Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 317 - 285: He Raised Me for Twenty Years, Yet I Never Repaid Him

Chapter 317: Chapter 285: He Raised Me for Twenty Years, Yet I Never Repaid Him

Even just leaning on the sofa and closing her eyes for a moment, she would enter a dream, in the dream—

Dad and Mom were old, sick, and she was in a very far, far, faraway place...

The plane seemed to fly from one end of the world to the other, so long that her eyes became dry.

She walked alone on the sidewalk, following where there were eaves, the sound of raindrops pattering on the eaves.

The wind blew on her arm, a cool breeze raising goosebumps.

She needed to smell the scent of this damp land, needed to be blown by this unfriendly wind, needed to gently lay down the thousand-jin heavy stone in her heart...

Xiao Meng remembered this street, the nearest to home and also the busiest, turning two more corners ahead was the famous Jinli and Kuanzhai Alley.

She loved a dessert shop deep in Jinli.

But she was fat as a child, her mother often seriously warned her not to eat, even if she did, it should only be in small, appropriate amounts.

But she liked it...

What child doesn’t have an appetite for food?

Fortunately, her mother was a teacher, going to school in the morning and only coming back in the evening.

Dad would always sneak away from the flower shop on hot afternoons to Jinli to pack desserts and bring them home for her.

He would always warn her, "You mustn’t let your mom know! Your old dad is risking his life to buy these for you! Make sure to destroy the evidence after eating!"

"...Mm!"

She nodded heavily, then every time after eating, she would stuff the dessert boxes deep into the shoe cabinet.

And seriously told Dad that she had already destroyed all the evidence!

Dad felt reassured seeing her so certain, but in the end...

When the shoe cabinet could no longer hold the dessert boxes, it was finally caught by Mom!

Seeing the moldy pile of dessert boxes, ants even eroded holes in the shoe cabinet...

He tossed the washboard aside and obediently knelt on it.

After that, she remained silent on the side, deeply afraid of being implicated.

She remembered, remembered that Dad took her to and from school every day starting from kindergarten, rain or shine...

Remembered Dad was very lazy, thought driving was troublesome, and liked riding his old-fashioned bicycle.

Dad was very handsome, and this was famous at her school. Every time at parent meetings, she proudly clung to her Dad tightly.

But didn’t know, at that time, every parent meeting, Dad would be told a few things...

"People say even a slow bird flies early, why hasn’t Xiao Meng improved?"

"Xiao Meng is too careless as a student, very inattentive to learning. If she paid more attention, her grades would definitely be much better than now."

"Su’s father, you should keep a closer eye on Xiao Meng. It’s almost time for the high school entrance exams, what if..."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes..."

She remembered, Dad listened carefully with his head lowered as the teacher spoke, then scolded her when they got home, but every time he was heavy-handed, she would cry...

When she cried, Dad’s heart softened again.

Once, probably because the scores on her test paper were too terrible, Dad really got angry, actually pulling her over and harshly spanking her!

She could only cry from the pain.

Dad said, "I can raise you for a lifetime with no problem! But I can’t raise you for a lifetime! You silly girl..."

The rain was getting heavier, the wind blowing the big trees by the roadside, branches trembling chaotically.

Maybe she got tired from walking, Xiao Meng walked into a café.

Ordered a cold drink, she sat by the window... watching outside, pedestrians hurriedly walking past in the rain under umbrellas.

Muddy water splashed by pairs of polished shoes.

Suddenly, her eyes turned red, then tears filled her eyes, and then slid down.

She buried her face in her arms, her sobs unable to be contained, attracting the glances of staff and others in the store.

The phone on the table vibrated...

She lifted her red eyes and saw "Uncle" on the caller ID.

Tears flowed even more uncontrollably...

After one round of vibrations, it started again...

Xiao Meng picked up the phone, swiped the screen to answer...

She didn’t hide her sobs, just helplessly and confusedly cried, "Uncle... sob..."

To Yin Shixiu, Su Xiaomeng had this capability, a single sob could tightly grip his heart.

"Uncle... sob, I’m upset... sob... ah ah..."

She felt oppressed, breathless, the gloomy dark clouds outside her mind pressing on her chest.

Yin Shixiu took a deep breath, "Turn on your phone’s location, I’ll come pick you up."

"Sob... mm."

After hanging up the phone, Yin Shixiu looked at the location message sent on the phone.

Fortunately, it wasn’t far from him.

He said a few words to Lawyer Jin beside him, indicating he wanted to get the most "reasonable" punishment for the Su Jianyi couple.

Lawyer Jin was a gold medal lawyer at one of the top four law firms.

Old Master Yin trusted him very much, as did Yin Shixiu.

After talking to Lawyer Jin, he ran straight to the location sent on the phone.

