Mama's Princess Is Daddy's Beloved

Chen Rui and Shin Tingming turned to stare at Li Xue as she advanced her steps towards them. While Shin Tingming matched the eyes of the girl, Chen Rui smiled with obviousness to add, "Xiao Xue, what are you saying? Of course, you are our daughter. I have called you the same and even taken you as the same. And did you not hear the last time? In front of Shen Donghai, even you Pa took the stand claiming you as his own."

She said, smiling but then paused with a thought as shaking her head, she asked with a tone of disbelief, "Wait Xiao Xue, you must not be thinking it otherwise, right? Calling you our daughter is not for the sake of the name, dear. We truly consider you as one, so we call you our daughter. You know that, right?"

She asked and Li Xue shook her head in denial. "I know that but that's not all that I want from you two. I want you to accept me officially in front of everything. Will you be able to give me that one thing?" She asked and Chen Rui didn't understand what she meant by those words. But she was sure that something was in between the words that had just not come clear.

So, reaching out to her, she held her hands to ask again, "Didn't the last time we asked your permission for that? We are still waiting for your answer, dear. We are waiting for you to accept us. If you accept us, no force could stop us from accepting you as ours."

She said and Li Xue stared at the lady. The genuine love of a mother was all sincere in her eyes. For a moment, Li Xue could doubt herself, but she couldn't bring herself to doubt the lady. She never expected herself lucky enough to feel motherly love and care. And now that she was looking at Chen Rui, she was feeling like she had got all that she had never thought of.

How could the lady be this forgiving? Did she just forget that her mother was actually the woman who tried to ruin her life and relationship?

Shin Tingming has been silent all this while but when he read the expression of the blame on the face of Li Xue, he could no longer hold back. Standing up first, he tucked his hands in his pocket. "Do you blame me?" He asked. His concern was one simple thing. He has unknowingly ignored the girl for the whole of his life, now he doesn't want to ignore her anymore.

He doesn't care what she wants. He would give her whatever she asks for. The only compulsory thing is to know if she really takes them as hers or not? If she blames him or not?

Li Xue turned to look at the man and could no longer pester her lips from not curling upwards. "Blame you? Do I stand in that position? I doubt it. It's already unbelievable to see you not blaming me after knowing what my mother did to you two. I never thought …"

Before she could even complete her say, Chen Rui got hurt. Turning the girl to look at her, she asked, "Li Xue look at me and repeat that again."

"…" Li Xue didn't understand.

"Did you just call some other woman as your mother? I thought I was one for you but now I feel that you just don't consider me as one in your heart." Chen Rui spoke and as she did, hints of tears got on the corner of her eyes.

Li Xue shook her head. "No, I didn't mean it that way. It's just that I can't change it. She is the woman who gave birth to me and no matter how I say, I can't wipe the truth." She spoke, shrugging her shoulders helplessly. "And I also can't change the fact that she brought me to this world just to treat me as a bait to get a life that was simply not meant for her. A life that she doesn't deserve."

She said and, in her voice, anyone could feel the regret she was holding in her heart. A regret that doesn't have anything to do with her but was destined for her from the moment she was born.

Chen Rui felt it in her voice as well and her heart clenched with equal pain with the girl. She wanted to dismiss those words but she knew dismissing those words would serve no purpose as the existence of the truth could never be wiped off that easily.

"If you can't change the truth, dear, then just forget it. Erase it from your memory. And I assure you that no one would ever come to make you remember it again." She said, gently brushing away the strands of soft hair from the shoulder of the girl. "Since you have called me as your mother, from now on, only remember that you have one mother and that's me."

"…"

"If the truth gets too hard to bear, there is no profit in dwelling on it. Just let it exist in some corner of your life and move on. One truth can't decide the whole of your life." Chen Rui added to say, before turning to look at Tingming who had been staring at her without putting any interruptions.

Li Xue heard the lady say that and couldn't help but smile. Those words were just not soothing to hear but were also relieving to her heart. "Thank you for accepting me without any condition. But I have a better way to deal with this. Only if you can agree." She spoke and both Chen Rui and Shin Tingming asked at the same time.

"What's that?"

"What is it?"

Li Xue looked up at them and her smile grew deeper. "Not just from the memories, help me erase the presence of Liu Hua from the whole of my life. Claim me as your daughter but not as the one you are going to adopt but as the one who is all yours to be called." She said and her words were a bit confusing. She knew it as well. So, reaching out to hold Chen Rui's hands in her own, she hinted some clarity. "Ma, I don't want to be considered as your daughter, but I want to be called as your daughter. The one you found recently after losing several years back."