Absolutely Spoiled - Chapter 17

Chapter 17

“Yiyi, after Mom and Dad separate, who do you want to follow?”

Her parents, who talked with her on the phone, tore their faces apart in a blink of an eye, like two strangers. They were all asking her, “Want to follow Dad or Mom?” Do they let her choose freely?

But she asked. “If father and mother are separated, who wants me?”

Yu Kai and Ruan Qing were silent at the same time.

Yu Zhiyi already knew the answer and was really heartbroken. ‘What a cruel reality.’

Overnight, she experienced the feeling of falling from the clouds to the bottom of the valley, and she didn’t even have the chance to ask for help halfway.

They had planned everything, and when the time was right, they just informed her: We are divorced.

“Dad, Mom, You guys are so cruel…”

The grandma standing at the door pressed her head, and when her dizziness got better, she opened the door and walked in, taking the little girl back to her room.

“Grandma, is Yiyi not good enough, so they don’t like me?”

She looked forward to family harmony. Even if she really couldn’t choose, she would still respect her parents’ choice, even though she feels uncomfortable. She didn’t even ask her parents to take good care of her.

“I know how to do housework, I have learned a lot of cooking, I can take care of myself and my family, and I am obedient and study hard, but…” ‘But why don’t they want me?’

Hearing the child’s grievances, the grandmother was very distressed and hugged the granddaughter, while wiping away tears silently. “Yiyi is the most sensible child. Grandma likes you, and Grandma wants you.”

As the granddaughter, who was raised since childhood, the grandmother loved her the most.

Because her parents were not around when she was young, she was more sensible than her peers. She learned to do housework within her capacity early on, helping with laundry and cooking, never willfully, let alone causing trouble to the family like some naughty children. She was happy and cherished when others treated her well, and she would repay in her own way. If others treated her badly, she would only hide her grievances in her heart, and she would not quarrel with others. This was the most worry-free child the old woman had ever seen. But they were not responsible enough for this child, and they finally broke her heart!

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Finally, Ruan Qing took Yu Xinyan away, and Yu Zhiyi had to follow her father from now on.

Ruan Qing had to rush back to work, but Yu Kai stayed in his hometown because his gambling business was a bit big and he was fired.

Grandma found that her dizziness was getting worse, so she had to tell her daughter the truth. Ruan Qing took her mother to the hospital for an examination, and the hospital in the town advised her to go to a big city for surgery.

Ruan Qing planned to take her mother away this time and go to a good hospital in a big city for treatment. “Mom, the hospital here can’t cure you, so you can follow me to my place for a while.”

Grandma was still hesitant at first, but she was really afraid of accidents, so she agreed to go to a big city with her daughter for medical treatment.

But she had a request. “Yiyi has been very sad about what happened to the two of you recently. If I let her know that my condition is serious, I don’t know how sad she will be.” Grandma couldn’t bear the child’s distress, so she negotiated a set of excuses with Ruan Qing.

“Yiyi, Grandma will go to the city with Mom for a while, and you and Dad will live at home first.”

Yu Zhiyi was suddenly frightened and grabbed her hand tightly. “Is grandma leaving too?”

“Grandma won’t leave. Yiyi’s mother is also Grandma’s daughter. Grandma just went to live for a while and will be back soon.”

Grandma said so, and Yu Zhiyi could only choose to believe it.

She believed that Grandma had just gone to live with her mother for a few days and would be back soon. ‘Grandma said she would not abandon me.’

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Yu Kai went out to look for a job during the day, while Yu Zhiyi stayed at home alone, cooked some delicious food, and wanted to send it to Shi Yi. She packed the snacks in a box and carried them with one hand.

She suddenly found a moving company’s car parked downstairs of Shi’s house, moving things into the car. Yu Zhiyi froze in place for a moment, then remembered that Ning Suya had said a long time ago that after Shi Yi graduated from junior high school, he was going to move to the city.

The day she learned that her parents were divorcing, she suddenly grew overnight. For some reason, she remembered what Shi Yi once said. He said, “Parents and children are a family and will be together forever!”

But it turned out that he was wrong. Mom and Dad separated, and parents and children separated. She and Shi Yi… would eventually separate.

The box of snacks was not sent out in the end, and it was placed on the dining table of Yu Zhiyi’s house.

