Tian Huanyan's gaze was fixed on the man rushing towards her. The marks of time were clearly visible on him; he looked much more weathered.
She had heard about his being sent to the countryside before she returned to China.
Those were her grandmother's neighbors. In the second year after the resumption of the college entrance examination, out of fear that the turbulent years would repeat themselves, the whole family moved abroad.
By sheer coincidence, the two families happened to live in the same place and met by chance during an outing.
The two families sat together and chatted for a long time. Only then did she learn what had happened in the country during those turbulent ten years.
When Tian Huanyan discovered she was pregnant, she nervously confessed to her parents. To her surprise, they did not blame her.
After all, they greatly admired Huo Xueshen and genuinely felt that he was a good son-in-law candidate.
Huo Xueshen was focused on his studies and had no time to go out. Even when invited to his home for a meal, he would always find various excuses to decline.
They treated their daughter with indifference, leading me to believe the relationship was over.
Unexpectedly, the daughter secretly did something big, which created an inseparable bond between the two who seemed to have no future.
Having a child naturally leads one to go back to find the child's father.
Three months after Tian Huanyan became pregnant, the family of three embarked on their journey back to China.
Back in China, Tian Huanyan's health deteriorated rapidly. Doctors advised her to rest and avoid moving around. Helpless, she could only lie in bed all day until her child was safely born.
For the sake of her child, Tian Huanyan had to temporarily put aside her plan to go find Huo Xueshen.
After a long and arduous wait, her child was finally born, but in the middle of the night, the baby was stolen.
The moment the child was stolen, Tian Huanyan's mind was filled with the child's safety, and she had long forgotten about Huo Xueshen.
After that, she and her parents embarked on a long search for their son in Shenzhen, but after several years, they still found nothing.
The thought of her child, whom she had carried for ten months and given birth to, without even having a chance to see him, caused Tian Huanyan a heart-wrenching pain.
Countless times she wondered in her heart whether he was doing well after being adopted, whether he had food to eat, and whether he had warm clothes to wear when it got cold.
Whenever she thought of these things, her eyes would well up with tears, and she would feel guilty, blaming herself for not being able to protect him and giving bad people an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Huo Xueshen strode closer and saw that Tian Huanyan's eyes were red and her expression was full of heartache. He frowned and said softly, "I'm not crying, why are you crying?"
Looking back on her youth, she had achieved some academic success, but in front of Tian Huanyan, she was like a clueless fool, completely unaware that she had been deceived.
What made it even harder for him to let go was that he learned the truth from someone else. The thought of this made him furious. After discovering that he had been deceived, he couldn't find her anywhere, and this anger only intensified.
Tian Huanyan rolled her eyes at him, her tone tinged with annoyance: "What do you have to cry about?"
This man is just as clueless about romance as he was in his youth. Talking to him is like talking to a brick wall; he has absolutely no idea how to consider a woman's feelings.
If she hadn't taken the initiative, someone like him who only knew how to bury himself in books probably would never have been able to get married, let alone have children.
"I..." Huo Xueshen spoke slowly, and was interrupted by Tian Huanyan as soon as he uttered the word "I".
"You went back to China, endured a few years of hardship in the countryside, and then comfortably stayed in the research institute. What do you want to cry about? Crying about your monotonous and boring life, nothing but research projects?"
Unlike her, who spent over thirty years living in fear and anxiety after losing her child.
Huo Xueshen: "..."
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