Chapter 573: Losing Her Mind

Meng Yunhan choked when she heard Han Ruochen’s questions. Though she did not feel an ounce of guilt when being questioned by her daughter, she did feel annoyed when she thought about how Han Ruochen had actually contradicted her. She was her mother! And as her mother, she was always right.

“You…You unfilial, wicked child! Is this how you are supposed to talk to your mother?”

“A mother should first act like a mother!” Han Ruochen could not help but snap. “When have you ever acted like a mother to us?” She walked over to where Meng Yunhan was standing and locked her eyes with her mother’s trembling gaze with terrifying clarity. “Why do you care so deeply about Yun Xirou? Why does a stranger’s report card matter more to you than your own son’s dignity? What exactly is Yun Xirou to you?”

The sharp, direct questions that Han Ruochen hurled in her direction made Meng Yunhan’s deepest, dirtiest secret feel like a thunderbolt. Horror, guilt and raw panic seized her chest. Fearing that her dark past affair would come out in the open and that she was on the verge of being exposed in front of her family, something inside her head snapped.

“You wretched brat! I will beat you to death today!” Meng Yunhan turned even more hysterical when she thought that her secret was going to end up being exposed any second now. At that very moment, she just wanted to silence Han Ruochen, even if it meant going crazy.

Losing all reason, Meng Yunha grabbed the broom that was resting outside Han Ruochen’s room and raised it high. She swung it with all her strength and hit Han Ruochen on the waist and face. Seeing that her mother had lost her mind, Han Ruochen leaned back. She dodged the attack that was aimed at her face, but she could not dodge the attack aimed at her back.

The wooden broom hit her square on the waist, causing Han Ruochen to wince. She was wearing a thin top, which did nothing to stop the pain that exploded all over her back as soon as the wooden broom hit her on the back.

Meng Yunhan had not held back her strength at all when she had hit Han Ruochen. Thus, the wooden broom actually left a bloody mark on her back. At that moment, Han Ruochen was not her daughter but an enemy in Meng Yunhan’s eyes!

It was this brat’s fault. She was the cause of all her trouble. If she stayed the same as before, then her life would never be this messy. Her entire life seemed to have turned upside down, all because this brat had changed her attitude all of a sudden.

“Who do you think you are?” Meng Yunhan snapped at Han Ruochen as she slammed the wooden broom again, but this time she hit Han Ruochen on the legs. “I am your mother, you wretched girl! Do you even know how you should talk to your mother? How dare you question me like this? If I tell you to do something, then you should do it. Don’t ask any questions! Don’t question anything! Just do what you are told to do!”

“Mom, stop it!” Han Xuehan heard the sound and came hurrying upstairs. When she saw what was happening, she dropped the basket and lunged forward to protect her sister. She covered Han Ruochen with her body and shrieked at her mother. “Are you out of your mind!? Stop hitting Ruochen. How can you hit her so terribly? Can you not see that she is bleeding?”

Han Xuehan was stunned when she saw her mother hitting Han Ruochen as if she were hitting someone who had wronged her ancestors. If Han Xuehan didn’t know any better, she would have thought that Han Ruochen was the one who had dug up the Meng family’s graves. What was their mother doing? How could she hit Han Ruochen in such a cruel manner?

“Get aside! You wretched girl —you two have caused me enough trouble as it is. One is married and yet sitting on my head like she is some kind of princess, and the other is causing me so much trouble that I am about to go crazy!” Meng Yunhan seemed to have lost her mind; she did not stop when Han Xuehan rushed over. If anything, she started to hit the two girls with all her might.

Han Ruochen pushed her sister aside. She had the sea scanning system, and her strength was better than others; she could withstand these hits without feeling much pain, but Han Xuehan was different. She had grown weaker due to so many years of malnutrition. If her sister was hit so hard, then she might end up getting injured. So she immediately pulled her sister to one side.

“STOP!!”

Han Yichen dragged his weak body into the room. He was still breathing heavily as he leaned against the doorframe. His face was deathly pale from all the efforts that he had to put into dragging his injured body up the stairs. But his eyes were fierce. Filled with a terrifying fury that no one in the household had ever seen before.

His eyes fell on Han Ruochen, whose body was so badly bruised that she was bleeding and then on Han Xuehan, who also had countless scratches on her body. Though she was not as injured as Han Ruochen, she was also banged up. Looking at the condition of his two daughters, Han Yichen was so angry that he felt like hitting someone.

He dragged his injured body forward, taking two painful, rapid strides across the wooden floor. He reached Meng Yunhan and demanded, “What are you doing? Just WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!”

He reached out and caught hold of the wooden broom that Meng Yunhan was holding, and when he saw that she was not letting it go, he forgot all about the courtesy that he always showed Meng Yunhan and threw the wooden broom across the room. It slid out of the room with a deafening clatter.