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When Yu Kai came home in the afternoon, he was in a bad mood. A few years ago, he developed outside, and this time he came back and looked down on the little money at home, but if he were to go out alone now, he would have no connections and no principal. He was unlucky everywhere in his search for a job, so he was naturally in a bad mood. “Where’s the food?”

“On the table, there is…” Yu Zhiyi lifted the cover and served a bowl of rice to his father.

Yu Kai was very hungry, so he quickly ate two large bowls, leaving only residual juice on the vegetable plate, and threw the bowls and chopsticks on the table.

Yu Zhiyi put away the bowls and chopsticks in the kitchen and wiped the table and stove clean.

After tidying up everything and coming out, she saw her father sitting on the cool sofa smoking a cigarette, and the smoke rings spit out from his mouth, giving off a choking smell.

She approached her father while still feeling the effects of the smoke, paused for a moment, and then said, “Father, there is no rice at home.”

But he didn’t say anything.

In the past, her grandmother would grow vegetables in the nearby fields. There was no shortage of vegetables for the time being, but the rice tank had bottomed out.

She took out the only money in her piggy bank and ran to the street to buy rice, but found that she was too weak to lift it. She agreed with the boss to bring the bag of rice back several times, and when she was carrying the last one, she met Shi Yi, who was going out.

Shi Yi directly snatched the rice bag from her hand. “It’s so heavy, why don’t you let Uncle carry it.”

“Dad is already very tired of looking for a job during the day. Anyway, I’m fine now that I’m on vacation. I just need to make a few more trips.”

“You are considerate of Uncle, but you can also ask me for help.” He accompanied his mother to the urban area for something, ignored the little girl, and she seemed to had learned to carry rice bags by herself in a blink of an eye.

Yu Zhiyi squeezed her fingers unnaturally, and with a faint smile on her face, she just said, “Thank you, brother.”

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When there was an accident in Yu Zhiyi’s family, Shi Yi would come to accompany her every day.

Unfortunately, Shi’s father received a call saying that his father in his hometown had fallen and was hospitalised. He hoped that his son would take his wife and child back to see him.

When Shi’s father heard this, he was very anxious and immediately asked for leave from his work unit to take his wife and son to visit his father.

When the car stopped outside the door, Shi Yi turned into the yard. “Dad, I’ll go and talk to Yi Yi.”

The parents understood and just said, “Then you hurry up.”

Shi Yi nodded and ran into the yard to have a look, only to find the little girl standing in front of the washing table, struggling to wash adults’ clothes,

Shi Yi immediately frowned. “What are you doing?”

“Wash, wash clothes.” She still had one in her hand.

“Why don’t you use a washing machine?”

“These clothes are thin, and it’s good to wash by hand.”

In fact, it would take half an hour to do laundry once, which consumed electricity. She looked at the electric meter two days ago, and she was determined to save money.

The little girl lowered her head to scrub, and a strand of hair from her ear fell down and stuck to her cheek.

Shi Yi raised his hand to lift the lock of hair, and the little girl looked up.

He didn’t have time to help, and Shi Yi sighed slightly. “Yiyi, my parents and I are going to visit my grandpa. We have to leave for a few days.”

As soon as Yu Zhiyi looked at him, her first reaction was panic. “Is my brother leaving too?”

Seeing her disappointed expression, Shi Yi immediately understood what was going on in her heart. At this critical moment, relatives left one after another, which hurt her heart. He felt sorry for Yiyi, but he had to go back to visit his grandpa. Shi Yi explained it to her. “Because Grandpa is hospitalised, I have to visit him. When Grandpa recovers, your brother will come back.”

He was in a hurry, so he couldn’t stay for too long, and he carefully told her. “If you have anything you can’t do, call me, or ask your neighbours for help, don’t be brave like last time. You have to take good care of yourself at home, you know?”

“Okay…Brother, wait a minute, I’m going to get something.” She suddenly remembered something and hurried back to the house.

Taking advantage of this time, Shi Yi ran over to see which neighbours were still at home. “Auntie, please take care of Yiyi if it’s convenient for you. Please.”

Yu Zhiyi put all the snacks on the table into a clean bag and took them out. “Brother, this is for you, uncle and aunt. You can eat it on the road. Also, I hope your grandpa is safe and healthy.” A sensible child would say what everyone thought was correct and nice.

‘And I hope you will come back.’

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She hung up the clothes to dry, went back to the house, and began to wash the vegetables, preparing food for the evening.

Yu Kai came back late today, still smelling of alcohol.

