Chapter 578 (1/2)
Chapter 578: Relentless Pursue and Beating
Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales
The former intertwined feelings turned remorseful and vexed feeling and eventually made her and Tang Xiu become strangers. Moreover, meeting Tang Xiu again today was particularly depressing, because he saw her at the most ridiculous and miserable situation, thus making her want to speak out all her bitter and painful experiences. The embarrassment and shame she felt inside made her unsure how to face Tang Xiu.
“What exactly do you want to explain?” Cheng Xiaowan followed along to melt the awkwardness.
Tang Xiu turned the car to a fork in the road and stopped it on the roadside with little traffic. He then opened the window, pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and silently lit it. After taking a deep puff, he turned his head to Chen Xiaowan and said seriously, “Sis Xiaowan, I’m sure you know how I was treated by Su Yaning and Su Xiangfei back then. You are her classmate and best friend and you’ve probably heard all the bad mouthing she threw at me, am I right?”
The awkwardness inside Chen Xiaowan was blown away and vanished as she sympathetically looked at Tang Xiu and nodded silently.
“When you held that birthday party for me, I felt very grateful to you because it was actually the first time I got my birthday celebrated in my whole life. Though it was stopped midway and came to a bitter end, the gratitude in my heart toward you didn’t vanish. It’s like the feeling a little brother has toward his big sis, for you made feel very warm inside.
“Do you know that you have made me encounter many of firsts in life? You’re the first person aside from my mother and grandmother who gave me pocket money, the first one who gave me a gift, the first who held a birthday party for me, and the first person to lend me a hand to make up for the missed lessons…
“I’m the only child of the family and to the eyes of others, we—an orphan and a widow staying in the Su Family Village were easy targets to be gossiped about. But I never saw contempt and despise in your eyes. As a matter of fact, I really looked at you as my own big sister, far more than Su Yaning who is of the same blood as me.”
As he spoke up to there, Tang Xiu was a bit depressed inside.
He lifted the cigarette between his fingers and took a deep puff. Along with the cloud of smoke coming out from his mouth, he continued, “That day when you held a birthday party for me, it was Su Xiangfei who asked me to come to the bathroom to get some stuff for him. I didn’t know that you were inside, so I just… Anyhow, it was only then that I figured out that Su Xiangfei definitely knew that you were taking a shower inside, hence he intentionally deceived me to go there. Like… just like before the CET, the siblings hid the money in their home, but charged a false accusation on me as the one who stole it.”
Chen Xiaowan’s eyes stared wide. Tang Xiu’s story sent a stream of warmness into her heart. But she never thought that the bottom of the story turned out to be this reason. She didn’t expect that Su Yaning and Su Xiangfei were so excessive.
In an instant, sympathy and compassion rose inside her toward Tang Xiu, and the repelling feeling she had toward him also vanished instantly.
Tang suddenly smiled, albeit a bit unsightly. “Can you imagine how my mother and I have been these past years, Sis Xiaowan? It was thanks to my mom’s hard work of running a small restaurant and the little money gave by the Su Family that we eventually barely came through. Normally, I wouldn’t have to pay the high tuition fee for the school if I was able to pass the CET and be admitted to a major university in China.”
“I became kind of muddle headed and lost my intelligence for a time. It was Su Yaning and Su Xiangfei who hid the money just to falsely accuse me. They even called the police at that time. If it wasn’t for some particular reasons and due to the arrival of a policewoman from the Crime Division of Star City Public Security Bureau who eventually revealed the truth, I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be sitting here and having a chat with you now but behind bars.”
“They… they went too far! You’re their cousin, for God’s sake!” Anger painted Chen Xiaowan’s face.
“That’s why I told you that your place in my heart is much bigger than theirs.” Tang Xiu bitterly said. “They feel the same towards me, I assume.”
Chen Xiaowan grabbed his hand in an attempt to comfort Tang Xiu.
“I’m fine.” Tang Xiu shook his head and continued, “It was also that incident that made me realize that relying on others is useless, and only relying on myself will do. Hence, I set up some business and a company with all the abilities and skills I’ve learned before the CET, and the condition of my family has finally improved now.”
“I know some stuff about you. I have seen your video at this year’s Shanghai University’s freshmen welcoming party, and the one when you rendered medical services at the Star City Chinese Medical Hospital. I’m really glad that you have grown up.”
“I’ll be more than happy if you stopped being angry with me because of yesteryear’s matter.” Tang Xiu smiled.
Tang Xiu’s words touched Chen Xiaowan’s heart a lot, and her attitude toward him became more intimate as her fingers grasped Tang Xiu’s hand and said seriously, “Big Sis is not angry with you. Had I known about the causes earlier, I wouldn’t have been angry with you back then.”
Tang Xiu was happy by the answer, and then said, “Let me treat you to a dinner, Sis Xiaowan!”
“It should Big Sis treating you.” Chen Xiaowan shook her head. “I’m working in a big foreign company now, and the paycheck is quite big.”
Tang Xiu let out a faint smile in response. Suddenly, his expression moved as he said, “Sis Xiaowan, tell me if that chap pesters you again later. I’ll kick him out from Shanghai and even China.”
Upon hearing it, Chen Xiaowan’s heart pained as she nodded silently in response. After seeing Tang Xiu start the car, she suddenly spoke, “Tang Xiu, tell me. He… he won’t die, right?”