"She thought about having an abortion, getting rid of the child, but it was my father's pleading, asking for another chance for both him and me, that stopped her. To keep my mother, my father, who was gentle by nature, did something extreme—he imprisoned my mother, using my grandmother as leverage to force her to stay by his side. In short, he did many wrong things. But while he managed to keep my mother with him, he couldn't keep her heart. When I was ten, my grandmother passed away, and my mother still left, very decisively. In the end, she just hugged me once and never looked back."
Zhan Hanjue recounted the story calmly, as if talking about someone else's affairs.
Ye Ningwan listened, but her heart ached intensely.
She had seen how Mrs. Yan was kind to Yan Rui, and she imagined that at some point, she must have treated Zhan Hanjue in the same way.
But was it more love or more hate to have a child with someone who caused your family to be destroyed?
