Chapter 374 - 355: Sweet Home-III
Li Lian went to take a seat soon after her little sister had gone. As she bent her knees to rest on the couch, Li Lian watched her grandmother slowly walking to her left side where there was a single chair. Deep down Li Lian wondered what was her grandmother want to say that she can’t have anyone else apart than her in the room?
Her grandmother took her hands, placing it over hers to squeeze, "I have been thinking to say this earlier Li Lian before your mother and father could disown you from your house. Until now I could not understand your parent’s choice or why they hated you over trivial things which could be forgotten easily. As your father’s mother, I apologize in his stead," her grandmother bowed her back slowly as she was old and her back hurt when she bent too deep.
Seeing her grandmother bowed, Li Lian’s eyes widened and her hands quickly shot up to hold her grandmother’s shoulders. "Please don’t do this grandmother, it wasn’t your fault."
It was her father’s fault and her mother’ s fault. They blinded their eyes with disgust as soon as they know she was raised by Yakuzas which made them to have very less opinion about her. With the seed of displeasure growing on their heart when she first came to the house, it grew abundant with Xie Hue Lin’s provocations.
Sadly enough, a parents could hate their own daughter for being raised by Yakuzas after she had been kidnapped. A simple question of ’are you alright living there’ would have been fine but the first information Mr. and Mrs. Xie pressed was ’what did you do in that family’. They were afraid that she had turned into something abdominal while living in Ryouma Clan when they had treated her with nothing but familial love which her parents never showed her.
"As his mother, I am at fault for not being able to grow him up into a proper man and a good father." Sadness passed by Senior Mrs. Xie’s face and seeing it Li Lian squeezed harder. Li Lian thought she was the one who had to say sorry because no matter what, she wouldn’t be able to forgive her parents and soon would bring an end to this family’s charade.
"Not everyone could grow up with the teaching given by their parents, in the future it is up to the child to take paths, it had never been your fault, grandmother," Li Lian encouraged her grandmother whose face which had sadness turn to a small smile. "What did you mean by before I could be disown from the family?"
Senior Mrs. Xie looked sadder on Li Lian’s question because of her son and daughter in law’s fault that had destroyed their own daughter’s future.
"To tell you the truth, they had planned to disown you from the family long before that videotape," Senior Mrs. Xie watched how Li Lian grimaced at the mention of the video. It was the video of where she was drugged but Xie Hue Lin had twisted the truth by saying she had been the one who drugged herself to the point of intoxication. "I have faith that you didn’t do that, my dear."