“Raising a daughter is not easy.”
Feng Qing agreed.
The cost of raising a child is the greatest.
“But it wasn’t you who raised me. You raised Feng Ruo. I was raised by them. Before I returned to the Feng family, I secretly gave them a sum of money as compensation for what they spent raising me.”
“If I were harsher, I wouldn’t have given them a single penny. If they hadn’t schemed, I wouldn’t have been separated from my biological parents, abused by them for over a decade, and nearly sold off.”
After her teenage years, her adoptive parents’ family could no longer control her.
The real abuse happened during those years.
Feng Qing held grudges and remembered everything clearly, without exaggeration.
Her adoptive parents later secretly asked her for money. When they couldn’t get it, Feng Qing warned them, and they didn’t dare ask again.
They also approached Feng Ruo, who mostly avoided them. On the rare occasions they met, Feng Ruo might give them a few thousand yuan at most. Feng Ruo told her biological mother that she wasn’t Feng Qing and wouldn’t let her parents bully or manipulate her.
Her biological mother suffered greatly, but Feng Qing wasn’t someone to be manipulated either. After growing up, she fought back fiercely. Anyone who bullied her would face her chasing them through villages with a kitchen knife.
Back in her hometown, Feng Qing’s ferocity was well-known.
The Feng family assumed that, having grown up in the countryside, Feng Qing was weak and easily bullied.
After a moment of silence, Zheng Hua said, “Although I didn’t raise you, I gave you life. I’m your father. Now that you’re getting married, shouldn’t you repay the grace of being born?”
“When your mother was alive, she didn’t enjoy your blessings or see you get married. I’m still here, so you should give me the share of filial piety meant for your mother as well.”
“If Ah Ruo were alive, I wouldn’t have come to you.”
Feng Ruo was the one he had cherished and raised with care.
If not for the series of events that followed, Feng Ruo would surely have been willing to care for him, her father, and his retirement would have been secure.
What a pity.
The way things turned out with Feng Ruo left Zheng Hua filled with hatred.
He didn’t believe it was a mere twist of fate. Someone had deliberately schemed against him and his daughter.
That incident not only destroyed his marriage but also, to gain his wife’s forgiveness, he castrated himself. Though he survived, his health was never the same.
His father-daughter bond with Ah Ruo was severed. She hated him, and he hated just as much.
Both he and Ah Ruo were innocent. Those who schemed and harmed them deserved a terrible end!
Back then, his wife was still alive, and he feared her methods, unable to do anything.
In the end, he watched helplessly as his beloved daughter was killed, falling from a building.
Feng Yue was too ruthless.
Even if Feng Ruo wasn’t their biological daughter, they had raised her from childhood. Unaware of the truth, they genuinely loved her as their own.
Feng Yue had once cherished Feng Ruo like her own life.
How could she, upon learning Feng Ruo wasn’t her biological daughter, retract the twenty-plus years of maternal love so completely?
It wasn’t Feng Ruo’s fault. She was swapped at birth and was innocent.
Zheng Hua was different from Feng Yue. He still cared for Feng Ruo, while Feng Yue only cared for her biological daughter.
