I didn’t expect that they had already regarded me as their enemy. Even my first love, now my fiancée, Celine Barbieri, seemed to be on their side.

I took several deep breaths, stared at them coldly and said, “Let me go now, or you’ll face the consequences!”

“You’ll face the consequences?”

“He’s already hanging here like a sausage and he’s still threatening others?”

“Bertrand, did all that studying make you lose your mind? Can’t you see your situation right now?”

The crowd’s laughter grew louder.

“I’ll give you one chance.”

“Let me go now and I’ll pretend this never happened.”

“Otherwise, everyone here will face the consequences soon!”

My tone was icy, but no one was afraid. William warned my mom, “An important person is coming soon. Wouldn’t it be awkward if they saw this?”

My mom frowned, thinking for a while. Celine stepped beside her, smiling softly.

“Auntie, I heard that the important person who came here is very strict with his family, especially with his children. If he saw you disciplining his rebellious son, he might even think you had the same vision.”

My mom nodded in agreement. “That’s right. I’m taking care of my own children. Who can say anything, no matter how powerful the person is? Besides, my strictness also shows my good character.”

William smiled slightly, but said, “But Agatha, Bertrand is still a child. Even if he peed in my glass, it was just him being naughty. Please don’t be too harsh on him over this.”

“What?”

My mom screamed in surprise when she saw William’s face filled with genuine pity. “He actually peed in your glass?”

My mom raised her voice as she glared at me, shouting, “Bertrand! Is that what I taught you since you were a child? All those years of studying, were they all for nothing? How could you become so cruel?”

I was stunned because I had never peed in a glass. But when I looked at William’s expression, the contempt in his eyes seemed to say he had just made up a lie. My mom would believe it and punish me severely.

“What?”

“Agatha, you didn’t know?”

“Oh dear, it’s all my fault. If I had known you didn’t know, I wouldn’t have said to you. I thought you knew about it.”

William’s face looked so guilty. My mom felt even more sorry for him.

“William, you don’t need to feel guilty. You have to be strict, or you’ll spoil the child!”

“Auntie, Bertrand did something wrong. He needs to be punished.”

Celine’s face looked worried. “Otherwise, if he keeps doing this, what will happen in the future?”

“Right, he absolutely must be punished!”

My mom thought hard, gritting her teeth. “But how should we punish him?”

Celine said lightly, “Punish him the same way he harmed Uncle William. Otherwise, he won’t realize his mistake.”

So they wanted to pee in my glass? But I never did like that.

William suddenly said, “Celine, do you want someone to pee on Bertrand? That’s absolutely not allowed!”

Before Celine could say anything, my mom waved her hand dismissively and beckoned to nearby security guards.

“You eight, teach Bertrand a lesson.”

Her tone was as indifferent as if she were disciplining a dog that had rummaged through trash. Then I saw those eight guards approaching the rooftop’s edge, their faces filled with malicious smiles as they looked at me. What was about to happen would surely be a nightmare.

Would someone come to save me? But instead, eight security guards sprayed me with artificial rain. As the filthy liquid hit my face, endless humiliation seemed to seep through my skin, relentlessly shredding my dignity.

I was her son! How could she treat me like this? About Celine, we had known each other since elementary school and were inseparable all the way through high school.

We confirmed our relationship after the college entrance exam and haven’t fought since then. Celine was someone I could give my heart to.

Why would the two most important women in my life side with that freeloading man? Why did this happen?

My self-esteem felt shattered entirely and my emotional support seemed to be gone. For a moment, I even thought my life had no meaning.

In that dazed state, I remembered what my senior one said. She always advised me that someone deserved punishment if they made a mistake. But we should have lived well if we hadn’t done anything wrong.

Yeah, I hadn’t done anything wrong. Why were my mom and the other punishing me? Why should I punish myself, too?

“Don’t do that!”

William yelled, trying to tear at the security guards, but my mom and Celine quickly pulled him aside.

My mom’s expression was impassive, while Celine hid a smile. William, as usual, occasionally secretly gave me the middle finger.

My mom coldly asked, “Do you realize you were wrong now?”

I replied coldly, “The new project, the new building. They all have special meaning!”

“I know why he’s being so stubborn!”

“Why?”

