flstandardbreds Chapter 360: The Reluctant Adoptive Mother 1
Chapter 360: The Reluctant Adoptive Mother 1
Yuan Chun woke up once again and found herself on a train.
She was seated in a sleeper berth, lying on the middle bunk, holding a book on Chinese medicine transfer in her hand. She squinted her eyes and communicated with the system, "007, transmit the plot."
"Okay, Host."
This was the nineties. The original host was presently taking a train to Xinyang. She received a phone call yesterday; her sister had suddenly died in a car accident.
The original host had no parents, only this one sister from her maternal family. With her sister dead, the original host was grief-stricken and rushed to take leave and hastily headed to Xinyang, yet she didn’t make it in time to see her sister one last time.
Her sister and brother-in-law had been married for seven years and had only one daughter, who was five years old this year. After her sister’s death, the brother-in-law despised their daughter as a worthless girl, not wanting to raise her any longer, so he shoved the child onto the original host, forcing her to take care of her.
The original host felt sorry for her niece, who had lost her mother and was the only bloodline left in this world by her sister. Her soft heart led her to adopt her niece into her home.
The original host had been married, her husband was a soldier, but two years ago, he sacrificed himself while on a mission. Now, the household consisted solely of the original host and her two-and-a-half-year-old son.
The original host was just an ordinary woman, with no formal education, nothing she could do apart from farm work.
When her husband was alive, she relied on his allowance to live. After her husband’s death, the original host lost her support and source of income. Eventually, the ministry found ways to help her open a small grocery store.
Her husband left her a courtyard with six rooms, an ancestral property of her husband’s family, with the grocery store set up at one end of the courtyard near the alley entrance.
On regular days, when the original host went to restock, she would leave her son with the neighbor aunt for a while. This neighbor aunt was the mother of her husband’s superior, so she willingly helped look after the child.
After bringing her niece home, in order for her to have household registration in Beijing and facilitate schooling, the original host went through adoption procedures, making her niece her adopted daughter.
The original host sent her adopted daughter to kindergarten, but during winter and summer vacations or weekends, when the original host went to restock, she felt embarrassed to ask the neighbor aunt to look after another child, so she rode a tricycle taking her adopted daughter with her.
Yet even just this, at a young age, her adopted daughter felt that her mother was being unfair.
Mother didn’t love her.
Why could her brother go to the neighbor aunt’s house to eat, drink, and play, while she could only sit on the tricycle going to restock, exposed to the wind and sun?
For this reason, the young adopted daughter held some resentment toward the original host.
The original host’s son was a well-behaved and obedient boy, but the adopted daughter naturally had a rebellious nature, often disobedient. The original host was strict with her, sometimes getting angry and even hitting her, which made the adopted daughter resent her, feeling that her mother was biased, only hitting her and not her brother.
When the adopted daughter turned ten years old, the original host’s house was demolished, and the original host ended up with three apartments, two stores, and a sum of money.
A few years later, because of this property, the adopted daughter who was raised with great care by the original host became fixated on it. She actually teamed up with an outsider, scheming to kill the original host’s only son.
She even poisoned the original host.
When the original host was dying, the adopted daughter stood by her bed complaining about how she had been strictly controlled over the years, how she manipulated her life, did not give her freedom, interfered with her love life, broke up her romance, forced her to break up with her boyfriend...
All in all, the original host arduously raised her niece, not only did she not receive a word of gratitude but instead faced a belly full of resentment and grievances. Ultimately, to seize the property rightfully belonging to her son, she didn’t hesitate to plot the death of them both.