MSISAS |Chapter 26: Extra: The Story of Xu’s Father and Mother

Xu Mu’s original name was Liu Xiyue, a renowned beauty, but Xu Mu did not like a complicated life; she yearned for a simple life in a bamboo house with a soulmate.

Liu Xiyue had an older brother, so her parents were not strict with her; they would satisfy her needs as much as possible.

Liu Xiyue bought a piece of land and built an ancient-style wooden pavilion by the lake.

The girl’s eighteenth year was marked by a green plain dress, a white jade bracelet, fair skin, and beautiful looks.

Liu Xiyue lived in her own world, drinking tea, reading books, listening to the sound of wind and rain, listening to the cicadas, and watching the stars.

Her world was so peaceful.

However, good things seem short-lived; she had to enter into a marriage alliance. Despite Liu Xiyue’s strong resistance, she saw the weariness in her parents’ eyes.

The company was in trouble.

She didn’t want her parents’ hard work to be in vain, so yes, this was how a daughter could repay them.

Liu Xiyue married Xu Qiming, a handsome but inscrutable man.

Though said to be a talented young man, he was seven years older than Liu Xiyue.

Liu Xiyue shed her simple clothes, but she still kept that one white jade bracelet on her wrist.

The man seldom came back home, but Liu Xiyue didn’t mind. After all, it was a marriage of convenience.

But unexpectedly, they shared their first time together; he was Liu Xiyue’s first man.

How could she not pay attention?

Liu Xiyue wanted to truly understand this man.

A month later, Liu Xiyue found herself starting to vomit and lost her appetite.

This delighted both families; even Liu Xiyue looked forward to this child.

Xu Qiming was a bit shocked at first, but he later seemed to accept the baby’s existence.

He treated her quite well, or so Liu Xiyue thought.

During pregnancy, Liu Xiyue removed her white jade bracelet for Xu Qiming due to swelling.

In June, that eagerly anticipated child was born.

She grew fast and was quite mischievous.

However, after the child turned four, Xu Qiming, for some unknown reason, left for Jiangnan and stayed there for four years.

Liu Xiyue waited and waited.

The white jade bracelet left in the cabinet seemed to have accumulated some dust, becoming dull.

Finally, he returned. Liu Xiyue couldn’t wait to embrace him, but to her surprise, he pushed her away.

She clearly saw that he was happy, a light she had never seen before in his eyes.

But what she received was a divorce agreement.

Liu Xiyue questioned him why.

He said nothing; the contract stated he would continue to support the Liu family.

A tear fell from Liu Xiyue’s eye unwittingly; this time she saw what she hadn’t noticed before.

That man was naturally cold-hearted; she thought she could move him, but his gaze was filled with an unfamiliarity she had never seen.

As you wish, my husband.

Mr. Xu, are you doing well?

This was how Liu Xiyue thought in the first year.

Later, she went down to Jiangnan, that warm and gentle land of rice paddies.

Lotus leaves carried water droplets.

Liu Xiyue held a bamboo umbrella, green, a color she always liked.

Two people approached, one tall and one short, laughing heartily.

Liu Xiyue almost immediately recognized the tall man. As he passed by her, that familiar scent mixed with summer air came over her.

She always liked that scent.

But now, she only felt disgust.

Liu Xiyue cried again. Why? What did I do wrong? God, tell me, please.

Liu Xiyue crouched under the street lamp, the dim light shining on her petite figure.

The rain fell harder, and Liu Xiyue stood up, throwing away the umbrella, standing in the rain, letting the cold raindrops fall on her.

As if this could dispel the bad memories and restore Liu Xiyue’s original memories.

In her youth, she was the only one standing in the rain; no one was willing to stand with her in the rain.

When? When did Xu Qiming and that man…? Why, when loving someone else, did you come to bother me?

After returning home, Liu Xiyue fell ill; once a person is idle, they think a lot.

That day Liu Xiyue opened the locked drawer.

The white jade bracelet.

Liu Xiyue wiped off the dust and immediately put it on; she seemed to see herself at eighteen with the sound of cicadas.

Xu Qiming was dying. Liu Xiyue did not feel happy though, she still could not forget, could not let go.

Xu Qiming, I have come to see you for the last time, to take a look at you.

In the next life, I don’t want to meet you again.

Later, Xu Qiming still passed away. Liu Xiyue visited his grave every day.

Sometimes while looking at it, she would even smile. See, even your loved one betrayed you.

That day, Liu Xiyue brought daisies, which Xu Qiming loved the most, or rather, what his beloved person loved the most.

Liu Xiyue fell among the daisies.

They were daisies Liu Xiyue planted for Xu Qiming. In those fleeting moments of semi-consciousness,

she saw their parallel future where there was no one else, only them.

His smile belonged only to her.

Beside that small lake, two people for a lifetime.

Liu Xiyue wrote a letter to Xu Qing, she wrote to everyone she cared about, including Xu Qiming, although he couldn’t read it, so she had to tell him herself.

Xu Qing:

Mom loves you very much, and I’m sorry. You have a hateful father and an irresponsible mother.

You were born in anticipation; I carried you for ten months.

No mother would not look forward to her own child.

Over these decades, my attention seems to have been too little for you.

Mom will have to wait for the next life, to let you bully me instead.

Mom hopes in the next life, we can meet our Qingqing again.

Mom knows your loved one is a girl.

You can give your mother’s white jade bracelet to her; jade nourishes people, that piece of jade has nourished me for decades.

Mom has nothing else to give, consider it an acknowledgment of her.

Mom dislikes homosexuality, but mom wants you to be happy.

Mom doesn’t want to see you end up like me.

Once you have her, don’t involve anyone else, promise me, okay?

Qingqing, you must live well.

Qingqing, mom is leaving, take care of yourself.

Qingqing, mom misses you.

2075. Liu Xiyue.

Within that bluebell envelope was a mother’s sincerest blessings and prayers.

Perhaps the observant Xu Qing could notice the tearstains at the end of the letter.

Liu Xiyue no longer wanted to chase her moon. She had chased long enough.

She could never catch up in this lifetime.

Later, because of her deep-seated obsession, God gave her a chance; at the moment before she would meet him, she could choose whether to meet him or not.

She would possess her memories for that brief moment.

Liu Xiyue chose not to meet, and the company did not collapse because of it.

It was a gift from God, prayed for by Liu Xiyue.

But in this life, Xu Qiming gained memory.

They would inevitably be entangled; this was an unresolved fate.

Xixi, slow down, look at me, I’ve been waiting for you.

Xixi, turn around, this time I will be by your side forever.

Xixi, let me meet you.