Ch 47: I’ll Take You To See Xixi!

It was precisely because she knew that Fu Xicheng had stood Xixi up that day, that Xixi hadn’t waited for him.

Therefore, all of this was Xixi’s imagination.

Every stroke, every line, was like a knife, stabbing fiercely in her heart.

The more Xixi anticipated, the more she valued it, the more heartbroken Su Tingwan felt watching.

She couldn’t help but think, during those more than ten hours Xixi waited alone in the cold wind, never seeing her father, how disappointed she must have been.

Before she passed away, she saw her father, whom she had waited for in vain, accompanying Cheng Ruotang at the amusement park.

How much heartache and sadness her baby must have felt at that moment.

Tears instantly blurred her vision, falling one after another.

……

Fu Xicheng made the sobering soup and went upstairs, but he didn’t find Su Tingwan in the master bedroom.

Seeing light under the crack of Xixi’s room door, he came over.

He pushed the door open.

Seeing Su Tingwan sitting quietly at Xixi’s desk, he pushed the door open quite loudly, but she didn’t hear it.

Fu Xicheng walked over.

He was about to ask Su Tingwan what she was looking at so intently.

Before he could speak, his gaze was drawn to the painting on the desk.

The first thing that caught his eye were a few lines of slightly childish writing on the painting.

The handwriting wasn’t pretty, but the little girl wrote each stroke very carefully: Hee hee……Mommy said it’s true, Daddy is really going to spend my birthday with Xixi alone, yay!

Xixi’s wish has finally come true, Xixi is super happy!

Tomorrow’s Xixi will be the happiest child in the world.

Behind these few lines of words, there were also several large smiling faces drawn.

Showcasing the little girl’s happiness.

Fu Xicheng looked at these words.

He recalled Su Tingwan asking him about Xixi’s birthday, and after he agreed, Xixi secretly called him that night.

On the phone, the little girl, in a soft and sweet voice, cautiously confirmed with him, “Daddy, Mommy said you will take me to the amusement park alone tomorrow to celebrate my birthday early, is that true?”

At that time, hearing “alone,” he was a little displeased.

Xixi couldn’t stand Tangtang.

But Xixi was his daughter after all, hearing her soft and cute tone, he suppressed his displeasure and gave her an affirmative answer: “Mm.”

The little girl on the other end of the phone couldn’t help but giggle.

She was very happy.

He couldn’t help but curve his lips.

“Daddy, see you tomorrow then.”

When the little girl spoke again, she became serious, but the ending of her words couldn’t hide the joy in her heart, rising upwards.

Very cute.

But despite the agreement to meet, he ended up standing Xixi up because of Tangtang.

Fu Xicheng felt a mix of emotions in his heart.

His complex gaze moved down to the painting below the words.

The painting was also very childish.

But the person who painted it, painted it with great care.

Simple strokes outlined two figures.

One was Xixi, and the other was him.

The background of the painting showed it was an amusement park.

He was holding Xixi’s hand.

He was also holding Xixi.

And Xixi was riding on his neck, happily giving a thumbs-up.

Different scenes, but the same was Xixi’s smile.

Her smile was so bright.

This was Xixi’s imagined scene.

She was just imagining, and she was so happy.

These images were her most beautiful expectations for this amusement park trip.

Fu Xicheng could feel from every stroke and line of Xixi’s painting how much she looked forward to this birthday.

Fu Xicheng felt a lump in his throat.

His thin lips moved, and he said in a hoarse voice, “Sorry.”

He didn’t expect that such a trivial matter as going to the amusement park would make Xixi so excited.

Hearing Fu Xicheng’s hoarse and apologetic voice, Su Tingwan forcefully closed her eyes.

After a moment, she opened her eyes, slowly turned her head, her eyes red and swollen from crying, staring at Fu Xicheng’s slightly red eyes, she glared at him hatefully, saying word by word, “Sorry? Fu Xicheng, your sorry is worthless!”

Fu Xicheng looked at Su Tingwan, whose emotions were out of control.

He remembered that Su Tingwan had knelt down to beg him for this opportunity.

He originally didn’t have the time.

Because Tangtang was going to have surgery, and she was scared.

He had promised Tangtang early on that he would stay with her until before her surgery.

When Su Tingwan mentioned it, he directly refused.

But he didn’t expect Su Tingwan to kneel down and beg him.

He finally agreed.

But he broke his promise in the end.

“It’s my fault, I will make it up to Xixi.”

Fu Xicheng lowered his voice.

This was the first time he had spoken to Su Tingwan in such a low voice in front of her.

Su Tingwan clenched her fists.

She didn’t immediately relent, but instead pressed on, “Make it up? How will you make it up? Fu Xicheng, do you know how long Xixi waited for you at the amusement park that day? She waited from morning till night, for more than ten hours.”

“It was minus thirteen degrees Celsius that day.”

“Even adults couldn’t stand it, let alone Xixi, she was only five years old, she stubbornly stood in the cold wind waiting for you.”

“And where were you?”

Su Tingwan said these things to deepen Fu Xicheng’s guilt, but as she spoke, her tears flowed out again.

Fu Xicheng was also brought into that scene by Su Tingwan’s words.

He seemed to see Xixi’s small figure standing in the amusement park.

Staring at the entrance.

Waiting for his appearance.

Fu Xicheng’s throat tightened even more, he suppressed the discomfort in his chest, and promised in a hoarse voice, “Let Xixi come back, I promise her that in the future, whenever she wants to go to the amusement park, I will accompany her.”

“Not just the amusement park, as long as she wants it, and I can do it, I will fulfill it for her.”

Su Tingwan didn’t respond, just looking at Fu Xicheng.

At this moment, she saw in Fu Xicheng’s eyes a trace of guilt and regret towards his daughter.

He didn’t completely not love his daughter.

Just now, when she saw Xixi’s painting, she felt heartache for her daughter, and felt it was unfair to her.

Fu Xicheng came over, and she heard him.

She suppressed her anger.

This painting was deliberately shown to him.

She wanted to know if Fu Xicheng, seeing what Xixi had drawn, feeling Xixi’s wholehearted love for her irresponsible father, would be cold and unresponsive, or… would he be touched.

If he was touched, he also cared about Xixi.

Then, she would tell him that Cheng Muyan killed Xixi.

Would he possibly choose Xixi?

Then her Xixi could rest in peace.

“Tingwan, tell me, where is Xixi?”

Fu Xicheng took Su Tingwan’s hand and asked again.

Su Tingwan looked deeply into Fu Xicheng’s eyes, suppressed her surging emotions, and tried to speak to him in a calm voice, “If you really want to see Xixi, I will take you to see her now.”