Chapter 106: Messed up life
Once the call ended, Xia Luna sat on her bed and placed the phone back on the bedside table.
From the phone call they had just had, she knew that Li Lanni was starting to trust her. Or maybe she almost fully trusted her.
But instead of happiness, her face was filled with sadness... a lonely kind of sadness.
Actually, she hadn’t known Li Lanni for very long. She had grown up only knowing that she had a father and a stepmother. No one ever mentioned her mother, and like the good girl she was, she never asked.
It only happened about two years ago. Her father, Xia Hanchen, had suddenly been screened with a heart tumor. His health had deteriorated so rapidly that in a few months, he was almost just a walking shell. The doctors didn’t think he would make it past a year. He would talk to no one and just keep staring into space in a daze.
But every time he looked at Xia Luna, she would feel like he wasn’t truly looking at her. It was as though he was trying to see someone else through her.
She had always wondered who that person might be. Could it be that she resembled her biological mother and he was missing her?
One day, her questions were answered. He suddenly called her and told her about her biological mother and her twin sister.
She was shocked to find out that her mother was still alive, having assumed that she was dead all along. She was even more shocked that she had a twin. And she could tell from the look in her father’s eyes that he missed them too much.
As his dying wish, he pleaded her to let him meet with his ex-wife and his other daughter.
That was the first time she saw her father so desperate. She couldn’t bring herself to say no to him, especially when she was so desperate to make him happy. If there was anything she could do to make him live a day longer, she would do it even if she had to tread through fire.