One day was not enough, and the park closed soon. There were still many attractions they hadn't experienced, and the two children were reluctant to leave.
Jiang Nan Fang comforted them, "We'll come back tomorrow. You're all tired from running around all day, so let's go back and rest. Mommy promises to bring you here again tomorrow."
"But isn't Mommy in a hurry to deal with Grandma's matters?" Rui Rui looked at her understandingly.
"Not tomorrow. We'll go next time. When Mommy finishes handling everything and is in a good mood, we'll come. My sister and I aren't in a hurry, we can wait."
The younger sister also said to Jiang Nan Fang understandingly, "Yes, Mommy, we're not in a hurry. You and Daddy have things to take care of, you can bring us to play next time."
Jiang Nan Fang hugged the two children, touched. Zhan Bei Jue urged from the car.
"Let's go, long-term parking isn't allowed here. We can talk once we're in the car."
Jiang Nan Fang led them to the car, looking at them get in with immense affection.
"Mommy, aren't you coming back in the same car with us?"
Jiang Nan Fang really wanted to go back with the children, even spend the night with them.
However, she was really upset by Jiang Xing Chen today.
Moreover, Zhan Bei Jue might not want her to take the children away.
She didn't have the energy to argue with him, and she did need his help to look after the children.
"You go back with Daddy first. Mommy will call you tonight. Mommy promises you, after everything is settled, we'll never be separated again."
"Alright then." The two children waved goodbye to her reluctantly. "Goodbye Mommy, remember to miss us."
Taking a taxi back home, Jiang Nan Fang immediately opened her computer and searched for information about her mother's house online.
Unexpectedly, she actually found it.
The agent had listed it for 5.3 million yuan and posted exquisite photos on the real estate website.
Looking at the familiar pictures, her heart ached with a long-lost pain.
According to her mother, Jiang Nan Fang's maternal grandparents were professors of Chinese and Mathematics at Nancheng University.
From childhood to adulthood, she was a cherished treasure in her parents' hands.
Until she was twenty, her mother, in her sophomore year, met Jiang Zhen Jun, a senior two years her elder.
Jiang Zhen Jun came from a poor background but was handsome and eloquent.
Her mother fell in love with him at first sight, quickly falling into a relationship regardless of material conditions. Not long after, Jiang Nan Fang was conceived.
Knowing their daughter was pregnant before marriage, her maternal grandparents were furious in those times.
They demanded that her mother abort the child and return to her studies.
Her mother refused. Being in love, she moved with Jiang Zhen Jun into the house her parents had given her when she turned eighteen, choosing to sever ties with her parents to insist on giving birth to the child.
Unfortunately, this desperate commitment did not earn Jiang Zhen Jun's admiration; instead, it quickly made him lose interest.
By the time Jiang Nan Fang was two years old, her mother had found evidence of his infidelity.
Weak and foolish, she did not choose to break up but silently forgave him, which only led to Jiang Zhen Jun's escalating behavior.
From then on, there were constant affairs, and her mother would stumble upon him with other women every few days.
Finally, when Jiang Nan Fang was five years old, Jiang Zhen Jun's career advanced, and he changed his car and house. Her mother suffered from depression.
Jiang Zhen Jun completely detested her and openly moved Zeng Jia Hui, the mother of Jiang Xing Chen, into the new house.
Her mother watched them together, watched Zeng Jia Hui become pregnant, watched him give birth to Jiang Xing Chen.
Finally, when Jiang Nan Fang was seven years old, she chose to commit suicide.
She was so stupid. She thought that if she died, Jiang Zhen Jun would feel guilty and cherish her memory like a white moonlight, keeping her deep in his heart.
In reality, trash without humanity would not suddenly develop humanity.
Deep affection was worthless in their eyes; it was even treated as a joke.
Before her mother's seventh-day memorial, the two had already registered their marriage.
From then on, Jiang Nan Fang's nightmare began.
As a child, Jiang Nan Fang deeply resented her mother.
Weak and incompetent, she gave her life but not the means to live it.
She survived daily under Zeng Jia Hui's beatings and scolding, living a life worse than death.
When she was eight, Zeng Jia Hui became pregnant with their second child, and the whole family was happy.
Jiang Nan Fang, just in her second year of primary school, still had to wash clothes and cook for her after school. If anything displeased Zeng Jia Hui, she would be met with a beating.
One day, when Jiang Zhen Jun was not home, Jiang Nan Fang was kneeling on the second floor, scrubbing the stairs. Her stepmother walked past her and deliberately stepped on her fingers.
"Wipe it cleaner! Can't you see all this dust? Are you blind? You're like a pig all day, only knowing how to eat. You have such a long face when you're asked to do something. I can't stand looking at you!"
After speaking, she rolled her eyes, supported her waist, and swaggered downstairs to find something to eat.
Looking at her own purple-bruised fingers, and thinking of the grievances and torment she had endured for so many days, Jiang Nan Fang felt a surge of injustice and suddenly felt she could bear it no longer.
She didn't want to live anymore. Living was too tiring, no one loved her, no one cared for her, it was all so meaningless.
It was all this damned woman's fault! If she couldn't live well, then this woman shouldn't live well either! Before she died, she wouldn't care about anything else and would fight her!
So, without thinking, she turned around and kicked Zeng Jia Hui hard in the back, watching her tumble down the stairs.
As expected, Zeng Jia Hui miscarried.
Furthermore, because the fetus was relatively large, her uterus ruptured, and her uterus was removed, making her unable to bear children in the future.
Jiang Nan Fang would never forget how Jiang Zhen Jun that day was like a maddened lion.
When he returned home, without a word, he grabbed her hair and slammed her head against the kitchen wall.
Jiang Nan Fang immediately lost consciousness and fainted. When she woke up again, she was lying on the cold floor, and the house was empty.
Everyone had gone to the hospital to take care of Zeng Jia Hui; no one cared about her life or death.
Jiang Nan Fang, with a face full of blood, stumbled out of the house in a daze, wondering where she could end her life.
She happened to meet Grandpa Wang, who was returning from work.
Grandpa Wang was an old Chinese medicine doctor who had practiced medicine in his own clinic his entire life.
Having been neighbors with the Jiang family for over two years, he had some understanding of their situation.
Seeing that Jiang Nan Fang had been beaten again, and so severely, he took her to his home.
That day, Grandpa Wang told her, "As a person, you must know how to temper your sharpness and endure humiliation. You are living under someone else's roof now, so you must know how to read people's expressions and not talk back to adults.
"Endure patiently for a few years. When you turn eighteen, leave this house, and no one will be able to control you anymore. Then you will be completely free."
Thus, with his help, Jiang Nan Fang feigned a scar on her face and began to disguise herself day after day.
In one conflict, Zeng Jia Hui lost her uterus, and Jiang Nan Fang lost her beauty.
It could be considered revenge for her. Only then did the couple mercifully spare her life.
The painful memories surfaced like a horror movie.
Looking at the familiar house, Jiang Nan Fang trembled all over, her every cell filled with uncontrollable rage.
Now that she was fully capable of confronting them, why was she still waiting? Why not go back and question them directly?
She wanted to get an explanation from Jiang Zhen Jun. For her younger, ignorant self, and for her mother who loved him to death.
She wanted to avenge her mother. She couldn't wait another second.