Chapter 92 Chapter 92 That Woman
After the proprietress left, Li Huanhuan looked inside the store a few more times.
Afterwards, Li Huanhuan became a little absent-minded, as if something was on his mind. The grilled fish was obviously very fragrant and tasted good, but she was just not in the mood.
Qin Shi saw her reaction but said nothing.
"Goodbye, sir. Welcome back next time." When it was time to pay the bill, the owner of the grilled fish restaurant stood at the door and saw the guests off with a smile.
Li Huanhuan followed Qin Shi towards the parking lot.
After walking about ten meters, she stopped and turned her head to look in the direction of the grilled fish restaurant.
"You knew that a long time ago?"
After returning to the car, Qin Shi did not drive immediately. Li Huanhuan sat in the passenger seat, looking in the direction of the grilled fish restaurant. It was hard to tell whether the expression on his face was anger or sadness.
She just asked him calmly.
Qin Shi touched his nose, feeling a little guilty and a little self-blaming: "Sorry, I found out about this by accident. I thought, maybe it should be up to you to decide."
Li Huanhuan clenched his hands gently on his knees.
"fine."
She looked in the direction of the grilled fish restaurant. "I just didn't expect to see her in this situation."
A large part of Li Huanhuan's later character formation and suspicion of love originated from her father's infidelity 18 years ago. Her father's infidelity shattered her happy childhood family.
Especially since it happened right after my father’s car accident.
Before she could figure out why he cheated on her, his life came to an abrupt end in a sudden car accident.
At that time, he and her mother Su Mei had not yet had time to go through the divorce procedures.
And the proprietress she met in the grilled fish restaurant today was the woman who had cheated with her father.
Once upon a time, Li Huanhuan hated and resented her, and wondered what kind of person she was who would make the decision to destroy someone else's family and insist on being with the other person even though she knew that the other person had a family?
That year, she was 8 years old, and she did have many dark thoughts in her mind, and she assumed the worst of others. In particular, I accidentally heard my mother Su Mei discussing women's matters with my grandmother.
Knowing that the other party had a son, he engaged in an improper job not far from her home. She was once pregnant with her father's child, but her father later paid to abort the child.
The father’s friends all knew about this but kept it a secret from the mother and daughter. Perhaps they wanted to persuade him to “be good” and “change his mind”, hoping that there would be a “day when the prodigal son returns”.
But in the end, all barriers were broken that night.
After all, they lived so close, and the father openly walked arm in arm with the woman near their home, making no attempt to hide it.
After the lie was exposed, my father no longer covered it up.
When his mother filed for divorce, he only hesitated for a moment and then chose his "true love".
Li Huanhuan clearly remembered what he said to her in person at her bedside on the night his parents decided to divorce and the night he moved out of the house.
He said they were true love.
She knew that he just wanted her to understand him, to find excuses for his cheating, and to forgive him for everything he had done.
Then she raised her arms and pressed them against her face, covering her eyes. She said that even if he and her mother were divorced, he was still her father. She hopes she can divorce her mother as soon as possible.
He believed it.
At that time, he kept saying "true love", but he had not yet made up his mind to divorce. In other words, he wanted to save his own face.
However, what he didn't know was that she was speaking sarcastically at the time.
How could he really understand the feelings of his 8-year-old daughter at that time? She said that even if they divorced, he would still be her father. But he didn't know that she said this at that time only because of the disgust and pain from the bottom of her heart. She just wanted him to leave quickly and just wanted to find a reason to make him disappear from her home and her life.
Because everything happened too suddenly and was too painful for the 8-year-old girl to bear. In the end, the only option is to escape.
I want him to go away, I want him to disappear from my sight, I don't want to see him in front of me.
Perhaps in this way, I can temporarily escape the truth of my father's infidelity and my parents' divorce.
She wanted a brief moment of peace.
I thought that everything happening before my eyes was just a dream, and as long as I had a good sleep, everything would return to normal.
My father didn't cheat on me, and my parents didn't divorce.
He said, okay.
But he didn't notice that her eyes, which were pressed under her arms, were already filled with tears. Maybe he saw it. At that time, he was an adult, her father who lived with her day and night, and she was just a child who could not hide...
How could he not notice that she was crying in front of him?
He just doesn't want to care and has no right to care.
A person who cares too much about his reputation, when the "scandal" is exposed, will desperately find excuses for himself. He lost his harmonious family, happy marriage, loving wife, well-behaved and sensible daughter, enviable happiness, stable life, and his own parents' misunderstanding and disappointment...
Because of cheating, he lost a lot.
So, he wanted to prove, use all his strength to prove, that he was not wrong, that he was not wrong in choosing that woman, and that he was deserted by everyone for "true love".
