nucmednet Chapter 1304 - 1300: Let’s Settle This Together
Chapter 1304 - 1300: Let’s Settle This Together
"Little Bun?" Seeing Bi Xiaoyuan standing at the stairway entrance, Bi Xia paused for a moment, then walked over with a smile, making as if to pick him up. Who knew Bi Xiaoyuan would take a step back to avoid her. She was slightly stunned, her brows faintly knitting. "What’s wrong?"Bi Xiaoyuan opened his mouth, met Bi Xia’s eyes from which all emotion had been withdrawn, and thought of what Xiao Wu had just said to him. All the composure and calm he’d had in front of Xiao Wu disappeared without a trace; now there was only jittery unease in front of Bi Xia. In the end he bit his lip and left behind one sentence—"I’m not a little kid anymore"—then turned and ran upstairs.
Her hand movements stilled for a beat. Bi Xia silently watched Bi Xiaoyuan’s back as he went up the stairs, then after a while leaned sideways against the railing at the stairhead.
"I’m sorry..."
Xiao Wu’s voice sounded in Bi Xia’s mental sea: [I said some things to him, things from the bottom of my heart. Maybe they were a bit radical, maybe a bit extreme. I know he’s still a child, and what I said might trigger discomfort and a rebellious mindset in him, but... I’m sorry.]
She turned her eyes toward 007, who was looking at her. Bi Xia withdrew her gaze, took a deep breath, turned, and walked upstairs, and 007 also stood up at the same time and ran to her side. Xia Shi came out of the kitchen carrying a plate of fruit and looked at Bi Xia. "Xiaxia, don’t go up yet, have some fruit."
"I’m not eating," Bi Xia didn’t turn back, just kept walking upward, her voice mild and calm, as if nothing had happened. "I’m too tired. I’m going to rest first. Tomorrow I’ll get up early and go look for Xiao Wu. You two get things ready; in the evening I’ll have Chi come pick you up and take you to the hotel. If not, then let Uncle Ji come pick you up. Just let me know which you decide."
"...Xiaxia," Xia Shi called her in confusion, "what’s wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I’m going to sleep first. You tell Little Bun to eat some fruit. Goodnight, Mom."
Watching that door slowly close, Xia Shi’s brows knit tightly. Before she could lift her foot to go upstairs, she heard another door open. Bi Xiaoyuan was standing in the doorway, head lowered, silently staring at the tips of his shoes, until Xia Shi came up the stairs and walked to stand in front of him, her voice gentle and soft. "Did you have a fight with your brother?"
Bi Xiaoyuan pressed his lips together, glanced at Bi Xia’s tightly closed room door, and shook his head lightly. "No, it’s my fault."
[You said too much.]
had already returned to the Space. He looked blandly at the light-orb-shaped Xiao Wu. [Bi Xiaoyuan is still just a child.]
[I know,] Xiao Wu floated in midair, his eyes half-lowered. [But I just don’t like him.]
[He’s still just a child. Back then, wasn’t Elder Sister also a child? Why is it that just because he’s a boy he gets to have his mother’s protection and live so safe and sound? Why is it that just because he cried so miserably in the last life, Elder Sister loved him so much after she came back?! If he really liked Elder Sister that much, in the last life he should have gone to care about her! Instead of...]
[Enough,] 007 cut Xiao Wu off. [You’re not Bi Yuan, and I’m not Bi Xia. We can’t judge a person purely by our own subjective feelings! With Bi Xia’s temper in the last life, who could even get close to her?! Having a Qu Zian and a Wen Yian was already pretty good! Let alone Bi Yuan, who was pushed a thousand miles away by her since childhood!]
Xiao Wu opened his mouth, then fell silent in the end, turning his head away awkwardly and darting straight out of the Space, sitting alone in the room sulking. He didn’t like Bi Xiaoyuan! He just didn’t like Bi Xiaoyuan!
[But he’s Bi Xia’s biological younger brother, the brother she wants to protect for a lifetime.]
007’s words suddenly came back to him. Xiao Wu froze, and then he heard 007 say, [We can be Bi Xia’s family, and you can always treat yourself as another younger brother of Bi Xia, competing with Bi Yuan for her favor. But you need to understand, Xiao Wu, Bi Xia has people she wants to protect, and she is the one we want to protect.]
[Among the people Bi Xia wants to protect, we are included, but there are many others as well. Because Bi Xia has many responsibilities, the people she has to protect will keep increasing. We can’t demand that we be her only ones, but we just need to understand that she is our only one, and that’s enough.]
[Do you think that’s right?]
007’s words felt like a hard slap across Xiao Wu’s face. He sat dazedly on the bed, and after a long while lay down and pulled the blanket over his head. He didn’t make a sound; only his big eyes, glowing with a red light, flickered as he sank deep into thought.
looked at Bi Xia, who had appeared in the study space, then turned and said, [Your Majesty, Xiao Wu, he...]
"I know." Bi Xia smiled. She lifted her hand and waved it, and a screen appeared, showing Bi Xiaoyuan crying his eyes out by himself, while another screen showed Xiao Wu. Bi Xia chuckled softly. "Look, aren’t the two of them really alike?"
"Actually, I know that Xiao Wu doesn’t like Little Bun. At the same time, I also know that Xiao Wu has been imitating Little Bun’s personality all along, all because Little Bun is my younger brother, the brother I’ve doted on ever since I came back."
"It’s like a cycle. Xiao Wu can’t keep imitating Little Bun forever, and just like Xiao Wu said, Little Bun can’t always treat himself as a child in front of me. Sometimes, those who need to grow up have to grow up; what needs to be understood has to be understood..."
"Since Xiao Wu and Little Bun have run into each other..." Bi Xia smiled, then switched the scene over to the Void Space, where she sat cross-legged in the spring water, and said slowly, "then let’s resolve it all at once."