Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 1361: 1360 Using daughter as compensation

Upon hearing this, Bai Yuqin’s face turned pale.

“Ranran, I won’t take Tongtong away, don’t worry.”

Wen Ran apologized, “Aunt Bai, I truly cannot agree to it. My brother will be back tomorrow. If you want to see Tongtong, wait until she wakes up, then come to see her.”

Seeing Wen Ran’s resolute attitude, Bai Yuqin knew she couldn’t take Tongtong with her and lowered her head in sadness.

“Then, can I wait here for Tongtong? I don’t want to go home and face that empty house alone.”

Initially, when Gu Kai arranged for her to move into the villa, Bai Yuqin was happy, because she hoped Bai Yiyi and Gu Kai’s relationship would deepen.

But now, Yiyi didn’t want her anymore and left G City alone, not knowing where she went.

The nanny had also been dismissed by Yiyi, and going home to face that empty house by herself would be heartbreaking.

Wen Ran hesitated for a moment and then nodded, “Alright, you can wait here.”

“Ranran, are you going upstairs to rest? If not, I’d like to talk to you about what happened back then.”

Bai Yuqin looked at Wen Ran with a face full of pleading, telling her it wasn’t because the matter directly related to Wen Ran, but because she knew deep down.

If anyone could convince Gu Kai, it had to be Wen Ran.

She knew her own daughter liked Gu Kai, and it wasn’t just a little bit of liking. If not, she wouldn’t have exploded in such fury last night after hearing her recount those events.

Wen Ran glanced at the plea in Bai Yuqin’s eyes, sighed lightly, and sat back down.

A flicker of gratitude flashed in Bai Yuqin’s eyes as she followed suit, sitting down to tell the truth about what happened years ago: “I fell in love with Fu Jingyi at first sight. But when I met him, he already had someone he loved, and that person was your mother and Ah Kai’s mother.”

Wen Ran’s gaze revealed a hint of astonishment.

She suddenly recalled Fu Jingyi betraying her mother back then and being with another woman. Could it be that the woman wasn’t someone else but Bai Yuqin sitting before her?

“Later, I ended up with Fu Jingyi. Your mother then started a relationship with your father. Fu Jingyi couldn’t let go of your mother and resented them for betraying him. After your parents got married, he fell into a state of despair.”

As Bai Yuqin spoke, the scene seemed to rewind to thirty years ago.

“…After your parents had you, Fu Jingyi was incited by Mo Jingteng. Already extreme and full of resentment, he harbored the thought of stealing you. I tried to stop him, but he threatened me, saying he’d strangle my daughter to death.”

Wen Ran didn’t respond, just quietly listened.

“Later, he really did kidnap you and threatened your mother not to report it to the police. However, your father knew it was Fu Jingyi, so he secretly instructed the police to investigate. Fu Jingyi forced me to choose between you and Yiyi. To avoid him going to prison, I had no choice but to help him…”

**

Far away, in a seaside villa.

When Gu Kai turned on his phone again, he received a text message from Bai Yiyi.

“I’ve already confirmed this with my mom. The events of that year were related to her. Gu Kai, I’m sorry. I know that nothing I say can undo the harm caused to you and Ranran or bring your mother back. To express my apology, I’ve decided to give Tongtong back to you!”

As his long, slender fingers gradually turned pale around the phone, the pain from his injured palm made him close his eyes briefly and slowly release his grip.

Bai Yiyi is giving Tongtong back to him.

She said it was connected to her mother, yet she still hadn’t admitted that she herself knew about it all those years ago.

A cold smirk curled onto Gu Kai’s lips. “Gu Kai, what kind of woman did you fall in love with? You really must be blind.”

Knowing it was wrong from the start, then ending it now is good. Their actual relationship lasted less than a day, only a few dozen hours as lovers.

As Gu Kai stared at his phone, trapped in agony and conflict, Bai Yiyi had already disembarked her flight, exited the airport, and gotten into a taxi. A few minutes later, she got out and entered the bus station.

This was a strange city, a place she had never been.

Her reason for choosing somewhere entirely unfamiliar was that she didn’t want to be found by anyone. Her destination was a small, remote town.

On the long-distance bus, Bai Yiyi pulled out her phone from her bag. As her gaze fell upon Tongtong’s radiant smile displayed on the screen, her eyes burned and her vision suddenly blurred.

Leaving the daughter she had lived with for two years felt like someone was carving her heart out.

Part of Bai Yiyi’s decision to return Tongtong to Gu Kai carried the intent of paying off her parents’ sins. Isn’t there a saying, “The debt of the parents is repaid by the children?”

Her father had stolen Gu Kai’s sister back then, and her mother had been his accomplice, leading to the deep sorrow Gu Kai’s mother endured over the years.

Making Gu Kai grow up in pain, now she wanted to repay it in her own way.

She’d experience the pain of being separated from her child herself.

Bai Yiyi pursed her lips tightly, stubbornly looking up at the bus ceiling to keep her tears from falling. She wasn’t leaving for a few days on a business trip, nor was she departing on a month-long vacation—she was leaving Tongtong forever.

She had overestimated her ability to endure, thinking she could bravely bear it all. But now that she had left, just thinking about never seeing Tongtong again made her heart feel like it was being torn apart by knives.

The pain was suffocating.

She didn’t want to cry, but she couldn’t control her tears. In the end, all she could do was stop herself from sobbing aloud.

“Bai Yiyi, it’s only the first day, and you can’t bear it already? How can you be so useless? Your parents caused Gu Kai’s mother’s death, made her endure years—thousands of days and nights—of pain from losing her daughter.”

“And even because of you, Li En once stole Momo, making Ranran suffer excruciating pain during her recovery after childbirth. These are the debts you owe them. Even if they don’t hate you, you must repay them.”

But it hurt so much.

If there were even the smallest chance, she wouldn’t want to part with Tongtong.

“Young lady, are you troubled by something? Talking about it might make you feel better.” Beside her, a soft, compassionate voice sounded.

The next moment, a tissue was handed to Bai Yiyi. She turned her head to see the elderly grandmother seated next to her.

Who was looking at her with a warm, motherly gaze.

Bai Yiyi accepted the tissue, gently said “thank you,” wiped her tears, and tried to suppress the tidal wave of sadness in her heart.

“Traveling alone, you’ll always encounter some hardships. Look at the sun shining so warmly today. You can open the curtains and let the sunlight in; it’ll make you feel better,” the elderly woman said with a kind smile, pointing toward the curtain by Bai Yiyi’s window.

Bai Yiyi pursed her lips, lifted her hand to open the curtain, and sure enough, the blocked sunlight immediately spilled through the bus window, warmly lighting up her face.

She glanced at the sunshine on the horizon and pressed her lips together before turning her phone back on.

Two notification sounds came in, her heart trembled, and the hand holding the phone quivered along with it.