I lowered my head and wound the wool sweater yarn around my finger. "Yeah... but he hasn't come looking for me since the break started. He must be very busy with work."
My Mom said anxiously, "I think we should just pay him back the money! What if he uses the child to blackmail you later? He's entirely capable of that..."
I said slowly:
"Mom, I owe him six million, not six hundred thousand."
"Between you, Dad, and my uncle and aunt, working your entire lives—do the earnings of both families even add up to six million?"
"My part-time job now only pays two to three thousand a month, and I don't even know if I can find a job paying ten thousand a month after graduation. I'm afraid I wouldn't finish paying back six million even if I worked until I died."
"Instead of all that, I might as well just take a year to have a child and be done with it once and for all."
"But, Xiaohe..." My Mom gritted her teeth. "We could borrow money from the Yan Family..."
Chapter 127