Chapter 412 - 396 Gap
"Heh heh, just picking someone up from the airport once made you feel stifled? That’s why I say you never really understand until you’ve experienced it yourself. These past years, it’s like you’ve forgotten the pain once the wound has healed, and you’ve forgotten what kind of people your siblings are," Xia Na chuckled with a bit of schadenfreude.
"Aren’t you angry? How my parents treated you back then, how they treated our two children. They didn’t offer a helping hand when times were tough, but now that we’re wealthy, they’re still leeching off us. Don’t you honestly feel a bit suffocated?" Gu Tianming questioned, perplexed.
"Everyone has a heart, how could I not feel suffocated? But I’ve learned my lesson by now. What’s the point of hurrying back to that and getting myself hurt internally?"
Xia Na laughed dismissively, realizing more and more over the years the gap between having strength and lacking it.
When you’re powerless, you often have no choice but to swallow your grievances, forcing yourself to endure through gritted teeth for various reasons. But once you have strength, it’s a different story altogether. You don’t tolerate it; there are so many ways to stand up for yourself and let others endure the bitterness.
Gu Tianming: "... So, this is just karma, and you want me to experience this stifling feeling firsthand?"
"After all these years of letting bygones be bygones, achieving success, you’d think they would have warmed up to us, even a stone would have heated up by now, right? Sadly, the reality proves that a child who is not favored by their parents, no matter how accomplished or filial, will still remain the unfavored one."
Xia Na smiled openly, not avoiding the truth as she told Gu Tianming, "Strictly speaking, it’s because of you that I’ve suffered these years."