Chapter 1068 - Capítulo 1068: 1069: It's All My Fault

Capítulo 1068: Chapter 1069: It’s All My Fault

“Thud!”

As the shelf collapsed, Xia Ximeng also fell off the chair!

Fortunately, because the chair back supported it, the shelf didn’t completely crush Xia Ximeng. Instead, it left a suspended space that completely enveloped her underneath.

This sudden scene still made her heart race, terrified!

Ruan Qiuting, standing aside, initially thought the shelf would directly hit Xia Ximeng. It wasn’t until she saw the chair back supporting the shelf that she became somewhat flustered!

She wasn’t sure if Xia Ximeng saw her momentarily standing by and doing nothing.

Hearing a clatter from upstairs, Li Xiangyang and the others quickly rushed up.

“What happened?”

Hearing the voice of Li Xiangyang at the door, the shocked Ruan Qiuting, who was staring blankly at the scene, suddenly snapped back to reality. As Li Xiangyang and the others entered, she hurriedly squatted down to check on Xia Ximeng, who was trapped beneath the shelf.

“Mother!”

Xia Ximeng was completely terrified, her face ashen and bloodless.

“Ximeng!”

Li Xiangyang, upon seeing his wife trapped under the shelf, also turned pale with shock and rushed over to help lift the shelf with the others.

“Ximeng, are you alright?”

Xia Ximeng, snapping out of her fright, saw the shelf lifted off her. Though she was struck by a photo album, causing a slight trace of blood on her forehead.

“What happened?” Li Xiangyang crouched down and helped her up from where she had fallen.

Thankfully, the room was carpeted, so she hadn’t suffered any serious injury from the fall.

As Li Xiangyang helped her up, Xia Ximeng glanced skeptically at Ruan Qiuting.

It probably wasn’t her imagination—did Ruan Qiuting really not help her future mother-in-law?

Even if she didn’t intend to be her mother-in-law, the fact was that they had this relationship. To Ruan Qiuting, once engaged to Yuanyuan, she’d be her mother-in-law. Even if she wasn’t, even as just a bystander, a maid would instinctively try to block the falling shelf, right?

But Ruan Qiuting didn’t. Instead, she stepped back several paces…

Perhaps out of guilt, when meeting Xia Ximeng’s eyes, Ruan Qiuting suddenly became restless.

Did she see her step back without offering a hand to help during the fall?

The more she thought, the more uneasy Ruan Qiuting felt.

“Qiuting, what exactly happened? How did your aunt get hit by the shelf?” Ruan Zhicheng couldn’t help but ask his daughter amidst the mess.

Being questioned by her father, Ruan Qiuting felt more guilty but soon calmed down, turning to Ruan Zhicheng. “Aunt, she…”

Suddenly, tears fell from her eyes, filled with apology and self-reproach. “It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have let Aunt stand on the chair to reach the photo album. I should have helped her…”

As she spoke, her voice started to choke, “If I had gone up to get it, Aunt wouldn’t have fallen.”

Her self-reproach and guilt made others feel a pang of sympathy.

“I’m sorry, Aunt, for not holding up the shelf in time. It’s all my fault…” she said, bowing her head in deep remorse, tears falling.