Chapter 25: Life is like a flower without worries

  After Xia Qian Ning's leg injury healed, Guan Xue took Xia Qian Ning to South Korea for plastic surgery.

  Xia ZhiBei had been traveling back and forth between Water City and the US. Before Guan Xue left for Korea, she finally worked up the courage to ask Xia ZhiBei to get back together. Xia ZhiBei was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night. He suggested they go to Korea together, but Guan Xue said the company needed him and she didn't want to make a big scene. When Guan Xue said this, Xia ZhiBei understood that she didn't want her daughter's plastic surgery to become a big deal. He agreed with whatever she said. They made plans for Guan Xue to meet up with him in the US after she returned from Korea.

  After returning from South Korea, Xia Wenjing no longer needed to stay at Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment. She needed a better rehabilitation hospital and school, so Guan Xue chose Chicago. The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is a very good school, and most importantly, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, which is one of the best in the United States.

  They are now in Baltimore, Maryland, recovering and waiting for admission notices from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

  Gu Xue looked at her daughter sitting on the windowsill, staring blankly. After seeing so many doctors, the conclusion was always - let nature take its course. She had gotten used to the heartache, but her daughter hadn't adapted to her amnesiac self yet.

  What amnesia brings to his daughter is not only memory loss, but also distortion of character and darkness of the soul.

  Every time she thinks of this, Guan Xue can't help but shed tears. Heaven knows how many tears she has to cry, and she doesn't even believe that humans can have as many tears to cry as her. She wipes away her tears and glances at the clock on the wall: "Xian'er! It's time to take your medicine."

  "Can we not eat?" Xia asked without turning her head back.

  Guan Xue stood beside Xia Qian's body and said: "Good! After another month, the doctor will beg us to eat but we won't even eat then."

  Xia Qian Ning took over the medicine and water cup, mechanically pouring it into her mouth, then handed the water cup to Guan Xue: "Why hasn't that man come to see us yet?"

  She never calls herself mom, nor does she call Xia ZhiBei dad: "Recently the company has a lot of things going on. He just made a phone call, and in sixteen days, he'll be here in sixteen days."

  "Is he really my father? Is this how fathers treat their sick daughters? Not seeing them for tens of days."

  "Wasn't he always with you before? He hasn't been back to the company for so long, and there are many things to deal with at the company. Isn't Mom with you every day? We aren't in the same city until you're fully recovered, then we'll see each other every day."

  "Scoundrel! Before, he would be back within a week at most, but this time, he's been gone for thirty days. A whole month! If I have to wait another sixteen days, that'll make it forty-six days." Xia Xianjing looked at Guan Xue with disdain and jumped down from the windowsill: "He's not my father anyway. I'm out of here."

  Gu Xue patted on the windowsill and gently asked: "When are you coming back?" She didn't even dare to speak loudly to her daughter, afraid that she wouldn't like her.

  "When I'm hungry."

  Guan Xue was worried, she feared Xia Qian would meet some bad people outside. Since Xia Qian could go out alone, Guan Xue had been following her every time, and she admired herself, even private detectives couldn't do it better. But after more than a dozen days of this, day and night, her body was exhausted. Guan Xue returned to the bedroom and lay down, today she really couldn't take it anymore, she needed rest, in less than two minutes, she fell asleep.

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  Pei Yiyun happily tried on her wedding dress. She was so happy that she had finally waited for this day, and she was about to marry the one she loved!

  "Ah Bei! Is it good-looking?"

  "Beautiful!"

  Is it just good-looking? He doesn't look happy no matter how he looks. Pei Yiyun still smiled: "I like this one the most, is this one okay?"

  "Uh-huh." Xia Zhi Bei put down the magazine in his hand: "Boss! This one!"

  She tried on thirty pieces, and he said two words about each one. That's all.

  That's all there is to it, for their wedding, for the wedding they had only ten days to prepare. That's all his passion amounts to.

  Just as Pei Yiyun thought, Xia Zhibei had always been considerate of this marriage. He had promised Guan Xue that for the sake of their daughter, they would remarry and live together again, which was also his wish. He knew that in this world, the woman he loved most was Guan Xue, and Pei Yiyun was just a misunderstanding, a product of Guan Xue's stubbornness and his own stubbornness combined.

  But fate had other plans. In another month, Xian'er would be able to return home, back to the Waterside City, and they could finally reunite as a family. A thin piece of paper pierced his weakest defense - Pei Yiyun was pregnant.

  Xia Zhi Bei and Guan Xue have been married for nearly twenty years, but they never avoided pregnancy. However, they only had one child, Xia Qian Ning. The doctor said that his survival rate was too low, and having a child was already a miracle. If there were to be a second one, it would be a miracle within a miracle, which is impossible.

  Something that was absolutely impossible happened, and Xia Zhi Bei started to waver.

  People are always like this, the more they dream of something, the more they want to possess it, even if it's not as important to them as they imagined, they still want to grasp it, desperately grasping.

  In the end he chose Pei Yiyun, but he was not happy.

