to when they tried to find out why he took his own life as he did… Your dad also wrote a letter to them before he took his own life asking them to stop all this nonsense… But they were too angry with his betrayal and never heeded to him. And then you joined them with a whole lot of anger and stubbornness of your own and they simply let it go because they understood why he did what he did when they saw you.”
“They hid it from you because they wanted to protect you…” She emphasized each and every word.
Only after seeing Naren did Abhimanyu and Abishek decided to keep their own children as far away as possible from the syndicate.
Naren became someone completely different after his father’s death…
Till then, he was just a spoilt brat… he got into a lot of trouble just so he could have the attention of his parents. And his father for most parts indulged him… and it slowly became a habit and his personality. But after his father died, he became downright evil… and vain even. He became the very thing he hated in his own mother. Even when the reason why he became the person he was, was completely different from her mother being completely callous to any or every human emotion.
Shreya then took out an envelope and extended them towards Naren.
“This is your father’s will… he never left his inheritance to you… He actually donated everything to a charity. He never wanted you to live off of the money he earned from the syndicate… only thing you got was the house he bought when he was still in the army. But you were like a mad bull back then, so his friends actually covered it up. You can see for yourself…” Shreya said.
“So, if you really are your father’s son, and just shut up and silently die in here and pay for your deed!!” Shreya said coldly and walked away. She did not bother to wait for his reply even. And she did not need it either because she knew even if he did not want to submit, he did not really have any other choice at this juncture.
But more than that, the minute she saw his face… she knew more than the pain of the body, his heart is in more pain at this moment knowing about his father.
It was just such a shame… if only Abhimanyu and Abhishek hadn’t hidden it from him from the start… if they hadn’t made the choices for him… Naren might have actually turned out to be a different person altogether.