Chapter 166 A Deep Sense of Powerlessness
Shu Wan’s eyes were red. Rather than questioning the couple, it would be better to say that she saw other people and things through them!
She had always wanted to ask her parents why they chose to abandon her. Was it because the family couldn’t afford food? Or was it because she was a girl! If there was a chance, Shu Wan really wanted to ask them, as well as her adoptive parents, why they treated her like that!
Her behavior obviously scared the middle-aged couple and Yu Jianning and their group. They didn’t know why Shu Wan was so angry!
Especially the middle-aged couple, who were frightened by Shu Wan's appearance and trembled all over, their limbs became weak, and even if they wanted to escape, they couldn't even get up.
"Reply... reply to the young lady..." The middle-aged man's hands were shaking as if he had Parkinson's disease. "We don't want to send Wuwa away, but the family can't afford to raise so many children... They are all starving to death. If this continues, they will starve to death sooner or later. So we can only... can only send her away. I hope that some kind-hearted person can take her in..." He spoke sincerely, as if he was extremely reluctant to make this decision. Sending Wuwa away would be like asking for his life.
But Shu Wan would not be fooled by his appearance. In her opinion, a father would never abandon his child under any circumstances. A man who could do such a thing was not worthy of being called a father, or even a human being!
"Is this the reason why you abandoned your child? What a grand excuse!" Shu Wan was so angry that he grabbed the man's neck. "So, we have to applaud and cheer for your action, right? Should we also give you a plaque with the words 'Father's love is as high as a mountain' on it, praising you for abandoning your daughter somewhere just to let her live a good life? Tell me, is that right?" Shu Wan could easily break his neck with just a little force.
"Miss Guan, please spare my life!" At this time, the couple kowtowed to Shu Wan with tears in their eyes. "We are really at our wits' end. If there is any other way, we will not abandon Wuwa. She is my flesh and blood. But, we can only blame her bad luck. Why did she have to be born a girl? If she was born a son, it would have been great!" The woman felt that if Wuwa was born a boy, they could not abandon her no matter what. She already had five daughters, and she could not let her husband's family line be cut off, so she had to give birth to a son.
And she also thought that if the baby was a girl, the family couldn't afford it and would have to give her away! This was Wu Wa's fate. She hoped Wu Wa wouldn't blame them. They really had no other choice. If the family was richer, Wu Wa could have been raised well by them.
Hearing this, Shu Wan looked at her and laughed, as if she had heard a huge joke, but tears immediately fell down her face. A series of low and hoarse laughs came from her throat, making everyone present feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
They really couldn't understand why Shu Wan, who had been pampered since childhood and raised like a jewel in the palm of her parents' hands, would show such a suffocating sense of despair! It was as if... the person who was abandoned today was not Shengnan, but... Shu Wan herself! This was a thought that suddenly popped up in the minds of everyone present, and then they rejected this idea. Shu Wan was the only daughter of the richest man in Blackwater City. She had gotten whatever she wanted since she was a child. How could she accept the slightest grievance! "Just because she is not a son, she was born a girl, is she destined to be abandoned?" Shu Wan looked at the woman and spoke word by word, "Is it her fault that she was born a girl? Are you telling me it's her fault? Tell me, why do you blame her for it?" To give birth to a son, she threw away her daughter. How ironic and ridiculous.
"It's not Wuwa's fault, it's not Wuwa's fault!" the woman burst into tears. "It's my fault, not hers. Blame me, it's all my fault. My stomach is not cooperating and can't give birth to a son. It's all my fault. If I had given birth to a son, she wouldn't have been abandoned. It's all my fault as a useless mother!" She cried and beat her stomach hard.
Shu Wan felt a deep sense of powerlessness in her heart. The bad habit of favoring sons over daughters was still very common in some remote mountainous areas even in the 21st century. What's more, in this era that was hundreds or thousands of years backward, people regarded giving birth to sons as their responsibility. If they couldn't give birth to a son, they would be sorry for the ancestors of their husband's family.
How could a woman's deeply rooted ideas be changed?
Shu Wan didn't want to ask her if her family had a fortune with no one to inherit, so she had to give birth to a son. She also didn't want to ask her if she couldn't afford to raise five children, but could she afford to raise a son? She didn't want to ask if she would end up like Shengnan if she gave birth to a daughter in the future, and if she couldn't give birth to a son, would she kowtow to her husband's ancestors and die?
"You belittle yourself!" Shu Wan let go of the middle-aged man, but looked at the woman, "You are a woman, but you look down on women like this. Who is right? A person who is used to kneeling would have been unable to stand up long ago, huh!" She turned around and moved slowly with her back to the couple.
The couple didn't dare to speak.
"Get out!" After a pause, Shu Wan continued, "Shengnan will follow me from now on. From now on, life or death, it has nothing to do with you. Get out before I change my mind." Otherwise, she was really afraid that she would not be able to control herself and kill the couple.
The couple looked at each other, and then after some discussion, they supported each other and ran away, crawling.
It’s so scary. If they don’t hurry up, Shu Wan might regret it and they won’t be able to leave.
Shu Wan panted heavily and climbed up the web step by step.
Yuwen Zhu wanted to call her and say something, but she really didn't know what to say.
Yu Jianning was also at a loss. He had never seen Shu Wan so fragile, like a porcelain doll, who would break into pieces with just a slight touch. He didn't know what to do now! Shu Wan seemed to have lost all his strength. He pulled the handrail with both hands to prevent himself from falling to the ground.
(End of this chapter)
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