TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 194

Chapter 194 Old Memories

“Boss Xie, why did you suddenly change your mind and not enter the city?”

“Oh~! I get it! Is it because that uncle of yours is all smiles on the surface but evil at heart, two-faced, and has ulterior motives, wanting to trick you in to seize your Jīngpò – Crystal Soul or Core?”

“And you already saw through his hypocrisy, so you resolutely parted ways with them?”

Gu Tangxi used a joking tone to express her anger, clenching her fist in secret resentment. Through her own imagination, she explained the whole thing reasonably and logically, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.

Otherwise, why would they suddenly not go to Li City? Wasn’t Li City the destination they had traveled so far to reach? To be afraid to take the final step must mean that he discovered those people’s bad intentions.

Xie YunChuan said coolly, “That’s my own uncle.” This sentence, while not directly refuting Gu Tangxi’s words, also expressed his attitude.

Gu Tangxi fell silent. Although struggles for interests and power, not to mention in the end of the world, even in the past, fratricide was common, let alone an uncle. But since Xie YunChuan had such a firm attitude, that shouldn’t be the reason. She just didn’t know what his concerns were.

“That’s right, that person is Xie’s older brother’s own uncle, and he doesn’t look like a sinister and cunning person. Besides, isn’t Xie’s older brother’s mother over there? A mother wouldn’t possibly harm her own son, right?” Gu Tangyue finally muttered in a low voice, “Unless she has a screw loose.”

Gu Tangxi hurriedly gave her a look and pulled her away a little, “What are you saying? Children shouldn’t speak ill of their parents. How can you speak ill of other people’s parents in front of their children?”

“I know, I was keeping my voice down! ….Didn’t you also talk about his uncle?” Gu Tangyue remorsefully rubbed her fingers with a guilty expression, feeling somewhat apologetic. She didn’t mean to, it was just a slip of the tongue.

Just thinking about it, Xie YunChuan’s mother must not be that good to him. Otherwise, with her power and influence in Li City, why hadn’t she sent anyone to meet Xie YunChuan after all this time!

And Xie YunChuan himself, if the relationship with his mother wasn’t strained, why would he suddenly change his mind and not go in even after arriving here? Even if Luo Shuyou is fine now, Xie YunChuan doesn’t need to go in for medical treatment, but having traveled thousands of miles, now that they’ve arrived, there’s no reason not to go in and see his own mother under normal circumstances.

Looking at Su Nanzhi, who was following Su Qingshan, with the young master’s air of not knowing the hardships of the world, and hearing that Su Qingya was the leading figure in the Su family’s heavyweight research institute, what about her own son? Wouldn’t she feel guilty comparing other people’s sons to her own?

Gu Tangyue was simply sticking up for Xie YunChuan.

“An uncle and a mother are not the same. You shouldn’t say it, loudly or softly. Go apologize.”

No matter how much she disapproved of Xie YunChuan’s mother’s neglect of Xie YunChuan, Gu Tangyue didn’t deny her mistake. She just didn’t know what expression to make, so she stiffly walked over to Xie YunChuan and said, “I’m sorry, Brother Xie, I shouldn’t have said that about Auntie Su.”

Xie YunChuan didn’t express acceptance or rejection of her apology, but said aimlessly, “She is very smart.”

“Huh?” Gu Tangyue was taken aback. “Who?”

Xie YunChuan looked into the distance and said firmly, word by word, “Su Qingya, that woman, my…mother.”

“She is the most intelligent researcher I have ever seen, the greatest scientist, the most selfless contributor.”

And also…the most ruthless mother.

Xie YunChuan didn’t know exactly how other mothers treated their children, but he had glimpsed some fragments. Even just a little bit of exposed warmth was a luxury he had never had.

His father and mother were undoubtedly in love. Otherwise, Su Qingya wouldn’t have taken the time out of her busy schedule to have a relationship, get married, and have a child.

Memories became increasingly blurred, like old, damaged film. He didn’t know when it started, but disputes arose between the loving parents.

After that…was a mother who was increasingly busy and could not be seen, and a father who was increasingly haggard and hunched over.

At six or seven years old, it was the age of understanding and remembering, and also the curious child who sensitively explored the world. He should have grown up healthily under the care of his parents, but instead, he ushered in the cold wind and light snow in a peaceful garden.

His parents never told him anything, but that soft, coldness, like a slow-acting poison, wrapped around his whole body little by little, eroding it completely.

He was like a helpless traveler, unable to find direction, unable to break through the layers of fog. They all said they loved him, but they isolated him, letting him only be an observer, witnessing his father, who was originally in the prime of his life, walk towards death, and reaching out to be unable to touch his increasingly distant mother. Unknowingly, he became a lonely and distressed person……

When he was twelve years old, the conflict between his parents seemed to have escalated. Although they didn’t say it, Xie YunChuan, as the person at the center of the vortex, still noticed something even though all the storms avoided him. The long-term special atmosphere made him more and more sensitive at a young age, silently observing everything, silently watching the building collapse.

One day, Xie YunChuan left school early. As soon as he arrived in the living room and put down his schoolbag, he heard his mother’s voice from inside the room. He ran over, unable to help but curl up the corners of his lips, his smile bending his eyebrows.

Great, he hadn’t seen his mother in a long time.

Inside the room, close to the time school let out, Xie Lin perked up and got dressed, preparing to go out to wait for his son to get out of school. Su Qingya was helping him straighten his collar.

Xie Lin brought up the old topic again, his floating voice carrying weakness and helplessness: “Qingya, give up. Don’t rush around outside anymore. Come back and accompany me, accompany me through this last period of time. I will be satisfied if I have you by my side at the end of my life.”

“I’m sorry to you. I originally promised to settle in Li City with you, but I had to come back to clean up the mess in the Xie family. Now, I’m even making you travel back and forth for my sake.”

“Give up, I want you to be by my side. You’re tired too.”

It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried to struggle, but in the end, it was difficult to snatch fate from the heavens.

“Xie Lin, you have your persistence, and I have my persistence. I won’t stop you from doing what you want to do, and I hope you won’t stop me either.”

“I’m sorry that I can’t give you more company.”

Su Qingya’s words, which were devoid of emotion, seemed ruthless and tolerant.

The two people who came out of the bedroom saw the small figure downstairs playing with building blocks seriously.

As if just hearing the sound of footsteps coming downstairs, Xie YunChuan raised his drooping lips again and went up to greet them.