I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With
Chapter 240 - 238: Giving You a Warm Embrace1

Chapter 240: Chapter 238: Giving You a Warm Embrace1

Ning Xixi was somewhat flustered as she gathered her hair and patted her face before she picked up her cell phone and slid to answer the call.

"Hello?"

A clear and pleasant voice came through the phone, "Xixi, it’s Dad."

"...Yeah."

There was silence for a few seconds, neither father nor daughter spoke again.

Ning Xixi picked at her palm, finding it rather ironic. When had she and the only relative she had left in this world become so estranged?

"Is there something you wanted?" she broke the deadlock.

Dad Ning coughed a few times, with a hint of trying to please, "Dad will be done with the business trip soon, do you want any gifts? I’ll buy them for you."

"Since when do people ask what others want before giving a gift..." Ning Xixi muttered, and Dad Ning made an embarrassed "uh" sound, "Then... I’ll just give you money instead, you can buy whatever you like."

Ning Xixi tugged at the corner of her mouth, trying to make her voice sound more cheerful, "Okay, thank you."

"You’re welcome."

And then there was silence again, for a long while.

Ning Xixi couldn’t stand it anymore and blurted out the question that was troubling her, "Dad, I heard someone say you’re getting remarried... That’s just a rumor, isn’t it?"

Dad Ning seemed to sigh, "Xixi..."

"Tell me it’s not true!" Ning Xixi clenched her phone, her emotions surging, "You wouldn’t marry someone else, would you?"

However, Dad Ning said, "I’m sorry, Xixi."

A single apology outweighed a thousand words.

Across the waves, far across the ocean, Ning Jingshen seemed to hear his daughter’s sob, and his heart suddenly felt like it was being pricked by needles.

"But you said you would only love Mom for your whole life, that beyond her, you would never marry anyone else... you clearly said so..."

The promises of adults are often taken for the solemn truth by children, who believe them wholeheartedly.

Ning Jingshen opened his mouth but felt that any words were empty and powerless.

How should he say that he couldn’t bear the long years alone, and thus the vows of the past had been erased by the wind?

How should he say that some love lasts forever, but other love changes with the shifts and tides of time?

How should he say he hopes she could bless him and accept a new mother and still love him as before?

No matter what he said, it was wrong; the more he said, the more mistakes he made. Better to say nothing.

The phone call had disconnected at some unknown point, and Ning Xixi bit her lip, her cherry-colored lip completely colorless, her shoulders shaking violently...

She summoned all her willpower to not break down and cry.

It was so hard... so suffocatingly hard...

Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, she buried herself into the covers, pretending it would make her feel better.

Pretending... as if nothing had happened...

In a daze, it seemed she had a dream.

"Daddy, I want a large sundae!" Little Xixi swung her little feet in the back seat while Ning Jingshen, in the driver’s seat, smiled tenderly, saying indulgently, "Okay, wait for Daddy."

Beside Little Xixi, Song Weiyang, with a graceful smile, stroked Little Xixi’s hair.

The scene shifted, with Ning Jingshen on his knees holding a sundae, looking at his wife and daughter who were in a car accident, that sense of helplessness nearly engulfed his entire being.

Little Xixi in the pool of blood strained to open her eyes, faintly hearing the hysterical shouts of the rescue workers toward Ning Jingshen, "We can only save one, the adult or the child!"

At that moment, Ning Jingshen’s raw cries were still fresh in memory:

"Save my wife! Save my wife!"

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