novelraw Chapter 701 - 700 I Only Have You Now (2)
Chapter 701 - 700 I Only Have You Now (2)
Chapter 701: Chapter 700 I Only Have You Now (2)
Leaving the coffee shop, there was hardly any breeze, yet Ling Chuxia felt an intense chill wrapping around her entire body, and she couldn’t help but hug herself tightly.
The night had grown deep, and only the solitary streetlamp cast a faint light, stretching her slender shadow even longer.
Ling Chuxia felt her heart suddenly become hollow, with layers of sorrow enveloping her.
Even though she had been abandoned at the orphanage as a child, Ling Chuxia never thought of herself as lonely because she had her elder sister to rely on; all the other children were alone, but she had her sister by her side.
In her heart, her elder sister was practically equivalent to her life.
That’s why, over the years, no matter how much suffering she endured, how much injustice she faced, she never once resented her elder sister.
If today, it was only her who had been hurt, perhaps she wouldn’t have felt such hatred, but her sister had harmed her child, her own flesh and blood, the child she had so eagerly anticipated.
She would never forgive her, not in this lifetime!
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In the airport late at night, almost deserted, Ling Chuxia sat on a bench, looking at her cellphone screen which displayed a photograph.
It was a photo she had secretly taken of a family of three.
Countless times, she had wanted to delete it, but every time she tried, she simply couldn’t press the delete button.
Her child...
Ling Chuxia’s hand gently touched the screen, slowly gliding over her lower abdomen, her eyes welling up with hot, swelling tears, which she could hardly keep from spilling.
She could have... had the chance to become a mother, could have had a lovely baby. But it was exactly her most loved and trusted elder sister who had maliciously caused the death.
"I’m sorry, baby, I’m sorry... It’s Mommy’s fault for not protecting you, I’m sorry." Her voice was hoarse, and in the end, no sound could come out.
She closed her eyes, tears spilled from the corners and splashed onto the cellphone screen, landing precisely on Shi Che’s face. When Ling Chuxia opened her eyes again, her fingers quivering as she touched Shi Che’s face in the photo.
As it turned out, Shi Che truly hadn’t wanted to abandon her child; she had misunderstood him all along, heaping all her resentment onto him.
She suddenly remembered that time, when he played "Dream Wedding" in the restaurant. It turned out he really played it for her, but at that time, she despised him so much that she only wanted to distance herself from him. Thus, even his confession was subdued, not daring to be direct.
During this time, he had borne all her anger and resentment, and it must have been incredibly painful for him. To be despised and hated by someone he profoundly loved, she knew exactly how awful that felt.
There were no flights in the middle of the night, and the earliest one to Lin City wasn’t until after seven in the morning, but she couldn’t wait. She wanted to see Shi Che, wanted to apologize to him.
Ling Chuxia’s heart suddenly stirred with urgency, she immediately packed up her phone and stood up, heading straight for the airport’s main exit. After exiting, she hailed a taxi and, without a second word, stuffed all the money from her wallet into the taxi driver’s hand, saying urgently, "Driver, I need to go to Lin City, take me to Lin City."
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The clock on the wall pointed to three in the morning. Xiao Zhao turned over on the sofa and half-awake glanced toward the bed, noticing Shi Che still leaning against the headboard, not yet asleep.