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Chapter 1238 Qiao Mai of the 1970s 6
Qiao Mai's hospitalization has attracted quite a few people. From various partners to relatives and friends, the ward has been quiet all day long.

"Knock, knock, knock," came the knocking on the door. Qiao Mai said weakly, "Come in."

Qiao's mother hurried to open the door, and when she saw Gu Jingyue carrying a fruit basket outside, she was taken aback: "Who are you?"

"I'm Qiao Mai's neighbor," Gu Jingyue's voice came through. Qiao Mai had a headache. Why was he here again? She'd been nagged about it for ages. Her mother's implication was that she shouldn't have driven such a nice car; now she was being watched, wasn't she?
Gu Jingyue came in carrying a bouquet of lilies. After seeing the bouquet on the bedside table, Gu Jingyue lowered his eyes and openly placed the bouquet on the floor, instead placing his own lilies on top of it.

Qiao's mother took an apple and peeled it while nagging Qiao Mai: "You should drive that car less often in the future. Tell me... if you had driven any other car, would you have gotten into this mess?"

Qiao Mai felt wronged. She had worked hard to learn to drive, and Tan You rewarded her with a car. And now her own mother looked down on her? She was the victim, but now she was in the wrong?

"Wen Ting is willing to buy it for me, so why can't I drive it?" Her voice rose unconsciously as she got angry: "He hit me, and you've been nagging me ever since you arrived... I'm your daughter, not your prisoner!"

Qiao's mother also got anxious: "Wen Ting is so young, and she bought you such a nice car, and you just accepted it like that?"

Qiao Mai sat up abruptly: "Why can't she buy it for me? I worked so hard to build this company, can't I enjoy it? You're just complaining that I handed the company over to Wen Ting. Wen Ting is my daughter. If she doesn't get the company, who should I give it to? Chang Yue?"

"Changyue is my elder brother's son! Not mine!"

Qiao's mother's arrogance immediately subsided: "I was just saying. Wenting is not yet an adult, and you are going to give the company to Wenting now... Changyue is in his twenties and has always been steady. What's wrong with you, as his aunt, helping him out?"

Qiao Mai clutched her head, feeling utterly exhausted: "Mom, I'm a patient. Are you sure you want to tell me this right now?"

"Back then, I arranged the jobs for Changyue and Wenlan. Haven't I been good to you guys all these years?" Qiao Mai was genuinely aggrieved. It wasn't that her parents didn't love her, but she was always ranked after her older and younger brothers, and no one ever put her first.

Qiao's father tried to smooth things over: "Your mother just said that in the heat of the moment. She's worried about you too. That's just how she is—sharp-tongued but kind-hearted."

"What do you mean by 'sharp tongue but soft heart'? You only have a sharp tongue and a sharp heart." Qiao Mai recovered from the dizziness: "You guys are good to me, but you love the eldest brother and the youngest brother the most."

"The company belongs to me, and now it belongs to Wenting. No one can change that."

Sister-in-law Zhang Xiaocao looked very worried about Qiao Mai: "Mom is also worried that Wenting won't be able to manage the company well..."

“How could Wen Ting be poorly managed?” Qiao Mai raised all her soft barbs at this moment: “My daughter skipped grades when she was young and started interning at the company with me in junior high school. Although she is not yet an adult, she already has four years of work experience.”

"The company has been thriving under his leadership since it was handed over to him. What right do you have to say that Wenting can't manage the company well?"

Qiao Mai took a deep breath: "She is my daughter. The company may be named after Qiao, but it belongs to me, Qiao Mai. Even if Wen Ting ruins the company, I can just start over. I can afford to lose."

Qiao Cunmin sighed, "We're all family, why..." "It's you who are biased," Qiao Mai said, tears welling in her eyes, "Mom saw me divorced and raising a child on my own, and I built my own career. Mom thought all my things belonged to the Qiao family. Mom, you seem to treat everyone fairly all night, but actually you're the most biased."

“I was admitted to junior high school, but my parents wouldn’t let me go. They said that if I went to school, there would be no one to do the work at home. I knelt down and begged them to let me go to school. Later, I got a job and paid back your tuition double.”

"Back then, when I passed the exam to become a worker in a food factory, my mother wanted me to give the job to my older brother... and told me to go back to the village and find someone to marry."

Qiao's mother was surprised that Qiao Mai would bring up old grievances from over a decade ago, and her face immediately turned embarrassed: "It's been so many years, why are you still bringing this up?"

Qiao Mai suppressed her dizziness and nausea, and poured out all her grievances: "Why didn't I mention it? Mom, you say you love me the most, but your love and care for me are conditional. If I weren't a worker in the food factory, if I hadn't settled down in the city, you wouldn't care about me at all."

"When the company was just starting to improve, you wanted me to arrange for Changyue, Wenlan, and my younger brother to work at the company, but I didn't agree. That year, during the Spring Festival, you didn't prepare any of the usual New Year's goods, Mom. From then on, we never had any contact during holidays."

“When I quit my job at the food factory, Mom, you were the one who jumped the highest, worried that my resignation would affect their work. I am a person, why should I think about you all the time? Have you ever thought about me?”

“You’re just bullying me, bullying me because I’m a woman with a child, and there’s no man in my family to take care of the household.”

Qiao's mother also became anxious: "If you hadn't divorced Guo Jiantao back then..."

"Don't mention him to me!" Qiao Mai broke down: "Back then, you forced me to go back to the village and get married. I had no choice but to rush into the marriage. I had no idea that his family was like this at the time."

"Mom, you're so biased. When I was in confinement after giving birth to Wenshan and Wenting, you only came for two days. You knew perfectly well that Guo Jiantao's mother wouldn't take care of me during my confinement, but you still didn't care about me."

“When I gave birth to Wenting, it was only the third day, and I had to get out of bed to wash diapers and cook. Because I gave birth to a daughter, Guo Jiantao’s parents were not happy with me, and Guo Jiantao found reasons to argue with me… I couldn’t sleep all night, and my hair was falling out in clumps. I felt that this life was utterly meaningless.”

"But has any of you thought about me? You all think I'm living a good life in the city?"

Qiao Cunmin paused for a moment: "Back then, you arranged jobs for your niece, your brother, and your sister-in-law..."

"Of course I have to keep you guys calm," Qiao Mai wiped away her tears. "I'm divorced. If I don't have my family backing me up, how am I supposed to live?"

“I know what you want. You want your descendants to be successful, and you want them to be city dwellers. Well, that makes things easy.” Qiao Mai looked out the window and his eyes turned completely cold. “I’ll give you what you want. I’ll get my brother’s whole family of four into the city.”

“I found jobs for Changyue and Wenlan, and introduced job postings to people in the village. I wanted to let others know that even though I'm divorced, the Qiao family still has members. I thought you could understand the exchange of benefits involved, but Mom and Dad, you both pretended not to understand.”

"You're so brazenly trying to take my things, why should I just let you do that?"

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