  Pei Yiyun was trying on wedding dresses, their wedding day had been set and it was only seven days away, but now he didn't even have the courage to call Guan Xue, let alone meet her in person.

  It wasn't easy for Guan Xue to forgive him, but they were a loving family again. Although their daughter's condition was not good, she would slowly recover. Having suffered such a huge blow, it was unbearable not only for an adolescent girl, but also for anyone else.

  He had the patience to wait, and she believed Guan Xue did too. As long as they were together, everything would be fine. He gave Guan Xue light, and Guan Xue also gave him light. Although their reunion was just a verbal agreement, they both knew that it wasn't that they didn't have a true heart, but rather they didn't have the time to go through the legal procedures, perhaps they had long since looked down on that little book.

  But now he is about to marry another woman, and it's his own wish.

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  The phone's ringtone woke up Guan Xue, Guan Xue opened her eyes, and it was already dark. She picked up the phone, it was Xia Zhi Bei, a smile flashed across Guan Xue's face, he hadn't called in three days.

  The phone had only a brief message: I'm going to marry Pei Yiyun!

  Guan Xue's smile was frozen there, her mind a complete blank, her eyes staring straight at the ceiling. The hand holding the phone was still pressed to her ear, but the phone had long since fallen to the ground, where a man's loud shouting could be heard coming from it.

  The soul flies and the body scatters, but it's nothing more than this.

  Xia Wenjing returned home and saw Guan Xue in this posture. She shouted twice. Seeing that Guan Xue didn't react, she walked forward and gently pushed Guan Xue. At this time, she suddenly realized that the woman seemed to be dead. Xia Wenjing was so frightened that she jumped aside.

  After a long time, the woman still didn't react. She didn't know what to do and subconsciously looked around for help, but her gaze fell on the phone that had fallen under the bed, its screen still shining brightly.

  She picked up her phone, shining with dozens of text messages. About fifty or sixty. Opening it, the man was going to marry another woman, but he seemed to still like the woman in front of him, afraid that this woman would be heartbroken, and so was he.

  Swindler! If you're afraid of hurting others, then don't do things that hurt others! Xia Wenjing casually threw her phone out the window. She came back to the bedside, gently pushed Guan Xue, no response, she put her hand on Guan Xue's nose, very normal. She pushed Guan Xue again and shouted loudly: "I want to eat!"

  Cold tears flowed from Guan Xue's eyes, Xia Qianjin pretended not to see. She just said lightly: "I threw away my phone, you change a new one. I'll make dinner tonight." She didn't wait for Guan Xue to respond, turned around and left.

  She worked so hard to salvage her marriage and family, sacrificing all her dignity to save the broken home. Now he's getting married, with another woman.

  Unprecedented fear occupied her heart. What she worried about most was her daughter, how to face her daughter, who originally didn't quite believe her, now... everything seemed like a lie from start to finish. She didn't know if she was deceiving others or herself.

  Tears, silent tears. Now she has the most of these silent tears.

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  Wearing a white wedding dress, Pei Yiyun stood happily beside Xia Zhibei, waiting for the pastor's question. From today on, he would be her man, and no one could take him away from her. She couldn't help but stretch out her hand to gently stroke her belly, lowering her head to steal a glance, although she still couldn't see anything, all her happiness came from this little treasure who had not yet been born.

  Xia Zhi Bei's mood was the complete opposite of Pei Yi Yun's. After he said those nine words, he didn't hear Guan Xue's voice again. He sent countless text messages, but no one replied. When he called Guan Xue's phone again, all he got was a voicemail saying it was turned off. She must have been furious and maybe wouldn't forgive him from now on.

  The pastor's mouth had not yet spit out the first word, Pei Yiyun's wedding dress began to turn pink and slowly turned red, her face began to turn green and slowly turned black, finally falling to the ground.

  Xia Zhi's eyes were fixed on Pei Yiyun, who had fainted and fallen to the ground, and he was at a loss for what to do, even forgetting to pick her up.

  The wedding hadn't even taken place when he was sent to the hospital. Xia Zhi Bei suddenly felt a sense of relief, but for him, wasn't all this too late?

  It's too late! After Xia Zhi Bei accompanied Pei Yi Yun to recuperate for 20 days, when he arrived in Baltimore again, Guan Xue was gone. Not only was Guan Xue gone, but the daughter was also nowhere to be found, and the house had been sold.

  He asked the new homeowner and found out where the old homeowner went. The new homeowner said that they heard from the intermediary that the original reason for buying a house was to buy a cemetery, and it seemed that the owner was robbed by robbers in a small alley and shot dead, so the real seller of the house was actually the owner's daughter, which is why the price was so low.

  The new landlord's answer startled him, and he doubted his own English level. He went to the neighbor's house again and asked, saying roughly the same as the new landlord. The neighbor also said that his daughter had died in last week's street explosion.

  How is this possible? How could Guan Xue be dead and also Xiao Er? He must have misheard.

  He went madly from door to door of one household after another, knocking and inquiring. The whole street was knocked on and asked about, but the answers were all the same, identical.