“Ah Yuan!” Ms. Xiao, who had not left, exclaimed when she saw her tall and handsome son finally return to the ward. She was pleasantly surprised when she stood up from the small round stool and walked quickly to meet him, “Ah Yuan, is your injury serious? Let me have a look.”
Her care was not fake; she was indeed worried about her only son.
It was a pity that they had missed their chance. Xia Jinyuan couldn’t afford her care anymore, not one bit.
He stood aside, ignoring her welcome, and smiled faintly, “Thank you for your concern. I have just changed the gauze this morning, so it is not very convenient for you to have a look at the wound now.”
His attitude was neither cold nor warm. He treated her with politeness as if she was just an ordinary relative who came to visit him.
“That… Then I’ll take a look when you change the gauze again next time.” Ms. Xiao, who was a little embarrassed, retracted her outstretched arms, followed his footsteps, and returned to the bedside. Then she asked with a beautiful voice, “Have you ever had lunch? Are you hungry? I brought some fruits, including your favorite banana.
She wanted to repair her relationship with her son, but Xia Jinyuan refused. Upon hearing the words, a sneer flashed in his eyes, and he said calmly, “You’re too kind. I don’t like bananas, just like my dad. It’s a waste of you to buy them.”
“But you used to…” She remembered that Ah Yuan clearly liked to eat bananas last time, only Old Xia didn’t like it. Initially surprised, Ms. Xiao swallowed her words when she noticed the indifference in Xia Jinyuan’s eyes.
True, that was a long time ago. Her son was older now, and she was also old. Some things had changed after all.
Her lips twitched. Ms. Xiao stared at her grown-up son and smiled bitterly, “I really shouldn’t come today. I also thought about whether I should or not, but I came anyway.”
Looking at her unmoved and indifferent son, Ms. Xiao knew that she should go, so she got up and said to Commander-in-Chief Xia next to her, “Old Xia, sorry for disturbing you today.”
Commander-in-Chief Xia, who had long seen through his ex-wife’s behavior, nodded slightly and said to Xia Jinyuan with an indifferent expression, “Your mother, she is just worried about you.”
“I know.” Xia Jinyuan chuckled and turned to Ms. Xiao, who was so sad that she stayed away, “Thank you for visiting me today, but my temper is like this. Please forgive me.”
Ms. Xiao, who couldn’t bear her own son’s politeness towards herself, nodded indiscriminately, grabbed her handbag, and said, “Then I’ll leave first,” and then she staggered out of the ward.
Commander-in-Chief Xia sighed lightly when he saw this and turned around to send his ex-wife out of the hospital first.
If she had already known this would happen, why bother to make such a mistake in the beginning?
Now she wanted to turn around to make up for her mistake, but Old Six was already past the age that needed maternal love.
After chasing her out the ward, he saw that his ex-wife did not leave but leaned back against the cold wall. Her head was raised high as she tried to force the tears back into her eyes.
Commander-in-Chief Xia approached and stood in front of his ex-wife and then said in a deep voice, “Old Six is big enough; there are a lot of things that we can’t always intervene.”
“…I know, today…thank you.” Ms. Xiao, who forced her tears back, pressed the corners of her eyes with her hands. When she stood still, her face returned to her usual dignity; her voice was dry, “I didn’t expect him to treat me so politely as a guest. He was not fierce, he did not scold, he was just very polite, Old Xia, you have taught Ah Yuan very well, you have been working hard these years.”
Commander-in-Chief Xia smiled, “I didn’t take much care of him. He grew up on his own.” There was a slight pause, and the face that made people dare not look directly showed a little seriousness; his voice became much deeper, “You haven’t answered my previous question; how did you know that Old Six is in the hospital?”
