Watching the girl he loved walk away from him, step by step, was such a painful thing for him. Why had things turned out this way? He was becoming more and more unwilling to accept it. Hadn’t he put in all that effort for a reason? Wasn’t this the day he’d been waiting for? But why had things reached this point where he could no longer control the situation? In his heart, he blad it all on his mother, pushing all the faults onto her. He rushed ho, kicked open the front door, and saw his mother sitting on the sofa. His anger was palpable as he stord up to her.
"Why did you do this? How did she wrong you? It was I who didn’t let you return to the Zhang family, not her. She tried to persuade over and over. Why can’t you see any good in her through your eyes? Are you satisfied now? She’s been in the hospital for three whole months, and today, the day she was discharged, today, she wants to break up with . Are you happy now? Why can’t you ever consider my happiness?" Yichen shouted at Xia Jing.
Xia Jing never expected to be yelled at by the son she had carried for ten excruciating months over a woman. She couldn’t tolerate this happening to her, and she yelled back at her son, "Do you even consider your elder? I am your mother. No matter how much I’ve wronged you, in terms of kinship, I will always be your elder. Is this how you speak to your elder?"
Yichen found it a bit funny. Was this his elder? Was this his mother? Why were her actions always so calculating and ruthless?
"Mother? Can you honestly say that you have even an ounce of a mother’s touch in you? Is this how you treat your son? Treating his lifelong happiness as a trifling matter, placing your interests far above your own son. Is this your way of being a mother? You abandoned , and I could bear it. In fact, I don’t want to keep bringing up the fact that you abandoned , but it’s a reality that can’t be changed, you know? How much I wish I could call you ’mom.’ How much I wish we could live happily together as a family. How much I hope that on every New Year or festival, my parents could be with . But how did you treat ? Over these past years, every New Year when everyone was joyfully having a reunion dinner, I only had Grandpa. I had no idea where in the world my parents were wandering; all I knew was that they had heartlessly abandoned here to enjoy their own free world. When traditional festivals ca around, how much I wished my mom and dad could wish a happy holiday, but the outco was always heartbreaking. You never wished happiness. On my birthdays, how much I anticipated my mom and dad appearing like a birthday present from heaven, standing before and saying, ’Child, you’ve suffered,’ but none of this ever happened. In my ten-plus birthdays, you never spent a single day by my side!"
"Now it seems like all you see is your girlfriend, right? I don’t matter to you as your mother, correct? Do you know what she’s been saying about behind my back? The rumors and gossip are everywhere, and it’s all my fault. Didn’t I already apologize to her? What more does she want? Does she think she can force with these tactics? Do you think that works? I wasn’t raised to be intimidated, none of these tactics can pose a threat to . I’m not afraid of her threats, but what I do fear are backstabbers. Does she know how much her words have damaged my reputation?" Xia Jing said to Yichen.
Zhang Yichen was a bit bewildered. He didn’t understand what his mother ant by that. Could there really be soone stabbing him in the back? He didn’t believe what his mother was saying. He wished she could produce so evidence to prove her words were true, not fictitious.
"One must have evidence in everything they say or do. You have no proof, so what makes you think it was Zihan who did these things? And since you claim there are rumors, please could you present the evidence of these rumors to ? Why is it that only you have heard them and I know nothing?"
Xia Jing had anticipated her son’s response and ca prepared. She pulled a docunt from her drawer and threw it in front of Zhang Yichen. He picked up the docunt and glanced at it. It was indeed full of gossip, but he couldn’t believe that it was all done by the person he loved. He knew he was a forthright person who would never do such despicable and shaless things behind soone’s back.
"There is no ntion of who released this on the docunt. How can you accuse Zihan? This docunt only proves that there is gossip, not that she was behind it. You still don’t have solid evidence to prove that all this was her handiwork. I hope you find more reliable evidence. Until then, don’t co to with this. I won’t believe it. In my heart, your trustworthiness pales in comparison to hers. I will believe whatever she says, but not you. From the beginning, you have been a liar. Your words don’t give a shred of reliance, let alone any sense of security. For soone who lacks a sense of security, do you think your actions make her feel safe?" Zhang Yichen retorted to Xia Jing.
"Since you’ve made your stance clear today, let make myself very clear as well. I have to admit, I admire her a lot. Under those circumstances, she still chose to plead for , to forgive , which touched deeply. However, I don’t want anyone who chooses to stab in the back after forgiving . I could never accept such a person. If it weren’t for the rumors, I might have already let you two be together. To , nothing is more important than the happiness of my son, but nothing should harm my personal reputation either. I don’t want to investigate who started spreading the rumors, because I believe there is no smoke without fire. If the concerned party didn’t spread the details, others wouldn’t know them so thoroughly."
"Even so, you still have no proof, and you can’t sar her reputation like this. You know how important one’s reputation is to them. Even you, a rcenary, care so much about your own field, so don’t easily damage others’ reputations. There’s no benefit for you, and it’s an even greater harm to her. I hope you will think carefully before acting each ti, not just thinking about your benefits, but considering others’ lives as well. People don’t deceive you; they choose to forgive you ti and again because they regard you as family and don’t want you to suffer like her. Can’t you put yourself in her shoes and consider her feelings? She’s human too, with a soul. When her parents hurt, she hurts. Just as when I hurt, you hurt. That pain can’t be conveyed to others; it has to be swallowed down into one’s own stomach. You know that kind of pain, how desperate it must be. Please don’t let your future daughter-in-law suffer that pain again. If sothing like this happens again, don’t bla for not cherishing our past friendship..."
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