Chapter 1390: Chapter 1394: She’s too selfish!
Situ Jinse nodded, her voice gentle, "Mhm, I understand."
"What about you, Jinse?" Mi Sheng asked her: "How are things going with you and Brother Situ?"
Situ Jinse shook her head slightly, her expression somewhat helpless, "Still the same."
Mi Sheng asked: "And Situ Lanyu? Does she still reject you like before?"
"Yeah," Situ Jinse said: "I don’t even dare to go home now... Every time before I go home, I call my mom first. I only go to see her if Lanyu is not there... If I miss my dad, I go to see him at his company... Anyway, I avoid her as much as possible and try not to see her."
"I think you’re just too easy to bully," Mi Sheng huffed unsatisfied, "Situ Lanyu is too selfish! Your aunt and uncle love her to death, and she was raised spoiled. Even though your parents didn’t raise her, and she didn’t suffer, what is she always fussing about?"
Situ Jinse shook her head, "My aunt and uncle’s circumstances aren’t as good as my family’s, and she always feels like I’ve taken the identity and status that should have been hers, enjoyed the glory and wealth that should’ve been hers."
"What does that have to do with you?" Mi Sheng said indignantly: "Your parents gave her to your aunt and uncle before they adopted you. It’s not as if they gave her away because they wanted to adopt you! Besides, who your parents choose to adopt is their business, what right does she have to meddle?"
"But she feels wronged, believes that my parents shouldn’t have given her to my aunt and uncle," Situ Jinse sighed helplessly, "Although she hasn’t suffered much while living with my aunt and uncle, because our family is better off, she feels discontent. I think... she hates my parents, hates them for placing her in the care of my aunt and uncle. My parents feel guilty towards her and have always indulged her because of it."
Mi Sheng sighed, "It was indeed a bad move for your parents to have her raised by your aunt and uncle."
"My parents didn’t plan for it to be this way," Situ Jinse said: "My dad and my uncle were close. After my uncle’s daughter died, my aunt was hysterical. When she saw Situ Lanyu, she insisted that Lanyu was her deceased daughter and wouldn’t let go, becoming hysterical and violent towards anyone who tried to take her. With no other options, my uncle negotiated with my parents to let my aunt raise her for a while, until my aunt got better, then return Lanyu to my parents. But as my aunt cared for her, their affection deepened, and that’s how the years have gone by."
"Your parents are quite pitiable too, torn between their beloved brother and sister-in-law and their own daughter," Mi Sheng said: "Actually, your aunt and uncle’s conditions weren’t bad at the beginning, it was just poor management that led to their decline. Situ Lanyu has always been well taken care of by their side; why is she so resentful?"
Situ Jinse shook her head, chuckling self-deprecatingly, "She just feels I shouldn’t exist! She thinks my parents shouldn’t have adopted me, she believes that everything I eat, wear, and spend should be hers; she would rather I were dead."
"She’s too selfish!" Mi Sheng was fed up with Situ Lanyu: "Didn’t your brother say he likes you and wants to marry you? What do you think about that?"
Situ Jinse stayed silent for a while before saying, "I haven’t decided yet..."
Mi Sheng gripped Situ Jinse’s hand tightly, "Jinse... do you love Brother Situ?"
"Of course, I love my brother," Situ Jinse said: "But Xiao Mi, I don’t know if my love for Brother Situ is familial love, or the love of a partner..."