Stardust in the Moonlight: Little Wildcat, Don't Try to Run Away

Chapter 178 Unable to be Cruel

"She can't." Li Xin said coldly, put his arm around my shoulders and led me out the door.

"Rongyue, it's... Xiaokun... We can always see Xiaokun recently..." Xiaokun's mother followed us.

Until I saw Li Xin's car.

"Rongyue, Auntie knows... Xiaokun... she is dead."

I stopped.

Li Xin frowned and looked at me.

I looked at Li Xin, then turned to look at Xiao Kun's mother.

"Auntie, Xiaokun died trying to save me. I'm sorry." I choked.

Xiaokun's mother nodded with tears in her eyes. "I...I know. Ever since I couldn't find her, I felt that something might have happened to her. She is my daughter, how could I not feel it."

"When I was almost recovered, I met her in the hospital one night. She came to say goodbye to me and told me that you are a good person. It was you who rescued her to see me. You were even injured while saving her. She saw everything and she also remembered how good you were to her. Auntie can feel it and she is very grateful to you."

"Auntie also knows that you are really kind to me. Auntie is also very grateful for what you have done for us."

Xiaokun’s mother came closer to me and held my hand.

"But Rongyue, Auntie asked you to come because if you can save Xiaokun, can you save her again? She is not feeling well now..."

I frowned and looked at Xiaokun's mother.

"She shows up at home every night, especially Xiaokun's sister-in-law. She becomes abnormal at night. I have asked everyone I can to look for her, but no one can solve the problem. Can you please..."

"She can't, she has done her best for you. You just said that she was injured while saving Xiaokun. Do you want her to do this again?!" Li Xin's tone was firm, and he frowned at Xiaokun's mother.

"You feel sorry for your daughter, but she is not unloved. You have already been compensated for what she deserves. Your family affairs end here, so don't look for her anymore." After saying this, Li Xin pulled me towards the car.

"Melting Moon!"

I looked back and saw Xiaokun’s mother kneeling on the ground, looking at me pleadingly with tears on her face.

I stopped, I couldn't ignore it.

"Let's go!" Li Xin pulled me and forced me to follow him.

I hesitated for a moment, but finally broke free from Li Xin, walked back to Xiaokun's mother and helped her up.

"I'm a mother, I can't bear to see my child...suffer like that...If I could, I'd be willing to take her place..." Xiaokun's mother cried.

"You let me stay because I can see Xiao Kun in the middle of the night?"

Xiaokun’s mother nodded.

I nodded and said, "You go back first. I'll rest in the car for a while and then I'll go home in the evening."

"Thank you, Rongyue! Thank you!" Xiaokun's mother looked at me gratefully. "This is the last time. This is the last time that auntie begs you. Auntie will not trouble you again in the future. You have done enough."

Xiaokun's mother looked over me at Li Xin, and then at me.

"You go back." I patted Xiaokun's mother.

Xiaokun’s mother wiped away her tears.

"Well! You take a rest first. Are you sick today? I see you are not in good spirits and you vomited just now. Do you want to eat something? I will make it for you."

I shook my head. “Don’t bother, I’m fine… Go back and have some rest. I’ll have someone send you some money in a couple of days so you can renovate the room you’re staying in. You’re old, don’t get sick again.”

"No need! Please don't send me any more money. You don't need to give money for Youyou's schooling! The easier it is for you to give, the less she will cherish it! You can't satisfy people's desires!" Xiaokun's mother looked at me seriously.

"Listen to your aunt and stop sending me money!"

I nodded.

"Okay, as long as you agree, then go and get some rest!"

Li Xin and I got in the car.

I looked at Li Xin and Li Xin looked at me.

"You didn't ask me why I came? And you didn't chase me away?"

"I know all this in my heart. Is there any need to say all this nonsense?" I leaned back in the car seat and adjusted it to a comfortable position.

"What if I don't agree with you being here?"

"This is the last time I will help her family. If you don't like it, go back first." I looked at Li Xin calmly.

Li Xin looked at me and we were silent for a moment.

I could see the helplessness and confusion in his eyes.

"When will you learn to take care of and protect yourself first? And rely on others a little more. Or can you tell us before you do anything?"

Li Xin's eyes softened.

I turned my eyes away and looked at the setting sun in front of me.

"Life has taught me to be independent and to solve problems on my own instead of bothering others, because apart from my grandma, there are only a limited number of people I can bother. But my grandma is old and her abilities are limited."

"If I have a conflict with someone, it's best to solve it by myself. If I can't, my grandmother and I will be blamed. Although my grandmother always apologizes to others by beating me, I know she will feel bad for a long time when I get home. She feels that she has not taken good care of me, and she is even more afraid that I can't take care of myself."

"In order to reassure my grandma, I almost never take the initiative to provoke anyone, to the point that I don't even want to contact people. Being an invisible person is the most comfortable state for me."

