Han Xuehan sucked in a breath. Moving on? She had never even thought about moving on. Truth be told, after her mother married her off to the Qiao family, she felt like she had fallen into a quagmire. Even if she wanted to get out of that hellhole, Han Xuehan wondered if she would ever be able to do it. She played with the spoon in the bowl and asked Han Ruochen in a low voice, "Can I really do it? I don’t think Qiao Tingyan will agree to divorce, and what about...Mom?"

Her mother had told her again and again that she was a married woman and a married woman was like spilled water; she shouldn’t run back home at the smallest trouble. Thus, even if Han Xuehan was bullied to death, she could only suffer in silence.

Hearing her question, Han Ruochen pursed her lips. "You don’t need to worry about mom for the time being." Han Ruochen’s eyes flashed with a hint of disgust when she thought about Meng Yunhan. She knew that they were just a means of revenge for Meng Yunhan. That woman wanted to disgust Master Yun for having children with another woman, so she deliberately had children with Han Yichen. What was more, even though Meng Yunhan was having an affair, she did not want Han Yichen to have an affair.

So, she tied him down with children.

In short, that woman was just a hypocritical person.

And on top of that, she was also cruel and unruly. Since their mother did not care about them, why should they care about her?

"But—"

"Sister." Han Ruochen took Han Xuehan’s hand into hers and comforted her. She patted her on the back of her hand and calmly spoke, "I know that you are worried about Mom’s reaction, but you need to trust Dad, even if Mom doesn’t want you to return; she cannot possibly ignore Dad’s wishes, can she?" As she spoke, she glanced at the door where Han Ruochen could see a shadow lingering outside. She knew that her father had returned at some time, but did not enter the room when he heard the two sisters talking.

Han Xuehan did not notice this. She was lost in her own thoughts and sighed softly. "Ruochen, it’s not that I look down on dad. But you know how it has been. Dad always listened to Mom; all she needed to do was make a fuss, and he would listen to her without asking for the ins and outs of the matter." Han Xuehan smiled wryly when she thought of how her father had never questioned their mother and listened to whatever she told him.

Han Ruochen took a deep breath and then told everything that happened at home. At first, Han Xuehan was stumped when she heard that their father was now willing to quarrel with their mother, but then her mind cottoned onto something else. "Wait, what do you mean by that mom gave away our entire family savings?"

She knew that her father had some savings, but he was holding onto them because he wanted to keep some money for Han Ruochen’s wedding as well as Han Beijiang’s treatment. She never expected that her mother would waste the entire savings by giving it to someone else. Has she lost her mind?

No matter how dependent and biased she was toward her maternal family, this was too much! That was ten thousand yuan and not two hundred yuan. How could her mother just give it away? What was she even thinking?

Han Xuehan could really not accept the idea of her mother just taking away their family’s entire savings, putting it into a business that was doomed to fail and never asking anything in return.

She shook her head. No, if it were her mother, then it would be possible. How many times had it happened? She was now used to seeing such a thing happening. Ever since they were young, her mother would often take the good things at home to her maternal home, and they were not even allowed to smell the smell of meat. Her mother had alwaye been reliant on her maternal family, and even when their father stopped her mother, she would simply say that she had too many brothers and needed to work hard to raise them.

If things became ugly, their mother would simply scoff and say that it was something that their father owed her.

After that, the matter would be more or less settled.

"Then I—" If her family were in trouble, how could Han Xuehan be shameless enough to return and cause more trouble for her family?

"Sister, don’t think too much." Han Ruochen stayed by her side, worried that her sister would once again make a painful decision that would lead to her untimely death. "Even if mom has wasted all of the savings of our family, dad and I are still here. I can earn a decent sum of money after going to the sea, and Dad is still the same. With the two of us working, you don’t need to worry about anything." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"And it’s not like you are uneducated. As long as you are willing, you can always work hard and get a job."

Han Xuehan fell silent for a long time before taking a deep breath. "Will that be enough?"

"Why not?" Han Ruochen asked with a raise of her brow. "Anyway, you should stop worrying about Mom too much. Look at her; did she even worry about what would happen to our family if the savings were lost? No, then why are you worrying about what she would think if you were to return home?" Han Ruochen didn’t even consider her mother’s reaction seriously. After all, her mother would rather watch Han Xuehan die than bring her back.

In her past life, she often insisted that it was because she did not want to ruin the reputation of their family but Han Ruochen knew that her mother did not bring her elder sister home because she simply did not care about her.