"I see you’re pretty close with that custor!" Yunwen hadn’t been to the restaurant in days. It was rare for her to co, yet she encountered this scene.
Ji Yunhuan also found it quite astonishing. "She said she knows , but never ntioned how. She kept guessing. She’ll probably co again tomorrow!"
"She’s been coming these days?"
"Yeah! It’s been several days. She cos every day, but she doesn’t seem like a bad person." Ji Yunhuan smiled.
"Let’s go shopping!" Yunwen suggested. "I want to buy so spring clothes."
"Uh, but I have to work tonight."
"Let soone else do it." Although this restaurant belonged to Yunwen, Ji Yunhuan had investnts in two other restaurants. Yunwen couldn’t really treat Ji Yunhuan like a server.
"Alright!"
After going shopping, Ji Yunhuan didn’t go back ho. 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 surna was Lin.
Seeing Ji Yunhuan quietly listening without asking questions, she seed 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 rembered correctly, Bai Liyan’s family conditions were no worse than the Qi Family’s.
"What? You don’t believe ? Do I look too ordinary?" The woman seed to understand Ji Yunhuan’s astonishnt 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 deanor, 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 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 ashad 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 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 alard his mother?
Good heavens!
Did they have to tease her like this?
Aunt Bai sighed. "Liyan has had one dream since childhood, to beco an outstanding doctor. Reality proved that he succeeded, which comforts as a mother. But what worries is, he never showed interest in won. This ti, upon hearing he wants to marry you, I was very surprised and ca 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 seed disappointed. She had clearly believed the rumors. Otherwise, why would she spend so much ti on Ji Yunhuan?
"What happened that day was an accident. There’s no possibility between 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 disappointnt. 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 rely a tragic outco 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 . 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 soone with only dreams loses their goal, it pains more than a knife cut. I tried to advise him many tis, but he never listened. You are the first woman he vowed to marry. Regardless of how you see him, I ca hoping Ms. Ji could promise 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 ti. But things have co 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 seed like he didn’t need her forgiveness anyway. Ji Yunhuan sighed helplessly. "Speaking of forgiveness, the one who should forgive him most is himself."
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