CHAPTER 664: CHAPTER 446: THE TRUTH

It was the dead of the night.

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"If you can’t even control your own emotions, how can you ensure the health and life of your patients?" After returning home, this sentence echoed repeatedly in Wang Jing’s mind, and she felt somewhat disheartened.

Seeing her niece only picking at the rice and not eating the vegetables, Wang Jing’s aunt, Wang Lei, furrowed her brows in displeasure, "Xiao Jing, eat properly!"

Wang Jing came back to her senses, sighed, and put down her chopsticks, "Auntie, I’m preoccupied, I don’t have an appetite."

"You have to eat even if you don’t have an appetite..." Wang Lei glared at her, "How many times have I told you, without a good body, you can’t accomplish anything, and no matter how big the issue, it can wait until after you’ve eaten."

Wang Jing obediently picked up her bowl to eat. Her aunt had a peculiar stubbornness about meals, and if she dared to argue again, it would be like stirring up a hornet’s nest.

One person cooks, the other washes up—it had been Wang Lei and Wang Jing’s unchanging rule over the years, and so, after eating, Wang Jing dutifully picked up the dishes and headed for the kitchen.

Wang Lei sighed and followed her in, "I’ll wash up, and you can take my turn tomorrow."

"Okay," Wang Jing replied and stepped back out.

Her relationship with her aunt had always been this way, so sometimes she felt that her aunt didn’t stay unmarried for her sake, but rather because no one could put up with her aunt’s temperament.

A woman who never spoke with a gentle tone, who always made clear-cut distinctions in her dealings, and never allowed anyone to take the slightest advantage of her.

Adopting her was just making plans for her own future, and because she always thought this way, she didn’t feel much gratitude towards her aunt. Everything she received, she would have to pay back one day, so what was there to be grateful for?

After tidying up the kitchen, Wang Lei sat beside Wang Jing and looked her over for a while before saying, "Aren’t you going to talk to me about it?"

Wang Jing forced a smile, "Work is a bit frustrating, but I can handle it."

Wang Lei sighed, "Xiao Jing, what do you think of your aunt?"

Unsure of what Wang Lei meant, Wang Jing just sat there hesitating, not knowing how to answer.

"People can’t choose their origins, nor can they choose their parents, and they can’t choose what happens or doesn’t happen in their lives.

When I returned to the city and you met me for the first time, you looked so timid and afraid, it made my heart ache. So I spoke to your father, my elder brother, hoping he would treat you better."

"He cried, a grown man cried in front of me. He said he really wanted to be good to you, but he didn’t want to break up that home."

"At that time, I really couldn’t understand him. I felt that, no matter what, you were his biological daughter; how could he so calmly tell me he was helpless?"

"I was very close to your birth mother, and I was still in the city when you were born. I took care of her during her postpartum confinement, so my affection for you is different from that for my other nieces and nephews."

"After a night of thought, I decided to adopt you. Even though your stepmother caused some trouble later, in the end, you became my adopted daughter."

"Actually, at that time when your stepmother took you back, Wang Lianliang, who went to the countryside with me, found me. He said he had also been reassigned back and was willing to marry me."

"I was just exercising a woman’s prerogative and promised to consider it, and then, during that process of consideration, you came back."

"Wang Lianliang might not have minded, but his family certainly did. They stated that if I didn’t send you back to your elder brother’s home, they wouldn’t accept me into the Wang family."

"I was conflicted at that time. I was thirty-one years old and chances were that if I didn’t marry then, I might not meet a suitable man later. But if I chose to marry, I would have to give you up."

"At that time, to stay with me, you had already had a fallout with your stepmother. If I gave you up too, it would probably ruin your life."

"After weighing it all up, I rejected Wang Lianliang. He said he was willing to give me a year to think about it, and he waited for me, just as he promised, for a whole year."

"During that year, our bond deepened, and I just couldn’t abandon you, and at the same time, I felt that if he loved me, why couldn’t he accept you as well? Even if his family objected, why couldn’t he stand up to them?"

"After endless arguments, our relationship truly reached the brink, and soon after, he married a factory worker three years younger than me."

"That incident left me feeling very desperate and disappointed. At the same time, I was scared. If one day I left this world, what would happen to you."