Chapter 329 - She was not Shen Yijun (1/2)

Xia Ruoxin looked up at Rainy who was sitting quietly playing with her doll. Her daughter had not smiled at all. She was merely holding her doll and playing with it. That doll was her sole playmate. Other than the doll, she did not like to play with anything else.

She did not wish for her daughter to have just a doll.

However, now was not the time. It really wasn't.

”Ruoxin, can you tell me your reason?” Three deep vertical lines could be seen between Gao Yi's eyebrows. She was clearly keeping something from him.

He did not know about her past or attempt to ask her about it while she did not take the initiative to tell him, too. However, this concerned Rainy's education. He had to insist with his way.

Xia Ruoxin closed her eyes, and then she opened them slowly. Gradually, she let out a long breath as her hands clenched tightly together.

”When I was four years old, I had a mother who loved me very much. Our life was similar to how Rainy and I used to have, but it was slightly better.”

The look in her eyes became more pained. Gao Yi's hands never left her shoulders or let go. He had a feeling that he was getting to know the real Xia Ruoxin.

”At that time, my mother had loved me. She would give me all the best things. Even though I did not have a father, I was content to have such a mother.

”We weren't doing very well in our lives. There were no new clothes, and we couldn't have meat every day. However, we were happy.

”After that, she met a very rich man, and she married him when I was four years old, bringing me with her. That man had a daughter who was six months younger than me.

”I had a new father and a new sister, but I lost the mother whom I loved the most. Mom no longer cared about me because she was in love with that man. She put her heart and soul into loving that man and his daughter to the extent that she forgot she had a daughter herself. I was that girl.

”She forgot about my existence. She no longer cared if I had eaten or whether I was warm enough. She even forgot about my birthday.”

As Xia Ruoxin recounted, her vision became blurred with tears in one moment and cleared up at the next. The two hands on her shoulders gripped her shoulders even tighter, giving her the courage in silence.

”That year, when I was six, that man's daughter had to shave her head bald because she became very sick. After she was bald, she kept crying and throwing her tantrums. She refused to eat or take her medications.

”My mother and that man were worried sick. Finally, when my mother saw me, she pulled me and cut my hair away. I had kept them for a very long time. She shaved my head bald because she said I had to accompany my sister. Haven't I paid enough? I even had to pay with my mother among other things.

”That year, I had already started school. All my classmates mocked me. They said 'Xia Ruoxin—an ugly duckling. Her father was not fond of her, and her mother did not love her. Nobody loved her bald head'. Even now, I can still remember vividly how I felt. I was really sad and heartbroken. I felt like I was a child whom no one loved. In actual fact, I was one.”

Gao Yi's hands shifted to below her eyes and caught her translucent tears. His hands clenched into two balls of fists, and then he bent both his elbows to embrace this woman into his arms. She had been going through hardships alone for so long.