Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

205. Yan Chuyang’s Hesitation

Translator: Florea

At first, Wei Qing didn’t believe it because he had never seen her mother. He didn’t have any idea about the sense of belonging. But now that he saw Yan Chuyang, he finally understood that the feeling of belonging really existed.

If the feeling of belonging wasn’t at work, how could this fool boy think that his mother had a love for him just because of the dumplings?

Love? It never existed!

Or how could she make Yan Chuyang live alone and didn’t care how he was getting on for so many years?

When Yan Chuyang was very young, she abandoned him and left him to live with his sickly grandmother alone. She didn’t know what he had suffered all these years.

He was tormented by feelings of insecurity. Wei Qing managed to help him create some sense of security. And Yan Chuyang started to rely on him wholeheartedly.

Yan Chuyang was a bad guy and he fell for that woman’s trap again!

Wei Qing’s face was dark with rage. Gritting his teeth, he said, “What do you mean now? Do you still want to be reconciled to her and move over to live with her?

“No, no!” Yan Chuyang suddenly raised his head and anxiously placed his arms around the man’s neck. Shaking his head, he said, “I’ll stay with you. I’m not going anywhere. I will just occasionally visit her.”

Yan Chuyang had no other thoughts. He couldn’t forget everything and just call her mother without any hard feelings between them. However, he was her own kid, who lived inside her for nine months.

So, it was best for Yan Chuyang to keep the false harmony.

It was enough that his conscience was clear over his mother.

Wei Qing sighed, “You think about her kindness, but she only wants to get some benefits from you. Yan Chuyang, you don’t blame her for what she did in the past. Okay, fine. But there’s no need to contact her again. A snake by nature favors maneuvering upon its belly. Do you understand?”

Lowering his head, Yan Chuyang rubbed the man’s neckband with his fingers and said in a low voice, “Actually, I feel that she really has changed a little now. I can feel that she’s very sorry for that. She wants to compensate me.”

Wei Qing sighed and he knew it was useless to persuade him, so he could only hug him and say, “You’re such a fool.”

Yan Chuyang leaned against the man’s shoulder and said, “Don’t worry about me. I’ll handle this myself.”

Wei Qing’s eyes darkened. He rubbed the boy’s shoulder and said in a low voice, “Well, I’m out of this. No matter what, do whatever you want.”

Yan Chuyang breathed a sigh of relief and whispered in the man’s ear, “Thank you.”

Wei Qing squinted. Looking down at the boy’s neck, he had other ideas.

Out of this? How could he be out of this?

The woman obviously laid an evil eye on Yan Chuyang; she was determined to take Yan Chuyang away from him.

Yan Chuyang couldn’t see it, but Wei Qing was a merchant. How could he not see what trick this woman was playing? She just wanted to take advantage of her son.

It was ridiculous. Yan Chuyang was a burden when he was a child, so she abandoned him. Now that he had grown up and could be used, she suddenly came over, saying that she hoped to effect a reconciliation.

Yan Chuyang could let it go, but Wei Qing couldn’t.

No matter what, he couldn’t let Yan Chuyang feel any longing for her or have any illusion about her.

Yan Chuyang could only rely on him completely.

Yan Chuyang felt he was torn these days.

On the one hand, he had got a chip on his shoulder about what his mother did. But on the other hand, he couldn’t bear to see her warm smile and she told him that for years she was haunted by guilt.

Fang Jingshu came to Yan Chuyang’s school to give him lunch and fruit. And she even came over to bring him clothes and an umbrella sometimes when it was cold or raining.

Yan Chuyang knew that most of the reason she did these things was because of her guilt. She felt guilty for abandoning him and remarrying. But even so, he was not feeling quite well when he saw her take out the hot meal from her bag with a smile; he still felt a little awkward.

The love and care that came from his mother was something that he didn’t dare to dream of when he was a child.

He remembered that he was a boarding student when he was in the elementary school. Everyone was eating in the canteen of the school, but the food there tasted bad. Some parents would send the meals to their children at noon.

Yan Chuyang was envious, but he knew he wouldn’t have it. His grandmother was ageing and her legs were weak. It was difficult for her to take care of herself at home alone, let alone walk to his school which was ten miles away to send him lunch.

Therefore, when it was lunchtime, Yan Chuyang always could only hold a bowl and squat in a small corner, seeing his classmates’ mothers bring delicious food to them.

Quick-fried pork chitterlings, braised pork in brown sauce, dried fish…

There were many kinds of meals. And thinking of those would make his mouths water.

He only had rice with potatoes or noodles.

He would always think that if Fang Jingshu could appear and bring him braised pork in brown sauce, he would immediately forgive her and call her mother.

But now he was no longer a child. It seemed like he couldn’t convince himself to call her mother without any bad feelings.

Yan Chuyang fixed his eyes on the table.

There were two lunchboxes on the table.

One was a three-layered long white plastic box and the other was a twenty-centimeter-high thermal metal box.

The white lunchbox was sent by Fang Jingshu in the afternoon while the thermal box was sent by Wei Qing’s assistant.

Wei Qing was busy at noon, so he didn’t go home to cook.

The plastic lunchbox was covered with a sticky note. Yan Chuyang pulled it and looked at it.

“Eat it while it’s hot after class. I made the vegetable and preserved pork for you, which is your favorite.”

The vegetable and preserved pork…

Yan Chuyang sighed. He had no longer liked it after so many years. When he was a child, he thought it was sweet; but now, he only felt it tasted bitter.