Chapter 524 - He is Not Daddy (2/2)

”Rainy…” Xia Ruoxin called her daughter's name. Rainy lifted her head from Gao Yi's arms before falling into Xia Ruoxin's embrace. The child's clear voice, although tender, was filled with resolution. ”Rainy has Mommy and Daddy. I don't want to have another daddy. When Rainy grows up, I will protect Mommy.”

As she spoke, she looked warily at Chu Lui. The moment she saw Chu Jiang and Song Wan, her long eyelashes fluttered for a moment before she buried her face into Xia Ruoxin's embrace. She was fine as long as she had Mommy.

That Grandpa and Granny treated her very well, and she really liked them. However, she didn't need to have grandparents; all she needed was Mommy. All along, it was just her and Mommy living together. That's why she didn't need anybody else.

Chu Lui's hands suddenly started to feel cold—cold to an extent where there was no longer any warmth to it. Song Wan looked at Rainy who was in Xia Ruoxin's arms, not knowing what to say to her. Did the feud amongst a.d.u.l.ts end up hurting the child as well?

They were just getting what they had deserved. Was there even anybody for them to blame?

”Mommy, Rainy wants to go home.” Rainy clutched Xia Ruoxin's neck and buried her face into her mother's chest. She didn't like that daddy; that's why she wanted to go home. She didn't want to see him because Mommy would cry whenever she sees him, which made her cry as well.

”Alright, let's go home.” Xia Ruoxin carried her daughter and smiled apologetically at Song Wan. ”Sorry, Aunty Chu, we'll be heading home now.” She tightened her arms around her daughter, nodded her head at Song Wan and Chu Jiang, and then took her leave. The moment they crossed paths with Chu Lui at the door, their steps slowed for only a moment; and Chu Lui didn't call out to them. He simply watched them walk off as his dark eyes filled with loneliness. The hands at the sides of his body clenched into fists.

Xia Ruoxin, no, no. He wasn't going to let her leave. She and his daughter… they were both his. He accidentally let them go once, but now, weren't the heavens giving him a second chance?

He turned back to look at their distancing figures, and the darkness in his black pupils thickened.

”Ah Lui, what is going on? Why would Rainy say those things?” Song Wan tugged at her son's hand. Clearly, that child was so well-behaved before; and she couldn't bring herself to believe that Xia Ruoxin would teach her child all that. What did she mean 'left her to die'?

”Mom, do you remember a few months ago, there was that girl that had leukemia? Do you still remember how I chose to not save her because of Li Manni's child?” Chu Lui slightly curled his lips. ”Do you still remember how you persuaded me?”

”How can you value other people's children more than your own?”

Yes, they did exactly that. It was just that, in the end, they realized that that child wasn't even theirs. No, that child didn't even exist.

”Are you telling me that that child is Rainy?” Song Wan stepped back in disbelief. She could not believe it; she refused to believe it. That child back then was Rainy? How could that be possible? If it really was, then how could they have chosen not to save their granddaughter, leaving her three-year-old young life to die while she had that kind of disease?

”Yes, Mom. Rainy was that child.” Chu Lui laughed bitterly. If he had saved Rainy back then—right now, Gao Yi probably wouldn't even have existed in his life. There probably wouldn't have been such a sad moment in his life as well.