The second before he looked away, Xiao Yuanmu made his way over, wrapping his arms tightly around Song Xuanhe. Xiao Yuanmu rested his chin on his shoulder and then pasted his soft, icy lips against Song Xuanhe’s neck. There was a raspy quality to his voice. “I’m back.”
Song Xuanhe didn’t know why, but Xiao Yuanmu gave off a weak and warm impression right now. Even though Song Xuanhe knew he was probably just imagining it, he still raised his hand and gently tousled the other’s hair. Quietly, he replied with a ‘mn.’ sRFgI2
Xiao Yuanmu held Song Xuanhe quietly, enjoying the heat emitting from the other’s body. When he recalled the nightmare from three days ago that had made him unable to close his eyes again, he couldn’t help but tighten his hold.
“Yuanmu….”
Mrs. Xiao stood to the side. It was the first time she had seen her eldest son show such a dependent and soft side to him. It made her forget her alarm while throwing her into a sea of astonishment and bitterness.
Her feelings for Xiao Yuanmu were complicated. The first few years after Xiao Yuanmu’s disappearance, she had searched for him like mad. Even if she knew that the likelihood of her son surviving after being led away from the family by those malicious, unknown people, she had not given up for a second. FeJ1sh
But later on, Xiao Lin had adopted a child to console her. That child had been lovable and quiet, but she hadn’t been able to accept him. She knew that it wasn’t her son and she couldn’t accept the fact that another child would get to enjoy everything that belonged to her missing son. That’s why she had rejected the child so vehemently.
The servants were very tactful. Gradually, they had stopped bringing the child in front of her. But even though the child wasn’t in sight, he still reminded her constantly of her missing child.
This only ended when she became pregnant with Xiao Baicong.
Once more, a little life emerged within her, their hearts beating as one. After ten months, he was born. She was more experienced this time and even more careful with her second son after the disappearance of her first. She didn’t let Xiao Baicong out of her sight. UbVhWs
Later on, as Xiao Baicong slowly grew up, she dedicated all her energy and emotions to him. This distracted her, leaving her no time to wonder whether her eldest son was alive, and if he was alive, what kind of horrible life he might be leading. She never had the courage to think about these things.
A little after that, she wiped all traces of her eldest son’s existence from her home, from the pictures and videos of him to his little toys. She had everything stored away. Gradually, signs of her eldest son’s existence disappeared while her youngest son grew up. She started to believe that she had only ever given birth to the little angel in front of her.
She meticulously raised Xiao Baicong and watched him grow up to the young adult he was today. The fact that he was still filial and gentle even after growing up made her soft. She wanted to give him the best the world had to offer. If he wanted the Xiao Family, she would help him take on the pressure and the criticisms. She was willing to do anything to ensure that he lived his entire life happy.
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But all this changed when she saw the young man, who looked like her deceased brother and shared the same eyes as her youngest son.
She hadn’t needed any tests. She had known that this was her child. She had known that this was her eldest son, who her younger brother had loved to hold and carry. Her younger brother had often smiled at Xiao Lin and said that the boy was ‘just like his uncle’, that he would definitely be like him and like him after he grew up.
This was her eldest son. He had indeed become like her younger brother after growing up. uAsirL
Because of him, all of the memories she had tried to bury became unearthed. She remembered how her brother had apologized to her before his death, apologized to Xiao Yuanmu. Her brother had always blamed himself for Xiao Yuanmu’s disappearance because, at that time, he had wanted to take Xiao Yuanmu to the park. And then, when he had gone upstairs to get something, a servant who had been tasked to look after Xiao Yuanmu had whisked him away.
That matter didn’t only gnaw on his heart, but on hers and Xiao Yuanmu’s as well. As Xiao Yuanmu’s parents, even if they knew that they shouldn’t blame her younger brother—no one could know that someone had infiltrated their residence and disguised themselves as the help—it was still difficult for them to smile at him now that their son had gone missing.
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Her younger brother had died with guilt in his heart. This fact only made her all the more obsessed with finding her eldest son. It was the only light in her darkest times.
——But Xiao Baicong’s birth had dispelled all that darkness. x0rnXq
She was genuinely ecstatic to find Xiao Yuanmu. It wasn’t just her wish, but the long, cherished wish of her younger brother as well.
It was just that Xiao Yuanmu’s eyes were too cold.
He was not the child she had imagined. Even though she tried so hard to get closer to him, even though she had done everything she could to explain that they all wanted to get closer to them, even if she wanted to do everything she could to make it up to him…she had never seen any warmth in his eyes.
This was a highly ambitious child with a heart that would never warm up. w4Iv5X
That had been the conclusion Mrs. Xiao had come to after finding out Xiao Yuanmu had mercilessly gotten rid of the people she had specifically cultivated for Xiao Baicong in several of the Xiao Family’s large corporations.
As she watched the confident, warm smile on her youngest son gradually disappear; watched how he had to focus on school while having to stay up late to manage the companies; watched how he lost weight and gained dark circles in his eyes; and finally listened to him ask her in a defeated voice, “Mom, am I really inferior to GegeShh!
Eve: Yeah, this is gonna be glossed over, if anyone wants to write the smutty fanfiction, go for it. But yeah, Mumu and Mrs. Xiao, it’s hard to pin the blame on either person. Because we know Mumu’s perspective, I am also biased towards him. As someone who has a strained and complicated relationship with one parent, I am even more biased against the mother. She may have truly loved him and genuinely want to get close, but sometimes, the best thing you can do for someone is to let go. To give them the power to decide if and when they choose to open up their heart. And if they choose to never do that, the best thing you can do is accept it and hope for their happiness. Even if their happiness doesn’t include you.Read more BL at chrysanthemumgarden (dot) com\nRead more BL at chrysanthemumgarden (dot) com\n