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Chapter 1200 - 1214: Is the Time Ripe?
With his hands clenched tightly into fists in mid-air, An Youcai turned his head under An Ran’s cold gaze, feeling uneasy as he said, "Ran, you’ve been to that place, you’ve seen it too. It’s been twenty years, a full twenty years, and that place is still poor and desolate. You can imagine what it was like twenty years ago.I spent five whole years there, threw the best five years of my life into such a place. But I’m grateful for meeting your mother; I truly love your mother. Because I love her, I didn’t want her to keep suffering in such a place. I used every means to return to the city, just to live better with you all.
You don’t know your mother’s situation at the time. With her conditions, it wasn’t possible for her to quickly return to the city. Back then, I thought I’d return first, and when the time was right, I’d come back for you and your mother. I just never imagined that something would go wrong when she gave birth to you."
"Enough," An Ran interrupted An Youcai. "The time was right? What does it mean, ’when the time was right’? When you were stable in the city and divorced Sun Xuehui? Or when your children were delighted at your feet?"
If he hadn’t visited Qingfeng Town, if he hadn’t met Grandma Li, perhaps An Ran would never have known An Youcai had such a shameless side.
If he had been focused on returning to bring his wife and daughter back, then how does he explain Sun Xuehui? How does he explain An Sijia, who’s just a year younger than her?
Grandma Li once said that An Youcai wanted to use her mother’s family background to return to the city, but when something happened with her mother’s family, An Youcai lost hope, and that’s when he abandoned her mother to be with Sun Xuehui.
Now he still dares to say he loves her mother. She would rather her mother never received his love.
If she hadn’t known that her mother dragged herself through life in that place while pregnant for months, if she hadn’t known this unbearable side of An Youcai, perhaps considering the fifteen years of upbringing, An Ran might have felt grateful to An Youcai.
Now, there’s no excuse left for her to forgive this biological father standing before her.
"Ran, Dad is sorry to you. I don’t even have the face to call myself your father anymore. Hate me if you want, blame me if you want, it’s all the sin I’ve committed alone. I beg you, in front of the Shen Family, keep this hidden for Dad. If they find out, the whole An Family is finished. Just for the sake of the sibling bond you’ve shared with Chengcheng for so many years, okay? No matter how unkind the family has been to you, Chengcheng is still very respectful to you, his sister. He’s still in high school now, about to take the college entrance exam, and I can’t ruin my child’s future."
An Ran turned away in despair. At this moment, An Youcai was still considering the An Family, considering Sun Xuehui and her child. If he hadn’t treated her like this back then, she could have applauded his sense of responsibility.
"An Youcai, I don’t have a biological father. Aunt Xia said my biological father is already dead."
An Youcai looked at her slender but resolute back, reaching out to clutch his abdomen, sweat of pain sliding down his forehead.
He knew that An Ran wouldn’t mention his existence to the Shen Family, and he’d forever lost this daughter.
An Ran returned to the hospital again, but did not see Zhu Pengfei at the Chinese medicine department; Shen Qi was the one watching the medicine brewing machine.
She greeted her and casually asked, "Where’s Zhu Pengfei, that rascal?"
Could it be he really went to get a Chinese medicine doctor to prescribe medicine for her? If so, she really should thank his ancestors from eight generations ago.