“How could she even do this?” Qin Fei held her husband’s arms as she watched her father on the hospital bed. In less than a month, two of the most important in her life had was in the hospital and now, another one is on the run from the authorities. “Did father really say that it was her before he lost consciousness?”
“The prints from the knife on father’s chest matches mother’s prints.” Xuan Hui said while stroking Qin Fei’s back. “Let’s not assume the worst. We don’t know what happened, yet.” What if Tang Lingyun was forced? Or what if someone else is behind this? Maybe she was even framed.
“But… father already said that it was mother who stabbed him?” Qin Fei’s said as she closed her eyes. Everything is not really going on their way lately. She had been through a lot of stress and didn’t have any sleep at all. And now this…
“Fei Fei… let’s sit down first.” Xuan Hui said, his face grim as he held his wife in his arms. “Calm down. Father is fine. I need you to focus, right now.” He said while wiping away the tears from his wife’s cheeks.
“Why? What’s wrong?”
“Everything is wrong, right now. Fei Fei and I think it is time for us to decide.”
“What do you mean?”
“Can’t you see? Lily is targeting Father. She should have her reasons and I believe she told you what it was?”
Qin Fei nodded in response. Lily told her that Qin Mo killed her child. While she doesn’t know the details, she understood that Lily will not stop until she is satisfied with her revenge.
“Then… it is best for us to stay away from Father right now.” Xuan Hui lowered his voice.
“What? Why?”
“Because of Father, Lily had actually included us in her revenge. It was because we were in Qin Liwei’s wake that we got her attention. I suggest that…”
“So you wanted us to just leave father alone to fend for himself?” she stared wide-eyed at her husband. “Hui… father is already paralyzed. His money is running out too. We can’t just…”
“Then are you willing to take the Brunt of Lily’s attack?” Xuan Hui’s words rendered his wife speechless. “We have a son to take care of. Imagine if we go to prison just because Lily thought that we are protecting your father?”
“Do you think she will leave us alone if we will stay away from father?” In response, Xuan Hui nodded.
“We haven’t really done anything to her. Do you think she would be so petty and hunt us for what we did in the past? It wasn’t our fault that we fell in love,” he explained, his face serious. “What do you think?”
Qin Fei turned silent as she contemplated Xuan Hui’s words. “And mother? What are we going to do about her? I don’t want the news to reach the media anymore. Its… it has been a lot for me to handle. My brother’s death, Lily coming on the wake, us being invited to the prison, father getting stabbed and now mother being a suspect of my own father’s attack. Hui… I..”
“Shhh… I know.” He pulled his wife into a hug. Since Lily had come back, their lives had been in chaos. It was as if the woman was a bad omen carrying all the misfortunes with her. “We can- will get through this together. As long as you listen to me. We will get through this.”
Normally, Qin Fei was not the type of woman that would just listen to whatever her husband will tell her. However, with the current stress that she had been through, she does not have the energy to even asked questions anymore. She slowly nodded, her head was on her husband’s hands, hope apparent in her eyes. At this point, she could only hope that Lily would leave them alone once they leave Qin Mo and stopped associating with him.
…..
Unbeknownst to them, Lily and even Zhuo Jingren was not even thinking about any of them. Rather, the two had some more important decisions to make.
December 20
It was the six monthsary of their wedding. Rather than going somewhere, the couple decided that they will spend the night watching movies together. However, they could not decide what to watch.
“Why would you want to watch Little Mermaid?” Lily raised an eyebrow at her husband.
“So… once we have a daughter, it would be easier for me to tell her the mermaid’s story. All little girls watched that.”
“Not me.” Lily lied before she rolled her eyes. “Okay… we are not having a daughter.”
“Why not? Wouldn’t it be too nice to have a little version of you?”
She widened her eyes in response. “I doubt you can handle two versions of me, Mr. Zhuo… and please… If we have a daughter, I would not let her watch any fairytales.”
“Why?”
“Bad influence.” She crossed her legs and leaned on the comfortable chair of Zhuo Jingren’s bat cave themed theatre.
She watched the surprise flashed in her husband’s eyes. “Why would you say that? Every little girl loves fairytale.”
“Fairytale does not happen in real life, mister. She should know that at an early age,” Lily said. Her words only made her husband frowned.
“So you don’t want her to watched fairytales and romantic movies? What would you want her to do then?” he asked.
“I don’t know.” Lily shrugged. “I don’t want her to learn those things and be dreamy about life. Reality sucks and she should know that. Maybe she should just follow you around?”
“Is this the reason why you don’t want to have a daughter?”
“Hmmm.” Lily nodded. “I want a son. Someone as handsome as you.” She declared.
Zhuo Jingren shook his head in response. “All right… let’s talk about movies shall we?” he said before he poured some red wine to her empty wineglass. “You know what we should do? We should… compromised.”
“Compromise?”
“Yeah… have one son and one daughter. How does that sound?” he beamed.
“Excuse me, mister, we don’t even have one yet and you are already talking about a second one?” she widened her eyes and faked a surprised look.
“Then… we should work harder to have at least one as soon as possible, no? You are not getting any younger.”
“Are you calling me old?”
“No… of course not… Aw… why would you hit me? I said you are matured… a beautiful mature… aw… stop it. Hey!”
