A wedding but with a twist
A story about a timid Single mother Xiao Xiao and captain Wang Yi, who becomes her son in law.
"through the darkest period in their lives, they accompanied each other, creating a glimmer of light causing them to be able to believe in hope once again.
The sound of soft piano music played in the background accompanied with a cheering crowd, congratulating the young couple, who are having their very own wedding.
"Why not let the mother hug the groom? An orphan always longed for a motherly embrace!"
As the officiant cheered his last words, everyone crowed, approving with a pitiful smile.
only Xiao Xiao had a tiny bit of voice inside of her that was telling her that something here was wrong, however after hearing the loud voices of the crowd, she takes a glance at her daughter, who beamed with joy, eyes clear and radiant.
Suddenly she couldn't think of anything else and she forgot all her stressful thoughts from the past few days and hesitatingly stood up to walk towards the groom with a lively smile.
Wang Yi was no different from the cheering crowd after seeing the woman he loves so deeply, walking up to him, with all her glory.
She was shining in her long yet tight white laced qipao that reached her toes, accompanied with a pair of high heels that revealed her smooth and fragile looking ankles. Showing off her height to be taller than she already was.
because she was born with a body that was a little bit rare for girls to have, the clothes that she gets must be checked and tried on thoughtfully hence it could turn out to be unbreathable sometimes to wear.
because of that most clothes she wear can't always hide her figure as much as she wished it would.
So this white qipao that looked extra fancy today, was hugging her body in a perfect way, not too tight, a decent tightness that doesn't make you think she was trying to show off.
Her hair was always long and since she was a hardworking single mother, he have seen her hair loose mainly in a messy but gorgeous form, or she would usually just have her hair braided on either side of her shoulders.
But right now it was different. Now it's a new image for Wang To to keep in his mind as he continuously stared at her and even felt himself gulping.
Her long hair surprisingly seemed to come off shorter as it was curled back, having it secure in with some gorgeous looking hair pins in a flower shape.
in front she felt her bangs faintly brush her cheeks and since today is a grant occasion for him and Gu Yiye, Xiao Xiao
for the first time in her life, after all the sufferings she went through, decided to look after herself a little bit, wanting to look decent and pretty. For herself.
Finally Xiao Xiao reached out her delicate arms to wrap themselves on Wang Yi's neck, and his arms nervously and slowly circles around her thin waist, since their height difference was not much it felt so much nice to have them wrapped together. although Xiao Xiao actually appeared to be a lot taller than him.
While he uses his strength to hold her in his arms a little tighter, he takes this opportunity to lean closer, and next to her ear he speaks in a low voice that only could be heard between those two alone. No one else.
"Never bid me farewell ever again , my mother…"
He pauses after feeling her suddenly jolting and trembling a little bit from his sudden magnetic voice in to her sensitive ear, he gulps before he finishes off with an audible:
"…in law."
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12 years ago…
"P-please…buy my pastries. Have a try. Warm and tasty bread..!!!" Xiao Xiao croaked in a timid manner.
she tried so hard to make her voice louder but no matter what her voice still comes off a little pathetically lower than she hoped for. Some of her neighbors in the marketing store were even secretly laughing inside between their own.
Of course she heard them, they wanted her to hear them. they all want her small business to fail because she's taking up space without even actually selling her food. Someone else could do better business than her, they thought.
She stood there dazed, almost forgetting to speak up when suddenly a car passes right by next her and the long skirt that she had on was accidentally stuck on one of the gears, in result caused her long skirt to hike up, revealing her knees which then she immediately shrieked and struggled to let go of her skirt where it met with the car.
In addition her skirt got ripped. She had to tie the thread now or else it would rip even far worse then it already has. Right now only her fleshy knees were revealed.
"How unfortunate. Just look at her life…" one of the older ladies sighed, finding her pitiful while the other quiet younger ones were amused by her awful day.
"E-excuse me… senior, do, do you have a thread?" Xiao Xiao asked around, holding her skirt where it ripped tightly to each other in order to cover her legs, not forgetting to look back at her mini food stall in case it might be stolen away.
And it did.
A little boy, a child, presumably around in his 10s, took this opportunity to when she wasn't watching and quickly grabs her big plate covered with all kinds of simple bread and runs quickly far ahead to some corner.
