Only After I Was Reborn Did I Realize That I Had Childhood Sweethearts Chapter 206: Im So Lucky To Have You Both In My Life

After finishing breakfast together, the trio casually strolled around the street. As the Lantern Festival approached, not only were migrant workers returning, but even college students were beginning to make their way back, so the streets were noticeably quieter than the previous few days.

i Fang accompanied Xia Yuan Lin Youxi to buy so small accessories at Sanfu boutique and then prepared to go ho to do howork.

On the way ho, i Fang asked, “School starts on the 17th. When do you two plan to go back?”

“Aren’t we going back together?”

i Fang explained, “I’m leaving tomorrow. I have to spend a day in Baizhou first, and then my dad will take to Jiangcheng early in the morning the next day.”

“Then… Youxi, why don’t you and Aunt Liang—your mom—co with ? My dad can drive us to Jiangcheng.”

Lin Youxi smiled and shook her head. “There’s no rush. My mom doesn’t need to go that early.”

“Are you going to Jiangcheng later?”

In that case, wouldn’t Ah Fang and I be able to live alone together at the apartnt?

“Not really,” Lin Youxi shook her head again. “My mom has so things to take care of at ho, so I need to go earlier and will ride with you.”

“I-I see…”

“You sound a bit disappointed, Yuan Yuan.”

Xia Yuan, having her intentions seen through by Lin Youxi, imdiately retorted, “Wh-what? No way, Youxi, you’re being too sensitive.”

“Look, your ears are turning red,” Lin Youxi smiled. “You’ve never been good at lying.”

“Ugh…”

Xia Yuan mumbled in embarrassnt. i Fang patted her head and said, “Let’s hurry ho and do our howork. You’ve barely done any, have you?”

“Pretty much… what about you?”

“I haven’t done any,” i Fang replied with a smile. “But I’ll just copy yours.”

“Do it yourself! You’re so lazy.”

Lin Youxi smiled as she watched Xia Yuan and i Fang banter, then suddenly interjected, “Oh, by the way, Ah Fang, do you want to accompany to the cetery this afternoon before you leave? You haven’t seen my mom in many years, and Yuan Yuan seems to have never had the chance to go either.”

“I’ve indeed never been,” Xia Yuan nodded. “But is it appropriate to visit the cetery during the New Year period? I rember the elders in my family saying that going to the cetery during this ti would dispel the festive atmosphere…Of course, I’m not saying I won’t go, if you two don’t mind then I’ll go too.”

“I don’t mind that at all, and I don’t think Ah Fang does either,” Lin Youxi said.

“I definitely don’t,” i Fang smiled. “It’s a good idea to visit.”

“Youxi’s mother, hmm…” Xia Yuan exhaled deeply. “Yes, we should visit.”

The three of them worked on their howork at Xia Yuan’s house in the morning, then went to i Fang’s house for lunch. After lunch, they took a bus to the Paradise Cetery.

The scene at this place was just as Xia Yuan had described—not many people were visiting during the New Year period, only a few passersby here and there.

They bought incense sticks, Joss paper, paper flowers, and so fruit offerings. Led by Lin Youxi, they walked forward. Xia Yuan trotted alongside i Fang and asked, looking up at him:

“Ah Fang, have you accompanied Youxi to visit her mother’s grave before?”

i Fang nodded, “I’ve been here two or three tis before.”

“I didn’t know…”

“It was sowhat coincidental and hard to explain——”

Before i Fang could finish, Lin Youxi, walking ahead of them, suddenly spoke up loudly.

“The first ti was in the fourth grade. I accompanied Ah Fang to the hospital to visit his grandmother. I saw a car accident victim and suddenly rembered my mom’s accident.”

Lin Youxi turned around and started to walk backward with her hands behind her back, looking at Xia Yuan with a smile.

“At that ti, I was very scared, but Ah Fang didn’t co over right away. When he finally did, I was throwing a tantrum and I kept hitting him unreasonably, and then we had a big fight in the hospital.”

i Fang shook his head with a smile, “You still rember it so clearly.”

“What happened then? What happened next?” Xia Yuan was eager to know more.

“Then…” Lin Youxi said softly, “Ah Fang was almost driven away by my tantrum, but then he ca back to comfort and said he would accompany wherever I wanted to go, and I cried and told him I wanted to see my mom’s grave.”

Xia Yuan’s eyes softened upon hearing this, “And then, Ah Fang took you here, right…?”

“Yes, that was the first ti he ca to visit my mom’s grave.”

Lin Youxi stopped by a small lion statue lying on the ground, “My mom’s grave is around here.”

Lin Youxi led Xia Yuan and i Fang to her mother’s grave.

Lin Youxi’s biological mother’s smile was still radiant on the tombstone, though both the tombstone and the photo showed signs of age.

However, the Joss paper, paper flowers, and offerings on the tombstone were new, as Lin Youxi and her father had visited earlier during New Year’s Eve.

