Chapter 79: Eternal Friendship

  Xia Xian walked on the street with a heavy heart, carrying her bag. The emotions between her and Lin Xueyin were deep and had a long history.

  "What's wrong with Xueyin these days? She looks so down. It's so late and she hasn't come back, her phone is also turned off." At night, roommates were playing computer in the dormitory, but Lin Xueyin was nowhere to be seen, everyone couldn't help but worry a bit, it was already very late.

  "I'll go take a look." Xia Xian had just finished handling the student council's tasks, glanced at the time on his phone, and indeed it was already late, 22:30.

  "You two come back early!" Xu Jing said, pulling her head out of the romantic conversation.

  "Don't worry!" Xia Xuan put on his outerwear, and also took out a pack of tissues from the drawer and stuffed it into his pocket before leaving the dormitory without bringing his phone.

  By the small river in school, a delicate girl sat with the wind, her hair flying around, under the dim light, the expression of sorrow, heartbreak and torment was evident, making people can't help but feel pity for her and want to accompany her in her sorrow.

  I was eight years old when my mother left my brother and me to pursue a better life on her own. At that time, my brother was five years old, and our father raised us up by himself. I asked my dad why mom had to leave, and he said at the time that actually mom should have left earlier. My brother and I were adopted children, and if dad hadn't gotten married, he wouldn't have been qualified to adopt us. So, mom got married with dad in name only, and it was him who held her back. Since mom wanted to leave now, he would respect her choice. After hearing this story, I felt very guilty and regretful. If it weren't for my brother and me, maybe mom and dad could have had a better life. So, I secretly kept some of mom's and dad's hair as a beautiful memory.

  But later, I inadvertently learned a term called paternity testing, and then... As a result, my brother and I were their biological children. At that time, holding the report, I wanted to ask my father why, maybe at that time I had many ideas that others didn't have. I advised myself that Father said so because he didn't want us to hate our mother, wanting us to grow up happily, and I didn't want to stir up Father's painful past again, so I let it go.

  Later, my father remarried when I was twelve years old and had a two-year history of stomach disease. My new mother brought with her a sister, sixteen years old, named Xia Ri. It's probably the arrangement of heaven that my stepmother's child also has the surname Xia, indicating that we are already one family.

  I thought that with the arrival of a new mom, our family could go back to living like we used to. After all, when Mom left, my brother and I were still young and didn't have too much emotional burden. But what happened later was far from it.

  My mother married into a wealthy family, they had a daughter about my age, so my mother became her mother and ignored me, her own biological daughter. I remember it was my birthday that day, I begged my sister to buy me a gift, she took me to the gift shop in town and told me to choose one myself. I had been eyeing a toy bear for a long time, but unfortunately, I ran into my mother and that girl, and even more unfortunately, we both wanted the same gift. I thought my mother would take my side, but instead she slapped me, from then on I never dared to think so highly of myself again.

  The slap from my mother left me with not only hatred but also a shadow, so my father decided to move house and take our family of five away from the home we had lived in for many years. In the new environment, our lives were really struggling, and my stomach illness was torturing me again and again. To treat it, almost all of our savings were spent. My dad called my mom, hoping she could help, but unexpectedly, she said I shouldn't have been born at all. At that moment, I was truly disheartened.

  Xueyin, you're actually very lucky. Your parents both love you, but mine don't. My biological mother would hit me for the sake of other people's children. She'd say I shouldn't be alive. In her heart, my worth was long ago negligible.

  They say that a new mother can replace everything, she is very good to my siblings and me, so good that I can consider her as my biological mother. However, the wound in my heart has never been healed because it was caused by someone who should be family, or rather, someone who thought they were family but perhaps never considered me as one of their own.

  Xia Xuan sat beside Lin Xueyin, speaking slowly with tears in her eyes about these painful past events.

  Lin Xue's profile gazed at Xia Xian's long eyelashes, where tears hung, revealing a heart-wrenching, lonely, and inexpressible pain behind the usual cheerful smile of this girl.

  "My dad died in a car accident, and it's almost been 100 days since he passed away. My mom called me today and said she's already booked my flight ticket for the day after tomorrow. I know that my dad's accident had nothing to do with anyone else, but I still can't help feeling hatred in my heart. I hate that my parents got divorced back then, I hate how cold and unfeeling the company is, and most of all, I hate myself for being so unreasonable!!" Lin Xueyin pounded her head desperately, tears streaming down her face.

  "I know it's impossible to put everything down in such a short time, but learn to forgive yourself. The person who can't be wronged the most in this life is oneself. I won't say what Uncle would think if he were in heaven, I just want to tell you that every thing you do should be worthy of yourself and those who truly care about you and love you." Xia Xian handed over a tissue for Lin Xueyin to wipe her face, but she herself was also crying.

  "Forgiving yourself is much more difficult than forgiving others." Lin Xueyin said, looking into Xia Xian's eyes.

  "Yes, I once thought it was because of my existence that my parents got divorced, and my brother couldn't get motherly love, so I even had a mind to die. My brother knelt in front of my bed and told me that he would rather have a sister than a mother. For the sake of my brother, I chose to forgive myself, because he needs me. Similarly, your mom needs you too!" Xia Xuan got up and hugged Lin Xueyin into his own arms.

  As a result, the two of them sat by the river for a whole night. When the school arranged for the dormitory administrators to inspect the dormitories, they did not see these two people, so naturally they were criticized and reprimanded. From then on, the friendship between the two began to rise rapidly.

  Xia Xuan and Lin Xueyin belong to different departments of the student union. They often work together in their daily tasks, and their collaboration is always smooth and natural.

  The History Department and the Electrical Engineering Department had a conflict due to a basketball game, and both sides showed signs of physical confrontation. Lin Xueyin was in charge of mediating the situation, but the Electrical Engineering Department consisted of big men, so Lin Xueyin was outnumbered and outmatched, even though she was in the right. Xia Xian didn't say a word and ran to the scene. Good sister, we're in this together!

  As a result, the solution to this matter was drinking, Lin Xueyin had always been a good girl who didn't drink at all, Xia Xian took on the responsibility of buying the drinks.

  Drinking until vomiting, they still managed to drink the male students of the Electrical Engineering College into admiration. Although the cost was a relapse of stomach disease, after hiding in the dormitory for a whole week, Xia Xian's face finally had some signs of life, and his reputation spread far and wide from this.

  Later on, Xia Xuan and Lin Xueyin were both hot candidates for the next president of the student council. A female president had never happened before, so it became a topic of discussion among everyone at the time. Xia Xuan was deeply entangled in her breakup with Jiang Zhe, which delayed the work of the student council, but Lin Xueyin helped out behind the scenes. Later on, when Xia Xuan became the chosen candidate, Lin Xueyin genuinely felt happy for her. Even though outsiders spread rumors that the two were at odds over the president position, only they knew their true feelings.

  Finally, Xia Xuan wasn't very clear about it. She only knew that Lin Xueyin was affected by her and couldn't stand firm in school; she only knew that Lin Xueyin didn't continue her history major but went abroad instead; she only knew that she owed Lin Xueyin a debt that she wouldn't be able to repay this lifetime.