He Xiyan felt her heart clench in pain. She looked at Yuan Yuan and she blinked rapidly at him as though she couldn't believe what she had just heard.
She pulled him into her embrace and opened her eyes wide.
Yuan Yuan wrapped his arms around his mother's slender legs tightly and repeated to himself, "Mom, I want to live with dad."
Yuan Yuan's voice was louder and he sounded more determined than before. He was too young to understand the anguish that his words brought to his mother.
He Xiyan turned pale and under the lamplight, she looked even more ashen and weak.
She froze in stunned silence for a long time and did not speak.
"Mom..." Yuan Yuan said when he saw that his mother was not responding and tugged at her clothes.
He Xiyan slowly looked down at her son and her tears fell from her eyes and landed on his shoulders.
