Chapter 2: Hua family

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One by one, Yaling started noting down what she could remember. The important points. She analyzed the present situation. For now, the time-frame she was in was the middle of the first trimester of school. That person wouldn’t be coming before Christmas’s holidays. And thinking back on it now, she was still bitter.

She, Yaling, used to think that she was the only child of her father. If she had to describe him, then she would say about her begetter that he was a person who wasn't prone to display his emotions easily, that he was someone who had his own way of showing his love; and concerning her,  then it was to give her whatever she asked for without bothering about its necessity. Having always things given at will without any efforts, she grew up to be someone quite arrogant and freely thought the world to be hers. And what was wrong with that thinking anyway? 

Hua Zhouli, her father, was the sole heir of Hua business. As his only daughter, nothing was refused to her... However, these kinds of thoughts weren't they just beautiful nothingness?... In the end, she understood bitterly that he was just a man who tried, but couldn't love her because her very existence prevented him from being with the love of life... What a joke!

She really, really didn't know what she'd do if she saw him right now. The last time she did, in that nightmare-like life, she had aimed at him with her high heels yet... missed. What a pity!

For now, he wasn't at home, but on a business trip and wouldn’t be back before the next week. And even if he was here they wouldn’t meet all that much anyway. She used to think that it was because they didn’t spend much time together that they weren’t as close as she was with her mother. After all Hua Zhouli was someone who went to work early in the morning and came back late in the evening. They would sometimes share the evening meal, but that was it.

Not good at showing his emotions? Wasn't it laughable taking into account what she knows now? Oh, how wrong she had been! The kind of pampering he gave to that Guoying was completely different from the one he sometimes indulged her when she was a child. From making time for her to going everywhere he could with her, he definitely was a changed man radiating with life. Had it been so wrong, then, for her to hate that woman so very much? Yaling may have had everything she asked for but she never knew that the ones she wasn't asking for were the most important, the ones she yearned for the most!

And she was sure now, all through their lives together, that man actually never loved her. At all! He easily drew the lines between them and with no remorse, he chased out someone who had always thought herself to be his daughter!

Then there were also her grandparents. Considering the year now, they should still be living in their separate mansion. It would be during the oncoming year that Guoying would convince them to come and live together as one family should. 

Those two old geezers! The apple surely didn't fall far from the tree for they were even colder and more detached towards her and her mother than her father had ever been. Younger, she had always wanted to please them, but they would always find fault with her, her ways of sitting, of clothing herself, nothing she did ever pleased them; so she stopped trying. That was just how they were she had concluded, no longer caring. It rubbed her the wrong way, then, to see how easy it had been for them to acknowledge Guoying.

Those two old people had been the most pleased when she and her mother were chased out!

Every member of this Hua family had been so eager to see them out. A little more than twenty years of knowing her did nothing to them. Guoying just had to present herself and she won their hearts in a way that Yaling could never do.

Why?

She was still surnamed Hua. She had spent years interacting with them, yet they could bear to treat her so.

And Mei Ping. She wasn’t a stranger to this result. In those terrible memories, Zhouli had brought out a paper claiming that Yaling wasn’t his child and he was livid about it. From her own conclusions, she thought that her mother brought a rift between her father and the one he loved. As a result, the woman disappeared, never letting it known that she was pregnant and her mother, Mei Ping, with her visibly pregnant state stepped in and wed into the family. Grandparents Hua certainly never approved of the way she married in. And even though Yaling could somehow understand their anger, the most important thing she did note was that, if her father had never, even once cheated on Guoying’s mother with her own mother, there was no way that her mother’s dupery would have worked. In the end, the man reaped what he sowed. Why then, bark at another when he couldn’t man up and take responsibility?

The person in question was still her mother. Someone who was always watching out for her and had loved her enough for the two parents. She was, in this matter, a deeply biased person. No matter what, she would always be by her mother’s side. Even if the whole world was her mother’s enemy, she would still claim loud and clear that she, Yaling, would forever be her mother’s ally.

And so, her first goal would be that. Her mother’s good life.

Concerning that Guoying… she was not after any kind of revenge there might be. And which revenge anyway… If she thought about that woman, there was bitterness and something akin to exhaustion that ran all over her body, deeply seated in her bones. A great unpleasant sensation. She had exhausted all her energy trying to dethrone that person previously and failed majestically. From now on, with this chance given, let her live her own life a little. 

Was she bitter about it? Oh, so terribly! But she had tried enough in her past life. She wouldn’t waste this one too. Ignoring her existence, when she would come, would be enough. Living a good life for herself would be enough.

And concerning this family, she was alright with stepping out... but at her own conditions!

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