Chapter 650 - I’m The One You Should Throw Away (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhan Haoze narrowed his eyes slightly. His voice wasn’t loud, but the coldness that came out of his voice revealed his current mood.

“No,” Shi Mengwan quickly explained, “I didn’t stalk you.”

“I just happened to pass by.”

“Pass by?” Zhan Haoze’s gaze became sharper. “You passed by here?”

Shi Mengwan was a little embarrassed. Indeed, she wasn’t passing by here. She was just here to reminisce about the past.

She couldn’t help but glance at Zhan Haoze. What about him? He should be considered a successful person now, right? Why did he appear here?

Realizing that she had asked that question out loud, Shi Mengwan’s expression became a little awkward.

Zhan Haoze didn’t answer her question. He stared at her face and suddenly approached.

“Do you live near here, Miss Shi?”

“No.”

“Then why did you appear here, Miss Shi?”

His slender legs took a step forward and successfully sandwiched Shi Mengwan’s body between him and the electric pole.

Facing such a predicament again, Shi Mengwan felt a little uncomfortable. She leaned back abut didn’t try to push Zhan haoze away. She knew the difference in strength between the two of them.

“Does this place belong to your family?”

They had faced such a situation twice, especially when they had such an unpleasant meeting last time. Shi Mengwan’s tone wasn’t very polite.

She was a woman with a sharp edge to begin with, but because the other party was her Dear Brother, she had been supressing it in front of him.

“If this place doesn’t belong to your family, then what right do you have to question me like this?”

Zhan Haoze narrowed his eyes slightly because of her sharp retort, and his body quickly approached her. He lowered his body and confronted Shi Mengwan.

The malicious look in those eyes made Shi Mengwan’s back feel slightly cold, but she refused to admit defeat.

“Since you can come to this place, then naturally I can come too. Mr. Zhan, you aren’t a police officer. Can you please let me go now? Let me leave?”

The alley was dark, and the howls of the group of people could still be heard from the corner not that far behind.

In front of her was Zhan Haoze’s body. No matter how one looked at it, the atmosphere was very strange.

Seeing that Zhan Haoze didn’t intend to make way, Shi Mengwan didn’t want to stay any longer. She bent down and wanted to leave from the side.

Zhan Haoze didn’t move. When she retreated, she accidentally touched his arm. She heard a soft, muffled groan.

Shi Mengwan, who could have left, suddenly stopped.

She looked at Zhan Haoze, who was standing beside her, and her gaze fell on his arm. She saw the faint blood stains on his elbow.

“You, you’re injured?”

Shi Mengwan lost her cool. She instinctively lifted Zhan Haoze’s arm.

“Are you okay?”

Zhan Haoze frowned slightly. He didn’t even notice that he was injured.

“How are you? Does it hurt? Do you want to go to the hospital?”

The three consecutive sentences of concern made Zhan Haoze’s brows furrow. Shi Mengwan wasn’t short, but as she was holding his arm, he could only see the top of her head.

“Should I send you to the hospital?”

After saying this, Shi Mengwan raised her head to look at him. When she met his cold expression, she remembered that the man in front of her was no longer her Dear Brother.

As if her hand had received an electric shock, she quickly retracted it. She was annoyed that she had meddled in other people’s business. She turned around and was about to leave.

However, Zhan Haoze was following beside her at this moment.

After taking a few steps, Shi Mengwan suddenly stopped and looked at him. “You…”

“Didn’t you say you would send me to the hospital?”

She did say that, but that was what she thought — Shi Mengwan’s footsteps were getting faster and faster.

Zhan Haoze’s footsteps didn’t have to be fast. His footsteps were much bigger than hers. Shi Mengwan sensed the footsteps behind her, and her emotions were very ambivalent.

It wasn’t until she walked to her car and opened the car door that Zhan Haoze followed her into the car.

She sat in the driver’s seat and looked at Zhan Haoze.

“Mr. Zhan, yesterday you said that I seduced you. If you get into my car now, aren’t you afraid that even if I pester you, you won’t be able to escape?”

The night light was dim. The dim streetlights made her facial features look hazy, and her clear eyes looked a little provocative.

“Drive.”

Zhan Haoze retracted his gaze and didn’t look at her anymore. He leaned back against the chair.

Shi Mengwan gritted her teeth and wanted to chase Zhan Haoze out of the car. In the end, she glanced at his side profile and started the car.

