“What I don’t understand what you’re saying,” said Mrs. Li.
“You poisoned your grandson!”
“Grandson? Isn’t Weiwei our granddaughter?”
“You are vicious!” Li Ze roared, “She was carrying a son! But because of the poison you gave her, our son’s life was in danger then! What’s more, he soon left the world due to the delay of the operation after you called me home! Weiwei was adopted by Xiao Jie!”
“Are you kidding?”
“It’s absolutely true!”
Crack!
Beep… Beep…
The only sounds left was the beep of the interrupted phone and his wife’s sobs. Li Ze didn’t call again but kept his eyes on the floor. Even if his wife had done a lot of wrongs, it was his mother and him who is to be blamed. If his mother didn’t believe in the Bodhisattva that insisted on her delivering a daughter, she wouldn’t be so merciless to even lure his wife to an abortion. If he had complied with the obligation of a husband and father and stay outside of the delivery room, their son would have survived.
Li Ze wanted to kill himself, thinking that he and his mother were to blame for the death of his son!
Only then did he understand why his wife lied that their son had been transferred.
She wants to prevent him and his mother from enduring the mental torment of her revelations.
He now knew why his wife had been crying for more than ten days after the birth of Weiwei.
Though she pretended it was tears of joy, he now knew that it was because of the death of their son now.
The more Li Ze thought about it, the more he blamed himself. He had no courage to face his wife.
Listening to his wife’s weak crying, Li Ze tightened his fists.
“Fuck you!”
Li Ze’s fists smashed onto the floor.
Then his wife said, leaning against the door, “I wanted to divorce you right after we started to adopt Weiwei.”
Li Ze frowned even tighter, without responding to her words.
Covered with tears, Ding Jie signed, ” But when I saw you taking care of Weiwei together with me and sometimes getting up at midnight to change her diapers while letting me sleep, I gave up the idea. I was thinking that it was no use to worry about what had happened. But I felt heartbroken every time I thought about my son dying in my arms. At first, since your mother didn’t like Weiwei at all, I even cursed her to die from an accident. I really didn’t want to care about her when she was at the hospital. I even thought she deserved it. But because she was my mother-in-law, I had to take care of her. If I refused to, she wouldn’t have known that I was a good daughter-in-law, and she wouldn’t be nice to me or Weiwei. I just feel ironic when she was feeding or playing with Weiwei, who has no blood relation with her. But truly she had poisoned her grandson.”
Li Ze slowly stood up at her words.
Turning around to his gaunt wife, Li Ze asked, “Do you hate me now?”
“I hated you before Weiwei was about 6 months old.”
“What about later?”
“Then I love you as I used to,” Ding Jie murmured. “I can understand why you came home. Worrying about your mother, you were going home as fast as you can then returned to my side. After all, I shouldn’t have given birth to our child in the half hour you were away. It’s a pity, there are some things that we couldn’t predict.”
“I slapped you while scolding you a few days ago. Do you want to divorce me now?”
“If I want to divorce you, I won’t tell you the truth,” Ding Jie said. “I know that if I didn’t tell you the truth, you will definitely divorce me. Of course, I chose to tell you the truth. But I really don’t think I should have told you the truth, because you wouldn’t have called your Mom. She can’t bear the stimulation because she’s now weak and old.”
“I want to know more truth, you know.”
“I understand.”
“I hope you can tell me if you can.”
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Holding her knees and putting her face up, she looked a little lonely. “I want to sort out the misunderstanding between us by leaving for a particular period of time. I always felt I was smart, but I’ve done something wrong, for example, the deal with Liao and the bra I handed to Lin. Sometimes I’m also glad I got what I deserved with the good for evil. Our life is really like an ominous adventure. Everything would happen randomly, as some make you hateful, and some joyful.
“Tell me the truth,” said Li Ze. “As long as you haven’t cheated me, I will forgive you.”
“Huh,” Ding Jie smiled weakly, “Hubby, let’s have a separation for a while. I’m tired.”
Li Ze frowned even more at her words.
If it was before, he would have directly forced his wife to say it.
But because of his son’s death, Li Ze didn’t dare to interrogate her.
Looking at his wife, as lonely as a dead leaf, Li Ze asked, “Who should move out?”
“You,” Ding Jie said, “Since Ms. Sun has already left to Zhangzhou, you can live in her room. I want to stay with Weiwei because I could take good care of her. It’s not important whether she is our real daughter or not, what matters is our affection towards her. The society is filled with fighting among siblings for the property. In their eyes, blood relation was a symbol of shame. So blood relation is nothing to me.”
“When will you tell me the truth?”
Ding Jie remained silent.
Li Ze asked, “Are you planning to keep it a secret forever?”
Ding Jie didn’t respond to him.
“We are married,” said Li Ze. “As long as you haven’t cheated me, I can forgive you for anything you’ve done. I hope you can tell me the truth.”
As he spoke, Li Ze walked towards his wife.
His phone rang then. It was his father.