Chapter 121: There is something you need to understand
Han Ruochen pursed her lips and said, "Dad, what does Mom mean by this? Can I not even get close to my own uncle?"
She didn’t bother quarrelling with her mother; she knew that there was no point in even starting with her mother because the woman was stubborn. In Meng Yunhan’s world, anyone could be wrong but her. Clearly, she blamed the Han family for not accepting her and did not want to seek the answers within herself. If she were to indulge herself in a fight with Meng Yunhan, then things were bound to become troublesome.
"Of course! He is your uncle; what’s wrong with getting close to him?" came Han Yichen’s reply. He then turned to look at his wife and said to her angrily, "What do you mean by ’those people’? They are my family. You mean to say that my children cannot get close to my own family now. Is that what you are trying to say now?"
Meng Yunhan’s expression changed as she snapped back, "So what am I? You know that they do not approve of me, and yet you are letting them walk all over me. What is the meaning of this?" Meng Yunhan could not understand why her husband was no longer by her side; he should be supporting her and not those who were against her. Sure, she took ten thousand yuan from the family, but that should not change anything.
Her husband should still be in love with her.
But here he was supporting someone else over her again and again. First, it was Han Ruochen, and now it was his family.
Han Yichen turned sombre as he said to his wife, "Old Meng, you and I both know that we were the ones who were in the wrong. The manner in which we got married was, after all, not nice. You cannot blame my family for not accepting you—"
Not to mention the fuss that Meng Yunhan kicked up after she got married; it only made his mother even more upset with her.
However, Meng Yunhan didn’t seem to recall anything of her past misdeeds. Instead, she felt angry and upset with her husband, as she felt that he had abandoned her for others. Her eyes turned red, and she said in an angry voice, "Alright, blame me for everything, won’t you? That will be so much easier for you."
"Every time it is me who is in the wrong, and everyone is in the right! You have changed, Yichen. You were not like this before." Meng Yunhan threw a tantrum and ran inside the house.
Han Yichen felt a bit uncomfortable when he saw Meng Yunhan crying, but before he could chase after her, Han Ruochen began speaking. "Dad, I know that you are upset with Grandma. But you should also consider Grandma’s feelings, because of what happened grandma was humiliated and embarrassed in front of the entire village. Strictly speaking, you and Mom should be apologising to Grandma for hurting her like this. It’s good enough that grandmother is not blaming you, so why is Mom acting like a little brat?"
Her mother was used to playing with her father. Every time she cried just a little bit, her father would race after her and then please her. However, Han Ruochen needed to correct this habit of her father. What was more, even if she did not know what happened between her parents, she knew one thing. Her father only wronged her mother once, and he repaid it by dying a death worse than an animal.
In his last moments, he didn’t have even a single person next to him.
There was no need for her father to continue chasing after her mother, who did not even have him in her heart.
No sooner did Han Ruochen finish speaking than Han Yichen paused in her stride. In all these years, there had been many people who told him that he had hurt his mother through his actions, but this was the first time his own child was speaking up for his mother. He wanted to say that he did what he had to do back then to save the reputation of a young woman, but he couldn’t bring himself to.
All these years, he had been turning a blind eye to countless things, but now, being questioned by his daughter, he couldn’t help but face the truth. Maybe he was also in the wrong because even after so many years, he never reached out to his mother, nor did he ever ask for forgiveness. In comforting his wife, he forgot that he had also hurt another woman. And this woman was one of the most important women in his life.
"Ruochen... there are some things that you do not understand—"
"No matter what, I understand one thing, Dad. Grandma only wanted the best for you, and even if Mom is my biological mom, I have no shame in admitting that she is a clusterfuck who does not understand what is important. The mess that she has made..." Han Ruochen shook her head, sighed, and walked away without wasting another word. If her father were a smart man, he would be able to understand what she was trying to say.
Han Yichen watched his daughter go, and his head lowered on its own before he turned on his feet and walked back inside.
While Han Yichen was forced to face the truth on his own, Han Ruochen also ended up getting entangled with a new kind of trouble.
The rumour of her saving Zhai Heng had slowly spread through the village. It was Aunt Luo who heard it from her son working at the police station. The rumour was simple: if not for Han Yichen’s daughter, Han Ruochen, Zhai Heng’s life couldn’t have been saved. Because of this, Han Ruochen couldn’t leave the house without being barricaded. While Han Ruochen thought that the rumour was bad news, there were a few more people who thought the same!
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