Accidentally Married to the Big Shot-Chapter 256 - Fathers Love
Chapter 256: Chapter 256: Father’s Love
Chapter 256 -256: Father’s Love
Their car had indeed broken down, and Secretary Chen was checking it one by one.
Xi Huarong and Su Meixi could no longer sit in the car comfortably. Once the car turned off, they couldn’t run the heater, sitting inside felt rather stuffy.
They were now stopped on a secondary road, no village ahead, no store behind; nearby was a farmhouse, and occasionally a few dog barks could be heard.
After standing for a while, Su Meixi started feeling cold.
The weather in Yun City was just like that. As soon as the sky turned overcast, it got cold. Although she was wearing plenty of clothes, she still couldn’t help but sneeze.
At this moment, Xi Huarong opened the trunk and took out a military coat. He walked over to Su Meixi, handed her the overcoat, and said, “Xiao Xi, wear this coat. Don’t catch a cold.”
Su Meixi’s heart warmed.
She felt fatherly affection once again.
Su Qiang had never shown such concern for her, or perhaps he had when she was little, but she couldn’t remember it at all.
She slowly accepted the military coat, but it was too heavy, and she couldn’t drape it over herself right away, so Xi Huarong simply helped her put it on.
Once she was wearing the coat, her body instantly wasn’t cold anymore, as if she were enveloped in warmth.
“God… Godfather, aren’t you cold? I’m wearing this coat, what about you?”
Xi Huarong replied indifferently, “I’m not cold. I’m used to it.”
So they started chatting. Su Meixi asked him, “I remember last time when I saw your back, you had many scars. Some scars have after-effects, like they would hurt when it rains. Do you have this problem?”
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Xi Huarong laughed and said, “Actually, I don’t have that problem. Just occasionally, it would itch. A doctor told me before that it’s because the tissues in the scars are still growing, but since the skin has split open, they can’t heal properly. These tissues don’t know where to grow, so they just grow haphazardly, and that’s why it itches.”
For some reason, Su Meixi’s eyes were wet.
She knew these feelings were uncomfortable, yet he spoke of them as if they were a joke.
“Does your back still hurt then?”
“Sometimes it does, an old problem of mine. It’s not so easy wanting to heal completely.”
Xi Huarong looked at her again and said, “Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. Now that you’re our goddaughter, we don’t know anything about your past. Could you tell us about your childhood?”
“My childhood… My parents divorced when I was very young. I grew up with my grandfather. After he passed away, I lived on my own. It seems there wasn’t anything particularly interesting.”
“You must have had a tough time before.”
“It was quite tough. But I also had some kind people around me, like a good neighbor and a kind senior student,” Su Meixi said.
“Did they protect you?”
“Yes, they took great care of me. However, the senior left during my middle school years, and the neighbor stayed until I got married before moving away. We occasionally keep in touch on WeChat and exchange red packets during holidays.”
Xi Huarong nodded and said, “You’re a grateful girl.”
“It’s only right.”
Suddenly, Su Meixi became curious. She asked Xi Huarong, “Your two daughters must have had a happy childhood, right?”
When she asked, she sounded choked up.
What would it have been like if she had grown up with her parents?
After thinking, Xi Huarong said, “The older one grew up with her mother. Back then, I was undercover in a gang, and mother and daughter lived quite a hard life. However, with her mother around, it was certainly better than you living alone.”
Su Meixi nodded, keeping her tears from falling.
Xi Huarong continued, “Xiao Fen was much luckier. She was born after I got promoted. We had a nanny at home, and her mother didn’t have to work, so she had a lot of time to spend with her. Now she is quite naïve and has no worries, probably because we spoiled her.”
Su Meixi said, “Xiao Fen is very fortunate.”
“You grew up without your parents. Did you miss them often?” Xi Huarong asked.
Su Meixi replied, “Of course, I missed them when I was a child. Which child wouldn’t miss their parents? But after being disappointed so many times, I stopped missing them.”
Xi Huarong looked at her, then said, “Don’t worry. From now on, you have us.”
Su Meixi thought he must be referring to having a godfather and godmother now.
Secretary Chen, who had been fixing the car, saw that they were almost done talking and that the car was also fixed.
He came over and said, “Mr. Xi, we can get in the car now.”
“Okay.”
…
Xi Huarong first dropped Su Meixi back at the compound, watching her go inside before he returned home.
By the time he arrived home, it was already evening. The housekeeper came over to open the door for him and also told him, “Mr. Xi, Linlin is back.”
Xi Huarong frowned.
Xi Wanlin was sitting on the sofa at home, and across from her, sat Li Shirui.
Seeing Xi Huarong, Xi Wanlin’s tears immediately started flowing, “Dad, you’re back?”
Xi Huarong asked, “What are you doing here?”
“I missed you all, so I came over,” cried Xi Wanlin.
Xi Huarong sat down. Li Shirui came over to pour him a cup of tea and said, “She has the keys to the house. She let herself in.”
Xi Huarong calmly took a sip of the tea.
Xi Wanlin kept crying, “Dad, Mom, after all, you raised me for thirty years. Are you really so heartless? You won’t even see me? It wasn’t my fault what happened back then. Now, I’m a child without parents.”
Xi Huarong looked at her and after a while, said, “Yes, you were innocent back then. But when you realized you were not our daughter, you chose not to tell us. If you had told us the truth then, we might not have driven you out. But you concealed the truth while trying hard to please us, letting my biological daughter continue to suffer. Just for that reason alone, I cannot accept you anymore.”
“But back then I was just a child too. I was afraid you would not want me after you knew the truth. I was really scared. Is it wrong that I wanted to be your child forever?”
“You are not only wrong, but you also don’t understand right from wrong.” Xi Huarong took another sip of tea, then said, “Please leave, and don’t come back in the future.”
Xi Wanlin was crying very loudly, “The thirty years of affection we had cannot compare to Su Meixi, whom you’ve only known for a month. You are too cruel. Fine, I will not come back, but don’t you regret it!”
Xi Wanlin said this and turned to run.
The house fell silent. Xi Huarong finished the last bit of his tea and then said to Li Shirui, “Change the locks at home. Tell the staff not to let Linlin in anymore.”
“Okay,” Li Shirui complied.
But suddenly, she felt something was off near the staircase.
She looked up, only to see Xi Wanfen standing at the staircase corner, her face a picture of shock!
“Xiao… Xiao Fen? Weren’t you on duty at the hospital today?”