“Don’t go to the hospital.”

His words sounded extremely faint. If it wasn’t for the silence in the car, Shi Mengwan wouldn’t have heard it.

She couldn’t help but look at him again. She noticed that Zhan Haoze’s eyes were half-closed and he was leaning against the car seat, as if he was about to fall asleep.

Shi Mengwan retracted her gaze and stepped on the accelerator.

On the way, Shi Mengwan turned around and looked at Zhan Haoze. His arm was still bleeding.

Her heart trembled slightly as she thought of her Dear Brother.

More than ten years ago, Shi Mengwan, who was only twelve years old, got lost from her parents. Although she said she got lost, she actually ran away from home.

She was from Lin City, but she wasn’t from Lin City’s downtown area. She was from a small county city under Lin City.

Shi Mengwan’s father was the eldest in the family. He had two younger brothers under him. The small county city where Shi Mengwan lived was very patriarchal and sexist.

Shi Mengwan’s two uncles both had sons. Only Shi Mengwan’s family didn’t have one. Because of this, Shi Mengwan’s grandmother was very dissatisfied with Shi Mengwan’s mother.

Shi Mengwan’s mother didn’t have an easy life in the Shi family, and because she hurt her body while giving birth to Shi Mengwan, it wasn’t easy for her to get pregnant again.

Until Shi Mengwan was nine years old, she hadn’t given birth to a second child.

Shi Mengwan’s father was the eldest of the three brothers in the Shi family, but he didn’t have a son. As a result, Shi Mengwan’s grandmother disliked her eldest daughter-in-law more and more.

It wasn’t until Shi Mengwan was eleven years old that her mother miraculously got pregnant. Shi Mengwan thought that her mother would definitely give birth to a younger brother. This way, her mother’s life would be better.

But who knew that Shi Mengwan’s mother’s second child was still a daughter.

Shi Mengwan’s grandmother became even more displeased, and even Shi Mengwan’s father’s mood was heavy. They had a newly born little girl in the house, but no one had a smile on their face.

Shi Mengwan was already sensible, and she didn’t like the tension in the house. She hated her grandmother for criticizing her every day and saying that her mother was a hen that didn’t lay eggs.

She hated her father for frowning because she was a daughter, and she hated her mother even more. It was clearly not her fault that she gave birth to a daughter, yet she had to bear all the responsibility herself.

No matter how much she hated that home and hated the tension in the house, she still tried her best to comfort her mother and help her take care of her little sister.

She comforted her mother and told her that giving birth to a boy or a girl wasn’t a decision that she could make alone. She didn’t need to blame herself, and she didn’t need to feel guilty. Even if her mother didn’t listen to her, she still had to say it.

She had learned all of this from her textbooks, and she had also seen it acted out on television. Also, equality between men and women had long been achieved. The teachers all said so, so her mother’s sexism was backward and stupid.

Regardless of whether her mother listened or not, she tried her best to maintain the peace and harmony in the family, until she heard her grandmother persuade her father to give her younger sister away. When the time came, she could have another child.

She said that if her mother didn’t agree, she would let her father bring the children of second or third uncle’s family over.

Shi Mengwan finally became angry. Her little sister was so cute. Even if she was a girl, she was still her father’s child. How could her father think of giving her sister away?

Having taken care of her sister for a few months, Shi Mengwan, who already had affection for her, became furious on the spot.

“Why are you giving her away? If you want to send someone away, then send me away. My sister is still so young. Haven’t you thought about what will happen to my sister after you send her away?”

Grandma didn’t expect her to hear that. She lost it and started cursing. After scolding Shi Mengwan’s mother, she started scolding Shi Mengwan. She said that it was all her fault that she didn’t have a brother.

Shi Mengwan was furious. “If that’s the case, then I’ll leave this house. I’d like to see if you can get what you want without me.”

Shi Mengwan’s father and Grandma both thought that she was simply saying things in a fit of anger, but Shi Mengwan was serious.

She really ran away from home. She took her new year’s money and savings, then directly hailed a ride to the county town. That day, there was still the last bus to Lin City left.

Shi Mengwan was really brave. She got on the bus to Lin City just like that.

But when night fell and the bus stopped at Lin City Bus Station, she realized what she had done on impulse.

She, a 12-year-old girl, had run away from home just like that.