Chapter 1295 — A Painful Past
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It was plain that they were all people close to Xu Shilan; she had not hidden it from them.
"When I was small, I always lived with my mother. My father came to visit my mother and me only after long intervals. At the time I asked my mother, why does father not stay with us every day?"
"My mother told me that father was busy with his career, that he had no such time, and that only now and then, when he found a little leisure, would he come to see us..."
"At the time I was too young to understand, and I believed everything my mother said was true. But later, when I had grown up, I gradually came to understand that I must be an illegitimate daughter..."
"I took my mother's surname. To this day I do not even know what surname my father has..."
"When I was four, one night a woman with a murderous look on her face suddenly burst into our home with men at her back. She cursed my mother as a little slut and cursed me as a little bastard..." Here Xu Shilan's expression could not help turning bleak: "Looking back on it, that woman must have been my father's lawful wife..."
"That woman and her men wanted to kill my mother and me. To save me, my mother was beaten half to death by that woman, but in the end we still escaped her claws..."
"Afterwards my mother fainted on the road. I wanted to go call someone to save her, but I lost my way, and was taken into an orphanage..."
"I was really too small then. Later, when I had grown a little, I went back to that place to look for my mother, but she was nowhere to be found..."
"From then on I never saw my mother again... I do not know whether she has already..." Here Xu Shilan's tears burst forth, and she choked with grief...
Though Xu Shilan told her story in broken snatches, Wei Zhao had already understood the wretched tale she was telling.
It seemed that Xu Shilan's mother had most likely been a woman the man kept on the outside, only to be discovered by his wife, who brought her people to root out the weeds and cut them off at the source — except that mother and daughter had escaped!
And Xu Shilan, having lost her father and then her mother, could hardly be expected to untie such a knot!
"Miss Xu, restrain your grief and accept what fate has sent. Life is ever inconstant, but the achievements you have won, Miss Xu, are beyond the reach of ordinary people. In this matter I cannot help you — this is not an illness. A knot in the heart must be untied by oneself!" Wei Zhao said with a sigh.
"Thank you... In any case, I must thank you! You let me find the root of my headaches!" Xu Shilan said: "So what should I do now?"
"A cure is impossible, but I can make up some medicine for you. When your head aches, take one pill and it will pass." Wei Zhao said: "This medicine has no toxicity and no side effects; you may take it without worry. As for other painkillers, do not take them — they are bad for your body!"