Chapter 652: Reunion
Chapter 652 Reunion after a long absence
For the past four years, all she wanted to do was listen to his explanation.
However, when he really wanted to speak, she suddenly felt flustered. What else can be explained? If that explanation was too far-fetched, it would only make the relationship between the two more embarrassing and make her feel that so many years of sadness and waiting were not worth it. What if that explanation was acceptable to her?
Will she forgive him?
Even she herself doesn’t know the answer.
"Stop talking." After a long while, she looked away, "I don't want to hear it."
His pupils shrank slightly, he didn't expect her to answer like this. Four years ago, where was the girl who kept calling him and urging him to explain? Suddenly, he only felt that the distance between the two was so far away. It was not just the long time and the vast ocean that separated them, but there was something different about them.
This change made him panic.
“Xiao Ling.” His voice deepened slightly.
Xia Ling stood up from the bed, walked barefoot to the sun-filled floor-to-ceiling window. Outside the window, facing the sparkling coastline, the long airport runway stretches to the horizon, and airplanes draw beautiful arcs.
She had been waiting for him here for four years.
I don’t know since when, this has become a habit, maybe, just a habit. "Li Lei," she said softly, "don't disturb my life. Let the past go by."
“Xiao Ling!” Huge panic gripped Li Lei. It was a terrifying feeling that he had never experienced before even when faced with a hail of bullets. He took a few steps forward and asked eagerly: "Why? Xiao Ling, things are not what you think. That child is not..."
"Stop talking!" Xia Ling suddenly interrupted him with a sharp voice.
"Li Lei, I don't care what happened to that child now, nor what happened between you and Su Tang! I just beg you not to come to me again, please, don't come!" Her voice sounded. There was a hint of crying, but she quickly swallowed it back. She pushed him away with one hand and ran out.
“Xiao Ling!” He chased after her.
She lowered her head and ran staggering along the corridor. She didn't know what was wrong with her, she just felt so flustered. The answer she had been waiting for four years was right in front of her, but she pushed him away with her own hands.
“Xiao Ling!” A sharp and anxious voice came from behind.
Xia Ling ran faster and bumped into something. She felt a sharp pain and fell to the ground.
“Ouch!” a voice shouted.
Xia Ling's forehead hit the wall, and she buzzed with pain. Then she felt tears flowing out. It hurt, it must have hurt... She would not shed another tear for that man.
“Master Sun, are you okay?!” came the nanny’s panicked voice.
Xia Ling then saw clearly that the person she knocked down was a little boy who looked about three or four years old. He was Li Lei's son Li Rui. The boy didn't seem to have suffered a serious fall. He struggled a few times and got up. However, his face was full of anger and he kicked her towards her as soon as he raised his foot: "I told you to hit me!"
This child is very strong, and I don’t know what he eats to grow it. He kicked her bare leg bone where it was already injured and bruised, and she winced in pain.
Li Rui became even more angry and kicked him again.
“What a shame!” Suddenly, there was a roar, and a huge force pushed the child away, protecting her from being kicked. Li Lei knelt down next to Xia Ling and nervously checked her wounds, "Xiao Ling, are you okay? Are you broken? Does it hurt?"
This series of events happened so fast. Xia Ling stared blankly at him and the gray-faced child on the carpet not far away, speechless. "Xiao Rui!" Suddenly, a nearby guest room door was opened, and Su Tang rushed out, hugging Li Rui distressedly, "Xiao Rui, how are you? Are you okay?"
The child was dumbfounded. After a while, he burst into tears.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, daddy hit me!” He cried fiercely, as if he had been greatly wronged.
So, Su Tang looked towards them as if she had just noticed Li Lei and Xia Ling standing beside them. Her face, which was originally painted with delicate light makeup, had a hint of sadness, and I felt particularly pity for her as she was holding back her grievances. She whispered very elegantly: "Miss Ye, if there is anything wrong with the child, I will apologize to you on his behalf. Please don't embarrass him, okay?"
Xia Ling felt frustrated, who was making things difficult for whom?
“Is it reasonable for a child who can cry?” After being beaten and scolded by Li Rui several times, Xia Ling was still angry no matter how good-tempered she was. In addition, she was upset now and was provoked by Su Tang, so she was not very polite in her words.
Su Tang glanced at Li Lei silently and lowered his head, as if he had been wronged but didn't care about her. But the child cried: "It was her! It was that bad woman who knocked me down first!"
“Li Rui!” Li Lei suddenly got angry.
The child was so frightened that he stopped talking. His father usually didn't care much about him and would let him get his temper no matter how he lost his temper. However, once he is called by his first name, he becomes really angry. The angry father is very scary, and even mother and grandfather dare not provoke him.
Li Rui instinctively shrank back.
Su Tang protected him behind her: "Li Lei..." After giving birth to the child, she no longer called him "Master". In order to give the child a healthy family environment, Li Lei allowed her to change her name to him. .
However, this subtle change of title was caught by Xia Ling, and it was extremely jarring.
"Li Lei," Su Tang said softly, "The child is ignorant. It's my fault for making him disrespect Miss Ye. Don't be harsh to him. He was knocked down just now. It's a child's nature to lose his temper. You have to It's my fault. I didn't take good care of him and let him run into the corridor. I'm really sorry."
Inside and outside the words, it seems to be an apology, but it clearly reveals a sense of compromise.
Xia Ling has been with Xia Yu's white lotus for so long, no matter how stupid she is, she can see through these tricks to some extent. She suddenly felt uninterested. What did it have to do with her if they taught her son a lesson?
She stood up limping, held on to the wall, and walked forward slowly.
“Xiao Ling!” Li Lei caught up a few steps forward and went to help her, “Can you listen to my explanation?”
"Li Lei," she suddenly stopped and looked at him deeply, "it's late, it's already late, do you understand? We can't go back." The last four words were as light as a sigh.
Perhaps, he has long forgotten how much courage she mustered up to be with him in the first place, and has long forgotten the **** nights she spent fighting the emotional wounds of her previous life. At the beginning of her rebirth, she vowed never to fall in love with anyone again because she never wanted to be hurt again. Later, she fell in love with him.
That has exceeded the power she can bear.
But he fell down hard again.
Now, even that power has been exhausted.
She was very scared, so scared that she did not dare to face his explanation. She was afraid that after knowing the answer, she would not be able to help but forgive him and rebuild the old relationship with him. Maybe one day, I will be completely naked again.
(End of this chapter)