"Why did you hide this from me?" Xia Sha asked in a quiet voice.
She did not shout and vented her anger like she usually does. She waited for Xia Qi Feng to answer. She waited, and waited, and waited. But she heard nothing.
She never heard an explanation from Xia Qi Feng.
"It's not my business, you said?" Xia Sha gnashed her teeth as she looked up to Xia Qi Feng.
The rims of her eyes were red. She let out a mocking scoff.
"MY MOTHER IS BATTLING A LUPUS, AND THAT IS NOT MY BUSINESS, YOU SAID?" Xia Sha shouted from the top of her lung, striding towards Xia Qi Feng with murderous air.
"You just going to keep this from me forever?" Xia Sha asked Xia Qi Feng, she is desperate for answers.
"You just going to keep this from me forever?" Xia Sha repeated her question in a much quieter voice.
Xia Xiang holds Xia Sha. In Incase, Xia Sha would stride forward to Xia Qi Feng, but in reality, Xia Sha could never do that to her father. She does not have any energy left while as her body slumped to the floor.
"Mother," Xia Sha cried out for help.
The fear that filled the hollow in her chest is too frightening. She could not bear the pain anymore. It felt as if a great power just sucked her soul and left her with nothing but agony.
"Why did you do this to me, father?" Xia Sha mutters, looking at the paper shattering in the hard carpet of the hotel corridor.
Xia Qi Feng tried to maintain his calm posture. But not even his proper upbringing that he learn since he was a child could help him this time. He tried and failed miserably.
"This is why I can't tell you. I don't want to watch you devasted like this. I need you to stay strong because your mother needs you," Xia Qi Feng averted his gaze and take a sharp air.
He wipes away the tears that almost fall on his cheek before he turned to Xia Sha again. His knee touches the ground as he approached Xia Sha on the floor.
"A joyful heart is the best medicine. Your mother's only source of happiness is you at that time. I couldn't possibly tell you and crushed your spirit too. I need your mother, I need you," Xia Qi Feng grabbed Xia Sha's hand with his trembling hand.
"You told me she cheated on you. That is why you divorce her. I- I- I was so angry that I believed you. I should've treated her better if I knew," Xia Sha looked down and sobbed.
She felt like a dirty human with nothing but sins.
Xia Sha hated her father and mother for so many years without knowing the truth. The bitter heart caused her to do so many things that hurt theirs.
"All of you are terrifying. How can you acted and fool me like this? It is too terrifying," Xia Sha wailed.
She hated Shen Xia Fei for letting someone replaced her position in the manor. Xia Sha hated that she left her with Xia Qi Feng and his new family.
She hated Xia Qi Feng for destroying their harmonious home. She hated him so much that she didn't want to see his face at one point. She hated that he let Pang Ze Tian invades their peaceful world.
But everything turned out as a lie.
Xia Qi Feng married Pang Ze Tian because Shen Xia Fei's kidney is failing because of her lupus condition. He agreed to all Pang Ze Tian's conditions. Including letting her daughter had used his surname.
She thought she is the only one who suffers from this divorce. Who knows that Xia Qi Feng holds so much burden in his shoulder. He carried it alone without telling anybody.
He clearly loves Shen Xia Fei so much that he would rather crush his world apart and destroyed his reputation just to keep her alive.
There is no so-called misunderstanding between them. There is only love and condition that tore Xia Qi Feng and Shen Xia Fei apart.
She hated that she hates for nothing all these years.
"Don't cry, Don't cry. No one died. You can't cry, okay?" Xia Qi Feng pulled Xia Sha into his embrace and patted her back gently.
Xia Sha broke into pieces as she felt his father's warm hug. Her cried got louder as she felt secure under his wing.
"Mother, I don't want anything bad to happen to her. Dad, help me," Xia Sha cried aggrievedly. Xia Qi Feng holds her close and calming Xia Sha gently.
"Nothing is happening to your mother. She is okay right now."
Xia Xiang, who stood not far behind Xia Sha, looked at this tearful situation with complex feelings. Her hand is clenching into a fist, and she is gnashing her teeth. But he could not deny the pain and agony she felt for both of them.
Xia Sha and her. They both had to suffer in nescience.
"Nothing is happening to your mother. But what about mine?" Xia Xiang's eyelash trembles. She stares straight at Xia Qi Feng most assertively, as if she is waiting for an answer.
Xia Qi Feng's forehead once again creased in displeasure. He looked up and stared back at Xia Xiang with his usual cold gaze and furrowed his eyebrows.
"I'll get her out, don't worry."
Xia Qi Feng is reluctant. He would rather have his reputation tarnished again if it could keep Xia Sha safe. He heard everything from Guan Xian. He could not possibly let it happen to his children, more over to Shen Xia Fei.
Xia Xiang heard Xia Qi Feng's reluctant answer. She should felt relieved and left the pair of daughter and father alone. But why can't she move her leg?
Instead, she stood there, watching Xia Sha and her dad comforting each other. A bitter smile plaster her face, she mocks herself.
See, it's always been Xia Sha's family.
Xia Qi Feng is Xia Sha's father, no matter how you tried to please him.
That manor remains Xia Sha's home even though Pang Ze Tian managed to make her leave the house. It would still be Xia Sha's world even though she worked so hard to learn everything in this world.
There is nothing she can do to steal that away from her.
She should hate her so much, just like how Xia Sha hated her before. That hatred gaze and cynical words Xia Sha used to say to her face, she should use that now and slap that beautiful little face.
But why can't she hate Xia Sha?
Because she helps her once? Really?
Just because Xia Sha suddenly treats her nicely once.
Thus, why she has to stay in a home that doesn't belong to her?
***
Night changes faster when you played games with your buddy.
Four young adult man hold their stick and look at the television screen fiercely.
"Wang Kai, go to the right, cover Ji Cun Xi in V formation," Jian Jun takes the lead.
"Guan Xian! I'll cover for you. Shot the leader in three, two-" he added.
YOU WIN!
The words they aimed for finally appeared on the screen. Ji Cun Xin stretched his arm and fall to the ground.
"Damn! that was intense," he hissed.
Wang Kai put down his controller and pat Jian Jun's back.
"Good game," he praised Jian Jun, slightly nodding her head.
"I'll get more coke," Guan Xian walk to the refrigerator and fetched cans of coke from his brother.
"I did not realize it's six in the morning already. We did not even sleep after the dreadful night," Ji Cun Xi jumped on the bed. He groaned when his back touched the mattress.
Guan Xian shook his head when he looked at Ji Cun Xi. He throws the coke can to each of his friends and open one for himself.
"We shouldn't play so late. I still need to carry on my mission today," Guan Xian clicked his tongue. He searches for his phone in the pocket and opens the news portal with one click.
A crude smirk appears on his handsome face once he read the news. He suddenly stood up and look at his reflection in the whole body mirror.
He doesn't look tired and look immaculately dressed in his white shirt.
"It's out?" Wang Kai asked from his lazy chair. He stretched his back and neck, finding his phone the next second.
"Hm, it should affect this morning market," Guan Xian murmured.
Jian Jun and Ji Cun Xi stood up and went for their phone the next moment. They rushed to Open the news portal to find out the meaning behind Guan Xian's world.
SCANDALOUS LIFE OF XIA FAMILY, FROM ADULTRY TO DRUG.. DRAGGING THE GUAN'S INTO THEIR MESS? Read to find out.