Chapter 1249 A Candy
The next morning, Xiang Wai went to look for her dad first. Fortunately for her, Xiang Hulin was at home. So, she didn't have to run around to look for him. Seeing him sitting with Grandpa Xiang, she silently went to sit with him.
"Dad!" she called out.
"What is it?" asked Xiang Hulin. He looked amused seeing the look in Xiang Wai's eyes right now.
"Who proposed between you and Mom back then?"
Xiang Hulin raised his brows at her. Even Mu Chenyan looked up from the tablet in her hands. Yue Yue also looked over wondering why and where did this question even come from?
Xiang Hulin didn't know why she was asking but he still answered to satisfy her curiosity, "Your mother proposed."
Xiang Wai was surprised but not all that surprised since she already heard it from Song Xin'ai and mentally came to terms with it. After all, she still believed in Song Xin'ai's words. But that didn't stop her from asking, "Didn't you chase her?"
"He did," came Mu Chenyan's voice. "But maybe Sister Xin'ai got tired of waiting. So, she took the lead."
"It's definitely not because she got tired of waiting," argued Xiang Hulin.
Mu Chenyan shrugged, "If you say say, Ge."
"Don't sound so perfunctory. At least try to sound like you actually mean it."
Mu Chenyan grinned and focused back on the tablet in her hands.
"How did she propose?" asked Xiang Wai even more curiously.
When she asked this question, even Yue Yue moved closer and looked at Xiang Hulin with gossipy eyes waiting for some answers. Xiang Hulin found their looks quite funny.
"That's a very good question," said Grandpa Xiang who had been silently reading a newspaper. "Why don't you tell them?"
Xiang Hulin looked at his father and then at his daughter and Yue Yue.
"Well, you must know that mobile phones weren't a huge thing back then. Especially, texting. People usually called if they wanted to talk to each other."
"I know, I know. You come from ancient times. What else?"
Xiang Hulin tapped her forehead, "It wasn't ancient times. And why are you even curious about this? You never even wanted to know anything about my and your mother's relationship before. Why suddenly this curiosity?"
"For research purposes," she answered very seriously.
'That's an answer I'd expect most from Raelle,' said Yue Yue.
"I sound like her, right?" asked Xiang Wai happily.
Yue Yue nodded without any hesitation.
"We are sisters anyway," said Xiang Wai. "There is nothing wrong with me sounding like her."
Mu Chenyan shook her head but didn't raise her head or interrupt them.
"Papa, stop distracting me. Tell me what she did to propose to you?"
Xiang Hulin was momentarily lost in memories as she told her, "She gave me a journal."
Xiang Wai's face fell, "That's it? What's romantic about that? How can you even agree when she gave you a journal?"
"The journal recorded the memories they shared," said Mu Chenyan. "The journal was actually a lot more romantic at that time than you think. In that journal, she kept every word that my Ge wrote to her and even the wildflowers he plucked for her. It had their pictures together. It recorded everything from the moment they first met to the day she proposed to Ge."
Xiang Wai went silent for a while and let that sink in because she couldn't believe that Song Xin'ai could do something like this. Yes, she was a very thorough and detailed person. But this...
"Did she put your love letters in that journal too?" asked Xiang Wai jokingly.
"Do I look like someone who can love letters, my dear daughter?" asked Xiang Hulin.
Xiang Wai bit her lips and shook her head, "Sorry, Papa! But I really can't picture you writing a love letter. And I can't picture Mom writing one even more. What would it even sound like if she wrote a love letter? Maybe I should ask Raelle to try writing a love letter. It'd come out very close to what Mom could have done."
"Don't drag my Elle into this," said Mu Chenyan. "Anyway, she might not be good with emotions but she is very good with words. So, she might end up doing a better job at writing a love letter than you. She had never lost when it came to eloquence."
"That's true," agreed Xiang Wai. "Then what were your words that she kept in that journal?"
"Do you know what was the very first thing I gave your mother?" asked Xiang Hulin.
"I don't know."
"It was a candy," replied Xiang Hulin.
Xiang Wai gave him a look. A very judgemental look.
"Don't look at me like that. You'd be surprised at how much your mother likes candies."
"What? Mom likes candies? I have never seen her eating any."
Xiang Hulin smiled sadly at that, "Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean she doesn't like it."
"How is that possible? I grew up with her. Even if I barely got to see her, I still know something, no?" Xiang Wai stubbornly insisted on her point and again got off the track. It was really difficult to have a conversation with such a person whose focus kept going off track all the time. But no one in the room was impatient with her at all.
Yue Yue held her sleeve to stop her from questioning and stared into her eyes as she mouthed, 'You can't know your mother better than your father. Don't forget she was the woman he once fell in love with. How could you compete with that?'
Xiang Wai stopped making trouble instantly. Right, just because she hadn't seen it didn't mean her parents had never been in love with each other. Even if she knew nothing about their love story, it was a fact that they once really loved each other. So much so that even after everything, to this day, they don't hate each other like bitter exes. Both of them would only have the best words to say about the other person.
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