After that incident, every time I saw my mother, I couldn't look her in the eye, because just looking at her would bring to mind the image of her enjoying herself that night.
Upon hearing Shang Yan's words, Yu Sheng hugged him even tighter.
Although she couldn't fully empathize with him, she could understand how he felt at the time.
What kind of damage is it to a six-year-old child who discovers his mother's infidelity and is forced to keep the secret under her threats?
He couldn't face his mother, felt betrayed by his father, and worried that his parents would divorce because of this, making him and his sister children from a single-parent family.
During that time, he must have felt helpless, fearful, and uneasy!
"In the end, my dad found out about my mom's affair with the driver. He couldn't stand it and filed for divorce. My mom thought I had told on her to my dad, so she came to confront me, hitting and yelling at me. In the end, she poked a cigarette butt at me..."
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng finally understood why Shang Yan didn't smoke and why he reprimanded Shang Yao in that way after she started smoking.
While others experience the pleasure of nicotine when they smoke, he feels no pleasure, only the burning pain of the hot cigarette butt scalding his skin!
Shang Yan's story weighed heavily on Yu Sheng's heart. She took a deep breath and said, "You were too young back then. When your mother hurt you, you didn't have the power to protect yourself. But now you're grown up, and you have the ability to protect the child inside you. So stop living in the past!"
Shang Yan wiped away her tears, stepped out of Yu Sheng's arms, looked at her, and asked, "And what about you? Do you live in the past, or in the present?"
Yu Sheng was speechless. After a moment of silence, she said, "I'm trying to live from the past to the present."
Shang Yan chuckled softly: "Very good!"
Seeing that Shang Yan's mood had calmed down, Yu Sheng sat back a little, creating some distance between them, and asked, "Are you... insisting on waiting for Shang Yao to come back before holding the wedding?"
Shang Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Waiting for Yao Yao to come back is just an excuse for me to postpone the wedding!"
"What? An excuse? Then why did you postpone the wedding?" Yu Sheng asked, puzzled.
Shang Yan's Adam's apple bobbed: "Because... I don't want to marry Li Susu!"
Yu Sheng got a little angry upon hearing this and blurted out without thinking, "If you don't want to marry Li Susu, then why..."
In the end, she realized she was implying criticism of Shang Yan, so she stopped talking.
She felt she had no right to criticize his private life.
Although Yu Sheng didn't finish speaking, it was clear what she was trying to say.
Shang Yan was secretly pleased to see that she was angry about that matter.
He chuckled and explained, "I didn't touch Li Susu."
Yu Sheng frowned: "You didn't touch Li Susu, so why is she pregnant? Did you two also do IVF?"
Shang Yan was completely amused by Yu Sheng, "We didn't do IVF, the truth is—she, is not, pregnant at all!"
Yu Sheng was puzzled. "Then why did she say she was pregnant?"
For a moment, Shang Yan didn't know how to reply to Yu Sheng. He lowered his eyes and thought for a while before saying, "Li Susu found out who the woman I like is, and she used this to threaten me into marrying her."
If I didn't agree, she would expose her name. I didn't want her life to be disrupted because of me, but I also didn't want to marry Li Susu so soon. So when Yaoyao told me she couldn't come back, I used this as an excuse..."
After hearing what Shang Yan said, Yu Sheng realized that she had been deceived by Li Susu again.
She never expected that the woman, who had the face of a well-bred lady, would be such a liar; it was a real shame she didn't become a novelist.
Yu Sheng felt somewhat guilty for misunderstanding that Shang Yan and Gu Ye were the same kind of people. "I apologize for what I just said."
Shang Yan said in a nonchalant tone, "You don't need to feel embarrassed. How could outsiders know about this kind of thing except for the parties involved?"
In Yu Sheng's eyes, Shang Yan was unfathomable and capable of solving any problem. She felt that he might have a backup plan, so she tentatively asked, "Is there no other way besides delaying?"
"You don't want me to marry her?"
"Of course not."
The moment those words left her mouth, Yu Sheng realized she had spoken too quickly. Fearing Shang Yan might misunderstand, she explained, "She's not pregnant with your child, and you don't like her. If you get married and live together, both of you will suffer. I know this all too well!"
Yu Sheng spoke the last sentence very softly.
Although Shang Yan knew about Gu Ye's two infidelities, she still felt embarrassed.
As for Yu Shangyan, regardless of Yu Sheng's reasons for not wanting him to marry Li Susu, he was happy to hear her say that. He pretended to be troubled and said, "Then... do you have any suggestions?"
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