"I don’t need your help!" Han Ruixin suddenly pushed her mother away and screamed at her, "It’s all your fault, all your fault, why have you been lying to me for so many years? You, dad, my brother, you all knew I wasn’t Brother Chen’s lifesaver, so why have you kept me in the dark!"
"You know already?" Mrs. Han was stunned for a moment and then held Han Ruixin in her arms, saying with immense tenderness, "I’m sorry, my baby girl. Mommy has done wrong, Mommy is sorry. Actually, Mommy saw how much you liked your Brother Chen, so—"
"Shut up, liar, big liar!" Han Ruixin sobbed uncontrollably, "Why won’t you admit it even now? You always lied to me, just wanting me to interact more with Brother Chen, wanting to use me to secure a hold on the huge tree that is Shengshi Group! But did you ever consider how I feel? I always thought I was the best gift sent by heaven to Brother Chen, but what happened in the end? He’s getting married, and the bride isn’t me at all!"
Han Ruixin grew more heartbroken as she spoke and eventually sat down on the ground, weeping and refusing to get up.
"Ruxin, Mommy’s precious girl, get up, get up. We can talk about anything once we get home. As long as we’re determined, nothing is too late. You believe Mommy, right? Mommy won’t let you lose your Brother Chen just like that."
As Mrs. Han spoke, she helped Han Ruixin up and walked her home.
An hour later, after helping Han Ruixin have a hot shower, Mrs. Han found her daughter sitting on the sofa, dazed, her gaze sometimes fixed unmovingly, and at other times filled with panic, as if recalling something terrifying.
"My daughter, tell Mommy what happened? Why have you become as soon as you got back? Did you go to Jin City?" Mrs. Han cautiously probed.
"That’s right, I went to Jin City, I went to see Granny Sheng..." Han Ruixin said and began to sob again.
"What? You actually went to the Old Mansion to find that old witch? Good heavens—" Mrs. Han was terrified and quickly checked her daughter’s body, asking, "She didn’t hurt you, did she?"
"She slapped me; she did it in front of Ye Shu, in front of Brother Chen, in front of many people. She even made me give that woman Ye Shu a massage. She said our Han Family is like a dog wagging its tail following behind the Sheng Family, saying that giving Ye Shu a massage was a blessing for me..." Han Ruixin said, and when she reached the heartbreaking part, she cried so hard she couldn’t speak, "Whimper~ Even that wasn’t the worst; Brother Chen saw me getting slapped, and he didn’t even stand up for me. Mommy, it hurts so much... whimper..."
"What? That old witch dared to treat my precious daughter like that; I won’t let her get away with this!" Mrs. Han was furious but then comforted her daughter, "Ruxin, you’ve just completed the first phase of your surgery. You can’t overexert yourself; you still have the second phase to go through before your leg can fully heal. So you mustn’t get agitated, you hear me? That Young Master Sheng, Shaochen, can be damned. With the charm our Ruxin has, you can find a better man than him in the future, someone to die of jealousy!"
"I won’t—" Han Ruixin suddenly roared, "I just like Brother Chen, I’ll like him for my whole life, no matter what. I won’t give up just like that. Alive, I belong to him; dead, I’ll be his soul. Anyway, I am determined to have him!"
Seeing this, Mrs. Han could only comply with her wishes and comforted her, "Alright, alright, have it your way, you say you want to claim him, then Mommy will help you claim him!"