Chapter 208: Yang Jianming asked for Marriage
Han Ziyan felt as if a bad breath had been stuck in her throat; she could neither get it in nor get it out. She turned to look at her mother in frustration. These days, her mother was more of a hindrance than anything else. She could not help but complain about her mother being so problematic. Why could her mother not be helpful to her and cause trouble for her everywhere she went?
Han Ziyan felt terrible. Nothing was going her way; it was bad enough that her mother could not help her with money, but she was also digging pits for her everywhere she went. She felt really frustrated.
"Yichen, I—"
"Don’t!" Han Yichen was in no mood to listen to the lies that this woman might have woven for him. He waved his hand as if he was about to hit someone and said, "You better not say anything or else I will forget that you are a woman and I don’t hit women. Meng Yunhan, you are Han Xuehan’s mother. Not once did you feel sorry about her when you married her off to that cruel family. Xuehan told me everything. You knew the truth, and you still hid it from us. Why!?"
"No, No, I did not!" Meng Yunhan denied vehemently, but her denial was not of much use. Han Yichen already knew the truth and did not want to be fooled anymore. He simply shook his head and turned on his feet before heading to the kitchen. He felt more and more regretful. If he had known that this would happen, then he would have rather taken on the blame and ruined his reputation than marry a woman like Meng Yunhan!
But then he wouldn’t have children as filial as Han Ruochen and the rest.
Meng Yunhan noticed the changes in her husband, and suddenly she felt like everything was spiralling out of control. She turned and glared at the culprit, who was the cause of this mess. "You...you just know how to run your mouth in front of your father. Are you trying to ruin me?"
"Mom, I am not trying to ruin anyone." Han Ruochen felt like she could finally breathe. She pursed her lips and then sucked in a few breaths before bringing Han Beijiang into her arms. She then continued to speak, "It was your fault that you hid the truth and married my sister off to that beast. The only way to hide a misdeed is not to commit it, or else you will always be in trouble. You cannot blame anyone for what you did. Don’t try to make me the culprit just because you did something wrong and cannot accept it."
After she finished speaking, she took her brother away, and this time, even Han Beijiang did not have the light in his eyes when he looked at his mother. He noticed how his mother wanted to hit his sister, who was good to him just now, and he hated her for that. Usually, even when Meng Yunhan treated Han Beijiang rudely, he would still have that glint in his eyes as if he was hoping for her to turn around and love him, but now that look in his eyes was missing.
Seeing this, Meng Yunhan was so angry that she wished she could hit someone. What was going on? A perfectly controlled family was slowly getting out of her grasp.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Han Ziyan dragged her mother into another room. "I know that you are upset, but there is a limit to how much you can fight with Dad. I told you to coax him and have him hand over the money, but you did not. I made a mistake and ruined something in the canteen, you know that I am not good in the kitchen. The chef had been asking me to compensate for the things that I ruined. Mom, I also have a sense of pride. Do you think I like being hounded for a mere sum of three thousand yuan? My father owns a pig farm, and my sister owns a motorboat. How would I look in front of everyone if they were to find out the truth? Mom, I don’t want to become a laughingstock in front of others."
Meng Yunhan also felt very bad after hearing Han Ziyan’s words. "But what can I do? You know that your dad is angry with me, and now he would rather dump the things in the ditch rather than give them to me and asking your sister to give me money is even more impossible. She would never agree."
In the past, she only needed to open her mouth and eat. She was like a landlady who did not need to do anything, and everything would fall in her lap. But now she had to take not only a job but even do overtime to finance her daughter. She did not even have time to rest these days, and in just a few months, she had lost more than eight kilograms of her weight.
"Mom, then are you going to watch me getting kicked out of this job? As long as I can compensate them, I will still have the chance to turn things around, and I will be able to earn the money back, but if I do not compensate, then I am worried that I will lose everything! Mom, you have to do something; you cannot watch me getting ruined. How will I be able to survive if Han Ruochen still has her motorboat and I lose my job?" As she spoke, she could not help but grit her teeth before saying, "If that is the case, then I might as well die!"
There was not only the matter of three thousand yuan; ever since Yang Jianming came out of the prison cell, he had been hounding her. He threatened and coaxed her, saying that she had ruined his reputation and should marry him to compensate him. How could she marry that useless man now when he had nothing in his hands?
