The Secret of Second Marriage

Mr. Jiang and I finished our meal at the hotel.

He drove me back to Beijing.

Around 3 PM, my dad, Mr. Xia, asked me to go back home because he wanted to discuss something with me.

Mr. Jiang drove me to the Xia family's door, opened the car door, and waited for me to get out. He wanted to hug me like he used to.

But I dodged his embrace and deliberately acted indifferent, saying to him, "Mr. Jiang, I've arrived."

With red eyes and a sour tone, President Jiang said, "Man, I will definitely find those people who kidnapped you and give you an explanation!"

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang."

I had nothing else to say to him except those four words.

After all, the knot in our hearts hasn't been untied yet.

When I got home, my dad, Mr. Xia, said to me with a serious face: "Man, your mother and I just received some news. We suspect that 29 years ago, you were not accidentally lost by the nanny, but were abducted. The person who abducted you was your adoptive mother."

I sent someone to investigate and found out who the nanny's neighbor was. I heard that the nanny is still in contact with your adoptive mother.

Their villages are very close; they're from the same hometown. I just remembered that your mother originally wanted to hire a nanny through a domestic service company.

Tian Hongxia, who is your adoptive mother, was your mother's best friend back then.

She offered to introduce a nanny who is very nice, hardworking, and can cook dishes like lotus root and pork rib stew and braised black duck, which are very much to your mother's liking.

Your mother trusted Tian Hongxia a lot at the time, so she hired that nanny.

When the nanny first came, she was indeed very serious and responsible. She could cook and do laundry. However, sometimes she would sneak around and eavesdrop on my and your mother's private conversations in the room.

I felt there was something wrong with the nanny back then, and now I think my intuition was right... But when we went to court, she insisted that she had lost you.

Do you know if there was surveillance footage back then? The case was eventually dropped.

"Man, my darling, my daughter, how much suffering have you endured all these years? I never imagined that we grew up together."

I treated her so well, how could she do such a thing? She's worse than an animal! I must find her and find out why she did it back then!

My mother's eyes were red, and she was sobbing uncontrollably, saying with a mix of grievance and anger.

My dad, Mr. Xia, is soft-hearted and couldn't see his wife's sadness. He hugged my mom and gently comforted her, saying, "Honey, you can't judge a book by its cover. You never thought she would be that kind of person. But we still need to get an explanation!"

My mom said, "Man, your dad and I are planning to take you back to that village. I used to live in that village, but then your grandpa built a factory and moved to Wuhan, so we moved the house there. I haven't been back to my hometown much since."

However, our old house and land are still there, and every year, our whole family goes back to our old home to pay respects to our ancestors.

Every year during the Qingming Festival, your father and I go back to our hometown to pay respects at your maternal grandparents' graves. Sometimes we pass by Tian Hongxia's house and her husband's house, but fate is so unpredictable; I've never run into you even once!

"Mom, it's not that you haven't met me, it's just that every year during the Qingming Festival, my adoptive mother becomes suspicious."

She went back to the village early and took me to the city to stay for a few days. She wouldn't let me go back to the village, and she never let me go to the graves, saying that I was a girl and would bring bad luck!

I say.

I finally understand why, when I was a child, my adoptive mother would make a special trip home every year during the Qingming Festival to take me to live in the city, but she always disliked me and would beat and scold me.

I feel more comfortable staying in the countryside.

Now I understand, it turns out my biological parents were driving back to their ancestral home in the village to pay respects to their ancestors. My grandparents and Tian Hongxia's family home are not far apart, and she was probably worried that I would wander around the village and run into my biological parents.

I don't know what I'm feeling, but there's a sense of rebirth after a catastrophe, like the cry of monkeys on both banks of the river that couldn't stop the light boat from passing through ten thousand mountains.

After discussing it with my parents, we decided to go to our hometown first thing the next morning.

This time, my mother is going to talk to Tian Hongxia herself and ask her what exactly happened back then.

My mom said, "Daughter, you've suffered all these years. This time, I will definitely get justice for you."

I nodded vigorously.

If Tian Hongxia only adopts me, I can take care of her like an adoptive mother, pay her child support, visit her during holidays, and take care of her when she gets old and sick.

If I had been abducted as a child, that would be a different story. I would also like to know the truth about what happened back then.

I went from being a pampered young lady to a country bumpkin overnight.

If I have been kind to someone, I will repay that kindness; if I have been wronged, I am not the kind of saint who forgives the past, and I will definitely seek justice for myself.

My dad took two bodyguards from his company with him to my mom's rural hometown this time. He drove a black Mercedes-Benz luxury car from Beijing to Wuhan, and after getting off the highway, he bumped along the way to the countryside.

Tian Hongxia's maternal village is in the same place as my mother's hometown village.

My mother also took out a bunch of documents in the car, including the rural homestead, property certificate, and certificates for farmland and mountains.

She told me, "Man, there's something else that makes me very angry, and it's also the reason why your father and I decided to go back to our hometown."

