It actually was not just a liver disease! It actually was a dirty disease!
"You're all talking nonsense! All of you are talking nonsense! My dad clearly contracted the disease from exhaustion! He brought me up by himself. He had to play the role of a father and a mother. It was truly hard for him! He got sick because of exhaustion!" Tessa yelled at the crowd in tears.
Everyone there sneered, especially those slightly younger ones.
"You're just fooling yourself, right? You'll be able to know what condition your father has if you go to the hospital to check! Don't forget, your father has the condition, but your mother doesn't! The reason why your father was infected was that he caught it while fooling around outside while your mother was pregnant with you!"
"If you want to talk about putting thoughts on another person outside, your father had done it way earlier than your mother! Your father had brought it on himself!"
"Your mother is truly pitiful. If she doesn't look for a man outside, could it be that she, a woman in her early twenties, had to live her life without intercourse for the rest of her life? Besides, should she even do that? Your father didn't even have a wedding with
your mother! To this day, he still hasn't even gone to get the marriage certificate with your mother! It's not illegal at all for her to be looking for a man outside!"
Tessa was speechless. She did not even know how she left that village. Her mind was completely blank. When she got home, she saw that her father was hugging a beer can.
"You’re back?" asked Hector.
Tessa nodded mechanically. "Mm-hmm."
"That batch's wedding is over?" asked Hector again.
"I don't know," Tessa answered.
Hector immediately got up and he swayed as he was unstable on his feet. He looked at Tessa with bloodshot eyes. "Didn’t you ruin that woman's wedding? My good daughter! No matter what, she is also my wife! She had cheated on me more times than I can count myself! Now, not only did she cheat on me, but she actually even snatched away your boyfriend! She is not human! She is the devil! You won’t be able t o find such a bad woman in this world! My dear daughter, you mustn't let her get her way..."
Hector's hatred sent a chill down Tessa's spine. The way she looked at her father was as if they were strangers. "Dad, how long have you had your condition?"
Hector was actually not drunk. He could not drink alcohol because of his condition. He was drinking for the sake of pretending to be pitiful in front of his daughter. He wanted to make his daughter hate Hana more and more. He did not expect that at that moment, his daughter would ask about his condition coldly.
On top of the same image of being a loving father, Hector also looked pitiful. "I have failed you. Your mother did not care about you right after she had given birth to you. You were still so little back then. I had to carry you on my back when I went out. I worked in the morning, but the pay was not enough to buy your formula powder. Therefore, I worked day and night. It was during that time when I picked up another person’s leftover bun and porridge to eat, I was infected. Since then, I became a carrier of the disease for life. My good daughter, why did you suddenly think of asking me this?" Hector looked at Tessa with tears in her eyes.
However, that time, Tessa did not hug her father and cried bitterly again. She said to her father with clear articulations, "Today, I went to the village where we used to live in."
Hector was speechless.
"The disease you have is that kind of incurable dirty disease spread to you by that widow from the same village, right?" Tessa viciously grabbed her own father. "You have been lying to me all along!"
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