“He’s the one who pushed and led the new project. He probably feels like it won’t go forward without him, so he’s being so stubborn.”

“That makes sense. He thinks he’s irreplaceable.”

Whispers arose, but these people were clearly not ordinary passersby. William likely arranged them. Sure enough, upon hearing this, my mom immediately sneered with contempt.

“Bertrand, I’m your mother, also the Chairwoman! Do you think you can use a project to control me?”

“Listen carefully, the new project and the new building have absolutely nothing to do with you from this moment on!”

My mom said coldly, “The new project and the new building are now entirely under Uncle William’s control! Anyone can do this project!”

“Agatha, you can’t do this!”

“Bertrand already has a problem with me. If I steal his project now, he’ll definitely hate me.”

“Even if I originally proposed this project in the first place, it’s already been stolen by Bertrand. Oh no, I gave it to him.”

“Anyway, we can’t let Bertrand suffer.”

William stayed firm, but his words made my mom explode again.

“What?”

“You proposed this project?”

“And then this ungrateful son stole it?” My mom was furious beyond words.

“I heard you, Bertrand, went to a top-tier university. What did you study there? Just how to steal projects?”

“No wonder Mr. Kennedy has been so gloomy lately because it turns out his project got stolen.”

“Yeah, that day by the river, I saw Mr. Kennedy almost jump in. I saved him.”

The crowd started gossiping again.

“What? William, you’ve thought about suicide?”

My mom was so heartbroken that she started crying.

William burst into tears too, but insisted firmly, “Don’t blame Bertrand. After all, I was the one who messed up first. I know loving you is a mistake.”

My mom cried as well. The whole crowd enjoyed their lovey-dovey drama.

I had to admit, this guy really knew how to talk. I was impressed.

“Actually, I didn’t commit suicide that time.”

“Bertrand invited me to dinner. I thought he wanted to patch things up, so I went.”

“But I had no idea I’d get food poisoning after eating. I ended up pooping my pants in public. I felt too ashamed to live, so I wanted to kill myself. Oh wait, I meant I wanted to wash off in the river.”

William burst into tears. Then everyone else started to insult me.

My mom roared, “Bring some laxatives, hang someone down and give them to him!”

“It looks like our Mr. Chanton is going to be the first person to poop while standing upside down.”

“Quick, grab your phones! Start to live stream and make Mr. Chanton become famous.”

The whole crowd was excited. By then, two security guards had already tied a rope around their waist and one of them pulled out a bottle of laxative. It had clearly been planned by someone, because who carries laxatives when going out?

Celine didn’t forget to remind them. “Take off his pants and clothes! Don’t leave anything hidden!”

With a cold laugh, I asked, “Celine, am I being mean to you?”

Celine sneered, “Darling, it’s because you’ve been too good to me that I need to punish you to make you better.”

I pressed further. “So whatever William says, you believe it without verifying first?”

“How could Uncle William lie?”

Celine laughed. “He didn’t even mean to say it. It just slipped out.”

I asked again, “Slips of the tongue, one after another?”

Celine’s face turned cold and she ignored me completely.

Then my mom pointed at my face. “You still dare to try and drive a wedge between me and William. If you weren’t my son, I’d have killed you!”

“Just wait. Everything you’ve done to me will come back to you a hundredfold, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold.”

My tone was unusually flat, as if I couldn’t care about what would happen. Not long after, two security guards descended on safety ropes.

One security guard said, “You restrained him. I’ll force-feed him the medication!”

I smiled and said, “Go ahead. No need to bother. I’ll cooperate.”

The two guards were stunned for a moment, but they didn’t believe me. One still held me down while the other tried to force the medicine down my throat. Yet I cooperated and swallowed it.

They were both a bit stunned, but they didn’t say anything. They then both went back up. It wasn’t long before my stomach couldn’t take it anymore.

Then, hanging upside down, I began to poop in a handstand. Even the strongest willpower couldn’t control this, gushing out with unstoppable force.

But I didn’t feel the humiliation I felt before, because I knew exactly what would happen to anyone who dared lay a hand on me.

The crowd was filming with their phones, shouting how disgusting it was, but they still watched with rapt attention. However, the scene was too chaotic for a live stream and would be blocked in seconds.