Your maternal grandparents were very capable people. They used to be the village chiefs. They had excellent foresight and quit their jobs in the village at the beginning of the reform and opening up. They went to the city to open a factory and made a lot of money.

Your uncles are also very capable; they studied abroad, went into business, and became bosses in the Zhejiang area.

You also have an older uncle who was in the army. He was quite lucky and married the daughter of an official. Now he has risen through the ranks to a very high position.

My mom will take you to meet them sometime!

After your maternal grandparents passed away, no one lived in your old home anymore. They built a villa and contracted lotus ponds on the mountain land. They originally planned to lease them to people from other villages, settling the payment at 300 yuan per mu.

Ten years ago, Tian Hongxia approached her mother, saying that she couldn't trust outsiders to manage the houses and wallets, and that she was her mother's best friend, so her family could help manage them.

She spoke up, and her mother didn't want to refuse her over such a small amount of money, so she signed an agreement for them to farm the house and land.

However, the agreement promises that if your father and I ever tire of city life and want to return to the countryside to retire, we have the right to take back the house and land at any time.

Your father and I came back here to get the house and land back. I'd rather let pigs and dogs get them than let this beast get them!"

"Mom, so that was Grandpa and Grandma's land and house."

I suddenly realized.

No wonder the Tian family lives so well, and they have leased so many paddy fields in the village to grow rice. In recent years, they have also set up a breeding base and a strawberry farm.

It turns out that these houses and lands belonged to my maternal grandparents, my mother, and several uncles.

The car bumped along the road, and it was almost evening when we finally arrived in the county town.

My parents found a decent-looking boutique hotel in the county town and stayed there. There were farmhouses right next to the hotel, and we had a meal cooked over a wood fire, along with local free-range chicken and other local delicacies for dinner.

After our family of three finished eating, we went back to the hotel to rest.

My parents have one room, I have a room to rest by myself, and I also booked a room for my two bodyguards.

Unexpectedly, on the way back to the hotel after dinner, Xia Weiwei called again.

She made a tearful video call to my mom and said, "Mom, I'm almost six months pregnant. The doctor said I need to start preparing things like baby clothes, bottles, and a stroller."

Mom, the bracelet you gave us before was sold by my husband and me to pay off our mortgage and debts to others.

Nan's parents are in poor health. Last year, they had surgery to treat cancer, which cost over 100 million yuan, all of which was borrowed. We don't have much money left... Mom, could you transfer me some more money?

My mom trusts me, her eldest daughter, and came over to me, saying, "Man, your sister called again. What should we do? I really feel sorry for her. Your sister is a pampered young lady; she's never suffered so much in all these years."

Look at her now, she's eating and wearing the cheapest clothes. She must have used up all her savings and jewelry for that guy.

"Mom, should I transfer some money to your sister?"

"Mom, she's completely obsessed with that man. What you're doing will only hurt her."

I say.

I understand the feeling of loving a man to the point of being humble to the core, wanting to give him everything in the world, even your heart and soul.

I glanced at the video and saw Xia Weiwei looking disheveled. She was wearing loose clothes, her hair was messy and tied up casually, and because of her pregnancy, she had gained weight, and it seemed like wrinkles had appeared on her face.

I can hardly believe that she was once a proud and willful socialite dressed in designer brands.

Xia Weiwei initially looked down on Yang Nan, but she was gradually moved by his persistent pursuit. Before they had sex, and after she became pregnant with his child, she regarded Yang Nan as the most important man in her life.

She's becoming more and more dependent on him...

My dad, with a cold face, said to Xia Weiwei in front of the video call, "Xia Weiwei, don't call your mother until you break up with that guy."

I won't let your mom give you a single penny.

Tell that man next to you, the Xia family's money won't be given to some pauper. That man is just taking advantage of the fact that Weiwei is our family's daughter, and that as long as Weiwei gets pregnant, the Xia family can't just abandon her.

"Hmph, what era are we living in? Still trying to profit from an illegitimate child? Your mother and I have more than just Xia Weiwei as a daughter. At worst, after we pass away, all of Dad's property will go to Man!"

"Dad, why...why are you favoring that bitch! I'm your daughter!"

Xia Weiwei was so angry that she cried.

With a heavy heart, President Xia hung up the video call and blacklisted Xia Weiwei.

My mom disapproved of my dad's approach, saying, "Honey, if you do this, won't Weiwei hate us in the future?"

"She's grown up and should be more sensible by now."

My dad said.

My mom sighed, and finally turned off her phone, no longer answering Xia Weiwei's calls.

Xia Weiwei kept pestering me, calling me several times and cursing and hurling insults at me on the phone, completely losing control of her emotions like a shrew.

I know it's because she couldn't get the money, and she blamed everything on me.

I didn't want to waste words with Xia Weiwei, so I coldly threatened her: "If you dare to call me and yell at me again, you can forget about getting your 3000 yuan monthly allowance."

Xia Weiwei, wake up! I advise you to hide that 3000 yuan. Otherwise, when you're no longer of any use and have no money, you'll suffer a fate worse than death in that in-laws' house..."