Chapter 112
Fang Lan hadn't spoken since then, and her mood had calmed down a lot. Xiao Ping felt sorry for Gu Cunxi kneeling there. After all, she was his daughter's beloved. If Pei Yin came back and saw this scene, her heart would probably be broken. Xiao Ping sighed and said to Gu Cunxi, "Girl, get up first. The ground is cold!"
As soon as the words fell, Fang Lan glared at him, stiffened her neck and said coldly: "If she wants to kneel, let her kneel!"
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Gu Cunxi didn't want to get up. She couldn't. Her legs were so numb that the slightest movement felt like they were being eaten by insects and ants. She looked at Xiao Ping, forced a smile, shook her head, and said, "I'm fine, uncle! Auntie's still angry, I'll just kneel down!"
Fang Lan became unhappy when she heard this: "You make me look like a bad person when you say that... I didn't ask you to kneel to me!"
"I wanted to kneel down on my own initiative. I want to ask for your forgiveness!" Apart from this method, Gu Cunxi didn't know what else he could do to make Fang Lan calm down and accept him.
"You did this, and you still want me to forgive you? Let me ask you, four years ago, she lived in your house, and you already had this kind of relationship at that time, right?"
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"I..." Gu Cunxi was speechless. She opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. She didn't know how to answer. If she told the truth, Fang Lan would only hate her more. But she didn't want to deny or lie. Although they had always maintained the last moral bottom line for each other four years ago and nothing really happened, she couldn't explain this to Fang Lan...
Seeing Gu Cunxi's hesitation and difficulty, Fang Lan immediately understood and felt disgusted. When she thought about how Gu Cunxi had taken care of her daughter in the name of a friend or colleague four years ago, but secretly seduced Pei Yin to live in her house and do those dirty things, she was furious.
"Speechless?" Fang Lan sneered and said, "Ms. Gu, even if you are rich, well-off, and can give Pei Yin a rich life, I cannot accept it. Your story is too ridiculous. Putting aside the fact that you are also a woman, four years ago, you knew that she was married, but you shamelessly hooked up with her, disrupting her life and asking for a divorce without asking for anything. Even if, as you said, Chen Feng is not someone worthy of trust, is someone like you who destroys other people's marriages worthy of trust? You do such immoral things in the name of love, and you still say in front of us that you love her?"
Every word was like a sharp needle piercing her throat, leaving her speechless. Gu Cunxi lowered her head and clenched her hands, her knuckles turning white.
Outside the door, hurried footsteps approached from afar. Gu Cunxi tensed up as the door lock turned. She didn't want Pei Yin to see her like this. Just as she was about to stand up, the door opened...
“!!”
Worried that her mother would embarrass Gu Cunxi, Pei Yin's heart raced uncontrollably throughout the journey. She didn't even bother to change her shoes the moment she opened the door, anxiously searching the house for her lover. However, the moment she saw Gu Cunxi, she froze in place, her eyes misting over. She sniffed hard, but couldn't help but burst into tears...
Gu Cunxi, who was always proud and never showed weakness to anyone, now knelt in front of his parents with a bright red palm print on his face, which made Pei Yin feel a dull pain in his heart.
I wonder how much pride and self-esteem she had to let go of to kneel before her parents... She was so humble just for a word of recognition...
The small bag containing the medicine bottle fell to the floor with a crisp sound...
Pei Yin looked at Fang Lan, who was sitting aside with a cold and unmoved look in her eyes, and her eyes gradually became cold. The person she loved in her heart was despised by her family like this... She couldn't stand it!
What a knife of affection! The person who stabbed her was Fang Lan
"Why are you kneeling here?!" Pei Yin strode over, growling with red eyes. He looked at Gu Cunxi with grievance and heartache, pulled her arm and said, "Get up!!"
"I..." Gu Cunxi wanted to say that she couldn't get up, but she swallowed the words back. She rubbed her legs, frowned and endured. Because she had been pressed for too long, her legs became numb and weak. She took a moment to relax, then took Pei Yin's hand and staggered to her feet...
Pei Yin also felt that Gu Cunxi was having a hard time standing. She calculated that it had been about forty minutes since she left and came back. If Gu Cunxi had been kneeling here since she left, his legs must have been numb for such a long time... Pei Yin looked at the people around her angrily, but her eyes were full of heartache. She freed one hand and put it around Gu Cunxi's waist, letting her lean against her.
"Are your legs numb? Lean on me!" Pei Yin tightened her hands around her waist, looked at Gu Cunxi's solemn and pale profile, and said softly
"Yeah!" Gu Cunxi nodded obediently.
