Volume 2 Chapter 5 Part3 (2/2)

Why indeed, why am I crying?

Knock, knock, knock—

House Keeper went to open the door. Jiang Yu held a box and entered with a smile.

Yu Shu looked at her lazily and said, ”What are we having for afternoon tea today?”

”A blueberry pie I made myself!”

”I'm going to go change.”

The two of them chatted. Truthfully, more than half the time, it was Jiang Yu who did all the talking, but Yu Shu also liked listening to other people chatter. To some degree, the two of them clicked together.

Jiang Yu had gotten so excited in her conversation that she had even picked up her dessert fork and waved it around, yet she had forgotten that there was still pie stuck on it. As a result, blueberry jam and b.u.t.ter or something along those lines sprayed everywhere. Even Yu Shu's s.h.i.+rt hadn't escaped from the fray.

”S-sorry!” Jiang Yu said frantically. She tried to use napkins to wipe Yu Shu's s.h.i.+rt.

”It's fine. I'll go change my s.h.i.+rt.”

Yu Shu wasn't very bothered. After all, she was at home. Changing her tank top wasn't hard. She wasn't even the one who did the laundry, so there was even less of a reason to worry.

However, when she finished changing, Jiang Yu wasn't in the living room anymore.

At this time, House Keeper had only just walked into the living room with cleaning supplies. Obviously, it would be no use asking him.

”Has she left?” House Keeper asked, a bit surprised. From his observations over this period, Jiang Yu did not seem to be an impolite person. To think that she left without a single word.

Yu Shu didn't answer. Expressionless, she turned and headed toward the study. When she opened the door of the study, Jiang Yu stood with her back to the door, looking at one of the sections of the bookshelf.

Placed there was a doll with white hair, blue eyes, and snow-white skin.

Yu Shu had purposely kept it away from the living room, as well as her room. She did not allow guests to enter her study.

”This doll is mine.”

Looking at the doll before her, Jiang Yu spoke calmly.

Even though this doll wasn't the only one of its kind, the scratches and marks on it were completely unique. She definitely wasn't mistaken.

There was a small crack on the ear from when she had accidentally dropped the doll.

There was a scratch on the neck from when her brother Jiang Ziya had gotten angry at her and purposely used a pencil to draw on the doll. He had only wanted to sneakily draw one stroke, and then use an eraser to erase it, but who could have known that he would use too much strength. While the pencil mark had been erased, the scratch could not be removed. Because of that, she had given Jiang Ziya three days of silent treatment.

And there was the dark splotch of blood in the corner of the dress that couldn't be washed off, left behind from the car accident. That was their mother's blood.

That was why she had put away the doll, unwilling to look at it, all for the sake of forgetting that car accident.

Mountains. Dad was driving. Her naughty brother fought to sit in the front. Mom sat with her in the back. Her brother even turned to the back to talk with her.

Sis, Sis, don't look at that doll anymore. Look outside and see how pretty the stars are!

She turned to look out the window, but she didn't see any stars. Instead, she only saw a strong beam of light. Then, she heard her mom shout. Arms held her. The entire world spun. Amidst the panic, she seemed to hear her brother's voice, but she couldn't remember what he had shouted—

The tears in Jiang Yu's eyes fell.

No matter how much she had loved this doll—she had even given the doll a name and said that she would forever be her mother—she had still locked the doll away in a box, never again daring to take her out.

”Yu Shu, you can't return this doll to me, right?”

Yu Shu looked at Jiang Yu calmly. The latter knew the answer. She just needed someone to say something to strengthen her resolve. However, Yu Shu chose not to speak.

Jiang Yu received no answer. Her heart pained, she mumbled to herself, ”Jiang Ziya and I are twins, so I also wanted a pair of twins. How lonely would it be to only have one? Isn't two better?

”I got pregnant, but then she was lost, yet she soon came back to me.

”But one isn't enough. I wanted another…

”It was all because I was too greedy. I want twins, just like Ziya and me. I want twins so much…”

She turned and begged, ”Yu Shu, won't you return this doll to me?”

Yu Shu said indifferently, ”As long as you're willing to risk your other daughter for this one, who am I to stop you?”

Jiang Yu stayed silent. It was unknown whether she had understood what Yu Shu had said. She only lifted her head to gaze at the doll in the box.

Tears actually fell from the doll's eyes, as if she knew Jiang Yu's choice, as if she knew what would happen to her.

Jiang Yu extended her hand and gently wiped away the doll's tears. She was so gentle, it was like she was taking care of a child.

”Xiao Xue, don't be afraid. This time, I won't put you away in a box, unwilling to look at you. Come home with Māma!”

She had arrived a lonely mother and returned as a pair of incomparably happy mother and daughter.

Yu Shu told House Keeper indifferently, ”Give me a cup of coffee.”

For once, House Keeper didn't express any opposition and straightforwardly followed her command to make coffee.

Abilities, especially strong ones, have always been hereditary.

Families with the power of truth, historically, have never lived happily ever after.

Yu Shu drank her coffee, a mouthful of bitterness.

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