"Aiya, would you look at that! A little boy committed thievery at Xiao Xiao's place! Now she can't make business so I'll just make use out of this booth."
When Xiao Xiao heard this, she couldn't care less about her knees being exposed and seen to others and immediately tries to locate the thief, running.
Not long after she realized that the more she ran the more the skirt was cropped up to her thighs that she started to feel a cool sensation from the unusually exposed skin. She muttered to herself silently, thinking what worse can possibly happen if she just goes along with it?
She honestly wasn't born with much physical strength, but when it comes to running it has to be on of her best traits given how she was way taller than the boy back there. That's why it didn't take less than a few minutes before she chased after and found the little thief.
The boy was on his knees on the ground, obviously hiding and Xiao Xiao sees the desperate look in his eyes when he madly stuffs the food to his mouth.
Xiao Xiao is familiar with this kind of people. They're those who haven't eat for days and those who have no money, just like everyone, however they choose to take the easy path which is stealing.
And looking at the boy it was obvious that he wasn't taught of manners yet, because Xiao Zhan was born soft hearted if he would have asked she would have feed him anyway. It was better than stealing.
But right now it wasn't the time to have empathy especially when everyone around her is dying step by step, she might be the next one.
Although it's selfish, but in this time people could only think of surviving for themselves, not for anyone else, let alone a mere stranger.
She decided she wouldn't forgive this boy so easily!
Only when she appears in front of him that he noticed her presence and immediately he gets up from where he was kneeling to start apologizing.
"I-I'm sorry!!!"
She hits his small shoulder lightly, clearly bent out of shape.
"I'm really sorry!!! I had no choice!! I haven't eaten for days i almost died of hunger so i-"
The saddened boy started giving a reason as he looked down, hiding his face, to which he was interrupted by a louder voice.
" do you think i haven't too!!?"
"My parents were killed…"
"You think mine hasn't too!!?"
"I-i am not sure how to survive…"
"You think i know how to survive!??"
She interrupted, almost furious.
"And, and to protect myself.." the boy quavered, pitiful, with a broken voice.
"That i don't know how either!!"
"But you're an adult!"
He suddenly snaps causing Xiao Xiao to lose the ability to speak for a second.
for the first time he looks up at her to see her face clearly.
"A-aren't you not..?"
"You've already grown up..."
He whimpered, shaking from grievances.
"So what if I'm adult?"
She retributed, locking eyes with the boy.
"Do you, do you think that all of us are the same? You think we all have it easier than children!???"
She roared on top of her voice, her usual timid self becoming more aggressive, in the verge of breaking down.
"I haven't sold not a single one of my bread and you think I'm a responsible adult!??"
"…and now it's only gonna get worse, won't it!??"
With a broken voice she bawled, tears gathering to her eyes.
"Can't we also be taken care of just like children..?"
After this remark the boy also couldn't help the tears that streamed down his milky face. And they both just stood there next to each other, weeping as if they suffered a great grief.
After they calmed themselves and sat down on the bench in silent, the young teen noticed that Xiao Xiao's bottom was torn apart, revealing almost her upper thighs.
The child was horrified to say the least.
because he have never seen a body so exposed of the opposite gender ever in his life.
But somewhat he wasn't disgusted and he didn't think this auntie was a prostitute. He thought that maybe someone bullied her in the market… he have seen those type of drunken men around the streets often. They are capable of doing such things to women.
So He hiccups, trying to gather the courage to speak after bawling for almost an hour with this auntie, gulping.
"What… what happened to your bottom wear?"
Xiao Zhan was once again, dazed, thinking about all the things that is happening right now, completely unaware how outrageous she actually looks like to the outside.
"What might possibly happened to them-"
It took her a second to suddenly remember that the reason why this all happened was because of this unfortunate skirt.
Once she recognizes the situation she starts gasping and tries to immediately cover herself. That was too shameful. Especially having an innocent boy to see something as shameless as this.
"I- I'm sorry! Please forget what you have just seen!!"
She cries out, literally in utter shame that The young child even felt a little bad for her.
Actually he knew that exposing too much skin was almost like forbidden for women or else they might get put into jail or get called out for, so they were mostly taught to be modest, but he couldn't stop himself from staring a little bit.
It felt forbidden, yes, but he was a curious child.