Chapter 38 Reoperation

“You had been taken to Wen’s family and enjoyed a rich life since childhood. But I could only be fostered at my aunt’s family. As we are sisters, why could you live a wealthy life while I should be looked down by others? Did I do something wrong?” Liu Lanfei had to depend on her aunt for living since she was a child. The aunt was very indifferent to Liu Lanfei who was not her biological daughter, and only cared about her own sons.

Gu Yan knew from her grandma that her mother remarried after getting divorced with her father and gave birth to a girl. But the family her mother remarried valued boys only and wanted to abandon the girl, so her mother had to entrust the girl to her elder sister. At that time, the sister already had two sons, so the life of the girl who lived in the countryside where men were superior than women was tough. The girl was Liu Lanfei.

Gu Yan clearly remembered the appearance of Liu Lanfei when she first met her. At that time, Liu Lanfei was malnourished and very thin. She twisted her own faded clothes helplessly and stared at Gu Yan’s dress all the time with her gloomy eyes.

“Hello.” Looking at the girl who looked a little like her, Gu Yan had a kind of intimacy. So, she said “hello” first.

Hearing that Gu Yan greeted her, the girl lowered her head and said nothing.

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Gu Yan knew the half-sister only a few years ago. She didn’t mind that Liu Lanfei told others about the surrogacy because she sympathized with this sister. But she didn’t expect that Liu Lanfei should seduce Wen Yunfeng. Gu Yan shook her head and thought that everyone has their own life. Why was Liu Lanfei jealous of her? Although she grew up in Wen’s family, nobody was nice to her except Grandpa Wen and Wen Yunfeng. After Grandpa Wen died, others in Wen’s family revealed their true attitude towards her. And now, Gu Yan was in such a bad situation. What did she have to be jealous of?

“I sympathize with you, but your situation is not my fault. You shouldn’t blame me even if you hated the unfair life.” Gu Yan said. Liu Lanfei blamed Gu Yan for her misfortune. However, her misfortune was not caused by Gu Yan but by traditional preference for boys.

“Aha! Now I know that your life is just so-so. You were also abandoned by Wen Yunfeng at last. I knew why you chose to be a surrogate mother, but Wen Yunfeng would never know what you did for him.” Liu Lanfei thought, “Gu Yan was stupid. She did everything for Wen Yunfeng but was hurt by that heartless man. Finally, she was living the same life as me.”

“It’s useless to say so much. Now we live our own lives.” Gu Yan didn’t want to talk to Liu Lanfei because they had nothing in common.

“Elder sister…” Liu Lanfei called Gu Yan.

Hearing the words “elder sister”, Gu Yan stopped for a moment and then walked away without hesitation.

They could no longer go back to the past and what happened between them couldn’t be changed.

Seeing that Gu Yan went far, Liu Lanfei showed a bitter smile. She aborted the child, but she couldn’t have her own child in this life. Was this her comeuppance?

The day of operation for Gu Yan’s grandma soon arrived. Gu Yan had to follow up the decoration of Xiao Han’s new house and then rushed to the hospital. She was much thinner after a few days.

Today was the day of her grandma’s second operation. Gu Yan waited in the ward anxiously.

“Hoping grandma can get through the operation.” Gu Yan kept praying.

Seeing Gu Yan was so anxious, Manla wanted to persuade her to be calm, but only sighed deeply.

“After all, Gu Yan had a grandma. I’m an orphan.”

Finally, the operation was completed. Learning that the operation was successful and her grandma got through the operation, Gu Yan was finally relieved. Manla also felt happy for her.

Gu Yan was very confused again when she paid the operation fee. The last operation fee was RMB 10,000 and this time it was RMB 25,000. Was this hospital really a charity hospital?

Gu Yan didn’t understand and wanted to find someone to ask about it, but she didn’t find anyone who could explain to her.

A few days after her grandma’s operation, Gu Yan received a call.

“Hello, is that Miss. Gu Yan?” A gentle and pleasant voice came from the phone.

“Yes, I am Gu Yan.” There was nobody calling her full name for long time and Gu Yan wanted to know what the person on the phone wanted to say next.

“Hello, I am from Nanyi Design Workshop. Congratulations on your being hired by our company.”

“Oh? Nanyi Design Workshop?” Gu Yan wondered when did she send a resume to this company?

“Yes, really.” The person replied.

“Well, I got it. I have something urgent to do now. Can I call back to you later?” At this moment, Gu Yan couldn’t remember whether she had sent a resume to this company or not.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Yan felt quite weird.

She had sent numerous resumes since she resigned from Wen’s company. But she got no replies as if those resumes disappeared forever.

Today, the person on the phone told her that she was hired. Why she was hired without an interview? What a strange company!

Gu Yan suddenly remembered that she had marked the companies she applied for, and quickly picked up newspapers and looked through.

Hey? The company which called her was not in newspapers she looked through. Gu Yan was afraid that she missed it and would lose the only chance, so she looked through those newspapers again. But she still couldn’t find the company. “It was very strange.” Gu Yan held newspapers in one hand and wondered, touching her chin with the other hand.

“Maybe I should ask Manla. She has worked for so many years and should know what is the matter.” Gu Yan thought.

Manla and Gu Yan met at the cafe they used to go.

This cafe was so famous that many people liked to drink coffee here.

However, Gu Yan’s taste was very unique. She didn’t like coffee here but was attracted by the smoothies.

Manla also tasted the smoothies in this cafe but she didn’t like it. She liked coffee more.

Manla invited Gu Yan to this cafe because the atmosphere here was very nice, which enabled Gu Yan to relax herself after a so-long hard time.

“Manla, I got a call today.” A very strange call. At least, Gu Yan couldn’t understand it now.

“Uh?” Manla waited for Gu Yan’s following words.

“A person of a company called me that I had already been hired.” Gu Yan said.

“Really? Has a company finally hired you?” Manla’s eyes were shining when she heard the word “hire”.

“You haven’t heard me out yet.” Oops! Gu Yan thought, “I hadn’t said the key point.”

“Continue.” Manla restored her expression and let Gu Yan continue. Were there somethings special?

“I found I didn’t send a resume to this company, but they called me.” Then why did they call her?