Li Jiao seemed to freeze when she heard those words, motionless.
Zhang Han knew that the doctor was thinking about her mom, but at this moment, she didn’t want to stir up her own mother. These past few days, her mom’s mood had been off ever since that night of the suicide attempt. Li Jiao had changed, becoming unreasonable, threatening to take her life; today alone she’d done it several times. If Zhang Han hadn’t run back to check on her during every break, who knows what her mother might have done.
The child was so frightened that she hadn’t paid attention in class all day, fearing she would return home too late to prevent an incident with her own mother.
"Doctor Bai..." that pleading look made Bai Xiao shake her head.
"It won’t happen, it won’t happen, they will meet kind people," Li Jiao muttered to herself.
"Kind people? There are kind people in this world, but even if you meet them. Imagine bringing home a stepmother, and it’s fine if she doesn’t have her own children, but once she does, think about it, even the kindest person. Will they be nicer to their own children or to someone else’s?" Bai Xiao didn’t think the indulgent care she was showing was fundamental; a person sick for a long time can become psychologically abnormal.
It was necessary to give strong medicine to really cure it.
This woman thought she was doing others a favor without considering whether they even wanted her favor.
Zhang Han looked at Bai Xiao, questioning, is it good to scare my mom like this?
Isn’t it said that doctors are compassionate?
Why does Doctor Bai seem so heartless?
Bai Xiao winked at her, get on with it, girl!
Zhang Han blinked back, what does that mean?
Does Doctor Bai have an eye problem?
Bai Xiao coughed once.
Finally, Zhang Han’s numb mind started working, Doctor Bai... Doctor Bai... Oh, I see!
She turned her face, which was covered in tears, a picture of misery, the very image of an innocent Xiaobai.
"Mom, can you really bear to let me live under the hand of a stepmother? I’ve heard that stepmothers hit people, beat them with belts, stick them with needles, and don’t give them food to eat. And those are just the mild things. What if when I grow up, I’m married off to an old letch or a cripple, a mute, something like that, wouldn’t your daughter’s life be ruined? Mom, if you have to go, take me with you. Let’s keep each other company, so I don’t have to stay here and be bullied by a stepmother. Mom, I can’t leave you."
Bai Xiao’s lips twitched.
This girl could really act!
Not just an actor, but an award-winning leading actress!
Li Jiao, clearly startled by her daughter’s crying and words, was already in a panic imagining various cruel stepmothers abusing children, like seeing a hero under brutal torture, uneasily said, "That can’t be right, your father would protect you."
Zhang Han choked, and there was still here waiting.
"Ever heard that a new stepmother means a new stepfather?" Bai Xiao coldly interjected.
Zhang Han immediately burst into tears, clinging to Li Jiao’s leg, "Yes, if Dad marries a stepmother, she’d be whispering bad things about me in his ear every day. By then, how could Dad remember his own daughter? Mom, you can’t ignore me."
For the sake of her mother, she really went all out, not caring about her own face.
Zhang Han herself found it hilarious, this wailing and pleading act was all learned from watching TV and movies; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to do it.
Li Jiao thought about it and realized that if she was truly gone, and her husband married another woman, it was really hard to say what might happen in the future!
"Alright, Mom won’t die, rest assured. I will definitely protect you, only at ease when I see you safely married and having children, otherwise who knows how much you might suffer," suddenly filled with vitality, it was the determination to protect her daughter that bolstered Li Jiao’s spirit.