Chapter 13.1

After Chu Xiaoyi returned to work, he was a little absentminded for several days. His mother’s words lingered in his mind.

He flipped through his phone, only to realize that his mother had never contacted him during the past few years, but he was unaware of it.Chu Jiadong occasionally sent messages to greet him, but Xiao Bi had never sent him, and of course he had never sent a message to his mother.

It’s better to raise a piece of char siu than me.*

T/N: Based from the Cantonese idiom “生舊叉燒好過生你” which is exclaimed when parents sarcastically remark about if they gave birth to a piece of char siu, they could’ve had a taste of luxury (since having one was considered a luxury after the Communist Revolution), instead of suffering from saving food for their ungrateful children.

Chu Xiaoyi couldn’t help but show a wry smile. He told her to stop worrying about himself, and she did keep her promise. During the Spring Festival, Chu Xiaoyi’s most emotional moment wasn’t when he argued with his father, but when he communicated with his mother in the study. She spoke slowly and rationally, but her words were full of blades.

Xiao Bi has a trace of resentment towards her eldest son, because she had never been ashamed of Chu Xiaoyi, making her even more unable to accept his actions. As a mother, she just kept reigning on her emotions, making Chu Xiaoyi unable to notice it all the time.

Chu Xiaoyi could blame his father, but he couldn’t blame his mother.He always wanted to isolate the news from the family, and even ignored his mother’s body, almost becoming a person like his father. No, he may even be worse than his father. At least his father was the pillar of their family financially back then, but now they, including Chu Xiaoxiao, don’t need his money.

Chu Jiadong was now in charge of housework and took care of his younger sister, in return for Xiao Bi’s previous contributions to the family, but how can Chu Xiaoyi repay his mother?

I…I only always seem to ignore my gentle mother who was always by my side..

He had only gradually understood Chu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts right now. She said that everyone in the family has their own division of labor and contributes to the family in different ways, but he has actually distanced himself from them… So how can he be longer considered as a member in their family?

He didn’t participate in their family activities at all, so what qualifications does he have to vote on important family matters?

He has been separated from his family for five years, which was about the same as five years of not contributing anything to the family. He doesn’t even know if he could still consider himself as a member of their family.

Even when I returned home, it was like a drop of oil in clear water. It doesn’t look much different on the surface, but I couldn’t blend in.

Chu Xiaoyi thought about this and sighed deeply.He can get along in harmony with his sister, because their relationship was brand new and simple, so there’s no need to worry about anything. But, it was difficult for him to get along with his parents. The memories and the past were tightly entangled to the three of them, making him breathless.

He Xin heard the artist sigh and said suspiciously, “What’s the matter?”

Chu Xiaoyi lay down on the back of the chair sadly, muttering, “It’s nothing, I just think I’m so bad.”

He wished he could do things well. He had tried to control his emotions when he first went home, but he still fell short and left everything in shambles. He can still control his sense of proportion in front of outsiders, but he was irritable and irritable in front of his family, making him ashamed.

He Xin looked at Chu Xiaoyi in surprise and disbelief, and felt that the sun was rising out of the west.

He patted him on the shoulder soothingly, and said with relief, ” You’re getting self-aware. In fact, though you have a bad personality, you have excellent business ability.”

If it weren’t for your good qualifications, who would tolerate an ancestor like you?

“…”

My agent’s good at anything, but why can’t he be on the same wavelength as myself?

Seeing Chu Xiaoyi recover from his gaffe, He Xin handed the phone to him again and said, “Why don’t you take a look at your serial gossip? There’s another news on the forum.”

What He Xin showed Chu Xiaoyi was the entertainment forum page, the content of which was questionable and incited misunderstanding. In the post, someone said that Chu Xiaoyi had a daughter from a hidden marriage and had taken her to a well-known luxury store in the mainland, and that a saleslady heard that the child he was with seemed to also be surnamed Chu.

In fact, the shopping guides were just chatting about the celebrities they encountered during their spare time. Chu Xiaoxiao was very quiet in the store at that time, which was unusual for a child, so she naturally attracted their attention. Chu Xiaoyi had also called his sister’s name in public, and their real names were extremely similar, which made the matter even easier to expose.

It was originally a cute anecdote, and the shopping guides did not mention the relationship between the two, but his anti fans distorted the matter to make it look like he was secretly married outside and gave birth to a daughter.

Although Chu Xiaoyi was twenty-three years old this year, he occasionally feels that he is still a baby. How could he think that one day he’d be forced to have a daughter in secret?

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