Chapter 993: Recovering to Normal, Yet No Longer Happy 2

Shi Youxuan really wanted to say "No."

But she could not be sure.

When Shi Yuke was a fool, everything was very harmonious, and all problems were not problems.

But now that she has recovered her memory, those problems cannot be ignored.

She shook her head: "I don't know either, but Yixin, you don't have to be afraid. Moli is no longer three years old, but a big child of twelve or thirteen. He now has his own thoughts and his own judgment. No one can sever the bond between you as mother and son."

"Will it? Will it really be like that?"

Jian Yixin paced back and forth in the corridor.

"How about I move? Emigrate? Anyway, A Ning is back now, let him manage the company, and our family of three will find a place where no one can find us. Let's not have any contact in the future."

Shi Youxuan:...

It was not yet confirmed whether her sister had recovered her memory, but Jian Yixin had already panicked.

"Don't be anxious. How about this: starting today, don't come to the Hospital Ward, and don't live at home. Move to a place where no one can find you. Don't tell anyone the address, not even me. We can keep in touch via WeChat if anything comes up, and I will report the situation here to you at all times. Does that work?"

Shi Yuke had woken up, and she was also unsure what kind of bottomless things her sister might do.

After all, she had done too many excessive things in the past; no one could guarantee anything about this kind of thing!

"Okay, okay, okay, let's do it! Thank you, Xuanxuan, thank you so much. I won't talk to you anymore, I'm leaving..." Jian Yixin left in a hurry, extremely anxious.

Shi Youxuan returned to the Hospital Ward and said to the caregiver: "You go out, guard the door, and come back in when I call you."

The caregiver went out, and Shi Youxuan pulled a chair over and sat by the hospital bed: "Sister, I know you aren't asleep. Since you're awake, talk to me."

No response.

The person on the hospital bed had her eyes tightly closed; if it weren't for her eyelashes trembling slightly, she would be no different from someone asleep.

But her hands betrayed her heart.

Shi Yuke's hands were gripping the bedsheet tightly, her fingernails looking as if they were about to tear through it.

She was very nervous; she had had this little habit since she was a child.

Every time she was nervous, no expression could be seen on her face, but her fingernails would dig into her palms.

"Sister, you are very nervous right now, aren't you?"

"I know what you are worried about. You are worried that I will take revenge on you and do you harm, but you are really overthinking it. If I wanted to do that, I have had too many, many opportunities over these years, but I never did, and I won't in the future either."

"I know even without you speaking. You have recovered your memory now, you remember the things from before, and your mood is very complicated. You don't know how to face us, how to face your brother-in-law and the children, right?"

"The Dao of Heaven is a cycle; who has Heaven ever spared?" Shi Yuke finally spoke, two bean-sized teardrops sliding from the corners of her eyes.

"Shi Youxuan, go ahead and mock me. The result I have now is all self-inflicted. I brought this on myself, I can't blame anyone else."

"You can mock me as much as you want now. I am not as good as you, and I will never be able to compare to you. We are now in two different classes; it is the difference between the clouds and the mud."

She opened her eyes, without jealousy or hatred.

There was not even regret for the past, only confusion and despair.

Shi Youxuan retorted: "Why would I mock you?"

"I have never thought about mocking you. Although you and I have no blood relationship, we grew up together. In my heart, you are my sister, my family."

Shi Yuke's tears flowed even more fiercely.

"Shi Youxuan, everyone says you are smart, that you were pretending to be a fool, but I think you are truly a fool. I was so bad to you. Back then, I pushed you down the stairs twice—once forcing you to pretend to be a fool, and the other time causing you to almost lose the child in your womb. Why don't you hate me? And you are still so good to me. If you aren't a fool, what are you?"

Shi Youxuan: "I do hate you, of course I hate you. But didn't you end up with nothing later on? You have already received the retribution you deserved; we are even now."

"Even?"

She was surprised: "I harmed you time and time again, yet you tell me we are even? Aren't you afraid that I will do the same in the future?"

Shi Youxuan smiled slightly: "Not afraid. Think about it, from childhood to adulthood, when have you ever gained the upper hand in fighting me?"

These words were infuriating, yet they were the truth.

Shi Youxuan: "Actually, you have already given yourself the answer, haven't you? The Dao of Heaven is a cycle; who has Heaven ever spared?"

"What is past is past, don't dwell on it. Letting others go is being kind to yourself!"

"Only by letting go of the past can you embrace a beautiful future. Life is not yet half over, the road ahead is still very long, and you still have to look forward."

One week later.

Shi Yuke was discharged from the hospital and went home.

She did not want to go to a postpartum care center; she wanted to have her confinement at home.

They hired a confinement nanny, and Meiyin and Yulong were placed with Nianyin.

The nanny mainly helped take care of the children, while the confinement meals were prepared by Gu Zhihao himself.

"Wife, time to eat." Before the person even entered, the fragrance of the food drifted in.

The man's cooking skills were impeccable, but as for the man himself... Shi Yuke looked down on him in every way.

"Put it there," she said coldly.

"Wife, no, Yuke, I know you hate me..." He twisted his hands together, his expression very conflicted.

Although he was not a great success, he was not a fool. Since his wife had recovered to normal, her attitude toward him had been cold, and she never had a smiling face.

He knew Shi Yuke looked down on him, and he was mentally prepared for a separation, but having to be the one to break this layer of window paper still made him conflicted, and his heart ached.

He loved her.

She was the mother of his son and daughter.

She didn't despise him when she was a fool, but now that she had recovered to normal, she despised him.

"If you want to... divorce, I agree."

Those two words were finally spoken, and he continued: "After you finish your confinement, we will go handle the paperwork. The house will be transferred to your name; it was originally a house of the Shi Family, I don't want it."

"All the savings in the house will be given to you. As for the children, if you are willing to take them, they are yours. If you are worried that having children will make it hard to remarry, then leave them to me."

"Rest assured, as long as I have a bite to eat, the children will have a bite to eat; no matter how bitter or difficult it is, I can raise them."

Shi Yuke retorted: "How will you raise them? By letting them grow up in a junk-collecting cart?"

"That is a situation with no other choice; I don't know how to do anything else."

He gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "If you think collecting junk is not respectable, I will open a restaurant. With my skills, business will surely be booming, and I will give the children a respectable future."

Shi Yuke:...

In her perception—opening a restaurant is just as unrespectable as collecting junk!

Yet Gu Zhihao had made a great determination to do this.

"Get out, we will talk about this later."

"You don't want to divorce me?" The man was full of surprise.

Shi Yuke was very impatient: "Get out, get out, I already said we'll talk about it later. Can you not understand human speech or what? Get lost!"