"Is this girl doing wrong"
A woman, disgusted by her husband's lack of ambition, heartlessly abandoned her two-year-old daughter and eloped with a Japanese man. She remained gone for over twenty years.
In 2024, on her daughter's wedding day, this woman reappeared, attempting to attend as the matriarch, even mocking her daughter's adoptive mother and offering a "wedding house" as a bargaining chip. However, she never expected her daughter's decision to be so unexpected!
In 2024, 27-year-old Chen Jing was busy preparing for her wedding, and her future with her fiancé, Shen Zihao, seemed bright. Suddenly, her biological mother, Zhang Chengfang, returned from Japan. This name, unheard of for over twenty years, disrupted her peaceful life.
Zhang Chengfang's return was not just a visit. She brought not only a house as "compensation" but also demanded to attend the wedding as the "mother," her attitude extremely forceful. And the look in her eyes towards her adoptive mother, Zhu Lan, was filled with disdain.
Family ties, gratitude for being raised, money, and pride—these complex emotions were all intertwined, forcing Chen Jing to make a choice.
The story begins in 1998.
Chen Jing was only two years old when her biological mother, Zhang Chengfang, left with a Japanese man, disliking her husband's lack of ambition, and was never heard from again.
To Chen Jing, "mother" was just a blurry figure in an old photograph.
Fortunately, her adoptive mother, Zhu Lan, appeared in her life. Zhu Lan was a cleaner who raised Chen Jing on a meager income.
She went out before dawn to sweep the streets, earning the hardest money, but never neglected Chen Jing—she ate only steamed buns herself, but made sure the child drank milk; to support her education, she took odd jobs after work.
Neighbors all said that while the biological mother gave birth to the child, it was Zhu Lan who truly raised her.
Unexpectedly, years later, Zhang Chengfang returned, crying upon seeing her, saying that she had "no choice" back then and now only wanted to "make amends."
It sounds touching, but upon closer inspection, it is actually a very calculated scheme—using a house to exchange for the title of "mother."
Zhang Chengfang privately told Shen Zihao's family, "How can a janitor be presentable? How can she compare to me on my daughter own biological mother?"
These words reached the ears of Shen Zihao's parents.
One was a bureau chief, the other a section chief; they valued social standing in marriage, and upon hearing that their future mother-in-law was a cleaner, their brows furrowed.
What chilled Chen Jing even more was her fiancé's change in attitude.
He had pursued her relentlessly in college, but now, upon hearing that his future mother-in-law would bring a house as part of her dowry, his attitude completely reversed.
He began persuading her, "Since your mother wants to compensate you, it's reasonable to let her be present."
Seeing that Chen Jing would not budge, the Shen family laid their cards on the table: "Either let your mother be the officiant, or the wedding is being called off."
To create public pressure, Zhang Chengfang even went to a television station to cry and express her longing for her daughter, hoping to use public opinion to force Chen Jing to comply.
The audience was not buying it at all, immediately retorting, "Where were you for the past twenty-odd years? Where were you when your daughter needed you?"
This made Chen Jing see things for the first time. Was over twenty years of nurturing less valuable than a cold, impersonal house?
She firmly refused Zhang Chengfang: "You haven't cared for me for over twenty years, why should you be the officiant when you come back? My mother is Zhu Lan, and she will be the only one standing beside me at the wedding."
Shen Zihao, feeling that she was being unreasonable, directly called off the engagement.
Chen Jing did not hesitate, decisively breaking off the engagement and deleting all of Zhang Chengfang's contact information.
Although she lost the house and the wedding was called off, for Chen Jing, seeing the true colors of both families through a house and a wedding made "the truest truth revelation" all worthwhile.
She and her adoptive mother, Zhu Lan, returned to a peaceful life, feeling more at peace than ever than before.
After all, she could earn money for a house, but genuine affection and m aternal love were priceless.
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