If she could, she would never want to have any contact with the Jian Family again.
"I’ll send you back," Hai En said worriedly, looking at the two.
Jian Dan looked up at him, shook his head, and said distantly, "No need, thank you. You and your aunt can go back first. Our hotel is just ahead, we don’t need a ride."
Ms. Bo Bo was about to say not to be polite, but stopped abruptly. She looked in the direction Jian Dan pointed and saw a nice hotel. She murmured, "Nephew, why don’t you cancel the room and we’ll switch hotels?
I think the hotel Little Jian Dan is staying at looks good."
Hai En, "Aunt, don’t waste it. My sister works hard to earn money. Let’s stay at the hotel we booked tonight, and I’ll bring you here tomorrow?"
Ms. Bo Bo was very angry, "Who’s coming to stay here tomorrow? Are you making life difficult for me? Then you go stay at the other hotel yourself. I’ll get a room here, not spending a penny of yours, stingy."
Hai En: "...Not aunt, this is called intentional waste."
"Hmph..." Ms. Bo Bo didn’t give her nephew time to explain, quickly hooked her arm around Jian Dan’s, urging Jian Dan to lead the way, and followed them.
Jian Dan and Lai Wei tried to persuade her, but realized no one could dissuade this lady, so Jian Dan turned to Hai En, "Then how about your aunt stays with us, squeezes in with us tonight, and you pick her up first thing tomorrow morning?"
Hai En’s eyebrows were still knotted, feeling his aunt was really too much, "Then sorry to trouble you, I’ll treat you to breakfast tomorrow."
"No need, the hotel provides it."
Jian Dan refused, taking Ms. Bo Bo and Lai Wei away.
Hai En stared at their backs, wanting to say something but finding it all inappropriate, so he left alone first.
Hai Lan wasn’t used to sharing a room with others, but to her, Lai Wei and Jian Dan were very agreeable, so she slept well throughout the night.
Jian Dan, however, couldn’t sleep at all. Lai Wei gave up her room to Hai Lan, who was Ms. Bo Bo, and later came to stay with Jian Dan in her room. Jian Dan was disturbed by Jian Fang’s accusations, unsettled at heart. She was soft-natured and contemplative, unable to shake off that state of mind. Even when she spoke harshly, she felt particularly powerless.
Lai Wei stayed with her, "Jian Dan, don’t overthink and don’t mind what your aunt said, they haven’t raised you a single day, they have nothing to do with you.
And really, which normal relative would say such vicious things? Your aunt doesn’t really count as a human."
Jian Dan nodded, "I’m just worried it might have a bad influence on you."
Lai Wei wrapped her arm around her shoulder, "What are you saying? We have our kind of relationship, would I care about some idle gossip? Little Jian Dan, you’ve been to my home, you know my situation;
If I cared about those rumors, I probably wouldn’t have been able to survive with my mother long ago."
"Weiwei, I’m just particularly sad. When my dad was alive, he wasn’t unbelievably good to them, but not bad either, and yet, after his death, they didn’t show the slightest pity or grief, only focused on splitting his estate so it wouldn’t fall into my hands. Often, I feel it’s not worth it for my dad. My dad passed away and can’t see it. If my dad were still here, how heartbroken would he be?"
Lai Wei hugged her tightly, "Weiwei, if your dad were alive, what he’d care about would definitely be you. He’d be even more concerned about your feelings, rather than those relatives who may or may not matter;
Since your dad was a soldier, you understand him more. When your dad was alive, they didn’t dare to bully you, which means, in your father’s heart, you were the most important existence."
Jian Dan sobbed, and after crying for a while, she cried herself to exhaustion.
Every year coming with Bo Qin, she was sad too, but didn’t dare to cry too much in front of Bo Qin, afraid of bothering Bo Qin. Looking at the hardly gained closeness now, indeed Bo Qin found her troublesome.
This year, Bo Qin didn’t come, and she was confronted by relatives at home who said many hurtful things.
In the middle of the night, after being jolted awake by a nightmare, Jian Dan couldn’t fall back asleep. Lai Wei must have been extremely tired, as she wasn’t awakened. Jian Dan went to the room’s balcony to feel the cold wind, trying to clear her mind more.
Earlier, Jian Fang had also mentioned that tomorrow, more people from the Jian Family would come looking for her. She couldn’t avoid it, only deal with them.
However, she didn’t want to drag Lai Wei into it.