“Youxi, you look so much like your mom! Especially the eyes, though your temperant is quite different…”

“But in elentary school, Youxi’s temperant was quite similar to her mom’s.”

i Fang lit the incense sticks, placing them in the incense burner in front of the tombstone. Just as he was about to lay out a plastic bag to kneel and kowtow, Lin Youxi stopped him, “You two can just pay a casual respect. No need to be so formal every ti.”

Lin Youxi clapped her hands together and knelt alone in front of her mother’s grave, assuming a prayer posture:

“Mom, I brought Ah Fang and Yuan Yuan to see you.”

“You’ve t Ah Fang before, so I won’t introduce him. This is Yuan Yuan…”

As Lin Youxi was speaking, Xia Yuan knelt down beside her, imitating her posture with hands clasped and a smile on her face.

“Hello, Auntie, my na is Xia Yuan… I’m sorry it took so long to co see you. I grew up with Youxi and we’re best friends…”

Xia Yuan paused, then smiled, “We’re also the closest family.”

“You don’t have to say all that, Yuan Yuan.”

“Ah! I don’t have to? Why not?” Xia Yuan, having worked hard to get into the sentintal mood, felt a bit lodramatic when the atmosphere was broken.

“I’ve been talking about you to my mom since I was little; she knows all about you.”

Xia Yuan playfully stuck out her tongue: “Then isn’t it even more inappropriate that I took so long to co to see your mom?”

“It doesn’t matter anyway… my mom probably wouldn’t care much about this, um… you can tell by her temperant.” Lin Youxi actually didn’t know much about what kind of person her mother was.

In her father’s mory, she had always been a kind-hearted and virtuous wife with a cheerful disposition.

i Fang waited for the other two to finish kneeling and paying respects, and after so thought, he also knelt down and paid respects to her.

He and Xia Yuan roughly understood Lin Youxi’s purpose in coming to pay respects to her mother this ti.

【Mother】 had always been an intangible entity in Lin Youxi’s childhood mories.

Although Xiang Xiaoxia could offer her so maternal care, and although Liang ijuan could make up for the motherly love she missed during her adolescence, both Xia Yuan and i Fang understood——

The motherly love missing from childhood can never be fully compensated, no matter how hard one tries throughout their life.

Lin Youxi had cried herself to sleep countless tis, longing for her mother. This yearning for her mother had almost beco one of her most important emotional supports.

It was the softest, most sacred, and inviolable part of her heart.

After i Fang finished paying respects, Lin Youxi said softly:

“Actually… at first, I really, really hated Mom ijuan entering our family, because I was afraid she would replace the mother I longed for day and night. As I told Ah Fang before, I was afraid my mom would be forgotten by Dad, by , by everyone, entering true death.”

“But over these past few years, Mom ijuan has treated very well, as if I were her own daughter. Moreover, she has always shown great respect for my mom.”

“I used to always have a grudge against her, thinking she was just pretending to be nice to … but I don’t think that way anymore.”

Lin Youxi’s words were not only for Xia Yuan and i Fang to hear but also for her mother.

“I’m gradually starting to understand that no one really replaces anyone else; it’s just an excuse for not loving soone.”

“Now, I still co to visit Mom every year, six or seven tis a year. The difference is… now I have two moms.”

“One, watching over from heaven; the other, accompanying on earth.”

Xia Yuan, being a very emotional person, couldn’t hold back her feelings upon hearing Lin Youxi’s words. She tightly hugged Lin Youxi and held her close.

“Youxi, that was so beautifully said.”

Xia Yuan said to Lin Youxi, choking up, “These words… you should also say these words to Aunt Liang. She would definitely be very happy.”

“No… I don’t think I can.”

Lin Youxi patted Xia Yuan’s back. “That would be too embarrassing…”

“These are words I can only say in front of you guys. Keep it a secret.”

“Mm-hmm, I understand…”

Seeing Lin Youxi willing to move forward made i Fang feel that her whole being was shining brightly.

Perhaps Lin Youxi wasn’t actually born excellent.

In her previous life, her growth was always accompanied by hardships.

She endured the death of her mother, the loss of her closest friend, and i Fang’s path never crossed with hers.

When all the light in her life had dimd, she still had to face academic pressures, life struggles, and her uncle’s exploitation of her family.

However, these hardships did not defeat her; they only made her more resilient and stronger.

Whether or not she had Xia Yuan by her side.

Whether or not i Fang extended a helping hand.

Sigh…

Just as i Fang was thinking this, Lin Youxi, while embracing Xia Yuan with one arm, beckoned i Fang over with the other.

“What’s up?”

“I want to hug you both together,” Lin Youxi said gently. “Is that okay, Ah Fang?”

“Yeah, sure…”

So i Fang slowly crouched down and leaned in. Lin Youxi opened her arm and hugged i Fang tightly. i Fang’s position was initially a bit uncomfortable, but seeing this, Xia Yuan moved an arm to also hug i Fang, her tears saring onto his face in the process.

The three of them hugged each other for a long, long ti.

“I’m so lucky to have you both in my life.”

Lin Youxi’s voice carried infinite tenderness, ant just for i Fang and Xia Yuan.