Chapter 432 - Will She Refuse to Acknowledge Me? (1/2)

“He, how could he…”

Using all of her strength, she could only manage to squeeze out these words.

She was almost fainting with pain, and her nails dug so hard into her palms that they almost bled.

“How could he?”

“How could he?”

“How could he?” Each sentence she uttered grew more intense until she was almost screaming out, “How could he?!”

“Mom.” Su Yuxin saw that her hands were starting to bleed. He tried to grab them but found that he could not unclench her fists.

“Mom, don’t be like that.” Li Qianxue was scaring Su Yuxin. “You need to calm down a little. Don’t be like that.”

Li Qianxue was in so much pain that all she saw was a blinding white light, as Su Yuxin, frightened, watched her go into shock.

“Mom. Mom…”

He regretted it. He should never have told her. “Mom…”

Li Qianxue regained consciousness, but her whole body seemed to be drained of life.

She could not care less about her palms, which were still bleeding, and clung on to Su Yuxin’s shirt collar. “Where is she? You said you’d take me to see her. Where is she?”

“We’re almost there.” Su Yuxin took a tissue to wipe the blood from her hands. “Mom, you must calm down, you will scare my elder sister.”

Even though Su Qingsang seemed to have caught Huo Jinyao’s meaning, it was clear that she wasn’t planning to acknowledge it.

Li Qianxue closed her eyes, hoping to calm herself, but was not able to do so.

How could she calm down? Who could calm down under these circumstances?

Li Qianxue recalled that the last time she and Su Qingsang had met, was when she was visiting with the Su Family. And one time before that, she had gone to the hospital, wanting to give Su Qinsang a piece of her mind.

At that time, she had almost hit her.

Their last interaction had been such an unpleasant event altogether.

“Aahh!”

Li Qianxue made a sharp scream. It was all too unbearable. All too hard to take in. This was her daughter.

This was her very own daughter.

As she thought about how Su Qingsang had smiled while she had given her a gift, it was clear that in her eyes, she showed a sense of deference and willingness to curry favor with her. However, she had instead let the assistant throw the gift away.

She couldn’t think of a single time when she had shared even one moment of tenderness with Su Qingsang. Not even once.

“Ahhh!”

The more she thought about it, the worse she felt, and it was just getting more painful by the minute. Li Qianxue clutched her head, unable to vent the rollercoaster of emotions that she was fighting within her.

“Mom. You must calm down.”

The image of Li Qianxue as Su Yuxin perceived her was always one of elegance and nobility. He had never seen his mother in this state before.

“Take it easy, or you will scare elder sister.”

When Li Qianxue heard Su Yuxin’s words, she finally managed to calm down a little. She slowly lifted her head and looked at him, “You’re saying… we’re going to see her now?”

“Yes. We are going to meet her now.”

Su Yuxin gave her an affirmative look. He already had everything planned. Today, he was going to take Li Qianxue to see Su Qingsang.

“We are almost there. We will be seeing elder sister in just a second. Mom, you must relax, or you will scare her.”

Even though it was unlikely that Su Qingsang would be put off by this, he had to make sure that Li Qianxue got her emotions in check.

Li Qianxue blinked a few times as if she had finally registered the news that her son had given her. She haphazardly wiped her face. “Okay. I won’t be like that. I’ll stop.”

She wiped the tears off her face, as well as the blood off her palms. She looked at Su Yuxin. “Now, do I look terrible?”

“No.” Su Yuxin was close to tears. “Mom, you are beautiful.”

Li Qianxue didn’t react to her son’s praise with happiness. Instead, she thought about something else. “And what about her? Does she know? Do you think she will acknowledge me?”

She was still young. Li Qianxue was only 40 years old now.

She had remembered those things, in very much the same way that Su Qingsang would remember what it was like when she was younger.

And what was the worst of this? Invisibility. She would not see her for what she was and would imagine that she had never existed.

Li Qianxue tried her best to recall every moment, but she couldn’t find a single memory of her treating Su Qingsang well.

Perhaps the one and only time was when she was eighteen years old and Su Chenghui was going to buy a house for Su Qingsang. She had casually mentioned that since the house had been bought, Su Qingsang should also have a car.

Since Su Qingsang was going to leave the Su family anyway, she didn’t mind spending that extra money. In her opinion, the Su family had already owned so many cars. She thought nothing of giving one to an illegitimate daughter.

Except she didn’t know if the car had been given in the end. Su Qingsang said at the time that having a car at the start of school seemed too high profile. She didn’t buy a car until she graduated from college.

What was she even thinking at the time? A bastard child is as a bastard child does. Petty and small-minded. To think that just purchasing a car would scare her like that.

Yet deep inside she couldn’t help but acknowledge that Su Qingsang was a conscious person who knew how to be humble. If she did not know how to do so, maybe she would not have been able to bear her.

She couldn’t think of that. All of that was in the past, and she could not think of all that right now.

All she could feel was intense pain.

Li Qianxue closed her eyes tightly. What was even more painful, she realized, was that she could not recall any more memories.

She could not think of any more times she had shared with Su Qingsang. All the memories that she had of children growing up were that of Su Yunxin’s childhood, and even more so of Su Peizhen’s.

She remembered everything from Su Peizhen’s early years. However, she could not remember anything about Su Qingsang.

She suddenly grabbed hold of Su Yuxin’s arm. “What do I do? Yuxin, what do I do?”