"That's why I fell in love with painting. Communicating with pen and paper is much simpler and less troublesome. Everything I want to say is in the painting. Those who can understand my painting will understand me, and those who can't understand don't need to contact me, so there won't be any trouble."

"So I was already pretty good at taking care of myself and protecting myself a long time ago."

"As for dependence, I shouldn't have done that before, and I haven't learned it yet."

"It may take me a long time to get used to relying on others, which seems a bit hypocritical to me. After all, I am used to being alone."

I sigh.

"Xiao Kun's family situation, Xiao Kun and her mother, in my eyes, are just like me and my grandmother. She may be even worse. An old woman with such a fierce daughter-in-law must have a son who is cowardly and doesn't take charge of things for her. Maybe the only daughter who cares about her is because I'm dead. When she encounters problems, she can't ask for help from anyone. She must have tried all the methods and only wants to trouble me as a last resort..."

"How cruel must my heart be to reject such an old man."

"If I could be selfish enough to turn a blind eye to her, I could have not saved my grandmother. With my grades at the time, I could have given up everything and gone abroad to study. I still yearn for that kind of free life."

"If that were the case, I wouldn't be getting myself into these things right now, and I wouldn't have anything to do with you guys."

I smiled and looked at Li Xin.

Li Xin frowned and looked at me. There was tenderness and distress in his eyes, which was very complicated.

The vibration of my cell phone broke the silence in the car.

It’s Mo Chen.

I opened the car door, got out and answered the phone.

"You didn't go home, where did you go?" Mo Chen's voice was calm and gentle, and he didn't seem angry anymore.

"Come to Xiaokun's house, her mother has some problems." I answered calmly.

"What situation requires you to go?"

"I don't know yet. I heard that it can only be seen at midnight."

Mo Chen's breathing became heavier.

"Go home now." Mo Chen's voice sounded filled with suppressed anger.

"Are you home?" I looked at the sky. It was already dark, night.

"I'm going home now, so you'll come back, right?"

"Probably not, so you should just focus on your own things first."

The phone was silent for a long time.

"I'll pick you up."

I sighed, "Mo Chen, I didn't come here to be angry with you, so I won't leave just because you come to pick me up. After tonight, I have paid back what I owe, and I will no longer care about Xiao Kun's family."

"The money you gave me is not enough, is it? How much more does her family want? Tell me, I will give it all! Come back to me right now!"

"How much do you think is appropriate to buy my life?"

"What did you say!"

"Can all problems be solved with money? Then why don't you give Xia Xiluo money so that she won't continue to make trouble?"

"Or, you ask her to name a number, and I can satisfy her. I just need her to tell me a deadline, when she will give up on you and stop bothering you."

I couldn't suppress my anger anymore.

"You're going to have a fight with me today, right?"

Am I making trouble?

When I heard these two words, I suddenly laughed and laughed so hard that tears came out.

I hung up the phone, swallowing the pain in my chest.

Take a deep breath. Deep breathing can relieve pain.

"Rongyue..." Li Xin walked to my side and was about to hold me.

I raised my hand to block Li Xin's hand. "Don't worry about me, Li Xin, let me be alone for a while... Please..."

I didn't look at Li Xin, I just walked further away from the car.

Fortunately, Li Xin just stood there and didn't follow me.

I walked around for a while, telling myself to calm down and not let Xia Xiluo's matter affect me anymore.

I shouldn't have said those words to Mo Chen today. I was too impulsive and should have collected enough evidence.

After all, they grew up together and have been together for so many years. I said that about Xia Xiluo. If someone else said that to Li Xin or the Empress, how would I react?

I definitely want to rip that guy's mouth apart.

I looked at the dark blue sky in the distance for a long time, trying to calm myself down.

I walked back to Li Xin.

"Can you tell me about Xia Xiluo? Have you found out anything?"

"Why do you ask this?" Li Xin looked at me.

"I just want to know. Can you tell me?" I looked at Li Xin.

"We have checked everything that should be checked, including the people that night, the travel records, and the private clubs, but no one matches the person. Unless this did not happen that night, and they met alone after the drinking party... Otherwise..."

"Otherwise, it will be as if what Xia Xiluo said never happened."

Li Xin frowned and looked at me, and I saw hesitation in his eyes.

I turned my eyes away. In that case, what Li Xin found can be considered as evidence.

I thought about the conversation I heard between Xia Xiluo and Wei Liling outside her office that day, Wei Liling's hesitation, and what Wei Liling said to me outside the bar that day...

"What are you thinking about?" Li Xin tapped my forehead.

I smiled and said, "Nothing, I just thought of something that makes me happy."

Li Xin looked at me and chuckled. He opened the car door and stuffed me into the car. "It's cold outside. When you've walked enough, go back to the car and stay there."

I shrank in the chair and watched Li Xin get into the car.

"Tell me the truth, do you know something about Xiluo's matter?" Li Xin got in the car and looked at me seriously.