Happy Divorce Chapter 3 (Part 3)
Happy Divorce Chapter 3 (Part 3) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
Why... after two years, why did she no longer look like herself when she saw him? Why did she still care so much about what he said?
Su Manlu clenched her fists in annoyance. This anger was directed at herself. She almost wanted to smash everything in the room if she didn’t have a trace of reason left.
Biting her lip hard, she closed her eyes, trying her best to suppress the restlessness in her heart, not letting herself think about that man anymore, not letting him affect her emotions anymore.
After a long time, her opened black pupils finally returned to calmness, with a hint of coldness.
Yan Feixi... She knew this would never be the last time she saw him. From the look in his eyes, she knew clearly he would appear in front of her again.
Hmph. Su Manlu curled her lips coldly.
It didn’t matter. She was not afraid of him looking for trouble. She was no longer the Su Manlu who always tried to please him. She secretly swore in her heart——
If he dared to continue to appear in front of her, she, Su Manlu, would never make it easy for him!
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Yan Feixi did appear in front of Su Manlu on purpose. When he knew that Tang Yinfeng had gone to Nanxi City to discuss business with the Su family and had arranged to meet at Taozhen Tower, he still showed up despite knowing that Su Manlu didn’t like to see him.
Hearing all kinds of rumors about her, he became curious about her, but most importantly, he wanted to make it up to her. (tenderflower: our well water doesn’t mix with river water so just stay away from her.🙃)
These days, he couldn’t help but think about that time and the cruel words he said to her. When he left the Yan family, he even went to the brothel to take Lan’er away.
He knew how much embarrassment his actions brought to her. Because of him, she became a joke among people in Beiyang City. He had never thought about her reputation.
At that time, he just wanted to take revenge on the old man, but she became the victim.
Back then, he was full of resentment. He felt that it was unfair to his mother, who died young, so he always opposed the old man just to prevent him from having an easy life.
Back then, as the daughter of a tribal leader of the Nanyi ethnic group, Mother Yan didn’t care that Father Yan was just a poor boy in a declining family. She ran away with Father Yan regardless of her parents’ objections and worked hard to help Father Yan run the family. The couple worked hard together to bring the declining Yan family back to life, and they became famous wealthy merchants in the north.
When Mother Yan felt happy in life, Father Yan suddenly said one day that he wanted to marry a second wife, which shocked her. At this moment, she found out that her husband had already had a woman outside, and that woman had already given birth to a boy for him, who was already seven years old.
Mother Yan was hit hard by this incident. She couldn’t believe that her husband, who promised to love her forever and only have her as his wife in this life, would betray her, but the fact was right in front of her, and she had to believe it.
Mother Yan, who had a fierce personality, could not forgive her husband and took five-year-old Yan Feixi to live in a remote courtyard. From then on, she lived alone and never saw Yan’s father again.
And Yan Feixi also changed from the eldest young master of the Yan family to the second young master the day the second wife came in. From that day on, his life changed.
He watched his mother, who had always been cheerful and strong, shed tears daily, and cursed his father’s heartlessness. He saw his father’s ruthlessness towards his mother——after his mother moved into another courtyard, he never visited his mother in the other courtyard, and even shortly after marrying his second wife, he quickly took in several more concubines.
Such a father made his mother feel disheartened, and she became much older in just a few years. In the end, she could not bear the torture in her heart and died of illness.
When his mother was sick and cried out his father’s name, his father was lying on the belly of a concubine. He cried and ran out of the courtyard to ask his father to see his mother for the last time, but the servants blocked him. It was not until the morning that the man he called father appeared, but it was too late. His mother had already left.
From then on, he hated his father, began to oppose him, and did not obey his father’s wishes.
His father wanted him to marry the daughter of the Su family, but he refused to do so. However, his father used his mother to force him, saying that the marriage was agreed between his mother and someone. Did he not want his deceased mother to rest in peace?
He knew his father’s purpose. Wasn’t he just taking a fancy to the Su family’s wealth and influence in the South and wanting to use this marriage to let the Su family help the Yan family develop in the South?
He wanted to destroy his father’s plan, but his father forced him using his dead mother, so he had to marry Su Manlu.
He put the hatred of being forced on Su Manlu. Knowing his father loved her, he treated her badly, neglected her, and put her in an embarrassing situation in the Yan Mansion.
He knew she loved him, but he was disdainful of her love and even found it ridiculous.
What did she love about him? The two of them have never met each other. Where did her love come from? Did she love his good-looking face, or did she think she should obey her husband when she married him?
But no matter what it was, he didn’t care. He just wanted to turn the Yan family upside down and make his father miserable.
At that time, revenge consumed him. A year into their marriage, he announced his desire to take a brothel dancer as a concubine. His father strongly opposed, but he was unconcerned. Instead, he deliberately made the matter worse and finally left Beiyang City with Lan’er.
Lan’er was surely his beloved, but he had no intentions of marrying her. Everything was merely pretense. While he genuinely saved Lan’er’s life, the elopement was a fabrication.
He just left the north and wandered around. He did not take a single piece of the Yan family’s wealth when he departed.
No one knew his mother had saved several boxes of gold and silver in the bank and bought several pieces of land in Beiyang City. These were all prepared for him. On her deathbed, she instructed him not to touch the money until he turned 20
The property left by his mother was enough to keep him clothed and fed for three lifetimes. She seemed to know he would leave the Yan family sooner or later.
Upon deciding to leave the Yan family, he resolved not to return and chose to forget about Su Manlu.
It wasn’t until recently that he thought of her, saw her, and realized what he had done to her, and then understood how much he owed her.
He wanted to make it up to her, really. Today at Taozhen Tower, he truly wanted to apologize for what happened back then, but she ignored him.
Then... somehow, he started to provoke her.
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