Chapter 211 - A Helpless Daughter (1/2)

Darren had never been the person to believe in fate or coincidence. Because he believed that every route we took in life was eventually the reason behind what we encounter. However, for the very first time in his life, his belief was shaken. And the reason was Chen Xiu.

Except for fate, he couldn't name that encounter as anything else. Calling it a coincidence didn't seem right. Then what else was it if it wasn't the fate playing around with him? Never in his wildest dreams, he could have thought of seeing Chen Xiu right there.

After contemplating the whole night, he decided to pay her a visit the next morning. He sent Dylan away on purpose and wheeled his wheelchair towards her room right beside his. But right at the door, he halted and his expression shifted. A deep frown etched between his brows as he heard the conversation. The voices from inside were loud enough.

”Can't you do even one thing right?” came a loud and angry voice. ”You only had to walk on the red carpet and you even messed that up? How could you be so dumb?!”

Xiu listened to her mother in silence as the latter went on and on. Her mother threw a newspaper at her face and continued, ”Look at the headlines you made. Do you even have a clue how messed up the situation is back home?”

”Why is it that you only care about what people say about me? Why is it that you can never see my pain?” Xiu broke her silence as she stared at her mother's face with hurt visible in her eyes. ”Being my mother, your first question should have been, 'How am I doing?' but no. You just know how to be my manager. You never learned how to be my mother. Or perhaps, I'm not your daughter, to begin with.”

”Xiu!” Her mother's voice took a sharp edge. ”Don't talk nonsense with me.”

Xiu slowly got off the hospital bed and stood before her mother taking the support of the bed as she said, ”Why don't you for once just say that I'm not really your daughter? That truth will only hurt me once. At least, I won't be hurt every day.”

”You're my daughter and that's why I want the best for you. Why don't you ever understand?” Her mother's voice softened up a little but it only made Xiu snicker.

”The best for me?” Xiu mumbled in self-pity as she continued, ”How do you know what's best for me?”

”Because I'm your mother,” she heard the reply that made her laugh like a crazy person.

As Xiu sobered up, she had a poker face while her eyes stared at her mother's face with accusations. ”How come as my mother, you don't even know that I hate this life? I hate everything you worked so hard for. A superstar? I hate that title. While trying to give me the best you took my freedom from me. And along with that, you took my self-identity. This roleplaying on the big screen has made me forget what or who I really am.”

Xiu held her mother's shoulder and shook it helplessly as she added, ”Why can't you see that while trying to make me the so-called star, you took one thing I needed the most in my life. A mother. I so desperately yearned for you but you're never around. You're always working.”

”And for whom I had been working? I did-”