Hana looked at Hector with a pleading gaze. “I’m begging you, don’t treat our daughter like this! She is your most beloved, isn’t she?”Hector sneered. “Of course! She is my life! She is my daughter. Her last name is Caven! She is not yours! You b*tch! Listen up! Go work as a laborer abroad. Come back five years later after having earned enough money for both me and my daughter to spend. I have already asked on your behalf. You can earn two hundred thousand dollars in a year! Five years later, come back when you’ve made a million dollars! Otherwise…”“Alright…alright. Fine, I will go work abroad. It’s just five years, right? If something bad were to happen to my daughter five years later when I come back, I will kill you by biting you to death if I had to, Hector!”Since then, Hana was sent abroad to work as a laborer. The contract that she signed was not for five years, but it was for eight years. This was because she wanted to keep a portion of the money to herself so that she cou
Hana still did not let go of her daughter. She grasped her daughter’s arm with both her hands and looked at Tessa with a hopeful expression. Tessa’s features looked very similar to Hana’s when she was seventeen years old, but Tessa was more beautiful than Hana. Tessa did not have a care in the world and was dressed in a stylish outfit. She looked just like a little princess.Hana had an indescribable agitation within her. She had a catch in her throat and spoke incoherently. “Tessa, I am your mother. Don’t you recognize me, Tessa? I’m the one who bought all these beautiful clothes that you’re wearing for you with the money I’ve earned. Tessa…”Tessa suddenly aggressively pushed Hana away. “You d*mned woman! Why don’t you go to hell! How do you have the cheeks? Are you so thick-skinned? You were the one who bought the clothes I’m wearing for me? You’re the kind of woman who only cared about your own enjoyment! You only cared about fooling around with men! You’re a woman who doesn’t ev
Each and every sentence was stabbing Hana in the heart.That afternoon, Hana went back alone to the village where she and Hector had lived. In the end, the villagers told Hana that Hector had not been living there for a very long time. He had bought a house at the intersection between the city and the suburbs of South City. He even opened a store there and had been doing quite well in the past few years. Hana then hid in the poor house that they had originally been living in, and cried inconsolably while hugging some of the small clothes that her daughter had left behind.What had she done wrong for the Heavens to punish her like that? She had lost her mother growing up. She then lived an incomparably poor and miserable life with her father. After she grew up a little, her father married her stepmother, and she began abusing her. She was finally saved by someone with great difficulty, but that person caused her a lifetime of misery instead. At that point, her reputation had been tatt
Evenn if her daughter did not acknowledge Hana as her mother, her daughter was still Hana’s weak spot. She could not stand listening to the possibility of her daughter’s life being ruined and having to follow in her mother’s footsteps in the future. As long as her daughter could have a bright future, live a happy life, get married and have children, as well as a husband who loved her, Hana felt that it would be worth it even if she died. It would also be worth it even if her daughter did not acknowledge her as her mother for life. Perhaps such was Hana’s fate in this life, and she was ready to resign to her fate. However, the catch was if her daughter could be happy and obediently go to college. After that, get a job and find a good man to marry.Hector looked at Hana, whose stance would not be any softer, and said, “From now on, you have to save five thousand dollars a month for my daughter as her wedding gift in the future!”“Alright,” Hana promised without even thinking about it.
The couple, the neighbors, prepared noodles as breakfast for Hana. Many other neighbors also came to visit Hana. They all persuaded her that she must stay alive. The day her daughter would acknowledge her would come. They warmed Hana’s heart quite a bit and also gave her the hope to keep on living. Since then, Hana had stayed in South City. In the following four years, she rented and stayed at a house near Tessa’s college. After that, she got four jobs nearby as well, and she was able to make eight thousand dollars a month. She had saved five thousand dollars of that for Tessa.Later on, Tessa graduated from college and got into the Ford Group as an intern. After Tessa’s work became stable, only then did Hana move away. However, she would still appear in front of her daughter once in a while just for the sake of taking a few more glances at her daughter, even if Hana had to walk away without saying anything after just a glance.However, Hana’s wish and hope was a kind of nightmare th
Tessa had originally come to the village with resentment. She had originally wanted to condemn that woman that she hated so much that she desperately wanted to rip her apart in an instant. However, at that moment, the whole village was scolding her.“Every mouthful of milk you had was paid with the money your mother earned for you!”“Your mother was tricked into following your father back! She was still a child when she gave birth to you. She was not even eighteen yet! When your mother was giving birth to you on the delivery bed, your father was following around with a widow!”“We sent your mother tomato soup, but your mother did not even get to have a bite. It was all taken by your father to exchange for money, and then he went to gamble with that money!”“Your mother was so thin that she had no breast milk at all. You were so hungry that you wailed!”“It has not yet been a month since giving birth to you, your mother had to carry you and wash dishes for others in the winter. She
It actually was not just a liver disease! It actually was a dirty disease!“You’re all talking nonsense! All of you are talking nonsense! My dad clearly contracted the disease from exhaustion! He brought me up by himself. He had to play the role of a father and a mother. It was truly hard for him! He got sick because of exhaustion!” Tessa yelled at the crowd in tears.Everyone there sneered, especially those slightly younger ones.“You’re just fooling yourself, right? You’ll be able to know what condition your father has if you go to the hospital to check! Don’t forget, your father has the condition, but your mother doesn’t! The reason why your father was infected was that he caught it while fooling around outside while your mother was pregnant with you!”“If you want to talk about putting thoughts on another person outside, your father had done it way earlier than your mother! Your father had brought it on himself!”“Your mother is truly pitiful. If she doesn’t look for a man out
Hector averted her gaze. “You…what nonsense did you hear from those people?”“Dad!” Tessa’s tears instantly streamed down. “The truth will come to light sooner or later. This is something that the entire village knew. Do you think I will never find out in this life just because you brought me with you and we have moved away?”Hector’s voice was trembling and there was a catch in his throat. He simply confessed. “I moved away taking you with me not because I wanted to hide anything from you. It was because I wanted to give you a good learning environment. You know about the quality of education offered in that village of ours. I-I’m already a useless person. I can no longer do that business with women in this life anymore. It’s also impossible for me to have a second child., You are my everything. Of course, I don’t wish for you to study in the village. I wish you’ll be well and can have happiness for life. I know that I am a selfish person with extremely bad character, and I am a per