Chapter 109: Chapter 109: Grandfather? He’s Not Worthy
Xiao Li felt that not only should she learn martial arts, but what she really needed to learn was how to truly love Qin Xiao, because she felt her feelings for Qin Xiao were still too calm and undisturbed, as if she should love him, but it hadn’t truly bubbled up from her heart...
Because just now, Xiao Li saw fear in Qin Xiao’s eyes.
It was the fear of losing her. The depth of this emotion must be immense for him to be so afraid.
Indeed, Qin Xiao was afraid. Just now, when he entered the chamber and saw her wielding a knife, saw her hand bleeding, his breath nearly froze for a moment.
At that instant, Qin Xiao felt as if he had returned to when Xiao Li had an accident, feeling that same way outside the operating room...
Even though this time Xiao Li just had a hand injury, his whole body was as cold as that day...
Xiao Li, seeing Qin Xiao not responding, spoke again, "Uncle, let me learn martial arts! Only then can I protect myself properly.
I promise you, no matter what happens, I will live well and always be with you.
But there’s one thing, you have to stay with me, too, without you, I would go crazy."
Xiao Li wasn’t very emotionally intelligent. If she had been, she wouldn’t have been so foolish in her past life. Coming back in this life, being with Qin Xiao, she only followed her past life’s experiences, accepting it all somewhat naively.
After today’s events, she was finally starting to wake up, wanting to respond passionately.
Qin Xiao helped Xiao Li stand straight, resting his forehead on hers, "Alright, I promise you. But learning martial arts is tiring, we’ll wait until your injury heals."
As he spoke, he gently kissed Xiao Li’s forehead, "Just now I lost my temper, scared you..."
Xiao Li shook her head, "You got angry because you care about me, I know.
And your anger is more about being angry with yourself.
Uncle, don’t be mad at yourself, okay?"
Qin Xiao held Xiao Li, slightly shaking his head, "I’m angry at myself, firstly for not protecting you well, secondly because I’ve actually found out everything recently and have been dealing a heavy hand to the Wen Family’s main household, but unfortunately, I wasn’t fast enough...
It gave that old lady a chance to strike at you.
I’m sorry, I hid it from you earlier."
Qin Xiao didn’t mention that he originally intended to tell Xiao Li the truth today, as things were as they were, there was no point in saying it.
Xiao Li was startled as she heard him speak...
But in a moment, she understood. Qin Xiao didn’t say anything earlier because he feared she couldn’t handle those truths!
Recalling the truth Cheng Jue mentioned, Xiao Li’s heart was enveloped in bitterness.
In Xiao Li’s eyes, Wen Lan had always been the mother who adored her, the wife gentle to her father.
The days they lived together as a family of three were always happy, and Xiao Li never knew the pain her mother harbored within her heart.
No wonder her mother never wanted to bring up past events, no wonder she always said she was sorry to her grandmother...
Thinking this, Xiao Li closed her eyes...
"Uncle, I want to meet with the people from the Wen Family’s second household."
Qin Xiao nodded, "It’s too late today, your hand still needs stitches at the hospital. I’ll arrange to meet them tomorrow."
Xiao Li nodded.
When they arrived at the hospital, it was already eight in the evening, all clinics were closed, so Xiao Li’s injury could only be treated in the emergency department.
Feng Qing happened to be on night duty, and when she saw Xiao Li, she hurriedly took her for suturing. As she stitched, she muttered, "Little Li Li, have you been having a streak of bad luck this year?
First, your arm heals, then your hand gets injured, what happened?"
Xiao Li tugged a corner of her mouth, "I was careless with a fruit knife and injured my hand."
Feng Qing gave her a peculiar look, "Since when did you start using your left hand for knives?"
Xiao Li said blandly, "It’s because I can’t use my left hand, that’s why I got hurt!"
Seeing she didn’t want to elaborate, Feng Qing didn’t ask further.
At the Wen Family’s old house, Fang Haiqiang had already been sent to the hospital, while Cheng Jue and her people, along with Fang Haiqiang’s, were all under control by people Wind Master had sent.
As Cheng Jue was being taken from the chamber, she saw Wen Xiaozheng at the door and understood everything immediately.
The reason Qin Xiao found the chamber so quickly was all because of him, even though she had clearly sent him away!
Wen Xiaozheng gave her a cool glance, as if he knew what she wanted to ask, he directly spoke, "Having lived under the same roof with you for so many years, who knows you best?
That would be me. When you tried to send me away, I went along with it just to see what trick you were up to this time."
Cheng Jue felt her anger rising, "You again. Twenty years ago you let Wen Lan go, now you let Xiao Li go.
What is it? Seeing Xiao Li’s face reminded you of your beloved, you couldn’t bear to let me destroy her, right?
Hahaha...
Wen Xiaozheng, you are so passionate, but wasn’t it you who ruined Bai Ruoqing back then, who reduced her to unfaithfulness.
Who condemned her to an eternity of suffering."
Hearing this, Wen Xiaozheng’s face flushed with anger, "That was your condition back then, you forced them."
Cheng Jue sneered, "I did present conditions, but you didn’t have to touch her! Who couldn’t wait to take her back then...
Ah... ha... hahaha..."
Wen Xiaozheng’s face flushed with fury.
Over the years, Wen Xiaozheng had long regretted.
When he first got Bai Ruoqing, he was excited.
But later, seeing Bai Ruoqing’s face never smiling again, living in torment every day, he regretted it.
By the time Bai Ruoqing passed away, his remorse deepened.
He loved Bai Ruoqing. Though in the beginning, because she married Wen Xiaowen, he hated her for years, but once he truly would have her and saw her torment, he realized that he hated her only because he loved her too deeply...
The next day, at Wen Jishan’s home, when Qin Xiao and Xiao Li arrived, only Wen Jishan and his wife and Wen Jiliang and his wife were there; none of the younger generation were present.
Xiao Li thought, Wen Zeyu and his brothers probably didn’t know about those past events, either!
As soon as Wen Jiliang saw Xiao Li, he said, "Your grandfather is waiting for you in his room."
Hearing the word grandfather only made Xiao Li feel a bitter irony...
Grandfather, does he deserve to have me call him that?
If what Cheng Jue said were true, was he even fit to be a husband, a father?
Qin Xiao and Xiao Li headed to Wen Xiaowen’s room, and inside, Wen Xiaowen wasn’t lying in bed as he had been last time; today, he seemed a bit more spirited and was sitting behind the desk in his room...
Seeing Qin Xiao and Xiao Li come in, Wen Xiaowen said, "You’re here, sit down!"
Qin Xiao and Xiao Li sat opposite Wen Xiaowen...
Wen Xiaowen looked at Xiao Li, "Child, you’ve learned everything, haven’t you?
You know how useless your grandfather is, don’t you?
And you understand why I didn’t tell you the truth last time, right?
How could I ever bring myself to say it?
Ultimately, I’ve let your grandmother and your mother down."
Listening to Wen Xiaowen’s words, Xiao Li felt a coldness within her. Before coming here, she still longed for the possibility that maybe Cheng Jue hadn’t told the entire truth.
Maybe she exaggerated facts only to make her suffer...
But now, Wen Xiaowen’s words shattered Xiao Li’s hopes completely.
The truth was that disgusting!
Xiao Li spoke calmly, "Was there really nothing you could do back then?"
Wen Xiaowen’s lips twitched slightly, but he said nothing.