Chapter 140: Chapter 86 (part 2)

Han Yanyan didn't care. Humming a little tune, she continued chopping meat and vegetables. After decades spent inside the simulation, she felt a little rusty with it and had just done a quick stir-fry to regain her touch. Now she was actually starting to cook, and putting effort into it.

When the robot brought out four dishes full of food, Leo's eyes widened. They all smelt delicious.

Han Yanyan had left all the knives in the kitchen in a well-behaved manner and gone empty-handed to the dining room. "How does it taste?" she asked. "The meat was frozen, how long had it been there?"

Leo couldn't be bothered to remember such small things. He asked the system, "How long?"

"Two years and four months," replied the AI.

Seeing Han Yanyan's expression turn ugly, Leo quickly explained, "It was flash frozen with the latest tech. Theoretically, it could be frozen for twenty years without deterioration."

It sounded very cool, but at the same time terrible. Han Yanyan lost her appetite.

Leo, on the other hand, had mixed feelings after taking his first bite - it really was delicious.

He had seen her making soup and cooking for Yao Chen in the mafia world, but had always felt that this was just the character she had designed, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this something you already knew how to do? Or did you learn it in the simulated world?"

"It's something I've always known." Having lost her appetite, Han Yanyan stirred the rice in her bowl with chopsticks. "I used to cook for my boyfriend every day. He liked my cooking a lot."

At the thought of it, Leo's heart began to feel uncomfortable. "You had a boyfriend?"

"Did you think everyone's as lonely as you?" she mocked him. "I was about to be married."

She stared at the rice in her bowl. "Everything had already been agreed on. We were going to be married after the New Year. I would cook for him every day, and we would have three children."

Leo's hands froze.

Han Yanyan stared into her bowl. "We would have anticipated the birth of each child. They'd have parents who loved them as soon as they were born. And if one child wasn't enough, I would have had more, so they could have had brothers and sisters. Then they would have had each other, and would never be lonely."

"Enough! Stop talking!" Leo said, his face pale. The knuckles on his hands turned white around his cutlery.

"No, it's not enough!" Han Yanyan gritted her teeth. "That's the life I should be living! I should have been waiting at home every day for my kids to finish school. I'm smart, so they would have been smart, too. I would have been so proud of them. I would have plastered the certificates they brought back from school all over the wall..."

"Enough!" Leo swept the plates off the table violently, leaving juices dripping and a steaming mess all over the floor.

Han Yanyan's memories and longings came to an abrupt end. She said nothing, staring at him silently and stubbornly.

"You! You can't fool me!" Leo's face was ghostly pale and a little scary. He shot to his feet, a murderous glitter in his eyes, howling, "You're not that sort of woman at all! You're a liar!"

"It sounds like you know me pretty well?" Han Yanyan sneered. "Are we familiar with each other?"

"You toyed with Yao Chen!" Leo shrieked. "You're not a good woman at all!"

"What else was I going to do? Did you send me there to fall in love with him?" Han Yanyan stared at him. "Who was it? Who was the one who warned me over and over that my life was in his hands, that I had to conquer Yao Chen to survive?"

Leo was left speechless. He couldn't find anything to say in refute, but in his heart he never once believed that Han Yanyan could be a good woman who might have been a worthy wife and loving mother.

His chest heaved from the emotions fluctuating like a roller coaster, but he was too clumsy with words to vent them. Finally he kicked the table leg viciously, overturned his chair, and strode away.

Han Yanyan watched him go, took out a paper towel and slowly wiped off the vegetable soup splashed on her arm, the corners of her mouth raised ever so slightly.

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She had, of course, made up everything about having a boyfriend and all that. Sure enough, mother and child... was a topic that could not be touched.

Leo Parker, surnamed after his mother, father unknown.

When his mother was young, she had gone to work on a wealthier planet and been toyed with by a rich young man. Not only had she not received any compensation, she had been dallied with and then abandoned, and eventually took her son back to her much poorer planet.

In order to support the both of them, she had had to work very hard, leaving no time for childcare. Leo had taken care of himself ever since he was a child. Their laborious and difficult life made his mother touchy and irritable. Believing that Leo was to blame for having dragged her down to such circumstances, she beat him violently at every turn.

In a world in which genetic optimization was king, most people with good genes could be rich, and most of those who were rich had good genes. Leo Parker had obviously inherited the excellent genes of the rich young master, because he had been smarter than other children ever since childhood, his academic performance far exceeding that of his peers.

But his mother hated that he was clever. Whenever she saw that he was smart, it brought to her mind the man who had abandoned her. She had torn up all his certificates and thrown away every medal he won. She had even wanted to deprive him of his right to attend school, but thankfully he had been protected by his teacher and managed to complete twelfth grade.

Leo rushed back to his room, stripped off his soup-stained clothes and raced for the shower.

Hot water poured over his body. He wiped his face.

It had been a long, long time since he had heard anything on the topic of 'mother and child'. He hadn't expected Han Yanyan to suddenly bring it up. He had been so caught off guard that he had lost control of his emotions.

What do you mean, you want to go to school?! Why can't you go to the mines right now and make some money? Do you think it's so easy for me to feed you all by myself?!?

That was what she had yelled as she had torn up his award and thrown it into the trash.

When drunk, she would pull his hair as if she were a madwoman. What are you so good-looking for? Just to seduce women when you grow up?

Then a shoe had hit his face. It had hurt.

She had looked at him as if looking at an enemy.

You ruined my entire life! Why were you born?! I must have been cursed!

You devil!

Leo braced himself against the wall and let the hot water stream down.

You're the devil! You're the devil! All women are devils! —He screamed silently. Han Yanyan's a devil, too! She's way scarier than other women!

But then Leo remembered that Han Yanyan wasn't even named Han Yanyan at all. Everything he thought he knew about her was false.

In fact, he had never really known her at all.

He had never imagined that she could cook food that was so delicious. That her eyes could well up with tears recalling her and her boyfriend's plans for the future.

She wanted three children, and looked forward to the birth of each child. She would love them, be proud of their intelligence, plaster their certificates all over the wall.

Was she actually a woman like that?

Leo felt so confused.

 

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