971 If It Isnt Fate, What Is It? (2/2)

Wang Juhuai looked at Lu Man. Right, her daughter was already so big. The daughter she had with another man was already… so big.

”Man Man, this is your Uncle Wang, my senior when I was young,” Xia Qingwei said.

Wang Juhuai smiled gently, and Old Mrs. Han added, ”Isn't this fate? Man Man is about to get married to Zhuoli, and Xiao Xia became in-laws with our family. This year, as she came over to give New Year greetings, it just so happened that you are back in the country and came to also give your New Year greetings. Thus, you two met. It was just so coincidental that you and Xiao Xia have known each other since you were young. Somehow, you two met again. If it were not for Lu Man being engaged with Zhuoli, if it were not for the fact that Xiao Xia came today, or if not for how you didn't come on another day, you two would have missed each other.”

”So many coincidences had to happen together to let you two meet again. If it isn't fate, what is it?” Old Mrs. Han said as she smiled.

Wang Juhuai looked at Xia Qingwei, then smiled. ”Isn't that right?”

What was fate?

If it was fate, they wouldn't be like how they were now.

He got married, she divorced. After not meeting for twenty years and then meeting again, they were like strangers, and it could no longer be like how it was in the past.

This could only be considered to be fated but not destined.

If it was going to be this sort of meeting, she'd have preferred to not even meet.

She would have preferred to keep her memory of him from twenty years ago, to stop at… before that day, forever.

Meeting again now, what was good about that?

It was all in vain.

Xia Qingwei suddenly felt unable to face Wang Juhuai. Even just being under the same roof as him made her feel like it was hard to breathe, much less sitting opposite him and being looked at by him once in a while.

Look at the changes over these twenty or so years.

He'd become a world-renowned musician. The years had treated him well. He was already middle-aged but still looked good, not lacking in charm.

But she had divorced, and the first half of her life had caused her body to be tired out. She'd gotten a little bit better only now.