RES Chapter 109

This winter came with a particularly big piece of good news——Lin Yuming completely lost his position at the school and was sent to prison.

He finally received the appropriate punishment, one that was not a surprise to everyone.

It was also during the day the news came out when Chi Xia personally came to the Lu family villa.

Lu Ming turned her away directly and wouldn’t let her in.

Chi Qiu turned off the screen of the tablet in his hand. After thinking about it, he opened his mouth lightly: “Let her in, things have come to this, there is no need to avoid it.”

Lu Ming disagreed at first, but Chi Qiu repeatedly comforted him: “It’s okay, Lu Ming, I will meet her sooner or later. Besides, Lin Yuming’s matter has been settled now. According to her temperament, she won’t do any useless things anymore.”

As Chi Qiu guessed, the purpose of Chi Xia’s visit today was indeed not for Lin Yuming.

On the sofa, Chi Xia didn’t even touch the tea cup in front of her. The eyebags under her eyes were huge and it seemed like she hadn’t been able to get a good night’s sleep for a long time. She was quite haggard and looked utterly dissipated as she spoke: “Mom is planning to send me abroad, she said she wants me to continue my studies and not to worry about the company anymore.”

“I heard.” Chi Qiu took a sip of tea, his throat still dry.

Seeing his calm attitude, Chi Xia bit her lower lip. She looked away from him, then looked at him again and laughed at herself: “I know that there won’t be a place for me in the company anymore. Mom still cares about you the most. Both Dad and I are people she can easily throw away.”

“What happened to Uncle Lin was what he deserved, not because he was given up by anyone.” Chi Qiu disagreed with Chi Xia’s statement and said calmly: “Your misunderstanding of mom is too big. If you have time, communicate with mom properly, it’s good for you.”

“Misunderstanding?”

After a brief moment of resignation, Chi Xia didn’t care about anything.

She couldn’t stand Chi Qiu’s clear and cold preaching: “Forget it, what’s the use of talking about this now?” She only wanted to ask Chi Qiu one question when she came over today, “I’m leaving the country soon and we won’t see each other for a long time. I want to know, why did you lie to us?”

Chi Qiu felt that the tea cup in his hand was a little hot. He didn’t answer her.

Lu Ming took his teacup and put it on the coffee table.

Chi Xia asked him out loud: “My dad has been punished, so have I. Mom has completely given up on me…Why are you still unwilling to tell even a word of truth until now?”

“…”

Chi Xia pursed her lips, swallowing her saliva in frustration before asking with difficulty: “Is it so difficult for you to tell the truth? If you didn’t pretend to be blind in the first place, maybe…”

Maybe everything would have been different.

To this day, her heart had been back and forth a thousand times, and in the end, she still put the fault on Chi Qiu.

It turned out that what Chi Qiu did was wrong.

A few lonely fallen leaves fell from the tree in the front yard of the villa, and the bare branches were the usual scenery in winter. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, mottled shadows fell into Chi Qiu’s expressionless eyes.

Suddenly, there was a hazy glimmer of light in front of Chi Qiu’s eyes but in a flash, he returned to darkness.

Chi Qiu’s right eyes somehow became sore and swollen, as if countless blood vessels were dancing inside. He involuntarily covered his right eye, his heart was beating faster, and an unknown hotness stained his heart.

Lu Ming sensed that something was wrong with him and exclaimed: “Chi Qiu, what’s wrong? Are your eyes uncomfortable?”

Chi Qiu took a deep breath, “I’m fine. Doctor said it’s normal for the eyes to be uncomfortable occasionally during this time.”

It’s healing, it’s waking up.

These days, Chi Qiu’s eyes could often faintly see a little light faintly. It was fleeting, but Chi Qiu’s heart was filled with hope for the future.

This feeling seemed to bring him back to ten years ago, back to the time when he had just discovered that he had regained his sight.

At that time, Chi Qiu was anxiously holding a secret, not daring to open his mouth, not daring to say it outright. In the face of his own sister’s aggressive words, he humbled himself and chose to keep the secret.

But now, he shouldn’t be afraid of anything anymore.

It was just that the cold came so fast, and in the warm villa, Chi Qiu’s fingers were cold.

Seeing this, Lu Ming covered it in his palm.

Chi Qiu touched Lu Ming’s temperature and his heart was beating again. He looked at the sinking blackness in front of him, but also at the wavering light in front of him. He asked Chi Xia a question: “Do you remember, you said something to me ten years ago?”

“What?” Of course Chi Xia didn’t remember.

Chi Qiu wasn’t too surprised as he calmly said: “You said to me then that it would be nice if my eyes could never see.”

“What did you say? How could I say such a thing!” Chi Xia really did not acknowledge it; she stood up excitedly.

Chi Qiu, however, told her to calm down: “Of course you would say that because you think that once I regain my sight, it would threaten your position as heir and would also prompt Mom and Uncle Lin to divorce.”

