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
Tessa smiled in tears. “Dad, other children have their mothers by their side when they wake up, but I always had you by my bedside when I wake up. It was my dad who read me bedtime stories every night. My first braid was very ugly, but I loved it very much. That’s because you have spent more than an hour braiding it for me. Till this day, I still remember the time when I first started menstruating. You were afraid that I would be embarassed, so you purposely asked the lady next door to keep me accompanied for a few days. She was not very willing to do as she needed to go to work, so you gave her a month’s worth of her salary as repayment. You were the one who researched online on the many things to pay attention to when one first got their menstruation, and then you told them to the lady next now. After that, you asked the lady not to tell me that you did that. Although I only have a dad, my first menstruation was very smooth.She sobbed. “All my classmates envied that I have a good d
“Tessa, what do you mean?” Hector asked.“She snatched my boyfriend away from me! Of course, she has to compensate me! Besides, she also has to pay me back for everything she owed me for so many years in the past! She is living a good life now, anyway! She is married to a rich man now! She would have an endless amount of money to spend! Both of you and I are living in the abyss of suffering. Why does she get to marry a rich man?” said Tessa.Both Tessa and her father are the same. She would not consider how many injustices had Hana once suffered because Tessa could not feel it. However, Tessa indeed felt her father’s pain and all that he had done for her. Tessa was set on wanting Hana to pay for it. Even if Hana died, what has that got to do with Tessa and her father?Just like her father, Tessa would not consider how many injustices had Hana once suffered because Tessa could not feel it. However, Tessa indeed felt her father’s pain and all that he had done for her. Tessa had her mi
“Oh, I see. Missus Smith’s daughter came to look for Director Zayn. She…she addressed him as Uncle Zayn. Okay. Okay.”After the receptionist hung up the call, she looked at Tessa respectfully., “M-Miss, please wait here for a moment. Director Zayn’s assistant, Gary, will be right out.”“Alright!” Tessa did not even look at the receptionist. She sneered. It seemed that she was treated as a very important person here for being the stepdaughter.Within a few minutes, a beauty with mature temperature walked out in heels. When she saw Tessa, she immediately greeted her with a smile. “You’re the lady, right?”“I am looking for Uncle Zayn!” Tessa immediately said.“Miss, Director Zayn is not in today. He had just left half an hour ago. It seems that his wife…your mother is unwell. She had been sent to the hospital by the maid at home early in the morning today. Director Zayn heard that his wife was sick, so he left in a hurry.”Tessa was speechless. ‘Sick? Serves her right!’“Miss, if