The intimacy of the two people pressed together made Fang Lan dizzy, but she was more surprised. This was the first time she saw Pei Yin caring for others like this. His eyes were full of tenderness, so gentle that it could melt a pool of water...
Fang Lan glanced at him, the water cup in her hand slamming heavily onto the coffee table. She looked at Gu Cunxi coldly and said, "You're really good at tricking me! You've completely changed my daughter!"
"Mom! That's enough!" Pei Yin shouted angrily.
"Pei Pei! Don't be like this..." Gu Cunxi frowned slightly at her and shook his head
"I've had enough?" Fang Lan stood up angrily, pointing at Pei Yin and saying, "I think you've had enough! You hugged a woman in front of us, what a disgrace!!"
"Alright! Stop talking too much! Things have already come to this! What's the point of saying all this!" Xiao Ping endured for a long time, and when he saw his daughter's red eyes, he felt distressed.
"You're pretending to be a good person!" Fang Lan glared at him, then looked at Gu Cunxi angrily and said, "I don't care how far you go, I don't agree! Take these things and leave... Our Xiao family can't afford this money! Pei Yin's happiness has nothing to do with you. There are plenty of people who can treat her well!"
After saying that, Fang Lan haphazardly put away the documents on the table and threw them in front of Gu Cunxi: "Get out!"
"I don't need you to decide for me about my happiness. Since you don't agree, I'll take her away!" Pei Yin picked up the document on the ground. It felt heavy in her hand. What was thrown away was not paper, but Gu Cunxi's thoughts...
"Cunxi... Let's go home!" Pei Yin held my Gu Cunxi's hand, as if to give her comfort and strength.
Seeing her daughter about to leave, Fang Lan quickly stepped forward and grabbed her, not allowing her to break free, and sternly said, "I won't let you go with her!!"
Pei Yin stood there calmly, protecting Gu Cunxi behind her. She glanced at Fang Lan and smiled calmly, "Mom, I don't want to offend you, so I'm trying my best to restrain myself. Can't you see that?"
Fang Lan's eyes flashed with surprise: "Are you restraining yourself? What are you restraining yourself from? I'm the one who's been restraining myself! You two kissed and hugged each other in front of me, do you still think of me as your mother? What she did to you, she deserves to be scolded and beaten!"
"Gu Cunxi didn't do anything wrong!" Pei Yin stopped her sternly, tears streaming down her cheeks. She raised her hand to wipe them away and said, "She doesn't need to be so humble and servile to you! You can refuse to accept it, but you have no right to mock her!"
"You!!" Fang Lan stood there in a daze, his face gradually turning pale
"Pei Pei! Don't..." Gu Cunxi wanted to stop her, but Pei Yin ignored her. She pulled her sleeve and continued to say to Fang Lan, "You thought it was Cunxi who destroyed my marriage, but in fact, my marriage was broken long before she showed up. It was she who gave me the courage to start over! She led me out of the darkness of life!"
"I've fallen in love with a woman! I love Gu Cunxi, she's more worthy than anyone else, and no one can change my decision on this matter! You want to kick her out... Okay! I'll go with her!!"
The scene of the mother-daughter standoff in the middle of the living room made Xiao Ping feel powerless. Such a firm tone, so resounding and unquestionable, was very similar to the way she had forced Chen Feng to divorce four years ago... In Xiao Ping's memory, Pei Yin rarely showed such a tough and resolute side. He knew too well that once his daughter became tough, it meant she had made up her mind...
"You... okay... okay!" Fang Lan's voice trembled with anger. She pointed at Pei Yin and asked angrily, "You plan to have her today and not your family, right?"
"!" Gu Cunxi was shocked. She didn't want Pei Yin to have such a bad relationship with her family, so she hurried forward and said in a low voice: "Auntie, Pei Yin didn't mean that. She..."
"Cunxi! Don't worry about it!" Pei Yin pulled her, not letting Gu Cunxi get close to Fang Lan, protecting her tightly behind her, and said to Fang Lan: "I don't want to go home, it's you who force me. On one side is my family, and on the other side is the person I love. It's not the result I want whether I choose to leave or not! But you insist that I make a choice. I stay because you want me to... But why have I always had to please you for so many years? Is my own opinion not important at all?"
