Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl-Chapter 29 - : Letting Go of Obsession

But all this was just superficial.

The reality was one who didn't want to live with his children, preferring to be alone and free.

The other was helpless and out of options, being sent away from the home they had lived in for twelve years.

The grandparent and grandchild were irreconcilable.

The next morning, before eight o'clock, Mr. Zhen came to visit.

However, unexpectedly, as the siblings walked out of the farmhouse's gate, they found that woman, Aunt Ju, already waiting outside.

Zhen Yu's expression turned cold, and she sneered inwardly.

She thought it was good that Aunt Ju knew she wasn't welcomed, hence she didn't enter.

But was it enough just to wait outside?

Not to mention her, even Zhen Yan would never agree to go along with her.

As expected, Zhen Yan immediately began to shout at Aunt Ju.

"What are you doing here? My house doesn't welcome you!"

A twisted expression appeared on Aunt Ju's usually expressionless face.

If it wasn't for today being the first visit to her father-in-law, and needing to save face for Mr. Zhen, she wouldn't give in to this brat's insolence!

She forced herself to remain calm and did not erupt in anger or make a sound.

Zhen Yu watched this scene unfold silently.

Mr. Zhen quickly stood between his children and his new wife, forcing a smile as he explained, "Didn't I just marry your Aunt Ju yesterday~ Today I thought I'd take her to pay respects to the old man..."

Zhen Yu interrupted Mr. Zhen's remark, "Your Aunt Ju! Stop flattering her too much!"

"You told Mom you were taking me and little sister to see Grandpa today, didn't you?" Zhen Yan retorted.

Mr. Zhen's smile stiffened slightly, and he hurriedly explained, "You see, Dad has been really busy, and only had today free! I thought we could go together..."

Mr. Zhen's words were once again sharply interrupted by Zhen Yu.

"Wishful thinking."

Zhen Yu pulled her brother back toward the gate, and before closing it, she added, "No need to send you off."

Mr. Zhen, with a gloomy face, watched the closed gate and growled in a low voice, "Is this how you talk to your father?! Did I teach you to be like this from childhood?"

Zhen Yan was just about to retort when Zhen Yu pulled him behind her and stood out front.

"The upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked; you shouldn't be too surprised."

"You!..." Mr. Zhen, furious, almost staggered backwards, "Fine! Fine! So I can't control you now, is that it?"

"Think whatever you like." Zhen Yu calmly watched the angry Mr. Zhen and the onlooking Aunt Ju.

"Do you even know I am your father?!"

Zhen Yu tilted her head, her expression finally changing.

Her voice trembling slightly, she asked pointedly, "Father? Do you even know you are my father?"

Zhen Halong, seeing his daughter's expression mingling self-mockery with concealed sorrow, revealing the unbearable weight in her life through his forced smile.

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He stood there stunned, unable to utter another word.

That woman from the Ju family, who had been pretending rather well until now, had a hint of cunning in her eyes. Seeing the scene, she suddenly grabbed the dazed Mr. Zhen.

Zhen Yu's face grew even colder, "Better take your filthy thing away before I have to intervene!"

The woman immediately changed her face upon being insulted and started to curse, "You say that again..."

Mr. Zhen uttered a dry "Ah? Ah!" twice, quickly pulled the cursing woman away by the hand and turned to leave.

Zhen Yu stood there, watching their retreating figures without moving.

Seeing his sister not moving, Zhen Yan also remained still.

After a long while, Zhen Yu took a deep breath, opened the gate, and left a message, "I'm going to read."

Then, she walked out with her head held high.

Zhen Yan hadn't expected his sister to just walk away, and stood there somewhat dazed.

Is Grandpa not going to watch? Is he not going anymore?

Nobody answered him.

Fortunately, Zhen Yan was a cheerful boy who quickly put the unpleasant event behind him.

-

Han Mingyue watched Zhen Yu stride in, and although her expression and movements were the same as usual, he felt she had changed.

A feeling of having shed all constraints, fearlessly.

Something must have happened to her today.

Should he ask? The young boy hesitated a bit.

He kept looking up from his book throughout the morning, observing Zhen Yu.

Usually, Zhen Yu would read until about 11:30, but today she put down her book just before 11.

With her arms crossed, she leaned back in her chair and called out, "Han Mingyue, why do you keep staring at me?"

Han Mingyue's hand trembled, and his pen scratched a small cut on the notebook; he capped the pen and placed it steadily on the table.

Knowing that Zhen Yu was watching him closely from the side, Han Mingyue still did not turn his head. He folded his hands on the desk and fixed his gaze on a spot on the bookshelf, exhaling softly.

"You, what's wrong with you?" After speaking, Han Mingyue's speech flowed more smoothly, "You're not quite yourself today, did something happen at home?"

Zhen Yu replied calmly, "What could happen? Everything that could happen has already happened."

"But, but today you..."

Zhen Yu interrupted him, and took the initiative to explain,

"Today I just let go, let go of that tiny bit of obsession."

The young boy, somewhat puzzled, repeated, "Obsession?"

Zhen Yu nodded expressionlessly, "Yes! Obsession! There was something I always wanted to ask him but never had the chance to..."

"Today, I happened to ask." Zhen Yu said, leaning her head back on the chair, allowing the mocking smile to be seen only by the ceiling.

"I had known it would be like this."

She paused and then added, "It's just unwillingness! It won't happen again in the future!"

Han Mingyue listened silently. He didn't quite understand her feelings, but he felt it was better for her to express them than to keep them bottled up.

He was more than willing to be her confidant.

Zhen Yu maintained that pose for over five minutes, her mind repeatedly recalling those lonely, desolate moments of her previous life.

Zhen Yu remembered the first time she felt despair.

In her past life, when her grandfather passed away, she was less than a month away from her college entrance exams and pleaded with her father not to make her live alone in her grandfather's house.

Back then, she wasn't the person who later came to terms with life and death.

Though she had long experienced the cold and warm of the world, she was still afraid of those baseless fears.

But Mr. Zhen refused her.

So, she spent night after night unable to sleep.

How did she manage to endure back then?

It was...

Zhen Yu sat up, her eyes sparkling as she looked towards Han Mingyue.

It was him! Han Mingyue, who was attending college in a distant city, had called after hearing about this, asking Han Jiaoyang to invite her over for a chat.

He told her, "If you can't sleep, then do schoolwork."

"When you immerse yourself in problems, your thoughts won't be disturbed by external things."

"When you don't like studying, staring at the books you hate will soon put you to sleep."

Zhen Yu got through the college entrance exams using this method of 'if fear doesn't kill you, study through it.'

The day after the exams ended, she found a full-time live-in job and left the second home where she had lived for six or seven years.

It was also from that day that she started her decade-long drift...

Like a lost soul, she wandered in the vast sea of people, out of place, lonely and alone.