บท 50: Nightmare (2)
Su Xiaofei remembered falling asleep in her room once her mother calmed down after the incident with Ye Xing and Ye Mingyu. She was planning to take a short nap, expecting Aunty Liu to wake her up once dinner was ready. However, the moment she opened her eyes, she found herself watching over forty-five-year-old Lu Qingfeng, who was now lying on his deathbed.
Why? Why did she become a ghost again? What was the meaning of this?
She screamed and screamed, trying to step out of her bedroom, but she felt like there was a barrier stopping her from leaving the place. She called after her mother and Aunty Liu, begging them to open the door and let her out, but there was no response.
"Feifei…" She heard Lu Qingfeng called her name and saw that he was burning in fever and in pain. "Wait for me, Feifei…"
'Stupid.' Su Xiaofei said as she stood next to the bed, her tears streaming down her face. 'You are really stupid.'
Why did she have to witness this all over again? Was the heavens trying to remind her of what could happen again if she failed in her quest to change her fate?
Su Xiaofei fell on her knees and wept uncontrollably, covering her face with both hands as she begged someone to pull her out from this nightmare. She knew that she was dreaming and this wasn't her real world and time, but she couldn't force herself to wake up, no matter how hard she tried.
"Feifei…" She heard Lu Qingfeng's familiar voice again.
"Feifei, wake up." Her mother's voice resounded in her mind and Su Xiaofei immediately removed her hands from her face and looked around.
"Su Xiaofei! You better wake up or else!" This time, Lu Qingfeng's voice reached her once again. It was filled with concern and worry, which she hadn't heard from him in a long time.
Su Xiaofei's eyes shot open, and she jolted up from her bed. Her eyes were round and wide as she looked at the face of her mother and the fifteen-year-old Lu Qingfeng, who were both looking at her with worried expressions on their faces.
"W-wha… what happened?" She asked as Yun Qingrong pulled her into a tight embrace.
"Aunty Liu came here to check on you because you haven't gone down for dinner. She called us and said that you are having a nightmare, but she couldn't seem to wake you up no matter how hard she tried."
"Ohh…" Su Xiaofei had no idea how to explain it herself. She didn't even realize that she was also crying in her sleep as she touched her face only to find it wet.
Yun Qingrong felt her heart ache seeing her daughter like this. It must have been their encounter with Ye Xing and her daughter earlier that's causing her Feifei such a nightmare. Her Feifei must have been really bothered that she would be abandoned again, had she agreed to Ye Xing's outrageous request earlier.
She was supposed to be the one to protect her daughter, but it was Feifei who mustered all her courage to deal with Ye Xing and Ye Mingyu. As a daughter from a military lineage, she should never allow anyone to bully her daughter!
After a long silence and assuring her mother that she was fine, Su Xiaofei went down and had dinner with her mother and Lu Qingfeng, although she didn't have any appetite to eat. Once she was done, she excused herself to get some air outside to clear her mind.
"Xiaofei."
Su Xiaofei turned around to find Lu Qingfeng joining her in the garden. She gave him a weak smile and turned her attention to the buds of roses that had yet to bloom. She expected them to bloom beautifully though they are surrounded by thorns.
"What happened back there?" She heard Lu Qingfeng asked, knowing that he should have heard about the commotion this afternoon.
"Su Haoran's mistress came to trouble Mama by requesting her to allow her daughter to live with us. She said that she was diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer and was already facing a financial crisis and wouldn't be able to take care of her daughter on her own."
In front of Lu Qingfeng, Su Xiaofei didn't need to pretend that she liked her adoptive father, nor did she need to hide anything from him. She could be herself with Lu Qingfeng.
"And you disagreed on your mother's behalf?"
"Of course! If I have a husband and a woman came and claimed that he had fathered her child, I would kick him and his mistress out to the curb! I'm not that stupid to accept a man who couldn't keep his zipper close." She laughed, but her smile never reached her eyes.
Perhaps it was because she had already experienced marriage, she knew the pain that came with being treated like a fool by her own husband. Mo Yuchen had done a great job ruining her beliefs when it comes to marriage, and Su Xiaofei didn't think she would ever get married and have a family of her own in this lifetime.
As if Lu Qingfeng could hear her thoughts, he asked her.
"You don't want to get married?" His tone was gentle, as if he was afraid that he would offend her by asking such a question.
"No." Su Xiaofei replied without batting an eyelid.
"Why?" Lu Qingfeng continued to probe.
"Because I'm a very greedy person, Xiao Feng." She gave him another weak laugh. "If I were to marry, I want everything from him. I want to be part of every aspect of his life. His heart, his thoughts, his body… his everything. I want all of it."
However, in her past life, her husband only looked at her with contempt and hatred.
"Then it should be yours." Lu Qingfeng said after a long silence between them.
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