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Chapter 96 - 96 94 Cumbersome and Troublesome

Chapter 96: Chapter 94 Cumbersome and Troublesome Chapter 96: Chapter 94 Cumbersome and Troublesome …

The year Sheng Tan met Chen He was their prime.

Sheng Tan was twenty years old, Chen He nineteen.

As an exchange student, Sheng Tan arrived at Chen He’s school; among that group of students, his natural good looks made him the center of attention.

In that era, people tended to marry young. Sheng Tan was engaged due to an arranged marriage by his family, but the wedding had not yet taken place because he was still studying.

Chen He’s family was of scholarly descent, strict in family discipline, but also retained some old customs, like the belief that marriage should be arranged by one’s parents and the matchmaker.

Chen He had a boyfriend at that time, one well-accepted by her family; both families had been friends for generations, and Chen He and her boyfriend could be considered childhood sweethearts.

Sheng Tan thought Chen He had the temperament of a young lady, while Chen He considered Sheng Tan arrogant.

At first, neither of them thought much of the other, with Chen He frequently bad-mouthing Sheng Tan in front of her boyfriend.

Setting aside first impressions, Sheng Tan was a true scholar, and Chen He a genuine talent. Over time, although they verbally expressed dissatisfaction with each other, deep down, they both harbored a growing admiration.

In the midst of their best years, their hearts were moved unintentionally, and admiration slowly turned into affection.

Without openly acknowledging it, Sheng Tan and Chen He began to defend each other. In Sheng Tan’s eyes, Chen He’s so-called young lady temperament became cute and full of character; in Chen He’s eyes, Sheng Tan’s arrogance transformed into masculinity.

When Chen He spoke of Sheng Tan to her boyfriend, it was no longer complaints, but praise.

Sheng Tan and Chen He became a couple on a summer afternoon.

A rumble of thunder heralded a torrential downpour, drenching them both like soaked chickens.

Sheng Tan’s place was nearer, and with the rain showing no sign of stopping, he had to take Chen He to his home for shelter.

Chen He’s clothes were soaked through, and she shivered from the cold. Sheng Tan gave her his clothes to change into.

The sky was overcast, as dark as if it were nighttime.

Sheng Tan read a book, and Chen He drew closer.

That closeness sparked a flame.

Both had long harbored feelings for each other, and once one of them took initiative, the other couldn’t help but respond.

Neither Sheng Tan nor Chen He could remember who made the first move, but by the end of that day, they were together.

This kind of love drove them mad. Sheng Tan wanted to call off his engagement, and Chen He wanted to break up. When their families disagreed, the two of them went through extreme measures, threatening both suicide and elopement, like a dramatic narrative.

How could the Chen Family possibly accept their daughter behaving in such a way? In a fit of rage, they disowned Chen He.

Without looking back, Chen He, determined and resolute, picked up her belongings and followed Sheng Tan.

Sheng Tan’s family disagreed with him breaking off the engagement until Chen He became pregnant with Sheng Xian. Then, with great reluctance, Sheng Tan’s family had to humbly request the cancellation of the engagement from the woman’s family.

Sheng Tan married Chen He in a grand and passionate ceremony, as if he wished to declare it to the world for universal celebration.

In a novel, despite the questionable morals, this would still count as a lovely story.

Sheng Tan and Chen He, after considering each other throughout a significant part of their lives, found that they were meant for each other. They faced numerous obstacles to be together, which could have made for a beautiful love story.

Unfortunately, that’s just in novels. The conclusion there isn’t the same as reality.

From getting together to marriage, it only took Sheng Tan and Chen He a little over three months. During that time, they only saw each other’s good points, and were blind to the flaws.

After marriage, as they lived together, their so-called love was gradually worn away by the daily grind of domestic life, leaving behind only trivial disputes.

They started out arguing over significant matters, but over time, they would argue over trivial things such as an unsatisfactory breakfast or unwashed dishes after a meal.

The arguments persisted, until finally, she felt he was no different from any other worldly man, and he thought she was just like any ordinary housewife.

The depth of their love in the beginning was matched by the bitterness of their hatred later on.

On the day Sheng Xian was born, Sheng Tan, having argued with Chen He, was out drinking with friends instead of being by her side.

Chen He couldn’t let it go and constantly brought it up. Sheng Tan, initially feeling guilty, would coax and apologize, but as time passed and the issue persisted, Sheng Tan began to grow impatient. Feeling aggrieved, Chen He intensified the quarrels, feeling that any husband should be by his wife’s side during childbirth.

Their disputes lasted from when Sheng Xian was one until he was three, by which point they had completely lost any affection for each other, with nothing left but disdain.

In a surge of anger, Chen He left behind three-year-old Sheng Xian and ran away from home.

Sheng Tan looked at Sheng Xian, who resembled Chen He, and felt annoyed. Seeing that Chen He did not return, he sent Sheng Xian off to live with his old mother.

When Chen He came back, it was two months later.

She proposed divorce to Sheng Tan, and Sheng Tan had long wanted to make a clean break with her.

The two of them didn’t even mention it at home and went straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau to complete the divorce proceedings.

It wasn’t until two years later, when Sheng Tan’s mother passed away and there was no one to take care of Sheng Xian, that he saw Sheng Tan and Chen He again.

By that time, both of them had new lives and neither wanted to take Sheng Xian, each hoping to shove this burden onto the other.

Two years on, a small five-year-old Sheng Xian knelt in front of his grandmother’s memorial hall, seeing his parents again, not to receive care and protection, but to witness an embarrassing quarrel.

“This child is your seed, you raise him.”

“As if he didn’t come from your womb. My mother raised him for two years, that counts as raising him for me, now it’s your turn. Take him for two years, then we’ll talk.”

“I don’t want him.”

“I don’t want him either.”

“Had I known you were this kind of thing, I wouldn’t have given birth to him in the first place.”

“Had I known you were this kind of woman, I wouldn’t have let you give birth to him.”

Later on, the two left Sheng Xian to be raised alone by a nanny they hired to take care of him.

The nanny did not treat him well, his meals were irregular, and sometimes he was fed leftovers.

To save themselves trouble, Sheng Tan and Chen He began by visiting once a month, then when they saw that Sheng Xian was still alive, they came once every three months, and later, once every half year… until Sheng Tan and Chen He paid the nanny a year’s salary in advance, after which she took the money and ran off.

At that time, Sheng Xian had started elementary school. Only after he fainted from hunger at school did Sheng Tan and Chen He learn that the nanny had absconded with the money.

Sheng Tan and Chen He argued again upon meeting.

“So annoying, why did I have to have him in the first place?”

“I’m really busy, can’t you think of a way to take him for a while?”

“Why should I be the one to find a way, why can’t you? My son is only three and can’t be without me.”

“…”

Sheng Xian lay in bed, pretending to sleep, with a needle stuck in his arm as thin as a girl’s.

He was nearly seven years old then.

From the time at his grandmother’s side, from being told his parents didn’t want him, to his parents truly not wanting him, it had been almost four years.

He couldn’t quite remember how he survived those four years, but he remembered a lot of the things that were said.

“Why did I have to have him.”

“I don’t care, it’s your seed, figure out what to do with it.”

“Can’t you take care of your own child?”

“Isn’t this also your child?”

“…”

He couldn’t understand why his father and mother could be so good to their new children after remarrying, yet treat him so differently.

The classmates in his class were all picked up by their parents after school, so why was he seen as a burden and nuisance?

Gradually, he began to question himself.

He was not good enough.

He was despised.

He wasn’t worthy of being liked.

And slowly, he came to feel, you must be disgusting to actually like someone like me.