When Jiang Xiaobai woke up again, she saw the account booklet left on the table. Sighing, she kept it away.
Considering her parents’ attitudes, they would never take back whatever was given to her.
Thinking of how Liang Yahe and Xiao Su had done so much for her in the past, she decided to call Xiao Su and meet him for a discussion.
They decided to meet at the house they had lived in before. Jiang Xiaobai had asked her mother to take care of her son before going over alone.
Seeing her arrival, Xiao Su heated a glass of milk for her but didn’t say a word.
“Do you know why I’m here?”
Jiang Xiaobai had just spoken when Xiao Su replied, “Drink the milk while it’s still warm. Don’t skip breakfast every morning, as it’s not good for your health.”
Hearing this, Jiang Xiaobai’s fingers paused slightly and did not touch the glass of milk for a long time. The silence in the living room was deafening. Seeing that she hadn’t touched the glass of milk, Xiao Su took it and passed it to her.
“Finish it before you start talking. Whatever it is, I’ll agree to it.”
Jiang Xiaobai’s heart trembled slightly, but she did not take the glass of milk from his hands. Her lips slightly moved as she lifted her head to look at Xiao Su.
“Do you know why I’m here?”
“I do.”
“Then why do you still say that you’ll agree to whatever I say?”
“Yeah.” Xiao Su nodded. “If it’s you, I’ll agree to anything.”
Suddenly, Jiang Xiaobai was tongue-tied. She slowly reached over and took the glass of milk from him. The temperature of the milk was exactly right, and the warmth spread from her palm into her heart.
She held the glass of milk in her hands and didn’t say a word.
After a long while, she asked, “Have you felt regret for the past six months?”
Xiao Su laughed bitterly and replied, “What good does it do anyway? Will you come back to me even if I regret it?”
He lifted his eyes and gazed deeply into hers. “Even if I’m in so much grief that I feel like I’m better off dead, you won’t come back to me ever again. Some things have already happened, and I’ve done many things wrong. But I don’t even know how to make up for them, and you won’t even give me a chance to make it up to you.”
Xiao Su laughed bitterly. His gaze dimmed as he lowered his eyes and said, “If… If I have a chance, I’m willing to make it up to you for the rest of my life.”
The tremors in Jiang Xiaobai’s heart grew stronger. She bit her lower lip forcefully, then she asked after a long pause, “Do you finally admit that you were in the wrong?”
“It’s not so much wrong as I shouldn’t have done it in the first place.” Xiao Su pressed his lips tightly together. “I didn’t think it through at that time, and I wasn’t a responsible man. I shouldn’t have gotten together with you before I’ve dealt with the residual feelings in my heart, and I shouldn’t still have feelings for another person when I’ve already married you.”
The phrase ‘have feelings for another person’ stabbed Jiang Xiaobai’s heart. Her face turned a few shades paler, and she said, “Don’t say another word.”
“But Xiaobai!” Xiao Su suddenly raised his head and stared at her earnestly. His hands held her shoulders tightly as he continued, “It was just that one time. After that incident, all my heart is for you and you only. There’s no other person in it.”
“What did you say?” Jiang Xiaobai was stunned as she stared at him.
“I know that you might not believe me, but I can swear to God that I’m speaking the truth right now. Perhaps I still had some feelings for her back then. But after that, my heart has become full because of you, and it can no longer accept another person in it.”
As Xiao Su said those words, his expression was earnest, and his gaze was clear. He looked so sincere that he would probably even allow her to cut him open and check his heart for the truth if she had wanted to.
All this while, Jiang Xiaobai was concerned about whether he loved her or not.
Now that he was upfront to her about it, she felt that something had collided against her heart, and it was then held tightly by a pair of large palms, refusing to free her.
She bit her lower lip and glared at him in frustration.
“Are you lying to me to make me stay? You’re a liar, for if you don’t have anyone else in your heart, why did you abandon me then? You’re a liar, for what you’ve said is nothing but lies!”
“If I still have her in my heart, I would be feeling really guilty. How would I even send her to the hospital straight away just like that? Xiaobai, it’s not that you don’t trust me. The truth is that you don’t trust yourself.”
Hearing this, Jiang Xiaobai was startled.
“You don’t trust yourself to be able to hold my heart well, so you kept feeling insecure and paranoid about everything, right?”
Unfortunately, this was the truth. Jiang Xiaobai’s thoughts were all guessed accurately by Xiao Su. She still held a grudge about that first time and was extremely insecure since then. After the second time, she broke down completely!
Even the glass of milk was trembling in her hands now. She pushed him aside and put the glass on the table so that it wouldn’t fall from her nervous fingers.
“Don’t say another word. Even if you’re correct about everything, I don’t want to be in a relationship with you anymore. I’ve made up my mind, so I won’t…”
“Please give me another chance?” Xiao Su suddenly came up to her and hugged her waist, then leaned near her ear and whispered, “It took us a lot of effort to be together. Let’s not separate so easily, okay?”
Jiang Xiaobai didn’t say a word, but her eyelashes trembled lightly.
“The kid is still so young. Can you bear it? If he only has his mother and not his father, will his life be complete? Now that my heart is all yours, can you still not accept this new me?”
“Speak no more.”
“Do you remember when you told me that the fortune-teller said that we only have separation and death between us? Xiaobai, I was so touched then because you didn’t hide it from me. And I also decided then that we should be together for the rest of our lives. So let’s not separate from each other so easily, okay?”
Xiao Su’s tone became much gentler and lower. Jiang Xiaobai felt like she was stepping on clouds; everything felt so unreal.
Is his heart all mine? Is that even possible? He likes Yan so much. Can he give her up so easily?
Is it even possible?
“Xiaobai, please give me one more chance. Xiaobai…”
In the end, all Jiang Xiaobai could hear was Xiao Su’s longing voice calling her name.
She stared at the man in front of her and unexpectedly asked, “If I give you another chance, can you guarantee to become better?”
“I’ll guarantee that. I promise that I’ll love you with all my life. Just give me six months, okay? If you’re still dissatisfied after six months, and if you still want to leave me, I won’t stop you from doing so, alright?”
Six months?
“Do you know how much I’ve suffered and missed you for the past six months? I dared not look for you as I was afraid that you’d hate me even more. So I could only tip your writing. Did you see it?”
Tip?
Speaking of that, Jiang Xiaobai did notice a reader of hers who had tipped her and left her comments every day. There wasn’t a single day that went by without that reader tipping and commenting on her website.
She did notice the user, but she hadn’t thought much about it then. Perhaps she was always thinking of something else. But who knew that the user was actually Xiao Su?
So, did this mean that he wasn’t as unmoved and detached as she had thought for the past six months?
Knowing that Xiao Su had paid attention to her all this time, Jiang Xiaobai’s heart softened.
Therefore, she finally agreed to him that she would try for half a year more.
