From-DIDIDA Novels
“Okay.” Rainy firmly nodded her head. She loved to eat Mommy’s food the most. If Mommy ate all of it, she was going to cry. That’s why they really had to head home faster. She was going to eat a lot of food.
“Rainy, you’re going to become a little pig.” Gao Yi pinched Rainy’s small face. As smart as she was, she was still a child. She was so easily deceived. Rainy looked at Gao Yi, not quite understanding the situation. “Will a little pig be as cute as Rainy?”
Upon hearing that, Gao Yi didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. “That’s right. The little pig is just as cute as Rainy.”
He drove the car away, leaving Chu Jiang and Song Wan simply standing there. There was a new look of sadness in their eyes. There was still a distance between them and their granddaughter. When would they ever be able to see her being so intimate with them?
“Let’s go.” Chu Jiang took his wife’s hand in his, and the two of them walked slowly towards their home. However, when they arrived at their house, they encountered a person they didn’t want to see: Li Manni. She was standing in front of their door the entire time, waiting for them to come back. No, waiting for the Chu family to come back.
“What are you here for?” Song Wan’s expression immediately changed. They were already divorced; moreover, she shouldn’t have appeared here ever again. There was nobody here that would welcome her. They would only despise her, detest her. What, a mother wasn’t enough; now even the daughter had come to play the pity card?
“Lui, is he home?” said Li Manni after a long while. She didn’t want to face the harsh words from the Chu family. She didn’t want to come here. It was just that there was something that she needed proof of. She needed to know; she needed to confirm it.
“Mrs. Li, we have absolutely no relations with each other anymore. That’s why could you please do not address me that way? Please refer to me as Mr. Chu, thank you.”
Chu Lui’s cold voice traveled from behind her. In his hand was a briefcase. The suit on his body was straight and well-ironed. As compared to before, he had this new sense of detachment and indifference.
He had returned to take something. He didn’t expect to meet this detestable woman as well.
They had no reason to meet ever again. Their feelings had died in the hands of her schemes, and they were already divorced. Everything before was a lie; what she even here for?
Inside the Chu family’s house, Chu Lui held a glass of wine, twirling it from time to time. He looked coldly at Li Manni. She said that she had something to say to him, and it just so happened that he had something to ask her about, too.
Chu Jiang sat beside them, his face conveying his adamancy about staying there. He really didn’t want the place to have Li Manni’s smell. He turned his head around to see his wife who similarly had a grim expression and softly said, “I miss our granddaughter, but tomorrow’s a weekend. We can only see her after the weekend. These two days, how are we going to spend them?”
Song Wan made a long face. “I don’t know, too. I also miss her.” The two of them looked at each other again. Only by thinking about their granddaughter could they be able to sit comfortably in this situation. Otherwise, just by seeing Li Manni’s face, they definitely would have gotten indigestion.
“I want to know. Who’s the father of your first child?” Something flashed across Chu Lui’s dark eyes. However, he lowered his head concealing everything. He placed the glass in his hand down, the distinct joints in his fingers gently curving.
“That child…” Li Manni paused for a moment. She didn’t know how to reply to him.
“You already had another man since then, and it wasn’t forced on you as you had claimed?” Chu Lui picked up the glass of wine again. His gaze was on the glass of wine; however, Li Manni’s every expression was trapped in his peripheral vision.
“No, no, I didn’t have anybody then.” Li Manni frantically lowered her head. “I was just, just…” She couldn’t bring herself to continue speaking.
“Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t you say that that child was actually non-existent? You didn’t say it because you already knew that Rainy was my daughter. You just didn’t want me to go save her. That’s why you colluded with the doctors and used your pregnancy to threaten me. You weren’t even pregnant, were you? You just didn’t want me to save my daughter. You wanted my daughter to die. Li Manni, how could you be so cruel?
She’s just a child. She doesn’t know anything. Just ’cause you weren’t willing to save her, couldn’t I have saved her?”
Chu Lui’s body trembled unceasingly with fury. Whenever he recalled that if it wasn’t for Gao Yi, his daughter would have died; moreover at the hands of her own father. He felt like his heart was being ruthlessly ripped apart, coldly torn apart. It was raw pain.
How could she have been so selfish? Where did that gentle and kind Li Manni go to? Suddenly, he laughed. Maybe that Li Manni never existed in the first place. It was just him forcing the words ‘kind’ and ‘gentle’ on her.
In a moment, Li Manni could only lower her head; her fingers gripped at her clothes from time to time. She didn’t know how to reply to him. If she said no, then she was admitting that she had committed adultery and betrayed him. If she said yes, then she was admitting that she had attempted to kill the child.
The hardest thing for her to accept was that that child was still alive in this world. Moreover, she was living happily. Then, what did all her painstaking plotting give her in return? If it wasn’t for her mother telling her that Xia Ruoxin already had a daughter-up till now, she would’ve continued thinking that that child had died. She wasn’t satisfied at all so why did she have to satisfy others?
Li Manni closed both of her eyes. Finally, she lifted her head, an extremely sarcastic and bitter smile hung on her lips. “That’s right, I did it on purpose. I knew that that child was your daughter. The daughter you had with Xia Ruoxin. That’s why I didn’t let you save her. I also wasn’t pregnant; everything was a lie. As for the miscarriage, it was just my thigh bleeding.
“If you say that I’m malicious, then why don’t you think about yourself? Aren’t you the same? You personally sent your wife into another man’s bed, and you let so many men humiliate your wife… just to marry another woman. Say, what’s the difference between me and you? Chu Lui, the reason why I became like this was all because I learned from you. That’s why you’re not a good person, and neither am I. This was why we managed to live together for four years.
“Because we are the same kind of people.” After Li Manni finished speaking, she couldn’t stop her laughter. Her bitter, sarcastic laughter. She laughed so much even tears had started to fall. If only he had married her for love in the first place-if it wasn’t because she loved him too much, because she was too afraid of losing him, she would never have become like this… mocked for her divorce, looked down upon, and insulted by everybody.