Chapter 81 - Abort

Ran Xueyi stared at him for a few seconds before she finally reacted and jumped in his arms, hugging him tightly.

In the past years she lived together with her parents, she had to wait on them and all their arrangements. Whenever she was scheduled to do something they had arranged beforehand, whether it was a piano recital or a ballet dance class, Ran Xueyi wouldn't miss any of them for fear that she would make her parents feel disappointed with her.

During that time, they showered her with gifts sent from the countries they went to during her classes and she would always receive them with a smile. But what Ran Xueyi really wanted was her parents' presence when she did all these things. After all, she did the piano recitals and dance class just to show them that she was the perfect daughter they ever wanted.

However, all her efforts were wasted when they came back from overseas with her mother pregnant with her little sister. 

Ran Xueyi, of course, was overjoyed. She was finally getting a little sister who would play with her when she's alone. But things got even worse when Ran Yue was born.

The little time her parents spent with her disappeared gradually. 

In that huge mansion, she was alone while everyone had somebody beside them. When Ran Xueyi was only seven, she could remember that she complained to her parents, telling them that she also wanted to spend time with them and go with them overseas. But her complaints became an angry tantrum of a spoiled child.

Fearing that Ran Xueyi's anger would turn against her little sister, they sent her to her grandparents, burning the bonds they shared as family into dust.

That was why when Ran Xueyi started to act and gain popularity, she finally saw her parents showering her with attention and praise. She was even able to get a fiance who would shower her with love. 

But who knew that all of them were just fake memories and false affection to manipulate her mind.

Ran Xueyi continued to hold the man tightly in her arms. This was the first time she felt that somebody had taken the first step back to spend time with her. 

All those painful memories of her waiting alone in the living room, waiting for a phone call or message, and sitting inside a private room she reserved in a restaurant on a family day holiday, inundated her, clouding her mind until tears appeared in her eyes.

It hurts... Just thinking that it took her many years to find somebody who would give up their own thing just to spend time with her.

Song Yu Han felt the front of his shirt getting soaked. 

Frowning, he looked down and saw that Ran Xueyi was not only hugging him, her tears continued to fall from her eyes. Was she hurt because of his hesitation to respond? Song Yu Han was extremely worried while thinking that it was because of him that his wife was crying.

Cupping her face in his hands, he gently lifted her face, using his thumbs to wipe away the tears that won't just disappear.

"What's wrong?" Song Yu Han asked her. 

Ran Xueyi shook her head, ashamed that she let her past bug her like this. But she couldn't help it. Like a bottle that finally fell from a storage shelf and broke into pieces, the excruciating pain she felt from all the heartaches she had to experience over the years finally came out.

"Shh... It's alright," Song Yu Han whispered as he lifted her and let her sit on his lap as though she was a little child who needed comforting. 

He continued to whisper in her ears, "I'm here. Nothing can hurt you anymore."

...

'Bang!'

Inside the Yang family's mansion, the whole house was a mess. 

Running around the living room, a sorry-looking Yang Baihua was shielding his face with his arms as his father came chasing after him with a bat.

"You useless son! How dare you sow your own seed to someone else without my permission!" Father Yang swung the bat again towards Yang Baihua.

Yang Baihua avoided the deadly bat and ran behind his mother's back. He used her as a shield to his father and said, "Qian Qian isn't just somebody, father! She's my lover and you know about her already!"

How could his father not know about it? When Yang Baihua's engagement with Ran Xueyi was announced, he was the first one to oppose it. He brought his lover Song Qian in front of his family and introduced her as the girl he would marry. He even told the elders that he would rather kill himself if he didn't marry the woman he loved.

This forced the elders to be disappointed with him and thought of picking another heir to the Yang family. However, Father Yang and Mother Yang quickly thought of a solution. They came looking for his lover, Song Qian, and convinced her to persuade Yang Baihua to marry Ran Xueyi.

Of course, they promised that after they got what they wanted from the Ran family, Yang Baihua would immediately divorce Ran Xueyi and marry her. Since this was the only way that both could continue with their relationship, Song Qian agreed to it.

However, now the situation has become even awry because not only did Ran Xueyi want to cancel the engagement, Yang Baihua ended up impregnating his lover!

"If I don't beat you up to death today then, I won't be called the Patriarch of the Yang family anymore!" Father Yang angrily pointed at his son and chased him again.

Mother Yang was petrified seeing her husband and son running like a cat chasing after a mouse. When Father Yang came closer to her, she pulled his arms and said to her son, "Go, run outside! I'll talk to you father!"

Yang Baihua was so thankful to his mother and didn't even think that his father might refocus his anger on his mother as he fled outside. 

But before he completely go out of the mansion, he peeked from the gaps of the door and stubbornly said, "Whatever you say, I won't abort the child inside Qian Qian's womb!"

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