Chapter 433 - Mom Will Come For You Now (1/2)
Su Qingsang sat and stared blankly in her seat, with Huo Jinyao’s face seemingly magnified in front of her, and could hardly keep her cell phone in her hand.
When Li Qianxue did not hear her voice on the other end of the phone, she grew anxious. “Qingsang, don’t go. I’ll wait for you here. Come back quickly, come back right now.”
Huo Jinyao could not hear the voice on the other side of the line, but knew for sure that it was Su Yuxin who had called her.
He looked at her and mouthed silently: what is the matter?
“Come back.” Li Qianxue’s voice was still ringing in her ear, full of eagerness and expectation.
“Qingsang, what’s the matter?” Xiang Caiping called from the other side of the plane, as she also noticed that something was off about Su Qingsang.
Su Yuxin, she knew, was Su Chenghui’s youngest son. Why was he looking for Su Qingsang? Could it be that something had happened with the Su family?
“I…” Su Qingsang’s lips started to move, and a message from the tower was broadcasted. It was telling their captain to get ready to take off.
The flight attendant reminded them with a sweet voice to fasten their seat belts, and for each passenger to return to their seats, as they got ready to take off.
Su Qingsang blinked several times, looked at Huo Jinyao in front of her, and then looked back at Xiang Caiping.
It was difficult for her to make a choice right then. She had never faced such a challenging moment. Her lips tightened into a straight line.
She tightened her grip on her cell phone, her body trembling slightly, and felt as if she should leave everything behind and rush out of the plane to find Li Qianxue.
“Qingsang. You don’t have to come back. You can stay at the airport, but don’t move. Mom is coming to get you now.”
Li Qianxue’s voice sounded out again, and Su Qingsang blinked several times. She was close to tears.
Xiang Caiping could not sit still any longer and tried to approach her.
She looked at Xiang Caiping and thought of Li Qianxue. So much internal turmoil. How could she choose?
By staying behind and acknowledging Li Qianxue, she would definitely hurt Xiang Caiping, who already had her heart broken by Su Chenghui. Must she get hurt again by Li Qianxue’s daughter?
If she were to leave, she would hurt Li Qianxue. She had raised someone else’s daughter for over twenty years. Now she wanted to acknowledge and claim her as her own. However, she had her own misgivings.
“Qingsang, do you hear me?”
Li Qianxue was still calling out to her, and Su Qingsang could tell that she sounded choked up with emotion.
At the same time, Xiang Caiping was now seated in front of her, watching her, her eyes full of warmth and worry.
Su Qingsang looked into Xiang Caiping’s concerned face, closed her eyes and said, “I am sorry.”
She heard herself speaking these three words in a very soft voice. Then she hung up.
“Qingsang?” Xiang Caiping’s face was anxious. “Is something wrong?”
“No, nothing’s wrong,” Su Qingsang smiled, albeit a little stiffly. “I’m okay.”
“Qingsang?” Xiang Caiping didn’t believe that at all. Su Qingsang forced herself to smile a little more widely. “I’m really fine. Yuxin blames me for leaving without telling him first. He’s just kicking up a fuss.”
Xiang Caiping stopped talking then, as she could probably feel that Su Qingsang shared a tight bond with her younger brother.
In all honesty, she did not like the Su family, none of them. No wonder Su Qingsang was upset. She patted Xiang Caiping’s shoulder.
“Mom, you should go rest. We’ll be there shortly.”
Su Qingsang’s voice seemed to conceal some strange emotion. Xiang Caiping didn’t probe too much into it, wanting to give her space, so she didn’t mention Su Yuxin again.
She returned to her own seat. Xiao Ning and Xiao Yu were on either side of her and would tend to her needs.
Huo Jinyao, who was seated next to Su Qingsang, took her hand and found it was cold as ice. “Are you really okay?”
His voice was so soft. Su Qingsang glanced at him, and he could see how her lips moved to form four words.
She didn’t make a sound, but Huo Jinyao understood. What she said was ‘she is back again’.
‘She’ was Li Qianxue.
Su Qingsang hugged him and buried her face deep in his chest. Her voice was low. “She knows. She knows. She wants me to stay.”
She seemed so torn. Huo Jinyao tightened his grip around her waist. “And you rejected her?”
“What else could I have done?” Su Qingsang looked up at him. Her voice was very gentle, the corners of her eyes moist. “What would mom do?”
‘Mom’ referred to Xiang Caiping. Huo Jinyao looked into her eyes, unable to answer her question.
Xiang Caiping had spent a few months with Su Qingsang and they had already developed a mother-daughter bond.
Su Qingsang didn’t want to hurt Xiang Caiping and had hung up on the call in a hurry. However, doing this had certainly hurt Li Qianxue.
“Huo Jinyao.” Su Qingsang’s voice was so soft, so very faint, that Huo Jinyao had to move close to her lips in order to hear clearly.
“I hurt her, but what should I do? I hurt her.”
She refused to stay, and she did not get off the plane. She didn’t dare to think about how Li Qianxue was feeling now.
She wanted to cry, but she couldn’t even do so now, because if she did it would cause suspicion in Xiang Caiping.
Huo Jinyao hugged her tightly, and the flight attendant had to remind them to take note of the procedures while the plane was taking off.
Huo Jinyao’s arms circled Su Qingsang’s body, and he could feel her trembling in his embrace.
Her eyes showed that she was struggling, that she was in a knot of emotions. If only she did not first mistakenly accepted Xiang Caiping for her mother, if only she had not gotten close with Xiang Caiping these few months!
At this moment, he was only afraid that she would throw caution to the wind and rush out of the plane.
Huo Jinyao didn’t have to look into Su Qingsang’s eyes to make a guess about her emotional state at this time. He glanced in the direction of Xiang Caiping, while she was chatting with two nurses.