Ye Xiu shook her head forcefully; it felt as though there was a buzzing noise inside her head, making her feel exceptionally irritable.
"I’m sorry, I’m a bit tired and would like to go back first, thank you for your hospitality today."
Ye Xiu felt a bit dizzy and decided to go back to rest. Nan Jin said nothing, but Ye Xiu felt as if he had said a lot.
She needed to go back and digest everything.
Although it was a bit strange, Nan Jin knew that Ye Xiu had always been a very decisive person; he rose again. He didn’t accompany Ye Xiu to the door, outside which Nan Jin’s car was parked.
Hmm, at this time, people who buy cars are wealthy; Ye Xiu got into the car without a trace of curiosity.
Soon, they arrived at Ye Xiu’s residence. Ye Xiu said goodbye to Nan Jin and went back to her room, immediately lying down. She was feeling very confused and needed to rest.
"Xingxing, don’t you understand why your auntie is stopping you?"
On the way down the mountain, Bai Zhi didn’t say a word. However, because of this, Bai Xin felt terrible. Her heart ached densely at the pit of her stomach.
She was very worried, worried that there really might be a needle inside Xingxing’s body. Whether or not Xingxing was her niece, Bai Xin’s lips curled up into a smile, certainly because she was.
She would always remember that whenever she visited, she would see the little girl by her mother’s side, happily laughing.
She also remembered, during those heart-wrenching days of despair, how that girl, amid her sobbing and wiping away tears, said, "Auntie, don’t be sad, grandma just turned into a star."
She remembered, even in the absence of her mother, each time she returned, she could still have a bowl of noodles, because "dumplings when getting on, noodles when getting off."
"No, I just, suddenly don’t know what to do. Auntie, your intervention was right."
Bai Zhi shook her head; she wasn’t an unreasonable person. Auntie was right, it wasn’t worth ruining herself over that kind of man. Not at all.
But, she wasn’t ready to let it go either.
Xingxing was quite distant. That kind of distance, you could feel it, even though she was right here, even though she was holding Xingxing’s hand, you could still feel Xingxing’s distance.
Bai Xin squatted down to look at Bai Zhi, her eyes brimming with tears, looking at the disheveled Bai Zhi in front of her.
"Xingxing, don’t be . Tell auntie what you’re thinking, okay?"
Don’t be , it hurts her heart.
Bai Da, that scumbag, Bai Xin thought to herself once again.
"Auntie, I’m just wondering, am I no longer Grandpa’s granddaughter? I might not be Bai Da’s daughter, and I might not be Ye Xiu’s daughter, but I want to be Grandpa’s granddaughter."
This moment was when Bai Zhi was most vulnerable.
Since coming here, no matter when, she had always managed to keep herself calm and rational in the face of everything here. But at this moment, she was about to break down.
Not being Grandpa’s granddaughter, having no connection with Grandpa in the future, she couldn’t accept any of it.
"How could you not be, silly child? You are Grandpa’s Xingxing and also Auntie’s Xingxing. No matter whose daughter you are, you are our Xingxing, do you understand?
And I certainly don’t think this is the whole truth yet. Who knows what really happened?"
Bai Xin comforted her niece, but she also knew that her brother looked guilty, which likely meant it was true.
Because if it weren’t true, he would have countered with a bunch of sound arguments by now.
But he hadn’t; he was diverting the topic.