Chapter 498: Bitter Heart (II)

"Mom!" Han Ziyan was furious when she heard the underlying meaning in her mother’s words. Just because she was pregnant before marriage, she was supposed to pick just about anyone? She was not willing! She rolled her eyes and said to her mother, "Mom, no matter what, he is always going to be a stinky soldier, right? I don’t want to marry a soldier. He will be in the camp all year round and won’t have any time for me. To put it bluntly, I will live like a widow. I am so young, and my entire life is waiting for me. How can I marry an officer?"

"What’s more, the Zhao family is obviously from a rural background. If I marry that man, wouldn’t I have to follow his parents? Then what is the point? Why should I marry him when I am going to face the same trouble as ever? Even if I don’t like Yang Jianming, he is at least a city dweller. If I follow him, I can at least live in the city. But what about Zhao Mingzhu? Who can guarantee that he will take me along with him?"

"And who can guarantee that he will certainly become a battalion commander? Did you not marry Dad because you were sure that he would be able to become a big businessman? Didn’t you expect him to help you out? What happened? He cannot even earn a simple amount of twenty thousand yuan. We all marry a man in the hope that he will be able to fulfil our demands. If a man cannot even do something so simple, what is the point?"

"Look at the situation now. Dad had to depend on his children to borrow money from everywhere for such a simple surgery. He did not even have six thousand yuan in his pockets. What kind of successful man is he? Don’t even talk about raising a child. He is so poor that he cannot even afford to feed himself."

So what if Yang Jianming was an arsehole? He at least had a social status, and his family owned countless pieces of land in the village. At least he would be able to feed himself instead of relying on her.

She was already having a hard time in the Han family. Was she going to make herself suffer by following a man and living in his village with his parents? Of course not.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Meng Yunhan’s expression changed. "You are still a child. What are you even saying?" She looked around and then slapped Han Ziyan on the arm with just the right amount of pressure. "No matter what, he is your father. Someone who had raised you from childhood to adulthood. Do you even know what others will say if they find out that you, as an adoptive daughter, were condemning her adoptive father?"

She was not worried about Han Yichen listening and feeling heartbroken, but about Han Ziyan’s reputation. What if someone heard Han Ziyan and started criticising her? No matter how wrong a father was, as long as he had worked hard and raised his children, he could not be embarrassed and insulted.

How could Han Ziyan say such a thing?

"Fine, if you don’t want to listen, then I will not say anything." Han Ziyan rolled her eyes once again, but she sounded unconvinced. "My father is good to me because he cares about his reputation and nothing else. If he were not worried about presenting himself as a good guy, then he would definitely not treat me well. Since he was the one who agreed to raise me, he should have done his best to raise me. If he could not raise me, then he should not have said yes in the first place!"

"Ziyan!" Meng Yunhan was stunned when she heard her response. She lowered her voice and snapped at her daughter, "What are you doing? Do you even understand where you are and what condition you are in at the moment?"

Han Ziyan flung her hand off her wrist and snapped at her mother. "So what if I am pregnant? I am still beautiful, and I am a permanent worker at the warehouse. How can I not find someone decent?" Han Ziyan was filled with confidence; even if she had been ruined once, she did not believe that she would be unable to find someone else other than Yang Jianming or Zhao Mingzhu.

She then turned on her feet and walked away with her head held high.

"Ziyan!" ℴℴ𝘮

"Ziyan!"

Meng Yunhan chased after her daughter, not even paying attention to what was happening behind her.

"Uncle Han!" Zhao Mingzhu immediately caught Han Yichen, who stumbled on his feet. His face turned pale and he held the man tightly. "Are you okay? Do you want me to call a doctor? Are you feeling alright?"

He had no idea what to do at that very moment. It was one thing that the two of them ended up eavesdropping on such an awkward conversation, but a second later, they even found out that Han Ziyan was actually pregnant.

No matter what, even if Han Ziyan was just an adoptive daughter—she was still raised by Han Yichen. Naturally, he would be shocked and troubled by what he had heard. He looked at Han Yichen’s pale complexion and grew worried. If something happened to Han Yichen when he was with him, he was worried that the Han family would blame him.

"I am...I am fine." Han Yichen closed his eyes and waved his hand. He came out of the ward because he wanted to use the restroom. He never thought that he would hear such shocking words. No wonder Han Ruochen was slowly getting distant from Han Ziyan and Meng Yunhan. All his life, he had worked hard —and yet this was how these two women saw him.

"Then do you still want to use the restroom?" Zhao Mingzhu asked with a slight awkwardness.

"Go." Han Yichen sighed and nodded. Now that he knew that his adopted daughter only knew how to sweet-talk but had such a bitter heart, why would he bother suffering in silence? Was he going to hold his pee and die in frustration?