Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Cousin
Chapter 284: Missing Her, Really Missing Her (2)_1

Chapter 284: Chapter 284: Missing Her, Really Missing Her (2)_1

"I see you’re pretty close with that customer!" Yunwen hadn’t been to the restaurant in days. It was rare for her to come, yet she encountered this scene.

Ji Yunhuan also found it quite astonishing. "She said she knows me, but never mentioned how. She kept me guessing. She’ll probably come again tomorrow!"

"She’s been coming these days?"

"Yeah! It’s been several days. She comes every day, but she doesn’t seem like a bad person." Ji Yunhuan smiled.

"Let’s go shopping!" Yunwen suggested. "I want to buy some spring clothes."

"Uh, but I have to work tonight."

"Let someone else do it." Although this restaurant belonged to Yunwen, Ji Yunhuan had investments in two other restaurants. Yunwen couldn’t really treat Ji Yunhuan like a server.

"Alright!"

After going shopping, Ji Yunhuan didn’t go back home. She had been hiding at Yunwen’s place recently. She really didn’t have the courage to see Qi Cheng again.

...

The next noon, she indeed saw that woman again.

The woman said her surname was Lin.

Seeing Ji Yunhuan quietly listening without asking questions, she seemed quite pleased. "You must be very curious as to how I know you, right?"

Ji Yunhuan nodded. "I am quite curious."

The woman said, "I am Bai Liyan’s mother."

"..." Ji Yunhuan was dumbfounded. This woman...

Truly, it wasn’t that she looked down on people with vanity, but this woman really... dressed quite plainly.

Not as elegant as Qi Cheng’s mother, even compared to Gu Yubai’s mother, she was lacking.

She didn’t resemble the matriarch of a wealthy family at all.

Besides, if she remembered correctly, Bai Liyan’s family conditions were no worse than the Qi Family’s.

"What? You don’t believe me? Do I look too ordinary?" The woman seemed to understand Ji Yunhuan’s astonishment and smiled calmly.

"No, no..." Ji Yunhuan explained. "I was just a bit surprised. You are beautiful, just... different from what I imagined Dr. Bai’s mother to be."

Seeing Bai Liyan’s aloof demeanor, she thought his mother would be more aloof as well.

Aunt Bai laughed. "You don’t have to feel that way. This is just how it is. Almost everyone who has seen me finds it hard to believe I’m Liyan’s mother. Before I married his father, I was but a small maid in their household. Perhaps this is different from those noble young ladies born in affluent families, so it’s quite surprising?"

When she talked about her past, there wasn’t a hint of humility, nor did she feel ashamed of her origins.

One can’t choose their birth, but it didn’t change the fact that she married into the Bai Family and birthed a son like Bai Liyan.

Ji Yunhuan felt rather embarrassed. "Why are you telling me this?"

Could it be...

She knew about her and Bai Liyan?

That day Bai Liyan made a joke in public, and not only did everyone hear, but it even alarmed his mother?

Good heavens!

Did they have to tease her like this?

Aunt Bai sighed. "Liyan has had one dream since childhood, to become an outstanding doctor. Reality proved that he succeeded, which comforts me as a mother. But what worries me is, he never showed interest in women. This time, upon hearing he wants to marry you, I was very surprised and came to see for myself."

"..." So it was like that. Ji Yunhuan felt incredibly awkward. "There is nothing between us; those are just rumors. They aren’t true."

"Is that so?" Aunt Bai seemed disappointed. She had clearly believed the rumors. Otherwise, why would she spend so much time on Ji Yunhuan?

"What happened that day was an accident. There’s no possibility between me and Bai Liyan." Ji Yunhuan didn’t know what to say. Had she known earlier, she would have clarified it sooner. But these past days, Aunt Bai had been coming and chatting happily with Ji Yunhuan every day.

Ji Yunhuan felt deeply guilty.

Aunt Bai asked, "Do you think our Liyan isn’t good? Do you dislike him?"

In her eyes was an indescribable disappointment. Her precious son being disliked was as if she herself was being disliked.

Faced with those sorrowful eyes, Ji Yunhuan didn’t know how to respond.

Bai Liyan and Qi Cheng are friends. Naturally, there was no chance for her and Bai Liyan.

Plus, considering the issue of Chenchen...

Even if, compared to what Qi Cheng did, Chenchen’s death was merely a tragic outcome and Bai Liyan hadn’t intended to harm Chenchen, Ji Yunhuan still felt they couldn’t be together.

Moreover, she was a woman who had been married.

Marrying into the Bai Family, did she think the world was that simple?

She shook her head and said to Aunt Bai, "Dr. Bai is very good, too excellent for me. Since you are his mother, you must know that he and Qi Cheng have always been close. I used to be Qi Cheng’s wife. Although we are now divorced... I really can’t be with Bai Liyan."

Aunt Bai quietly listened to Ji Yunhuan and said, "Actually, I knew all this. Initially, I didn’t understand either. If it were the past, I wouldn’t have agreed and might have advised him to reconsider... But these past two years have been a bottleneck for Bai Liyan. Since the incident with your brother, he gave up his dreams and lived a life I, as his mother, couldn’t even imagine. When someone with only dreams loses their goal, it pains me more than a knife cut. I tried to advise him many times, but he never listened. You are the first woman he vowed to marry. Regardless of how you see him, I came hoping Ms. Ji could promise me a few things."

Ji Yunhuan quietly listened. "Please, go ahead."

Although she didn’t like Bai Liyan, facing his mother, she couldn’t bring herself to hate her.

Aunt Bai said, "Please forgive my son. Every doctor will face failures but they persist in their roles to save more patients. If possible, he wouldn’t let that tragedy happen at the time. But things have come to this. I just hope you can forgive him. Don’t let him bear such a heavy guilt anymore."

She sincerely pleaded with Ji Yunhuan.

What lay before Ji Yunhuan was a pair of eyes filled with concern for her son.

Ji Yunhuan could tell that Aunt Bai wasn’t demanding because of her status, but sincerely hoping her son could be forgiven.

Ji Yunhuan really didn’t know what to say. She never considered whether to forgive Bai Liyan or not. It seemed like he didn’t need her forgiveness anyway. Ji Yunhuan sighed helplessly. "Speaking of forgiveness, the one who should forgive him most is himself."