Unfortunately, her father never took her seriously in the past, and there was no difference in the present either. Sure enough, just as Han Ruochen expected, her father waved his hand and said, "You are thinking too much. Ziyan might be a bit wilful and selfish —but she wouldn’t hate us. We have raised her for so many years and given her kindness that she might never receive in another family. Surely, she will remember my grace."

Han Yichen was confident because he believed that he had treated Han Ziyan fairly well but—

Han Ruochen rolled her eyes when she heard her father’s words. Sure enough, her father was just as foolish as he was in the past life. He still believed that their family could still be saved as long as he worked hard and tried to teach Han Ziyan well. He did the same thing in her past life, and what was the end? He was killed in the most brutal way! Even a coffin was not arranged.

"Dad, if that is what you believe, then I will not stop you, but I am afraid that your good feelings will go to waste. Look at how Ziyan treated me. I have given her everything that she wanted in the past, but in the end she even stole my betrothed. Dad, I will not stop you, but you should be on guard as well. Ziyan...she is simply too selfish when it comes to her own interests."

Since her father was not willing to listen, Han Ruochen was not going to stop him. But she also wished that her father would be on his guard lest he be fooled by Han Ziyan.

Han Yichen knew that Han Ruochen was angry with him. How could he not know that his second daughter was very angry with him? He also understood that Han Ziyan’s temper was not very good. But she was so selfish with her own family, and she would eventually be married off. If Han Ziyan was not good with her own family, then how would she be able to survive in the house of her in-laws? What was more, Han Ziyan’s reputation was not good in the village.

With her reputation for snatching her sister’s fiancé, how could Han Ziyan find a good man? She would have to eventually marry a man with barely decent conditions. If she did not learn how to simmer her temper down, then she would have to be taught a good lesson!

Children were debts of their parents; what could Han Yichen do?

Seeing that her father was determined, Han Ruochen rolled her eyes. Let him do whatever he wanted to do; anyway, she knew that with Han Ziyan’s temper, that woman would rather break her back than learn her lesson.

Han Yichen caught Han Ruochen rolling her eyes and smiled at her. He raised his hand and patted Han Ruochen on the head. "I know that you are angry with Ziyan, and I will not ask you to treat her better. Anyway, what she did to you has wronged you enough. But as her adoptive father, I have my own fair share of responsibility as well. It was my fault ultimately that she has ruined herself to this point."

He sighed heavily and looked at his daughter with a bitter look of heartache in his eyes. "Ruochen, in the end, it is all your dad’s and our family’s fault that you have to work so hard alone. To think that your elder brother and sister were useless and needed you to come up with all kinds of ways to support our family when things happened. In the end, it was you who saved Dad’s life."

"..." Han Ruochen, who had her head down, did not say anything. She knew that her dad was a responsible man, but when she thought about how he was still just as persistent and concerned as he was in his past life when it came to someone as selfish as Han Ziyan, she felt a bit annoyed and uneasy. Was Han Ziyan even worth the effort her father was putting into her?

Nevertheless, even though Han Ruochen was not able to understand Han Yichen’s attitude, she could understand why he was unwilling to give up on Han Ziyan. But just because she could understand him doesn’t mean that she was not angry; unlike her, her father did not suffer the same pain at the hands of Han Ziyan and Meng Yunhan. Thus, he still had hopes when it came to the two of them.

Forget it. Let her father do whatever he wanted. She would not interfere with his actions; as long as she could stop him from dying, that would be enough.

With these thoughts, Han Ruochen calmed down. That’s right. She only had to make sure that her father and her family would be fine once Meng Yunhan and Han Ziyan were dealt with. As for the rest, she did not have to worry about anything else.

"Ruochen, don’t worry. Dad will return the money that you owe."

"Dad, you..." Han Ruochen snapped her head up in shock when she heard Han Yichen’s sudden remark. She looked at her smiling father and frowned hard. "Who told you...was it Mom...or was it Brother Yong?"

It must be her brother. Given her mother’s character, she would never admit her wrongdoing. It would be impossible for her mother to admit that she was the one who borrowed money and that too such a big amount.

"Your mom? Heh." Han Yichen sneered. "That old habit of hers is going to stay with her for the rest of her life."

He was injured by a pig, not by a car. He did not lose his senses even though he was stampeded by pigs. On the day of his surgery, Han Yichen was able to catch a little of what was happening. Furthermore, Han Ziyan was not a careful caretaker. There were many times when she left him alone.