Chapter 516 - If People Had A Heart (2/2)

”Ruoxin, let them meet Rainy.”

Gao Yi suddenly said. Xia Ruoxin was stunned for a moment. The fingers on her thigh tightly clenched into a fist; she didn't want to. A large palm reached towards her. The man's hands were a lot larger than hers. His dry palm seemingly wiped away the little drops of perspiration within her palm.

”Ruoxin, listen to me.” Gao Yi sighed. He clasped her hands tightly and placed them on his knee.

”No matter what, Rainy is still a child of the Chu family. It's an indisputable fact.”

”They didn't raise her.” Xia Ruoxin turned her head away. She refused—she refused to accept this more than anything else in the world. Just as she rejected Shen Yijun, just as she refused her own mother. Rainy was not going to have any grandparents, and she was not going to have the Chu family.

”I know.” Gao Yi gripped her hands again. ”The Chu family will never have another child.”

Xia Ruoxin clenched her fists, her fingers digging into the flesh of her palms, similarly digging into the flesh in her heart.

She knew that, too.

However, did it have anything to do with her?

Gao Yi lifted his fingers, gently brushing her hair behind her ears. ”Ruoxin, you're not that kind of person. Don't let all that hatred cloud your heart. I wish for you to just be you. I don't want your hatred to give birth to another you.”

Shen Yijun already pushed her to the edge. She was supposed to be her closest family member, and yet now she was the person that Xia Ruoxin hated the most. This almost made her lose herself. If she were to do the same to the Chu family, he was really afraid that she would end up killing herself.

Only when people had a heart would they then overthink. Once they lose their heart, nothing would matter to them anymore.

That's why… so what if they met Rainy? So what? Rainy would still be Rainy.

”Furthermore…” he continued, determined on breaking down her walls.

”The more you don't let them see her, the more they would want to see her. At the end of the day, you're still going to have to let them meet her. Hiding and avoiding is never the best way out.”

Xia Ruoxin remained silent. She understood what Gao Yi meant. However, she still refused.

…

Song Wan stood in front of the Xia household once again. Actually, she did not know why she was there herself. She just felt that by the time she realized it, her two legs had already brought her there.

The door opened from inside, and she walked in.

The Xia household then looked very foreign to her. If the situation with Yixuan didn't happen, the Chu family and the Xia household—her and Shen Yijun—wouldn't be meeting under such circ.u.mstances. They wouldn't be so distanced. Now, sitting face to face, a sense of awkwardness befell them.

”What's wrong? You're not bringing your granddaughter to school today?” Shen Yijun poured a cup of tea for Song Wan. ”I know you used to like to drink this. Coincidentally, the doctor said that I should drink more of this, too.”

She touched her own face: there were many wrinkles, and her hair had turned white. She had finally started to age. She was no longer young anymore. It was just that after living for such a long time, she actually came to realize that she had done absolutely nothing with her life. Her entire life just passed in a blur.