Love in the Midst of Mistaken Identities

Rainy hugged her doll, letting out a small yawn. She touched her own stomach. I’m so hungry, Mommy... Daddy... She lightly pushed open the door. Just then, her two legs left the floor.

She was easily carried into Gao Yi’s embrace.

“Daddy.” Her sweet voice called out to Gao Yi. She rubbed her face against Gao Yi’s chest.

“Rainy loves Daddy the most. Daddy smells nice.” She sniffed her nose, loving his smell.

“You’re such a sweet-talker. Who did you learn that from?” Gao Yi hugged Rainy and took a seat. He rubbed her soft hair. Her new look really made her prettier than before. As expected of Chu Lui’s acquaintance.

“Rainy, Daddy’s bringing you to take an airplane, okay? After that, Daddy will bring you to a very fun place. A lot of people there will love Rainy and dote on her. There are also lots of beautiful flowers there.”

“Really?” Rainy sat on Gao Yi’s lap, opening her eyes wide as she asked him. “Will there be people who dote on Rainy like Grandpa and Uncle do?”

“They will. They will dote on Rainy.” Gao Yi nodded his head. What a cute child, he believed that they would definitely like her a lot.

“Can we bring Grandpa and Uncle with us? And that Daddy as well?” Her voice became a lot softer. Her black eyes were pure and crystal clear.

“If I let Rainy choose, would you rather go with Daddy or stay here by Grandpa and that Daddy’s side?” He placed his hand on Rainy’s small face. He wasn’t forcing her; it was just that this was a choice she would have to make sooner or later.

Rainy’s expression darkened a little... so she had to make a choice. “Can I choose both?” She hastily asked. She liked both of them. Why could she only choose one?

“Nope.” Gao Yi shook his head. “Take Rainy’s doll and a lollipop as an example. If Rainy could only choose one, then what would Rainy choose?” Gao Yi asked again. This was seemingly more straightforward for her.

“Dolly,” Rainy replied without any hesitation. She could give up the lollipop, but she couldn’t live without her doll. The doll was her most prized possession. Without the doll, she wouldn’t be able to fall asleep.

“Then, if you had to choose one for this, too, Rainy, who would you choose?” He seriously stared at Rainy’s face as he asked the question.

Rainy thought for a moment, seemingly very troubled. In the end, she looked at Gao Yi and then at the kitchen door. She resembled Xia Ruoxin when she was looking for things.

“Rainy chooses...” She lowered her head, fiddling her fingers. She was thinking hard, really hard.

“Rainy chooses Daddy.” She finally made the difficult choice. Although Grandpa, Uncle, and Daddy treated her very well; she still loved her parents the most.

Gao Yi faintly heaved a sigh of relief and hugged the small figure a little tighter in his embrace. It was an unexpected choice, but it also made him feel a little burdened. Sorry, Ruoxin, let me be selfish for a while. Whether you love me or not, I just want to keep you by my side. I don’t want to lose just like that... I really don’t.

Xia Ruoxin stood in the kitchen. Her fingers stung slightly. Her wound had already been carefully wrapped up by Gao Yi. She placed her hand on top of her chest, feeling tightness in there. It was so tight that it seemingly suffocated her.

She turned around and looked outside. Her pupils were slightly dazed as she thought in her mind: marrying Gao Yi, she would definitely be happy-definitely.

She convinced herself this way. She knew that she would never regret this decision. Because everything that man had done for her, she wouldn’t be able to repay him for it even if she used a lifetime.

Whereas, at that moment, in the hospital, Chu Lui was breathing slightly erratically. His fever had yet to subside, scaring Du Jingtang so much that he paced about the room. The Chus also stood in the room, not knowing what to do.

What on earth had happened? Yesterday, he was clearly a lot better. How did his cold suddenly get so serious? Song Wan gripped Chu Jiang’s hand tightly. She felt unbelievably nervous, so much so that she didn’t know what to do. Since he was young, her son had never had gotten so sick before.

“It’ll be fine. Don’t worry, he’ll recover.” Chu Jiang gently patted his wife’s hand. In actual fact, he was worried to death. However, as the head of the Chu family, he couldn’t show any signs of unease. He still had to console his wife.

However, watching his son lay on the hospital bed, he started to feel weak in the knees as well.

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Du Jingtang finally stopped walking. He was sick, and it wasn’t any usual sickness. He was love-sick; because of a woman, he was love-sick. Could one say that he deserved it? Could one say that it was self-inflicted?

He was torturing himself, but there was nobody who could help him or give him an answer.

He had to get through everything himself.

“Auntie, Uncle, let’s leave for now. Let Cousin have a good rest. The doctor already said that his fever had subsided and that he needed to take a good rest.”

As Du Jingtang spoke, he picked up the bunch of documents that Chu Lui had already gone through from one side. It was so thick. He lowered his head, actually giving himself a scare. He could once again confirm that his cousin was not a human but a robot. With such a serious cold, he still managed to look through these thick documents. If it was him, he would’ve passed out from exhaustion a long time ago.

The door was lightly closed, and nobody saw Chu Lui’s hands that clenched together tightly. The perspiration on his forehead ceaselessly fell; he was evidently in a state of unease.

“Sorry...” His lips moved from time to time. He was so dehydrated that his lips had cracked.

“Sorry, Ruoxin...” he spoke again. He had said ‘sorry’ in his heart several times; it was just that nobody heard it, and nobody forgave him. He had lost four years of his life.

It seemed like those four years was his lifetime. He experienced everything but happiness.

Moreover, his daughter... he had also let her down. She was originally supposed to be the little princess of the Chu family, but she ended up suffering together with her mother instead. Sorry, I’m really sorry.

When he woke up again, everything had become experiences of a day before. It was nothing more than a short day, and yet he already tortured himself so much that he seemed like a completely different person. The life in him had been sucked out, and it was replaced with decadence, bitterness, and emaciation.