Chapter 1523 - You Have to Provide For Me Too (1/2)

She always felt that Qiao Nan would definitely mock her if she were to get a divorce. “I-I haven’t decided if I’ll get a divorce.”

“Whether you’ve decided is between you and the Zhou family. I don’t care.” Qiao Nan no longer mentioned Qiao Zijin and turned to look at Ding Jiayi. “How about you?”

“What do you mean by you or me? Who am I to you for you to address me like that? Where have your manners gone? You are a university graduate. Did your teacher teach you that?” Ding Jiayi’s expression changed and she was upset. From the time they met, Qiao Nan had never even addressed her as ‘mom’. What did she mean? Was she disowning her?

Dream on!

Qiao Nan laughed coldly. “Excuse me. My teacher taught me quite well, but unfortunately, parents are ultimately the first teachers in their children’s lives and also the most important ones. My mother gave birth to me but never taught me well, so please excuse me.” Qiao Nan was unconfident of being so impolite to anybody else but Ding Jiayi alone.

Was this all not because of Ding Jiayi? “If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, I’m leaving.”

“Don’t leave!” Ding Jiayi quickly stopped Qiao Nan. “I have something to say. Of course I have something to say. Otherwise, do you think I’m so free to come all the way to the capital to find you? You’ve had your father here in the capital for quite a few years, haven’t you? Your dad had you, but I was the one who carried you for ten months. I had it much harder than him. Now that you’ve made it in life and could provide for your father, don’t you think you should provide for your mom too?”

“So the thousand yuan that I give you every month doesn’t count?” Qiao Nan laughed out of anger. Since Qiao Nan was young, Ding Jiayi had always been a housewife. Because of the country’s compulsory nine-year education, she had studied for nine years without spending much money. At most, she only had to pay for her textbooks. Even with that, her mother had secretly sold all her books.

When she entered high school, the two of them started to live separately. From then on, she had not eaten a single grain of rice cooked by Ding Jiayi.

Her parents had not fulfilled their responsibilities as parents. It was good enough that she was willing to support them, yet she dared to say that the money she spent on Ding Jiayi was way more than what Ding Jiayi had ever spent on her.

“It’s only a thousand yuan. What can I even do with that?” Ding Jiayi commented insincerely. In a small city like Ping Cheng, Ding Jiayi could actually lead a comfortable life with a thousand yuan and did not need to go out to work. “Now that you’re an important official, your future is bright and you don’t lack anything. Why can’t you think about your biological mother and let me have a good life like you?”

“Oh, is the world coming to an end? Haven’t you always said that the only one of your two children who can let you enjoy life is Qiao Zijin? If you want a good life, wait for your eldest daughter to be filial to you. She’s already in her thirties. You’ve been waiting for quite a long time. She should be able to let you live a good life soon. I’m not going to get involved.”

Qiao Nan’s words were words of anger that she had suppressed for two whole lifetimes.