Chapter 53: She Blames Herself
Qiao Xu: ...
She made faces and pretended to be dead.
"Can you go back to your big villa?"
Xu Si'an served food to Qiao's mother: "Auntie, Qiao Qiao is trying to get rid of me..."
I'm speechless.
They stopped acting and went straight to complaining.
"Xuxu, you and Xiao An started dating in college, it's time to get married."
"Mom checked the dates when she was free. Next month is what you young people call May 20th or Valentine's Day. We can go get our marriage certificate while we're at it."
Qiao Xu was truly speechless this time.
"You must have a lot of free time."
"How about I find you a partner online, and you can have a twilight romance?"
Qiao's mother glared at her: "You are really filial. Your father has only been gone for three years and you already want me to find you a stepfather. On the anniversary of your father's death in a while, you go and ask him yourself. If he agrees, then you can find me a stepfather."
Xu Si'an nodded: "I also think Auntie's suggestion is good, Qiaoqiao, hmm?"
Qiao Xu's eyes were only on the food. Tonight's dishes were cooked by Xu Si'an and suited her taste.
I don't think it's very good.
Xu Si'an's eyelids drooped: "Auntie, I told you, Qiao Qiao looks down on me, an orphan."
Qiao Xu: ? ? ? ? ?
Orphan?
Is he an orphan?
She felt sorry for him, seeing him acting so pitiful.
"It's alright, Auntie only recognizes you as her son-in-law. If she doesn't get married, she can stay single." Qiao's mother looked at Xu Si'an with eyes full of affection.
Qiao Xu put down her chopsticks and stood up, but her wrist was grabbed.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm full." I'm full from watching their touching "mother and son" relationship.
Xu Si'an frowned as he watched her eat only a few bites of food: "Is it because the food I made today didn't suit your taste?"
"Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll make it for you."
The smile on Qiao's mother's face froze: "Qiao Xu, sit down and eat. Xiao An will be tinkering in the kitchen for an hour."
"Aren't all the dishes on the table your favorite foods?"
Qiao Xu looked at her mother in disbelief.
Her way of getting along with Xu Si'an was through playful bickering, and Qiao's mother would always either turn a blind eye or side with Xu Si'an to protect him.
But I've never spoken to myself in such a cold tone.
Qiao Xu's eyes slowly welled up with tears: "I'm really full. I'm going to walk the dog."
Qiao Xu left the dining table, picked up the dog leash from the shoe cabinet, put it on Cherry, and opened the door. She didn't even take her phone from the dining table.
"I'm sorry, Auntie, please eat first. I'll go check on her."
Xu Si'an had just stood up when he was called back: "Xiao'an, sit down, Auntie has something to tell you."
"But·······"
The smile on Qiao's mother's lips was faint: "Since breaking up with you, Xuxu has become much more sensitive. She hasn't shown much emotion in the past four years, especially after her father passed away, she has become even more taciturn."
Xu Si'an sat back down in his chair.
The two reunited after he returned to China and joined Xuxing.
There were some conflicts and misunderstandings, but they were all minor squabbles.
Qiao Xu never asked him about what had happened in the past four years, and neither did he; this was a tacit understanding between them.
"Xiao An, Xu Xu probably hasn't told you about what she's been up to all these years, has she?"
Xu Si'an shook her head, and about half an hour later, she took Qiao Xu's phone and went out.
Inside the elevator, tears streamed down Xu Si'an's face.
He swiped his phone, his trembling fingers typing several times before finally getting the words "anxiety somatization" right.
The elevator remained on the eighth floor until Xu Si'an finished reading the explanation of "bodyification" on his phone before pressing the button for the first floor.
A payment record from Alipay popped up on Qiao Xu's phone.
Xu Si'an walked out of the residential area.
Qiao Xu stood in front of the convenience store across the street, a dog leash on her wrist, her fingers still unpacking cigarettes.
Xu Si'an instinctively rushed to take her cigarette.
But then Qiao's mother's voice came to mind: "Four years ago, Xuxu had mild anxiety somatization."
"Later, her father's health deteriorated, and she went everywhere to beg for help, borrow money, and find doctors."
"She blamed herself for her father's death."
Xu Si'an walked quietly, waiting for the traffic light at the zebra crossing.
Qiao Xu saw him, paused for a moment while lighting her cigarette, but continued lighting it anyway.
bother.
Smoking made me even more annoyed.
During this time, Xu Si'an accompanied her to quit smoking, and the drawers and tables at home were full of all kinds of candy.
There are still more than sixty seconds left on the countdown at the zebra crossing.
In the past, Xu Si'an would run across a red light to hug and kiss her.
He bullied her because she secretly smoked.
But now, across the street, he only dares to look her in the eye.
“When Xuxu returned to her hometown after graduation, I accompanied her father to the hospital for treatment. When we came back, we found that she had locked herself in her room for several days without eating or drinking.”
“In the last few months of her father’s life, she worked several jobs a day and had to borrow money from relatives everywhere.”
“If her father and I hadn’t stopped her, this child would have wanted to borrow money from loan sharks.”
“After her father died, her condition worsened. Xiao Zhe and I accompanied her to see a doctor, but she wouldn’t say anything. The doctor couldn’t do anything and suggested we change our environment.”
"I don't know how I came to this decision, but I came back to Los Angeles to take the postgraduate entrance exam while working."
Qiao Xu stood there, taking a drag of her cigarette and tugging at the dog leash, looking quite relaxed.
She wasn't wearing contact lenses, so she could only see Xu Si'an's outline and couldn't make out his facial expression at night.
As the sunset grew darker and darker, and cars came and went, Xu Si'an looked up and wiped his face as a car drove by.
After throwing her cigarette butt into the extinguishing area, Qiao Xu pulled her dog onto the leash and went into the convenience store.
She didn't bring her phone; she just paid for cigarettes using facial recognition.
Qiao Xu picked up the mango-flavored lollipop from the cashier and stepped back to the facial recognition area. Xu Si'an's hand was already in front of her.
He opened the QR code on his phone, took the lollipop from her hand, unwrapped it, and put it in her mouth.
"Why did you come out? Go have dinner with your mother. Isn't it good to have a loving mother-son relationship?"
Qiao Xu was clearly jealous, her expression showing her displeasure.
Xu Si'an took the dog leash off her wrist and held it in his palm, while holding her hand with his other hand.
"Jealous?"
"Qiaoqiao, Auntie is just pitying me."
Qiao Xu wouldn't let him hold her hand, but Xu Si'an forcefully grabbed it.
“Let’s go to the supermarket to buy some things. You’ve barely eaten anything. I’ll make you some creamy shrimp pasta, how about that?”
Qiao Xu held the lollipop handle in her hand and twirled it: "No, I don't like them anymore."
Xu Si'an picked up the dog with one hand to cross the road, and when he took her hand, he took the cigarette from her hand and put it in his own pocket.
"Xu Si'an".
"Um?"
"You want to get married?" Qiao Xu was very perceptive, and Xu Si'an's eyes were a little red.
That's a reaction he only has after he's cried.
It's not that she doesn't want to marry him, she just doesn't want others to make these decisions for her.
and……
She didn't know if she was suitable to marry him.
Dating and marriage are different.
Moreover, he is, after all, the young master of the Xu family, and that is an unchangeable fact.
Even if Fang Yiqiu is not his biological mother, she is his stepmother.
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