Whispers to the Soul: Surrendering to Love Snare

Chapter 632 - 651: An Jiayou’s Reluctance

An Jiayou shook his head in Lan Yiqing’s embrace: "I don’t have a grandmother, I really like you, and I really like this family, just that in the future there will be a younger sister..." Once there is a younger sister, all this affection should belong to her. After all, for this family, he is the only one who’s an outsider without blood relations. Great-grandfather, great-grandmother, and grandparents have all been so good to him. It’s precisely because of this that he can’t take away the love that rightfully belongs to the sister; doing so would be too unfair to An Nan.

These years, An Nan has already devoted too much energy to him. In the future, she should focus all her energy on her own child rather than caring for him.

The main concern has always been his worry that the family might not accept An Nan because of him, and the hard-won happiness that An Nan acquired could be lost. If it were like this, he would rather live a lonely life by himself than have An Nan lose the happiness that she ought to have. But he couldn’t bear it, he really couldn’t bear it.

Thinking of this, An Jiayou once more slightly lowered his head, his eyes deep with sorrow.

Despite telling himself countless times, he found he still couldn’t let go, especially couldn’t let go of An Nan.

This time, before An Jiayou’s words could fully land, a voice scolded him sharply: "Jiayou, don’t say it, don’t say it like that, don’t leave Mom. If you really think like that, Mom would rather stay unmarried and always be with you." This was her son whom she had lovingly raised since childhood, feeding him step by step with a bottle. Even through the toughest times, they supported each other. Now he was saying he wanted to leave her, how could he? How could he?

Thinking of these together, An Nan had torrents of tears rolling down her face, and she began to tremble all over, a sight that directly frightened Lan Yiqing as a mother-in-law.

She immediately rushed up, supporting her, constantly speaking in her ear: "Nannan, don’t be like this, don’t be like this, Jiayou didn’t want to leave, really didn’t."

All along, she knew this child was important to her daughter-in-law, but didn’t realize he was so important — important enough that she could disregard everything, want nothing else, just this child.

An Jiayou, having grown so big, was seeing his own mom cry like this for the first time, and he was immediately scared. Once he reacted, he quickly stepped forward to support her, apologizing repeatedly with guilt: "An Nan, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please don’t cry, don’t cry, alright."

At this moment, An Nan couldn’t hear any other sound, in her eyes was only her son she had raised alone, continuously asking: "Jiayou, say it, say you won’t leave Mom, never leave."

"Mom, don’t get excited, alright? You might hurt the baby sister doing this."

An Jiayou’s mention of the baby sister only threw An Nan’s emotions into more turmoil, almost pushing Lan Yiqing away, thereafter they heard her declare in an undeniably resolute voice, word by word: "An Jiayou, let me tell you, from the moment I took you and left the An Family, you became my child. At that time, I told myself if I ever marry again, I will take you along. If that family doesn’t accept you, I would leave with you, until this moment I still hold these words."