Xiaohua didn't even glance at him, too lazy to pay him any attention.
“But my maternal grandparents and my aunt said, ‘This is my father.’”
Kang An continued to ask, puzzled.
Xiaohua said coldly and without any emotion, "They're talking nonsense."
He Yan's eyes were like knives, as if he wanted to stare right through Ye Xiaohua.
"Mom, who is my dad? Why do all the other kids have dads, but I don't? Why is that?"
Xiaohua patted the child's head, thought for a moment, and said, "Some children have both a father and a mother, some children only have a father and no mother, and some children only have a mother and no father. You are a child who only has a mother and no father, so Mommy will love you even more. You see, Mommy will give you two gifts on your birthday because Mommy wants to give you double the love. You get double the happiness from Mommy. It's enough to have someone who truly loves you. Baby, Mommy has always taught you not to be too greedy and to learn to be content with what you have."
Xiaohua never liked those so-called white lies, not even to children. She had a colleague in that era who gave birth out of wedlock and had a daughter through IVF on her own.
When the daughter asked her mother for her father, her mother directly said that she didn't have a father. The child said that everyone has a father, so why didn't she? Her mother then said that children in orphanages don't have fathers or mothers. She said that besides not having a father, she also has a mother and maternal grandparents.
Not everyone in this world needs to have certain things. Some people will never have certain things in their lives. We should learn to accept this with equanimity rather than forcing it.
Xiaohua felt that there was nothing wrong with telling the child this way. It was better than lying to her all along. When the child grew up and finally understood, she would realize, "Oh, so my mother has been lying to me all along." Wouldn't that be even harder for her to accept? She would not only have to accept the fact that she didn't have a father, but also the fact that her mother had been deceiving her all along. She would also have to completely dismantle the image of the father that she had been imagining in her mind for so long, and tell herself, "You don't have a father. The person you've been imagining in your mind has never existed."
He Yan listened to the conversation between Xiao Hua and her mother and felt like he was about to be driven to death by her. What did she mean by saying that you don't have a father and you only have a mother? What, is her father dead?
“The hatred between adults should not harm children. Ye Xiaohua, is this how you educate your child? Instilling hatred in him. Since you can’t educate your child, give him to me. I will give you a sum of money that will be enough for you to live a worry-free life for the rest of your days.”
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