"You and I both know how much she suffered emotionally because of Tang's deception last year, that too, under cruelly similar circumstances. To the best of my knowledge, they haven't been in touch ever since. The last time that she met him, she had told him some real harsh words. If informed today about his condition, imagine the amount of guilt which she would undergo because of those words. Unless we know for sure one way or the other, I don't think we should drag her into this, unnecessarily. If she has even a half chance of building her life elsewhere, this would simply hurl her back into the same uncertain black hole as we are in, currently," he explained gently.
Chu couldn't refute his argument. It wasn't fair on her part to be selfish. Maybe Jia Li and her brother were not meant to be together in this birth. She tried to hold back her sob which arose in her throat.
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