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  It was also because of that incident that Zhai Hua came to her senses and was no longer willing to care about Wei Wei’s matters anymore. A lot of things were not finalized when Wei Wei was still studying in kindergarten as he was still young. However, when he was in primary school, junior high school, and even senior high school, he had brushed past good opportunities again and again without Zhai Hua’s help.

  After Wei Wei understood what it meant by having such a formidable aunt like Zhai Hua, a lot of things were irreversible, and Zhai Hua wasn’t willing to give Wei Wei a chance to recover anything. That was because at this point, Zhai Hua had already seen clearly that her mother-in-law liked Wei Wei, the grandson, more and her father-in-law was just a silent old man who only knew how to smoke cigarettes and not express opinions. Wei De was forever using ‘Wei Wei is a fatherless child’ to prevaricate himself so that he could continue to treat Wei Wei better than Jiajia.

  Her daughter was only left with her now. Zhai Hua didn’t allow herself to spend any energy on Wei Wei and make her daughter’s life more unfair than hers in the past.

  Zhai Hua tried her best to give all her love to her daughter so that she could avoid feeling unhappy. However, she didn’t expect her daughter, who was always smiling at her, to have kept so many words in her heart.

  It wasn’t that Jiajia didn’t mind or accepted the treatment in her grandma’s house. Jiajia just didn’t want to fight with Wei De so that there would be peace in the family. As such, she had shouldered everything herself.

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  If it weren’t for Qiao Nan finding Jiajia for a chat today so that she could confide her thoughts and if it weren’t for her being worried and insisting on coming over, then coincidentally overhearing the conversation between her and Qiao Nan, when would she be able to rely on herself and find out her daughter’s true thoughts? When would she understand her daughter’s inner world and understand that she didn’t lead a happy childhood at all?

  When she thought of the uproar back then, Zhai Hua suddenly found herself to be ridiculous. Happiness? Was it really happiness? Was she happy, or was Jiajia happy? She was afraid that only the Wei family was happy. If not for marrying her, just like what Zhai Sheng had said over ten years ago, based on Wei De’s capabilities, how would he be able to get promoted to platoon leader, let alone company commander?

  Wei De had told her more than once that his goal in life was to become a regiment commander. Why did he share his goal with her? It was obvious that Wei De wanted her to know his thoughts so that she could work on her family and get Zhai Sheng to promote him to that position.

  Since she didn’t like him and her daughter wasn’t happy, what was the significance of her insistence to marry Wei De and be together with him? Her daughter had cried so much. What was the significance of her suffering in silence all these years then?

  However, to get a divorce?

  Upon thinking of a divorce, Zhai Hua’s attitude wasn’t as decisive as when she had wanted to marry Wei De back then. That was because she knew that if Jiajia wished for her to get a divorce, then why didn’t Jiajia share with her all the grievances in her heart? Jiajia wanted to maintain the apparent peace of this family. Did this mean that no matter how incompetent Wei De was as a father and how biased her grandma was, Jiajia eventually wanted this family?

  For herself, Zhai Hua felt that getting a divorce was nothing. However, if it was for her daughter, then there were a lot of issues she needed to consider and care about.

  Zhai Hua didn’t say anything. Zhai Sheng couldn’t be bothered to ask anything else either. Compared to Zhai Hua, he wanted to ‘communicate’ with Qiao Nan even more. It looked like it wasn’t that he was too sensitive when he first felt something strange. Indeed, Qiao Nan knew too much about their Zhai family.

  Zhai Sheng was even more surprised by what Qiao Nan had asked Jiajia today. Qiao Nan could actually ask a question that even their Zhai family didn’t know about. Since this was a situation that the Zhai family wasn’t aware of, didn’t Qiao Nan, an outsider, know too much? How did Qiao Nan know all these? Why did she understand the situations of the Zhai family and the Wei family so clearly?

  If Qiao Nan was suspected of having bad faith toward the Zhai family because of her quirks, then Zhai Sheng wouldn’t believe it. He was very sure that not only did Qiao Nan not bear any malicious intent toward the Zhai family, but she even had the best intentions for them. Take Jiajia crying in Qiao Nan’s arms for example. If Jiajia didn’t feel Qiao Nan’s good intentions, how would Jiajia be willing to confide in Qiao Nan completely when she never confided to Zhai Hua?

  This woman had really kept a lot of things from him!

  Qiao Nan thought that she had already avoided everyone’s gaze. She didn’t know that not only were there people who overheard her conversation with Jiajia, but Zhai Sheng had also caught hold of her vulnerability and she had nowhere to escape from him.

  She was a person who understood the Zhai family very well. She also cared very much about the Zhai family. Even if Qiao Nan was willing to say that she wasn’t interested in Zhai Sheng at all, one had to see if Zhai Sheng was willing to be a fool to believe in Qiao Nan’s lies.

  Qiao Nan’s conversation with Jiajia influenced Zhai Hua greatly. After knowing that her daughter had cried so much and that it was inappropriate for her to find her daughter at this time since that would not be giving her face, she could only return to her room. It was just that when she saw Wei De, who looked like he wanted to settle scores with her, sitting in the room, Zhai Hua lost all her mood.

  There was one thing Zhai Hua was right about. Indeed, Wei De wanted to settle scores with her. “Zhai Hua, what does your family mean by this? That woman surnamed Qiao is just an outsider. For an outsider, your parents actually didn’t give me, the son-in-law, face and even treated her better than me? Regardless, I’ve married you and you are my wife. Since they don’t give me face, does that mean that they are no longer willing to give you, the daughter, face as well? Also, I can tell you that the Qiao family is a bunch of troublemakers. Quickly ask your parents to chase Qiao Nan out of the Zhai family. Don’t have anything to do with her. Otherwise, when trouble hits, don’t regret not listening to my advice today!”

  Did water enter the Zhai family’s brains? There was such a big scandal in the Qiao family. Who didn’t avoid the Qiao family when they saw them now? The Zhai family was really something. Not only did they not avoid the Qiao family, but they even took the initiative to get close to them. Was there something wrong with their brains?! If he was the one who owned everything in the Zhai family, he wouldn’t be like the Zhai family who kept stepping on steel wires!

  “Troublemakers?” Upon hearing this, Zhai Hua wanted to laugh. “Do you think that our Zhai family has less trouble?” Since the day she married Wei De, the Zhai family’s troubles were never less.

  Qiao Nan was different from Wei De. Following Qiao Nan’s appearance, she could obviously feel that the relationship between her parents and Zhai Sheng had eased a lot. Due to Qiu Chenxi, her parents had always felt that they did something sorry to Zhai Sheng. In reality, Zhai Sheng had also become colder and more indifferent than before.