Xu Chunian was stunned for a moment and mechanically turned her head to look at Zhuzhu's hand which was fixed with a plaster cast.
Zhuzhu obediently wiped her mouth and reached out to Jiang Huaixu. The man picked her up with one hand and casually grabbed Zhuzhu's small schoolbag on the sofa.
Until the sound of the door closing rang out, Xu Chunian didn't move again.
*
In the milk tea shop on the street
The music was lingering in the small shop. The dark clouds were hanging very low, a sign that a storm was coming.
"Alas."
Having sighed countless times, Shen Qingli pursed her lips and said, "Niannian, at first, everyone thought you were suffering from postpartum depression. But later, you went too far, and Jiang Huaixu had to accept the fact that you had changed your heart."
After giving birth to Zhuzhu, Xu Chunian seemed to be possessed and mistreated Zhuzhu, constantly causing trouble at home.
"Were Jiang Huaixu and I very much in love?"
Shen Qingli paused for a moment and said, "At least your marriage didn't involve any elements of being on a whim or making an agreement."
She didn't say it directly, but Xu Chunian understood that all the changes happened after she had gone crazy.
"If I come clean with Jiang Huaixu, do you think he'll think I'm crazy?"
Shen Qingli gave her a look that seemed to say "What do you think?" and said, "So many things have happened. I'm not really sure what Jiang Huaixu's feelings for you are. If you blurt out everything rashly, considering what happened before, it's not impossible for Jiang Huaixu to lock you up in a mental hospital."
Xu Chunian propped her head up and said, "What should I do then? When I see Zhuzhu, I always feel like my heart is being clenched. There are always some fragments flashing through my mind, too fast for me to catch."
"Jiang Huaixu won't let me get close to Zhuzhu." She lowered her head.
Shen Qingli pursed her lips and looked at her for a while and said, "Given what you did before, it's actually understandable."
Xu Chunian propped her face up, extremely worried. Although she was still a child herself, when she saw Zhuzhu, she didn't feel awkward at all. Subconsciously, she felt that this was her daughter, the daughter she had carried in her womb for ten months.
Could it really be postpartum depression?
After parting from Shen Qingli, Xu Chunian found the place where she had lived before she was 18 according to her memory.
She rang the doorbell, suppressing her excitement. The door opened.
Bai Hui was flustered for a moment when she saw who it was. "Niannian, why are you back?"
Xu Chunian immediately gave her a big bear hug. "Mom, you haven't changed a bit in six years."
Xu Chunian had been pampered by her parents since she was a child. Her father had a small business and some money. He bought a large flat before Xu Chunian was born and they had been living here all these years.
Bai Hui was stunned by her sudden hug. "You..."
"Where's Dad?" Surprised, Xu Chunian quickly asked.
Saying that, she was about to enter, but was blocked by her mother.
"Mom." Xu Chunian was shocked.
"Your father and I won't agree to you being with that Qin Yuan. We made it very clear to you last year." Bai Hui looked at her with a complicated expression.
"We're not together anymore. We're not together anymore." Xu Chunian waved her hands, squeezing out a tear from her eye, and held Bai Hui's hand. "Mom, I've figured it out. I'll live a good life with Jiang Huaixu from now on."
The repentance passages in novels are like this. Bai Hui saw her attitude change so much. "You..."
Xu Chunian quickly raised three fingers to promise. "If I go to see that Qin Yuan again, you can let Dad deduct my pocket money. Is that okay?"
Bai Hui opened her mouth to say something.
"What's the matter, Mom? Are you going to shut your precious daughter out?" She blinked pitifully at Bai Hui.