Chapter 71: Her past (4)

The two years of Yu Ichika's life had mentally left her with depression and sadness. She was unable to cope up with the fact that she would never be able to carry a child. When they adopted Nana, she gained back her color and vigor but still couldn't completely let go of her inability to conceive.

When the twins were born, she was way over the moon. She thought that that last gap in her life was filled too. So, now she didn't want anything to happen that could ruin their family after waiting for such a long time.

She couldn't believe that Yu Tengfei did this. He was always there to support her, he always loved her so much. It was impossible for him to betray her. Her stubbornness led her to blame Nana.

She came forward and slapped her hard.

"Why Nana? Why did you do this?", she cried, "How can you be so vicious?"

Nana was stupefied. The loud sound of that slap resounded in her ears. She stared at her blankly.

The twins got more frightened and hugged her tightly.

"He is your father for God's sake! How can you try to seduce him!? We adopted you, loved you like our own child and in return, you give us this! Betrayal? And now you are even acting like a victim? Where did we go wrong? Tell me!"

Nana couldn't utter a word. Everything was crystal clear and she still refused to believe it.

"Mom…"

"Shut up! Don't call me that."

Yu Tengfei said nothing to refute.

"And leave my twins! They are not your brothers from now on. They don't have any sister from now on."

She forcefully dragged them away from her. The twins cried even harder but she ignored it.

She looked at her furiously, "You have betrayed us but we will still bear your responsibility. Until you grow up to be an adult we will raise you. But don't show your face to us even if we'll be living under the same roof."

Yu Tengfei didn't look at her and she left with them leaving Nana all alone in her room. She felt everything was over. This was the worst day of her life.

But that day was yet to come. Because two days later, Yu Tengfei committed suicide. He hanged himself. That was the time when Nana's situation became way worse.

Yu Ichika became mentally unstable. She sat hours in front of his cold dead body. She was laughing like he was doing some sort of a joke.

"Wake up dear, wake up. The joke's not funny anymore."

"The twins will start crying. Do you want to make them sad?"

But slowly the reality sunk in. She read the last letter he wrote.

"Sorry…I'm so sorry."

She cried hard that day. No matter how much others tried to console her, it was all in vain.

And she blamed only one person for her misery.

She stomped her way in Nana's room, dragged her and threw her out the house in front of all people.

"Mom, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry.", Nana cried, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

All the neighbors started murmuring. They blamed her for being too beautiful from which even her father couldn't escape. Some even conjectured that she may be a prostitute's child. It may be in her bad blood to seduce men.

"It's all because of you! You are a curse. I regret the day we took you in. If not for you my Tengfei would still be alive. You messed him up.", she pointed her finger at Nana and said with loathe in her eyes, "I, Yu Ichika, disown you from my family. You will have nothing to do with my family from now on. You will not be a Yu anymore! You will not carry my husband's name. Ever!"

Nana saw the disgust in her eyes and realized that her family is broken forever. There was no hope. Her mother hated her from the core. She smiled sadly.

"Why...why did you have to do this?", Yu Ichika trembled and fainted. By the time she woke up, Nana was nowhere to be seen.

Present

The rain was finally slowing into a light drizzle. The raging wind calmed down.

She finished retelling her past. She looked up to him and said, "That's how from an orphan I became Yu Nana…to eventually become an orphan again. I was good luck, but then I became a curse."

For the first time ever in Liu Jinhai's life, his eyes welled with tears. At every part where she suffered, his heart clenched as if somebody was mercilessly hammering on it.

He was enraged listening to how Yu Tengfei sexually molested her. He had the urge to defy nature and bring him back from the dead; and personally kill him with his own hands, giving him the worst and cruelest death ever.

He felt horrible that Nana had to apologize even though she was the one who suffered such a gruesome and traumatic event.

Her mother became mentally disturbed. She was not able to bear his betrayal. If Nana had insisted on her innocence, she would have become all the more crazy and depressed. So, to save her from any further pain, she admitted to a mistake she never did.

Now, he understood why she had that desolate look on her face. She had gone through this before. And he and Huian made her relive it once more.

Twice she had to suffer because of them.

Nana got up but her legs were numbed sitting out for such a long time. She tripped but Jinhai caught her in time. She quickly pushed him aside and stabilized herself.

"I…-"

"I don't need your help, Mr. Liu. And I don't want your sympathy either.", she said emotionlessly.