Whenever Pei Yin thought of those years, she couldn't help but feel wronged. The compromises, concessions, cold words and violence were all the straws that broke the camel's back. In her marriage, she was like a snail moving slowly forward, carrying her mother's vanity, her father's lack of understanding and their dependence on her... So, often, family affection was not a warm harbor for her, but a tiring burden...
Xiao Ping felt sad after hearing these words, and his eyes turned red. He reflected on how they had indeed treated their daughter unfairly over the years and were incompetent parents...
The four people in the living room fell into silence.
Fang Lan spoke first, her tone softening as she said, "I can do whatever you want with everything else, but not this one. She can't do it!"
"Mom! Do you have a problem with Cunxi, or do you have a problem with me liking women?" Pei Yin asked calmly, his eyes becoming darker and darker.
"All of them!" Fang Lan scolded in a low voice: "As long as they are not women, you can find anyone you want!"
With Fang Lan's words, Gu Cunxi's heart sank into an ice river.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you!" Pei Yin raised his head and said to Fang Lan with a firm and cold look in his eyes, "I won't choose anyone else except Gu Cunxi!"
Fang Lan raised her eyes suddenly when she heard the voice, her face showing disappointment, and a flash of anger and sadness in her eyes: "You!"
"Whether you think I'm selfish or unfilial, I won't change my mind. I won't back down on this matter! Only death can truly separate us in this life!" Pei Yin held Gu Cunxi's hand tightly and did not back down in front of Fang Lan.
It turns out that the feeling of being firmly chosen can make people feel so at ease! Gu Cunxi stood behind, looking at Pei Yin's back, her eyes extremely gentle... She liked Pei Yin's last words so much, which were both gentle and domineering!
Fang Lan stood there, holding the corner of the table, unable to say a word, her vision sometimes blurry and sometimes clear.
"Mom, I'm sorry! I'm sorry for disappointing you, but I won't regret it!" Pei Yin bowed deeply to Fang Lan, turned around, pulled Gu Cunxi closer to her, and said softly, "Let's go home!!"
"!" Gu Cunxi was in a state of confusion. She let Pei Yin pull her out. All she could think of was her charming and gentle face standing in front of her...
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Just as they reached the door, they heard a muffled sound behind them. Pei Yin turned around and froze in place, a trace of panic flashing across his eyes: "Mom!"
"Pei Yin, quickly get the medicine for your mother. It's in the bedroom drawer!" Xiao Ping helped Fang Lan, who was in a semi-conscious state, sit on the sofa and help her calm down.
Gu Cunxi hurried over and poured a glass of water to Xiao Ping. Seeing Fang Lan's pale face, Gu Cunxi felt guilty.
"Dad, is this it?" Pei Yin found the medicine in the bedroom and quickly walked to Fang Lan and squatted down, looking anxious.
"This is it!" Xiao Ping took it, poured a few pills, supported Fang Lan, and fed her a little bit at a time.
Gu Cunxi stood aside, looked at the medicine on the table, wrote down the name, bit her lips tightly, and said nothing with guilt.
"Mom...how are you feeling better?"
"Pei Yin, help your mother to the bedroom first!" Xiao Ping looked at Gu Cunxi and turned to Pei Yin.
Seeing this, Gu Cunxi lent a hand, helped Fang Lan lie down in the bedroom and covered her with the quilt. His brows were furrowed. Pei Yin saw it and knew that Gu Cunxi must be blaming himself in his heart...
"It's okay, Cunxi, I don't blame you, don't worry, my mother's heart is not very good, it's an old problem!" Pei Yin took Gu Cunxi's hand and gently pinched her palm with his fingertips
Xiao Ping stood alone in the living room, looking thoughtfully towards the bedroom. Gu Cunxi stayed by the bed with Pei Yin for a while, and when he saw Fang Lan's expression eased and her condition improved, he felt a little relieved.
When they left the bedroom, they saw Xiao Ping sitting there, his emotions invisible.
"Uncle..." Gu Cunxi walked over first, pursed his lips and said, "I'm sorry, because I irritated Auntie, I..."
"Cunxi!" Pei Yin interrupted her and said, "Dad, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have said those things to Mom, but..."
"Alright!" Xiao Ping waved his hand: "You stay home and look after your mother. I have something to say to Gu Cunxi!"
"!!" Pei Yin was shocked and refused: "What do you want to say to Cunxi? What happened today is not her fault at all! Please stop talking. I was rude to Mom just now, but this can't change my mind!"
"..." Xiao Ping glanced at his daughter and couldn't help but think of the saying that a daughter who is married off is like spilled water. Nothing has happened yet, and he is still protecting her like this...
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