Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 144

Chapter 144: Liu Ruoxue Side Story – Your Honey, Their Poison (Part 2)

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“So you knew about this all along?” Liu Ruoxue walked back and narrowed her eyes at Xia Jingsong.

Xia Jingsong shrugged, silently confirming what Liu Ruoxue said.

Perhaps Xia Ruoming learned this habit from Xia Jingsong.

“Since our daughter has fallen in love this deeply, as parents, we should support her. Even if this path is wrong, she needs to fall down to realize it’s wrong.” Looking at Liu Ruoxue’s rising anger, Xia Jingsong remained calm, “Besides, our daughter’s attraction to women is innate. Haven’t you seen the scientific research? If our daughter isn’t bisexual, she would never be attracted to men in this lifetime.”

“Well, well, Xia Jingsong, you’ve known all this time and kept it from me?” Liu Ruoxue asked, barely containing her anger.

“What difference would telling you have made?” Clearly, Xia Jingsong had taken Xia Ruoming’s side, his tone lacking its usual warmth towards Liu Ruoxue, “Even if I had told you, hand on your heart, tell me, Ruoxue, would you dare to stop your daughter?”

“You’ve always wanted your daughter to succeed, right? Now when there’s finally a chance, when your daughter has the opportunity to attend a prestigious high school you wouldn’t dare dream of, would you dare tell her then that her mother disapproves of her love, and she should give up or leave this home?”

“Yes, at that time she had no power to resist you, and I believe she would have accepted your choice.”

“But Ruoxue, you know in your heart that if you did that, our daughter’s future would be ruined. You understand our daughter’s personality better than I do, if you had done something like that before her high school entrance exam, she would have self-destructed completely. Didn’t you know that then? You were just deceiving yourself. In the end, it wasn’t for our daughter’s sake, you were just being selfish.”

“You’ve just forced all your life’s principles, your unfulfilled teenage dreams and unresolved regrets onto our daughter, all while claiming it’s for her own good, criticizing parents who interfere with their children’s choices, especially the choices you consider unimportant.”

Liu Ruoxue stared at Xia Jingsong in disbelief for a long time, finally closing her eyes and turning away silently.

“Xia Jingsong, if you say one more word in her defense, you can leave this home with her.” Liu Ruoxue said quietly, “You’re so capable, aren’t you? Then go ahead and help her accomplish whatever she wants to do.”

After speaking, Liu Ruoxue walked towards her bedroom again, this time like a deflated balloon, devoid of her usual spirit.

“Liu Qingyun,” Xia Jingsong’s voice came from behind at the right moment.

“What did you say?” Liu Ruoxue, absorbed in her own grief, hadn’t heard clearly what Xia Jingsong had said and turned to ask.

“Liu Qingyun, do you remember?” Xia Jingsong continued.

“My sister, what about her? What does this have to do with her?” Liu Ruoxue’s rigid expression showed slight changes, “If you’re trying to use this to convince me, you’re completely wrong. My sister who liked women, didn’t she end up marrying a man in the end? What innate attraction to women? This proves even more that I’m right.”

Xia Jingsong looked out the window and suddenly sighed, feeling something stuck in his nose.

He hadn’t wanted to bring up Liu Qingyun because before her death, she had asked Xia Jingsong not to tell her sister about this, it was her own choice, she didn’t want her sister to be sad. The Ye family respected Liu Qingyun’s last wishes, holding no funeral, just quietly burying her where she had wished. At that time, the Ye family’s third young master Ye Nianqiu hadn’t remarried, and Xia Jingsong had sworn at Liu Qingyun’s grave that he would never reveal the news of her death.

But seeing Liu Ruoxue’s heart as cold as stone, Xia Jingsong had no choice but to bring up his sister-in-law who had passed away years ago. He genuinely supported his daughter’s choice, but he also didn’t want to see his daughter and wife fall out.

“Liu Qingyun has passed away. You’ve always thought you were right, haven’t you? Do you still think so now, Ruoxue? That was your own sister.” Xia Jingsong had to calm himself several times before he could speak in a relatively normal tone, “She’s no longer in this world, do you want our daughter to walk the same path as her?”

“You’ve said before that if you hadn’t watched her being born and held her yourself, you would have thought this daughter was more like Liu Qingyun’s child than yours.”

“She’s like Liu Qingyun in every way, including her personality. Looking at her is like seeing a young Liu Qingyun.”

Liu Ruoxue froze, then a shattering sound came from the living room, it was the sound of Liu Ruoxue’s water glass breaking on the floor.

“When… did that happen?” Although her face remained relatively calm, her trembling lips betrayed her inner thoughts.

“When Xia Ruoming was 12 years old.” Xia Jingsong said softly, his tone full of sorrow, “Do you remember? She said something then, ‘Ruoming is really like me, with Ruoming keeping sister company, I can rest assured.’ She really was at peace then, and never had to worry again.”

“You won, Liu Ruoxue, you and your sister proved you were right, but was it worth it?”

“Ruoxue, look me in the eyes and tell me, are you happy hearing this news? If this news was about your daughter instead, would you still be happy?”

“How did Qingyun… die…” Liu Ruoxue asked Xia Jingsong in a low voice, as if her soul had left her body.

She never imagined that her sister, who had been so lively and lovely in her youth, was no longer in this world but lying in a cold tomb, that young girl who loved the warmth of the sun would never see the sun again.

“She died by suicide due to depression, and not just once, she succeeded on her second attempt. That’s what the doctors said, though her suicide had other reasons, which I think you know.”

“Is that so…” Liu Ruoxue continued to mumble, seeming unable to hear the sounds around her.

“Yes, the first time I saw her in the hospital, she looked at me with a smile worse than crying, telling me that if you’re going to slit your wrists, never do it horizontally, it’s painful and you won’t die, just continuing to suffer in this world.” Xia Jingsong also showed that “smile” he mentioned, “The second time, she followed her sister’s advice that one should always learn from experience, so she succeeded.”

“In her suicide note, she wrote that she was no longer pure and couldn’t stay by her sister’s side anymore.”

“So if there’s a next life, give her another chance to stay by her sister’s side forever.”