CapĂtulo 1625: Chapter 1625: Fallen Young Lady vs Rising Mistress (Part 50)
An Yan, wearing makeup and feeling cheerful, returned home, only to see her daughter sitting on the sofa with red, swollen eyes, clearly having been crying.
She hurried over, her heart aching: âOh, Wenwen, whatâs wrong?â
She sat down beside her, about to reach out to touch her, but An Wen evaded her with a face full of disgust.
An Yan was taken aback: âWenwen⊠whatâs wrong with you?â
An Wen raised her head to look at the woman in front of her. At fifty, she maintained herself well, her skin still fair, wearing delicate makeup, but unable to hide the fine lines at the corners of her eyes and lips.
Her gaze appeared young, a look only possible from a life untouched by the hardships of time and existence.
An Wen used to be proud of her motherâs youth and beauty, thinking she looked better than her classmatesâ parents.
But now, looking at An Yan like this, she felt deeply irritable.
She spoke in a sharp tone: âAs a woman almost stepping into old age, dressing up so flamboyantly every day when you go out, is it to attract another wealthy man?â
An Yanâs gaze trembled. She looked at the daughter held dear in her heart, seemingly unable to imagine that she would say such words to her.
Actually, An Wen regretted it as soon as she said it.
But that bit of regret couldnât overcome the resentment in her heart.
She continued: âYou know what? Today, people pointed at me and scolded me, saying I was thrown out, saying Iâm a poor nobody pretending to be a wealthy familyâs daughter, saying Iâm a sparrow pretending to be a phoenixâŠâ
The more she spoke, the more agitated she became, and the tears she had managed to hold back flowed again.
An Wen nearly cried as she said: âWhy am I not Chong Minggangâs daughter? Since you were with Chong Minggang, why did you still have to find another man? Why did you give birth to me to suffer this fate? Why is someone else the noble daughter, while Iâm just a fatherless child enduring such humiliation?â
An Yan only felt a darkening before her eyes.
When she gave birth to An Wen back then, she couldnât deny a part of her wanted to use the child to force Chong Minggangâs hand.
But after all, the child was part of her, and she truly loved An Wen. Most of the money Chong Minggang gave her was spent on An Wen: sending her to expensive private schools, letting her learn piano and dance, taking her on holidays every yearâŠ
She had almost painstakingly, as much as possible, tried to let her daughter enjoy everything her peers could.
She never knew that in her daughterâs heart, she had always thought like this.
The daughter she held carefully in her heart, was this how she viewed her mother?
An Yanâs good mood for the entire day vanished without a trace.
She didnât even have the chance to tell An Wen that today she went out and, with great effort, gave a heavy gift to a Madam to secure a relaxed and decent job for An Wen.
A fierce argument broke out between the mother and daughter.
That very day, An Wen took her motherâs card, withdrew most of the money from it, and bought a ticket to fly to another city alone.
By the time An Yan found out, she couldnât even reach her daughterâs phoneâAn Wen had thrown it away.
Gu Shengyin and the system silently watched all of this.
She felt she had been quite foresightedâthere was no need for her to interfere; An Wen and An Yan, this mother and daughter pair, could turn a somewhat decent life into a complete mess on their own.