"Dad?" Xu y had to call out to get her father’s attention. Xu Cheng humd in response. Xu y hesitated for a split second before voicing out her question, "Do you still... miss her presence?"
"Do you want to answer you honestly?" Xu y looked at his inquiring gaze as if he was asking whether she’d really like to hear the answer which she might not like.
Xu y contemplated a bit in her mind and nodded her saying, "Yes... I want you to be honest with ."
"Very well..." Xu Cheng swirled the wine in his glass with his eyes following the movents of that red liquid in his glass. He inhaled a deep breath before saying, "To be honest, I really don’t know what’s wrong with my own heart. Does it still miss her? Perhaps it does... Or maybe it doesn’t..." Xu y was conflicted to hear his answer. "But I do know that I’m scared of knowing whether she rembers or not... The idea of being forgotten is a lot scarier than her absence."
"She had been everywhere in all these years... My heart, mories, mind, soul... But she is not where she promised to be..." Xu y looked at her father waiting for him to continue. "Right here by my side."
Xu y pressed her lips together, not knowing how to continue this conversation. She ate her Salade niçoise in silence trying to sort out whatever she just heard from her father.
"That ans you still love her," she remarked with a heavy heart after a long silence.
She heard a snicker from her father as he said, "At this point, I believe I’d never stopped loving her." Xu y was literally stumped to hear his answer. Didn’t he suffer all alone all this ti? How can he still love her?
Xu y wasn’t inclined to believe that he wasn’t successful in forgetting her. Perhaps, he never tried hard enough, to begin with. "I think dad never really wanted to forget her and that’s why she’s still sowhere around you."
Xu Cheng didn’t refute, he simply gave her a small smile. "Xiao y, it’s not that I really didn’t try to forget her. But coincidences like today never let forget her."
"What coincidence?" Xu y questioned with furrowed brows.
"This happens to be your mother’s favorite restaurant..." Xu y’s eyes went wide as he heard this sentence. She really wanted to question herself about why did she had to choose this specific French restaurant of all the places? "Now, tell ... How am I supposed to forget her when even the restaurant you chose randomly is the place of my mories with her?" Xu y had no answer to that question at all. She was the one cursing at her own choice.
Taking another sip from his wine glass, Xu Cheng added, "But you’re not wrong," Xu y lifted her eyes to face him as he went on, "I kept saying to myself that I want to forget her but unknowingly, there was a part of which still yearned for her. I guess I tried to forget her while hoping for her return. That really makes a pathetic person. Doesn’t it?"
Xu y wanted to nod her head but she refrained from doing so. She didn’t want to hurt her father more than she had done already over a single dinner. While Xu Cheng wasn’t paying attention, she even slapped her own mouth for choosing this topic for conversation. Seeing the look of longing and lancholy in Xu Cheng’s eyes, Xu y felt really uneasy.
"Sorry, dad! For being such an idiot. I shouldn’t have actually asked," Xu y was trying hard to apologize since she felt that she was the one in the wrong. She was being insensitive for bringing up such buried mories.
"I don’t mind... I always wanted to talk to you about your mother but you never gave a chance-" Xu Cheng was about to continue when Xu y lifted her hand to interrupt him.
"Dad! I am sorry for asking but I asked about your wife. Not about my mother because I never had one. Let’s not argue on this." Xu Cheng pursed his lips knowing Xu y’s temper, he chose to listen to her. "Besides, I grew up very well without a mother." Right at this mont, her phone gave an alert for a ssage.
The ssage was from Jun Li Na and it stated: ’SOS! SOS! Get here right now! It’s an ergency. Sothing just exploded and I can’t tell you in detail over the phone.’
Seeing her frowning like that Xu Cheng asked, "Is everything alright?"
"I don’t know..." Xu y shook her head trying to understand that text. Thinking sothing must have been wrong with Jun Li Na, she shot up from her seat in a hurry and excused herself, "Dad, I’ll see you at the office tomorrow. I have to get sowhere right now."
Xu Cheng nodded his head in understanding and let her leave. Since he was also done with his dinner, Xu Cheng paid for the bill and made a call to his driver before making his way towards the exit. He was a bit distracted because of the phone call and didn’t see the person coming from the front and ended up colliding into her.
"Oh... I’m sorry! I wasn’t look-" Xu Cheng’s words got stuck in his throat as he looked at the face of the person who bumped into him.
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