Memories were chariots and horses hidden in the mind. With a flick of the whip, they could move forward because they moved only when they knew it hurt.

Chi Xia’s legs went weak and she sat down in defeat, she seemed to be remembering. She frowned with one hand clenching the bag in her hand: “That sentence, I should have said it mindlessly… you take it seriously?”

“Yes.”

“But that’s what I said unintentionally, why would you take it seriously?”

In an instant, Chi Qiu was stabbed in the flesh by this repeated ‘unintentional’. Such a bloody sentence turned into an unintentional act at this moment.

Fortunately, Chi Qiu was supported by Lu Ming, so he did not lose his strength.

Lu Ming stroked Chi Qiu’s shoulder with a face that was too serious. If Chi Qiu hadn’t stopped him, he would have liked to send the guest off now.

Chi Qiu told Chi Xia: “At that time, my eyes were already healed. It was the carelessness and selfishness of you and Uncle Lin that made me have to make this decision.”

Giving up the identity of the heir, giving up the bright world, giving up everything he had.

However, he had never been able to get the ideal ending, and backing off would only let others run wild.

Chi Qiu seemed to have spilled out all the resentment in his heart. It was the first time he said these words to Chi Xia: “Maybe you don’t remember anymore, right? My first blindness, simply because…you want to eat an ice-cream.”

An ice cream that could be eaten anytime, but she had to eat it in that bad weather. Unfortunately, in the end, Chi Xia did not get to eat the ice-cream as she had wished, and Chi Qiu did not make it back to that cafe.

Chi Xia was ignorant; she didn’t have a deep memory of that day.

She only remembered that after that day, Chi Qiu became blind and the quarrels at home began to continue. The young Chi Xia would sit in front of Chi Qiu’s hospital bed, crying and asking Chi Qiu if it hurt.

It was Chi Qiu himself who said ah, he said: “It’s okay, Xiao Xia, it’s okay.”

Why did he start to voice it out today?

Chi Xia looked at Chi Qiu baffled as her lips trembled: “That’s clearly the fault of the Ji family. Your blindness has always been the fault of the Ji family! Otherwise, why would the two brothers unconditionally help you so much? Do they owe you?”

Hearing this, not only Chi Qiu, even Lu Ming no longer had any expectations for Chi Xia.
Not wanting her to mention the Ji brothers, Chi Qiu stood up. His emotions were running high that he almost said harshly: “At the end of the day, neither Yanchen nor Ning-ge owed me. That day, Uncle Lin was my guardian!”

On that bad thunderstorm day, which parent would be at ease to let their child go out to buy an ice-cream? Just for an ice-cream that his own daughter wanted to eat, Lin Yuming let Chi Qiu out of the door without any explanation.

Chi Qiu wanted to refuse, but Lin Yuming didn’t even give him a chance to refuse.

Lin Yuming gave him an order, a request, but never love and protection.

“Just because I’m not Uncle Lin’s child, do I deserve to be treated that way? Since that’s the case, Uncle Lin’s mistake made me blind, so you should all accept mom’s anger just the same. Because I’m her child, isn’t it?”

If at that time, it was Chi Xia who had an accident because of him, would Lin Yuming be lenient with him?

The answer was obvious, he wouldn’t but Chi Lanyan would. Because Chi Xia was also her child. As a parent, it was extremely hard to balance a scale.

Chi Lanyan did not owe Chi Xia, and Chi Qiu was even more so.

Right now, Chi Xia’s accusation was really inappropriate and offensive, and Chi Qiu did not want to continue to listen to more of Chi Xia’s crooked reasoning and questioning. Chi Xia simply did not understand; she was sensitive and conceited.

Chi Qiu said in one breath: “Have you ever thought about it? You always think Mom is biased, but has Mom ever given you anything less? The thing I have, you have it all. Even if it is something that I don’t have, you will still have it. Your temperament , your ignorance, if it wasn’t for your family’s favoritism, you wouldn’t be like this.”

Chi Qiu’s speech speeded up: “And also the preferential that you think of…I actually spent more than ten years to ‘repay’ you.”

“…”

Chi Qiu was no longer silent, his thoughts were clear, and he was reluctant to keep his mouth shut for every word that should be said: “But why should I pay you back, did I do something wrong? How painful is it to be a blind person, how lonely it is to pretend to be a blind person. Have you ever thought about me even once or half a time?”

Chi Xia’s red eyes were looking at Chi Qiu, wanting to explain: “I—”

“Xiao Xia, I don’t owe you, and you don’t owe me anymore now.” Chi Qiu interrupted her without a single tear. He said coldly: “You are Mom’s daughter, this will never change. Mom cannot really give up on you, and you’ll still have your position in the company. But from now on, we will compete fairly.”

The company was Chi Lanyan’s half-life of hard work and it was fair for the ones who had the ability would get it.

Chi Qiu turned away and said without mercy, “Go back, you will never be welcome in this house of mine.”

 

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T/N: There are like six chapter left, so daily update until it’s completed

 

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