NOVPUBChapter 77: Chapter 77: You are as cheap as that woman
Chapter 77 -77: You are as cheap as that woman
“It can only provide relief, not a cure. This is already very good, considering I can still walk around now, whereas before, I couldn’t walk at all. Come, sit beside Mom.” Yu Zhaohui lifted her hand to pull her.
Tang Yu sat on the edge of the bed.
Yu Zhaohui looked at her daughter’s face and asked, “How come you look so listless too?”
“Do I?” Tang Yu touched her face, “I don’t feel it.”
“Work is important, but don’t wear yourself out too much.” Yu Zhaohui took out a card from the drawer. “There’s five hundred thousand in here, not a lot, but Mom will give you more when you use it up.”
“I have money to spend.” Tang Yu pushed the card away.
“Is it given by Ye Sihan?”
“I was working before, and now I’m a star, how could I be short of money.” Tang Yu said.
“That is your business, this is just a little something from Mom.”
Tang Yu still didn’t take the card in her hand, her expression somber, “Mom, why did you and Dad get a divorce? What was the real reason that led to it?”
She had agreed to come here because she had questions she wanted to ask in person.
“What… do you want to say?”
“Is it because he had another woman and an illegitimate daughter outside?”
Yu Zhaohui was surprised, “How did you know? Who told you?”
Tang Yu could guess by looking at her expression, “He is in Kyoto, I saw it.” 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
She didn’t mention the part about Tang Fulin forcing her to sell herself.
“He’s in Kyoto?” Zhaohui seemed reluctant to talk about her past marriage, “He was gambling and womanizing outside, and I got used to it long ago. Unexpectedly, he even had a child. At that time, you were still young, and he didn’t propose divorce, so I thought I’d wait until you were older to divorce. Those years, I was enduring his disgusting face, wishing he would never come back. At least, so that I didn’t have to see those dirty affairs.”
Tang Yu listened as her mother spoke steadily about the past, as if she were talking about someone else, but she knew the pain within.
A husband addicted to gambling, whores, in debt, and with an illegitimate daughter.
Not one of those could be tolerated.
Now that she had grown up, she understood her mother’s difficulties.
She gently held Yu Zhaohui’s hand, “It’s all in the past, Mom will be very happy in the future.”
Yu Zhaohui smiled and stroked her face, speaking with affection, “Of course I’ll be happy, especially now that you’ve returned to Mom’s side, my legs don’t even hurt anymore! Do you know? Mom is always grateful that you’re not like that bastard; otherwise, no matter how much money I had, I would never be happy. But in the future, when you see him, just take a detour, bad luck!”
Tang Yu was going to say she resembled her mother, but suddenly she remembered how Ye Sihan cursed at her—”You’re as cheap as that woman!”
“Mom, I have another question for you.”
“Ask away. I don’t care about the past anymore.”
“Ye Sihan turns into a totally different person on nights when the lightning flashes and the thunder rolls, very frightening. Has he suffered some kind of trauma?”
Yu Zhaohui’s gaze flickered, saying, “I don’t really know much about that! Don’t worry about him, what kind of trauma could he suffer, he’s just of bad character!”
Tang Yu felt disappointed, not knowing after all.
Forget it, she thought, let it be. Anyway, she was planning to leave the country, so in the future even if Ye Sihan had an outburst, he wouldn’t be able to harm her.
However, she wasn’t prepared to disclose her plans to leave the country to Yu Zhaohui just yet.
Yu Zhaohui would definitely disagree.
But Tang Yu had her reasons for needing to do so.
It was just that she couldn’t help feeling guilty.
So she wanted to spend some quality time with her before going abroad.
“Want to eat something? I can make it for you.”
Yu Zhaohui laughed, “I don’t want anything, just having you here with Mom is enough. Knowing you were coming, Mom already instructed the kitchen to make your favorite dishes.”
“Are we having lunch here?” Tang Yu hadn’t planned on staying so long.
“Don’t be constrained, your Uncle Ye went to the company, it’s just the two of us at home.”
Tang Yu didn’t feel constrained, but not having her phone while being at Ye Xianghua’s home made her unease with the double mistake.
However, given that she would be leaving Kyoto in half a month, and it was very likely they would never see each other again in this lifetime, she did not refuse.
Tang Yu spent the morning chatting with Yu Zhaohui in her room.
After lunch, Yu Zhaohui still insisted that Tang Yu shouldn’t leave, asking who would leave right after eating.
Tang Yu had no choice but to sit on the sofa and watch some television programs with Yu Zhaohui.
As she watched, she grew a bit drowsy and accidentally fell asleep.
Yu Zhaohui looked at her sleeping daughter and couldn’t help but smile with resignation, “Still like a child.”
She picked up a blanket from nearby and gently covered her with it.
But her hand paused.
A small patch of purplish bruise was visible on the side of Tang Yu’s neck.
Yu Zhaohui thought she must have seen wrong and pulled open her daughter’s collar to find that it was indeed a bruised contusion.
How could there be a bruise on the back of the neck? Falling down couldn’t cause a bruise there, could it?
With confusion, she attempted to see if there were more elsewhere.
She pulled the collar down further, not to find purple but crimson.
Looking toward the chest, there were even more.
A dense scatter of them made Yu Zhaohui cry out in fright.
Tang Yu opened her eyes in confusion, “What’s wrong?”
“What… What’s happened to you?”
Tang Yu regained her senses, realized that her collar had been pulled open, and quickly gathered it and fastened the buttons, looking for an excuse, “I scratched myself.”
“Scratched? All over, and there are bruises?” Yu Zhaohui was so angry her chest heaved. “Who did this? I won’t let them off!”
“I’m fine.”
“Is it… Did Ye Sihan do this?” Seeing Tang Yu’s evasive expression, Yu Zhaohui guessed this possibility.
“Don’t ask,” Tang Yu stood up, “I’m going back now, you should rest well.”
“How can I rest when you are like this? Did this happen in bed?” Yu Zhaohui asked, though in her heart she had already confirmed it because even if it were a beating, it couldn’t leave such marks, “He’s a beast!”
Tang Yu bit her lip and said nothing.
Her eyes reddened, but she held back her tears.
“Had I not seen this, would you have just suffered in silence without saying a word?”
“What’s there to say? Can I resist?” Tang Yu retorted. “He holds tremendous power, killing me would be as easy as crushing an ant.”
“This can’t go on, how can you endure this? I must find a way,” Yu Zhaohui paced back and forth. “I’ll talk to your Uncle Ye, let him arrange a marriage for you. Why not marry Ye Yuli? Ye Yuli is his cousin; he surely won’t compete with his own family.”
“Please don’t!” Tang Yu was startled by her mother’s wild ideas, “I don’t want that either!”
What a joke? Marrying Ye Yuli would prevent Ye Sihan from assaulting her?
That wouldn’t happen!
It would only infuriate Ye Sihan even more!
She had already decided to leave in half a month, and she couldn’t afford any complications!
After all, if she was careful and endured this half a month, that would be enough…
“Listen to me, Ye Sihan is definitely not a good person. You can’t continue to be entangled with him; he will destroy you!” Yu Zhaohui continued to urge.
“I know what I’m doing, don’t worry. I’m heading back.” Tang Yu left the villa.
She didn’t dare to delay on the road, quickly hailed a cab and headed straight for the apartment complex.
Once inside the house and having her phone in hand, seeing that there were no messages from Ye Sihan, she breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did her mind find the space to be occupied by those distressing worries.
Yu Zhaohui could never understand her fear.
Only under Ye Sihan’s reign of control could she truly comprehend the helplessness of being trapped in Hell.
