Chapter 112 An Inadequate Wife and Mother
Wen Yu is usually very busy with work and rarely comes home, but since Xia Zhen recently moved in, she still tries to make time to go home.
When she returned home with food, it was already past 7 p.m. When she opened the door, she saw her daughter standing there, looking somewhat flustered.
Xia Zhen asked obediently, "Mom, didn't you say you were very busy and wouldn't be coming back today?"
"I finished all my scenes in one take this afternoon, so I left work early." Wen Yu put a bag of food into Xia Zhen's hands. "You haven't had dinner yet, have you? This is food I ordered from the hotel."
Xia Zhen managed a weak smile. "Thank you, Mom."
"Put your things away first, I'll go to the kitchen to get chopsticks." Wen Yu walked towards the kitchen.
Xia Zhen quickly stopped her, "Mom, wait!"
But she was too late. Wen Yu pushed open the kitchen door and saw a mess in the kitchen, with cream scattered everywhere and a cake base that was neither pretty nor fluffy.
Wen Yu turned around and smiled, "Zhenzhen, your father and I celebrated our birthdays a long time ago."
Xia Zhen said, "It's my mother..."
Mother's Day and Father's Day have long passed.
"That's...that's..."
Is it the Torch Festival, the Qixi Festival, or the Ghost Festival?
In the last two months, there have only been a few holidays.
Xia Zhen gave a dry laugh. "Would you believe me, Mom, if I said I was preparing for next year's Mother's Day?"
What do you think?
That's obviously because they don't believe it.
The table was set with exquisite dishes prepared by the hotel chef, but the people sitting at the table remained silent, facing each other, without even touching their chopsticks.
Xia Zhen nervously fiddled with the hem of her skirt. If her father found out she was secretly making cakes, she could still be confident in fooling him, since he was a straight man with negative emotional intelligence. But her mother was a different story.
Wen Yu stared at Xia Zhen for a while before she smiled and said, "I have someone I like."
It's not a question, it's an affirmative statement.
Xia Zhen reluctantly gave up resisting, "Mm."
"You don't want your father to know? It seems that the boy has some flaw that your father would consider a defect—is it his family background, character, or education?"
Seeing Xia Zhen remain silent, Wen Yu continued, "If it's about family background, you could have made a scene and threatened suicide. As an only child, it wouldn't have been impossible for your father to compromise and have someone marry into his family. So it has nothing to do with family background. If it were about character and education, you wouldn't have chosen someone like that."
Wen Yu rested her chin on her hand. "So, it's that boy who has a physical defect."
Xia Zhen looked up in surprise. Her mother was too perceptive!
I was right.
Wen Yu smiled. "Is he terminally ill? Or is he missing an arm or a leg?"
Xia Zhen frowned, "No!"
"You're so excited, it seems you're serious." Wen Yu sat up straight and looked carefully at her daughter. When Xia Zhen was two years old, she divorced Xia Yu and left the Xia family. Although she had kept in touch with Xia Zhen afterward, she spent far less time with Xia Zhen than with Xia Yu.
The little girl who cried and begged her not to leave back then is now of dating age.
This was the first time Wen Yu had a feeling that he was getting old.
Xia Zhen pursed her lips and spoke solemnly, "Mom, he is a very good person. Yes, he does have some health problems, but it's not his fault. Also, I was the one who pursued him first, forcing him to leave my shadow in his life."
Wen Yu also suppressed her smile. "Although I really want to say that you are still young and not mature enough in making decisions, and that you should consider things carefully, considering that I haven't really taken care of you over the years, I don't seem to have the right to say that to you."
Xia Zhen asked in surprise, "Won't Mom object to me being with him?"
“I didn’t say that. You’re all grown up now, and you can make your own decisions about many things. Even if your decision is wrong, you have the right to try and fail. But you should tell me something about him. What exactly is wrong with him?”
Xia Zhen hesitated for a moment. She wasn't sure if her mother would ally with her father. If it was albinism, that would be too obvious. So she said tactfully, "We've agreed that we won't have any more children."
Wen Yu was stunned for a moment, which was rare for her. How old was she? And they were already discussing whether or not to have children. Then, her expression changed. "You've tried, and that boy isn't good?"
"No!" Xia Zhen covered her face. "We're so young, we've never tried it! And judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem like... unable to do it."
Wen Yu stroked his chin and nodded. "It seems he has a hereditary disease."
Xia Zhen was shocked. Afraid that her mother would find out everything if she kept guessing, she hurriedly said, "That's right, we won't have any more children, but Dad and Mom won't agree, will they?"
"Who says I won't agree?"
"ah?"
Wen Yu: "Don't you know how painful childbirth is?"
Xia Zhen nodded absentmindedly; she truly didn't know.
Wen Yu took a sip of water, breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly said, "That's even more painful than being constipated for ten years and then suddenly passing out ten years' worth of accumulated waste in one night."
Xia Zhen's face remained blank. "Are you trying to say that giving birth to me felt like being constipated?"
Wen Yu did not answer the question. She smiled slightly and said, "Besides the physical torment during pregnancy, I also had to endure a lot of mental stress. After giving birth to you, I had to sacrifice a lot of my free time to take care of you. Then I realized that my life seemed to revolve entirely around you."
Wen Yu said, "Zhenzhen, I am not a qualified mother because I am different from those mothers who would sacrifice everything for their children. I am not willing to give up everything for my child."
For many people, once a woman becomes a mother, her life, her career, and everything else must give way to her child.
If she doesn't firmly link her name with her husband and children, then she becomes an unqualified wife and mother.
Even if Wen Yu hadn't said those words, Xia Zhen had noticed Wen Yu's "unconventional ways" a long time ago. She remembered that when she was little, Wen Yu was also very busy with work, but whenever he had time, he would pick her up to go out and play.
When Wen Yu and Xia Zhen are alone, Wen Yu is indeed a considerate and attentive mother, but most of the time, the mother and daughter communicate via mobile phone.
Xia Zhen didn't think there was anything wrong with this. She was just Wen Yu's child, not Wen Yu's whole life, and she had no right to make Wen Yu give up the life she wanted to pursue for her sake.
Wen Yu never denied being a failed mother in front of Xia Zhen. Undoubtedly, she was also selfish, because she chose her career over her family without hesitation.
Xia Zhen is not Wen Yu; she doesn't know the stories behind Wen Yu and Xia Yu's marriage that ultimately led to their divorce.
In fact, Xia Zhen had wondered when she was a child whether her mother truly loved her.
When she was seven years old, when Wen Yu took her out to play, someone had been watching Xia Zhen for a while because Xia Yu had taken over his company, and took the opportunity to attack Xia Zhen.
At that moment, Wen Yu tightly gripped the knife that was about to stab Xia Zhen, and even though the wound was deep enough to expose bone, she did not let go.
Because of her injury, she missed a role she had been waiting for.
From that time on, Xia Zhen never worried about this issue again.
Wen Yu's love for her and his pursuit of his own life are not actually contradictory.
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