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Chapter 331: Chapter 329: They Don’t Dare
Song Sinian seemed to hesitate for a moment, which puzzled Lu Zhaozhao.
She lifted her small face to look at Song Sinian. "But what?"
Song Sinian’s dark eyes blinked slightly. "If we involve Mr. Song in the wedding, he’ll definitely invite all the distant relatives and people from my mother’s family."
Lu Zhaozhao was momentarily stunned.
In her previous life, she and Song Sinian had only registered their marriage and started living together.
From beginning to end, she always felt that Song Sinian didn’t like anything too high-profile, so she never took the initiative to suggest having a wedding ceremony.
As for Song Sinian, that was even easier to understand; he thought she didn’t like it.
Moreover, after their marriage, she was always under Xiao Jinglan’s oppression and had not even had time to connect with the Xia Family.
Not to mention the relatives on Song Sinian’s mother’s side.
Lu Zhaozhao’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she leaned her small head on Song Sinian’s shoulder and asked, "What are the relatives on your mother’s side like?"
Song Sinian looked at Lu Zhaozhao for a few seconds, seeming like he was about to say something, but after a pause, he just gently shook his head. "I don’t know."
He had always lived with the Song Family, and ever since his mother passed away, he had never seen her maternal relatives again.
This answer wasn’t surprising to Lu Zhaozhao at all.
To Song Sinian, relatives were no different from strangers.
She asked casually, "Does your mother have other relatives?"
Song Sinian’s expression remained calm as he replied indifferently, "There is a grandmother and an uncle."
Hearing this, Lu Zhaozhao couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows. "That’s quite strange, that they’ve never come to the Song Family to ask for your help."
"They don’t dare."
Song Sinian’s concise answer left Lu Zhaozhao with even more questions in her eyes.
It was then that she remembered that in her past life, as well as this one, she never talked with Song Sinian about his parents.
She only knew that Feng Xiran had passed away when Song Sinian was very young, which led to Song Gu later marrying Xiao Jinglan.
Lu Zhaozhao’s eyes blinked in the dimly lit room, and for a moment, she didn’t know whether to speak up or not.
Seeing her silence, Song Sinian rubbed her little head with his large hand. "Why aren’t you talking? Are you tired?"
He had indeed been a bit rough just now, having been somewhat intense with her.
Only after wrapping her up from the water, did he see those speckles over her body.
Song Sinian felt a bit guilty, but he was even more afraid that she might be angry.
Lu Zhaozhao pursed her small mouth and gently shook her head. "I want to know about your parents’ past... but of course, if it makes you uncomfortable, you don’t have to talk about it."
She had previously suspected that Song Sinian’s emotional detachment was related to his parents’ early demise.
So she was worried that her question might upset him.
But unexpectedly, Song Sinian chuckled lightly, leaned down, and kissed her forehead. "It’s okay, if you want to hear it, I’ll tell you."
Saying so, he grabbed a pillow and propped it against Lu Zhaozhao’s lower back before continuing. "My mother was Feng Xiran, the least favored youngest daughter of the Feng family. My father, Song Gu, was an only child. Though he wasn’t pampered, he was willful and untamed..."
Through Song Sinian’s emotionless and flat recounting, Lu Zhaozhao learned about Feng Xiran and Song Gu’s past.
Song Gu, Song Sinian’s father, never really had much affection for his mother, Feng Xiran.
The initial marriage to Feng Xiran was because of her compliant nature, easy to control, marrying her fulfilled the duty to marry and have children; the rest didn’t concern him.
Feng Xiran had suffered from a severe lack of love since childhood, and after marrying into the Song Family, she desperately tried to secure her position, so she gave birth to Song Sinian early on.
She hoped to gain her husband’s attention and care, so how could she tolerate being ignored? Thus, she tried every possible way to make her presence felt in front of Song Gu.
She even went to the extent of abusing Song Sinian just to make Song Gu show up.
Song Sinian was Song Gu’s only child, and as long as he was sick, Song Gu had no choice but to appear.
It was later that Old Master Song discovered something was amiss and took Song Sinian under his wing.
But by then, the abused Song Sinian had already lost the ability and desire to express his emotions.
Old Master Song, although he tried his best to bond with him, was helpless.
Lu Zhaozhao reached out her little hand to hold Song Sinian’s, looking into his eyes with utter sympathy.
She had never considered that Song Sinian’s emotional barriers stemmed from his mother.
Song Sinian raised his hand and patted Lu Zhaozhao’s small hand, "All that is in the past now, that woman is just an insignificant person to me."
The past events and feelings were like watching a movie for him; he couldn’t even muster a shred of emotion.
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhaozhao’s eyes became moist again, and she reached her small hand out from under the towel, tenderly embracing Song Sinian.
Her tears "plink, plink" fell, leaving Song Sinian somewhat at a loss.
He gently patted her back, "What’s wrong? Why are you crying now?"
The pat from him only made Lu Zhaozhao cry even harder.
Song Sinian had encountered such a situation before, but the last time was after Lu Zhaozhao spoke about her past life.
But what was the situation now?
Song Sinian slowly lifted her up, heartachingly wiping away the tears at the corners of her eyes, his handsome face almost creased together, "What has happened? Tell me, and I’ll help you solve it, okay?"
Lu Zhaozhao shook her head, "No good, why did that woman have to do that to you? You were just a child who didn’t understand anything, sob... It hurts my heart!"
The more she spoke, the harder she cried.
Song Sinian, who was already feeling out of his depth, felt even more struck when he realized Lu Zhaozhao was crying because of her concern for him.
A sourness welled up in his chest.
His eyes welled up slightly with untold emotion, and it felt like a heavy burden on his heart had been lightened.
He reached out again to embrace Lu Zhaozhao, took a deep breath, and held her even tighter.
So this is what it feels like to be cared for by someone...
It feels wonderful.
For several days in a row, Xia Wenjin relied on playing the sympathy card, frequently topping the trending searches, repeatedly milking the abuse she faced in the Xia Family for attention and to sell products.
Xia Wenjin was initially worried that the Xia Family would retaliate with PR, and she even prepped the company’s publicists, ready for a showdown at any moment, and to garner more traffic in the process.
But as Xia Wenjin waited day after day, while other more explosive news items kept popping up, she could see her popularity visibly declining.
If she couldn’t come up with something more sensational soon, it would be very difficult to maintain her current heat.
"Have you thought of anything else to reveal?" her agent looked up at Xia Wenjin, his eyebrows nearly forming a knot.
When he had taken on Xia Wenjin, it was because she was the heiress of the Lu Group.
Such rich heirs playing at being stars usually came with resources, and he was happy to add another feather to his cap.
Moreover, with Xia Wenjin’s popularity and controversy, boosting her profile would be easy.
He had given Xia Wenjin quite a few resources, but she had been picky, either complaining about the low status of business endorsements or the small size of the roles... 𝒏𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
