Chapter 362 - The Past (1/2)
”Everything started from a long time ago. At that time, I was only four years old. I had the same birthday as the daughter of the Xia household, but they only had eyes for Xia Yixuan and had forgotten me. That day, I met a boy who gave me an amulet…”
She said extremely slowly in detail about her life in the Xia household, without much grievance or pain. Everything was in the past.
She talked about Xia Yixuan's death, to her marriage stemming from revenge to Chu Lui's lies and pretense, then how she gave birth to Rainy and nursed her alone, and even how they had lived in adversity.
”Rainy was sick, extremely sick, so I needed a lot of money. I knew it wasn't a small sickness or anything worth like that doll. It wasn't an amount that I could earn with just selling my blood once. Even if I sold off all the blood in the body, I wouldn't be able to afford that figure.”
Xia Ruoxin continued, feeling hot tears dripping onto the back of her hand.
”I looked for my mother, but she said my Rainy was an illegitimate child and deserved to die. She wasn't willing to save me or my daughter. I looked for Chu Lui, but his wife stopped me relentlessly.
”I know that they weren't willing to let my Rainy live on. They both said she was the child of some other bastard, but she's not. She's my baby, my daughter. So, in the end, I could only sell my body. I met Shen Wei there, and I started to work as a hooker. I could only bear with it no matter how much the people bullied me. No one could help me or my Rainy.” She needed to save her. She had to.
”Then, when I found out that Chu Lui's bone marrow could save Rainy, I really found the hope to live on. I could live with all the humiliation and bullying from him, and he could treat me as a prostitute or not see me as a human… as long as he could save Rainy. If he could save Rainy, I was willing to do anything.
”Then again, he refused… his wife had a child, too. She didn't want him saving my daughter. I looked for him and begged him, but he just said that he hated me… so he would hate my daughter, too. If I had really given birth to a child with him—then even if she hadn't died, he would have strangled her to death with his own hands.”
”At that time, I was in utter despair. I thought that Rainy would die and I would, too.” She choked. Gao Yi lifted his fingers to her face and wiped away her tears gently. Her eyelids felt so heavy that she felt she almost couldn't open her eyes.
”Do you know?” She cried as she smiled. ”If not for you, Rainy and I might not be in this world anymore. No one would remember or know us, and there might not even be anyone there to bury us.”
”I know, I know.” Gao Yi's eyes reddened slightly. He knew that her past was tough, but he had no idea that she had gone through so much more than he imagined. She even gave birth to Rainy all alone. He was a doctor; he knew how dangerous and painful it was.
”Ruoxin, everything's fine now. Everything is okay.” He wrapped his arms tightly around the woman who had suffered through more than enough. He wanted to know everything about her in the past, but now that he knew, he regretted it for making her live through the excruciating pain of her past again. He knew that things were definitely not just as she said. The truth might be more pitiful and mistreating than she let on.
Xia Ruoxin closed her eyes, and when she opened them, the emotions in them had already started to fade. She smiled, the corner of her eyes damp. ”I met him again today. He told me that he found out that the little girl he had met in the past was me, and he said he wanted to repay me anything that I want. Yet, what can I ask, and what can I need?