Chapter 4

“Mom, I miss you both, I want to come home.” Tears rolled down Shen Xi’s cheeks when she heard that familiar voice.

The woman on the opposite end heard her sobs and could not help but weep. “Go be the Young Miss you’ve always wanted to be and don’t look for us again.”

“Mom, I’m right outside!” Shen Xi has just finished speaking and heard a dull thud on the other end of the call.

Next, the door opened.

A familiar figure stumbled out of the courtyard and ran towards her. The figure stood at the entrance and regarded Shen Xi. “Who told you to come back? Go away, we don’t welcome you!”

“Mom, they hit me,” Shen Xi complained and wept as she rolled up her sleeves for her mother.

Yun Jinping looked at her daughter who was in a total mess and covered in wounds. All of a sudden, she felt the urge to confront the Su family. She could not suppress her own emotions any longer, so she ran forward and hugged Shen Xi tightly. “Why did you come back? Why did you come back?!”

Shen Xi was her precious baby. Neither Old Shen nor herself dared to lay a finger on her, and to think the Su family had the audacity to hit her!

“Mom, I’m not leaving, I won’t leave you again. I was wrong, it’s all my fault, you and Dad mustn’t leave me.” Shen Xi embraced her and bawled.

Yun Jinping nodded and led her into the house. “Don’t leave us, come home. No matter how poor Mom and Dad are, we won’t send you away again. The most important thing is we are together as a family.”

After their daughter left, they did not hear from her at all. No one knew how Yun Jinping and Old Shen carried on with their lives. They spent each of their days in tears and they would cry whenever they saw their daughter’s belongings.

Yun Jinping took Shen Xi to the community hospital for treatment. After coming home, Yun Jinping grew sadder the longer she looked at Shen Xi and became angry. “Once your father’s back, we’ll head to the Su family and give them a piece of our minds. I bet they’ll be reasonable for once.”

Shen Xi was sitting on the sofa and chowing down on her mother’s beef noodles. She mumbled with her mouth full, “Mom, I’ve taught them a lesson. Do you think your daughter is the type of person who gets pushed around?”

Most of the time, Madam Yun was patient and soft-spoken. She would only become enraged when it was something concerning her daughter.

Yun Jinping sighed helplessly. She asked Shen Xi, “Can you still eat?”

“Why not?” Shen Xi smiled with her head cocked to one side. She stuffed herself with another mouthful of noodles. “Mom, they are just a bunch of nobodies. To me, they are unimportant and not worth getting angry with.”

To her, they were just her foes!

Yun Jinping said, “Are you absolutely sure that you won’t go back?”

She did not want her daughter to head back there. Regardless of how difficult their lives would be, she was happy that they would brave the hardships together as a family.

She and Old Shen were still in their prime and able-bodied. They would not starve to death.

“Mm.” Shen Xi patted her chest and accidentally touched her wound. She snarled as she grimaced in pain, “Whoever goes back is a b*stard!”

Yun Jinping hurried forward and patted her arm anxiously. “What did you do that for? What if you hurt yourself?”

Shen Xi laughed cheekily and hugged her mother around the waist. “Mom, you’re the best!”

With a frown, Yun Jinping tapped on her daughter’s forehead with the tip of her finger. “Don’t you stain my new outfit with your oily lips.”

Shen Xi replied, “That’s not new, you bought it two years ago. If it’s stained, I’ll buy you a new one.”

Yun Jinping displayed a contented smile. “My daughter’s all grown up and knows that she has to buy new clothes for her mom.”

Shen Xi quipped, “Your daughter’s adorable, responsible, kind, and she’ll make a lot of money in the future to repay you both. Are you willing to send her away to someone else?”

Yun Jinping answered, “No.”

Shen Xi was finally back at home.

To her, this was her real home, where it was filled with warmth and love.

Shen Xi sank into a deep slumber. When she woke up, the evening had arrived, so she got up and took a ladder from the attic.

Yun Jinping was preparing dinner in the kitchen. She cried, “Xixi, what are you doing with the ladder? It’s too heavy, wait for your Dad to help you with it once he’s home.”

Through the window, she saw her daughter straining to carry the ladder towards the wall.

“Mom, I can manage,” Shen Xi replied. Her mother did not know that a big boss who would destroy the whole world one day was living next to them.

As a token of gratitude to Shen Xi, who once offered him a meal, this big boss destroyed the Su family, burned books and annihilated the entire world.

To prevent the big boss from doing so, she must have everything prepared. Each day, she would spread her warmth and kindness to the man, so that he would leave the darkness behind and bathe himself in love and light.

“You stubborn child, you’re still full of injuries. Why strain yourself?” Yun Jinping ran out and told Shen Xi to stand aside while she adjusted the ladder.

“Love you, Mom.” Shen Xi flashed her a hand heart.

Yun Jinping stared at her cautiously. “You aren’t going to peep on the neighbor’s house, are you?”

Shen Xi retorted, “Why don’t you believe your daughter? Do I seem like a pervert to you? I just noticed that we have a new neighbor and I want to greet him.”

Yun Jinping said, “If you want to greet him, you should head to his doorstep openly. Why go to the trouble of climbing up the wall? I’ve made something for you. Bring it over to him afterward.”

Shen Xi shooed her mother away. “Mom, I know what I’m doing. I’m not a kid anymore. Go prepare dinner, Dad will come home soon.”

The big boss was a peculiar individual and never received any visitors. He would not entertain Shen Xi, even if she went up to his doorstep.

Seventeen-year-old Shen Xi was as tender as a flower. She had a pair of ruddy cheeks and had on a red woolen coat. She was wearing a white beanie with a couple of little white balls stitched on.

She was worried that her face did not look presentable enough and it might scare the big boss. Thus, she applied light makeup, then checked herself in the mirror. She pinched her fleshy cheeks and walked out of the house pleasantly.

Yun Jinping watched as her daughter headed out of the house, all dolled up. The latter had a rope around her shoulder and a pot of kalanchoe plant in her arms.

Shen Xi saw her mother looking in her direction. She raised the pot in her arms and grinned. “Mom, a welcome gift for our neighbor.”

Yun Jinping sighed and nodded, “Go, go. Be careful!”

Shen Xi replied, “Yes, Madam Yun!”

Yun Jinping smiled, but her eyes were red-rimmed.

Her daughter had returned, and now, they were finally a complete family again.

As a method to protect the owner’s privacy, the wall between the villa was two meters high. It was a solid stone wall, and one could not see what was on the other side.

Shen Xi carried the kalanchoe plant and climbed to the top of the ladder, discreetly showing part of her head. Indeed, she saw a man sitting in the courtyard.

The man was seated in a wheelchair and donned a black trench coat. There was a light, grey blanket on his lap.

The man’s side profile was facing Shen Xi. From her perspective, she could observe his prominent features that looked like the finest artisans in heaven had crafted it. He seemed reserved and unfriendly.

It was evening and the sky cast bright orange sun rays onto his body, resulting in the formation of a long shadow on the ground. The loneliness and sorrow he felt was indescribable.

His name was Li Yuan. She met him as she lay dying.

He had been searching for her, for he wanted to repay her gesture of offering him a meal.

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