About a quarter of an hour later, he stood outside the café where Su Xiaomeng was, through the transparent glass with cute little floral prints, seeing her lying on that small table, crying uncontrollably.

Her shoulders kept trembling...

Yin Shixiu’s throat felt as if something hard was forcibly lodged in it.

His heart ached, contracting painfully.

Taking a deep breath, he walked into the café and approached the counter.

"Sir, hello, what would you like?"

"Iced Americano."

"Alright, please wait a moment."

"May I ask... when did the girl over there arrive?"

"Well... it’s been about half an hour? She started crying shortly after coming in, very sadly at first..."

"Do you know... the reason?"

"Hmm, our manager did go over to ask, but the girl thought the manager was there to chase her away, so she said ’sorry’ and was about to leave. Our manager quickly clarified that wasn’t the case and told her to cry if she wanted to..."

"And then... she’s really just been crying on and off over there. Not sure why she’s so sad..."

"...Thank you."

The staff handed him the finished coffee. "Sir, do you know—"

Before the staff could finish speaking, Yin Shixiu took the coffee and walked over to the seat opposite the girl, pulled out a chair, and sat down...

Su Xiaomeng looked up at the sound, meeting Yin Shixiu’s eyes, and the tears that had just stopped started flowing heavily again...

"You, you’re here..."

Yin Shixiu sighed lightly, pulled out a wet tissue, and wiped her tears. "If you can’t give me a reason that convinces me, I’ll definitely make you pay, Su Xiaomeng."

Su Xiaomeng looked at Yin Shixiu...

She knew the words she was about to say would upset him...

But... she didn’t want to lie to him.

"Why? Hmm?"

"I... don’t want to go back to Beijing anymore..."

"I don’t want to leave them... Uncle, I can’t leave them... sob sob..."

Su Xiaomeng’s words hammered heavily on Yin Shixiu’s heart, causing him to be deeply shaken.

She held his hand, "What should I do? When I think, if Dad never wakes up... I won’t even have seen him one last time..."

"When I think, someday in the future, when they really need me, and yet I don’t know..."

"Uncle, they only have one daughter... only one daughter... sob sob..."

Yin Shixiu sniffled and looked out the window.

Su Xiaomeng lowered her head, staring at the black wooden table, slowly and arduously saying, "I can never forget the day we rushed to the hospital, Mom’s unavoidably strong and upright posture..."

"I can never forget the words from the doctor when he first came out of the operating room, telling us to be mentally prepared, the remorse I felt back then..."

"I hate myself for only caring about my own family, my own life, he raised me for twenty years, yet I haven’t repaid him one bit..." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Uncle... I feel it’s not fair. I really feel I’m very unfair to them..."

If only she had a brother or a sister who could stay by their side, but... there is none.

They only have her.

"Seventeen hundred kilometers... it’s not the distance between Beijing and Chengdu, it’s the distance between me and the people who gave me life and raised me... this distance is terrifying..."

Yin Shixiu turned back to look at Su Xiaomeng, "If you don’t go back to Beijing, what about Jinxi Huaiyu?"

"...I don’t know what to do. I know Shuangshuang and Huanghuang need me, but Dad and Mom need me, too..."

"I just know there are too many helpless situations, I just know that in this world, so many things are hard to fulfill both sides, which is why I’m upset..."

"...You regret marrying me."

Su Xiaomeng shook her head...

"You regret following me to live in Beijing..."

Su Xiaomeng shook her head...

"You regret giving birth to two kids for me, letting them become your burden..."

Su Xiaomeng shook her head vigorously, "No, no... Shixiu, I don’t regret, I’m just very troubled, I’m just troubled..."

"Marrying you, moving to Beijing to live with you, working hard on our little family, even planning to study abroad for further education... for you, for the kids, for myself..."

"Getting pregnant before marriage, Dad and Mom protected me, giving birth and postpartum, Dad and Mom were there for me, even later when I returned to Beijing, unable to balance studies, Mom paused her work for half a year to come to Beijing to help me..."

"But what have I ever done for them..."

She can never choose between her children and parents, this itself is not a question one can answer.

Precisely because she can’t choose, and she knows, if she must choose, she wouldn’t check the option for her parents.

That’s why she feels the pain.

She understands too well that in her parents’ hearts, she is undoubtedly first.

Yin Shixiu felt bad, but fortunately, he knew the reason why she cried so sorrowfully.

"Get up."

Su Xiaomeng looked at him...

Yin Shixiu reached out a hand to her, "Let’s go back, crying here is really embarrassing."

Su Xiaomeng sniffled, took his hand, and followed him out of the café.

Yin Shixiu put his arm around her shoulders, pulling her into his embrace.

Su Xiaomeng wrapped her arms around his waist.

Neither of them said anything more.

They returned silently to the hotel.