Seeing Yao Feng’s serious expression, Jian Ai couldn’t help but smile helplessly. “Uncle, you don’t have to be so serious. You look like you’re signing a death contract.”
They chatted and laughed, but Wang Yunmei didn’t say a word. She even had a forced smile on her face. It was obvious that she had something on her mind.
Jian Ai already knew what her mother was going to say tonight, so the topics she was talking to everyone about just now were actually to relieve Wang Yunmei’s stress. As her daughter, she knew that her mother was under a lot of pressure.
However, the results were minimal.
Forget it. Jian Ai sighed in her heart. She felt that since her mother planned to say it; it was better to say it sooner. Her mother’s pressure came from whether she would overreact after knowing. She just had to calm down later.
With this thought in mind, Jian Ai looked at her mother and asked casually, “Mom, didn’t you say you had something to tell me?”
Jian Ai’s sudden words caught Wang Yunmei off guard. A trace of shock flashed across her face before she said, “Ah… Yes, Mom has something to tell you.”
The table fell silent, and everyone looked at Wang Yunmei. Jian Ai was not in a hurry. Instead, she waited for her mother to speak.
Wang Yunmei put down her bowl and lowered her head, not daring to look at anyone. Her mouth moved, but she couldn’t say a word.
She initially thought that she had already mentally prepared herself, but she did not expect it to be so difficult for her to mention this to her daughter.
It was as if something was stuck in her throat, and she couldn’t make a sound.
Seeing this, Wang Yunzhi couldn’t help but reach out to hold Wang Yunmei’s hand. She encouraged her softly, “Sister, say it.”
Seeing her mother struggle, Jian Ai couldn’t help but feel her heart ache. Without waiting for Wang Yunmei to speak, she said, “Mom, I know what you want to say. If you think it’s difficult to say it, then don’t force yourself. Because I don’t care who that person is.”
Wang Yunmei couldn’t help but look up at Jian Ai in shock. “Xiao Ai, you…”
She turned to Jian Yu and looked at him inquisitively.
Jian Yu nodded. “I told her. I wanted her to be mentally prepared.”
When Wang Yunmei heard this, she couldn’t help but look at Jian Ai and ask nervously, “You know?”
Jian Ai shook her head. “My brother didn’t say who. He just said that you wanted to tell me who the person is.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Jian Ai sighed softly and said to Wang Yunmei with a serious expression, “Mom, don’t make things difficult for yourself. If you don’t want to say it, then don’t. Because it doesn’t matter to me whether you say it. This person never affected my life. Not in the past, and not in the future.”
With that, Jian Ai picked up the soup in front of her and took a sip. She put on a carefree aura to ease her mother’s uneasiness.
Unexpectedly, Wang Yunmei felt she had to say it! She gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, “It’s Jian Changsheng!”
“Pfft…”
Jian Ai couldn’t help but spit a mouthful of soup into her bowl and cough violently. “Cough, cough, cough…”
Jiachi quickly took a tissue and handed it over. “Sister, are you okay?”
Jian Ai wiped her mouth with one hand and coughed. She quickly raised her other hand and waved it, showing that she was fine.
However, when she looked up, her face was red from choking. She couldn’t care less. She looked at her mother and asked in shock, “Mom, who did you say it was?”
Wang Yunmei pursed her lips but repeated, “Xiao Ai, it’s Jian Changsheng. Your biological father is Jian Changsheng.”
Jian Ai: “…”
At this moment, they could describe her expression as dumbfounded. What was the difference between this news and a ghost story?
Jian Changsheng?
She was Jian Changsheng’s daughter?
In other words, she and Jian Yiyi and Jian Yichen were half-siblings?
Oh, my. Jian Ai felt that her mind had stopped spinning. She was a daughter of a rich family?
Seeing her daughter’s reaction, Wang Yunmei thought she couldn’t accept this news and was about to say something.
Unexpectedly, Jian Ai quickly raised her hand and gestured for them not to say anything. “I’m fine. Let me digest this!”
She was not agitated, but this news shocked her.
Jian Changsheng, Jian Yiyi, Jian Yichen, Jian Ai…
Why didn’t she think in this direction?
She just felt that this surname was rare, but it was not surprising for someone to have the same surname as her. However, she did not expect that Jian Yiyi, whom she saw almost every day, Jian Yichen, whom she liked from the bottom of her heart, and her business competitor, Jian Changsheng, were related to her.
After a while, Jian Ai finally calmed down. With no reaction, she returned to normal.
“Mom, do you still remember that Jian Changsheng’s daughter was taken away at Yaochi that day?” Jian Ai suddenly asked.
Wang Yunmei quickly nodded.
Jian Ai asked again, “I’m classmates with his daughter. She’s the same age as me and is only a few months younger than me. What’s going on? Was Jian Changsheng two-timing?”
This was Jian Ai’s instinctive question. If Jian Yiyi was her sister, she should be at least a year younger than her. Why was she only a few months younger?
When Wang Yunmei heard this, she answered truthfully, “When I first got pregnant with you, he left us to marry someone else. I don’t know what happened after that.”
Wang Yunmei was telling the truth and hid nothing. Because she was disheartened back then, she didn’t think about asking about Jian Changsheng. Therefore, Wang Yunmei knew nothing after Jian Changsheng left.
Wang Yunzhi analyzed from the side. “If she was born two months early, then that might be the explanation.”
Jian Ai nodded. This was the only possibility.
“Xiao Ai, Mom didn’t mean to hide it from you and your brother. It’s just that he hasn’t been back all these years, so Mom…” Wang Yunmei couldn’t help but cry.
Seeing this, Jian Ai quickly said, “Mom, stop talking. I understand. Brother and I won’t blame you. Originally, we didn’t have any concept of the role of a father. It doesn’t matter if you mention it or not.”
Jian Yu nodded as well. “Xiao Ai is right. Mom, you don’t have to worry too much. Aunt and I supported you to divulge this because we didn’t want you to bear the pressure. Now that we know, you can be more calm in the future, right?”
Wang Yunmei covered her mouth and nodded. She looked at Jian Ai and said worriedly, “Xiao Ai, can you accept this?”
