Chapter 827 - 829: Buy Them All
So when mom told him about this matter, he hadn’t had many thoughts. After that, they drove overnight to grandma’s house, and he did not see grandma come to the door to greet him. He went into the house and found grandma lying on the old bed. He walked over and softly called her grandma.
But grandma never responded to his calls again. At that moment, Xiao Yifei truly understood what mom meant when she said grandma would be gone forever. It meant he would never eat grandma’s cooking again, wear the clothes grandma washed, and from now on, there would no longer be grandma.
That was Xiao Yifei’s first experience of parting. He always thought grandma would forever be the image in his memory, waiting for him every night with dinner ready. But now, all of this could only happen in dreams.
Later, his parents each rebuilt their families, and Xiao Yifei lived at grandpa’s house for a long time. He always felt a sense of guilt toward grandma, thinking if he hadn’t left her to study in the big city back then, grandma would never have left.
Whenever he recalled grandma over the years, he realized the love grandma had for him was far deeper than he imagined. The love his parents couldn’t give him, grandpa and grandma gave him everything.
Grandpa alone raised him from a mischievous little boy to where he is today, fully aware of how challenging it must have been. An old man, busy with hospital work during the day—grandpa was so dedicated—came back at night to cook for him and tutor his studies.
He also had to endure the pain of losing someone who had accompanied him his whole life. But grandpa never spoke about these pains to Lin Mu.
In fact, Xiao Yifei had almost no memories of his parents. After mom formed a new family, she disappeared from his world, and as for dad, apart from having to come back for Chinese New Year, he was silent the rest of the year.
Xiao Yifei harbored complex feelings toward his parents. On one hand, they were his parents, blood ties closer than water, and he loved them. But, on the other hand, he hated them; they had almost never fulfilled their responsibilities in raising him.