After Yan had come back from her trip, Luo Huimei kept following her around and asked her about her trip. She would keep on probing her about the place, how she felt about it, and if she had taken any photos. Yan thought her mother was just concerned about her love life, so she answered her without even thinking.
A moment later, the woman even let her see the photos she had taken. Even though they were mother and daughter, they acted like friends, and that was why Yan was willing to tell her mother about all these things and share the joy of her love life with Luo Meihui.
Luo Meihui was also happy to hear her daughter’s stories. She was Yan’s mother, so of course she was happy to see her daughter happy, but then they stumbled across the photo where Yan and Han Qing took a wefie on the hotel’s bed. It stunned both of them.
Yan realized what was happening a few moments later, so she wanted to take her phone back, but her mother took it away.
“Give me back my phone, mom.”
“Oh, what’s the rush? It’s not a weird photo, so why can’t I see it?” Luo Meihui tucked the phone away and refused to give it back to her.
Yan puffed her cheeks angrily, for the person before her was her own mother. She would have gone and fought her if she was someone else, but she couldn’t, because Luo Meihui was her mother. Thanks to her taking so many photos of the sights there, Yan had conveniently forgotten about the photo they took while they were in the bed. She didn’t dare post this photo on her wall, for the woman thought it to be erotic, since they took this photo after they had been intimate under the blankets. She could see the decor on the wall from this photo, and then the woman thought of what happened that night, which made her blush again. Ah! I can’t just get embarrassed this easily!
“Oh, you’re blushing!” Luo Meihui was not going to let it slide, so she squinted at her daughter after staring at her face. “Have you guys done the deed already?” she asked it in a direct manner, making her daughter blush and stomp her foot shyly, looking not unlike a little girl. “Mom!” she complained.
“What?” Luo Meihui retorted in annoyance. “So you know I’m your mom, huh? If that’s the case, stop messing around and answer me. Or do you think of me as an outsider?”
Hmph. She mumbled, “You were being too bold with that question.”
“What? I’ve raised you for so many years, and now you’re already going to run away with someone else? Why can’t I ask this question? You shouldn’t be this unreasonable, my child.”
“I am not being unreasonable,” she mumbled, then the woman hung her head low in defeat. “Alright, alright, I’ll tell you. Yeah, we did do it.” She then raised her voice, “But I did it willingly. He didn’t force me, and he was unwilling to do it in the beginning. I forced him to do it.” She shifted Han Qing out of the blame field and took all of it herself.
Luo Meihui rolled her eyes. “Do you think I’m a kid that you can just lie to? You’re already defending him before the marriage, and I can just imagine how bad it’s going to be when you do. Besides, if you’ve seduced him to do the deed with you, but if he had refused, then you’re doomed.”
“What? Why?” Yan looked at her mother like a dumb little kid.
“Did your brain turn into mush the moment you fell in love?” Luo Meihui poked her forehead and nagged on. “If he had refused to touch you, you can’t date him. It could mean he has erectile dysfunction, or he doesn’t love you, or he’s gay.”
“Mom, that’s extreme. That’s just too binary, so you have to think a lot. Maybe he just wants to be responsible to me, or maybe he’s just conservative. You’re exaggerating stuff.”
“But the reality is that the conclusions I made are true, while yours aren’t. I’ve experienced it, so of course I know about it.”
Fine. Yan stuck her tongue out and decided not to argue with her mother, who was an experienced woman. They were a generation apart after all. Even among the youngsters, clashes of thoughts exist, let alone with people a generation apart. She could imagine how wide the gap would be.
“I don’t give a d*mn if you want to fall in love or go freaky or anything, nor do I want to. However, you have to think for yourself. Have some protection to keep yourself safe. Don’t just let him do whatever he wants, okay?” Luo Meihui wasn’t worried before this, but this trip had obviously pulled her daughter and the guy closer. She would be fine if they could marry, but if they couldn’t, and if her daughter were to get pregnant because of the lack of protection, then Yan would be the one to get hurt.
Yan felt guilty at the mention of this, for they didn’t have time to go for protection that night, and it was already too late when they left the island. She didn’t know whether she was impregnated or not, so the woman was worried now that her mother had mentioned this. Even so, she couldn’t do anything about it, so all she could do was wait and see if she was pregnant. Yan was planning to get a pregnancy test kit from the pharmacy later one. If her period didn’t come on time, she would test for pregnancy at once.
Luo Meihui knew she had guessed the worst scenario correctly when her daughter didn’t answer her, and she didn’t look her in the eyes. Yan’s mother grabbed her by her collar. “What?! You guys didn’t do any protection?”
Yan stammered, “W-W-We… Um, it was a special situation, so…”
“God d*mn it!” Luo Meihui cursed in front of her daughter, her knuckles cracking. “Men are all pigs! Why didn’t he wear any condoms before doing you? And why were you that dumb, you brat? You didn’t even take any morning-after pills? What if you get pregnant?”
Scary… Yan bit her lip and looked down, as if she was a child who had broken a vase.
“Did you talk to him about this?”
“I did.” She nodded.
“What did he say? What’s his plan?”
Yan thought about it and shook her head. “Please don’t ask these questions anymore, mom. It’s hard to talk about it. I have my own plan, see. If I get pregnant, I’ll give birth to it.”
“The heck?” Luo Meihui’s eyes widened in disbelief. “You’d give birth to it? Did he say he would marry you?”
Um… She blinked at her mother. “No, I guess. But I don’t care about that. If I do get pregnant, I will give birth to it. Hmph!”
Luo Meihui replied, “Alright, I have to get you back to your mother. Apparently her daughter’s an idiot.”
“Mom, you know I love him. Even if we aren’t meant to be, I don’t want to force him.”
Luo Meihui hugged her daughter tightly after listening to her, then she closed her eyes in resignation. My child, you’re degrading yourself in this relationship. No matter how great that man is, you shouldn’t lose yourself over him. However, Yan wouldn’t listen to anyone now. All she could think of now was her own happiness which could never be understood by anyone.
