Chapter 113: Were You There?

Xuanxuan was still little. Although she did not understand matters of love and romance, she could at least follow the basic thread of a story.

Even so, the tangled relationships still were not very clear in her mind.

Yet under Jiang Sui's guidance, she had already grown into a small child who knew right from wrong.

"Because this rich, pretty sister is foolish," Jiang Sui said with a smile. "So Xuanxuan will never become like this pretty sister."

Xuanxuan immediately shook her head like a rattling drum. "Xuanxuan doesn't want to. This pretty sister is too silly. This uncle is so annoying, and she still wants to play with him. In our kindergarten, nobody plays with people they dislike."

Besides, this uncle's way of speaking made her terribly unhappy.

He was like a madman.

And the tone of his voice sounded very much like the lines Jiang Sui had made her memorize.

She hated people who talked like that the most.

Jiang Sui was very pleased. "Our Xuanxuan is right. A beautiful, rich sister like this could obviously find someone much better to keep her company. There is no need to hang herself from one tree, right?"

Xuanxuan nodded. "Of course! And this uncle hits people!"

All at once, Xuanxuan thought of something. "Jiang Sui mommy, does Daddy hit people too?"

Jiang Sui paused.

That question actually stumped her.

She asked in return, "Then have you ever seen your Daddy hit anyone?"

She knew that when Xuanxuan said Daddy, she usually meant Lu Ye.

Xuanxuan shook her head. "No."

Jiang Sui smiled. "Then your Daddy probably doesn't hit people."

As for whether he stabbed people, that was another matter.

Xuanxuan nodded. "Jiang Sui mommy, actually Daddy is very good. It used to be because Xuanxuan was bad, always telling Daddy on you and saying you were bad, so Daddy thought you were bad too."

Xuanxuan actually understood a great deal, but before, she knew Jiang Sui mommy did not like her. She was afraid of being bullied, and she also disliked strangers...

Her voice gradually grew softer. "Because apart from Daddy, no one in the Lu family wanted Xuanxuan anymore..."

Jiang Sui frowned. "Why would Xuanxuan say that?"

She truly did not know.

And the original story had never mentioned it.

She had thought Xuanxuan would surely be the Lu family's precious darling.

Xuanxuan shook her head and murmured, "Xuanxuan doesn't know either... I only found out after secretly overhearing Daddy talking on the phone with Grandpa and the others."

Jiang Sui frowned but did not ask further. She patted Xuanxuan on the head. "Jiang Sui mommy understands now. Be good, keep watching TV."

Yes, after watching a melodramatic romance drama, letting Xuanxuan watch some girls' comics afterward was good for her mental and emotional well-being.

That night, after Xuanxuan had fallen asleep, Jiang Sui rarely sent Lu Ye a message.

"Are Xuanxuan's parents on bad terms with the Lu family?"

Rather than investigate, it was better to ask the person involved directly.

So Jiang Sui watched the chat window show that the other side was typing for a long time.

She had thought Lu Ye would send back a very long reply.

But when she finally saw the message he sent, it contained only a few short lines.

The general meaning was that Xuanxuan's biological parents' marriage had not been accepted by the Lu family.

And Xuanxuan had never been formally taken into the Lu family either. Although the old man had mentioned more than once that they could bring Xuanxuan back to be raised, Lu Ye worried she would be bullied by the others in the family, so he kept Xuanxuan by his side.

Jiang Sui lay in bed and thought for a while.

Then she casually made up a plot theory: "Could it be that Xuanxuan's father already had a fiancée through a business arrangement, but fell in love with Xuanxuan's mother, ran away from the engagement, and married and had children with her, which is why the Lu family refuses to acknowledge them?"

Lu Ye: "..."

"Were you there?"

Jiang Sui: "..."

What? Had she actually guessed right?