59 Memories V (2/2)
she made the effort to be calm while explaining, however, droplets of tears were invoked at the corner of her eyes.
”You see, there is a man called Han Xiangzhi who fell in love with a woman called Yun Bing. However, she was already in a relationship with Fu Haifeng. Thus, this man met Lu Yiantao: Yun Bing's best friend was also madly in love with Fu Haifeng. Both were in love with someone they knew would never love them back. They were both jealous and soon it turned to the hatred that caused the separation of the two lovers. Lu Yiantao betrayed her own friends and made her fall into the arms of Han Xiangzhi. Then, she took the opportunity to seep into Fu Haifeng's heart when he was mourning,”
”This-” Fu Yixiao was stunned at the revelation. Her lips quivered at some of the information decoded in her mind. 'No way,' she thought after pondering over the information she just learned.
”The woman to marry into the Fu family must be fertile and Lu Yiantao wasn't one of those women. After marrying Fu Haifeng, she demanded a fertilized egg of Han Xiangzhi and Yun Bing; making her the surrogate mother. Those egg-,”
”-is us,” Fu Yixiao interjected. She breathed in real slow faking a calm expression to hide the pain in her heart. At first, when she heard that Lu Yiantao and Fu Haifeng weren't her parents, she was hoping that her real parents were better than them.
Yet, she was beaten down by her own expectation, one that created a scar inside her.
”Father knew I was in this island?” she asked and the other Fu Yixiao nodded.
”He was the one who instructed his underling to kidnap you to this jungle,” she clarified as her eyes explored the expressions revealed in Fu Yixiao's face. She appeared to be calm but her eyes couldn't hide the agony she felt.
”You said earlier that he needed me to open the portal, so why did he make me go through all of the ordeals?” Fu Yixiao felt something was off for it was easier for that man to make her the sacrifice without having her going through the torture of the jungle and those men she had killed.
”In order for the sacrifice to fully operate, the sacrifice cannot die easily. Perhaps, he thought that the whole survival will make you stronger,” Granny Wu who was keeping quiet all this while, finally talked. She wanted to say more but hesitated.
Fu Yixiao stared at the old woman and wondered about her relationship with the whole event. ”I'm sorry to ask, but how are the two of you related to her?” she asked with her thumb pointed toward Wu Zhaoyi and the other Fu Yixiao.
The trio looked at each other unsure of where to start.