To Zhai Hua, although Qiao Nan’s actions were considered selfish, she wasn’t black-hearted. She had taken away Qiao Zijin’s life-saving money, but this amount of money was Qiao Nan’s to begin with. She had only taken away her money and didn’t take away anything else that didn’t belong to her in the family. Was this considered black-hearted? She had heard about worse situations before.
If that was the case, even if Qiao Nan was selfish, at least she had her own moral values baseline. What was wrong with Qiao Nan wanting to keep her personal interests? They were already in their forties and she had her own family.
If Qiao Nan made selfless dedications for Qiao Zijin’s illness and didn’t even want her own family, then something was wrong with her.
Since Qiao Nan’s actions were not considered wrong in Zhai Hua’s eyes, she placed more of her attention on Ding Jiayi. Indeed, she saw how distressed Ding Jiayi was. Upon mentioning her daughter’s illness, she couldn’t wait to be sick on behalf of Qiao Zijin. A lot of people had praised Ding Jiayi as a good mother.
At that moment, Zhai Hua thought about it again. Which good mother in this world would criticize her birth daughter on TV and couldn’t wait for everyone in this world to scold her younger daughter such that she was forced out?
Could Ding Jiayi not know what kind of impact this would have on her younger daughter once the news was broadcast? If Ding Jiayi really didn’t know, then it must be because she cared about Qiao Zijin’s illness. How good a mother she was if she only cared about the life and death of her elder daughter but didn’t think about her younger daughter at all? As long as one wasn’t a fool, one could tell that Ding Jiayi’s style was inherently problematic.
At the same time, if Ding Jiayi knew that her daughter’s reputation would be ruined for life by saying this but she still insisted on doing so, then it wasn’t selfish of Qiao Nan to leave with her own money and ignore the life and death of her family. It should be regarded as self-protection.
This piece of news tested everyone’s IQ and EQ. Zhai Hua, who had nothing to do after leaving the army, spent some time and effort to analyze this matter. Zhai Hua had an impression of Qiao Nan’s relationship with the Qiao family.
Leaving the real estate certificate of the quad to Qiao Nan was definitely not something that Ding Jiayi, who was on TV, would do.
“My dad sent this over.” Her mother? Her mother couldn’t wait to squeeze whatever she could out of her. How was it possible for her to take the initiative and give something to her? “It’s not that easy to receive this real estate certificate.” Taking this real estate certificate meant that she had to take care of Ding Jiayi’s life and death.
Even if she never planned to, she could really ignore Ding Jiayi coldly if she couldn’t continue living anymore. However, because of this house, Qiao Nan felt that she would have more contact with the Qiao family than she thought. She was already trying her best to distance herself from everyone in the Qiao family and be a familiar stranger.
It could be said that the appearance of this real estate certificate caught Qiao Nan off guard and she couldn’t accept it.
Zhai Hua didn’t know how to reply to Qiao Nan. In the end, Zhai Hua said, “You’re obviously a few years younger than me, but judging by how you persuaded me to deal with Wei De, your thoughts seem to be quite mature. I didn’t expect you to have times where you would be hesitant to make decisions as well.”
It was true. When handling Wei De, Qiao Nan didn’t feel like a peer but a trustworthy senior who was more reliable than her parents. To be taught by her future sister-in-law, Zhai Hua felt embarrassed and that she was too useless.
Thankfully, seeing how Qiao Nan couldn’t seem to handle things with the Qiao family, Zhai Hua recovered her dignity as an aunt. Qiao Nan wasn’t always that capable or invincible. It turned out that Qiao Nan’s shortcoming and weakness was the Qiao family. That was right. This was how a peer should be like.
“One would be at a loss if the matter concerns oneself. Nobody can avoid this.” No, if she didn’t die once, her situation would be more serious. “If I could handle the relationship with the Qiao family well, I wouldn’t have no house today. Someone even feels that a real estate certificate could tempt me to shoulder the big trouble the Qiao family is in. To me, money isn’t important. If it was, I would long have a house and a car.”
Her father thought that she would be the same as Qiao Zijin and that she wouldn’t hesitate to shoulder this burden for the courtyard. He was really wrong.
Yes, the Qiao family’s courtyard should have belonged to her, including Qiao Zijin’s big house. However, as long as she could cut off relationships and contacts with the Qiao family, she didn’t mind losing money to prevent misfortune and give both houses to Qiao Zijin. From then on, everyone would be passersby if they met again.
“Then, what do you plan to do? You don’t want this?” Even if one didn’t find money important, nobody would complain if they had more. Zhai Hua found it a pity if Qiao Nan decided to return the real estate certificate. She was going to file a divorce lawsuit with Wei De. The two houses the Wei family had were bought with her money. She wanted to get both of them back and not leave any for the Wei family.
Zhai Hua had already thought about it. The house under her daughter’s name would remain. After her daughter grew up, she can decide what to do with it. As for the house the Wei family is living in, she found it disgusting. After the court’s decision, she would sell it without a second word.
Qiao Nan pinched her nose bridge. “I don’t know. I still have to think about it.”
According to her father’s letter, only he knew that she was in Ping Cheng now and that she was staying in the Zhai family, which was just a few steps away from the Qiao family. Based on Ding Jiayi’s and Qiao Zijin’s temper, if they knew that she was back, they would have ignored everything and come to find her, forcing her to raise all the money that was going to be used for Qiao Zijin’s surgery.
As such, Qiao Nan admitted that Qiao Dongliang was protecting herself. Qiao Nan also believed it when Qiao Dongliang mentioned that Chen Jun had deliberately called a year ago to tell the Qiao family that she was in Qingshui Town.
Chen Jun was a despicable person to begin with. Not only did he fail to reconcile, but he only left after Xiao Xu and Brother Zhai took care of him. It was normal for Chen Jun to do so since he knew Ding Jiayi’s and Qiao Zijin’s attitude toward her. It could be said that from then on, her father had started to silently protect her so that she would not be disturbed by Qiao Zijin and Ding Jiayi.
Facing how Qiao Dongliang was ‘asking for love’ was the hardest part for Qiao Nan.
“Sister Zhai Hua, I’m planning to return to Qingshui Town this afternoon. The rest are not around. After I’ve left, help me tell uncle and auntie sorry and goodbye.”
