412 Strong Reactions (2/2)

”Jackie left early for school,” replied Jing Ge after a short pause. ”And...”

”And?”

”Your best friend is locked in her room,” answered Clara in place of her husband. She had no intention of hiding anything from Xiu. Besides, she could tell that Xiu was here for Nora. She looked straight at Xiu and squinted her eyes suspiciously, ”You knew?”

Xiu smiled awkwardly, ”In my defense, I only got to know on Saturday night when she came running to me as a crying mess.”

”Crying mess?” Both Clara and Jing Ge asked simultaneously.

”Yeah. It was all Ah-Si's fault for saying the wrong words. And she felt so broken that she kept crying and crying and crying. It was the same day she got to know that Ava is her daughter otherwise she was gonna assume her dead even now.”

Xiu only stopped talking when she saw Jing Ge standing up in fury. ”Where is my bat? I'm gonna teach that boy a lesson for making my daughter cry!”

Xiu almost burst out laughing at his reaction. Oh, so she developed that impulsion of violence from this family? No wonder it seemed so foreign to her previous self.

She held his arm and pulled him back to the chair saying, ”You don't have to. I, Bai Xiu has already used my infamous bat on him.”

”You did what?” Xiu scratched her head sheepishly at Clara's reaction.

While Jing Ge patted her head proudly, ”I feel proud of raising a daughter like you.”

”Oh, shut up, husband! This is serious!”

”He deserved it though,” retorted Xiu. ”He made my Nora cry so much. I thought she was gonna die. So, I lost my sanity for a minute.”

”You do realize that he is not the only one to blame in this whole matter, right?”

Xiu was slightly taken aback to hear that. Instead of carelessly blaming Ah-Si for everything, Clara was still insistent on thinking like a lawyer. She wouldn't blame anyone until she knew the whole truth.

”For making Nora cry, he deserved it,” Xiu still insisted. She wasn't gonna back off from this. ”And don't worry, I apologized to him later on. But if you're at my place, you'd also beat him.”

Clara couldn't argue with Xiu about this. As a mother, at first, she'd have really taken Nora's side. It was after thinking for the whole day and night that she came to conclude how Nora and Ah-Si were both in the wrong. Their relationship began on a shaky start. They both just kept hurting each other.

Xiu crossed her arms over her chest and went on, ”And by the way, you both have such a strong reaction before me then why are you upset with Nora?”

Clara and Jing Ge shared a look and frowned before they asked, ”Who said we are upset with her?”