He tried his best to prove something, and even wanted his daughter, who once admired him but was deeply hurt by his cheating, to believe his absurd and ridiculous reason.
Li Huanhuan couldn't clearly explain what he was thinking at the time.
Because I once loved and admired deeply, when I am hurt, the pain is the deepest and most thorough.
Cheating is a matter between two people.
For a short time, she felt great hatred towards the woman who destroyed her family and "sought true love" with her father. But with the sudden death of her father, and as she grew up day by day...
The dark thoughts in my mind gradually dissipated.
Otherwise, some people say that time is the most terrifying existence in this world. It can make love lose its color and erase hatred.
1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years...
Until 18 years later.
Looking back at those things from the past across the long corridor of time, she still felt resentment and misunderstanding in her heart, but she could no longer feel the heart-wrenching suffocating feeling she had at that time.
All the pain, love and hate seem to be separated by a layer of gauze, and I feel as if I am looking back at someone else’s story.
She was 8 years old.
She is 26 years old.
It's the same person, but also two different people.
"I have seen her."
After a long time, Li Huanhuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, slowly spoke.
She looked in the direction of the grilled fish restaurant, her eyes calm and her voice a little hoarse: "When my father had a car accident, there was actually another woman in the car."
She wondered why they were in that car? What are we going to do together again?
Her father died despite failed rescue efforts.
The woman sitting in the passenger seat at the time injured her leg. Until now, my left leg is still disabled, and you can see the difference when I walk.
She was...
"I was—"
Li Huanhuan frowned and said, "It's just across the street."
She said it with some difficulty.
"I came back from school and saw a crowd of people at the intersection. I walked closer..."
Her hands, placed on her knees, were held.
Qin Shi looked at her worriedly and began to regret bringing her here. I originally wanted to untie her knot, but I didn't expect it would bring her even greater pain: "I'm sorry."
Li Huanhuan opened his mouth, but ultimately chose to remain silent, burying the car accident scene 18 years ago deep in his heart again.
Anyway, she saw the woman passed out in the passenger seat.
Even her mother didn't know about this.
Even though 18 years had passed, when she saw that face again, the memories of that year suddenly came to her mind. She immediately recognized the owner of the grilled fish restaurant, the woman who had cheated with her father.
"The person who inquired for information came back and said that she later got divorced."
Qin Shi looked at her and said, "The son was awarded to my ex-husband. Two years later, I met the owner of the grilled fish restaurant, and we got married and opened the grilled fish restaurant. Now we have a 10-year-old daughter."
Li Huanhuan's eyebrows moved slightly.
Qin Shi said: "It seems that her current family doesn't know about her past. Do you want to take revenge on her?"
Li Huanhuan lost her happy family, loving parents, and her father's life, and her childhood was severely traumatized. Logically speaking, she is qualified to take revenge on the woman.
Some mistakes cannot be forgotten once they are in the past.
Whenever someone is hurt, the victim has the right to retaliate.
Qin Shi knew the impact that his father's infidelity, his parents' divorce, and his father's death had had on Li Huanhuan. This influence did not begin to be rebuilt until the Qin Dynasty, when the "trust" that had been broken for 18 years began to be rebuilt.
Li Huanhuan looked towards the grilled fish restaurant not far away again.
It was just time to go home from school. A little girl, about 10 years old, wearing a blue school uniform, came to the door of the grilled fish restaurant with her schoolbag on her back and said something to the proprietress who was standing there. The proprietress smiled, reached out, took the schoolbag off the little girl's back, and wiped the sweat off her face.
The owner of the grilled fish restaurant also came out.
A family of three stood at the door, talking and laughing.
Li Huanhuan gradually became absent-minded.
"Let's go."
After a moment, she looked away.
"Why don't you go and tell them the truth?" Qin Shi asked.
Li Huanhuan shook his head.
She had said before that time is the biggest bug in the world. It has been 18 years since that incident. Even if she went there now and told her husband and daughter about the woman's past, what would that change?
Wouldn't her father have cheated on her?
Wouldn’t my parents have divorced? Would that car accident have happened and her father would not have died?
No, nothing can be changed.
On the contrary, it will only pass on the seeds of hatred. She has gradually learned to trust in love, found someone to accompany her for life, walked out of the shadow of that incident, and no longer wants to trap herself in the past or in hatred.
Besides...
"Besides, my childhood has been ruined by someone, how can I destroy another person's childhood with my own hands?" Li Huanhuan said.
"Li Huanhuan, I..." Qin Shi wanted to say something.
"fine."
Li Huanhuan stretched his body with his hands behind his back, turned his head and smiled at him, "I should thank you. Now that the incident has finally come to an end, I should move on."
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