“Dad, do you want to eat?”

As soon as she stepped forward, Yu Kai unexpectedly pushed her. The little girl was unprepared and took a step back and fell to the floor.

“Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat all day long!” Yu Kai vented all the anger he received outside on his daughter, saying a lot of nasty things. “If it wasn’t for you, would I need to stay in this place?” He had no money, so he couldn’t take Yu Zhiyi to settle in another place.

She looked at her father in astonishment, feeling pain like a needle prick in her heart. Even knowing that she was not chosen, it still hurt to hear such blunt words.

Even if she did everything carefully at home every day and would rather spend all the lucky money she had saved for many years than ask him for it, was it still a burden?

[T/L: Lucky money means the money children receive from their relatives and friends on the Chinese New Year and other special occasions.]

So in the hearts of her parents, had she always been a drag?

Tears rolled in her eyes, and she tried hard not to let them fall.

Mom said she would come back to see her, but she left her behind.

Grandma said she would be home soon, but there were only a few phone calls during this period, and sometimes she even took the initiative to call, and she might be hung up after saying a few words. At the beginning, she would ask her grandmother when she would come, and the other party always replied “wait some time”, and then she stopped asking.

‘My brother said that he would come back and that she could find him if there was anything. How am I going to find him? How can I tell him that Yiyi was abandoned by everyone and has no home anymore.’

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Yu Kai couldn’t find the job he wanted, so he had to do hard work in order to make a living. He was exhausted at work during the day, and his temper became more and more irritable after returning home.

Yu Zhiyi even came up with the idea of ​​finding a part-time job, but how could a fifteen-year-old girl be needed in a small place like this town and they all rejected her?

There were so many beer bottles and cigarette butts in the house these days that she couldn’t even clean them up.

Yu Kai’s room smelled of alcohol and tobacco, and Yu Zhiyi cleaned it every day.

Yu Kai would say a lot of nasty things to her when he was drunk and even beat her.

After waking up from the drunkenness, he would hug her and apologise again. Yu Zhiyi didn’t know how she felt about this father, but remained even more silent.

Once, even the nagging aunt couldn’t stand it anymore and pulled her home. “Your dad is too much, I’ll call your mom.”

Yu Zhiyi clenched her fingers tightly, not daring to admit that she still had expectations at this moment, maybe her mother would love her too.

But when my aunt got through to her mother, and just mentioned the name “Yu Kai”, the other party hastily hung up.

In an instant, the little girl’s face turned pale. ‘What are you waiting for? Distressed? Your mother doesn’t care about your situation at all.’ She said to herself bitterly.

That day, Yu Kai got into a fight with someone on the construction site, and was fired. He held the wine bottle again, got drunk, and sat on the ground.

Yu Zhiyi tried to take him to the room to rest. “Dad, the floor is cold go to the room and sleep.”

Yu Kai felt upset when he saw the figure dangling in front of him, so he picked up the wine bottle and threw it at her.

“ah–”

A painful cry broke out in the silent night.

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Shi Yi didn’t expect that his grandfather would fall ill and be admitted to the hospital for other geriatric diseases.

Grandpa missed the younger generation, but because Shi’s father was busy with work and Ning Suya couldn’t take too long leave, they left Shi Yi there.

Grandpa loved this clever grandson very much and was reluctant to let him go. So Shi Yi stayed almost a month there.

On the day Grandpa was discharged from the hospital, the whole family came to pick him up.

Shi Yi supported his grandfather and whispered in his ear, “Grandpa, you can’t drink or smoke anymore, you need to take care of your health.”

“I know.” Grandpa had the temperament of an old urchin, and his promises to them always didn’t count, and sometimes he secretly hid the wine to drink.

Grandpa recovered, so he could go back to accompany Yiyi.

Just thinking about it, he suddenly received a call with the note “Aunt Yang”.

“Shi Yi, something really happened to the Yu family…”

“I only found out today that Yiyi seems to have been sent to the hospital. I went to their house to see that there was blood on the ground…”

Hearing that Yiyi was injured, Shi Yi was frightened for the first time in his life and panicked. He wanted to go back.

Ning Suya didn’t stop him but just asked him, “How can we intervene in things that even her mother and uncle can’t control?”

That was the first time Shi Yi told his mother so firmly and clearly about his choice. “Sensitive kids question everyone’s love when left alone. Mom, I won’t leave Yiyi behind. Never!”

End of chapter 17

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