Tai’s aunt, who had suffered heartbreak and fled abroad, had returned!
Of course, Tai’s aunt had a proper name.
She was called Tai Jing.
When Tai Jing was young, she was anything but quiet. She had an outgoing personality, loved to laugh, disliked routine life, and yearned for passionate romance.
She rejected the suitable matches arranged by her family, insisted on free love.
To achieve a happy ending with the “poor scholar” she fancied, Tai Jing argued with her family many times, causing chaos in the Tai household.
The Tai family had no choice but to let Tai Jing be with that man.
This passionate romance began at a youth dance party, ended at dusk.
That day, Tai Jing returned home early from a business trip, opened the door with her key, caught her husband and the household nanny in bed.
Tai Jing was stunned.
There was nothing new under the sun. It was not strange for a man to cheat, but with so many women outside, why did her husband specifically get involved with the nanny?
The nanny in Tai Jing’s home was a relative from her husband’s hometown.
Tai Jing was young and beautiful. The nanny appeared honest and simple. Setting aside family background and job, just based on appearance, Tai Jing outshone the nanny by far!
Before Tai Jing could get angry, the caught nanny threw on clothes, knelt before Tai Jing with a thud, banged her head repeatedly, begged Tai Jing for forgiveness.
It turned out it was not that her husband was blind and sought a nanny far inferior to Tai Jing for an affair. If one considered the order, the nanny came first, Tai Jing second.
This nanny was not a relative from the hometown at all. She was Tai Jing’s husband’s “first love”.
Before Tai Jing’s husband leapt through the dragon gate via the college entrance exam, it was this “first love” who tightened her belt to support him. The story that followed was like an ancient play script. The man got into university, came to the big city, gradually shed his rustic air over four years, was assigned to work in the capital after graduation, met Tai Jing at a dance party.
Tai Jing was young, beautiful, from a good family. Marrying her would save the poor scholar at least 20 years of struggle. Tai Jing’s husband did not hesitate much and made his choice.
On one hand, he called back to his hometown to break up with his first love girlfriend. On the other, he strolled in parks, watched movies with Tai Jing, their feelings heated up rapidly.
Before marriage, the two were almost separated by the Tai family. Who knew Tai Jing’s attitude was firm? The originally mismatched pair actually entered the marriage hall.
No matter how much the Tai family opposed before, once married, they were family, inevitably had to look after Tai Jing’s husband’s prospects.
The poor scholar whom Tai Jing liked naturally had high IQ and EQ. With help from the Tai family, in a few years he became the youngest associate professor in the department. With a lovely wife, a successful career, he was truly a winner in life for a poor reverse!
Such a proud life had only one flaw. Tai Jing was not ready to be a mother, always did not want to have children.
The Tai family naturally did not mind. Whether to have children or not respected Tai Jing’s wishes.
In the 1990s, China was influenced by Western thought. Some couples chose “DINK” after marriage. Not to mention Tai Jing had not announced “DINK”, even if she did, it was no big deal to the Tai family. Tai Jing’s rejection of childbirth was told to her husband early in their acquaintance. Her husband had read many Western works in university, agreed with Tai Jing’s views, otherwise he would not be recognised by Tai Jing as a “soul mate”, causing such a fuss to marry.
Tai Jing was not anxious here, but her in-laws were frantic.
Their son marrying a big city miss, becoming an associate professor was naturally excellent.
Precisely because their son was doing well, these things had to be left for a grandson to inherit!
The in-laws dared not jump in front of Tai Jing, nagged their son every day, nagged until Tai Jing’s husband had a headache.
Once, Tai Jing’s husband returned to his hometown for business. The first love girlfriend who had broken up years ago heard the news, came directly to the door.
Tai Jing’s husband was in high spirits. The first love girlfriend was living very unsatisfactorily.
Meeting former lovers again, Tai Jing’s husband was completely a city person now. The first love girlfriend was haggard and downtrodden. It should not have stirred any waves in Tai Jing’s husband’s heart, but the little boy the first love girlfriend was holding looked so familiar. Tai Jing’s mother-in-law was ecstatic. The little boy looked just like her son as a child, clearly their own flesh and blood!
It turned out the first love girlfriend discovered she was pregnant after the breakup, wanted to find her boyfriend to take responsibility but could not contact him no matter what.
The first love girlfriend was fiery. In anger, she took the child in her belly and married someone else, swore to let the child call another man dad.
Perhaps fate was bad. The first love girlfriend did not live peacefully for two years after marriage. Her husband saw the child born looking less and less like him, not full-term born. Any man would suspect. Suspicion led to arguments, fierce arguments led to hitting his wife. The first love girlfriend could only endure for the child’s sake. Unexpectedly, her husband, a truck driver, died on the spot in an accident while on a long haul. The first love girlfriend became a widow.
Should a widow remarry?
The first marriage made the first love girlfriend understand. No man liked being a cuckold. Finding a stepdad for the child still feared abuse. This child not only had half her blood, but also half from her ex-boyfriend. Why should she suffer alone!
Thus came the scene where the first love girlfriend heard the news, held the child, came to the door.
The child was already a few years old, cute and endearing.
The first love girlfriend did not ask Tai Jing’s husband to divorce and marry her, but as the child’s father, Tai Jing’s husband must be responsible for the mother and son’s living expenses.
Thanks to Tai Jing’s mother-in-law propagating in the countryside, the villagers all knew Tai Jing’s husband became a university professor. The first love girlfriend no longer feared her ex-boyfriend running away.
Run if he runs.
The monk can run, but the temple cannot.
If lost contact again, the first love girlfriend would take the child to the capital to recognise dad!
Tai Jing’s husband never relaxed his brows. Tai Jing’s mother-in-law both feared the first love girlfriend destroying her son’s job, and could not bear to part with the cute grandson. She came up with a good plan: since Tai Jing did not want to have children, why not keep the ready-made grandson. As for the grandson’s birth mother, arrange her as a nanny under Tai Jing’s nose.
With Tai Jing’s personality, she would suspect anyone but the household nanny!
Tai Jing did not know what her husband thought at first, or when he rekindled old feelings with the first love girlfriend acting as nanny.
The nanny, oh no, the husband’s first love girlfriend knelt on the ground dishevelled begging Tai Jing for forgiveness. The husband remained silent. Tai Jing did not quarrel or make a scene, threw down “divorce” and left the home.
Before leaving, she thoughtfully closed the door for the dishevelled old lovers in the room.
Out the door, Tai Jing slapped herself twice, left and right.
Forget the past. To rekindle old feelings must not be a day or two. They flirted under Tai Jing’s nose, Tai Jing did not notice. She pitied her own stupidity.
Moreover, the first love girlfriend had been nanny for over a year. Tai Jing liked her quick and honest work, bearing the title of relative from Tai Jing’s husband’s hometown. Called a nanny, Tai Jing treated her more like a relative.
Knowing this distant relative’s husband died, left the son in hometown foster care, Tai Jing even advised her to bring the son to the city to live.
Stupid!
Really too stupid!
Tai Jing cried from her own stupidity.
After handling the divorce procedures, she chose to go abroad, because she did not want to hear others discuss behind her back, did not want to be pitied!
