Chapter 6 - 5 - : Family
Lin Wan just lowered her head and didn’t speak at that time, merely responding faintly. Apart from guilt and guiltiness, what occupied her mind the most was looking at Mom and her brother standing in front of her covered in patches, feeling disgusted, thinking she was embarrassed. She didn’t say much, took the quilt, clothes, daily necessities her Mom and brother brought from afar, along with five dollars, and returned to campus.
She didn’t care at all where her family stayed that night. Did they have money on them? How did they get here? She didn’t ask a single question.
Thinking about these things, Lin Wan felt angry and ashamed, cursing herself a million times in her heart, feeling worse than pigs and dogs. She thought why didn’t she just die back then, staying at home only to make her family sad...
This lifetime she made up her mind to treat her Mom and brother well. In this life, she must not disappoint her brother and mother, must not let her brother have regrets. She could skip college, but her brother must attend, even if she had to wait two years or go to a night school.
As Lin Wan had just tidied up, leaving the door open, she looked up to see her Mom and brother covered in patches standing outside.
Seeing her Mom and brother, they looked no different than at the school gate years ago. They must have gone crazy looking for her.
"Mom... Brother..." The long-lost relatives, missed day and night, how many days and nights had she not seen them? Her eyes turned red for a moment, choked with emotion.
Liang Hongmei searched for her daughter for over ten days, and the family was almost driven crazy with worry. She had a bellyful of words to say, a bellyful of words to scold, but the flames of anger in her heart turned into heartache and self-blame upon seeing her daughter. If it weren’t for her incompetence, the two children wouldn’t have suffered, and her daughter wouldn’t have run away from home.
Lin Wan stepped forward to hug Liang Hongmei, her tears fell continuously. "I’m sorry, Mom, I was wrong. I was too willful, making you and brother worry."