Chapter 160: Chapter One-Hundred and Sixty: Her Past
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Yun Nan stopped there.
“Yun Liu, when did the Yun family adopt you?” Yan Tang suddenly asked.
Yun Liu lowered her head and pursed her lips. She didn’t want to answer that question. “She was adopted about three months after I went missing. My biological parents adopted a girl from the orphanage when they couldn’t find me,” Yun Nan answered on Yun Liu’s behalf in a calm voice.
“They did search for you!” Yun Liu insisted. “They did! But you guys somehow missed each other. Maybe… maybe your adoptive parents had something to do with that? Perhaps they purposefully took you elsewhere when Mom and Dad came looking for you?”
Yun Nan glared at Yun Liu. “Only those involved would know whether they’d actually searched or not. You can speak for your parents, but you can’t distort my adoptive parents’ intentions. Yun Liu, watch what you say!”
Only then did everyone realize that Yun Nan does have a temper; it’s just that she has excellent self-restraint. ‘Yun Liu shouldn’t have said that,’ they thought. ‘How could she say things like that? She brought that on herself.’
Xiao Zhao feared that a fight would occur between the two women—that wouldn’t look good for anyone—so he quickly brought them back on topic. “What happened after that?”
Yun Nan sighed softly. “My adoptive mother was kidnapped and sold to another family when she was a child. Her ‘adoptive parents’ abused her until she escaped from that family and met my adoptive father. My adoptive father’s family took her in, but his parents passed away in a natural disaster.”
She continued, “My adoptive parents fled the disaster and came to the ancient town where they met me, and the three of us formed a family. My adoptive mother had two wishes in her life; one was to find her biological parents, and the other was to find my biological parents. Unfortunately, they ended up in a car crash, and both of them passed away.”
All the other women aside from Yun Liu gasped. Yun Liu didn’t want to dwell on her adoptive parent’s deaths and went on with her story. “1 began to search for my biological parents because it was my mom’s last wish; I wanted her to be at ease in heaven. However, my early childhood memories were too vague; all I could remember was my life with my adoptive parents. I wandered the streets and went from town to town looking for my biological parents before the authorities sent me back to the ancient town where I lived.
“I mentioned it before; the people in that ancient town are simple and kind. The entire neighborhood took it upon themselves to keep me fed and clothed. I even used the skills my father taught me to open up the restaurant again. I wanted to earn my own living and support myself. Later, the town mayor sent me to school and said my parents would definitely be happy if I studied hard and got into university. So I did; I studied hard and got accepted into university.” Yun Nan gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and Shi Nian handed her a tissue. Yun Nan took it and dabbed her eyes with it.
“How old were you then?” Hai Hua asked softly.
“I was fourteen,” Yun Nan replied. The others gasped.
“So… an accident took your parents, and you went out and lived on the streets for a while. Then came back, opened a small restaurant, went back to school, and went to university when you were fourteen… Wait, you were admitted to university at the age of fourteen?” Yan Tang was so shocked that she could barely finish her sentences.
Yun Nan chuckled, “My mother was sold to a family in the mountains and didn’t have the chance to go to school, but she was very smart. She had secretly taught herself how to read before she escaped, and after she met my adoptive father and settled down, she voraciously consumed any books she could get her hands on and studied like mad. She was very strict with my studies. I constantly skipped grades. I was already in high school when my parents died; I skipped grades after finishing seventh grade. I was twelve then. If my mother was still around..
The implication was self-evident. Everyone couldn’t help but sigh.
“And then? What happened after that?” Xiao Zhao impatiently inquired.
Yun Nan stated, “Later, I chose to attend Communication University because I wanted to find my biological parents. I thought I could use media connections to help me find them. That way, my parents would be at ease in heaven. And indeed, I found my biological parents with the help of my university classmates and seniors.”
Yun Nan glanced at Yun Liu before adding, “However, that family of four is living quite blissfully, so I don’t wish to bother them. I’m okay with being alone; I’ve already been alone for so many years. It’s fine; I just wanted to find them, and I did. There’s no need for us to disturb each other. They can live their lives while I get on with mine; it sounds pretty good to me.”
Yun Nan just briefly touched on her relationship with the Yun family. No matter what, she couldn’t bring herself to renounce her family so completel Shi Nian was right. She always gave in when it came to her relatives because her adoptive parents—they were the most precious people in her life and ve dear to her heart. Their last wishes were for her to find her family and reuni with them. She didn’t want them to be unhappy up in the heavens, so she swallowed all her grievances.
She had given in to the Yun family too much, so much so that Gu Wei and Yl Liu dared to push their luck, thinking Yun Nan wouldn’t retaliate. Gu Wei wanted to squeeze every last drop of use out of Yun Nan, and Yun Liu wishe( ruin her.
Shi Nian gently put his arm around Yun Nan’s shoulders and said, “I’ll take i from here. I’ll tell the rest of the story. The Yun family doesn’t want her anymore, but the Shi family does. Thanks to my grandfather, we have been engaged since we were kids. She’s now my wife; she’s a member of the Shi family and has nothing to do with the Yun family. ”
“As for cooking for her parents, Yun Nan has already done so several times.
parents and grandfather all look forward to Yun Nan coming over and cooki for them, but they also can’t bear making her do so much work. The way my sister treats her says it all; Yun Nan has a higher standing in my family than do! My relatives wouldn’t care if I was gone, but they would raise hell for Yu Nan.. The Shi family is her home, and my mother is also her mother!”
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