The car stopped, and Ye Mansion was in sight.
As the door opened, Aunt Lan ca forward with tears in her voice, "Lady..."
As usual, the two had dinner before six o’clock.
After dinner, they took a walk and then Li Xueqing went back to her room to rest, while Aunt Lan cleaned up the kitchen.
Hearing the sound of the engine start, Aunt Lan even went outside to check, thinking the driver had returned ho.
When she realized Li Xueqing wasn’t in her room, she made a call, only to find out that she had already reached Yunjing Hotel and the staff had gone to fetch Ming Hui.
Belatedly realizing Li Xueqing knew everything, Aunt Lan was completely stunned.
Ye Li and Li Xueqing had shed tears for a long ti.
Tears had also flowed for a long ti in Aunt Lan’s ho.
Aunt Lan had co to the Ye family 20 years ago, having spent more ti with the Ye family than Ye Li had.
She witnessed Ye Mushen’s decades of unwavering love and also witnessed Li Xueqing’s pregnancy and labor.
The young couple was initially full of hope, discussing having two children, preferably a boy and a girl, with the son being older so he could watch over his sister at school.
If they had two sons, Li Xueqing planned to learn how to be a good mother-in-law, while Ye Mushen would strive to earn enough so they could all live within soup-sipping distance of each other, close enough to take care and not disdain each other.
If they had two daughters, Ye Mushen said he’d laugh himself awake from his dreams, but speculated that he’d beco the most difficult father-in-law when the daughters started dating and marrying.
All assumptions changed after a new life began growing in her womb.
They woke up one morning and both silently agreed to change their plans.
Ye Mushen didn’t want his wife to suffer the pains of pregnancy and childbirth again.
Li Xueqing’s thinking was even simpler.
A person’s heart is naturally biased; with two children, achieving absolute fairness was too difficult.
With two children, favoring one would always leave her feeling regretful and guilty.
The couple agreed in an instant, to have just one.
After ten months, Ye Li was born.
Originally nad Ye Li.
But holding the soft and fragrant baby, Li Xueqing felt her heart soften like the petals of a white pear blossom, leading to the na Ye Li.
Little Ah Li’s first ti turning over, first ti calling mommy and daddy, first ti walking... Every first ti, Ye Mushen and Li Xueqing were there by her side.
If happiness had a template, Aunt Lan thought, it would likely be Ye Mushen, Li Xueqing, and Ye Li, this family of three.
But it seed like the heavens intended to prove that nothing was perfect in this world; overnight, the Ye family was scattered.
Fortunately, the lady was still here, and the young lady was still here.
Li Xueqing had been out only for two hours, during which Aunt Lan was on tenterhooks.
She was terrified that the phone would suddenly ring, with Ye Li on the other end saying Li Xueqing had fainted.
Or so other bad news.
At this mont, seeing the perennially gentle and elegant Li Xueqing and the beautiful but tearful Ye Li, looking like Cinderella fleeing the ball,
Aunt Lan’s heart finally settled back down.
"Xiao Li, it’s all my fault!"
Aunt Lan said through her tears, her eyes swollen like walnuts.
She continued supporting Li Xueqing as they got out of the car, her tears falling even faster, "You kept it from Xiao Li to spare her the heartache, but why keep it from too?"
"Aren’t you the sa?"
Li Xueqing smiled, "Didn’t you also keep it from on Ah Li’s behalf? Sister Lan, this ti, we are even!"
They could even this out?
Aunt Lan burst into laughter.
The three of them supported each other and walked a few steps forward; Li Xueqing paused.
Turning back, she saw the Maybach parked far down the road.
Outside the car, Fu Yanci stood quietly, his eyes and expression somber.
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