Su Xiaofei sneered at her mother. So in the end, Bai Qingyue only cared about herself. All the excuses she said earlier were nothing but lies. She was a great actress, after all. If she didn't know any better, she would have fallen for it and believed Bai Qingyue's lies again.
"I know you wouldn't do it out of kindness." She said mockingly. "Fine. I suppose that is a fair deal. The public won't know about us being related to each other. After this, I hope you will never bring up the fact that I am your daughter ever again."
"Great. It's not like I want everyone to know that you are my daughter." Bai Qingyue easily agreed with her. No matter what she said now, it was obvious that Su Xiaofei wouldn't believe her at all.
Was it really hard to believe that she still had her maternal instincts and wanted to do something for her only child?
The mother and daughter pair stared at each other for a long moment, as if gauging each other. Su Xiaofei wanted to see if Bai Qingyue was telling the truth, but it was hard to tell what the actress was thinking at this moment.
She claimed that she had done it for her sake. That she didn't want to see her crying helplessly. How was she supposed to believe that?
"Then I don't need to waste my time here." Su Xiaofei broke the silence, finally able to rein her raging emotions towards her mother. "We don't have anything to do with each other from now on."
"That settles it then." The actress agreed with her and watched as Su Xiaofei left with her best friend while Lu Qingfeng remained.
Bai Qingyue looked at him curiously. From the moment she met her daughter, this young man was always by Su Xiaofei's side. She then thought that Su Xiaofei had a strong bond with this man, even before the two had gotten married.
"Is there something you need?"
"Why did you lie to Feifei?" Lu Qingfeng asked.
The actress let out a low chuckle and shook her head.
"How would you know whether I was lying to her or not?" She asked in return. "I'm an actor. How could you possibly tell I was lying to your wife?"
"Because your eyes don't lie." Lu Qingfeng replied at once. "You and Feifei share so many things, and that's one of them. She can say the most vicious words with a straight face, but her eyes would never lie, at least to me."
Bai Qingyue stared at him with widened eyes. That wasn't what she was expecting to hear from her son-in-law.
"How sure are you?"
Lu Qingfeng didn't respond immediately, but instead looked at her with a straight face.
He knew she was lying because she did what she had done because she was really concerned about Su Xiaofei. If not, would Bai Qingyue have ceased her own life in their previous lives, years after Su Xiaofei's death?
Bai Qingyue wanted her daughter out of showbiz because she knew how vicious people could be. However, she had never known that what she did only pushed Su Xiaofei into depression at that time.
If she didn't care about Feifei at all, she wouldn't have stepped forward and donated a part of her organs to Yun Qingrong. No matter how harsh her words were, it wouldn't hide her concern over the child she claimed had nothing to do with her.
"You can lie to Feifei and to everyone else, but I wonder how long you would be able to lie to yourself," were Lu Qingfeng parting words before he left her to find his distressed wife, leaving the actress on her own.
Once her guests were gone, Bai Qingyue lowered her guard and allowed her tears to flow freely from her face. She sniffed, swallowed hard and started to sob quietly. How can Lu Qingfeng tell that she was in a state of beyond pain?
She tried to convince herself that this was for the better and that Su Xiaofei didn't need her in her life because she already had a person to call her mother.
It was better this way. They could continue on with their own lives and pretend that they had never crossed paths. She would allow Su Xiaofei to hate her as long as she wanted if that would make her feel better.
Bai Qingyue knew she made a huge mistake, an unforgivable one, and she had to live with that for years. How many times had she cried herself to sleep, only to be haunted by nightmares of the daughter she abandoned? Just as Su Xiaofei said, she was a heartless monster when she should have been her mother first and foremost.
She knew that she made a mistake when she abandoned her at the orphanage, but it would be too unfair for Su Xiaofei to be raised in a dysfunctional family like the one Bai Qingyue had. Furthermore, she also didn't want to rob Qiao Fengying's future by tying him down in marriage and forcing him to provide for her and their unborn child.
She was young and stupid and a coward on top of that. The fault was hers to shoulder, not for either Qiao Fengying or Su Xiaofei. That had been on her. The only good thing that happened was that the child she left was taken in and raised by Yun Qingrong, and she was grateful for that.
Yun Qingrong had been the mother that Bai Qingyue could never be to her child. She loved Su Xiaofei the way she should have and raised her as a decent woman.
When she heard that Yun Qingrong had slipped into a coma and saw how devastated her daughter was, Bai Qingyue didn't think twice and let herself get tested to see if she was a match, knowing that she shared the same blood type as Yun Qingrong.
Since she couldn't be the mother Su Xiaofei deserved, she was willing to give her daughter one.
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