Chapter 271 - Leave (Unedited) (1/2)
Joreen was about to turn when she heard the sound of someone getting hit but Sara quickly came out from the shock and turned Joreen to continue facing her instead of looking behind.
Joreen still did not want to stay still. She thought that was probably her mother who was just hit. Her tiny hands did not do much in blocking the sounds from entering inside her ears and so, she had heard her mother's squeal after the slap.
As Jianjun and Cixi continued to stare at her in shock, Sara pulled Joreen with her and towards the kitchen since they could not go inside the room without passing by Changyu and her aunt.
”Let me go. What is going on? I need to see” Joreen tried to turn around but Sara did not let her.
She did not want the little girl to see her mother getting hit. And aside from the fact that it was not a good sight for a young child like her, Joreen also had a temper like her mother and even if she liked Changyu, it was totally going to make a U-turn when if she sees her mother being abused by her.
”What do you think you are doing?” Jianjun also broke out from the shock and quickly pulled Changyu away from Cixi by the arm when she was about to hit her again.
”Let me go. Let me go this instant!” Changyu yelled at Jianjun as he continued to pull her further away from his sister.
”Are you crazy Changyu? Who do you think you are to come in here and hit me? Have you gone nuts?” Cixi yelled at her in anger but made no move to go hit the crazy woman back.
”How could you? How could you have done that? How could you have done that to your own brother? Was it fun for you? Was it fun to play us?”
Cixi bit down on her lower lips hard enough to the point where she almost drew out blood. She looked into her brother's eyes guiltily.
She was not a dummy. She obviously knew what Changyu was talking about.
”What are you talking about?” Jianjun asked Changyu after turning her to face him directly.
He also looked at Cixi in confusion. ”What is she talking about?”
Changyu was obviously not in her right mind. She turned back to face Cixi again and looked at her with a face brimming with anger and tears.
She had thought there were no tears left for her to cry, but she was wrong. She had more than enough.
”Do you want to deny it? Do you want to act like you had no hand in it? It was you right? You hid all those letters I sent to him. It was you who also sent me that mail right?”
Her face was dark and her eyes were sad as she yelled at Cixi.
”W..h...at?” Jianjun widened his eyes before taking slow steps to stand in between the two women.
”How can you accuse her of such a thing? Why....why would she do so?” He then turned to look at Cixi, expecting her to say something or deny the accusation but she remained quiet with her eyes looking at anywhere but at him.
”Did... you do that? You didn't right?” He asked in a very low voice. For some reasons, he was afraid of whatever answer he was going to get from her.
”Are you deaf? He asked you a question.” Changyu chipped in.
”Can you stop shouting will you?” Cixi finally blew up at Changyu, who thought she had the right to fault her.
”Yes! It was me. So what? I did that for us. To save my family. If I hadn't done that, do you think my brother and I would have still been alive? We probably would have died in your useless parents' hands.”
When Jianjun heard her, he staggered backwards with a look of disbelief clearly written in his face.
He kept going back until he finally collapsed on the couch in shock.
”How...how could you? How could you have done that? Things would have been different if you hadn't done that!”
Changyu cried even more and tried to hit Cixi one more time but Cixi pushed her away which caused her to stumble on her heels and land on the floor.
Cixi did not look the least bit guilty about making her trip. She was also burning with anger. So now she was the bad person? She had done it to save her family so why were they looking at her like she was the bad one?
”How so? How would things have been different? Would you have been able to protect us from your family? You are only saying all of that because of your selfishness. You believe if I hadn't done any of that, then you would have still been with my brother.
That is all you care about. Yourself! What about my family? Your crazy father asked me to do it if I wanted to save my family. He threatened me! Threatened the Wangs. At first I was skeptical about it. Until I saw your first letter. Our father just died, the restaurant was taken away from us, our reputation was tarnished, I dropped out of medical school, my mother was unwell, my brother had a lot of responsibility and we went bankrupt but you wrote stupid letters about how you missed him and was stuck at home? How would you have felt if you were in my shoes? Wouldn't you choose your family. Look Changyu, I do not regret anything I did back then. If I was given the chance, I would do it over and over again. Because my family.... comes first before your stupid love”
Changyu looked at her from the floor and felt her heart begin to ache. She placed a hand on the left side of her chest and pressed it down, hoping that it would stop the pain she was feeling.
Jianjun was also stupefied. He used both palms to cover his face as he listened to his sister's narration.
He had no idea the Song elders had also met his sister privately.
So Helene was not the culprit? It had been his sister? No wonder he did not get any letters. Helene would not have successfully blocked it all from him. But his sister, he had even asked her then to help him check for letters always and give it to him whenever there was any from Changyu. But she had hidden it all from him?
”If he had continued meeting you, did you think we would have survived? I wanted to save my family. I wanted to save our lives!” At this point, Cixi was already beginning to cry also.