Chapter 412 - Are You Even A Human Being? (1/2)

The dining room was awkwardly quiet. No one was speaking or smiling. The atmosphere was very depressing.

Li Qianxue was sitting at the head of the long dining table. The steaming, delicate dishes on the table didn’t bring a happy look to her face.

Normally, there would be five people at the New Year’s Eve dinner. This year, one of them wasn’t there. How could she not be angry about that?

She didn’t expect Su Chenghui to be so cruel as to forbid Su Peizhen from coming back for the New Year.

Su Peizhen was her first child. She had invested so much in her.

Unlike Su Yuxin, Su Peizhen was so weak and fragile when she was a baby, probably because of the difficult labor.

She was such a tiny baby girl. Back then, Li Qianxue was even afraid that she might hurt the baby by holding her.

For the very first time, her little girl wasn’t celebrating the New Year together with her.

With a sullen face, she sat there silently.

Because of the unhappy look on her face, there was no festive atmosphere in the dining room at all.

“Mom,” Su Yuxin couldn’t stand the sullen tension. “Let’s eat.”

Li Qianxue didn’t have an appetite. She couldn’t accept what was happening now.

“Su Chenghui, are you even a human being? How could you send your daughter so far away from home because of some outsider? You didn’t even let her come home for the New Year. Are you punishing her? No, you are punishing me.”

“Mom,” Su Yuxin really didn’t want to hear Li Qianxue and Su Chenghui fight on New Year’s Eve. “Calm down. My sister will soon come home.”

“Who knows?” Li Qianxue gave Su Chenghui a glare and said, “Your father sent her so far away from home. Who knows if he’ll ever let her come back?”

“Qianxue,” Old Master Li started talking, “That’s enough. This is the New Year. How can you be like this?”

“Father, as you said, this is the New Year. Does he want me to be happy at the New Year? No, he wants me to suffer.”

Li Qianxue was thinking of Su Peizhen. She was so angry that she couldn’t even eat anything. “Peizhen has never been alone on New Year’s Eve. I don’t even know if she had dinner yet, or if she’s sad and alone.”

“Enough,” Old Master Li recalled what Huo Jinyao asked before.

In fact, if Su Qingsang and Xiang Caiping didn’t get softhearted and let things ago, Su Peizhen might be in prison now, instead of the United States.

He could not tell Li Qianxue about it, though. She would, of course, refuse to believe that her daughter would do something like that.

What happened was the best possible outcome. Su Peizhen could use some time alone abroad, to figure out how serious what she did was.

“Peizhen isn’t a child anymore. So many people are living by themselves. Why can’t she do the same? Stop talking, just sit there and finish this dinner.”

“Father…”

“I’m old. I don’t want to hear you two fighting. If you want to me stay alive for a couple more years, stop talking now.”

Li Qianxue clenched her teeth. She was angry but facing Old Master Li, she had to stop.

She looked at Su Chenghui. The disappointment in her eyes grew stronger and stronger. Seeing that he was sitting there without saying a word, she was even angrier than before.

She made such a scene, yet he barely reacted. Sometimes, she hoped that Su Chenghui would argue with her and even fight her, instead of staying perfectly silent.

However, he was silent most of the time. He always looked at her as if she were a puppet.

She realized that long ago. She loved the man less and less.

Before, she convinced herself that she still loved him, for the sake of her children and father. Recently, however, she felt more and more powerless. She didn’t even know when that process started.