I hate it.
Anhe's face turned deathly pale, and she nearly fell. Lian Han quickly helped her up, but Anhe pushed her away, looking at her with hatred, "Get away!"
She had always known her mother disliked them, but she never imagined it was hatred. Even knowing it had nothing to do with Lian Han, she couldn't help but feel resentment. A voice inside her told her that Lian Han had stolen her mother away! It was all her fault!
"Anhe Lance!"
Shen Sihan's expression finally changed, and she said sternly, "Do you know that I'm the one who caused her mother to leave for another place? She's taking the blame for me!"
Upon hearing this, both An He and Lian Han were stunned. Should they take the blame for her?
Shen Sihan wasn't about to stop there. "Do you even know why Xiaohan contacted you to find a mecha pilot partner? It's because she wants you to learn together!"
Anhe was stunned. If what she said was true, then—
She wouldn't allow anything that could potentially threaten Lian Han to exist, not even her daughter. Shen Sihan pulled Lian Han behind her, "Let's just get this straight today. Anhe, I hate your whole family, do you know why?"
Anhe shook her head. How could she know? Her mother was indifferent by nature, and her father was melancholic and sentimental, but why was this the case? No one had ever told her or her brother.
Shen Sihan took a deep breath. "Her mother and I are best friends. We agreed that she would repair mechs and I would learn mech making. We would be partners and the best mech pilot duo. But things changed after we met your father—I don't know what he liked about me, but I don't like him. Roy Lance, the most talented card maker at the Card Making Academy, is almost as popular as the current eldest daughter of the Ruan family. But he's not my type, and I clearly rejected his confession."
"He disappeared from my sight for two or three months after that, but I didn't think much of it. I saw him again with Xiaohan's mother, and the way she looked at Roy Lance was exactly the same way Roy Lance looked at me. That day I pinned Roy Lance to the ground and beat him up. But do you know what he said? I've remembered those words from over twenty years ago."
"Sihan, you don't like me, but someone else really likes me. If you can't be with me, I'll just be with Shen Xinya. Even though I don't like her, her looks—she's a real stunner if she can get someone into bed. Isn't she arrogant? I'll post those photos on the school forum and see how arrogant she can stay that way!"
Anhe shook her head, "No. Father wouldn't do that..."
"Really not?" Shen Sihan sneered. "Anhe Lance, you don't even believe that yourself, do you?"
Anhe's face turned ashen. Her father, looking at the refined and gentle head of the Lance family, was a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
“You all know that I stole the person Xiaohan’s mother liked. She challenged me to a mecha battle. But do you know that she tampered with her own mecha? The mecha was destroyed halfway through the battle. It was a mecha that we assembled together. I know how indestructible it was. She destroyed the mecha, lost her sister and the person she liked, and just left like that.”
Shen Sihan's voice trembled as she spoke, "The Shen sisters, the twin stars of Diluo, have turned against each other like this, never to see each other again—if they really never associate with each other again, I'll accept it, but her, she..."
Lian Han pursed his lips and helped her sit down.
After calming herself down, Shen Sihan continued, "She had just given birth to Xiaohan and knew I was in danger, so she went to find me. Even though she always thought I had turned against her for a man, she still went, even knowing that her chances of survival were slim, even knowing that she might never come back. And then—she really didn't come back."
She was such a detached person, yet she was overcome with grief when this matter was mentioned.
“Anhe Lance, shouldn’t I hate you?”
Anhe slumped down, "I don't know, I don't know!"
Her father might lie to her, but her mother would never. Shen Sihan disdained lying. Someone like her, who wouldn't even exchange a few polite words with her father at an event to save face for them, would never lie to her.
Shen Sihan grasped Lian Han's hand. "His wife is gone, and her father was devastated for a long time because of it. Otherwise, how could those collateral branches of the Ling family have had the opportunity to cause all that trouble, leaving this child to wander outside at such a young age?"
At this point, Shen Sihan's voice turned cold, "What's wrong with teaching her how to make armor? Even if she hates me and wants my life, I'd be happy to hand her a knife!"
Shen Sihan looked at Lian Han, "Are you—going to kill me?"
"I want it," Lian Han said softly, looking at her.
Shen Sihan said calmly, "This afternoon I went to the official armor-making workshop on Bishui Star to research mecha. Tomorrow we'll hear that Madam Shen died in a laboratory explosion. I haven't touched armor-making for years, so it's not impossible that I might blow myself up on a whim. No need to dirty your hands."
Anhe panicked, "No. You can't do this, you..."
“I want you to live—until my mother returns and I explain everything to her. Only she has the right to make that decision.” Lian Han paused, “But before that, I want to call you Aunt Chen.”
Shen Sihan was taken aback, then smiled and said, "I'm already content that you don't blame me."
“I have never met my mother, and I don’t know what she is like, but you really want to treat me well.”
"She likes girls, so she'll only treat you better."
Seeing the two of them enjoying themselves so much, Anhe's eyes welled up with tears. "Then what are my brother and me?"
The father resorted to any means necessary, but what wrong did they do?
“Anhe and her…”
“Xiao Han, you don’t need to worry about it.” Shen Sihan looked at her daughter. “Amber Lance is not my biological son. He is the child of your father’s mistress and is raised under my name. The Lance family will not die out, so I have nothing to say.”
What? Both of them were stunned. Amber Lance, the eldest son of the Lance family and the future heir, was born to a lover?
He was only a year younger than Shen Sihan when she married into the Lance family! Roy Lance went to great lengths to marry, only to find himself with his lover?
Anhe's face turned even more ashen; was her brother not her mother's biological son?
Looking back now, I'm shocked and saddened, but it doesn't seem outrageous. No wonder my brother respected our mother but wasn't close to her; did he already know all along?
"As for you, Anhe Lance—that was an accident. Your father's touch only disgusted me. If it weren't for the innocence of the child..."
Could it be that she no longer exists?
“So I’ve always seen your family as…” Lian Han tugged at Shen Sihan’s hand, not wanting her to upset An He any further, so Shen Sihan changed her words, “I’ve never been close to you. But Xiao Han wants you to come with me, and I’m willing to. But it’s up to you how you feel about it.”
"Go back and think about it."
Upon hearing this, Anhe felt as if he had been granted a pardon and fled in panic.
Lian Han frowned as he looked at Chen Sihan, "Don't you think..."
"Was my tone too harsh?"
"If you know something is impossible, don't give others hope."
However, if An He hadn't developed hostility towards Lian Han, Shen Sihan might not have made a decision so soon...
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