Chapter 431 - A Person She Didn’t Want to Meet (1/2)

It's just that every time she passes Rainy some milk, Rainy would always finish it nicely. Then, like now, she would raise her apple-like face for her mother to praise and compliment since Rainy drank the milk that she didn't like.

”Good girl, come, kisses from Mommy.” Xia Ruoxin kissed her daughter's tiny face before passing the doll to her. She then went to wash the milk bottle.

In the afternoon, she sent her daughter to school. They lived near the school, thankfully. Otherwise, without a car, Rainy had to squeeze onto the public bus with her, and that would have been sad for the child. Furthermore, the current weather wasn't all that good, and Rainy's weak immune system made her prone to falling sick.

”Ruoxin.”

Suddenly, she heard someone calling her. It was a familiar voice, but she currently was not fond of anyone familiar.

She turned around, her eyes guarded.

What was she doing here?

Xia Ruoxin patted her daughter's back gently.

”Rainy, be good and play a game with Mommy, okay?”

Rainy blinked her bright, round, and big eyes,” Mommy wants to play hide-and-seek with Rainy?”

”Yes, what a smart baby.” Xia Ruoxin hugged her daughter tightly, with Rainy's face pressed into that embrace, ”You can't show up if I don't ask you to appear, okay? If you lose, there'll be no cake for you.”

”Okay,” Rainy replied with a childlike voice, one hand holding onto her doll and the other grasping on her mother's clothes. If Mommy told her not to get up, then she wouldn't get up. She knew that granny may be a bad person. She couldn't see her face, but she remembered the voice. It was like the last time at the hospital where that person bullied Mommy. That granny seemed to have helped Mommy; then, is that granny good or bad? She didn't know, but she would listen to Mommy.

”Ruoxin, is that really you?” Song Wan took big steps over, being very surprised to have bumped into Xia Ruoxin at that spot. She found Xia Ruoxin hugging a tiny girl, seeming to be too small for 2 or 3 years old.

”This child is…”

Song Wan carefully asked, but she didn't think that the child would belong to Xia Ruoxin. This was because, in their eyes, Xia Ruoxin was unable to conceive. Otherwise, why would the Chu family have decided so cleanly to allow Chu Lui's divorce?

Xia Ruoxin didn't hate Song Wan. Not taking into account everything else, she was a good mother, one that was hard to come about. She had a sense of justice and would not blatantly take the side of her son—whatever was right was right, and whatever was wrong was wrong. While at the Chu family, Xia Ruoxin was thankful for her and once thought how good it would have been if Song Wan was her own mother. Alas, Song Wan was not. She was Chu Lui's mother and would do things in consideration of Chu Lui.

Xia Ruoxin saw Song Wan continuously gazing at Rainy. She tilted her body, blocking Song Wan's direction of sight.

”This is my friend's child.” She slowly patted Rainy's soft hair. Now, she obviously did not want anyone from the Chu family to know of Rainy's existence. Rainy was hers and hers only. No one could take Rainy away.

That should be a pretty kid. Song Wan didn't think too much. She knew that Xia Ruoxin had a boyfriend, and the child probably belonged to that guy. How was none of her concern as long as she had a child, and it was a daughter at that. Girls were sweeter and easier to bring up.

”Sorry, Aunty, I have some other things to handle, I'll go first,” Xia Ruoxin spoke apologetically to Song Wan. Although her tone wasn't rigid, she didn't have any intention of continuing the conversation.

She didn't wish to mix with anyone from the Chu family.

Including Chu Lui, Li Manni, and—of course—Song Wan.