I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 640 No, You Have

Chapter 640: Chapter 640 No, You Have

"Escape from this predicament... you’re going to help me?" Liu Xi seemed astonished.

From her standpoint, Suizi was hardly in a position to "help".

"Don’t you know that if today, had I died at your mother’s place, if—"

Liu Xi didn’t finish her sentence.

If she were to die in Chen Lijun’s house, Chen Lijun would be in deep trouble.

In an era where criminal investigation techniques were still not very advanced, it wouldn’t be easy for Chen Lijun to clear her name.

What’s more, Chen Lijun and Fan Hui, they had a past when they were young. If Liu Xi died at Chen Lijun’s place, it was plausible to accuse her of committing murder out of jealousy. People would believe it.

Even if Chen Lijun could clear her suspicion, would the public believe it?

If she were an ordinary person, perhaps they might.

But behind her, was Fan Huang.

It was likely that Fan Huang could be implicated as well. No matter how one looked at it, Suizi and her family would be at a loss.

Liu Xi doubted that Suizi hadn’t considered this.

"Your mother is singing your praises to high heaven, declaring your excellent talent, even saying you are the top-scoring examinee in our province. I wonder if you are helping me only because you’ve become silly from overstudying?"

"If I said, you and my maiden really get along, so I wanted to help you, would that sound hypocritical?"

Liu Xi nodded. It was not only hypocritical, it was also quite foolish.

If Chen Lijun’s daughter, whom she had praised to high heaven, had such simplistic thinking, then Liu Xi really didn’t justify her past bitter envy of Chen Lijun.

"You probably won’t believe this, but my resentment towards your vixen mother isn’t because of Fan Hui. That man—" Liu Xi gritted her teeth, thinking about her husband’s decadent lifestyle, "never mind."

"Then why do you keep calling my mother a vixen? I admit, she is more beautiful and younger than you, but you’ve aged a lot more."

"..." This conversation was getting awkward, hitting where it hurts, almost leading to a fight.

"I said you’re old, you don’t like it, do you? So let’s make a fair trade: You stop calling my mother a vixen, and I stop mocking you. That’s fair, right?"

Liu Xi nodded. Chatting with Suizi gave her a comfortable feeling. Although her daily work involved dealing with students around Suizi’s age, she had never encountered a kid like Suizi. Despite her slow talk, everything she said was irresistible and didn’t offend anyone.

This feeling... why did it remind her so much of her influential elder brother...?

"You hate my mother because of me, right? To be honest, I initially thought you were jealous, but later I found out you weren’t really interested in Fan Hui. Therefore, the only reason you’d hate my mother is because of me."

At the mention of this, Liu Xi gritted her teeth.

"That vixen—uh, mother of yours, is utterly detestable. She behaves as if she’s on a pedestal, as if all the men in the world should revolve around her. She doesn’t seem to care much about her children. She said she would return to the city and did, leaving you behind. We all thought you would grow up to be a..."

Before Suizi moved to the city, everyone thought of her as a rustic village girl — rosy cheeks, hands in pockets, wearing a floral padded jacket, a red headband in her hair.

There were many cases where female intellectuals abandoned their children and returned to the cities, the children left in the villages grew up to be nice and simple but unambitious farmers.

But who would have guessed that Suizi not only got admitted to the best university in the country, but she also brought her man along.

"Before I met you, there was a period when I actually felt sorry for you. Sometimes, I would tell my daughter, your half-sister is still farming in the village, has nothing, you have so much, why aren’t you satisfied?"

"Uh—"

"But then Chen Lijun told me, not only didn’t you turn bad, you became extraordinarily talented. Why is that?"

Liu Xi was utterly puzzled.

Her background was similar to Chen Lijun’s, both from scholarly families. She prided herself on being different from women like Chen Lijun, who would give birth and not care. She dedicated all her energy to raising her daughter, so why did Chen Lijun’s abandoned child turn out successful, while her own daughter was a borderline psychopath?

"I truly didn’t expect much from her. As long as she grows up safe and sound, even if her academics are slightly below par, or her job is unremarkable, none of it matters, as long as she is normal. But she seems to lack the emotions that humans should have."

When Liu Xi spoke of this, she could not hold back her tears.

She had been having a tough time recently. Yu Jingting found out about her extramarital affair and she faced immense pressure daily. Fan Huang became suspicious of her and put pressure on her family, while Fan Hui was in hospital with his face injured and flirting with the nurses.

Liu Xi would cry out in distress, in her bedroom, while Fan Lili would be in the next room listening to music. Sometimes, Fan Lili would run over with an annoyed expression to tell her to be quiet as she was disturbing her tape recording.

All her motherly affection, twenty years of care, had only resulted in such a callous child. Who could accept that?

"To tell you something you probably don’t want to hear, Fan Lili definitely has a genetic defect. She lacks normal human emotions. I’ve seen a few people like this, to be honest, it is untreatable."

When Suizi used to have depression in her past life, she regularly saw a psychologist and gained some understanding of such conditions.

For people like Fan Lili, who had such personality defects due to genetic mutation, even the most skilled psychologist, Chen Xiaoqian, from a later era, couldn’t cure her.

"To use an improper analogy, if you sow seeds in spring and take care of them, will you always get a harvest? A bad seed won’t sprout, no matter how much care you give it, because it was inherently bad. If you want to escape from this predicament, you’ll have to accept reality. Let me tell you a cruel fact."

Liu Xi looked at Suizi. They had unknowingly shared so much, partly because all these pent up feelings had been held back for too long in Liu Xi, with no one to share them with.

"Your daughter indirectly caused the death of a person when I was still in Dongbei..."

Suizi told Liu Xi about Jin Qu’s mother’s death. Liu Xi’s head buzzed as if it were going to explode. She was ready to retort, but a voice inside convinced her that it was indeed Fan Lili who did it. She would even dare to kill her own mother, what wouldn’t she dare to do?

"Why did she do this?! She had everything she wanted, no worries about food or clothing. Why would she be so cold-hearted and ruthless?" Liu Xi collapsed.

"I guess that during that period, you must have frequently complimented me in front of her. She figured that if I disappeared, no one could be better than her. Let me tell you another thing: The car accident that involved your husband and my dad was also manipulated by her behind the scenes."

"What?!! Why wouldn’t even spare her father?!"

Although Fan Hui was not a good husband, let alone a good father, with very little presence at home, Liu Xi still found it hard to accept that her daughter was capable of patricide and matricide.

"This is the only thing I can’t figure out; I can’t guess what her motive was. But I think it’s for the same reason she wanted to harm you today. She wanted to wipe out my entire family, even if it meant sacrificing her own parents’ blood. To such a defective personality, everyone else is just a stepping-stone she can forsake."

Suizi looked at Liu Xi with determination.

"I’ll ask you one thing: Do you want to continue living this tightrope-walking life filled with fear and worry? Can you really face her unpredictable outbreaks in the future?"

"I don’t want to, but what can I do? I have no other options..."

"No, you do."