Chapter 2264:
Wen Shu’s parents were the ones who suffered the greatest blow in that turmoil, and in order to spare her from so much hardship back then, they had her Aunt Wen Yu take her back home.
So from as far back as she could remember, Wen Yu had always been with her aunt.
In her memory, her aunt was a very beautiful woman, very much a lady from a good family, talented, a renowned gifted woman. She remembered how, on every midsummer night, her aunt would hold her as a little girl in her arms and sit at the desk reading collections of prose and poetry, and she remembered even more how, in order to get her to eat more nutritious food, her aunt would stay up all night copying documents by lamplight to earn money...
Many times adults think children don’t remember anything, but that’s not true. Even after more than twenty years, the most vivid person deep in her memory was still her aunt.
Yet this aunt whom she respected and loved so deeply was completely ruined because of the Duan Family!
She was truly ruined by the Duan Family. At the time, the Wen Family had already filled its quota for being sent down to the countryside—her parents, her uncles, all were on the list—but her aunt was not. However, because the Duan Family had such overpowering influence, in the end her aunt was also sent down. That departure lasted more than twenty years, and to this day there has been no word of her.
The Wen Family and the Duan Family had actually been cousins two generations back. They weren’t particularly close, but they had always kept in touch.
But because of Wen Yu’s situation, the relationship between the two families became completely frozen.
All these years, Wen Shu didn’t know how the elders felt about it, but she herself had always borne a grudge against the Duan Family. When Old Master Shu died, she even bought firecrackers and set them off at home a few times to celebrate!
So just now, when she found out that Duan Xi was Duan Qianyang’s son, she couldn’t keep her emotions in check.
She didn’t vent her anger on the Ruan Family; it was just that when she first learned of it, she couldn’t control her emotions. As soon as she walked out of the Ruan home and the cold air hit her, her head cleared again. Thinking of how Jiaojiao had been stunned just before she left the house, she felt very regretful, so she turned back, intending to come back.
But she hadn’t expected to be hit with another bombshell so soon.
Duan Xi turned out to be her aunt’s son.
For a moment, Wen Shu didn’t know whether she should hate or what she should do; her feelings were very complicated.
"Come back another day. I’ll explain it to the family," seeing Wen Shu’s expression, Ruan Hao said considerately as he started the car.
Wen Shu rubbed her forehead and didn’t refuse. Her mood was truly very complicated now; it really wasn’t suitable for her to see the Ruan Family again.
"Remember to apologize for me."
Ruan Hao nodded.
After dropping Wen Shu off at the place where she was staying, Ruan Hao drove back. Jiaojiao immediately stepped forward to ask, "Big Brother, is Sister Wen alright?"
"She’s fine. She asked me to apologize to you, said she scared you." Ruan Hao rubbed her little head.
His gaze then shifted to Duan Xi at the side. "Wen Yu is Wen Shu’s biological aunt."
Next, Ruan Hao explained to the Ruan Family what Wen Shu had just said, and finally added, "Her emotions are a bit stirred up, so she’s not coming over for dinner. She’ll come next time."
"I didn’t expect there to be this additional layer," the Ruanlin Family’s matriarch shook her head.
From Wen Shu’s words, it wasn’t hard to hear how deeply she revered and longed for this aunt. Thinking of the Wen Yu she remembered from back then, the Ruanlin Family’s matriarch also sighed repeatedly.
Such a good person, yet her luck was so bad—first she ran into the Duan Family, then she encountered that utterly heartless couple Xiu Jianlin and Liu Mei! What a pity indeed.
As for Wen Shu’s earlier rudeness, now it seemed only human.