After drinking the coffee, Liu Yaozong's emotions finally eased.
Xia Weiliang was patient enough to sit with him, not urging him, but speaking slowly, "I'm not your family's daughter, am I?"
Hearing her say this in such a flat and indifferent tone, Liu Yaozong looked at her in shock and blurted out, "How did you know?" He immediately regretted it, wanting to cover his mouth, but it was too late.
Xia Weiliang remained expressionless. "How do I know... Heh, unless it's true, I would have found out sooner or later, wouldn't I?"
Liu Yaozong lowered his head and said nothing more.
She turned to him. "Why did your father do this?"
Liu Yaozong licked his dry lips. Like a child who had done something wrong, he seemed helpless. "My mother got sick, and they said she couldn't be cured. So she wanted... wanted to..."
"Wanted to extort one last thing from me with her life?"
"...Yes."
Liu Yaozong buried his head even lower.
Xia Weiliang followed his line of thought, "Who knew she wouldn't die after jumping off the building? Without a life to use as a bargaining chip, she couldn't make much of a scene. So Liu Wan Quan came up with this wicked plan, a plan that leads to a bad end."
Liu Yaozong started crying again. "I didn't know, I really didn't know anything... Even about my mother's illness, I only found out after she was admitted to the hospital..."
Seeing him crying with snot and tears streaming down his face, Xia Weiliang irritably threw him a pack of tissues. "What are you crying about? I'm the one who should be crying!"
"Wuwu... Ahh..."
Liu Yaozong cried harder and harder, unable to stop himself. He might as well have wailed at the top of his lungs.
He looked as pathetic as an abandoned orphan.
Xia Weiliang glanced at him from head to toe, smiled faintly, and comforted him, "Your father committed a crime and is now a wanted criminal. And you are the son of a wanted criminal."
After hearing this, Liu Yaozong cried even harder. "W-what will I do in the future?"
"At this point, you're still only thinking of yourself," Xia Weiliang sighed and shook her head. "As expected of a family; the genes are truly strong."
She stood up and looked at him. "The police will come to you for evidence. I have no other requests for you. Just tell the truth. Otherwise..."
Xia Weiliang let out a few cold laughs, bent down, placed a hand on the armrest of the chair, and her beautiful face slowly moved closer. "I'll kill you!"
Liu Yaozong shivered in fear. Xia Weiliang had no intention of letting him off. She raised her hand and pinched his face fiercely. "I don't care if you're sad now, or what kind of terrible situation your family is in. You just tell me the truth! Do you understand? Do you get it?"
"I know, I know, I understand! I understand!"
He kept nodding, clearly on the verge of tears again.
Xia Weiliang tossed her long hair, controlling her expression. "Always forcing me to do things that are unbecoming of a beauty."
She turned to go into the ward. A weak apology came from behind her: "S-sorry."
Her steps faltered. Without turning back, she pushed the door open and went inside.
Bao Fang had been rescued and was now lying lifelessly on the bed, her complexion extremely poor.
Song Yuan and Nuomi were watching over her. Xia Weiliang glanced at them. "You two wait for me outside."
Nuomi looked at her, afraid she might do something irrational. After all, ever since seeing that report, Sister Weiliang had been like a loaded pistol, ready to fire at any moment.
Song Yuan gave her a steady gaze, turned around without a word, and left, not forgetting to pull the stunned Nuomi out with him.
"But Sister Weiliang..."
"She knows what she's doing."
The door closed.
Inside the ward, only Xia Weiliang and the unconscious Bao Fang on the bed remained.
Xia Weiliang pulled up a chair and sat opposite the bed, lowering her head to stare at the ground, and slowly began, "Because I wasn't born to the Xia family, I was discarded like trash. And because you're not my biological parents, you could scheme against me without restraint, to the point of wanting to destroy me."
The person on the bed showed no reaction.
"I had suspected it before. Why were you, my so-called biological parents, so cruel to me? I wasn't the one who swapped the babies back then, nor was I the one who did anything wrong. Why treat me like this? But later, I let go."
"I found something I want to do, a career I want to strive for, and I've gained a group of people who genuinely care about me. I don't need to waste my time on people who aren't worth it."
"But... you've once again shown me how vile human nature can be."
"Having a serious illness and not having long to live, does that become your reason to harm me? I've never harmed you, let alone owed you anything. Why should I be threatened by you?"
"Your child is precious, but are others not? Although I don't know where my birth parents are, I prefer to believe their hearts are kind. If they were as ugly as you, I'd rather be an orphan."
Xia Weiliang kept talking like this, not caring if the person on the bed could hear. In any case, she wanted to pour out all the words that had been accumulating in her heart for so long!
From this family, she had seen clearly how detestable life could be.
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She didn't like to kick someone when they were down, but some things needed to be said clearly.
"You know, the moment you jumped, you became my nightmare; just as your son can never forget the painting of his father wanting to kill his mother..."
Bao Fang's lips twitched a few times, and the muscles in her cheeks twitched slightly.
Looking at her, Xia Weiliang sneered, "Are you only willing to open your eyes when I mention your son?"
Then she chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Well, at least you still care about someone. It's not a complete loss of humanity."
Bao Fang finally opened her eyes, followed by a heartbroken sob.
Her injuries were still severe, coupled with her serious illness and the disturbance caused by Liu Wan Quan earlier, she was extremely weak at this moment.
She cried silently, her heart breaking.
Xia Weiliang didn't speak again, letting her cry to her heart's content. Occasionally, she indifferently handed over tissues, watching her with a blank expression.
After crying for an unknown amount of time, to the point where Bao Fang almost fainted, she gradually stopped.
Wiping away her tears, she painfully turned her head and looked at Xia Weiliang with apology. "Miss Xia, I'm sorry."
"Yes, I received it, but I have no intention of forgiving."
This "sorry" was deserved.
But she chose not to forgive.
Bao Fang lowered her gaze and nodded slightly. "What we did is indeed unforgivable."
Xia Weiliang didn't respond, continuing to look at her coldly.
Bao Fang sighed deeply, her voice very weak and her throat hoarse.
Xia Weiliang paused for a moment, then still got up to pour her some water, helped her to drink a little more than half a cup, and then slowly laid her back down.
Bao Fang looked at her, her eyes turning red again. "Miss Xia, I know you are a good girl, I've always known it."