"Nothing. I just want to ask for the address of Doctor Qin's home. We live in the same housing estate and there will definitely be times when we talk to each other again. So I want to ask what's wrong?" Han Rou said innocently.
"Ask what's wrong?" Han Shuo sneered, "Why are you so shameless? Can't you see that others don't want to pay attention to you? Why do you still want to get close to them?"
"Don't want to pay attention to me? I can't tell." Han Rou shrugged indifferently.
Han Shuo looked at Han Rou with deep sorrow: "Why have you become like this now?"
"How have I changed? I've always been like this!" Han Rou looked straight into Han Shuo's eyes without flinching. "But you've changed in every way! Ever since I came to the Great Northern Wilderness, no matter what I do, you're never satisfied! You always have to lecture me! Am I your sister? Or your enemy?"
"When did I regard you as my enemy?" Han Shuo was completely stunned by her accusation.
"If you don't consider me an enemy, why do you have such a sullen face on my wedding day?" Han Rou felt wronged when she mentioned this. "You didn't try to hide it at all. Even a dull-witted and uncouth Xiong Xiangzhong noticed it and asked me several times if you were unhappy with this marriage."
"You know, you know. I've always been dissatisfied with this marriage!" Han Shuo paused and added two more words: "Extremely!"
"I am extremely dissatisfied with this marriage!"
Han Rou turned her head away, avoiding Han Shuo's angry gaze, and said with her neck stiff, "It was me who decided to marry him. As long as I'm satisfied, that's all."
"What are you satisfied with about him?" Han Shuo didn't understand. "Are you satisfied that he's more than ten years older than you? Are you satisfied that he was married before, his wife died, and he still has a three-year-old child?"
"Are you unable to get married or what? You've only known him for a few days? Do you understand him? Do you really have to marry this divorced widower who's a dozen years older than you? And become a stepmother to someone else's child?"
Han Rou remained indifferent and said, "I do."
Han Shuo was so angry that the veins on his forehead throbbed. He glared at her with gritted teeth: "I think you are crazy!"
"I'm sober." Han Rou refused to give in.
"You! You!" Han Shuo pointed at Han Rou's nose, his whole body trembling with anger, and his eyes gradually turned red.
When his mother was dying, he promised her that he would take good care of his sister. But now he can only watch his sister become confused and he has no way to help her.
Seeing Han Shuo was truly furious, Han Rou couldn't help but soften her tone and advised him, "Now that things have come to this, brother, why can't you just give me your blessing? Xiong Xiangzhong isn't as bad as you think. He promised me that after we get married, he'd let me manage the accounts. From now on, he'll be in charge of the outside affairs, and I'll be in charge of the inside affairs. I won't have to work, I just need to take care of the family. I won't suffer if I follow him."
"Will you suffer if I follow you?"
Han Rou shook her head and said frankly, "Brother, you're kind to me, but life in the company is just too hard. I don't want to face the endless farm work, the endless weeding, and the endless manure."
Han Shuo didn't expect Han Rou to be so careless.
Just because she didn't want to work, she got married rashly.
He was heartbroken: "But I promised you a long time ago that I would find a way to send you back to the city. Why didn't you believe me?"
"I believe it." Han Rou smiled, "But I can't wait any longer. I don't want to live even one more day without hope."
"You'll regret this later."
Han Rou shook her head and said, "Brother, you may not know this, but Xiong Xiangzhong is the deputy head of the group, earning 150 yuan a month, which is more than my father, who's in his forties. Even if I could return to the city in the future, do you think I could find someone who earns more than him?"
"So, brother, I won't regret it. Marrying him is the best choice I've made at this stage."
Han Shuo fell silent.
He spoke in a low voice for a long time before finally speaking with difficulty: "Do you love him?"
Han Rou looked surprised. "Brother, after seeing what happened to Mom, how could you still believe that love exists in this world?"
Han Shuo was silent again, and after a long while he said, "I believe that people like my father are only a very small minority."
"Ha." Han Rou no longer knew how to describe his brother as naive or ridiculous.
"Brother, you are such a contradictory person."
Despise it, yet believe it at the same time.
Han Shuo: "What about you? Don't you hate being a stepmother? Why do you want to be one now? Aren't your words and actions contradictory?"
"There's no contradiction." Han Rou said frankly, "Qingqing's mother died of a dystocia. It has nothing to do with me. I'm her legal stepmother. No one can say I'm wrong. Is she Gu Tingyu?"
"When she was pregnant with Dad's first child, Mom was still alive! Is she honest? Is she innocent? Is she legal?"
Han Rou sneered: "If she hadn't given birth to that child, I would have sued them for adultery!"
Han Shuo shook his head helplessly: "You."
Han Rou suddenly stepped forward, took Han Shuo's arm, and put on an ingratiating smile. "Hey, brother, don't be so sullen. Xiong Xiangzhong and I have already obtained the marriage certificate. It's a military marriage protected by law. If you insist on opposing it, you will destroy the military marriage. So, please, just accept him."
"Brother, I know you are worried that I will not be happy in the future. I will use time to prove to you that your worries are unnecessary."
"Believe me, I will live a happy life."
Han Rou took Han Shuo's hand and shook it like a spoiled child.
Han Shuo glanced at her lightly and snorted coldly, "If you use the same tricks you used on me on other men, who would marry you and be able to live happily?"
Han Rou smiled slyly and winked at him: "Brother, you are not angry with me now, right?"
Han Shuo shook her hand away and turned back: "No."
"What does 'no' mean?" Han Rou asked after him, "Does it mean you're not angry anymore, or are you angry?"
Han Shuo said nothing and closed his eyes in pain.
He still couldn't accept that the innocent and kind sister he saw had become like this...
Han Shuo didn't want to use the word "profit-seeking" to describe her, but her actions were undoubtedly moving towards that.
He didn't know what went wrong.
He felt sorry for his mother who died unjustly.
He promised to take care of his sister, but he didn't teach her...
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