Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 143

Chapter 143: Liu Ruoxue Side Story – Your Honey, Their Poison

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3 years ago.

Liu Ruoxue paced back and forth in front of Xia Ruoming’s door, appearing deeply troubled.

“My dear wife, if there’s something to discuss, let’s sit down and talk about it properly. Don’t keep walking back and forth, it’s giving me a headache too.”

“Old Xia, you must have a good talk with our daughter. Things can’t go on like this anymore,” Liu Ruoxue looked at Xia Ruoming who had locked herself in her room, sighing continuously.

“You’d better not do that.” Xia Jingsong glanced at the locked door, then went back to reading his mathematics magazine, showing no intention of using the spare key to open the door and have a heart-to-heart talk with Xia Ruoming.

“That’s your daughter, Xia Jingsong! Don’t you care at all?” Liu Ruoxue knocked on the wall and shouted at Xia Jingsong.

“When has our daughter ever not figured things out on her own? You should save your energy, wife. Getting too anxious will make you age quickly,” Xia Jingsong shook his head, continuing to recline on the sofa, still showing no intention of moving.

“Xia Jingsong! If she liked a man, I would have let her be! But now she likes a woman! There’s no possibility between them! How can a woman like another woman! Not to mention she acts like it has to be her or no one else! Why can’t she choose someone more realistic! She’s a high school student now, studying is what’s important. How can she do well in exams like this?” Liu Ruoxue poured out her grievances to Xia Jingsong endlessly, as if expecting him to support her views.

Xia Jingsong finally looked away from the mathematics magazine with its Sudoku puzzles and turned to look at Liu Ruoxue’s face: “Wife, have you forgotten something?”

“What thing?”

“Do you really think our daughter is good at studying? For whom is she working so hard? Don’t you know the answer in your heart?” Xia Jingsong said helplessly, “Don’t you know what our daughter loves most? She’s even willing to give up basketball and study hard for that woman, it’s time for you to let it go.”

He knew that Liu Ruoxue had always understood this, she just didn’t want to accept it.

“Old Xia, are you suggesting we just leave it alone? They’re both women, she’s like Xia Ruoming, they’re both women!” Liu Ruoxue stared at Xia Jingsong’s face, speaking in an interrogating tone.

“Our daughter doesn’t care that she’s a woman, she just wants to be with her, that’s all I understand. I know nothing about other matters,” Xia Jingsong, who was usually henpecked, now appeared completely unconcerned, seemingly unafraid of Liu Ruoxue’s “authority.”

“Xia Jingsong! Let me tell you, Xia Ruoming planning to be with a woman, I will never agree! This isn’t just for her own good, it’s also a decision from a mother’s perspective!” Just as Xia Jingsong said, Liu Ruoxue couldn’t say Xia Ruoming was truly wrong, because some things are destined by one’s own choice, but standing from a mother’s perspective, she told Xia Jingsong she would absolutely never agree to such a thing.

“Ruoxue, you still don’t understand our daughter’s personality. The reason she hasn’t discussed it with you is that she’s already decided that even if you don’t accept it, as long as she can pursue that woman, she’ll still be with her. Even if one day Ruoming really decides to tell you her decision, it won’t be to seek your opinion, it will just be to inform you! Whether you accept it or not, Ruoming won’t care.” Xia Jingsong still had no intention of standing on the same side as Liu Ruoxue. He hoped Liu Ruoxue would accept their daughter’s decision, but he never really expected Liu Ruoxue to accept it.

Just as he said, this wasn’t seeking Liu Ruoxue’s opinion, it was merely informing her.

“…”

After a long silence, Liu Ruoxue’s soft sigh finally echoed through the living room.

“Xia Jingsong, maybe you’re right.” Liu Ruoxue seemed to have all her energy suddenly drained, speaking in a very disappointed tone, “But I will never accept this choice of hers. I will talk to her, and if she still chooses this path, I can only hope that after graduation, she won’t step foot in this house again. She’ll be 18 when she finishes high school, she can live independently.”

“She’s your daughter, can you really bear to do that?” Xia Jingsong asked without looking up.

“If she were my daughter, she wouldn’t make me feel so troubled.” Liu Ruoxue’s face was full of disappointment and sadness, “Since she’s my daughter, she should understand that I definitely won’t accept this. Since she doesn’t think this way, I can only believe she’s not my daughter anymore.”

After speaking, Liu Ruoxue pressed her temples and walked back to her bedroom.

In fact, Liu Ruoxue wasn’t what you’d call an open-minded mother. In her previous life, Xia Ruoming never expected Liu Ruoxue to support her relationship. She knew her unchanging mother would absolutely never accept such a thing.

Liu Ruoxue would even make strange critical comments when seeing news about girls getting married abroad, which made Xia Ruoming more determined not to tell Liu Ruoxue about these things.

Xia Ruoming also didn’t understand, it was just liking girls, what was wrong with that? Why did Liu Ruoxue have such strong opinions about this kind of thing?

“Ruoxue, don’t you want our daughter to succeed? According to your thinking, the current situation is quite good. Our daughter is stubborn, even in this situation she won’t give up, she will definitely study hard for that woman.” Xia Jingsong looked at Liu Ruoxue’s back, speaking in a relaxed tone, “After all, except for our daughter liking a woman, isn’t everything developing according to your expectations? If that’s the case, why are you so anxious, Ruoxue? Just let nature take its course.”

“If you interfere with our daughter’s choice, you’ll lose even your wish for her success.”

“Xia Jingsong! Do you know what you’re saying? This is our daughter’s life-changing matter, not some sweet love story from a novel, and definitely not some nonsense from a Korean drama!” Liu Ruoxue turned back and said coldly, “Using our daughter’s feelings to make her study hard, and then let her pursue a relationship that’s destined to fail?”

“You can’t see the future, how do you know our daughter’s love is destined to fail?”

“With me here, it is destined to fail. Even in the next life, I will never agree to such a thing.” She almost couldn’t catch her breath from anger, and after taking several deep breaths, she continued speaking slowly to Xia Jingsong: “Xia Jingsong, if you hadn’t been so indulgent with her, she wouldn’t have turned out like this. Now it’s clearly a wrong thing, and you still want to indulge her?”

“If it weren’t for her being like this today, would you still think she and that Xu person were just friends?” Xia Jingsong suddenly smiled.