If You Could Hear My Heart
Chapter 1251: Graciously Handing Over Shen Chi to Someone Else

Chapter 1251: Chapter 1251: Graciously Handing Over Shen Chi to Someone Else

"And what about you? What did you do?" Xu Chaomu asked.

Bai Xuan shook his head, "We had a fierce argument. I promised her that no matter what, I would never abandon her. I would marry her, but she didn’t believe me."

At this point, disappointment showed in Bai Xuan’s eyes.

"Have you still not understood until now that she wasn’t disappointed, she just loved you too much and didn’t want you to sacrifice anything for her?" Xu Chaomu exclaimed loudly.

She had gone through the same experience, so she understood.

"Back then, I was young and brash as well. I thought she didn’t trust me." Regret filled Bai Xuan’s eyes.

Xu Chaomu fell silent, perhaps this was the difference between men and women, women are always sensitive and emotional.

After a long silence, Bai Xuan continued, "Later, I got very angry. We argued endlessly, the fights were earth-shattering. At that time, I had already taken over my family’s company. Every day at work was tiring, but seeing her made me even more exhausted because... of the relentless arguments."

"So you broke up?" Xu Chaomu asked.

Bai Xuan nodded, "I thought she was immature, that she couldn’t think from my perspective, so I suggested we break up. She agreed without hesitation and quickly packed her things to leave C City."

"And then?"

"After that... That very night, I regretted it. I truly loved her too much, so much that I couldn’t bear to leave her, even if it meant arguing every day," Bai Xuan shook his head.

"You didn’t let her go?"

"No, I told her ’I regret it, don’t you dare think of leaving me, not for your entire life, even if you can only be my mistress.’" Bai Xuan was caught in painful memories, "That night, I had been drinking, and later, fueled by the alcohol... I took her."

At this point, Bai Xuan’s voice lowered, but Xu Chaomu wished she could slap him!

Are all men so domineering?

"I truly loved her..." Bai Xuan said, his head in his hands, tears brimming in his eyes.

Shen Chi sighed, as a man, he could understand.

If Xu Chaomu were to leave him, he would probably also lose all rationality and stop at nothing to keep her with him.

"After that night, I kept trying, trying to marry her, trying to convince my family, trying to make them accept her," Bai Xuan said, "But my parents weren’t easy to talk to; they absolutely refused to let me marry a woman who brought nothing but debts to the table."

Tears also sprang to Xu Chaomu’s eyes; her mother had indeed lived a hard life.

"So, in the end, you didn’t convince your parents," Xu Chaomu said indifferently.

Bai Xuan nodded, "I never imagined my parents could be so despicable. They kidnapped Mengxi, forcing me to marry Zhilan or else they wouldn’t release Mengxi."

Xu Chaomu was stunned. So Bai Xuan’s marriage to Jiang Zhilan was not of his own volition either.

"There was nothing I could do but compromise; I couldn’t find Mengxi," Bai Xuan said with pain, "I married Jiang Zhilan. And only when Zhilan got pregnant did my parents agree to let Mengxi go."

"Did they do anything to my mother?" Xu Chaomu urgently asked.

"They did not, but since Mengxi knew I was married, she never wanted to see me again," Bai Xuan said.

"My mother would never be someone’s mistress," Xu Chaomu declared.

"Yes, your mother, though gentle in nature, is very stubborn. She would never be a mistress, even though she’s not one at all," Bai Xuan said, "But I can’t forget her, I love her, very much."

"What did you do?"

Bai Xuan fell silent for a while, then said indifferently, "At that time, I was already the CEO of the Bai Family company, powerful and wealthy. I used the most forceful methods a man could to keep her. I gave her a villa and supported her."

Xu Chaomu gave a cold laugh. Her mother’s personality was very stubborn; how could she be locked up like a canary in a cage.

What she wanted was freedom, was happiness, but Bai Xuan couldn’t give it.

"Later, one day, she desperately escaped, she didn’t want to see me again," said Bai Xuan. "Where she fled to during that time, I still have no idea."

"And then you found her again, didn’t you?" Xu Chaomu asked.

Bai Xuan nodded, "Yes, I found her. I told her that without you, my life would be filled with despair, I love you very much, don’t leave me."

"What did she say?"

"She didn’t say anything, she was silent," said Bai Xuan. "I told her that everything I promised you won’t change, even if I have to give up everything, I still want you."

"I arranged with her that three days later, at nine o’clock in the evening, I would wait for her under the wisteria trellis in Nanyuan, and I would take her away from C City. I didn’t want anything, just you."

Hearing this, Xu Chaomu asserted, "She would never come!"

She finally understood that when Bai Xuan first said her mother was untrustworthy, it wasn’t about untrustworthiness, it was about loving too much...

Her mother loved Bai Xuan so much, how could she let him give up everything for her, give up his career, give up his empire? She’d rather bear the stigma of untrustworthiness herself, rather let herself be resented by him for a lifetime!

And the thoughts of a woman, a man will never understand.

Teardrops flickered in Bai Xuan’s eyes as he looked at Xu Chaomu, "Why?"

"Don’t you still understand? She loved you, she loved you very much, she wouldn’t let you bear the stigma for her, and definitely wouldn’t let you give up your career!" Xu Chaomu yelled hysterically.

In that instant, time seemed to freeze, and Bai Xuan suddenly had an epiphany.

So that was it...

It wasn’t that she was untrustworthy, nor that she stopped loving him, nor that she hated him... it was just that, love at its deepest is about sacrifice.

Tears also streamed down Xu Chaomu’s face, she herself had experiences all too similar.

She would rather hand Shen Chi over to someone else than let him give up the slightest bit for her.

Because of too much love.

Xu Chaomu cried, such a similar experience made her heart convulse too.

Shen Chi wrapped his arms around her shoulders, enveloping her in his embrace.

Perhaps she was luckier than her mother, she met Shen Chi.

"Mengxi, Mengxi..." Bai Xuan suddenly called out Xu Mengxi’s name, weeping uncontrollably.

In his twilight years, he finally understood Xu Mengxi’s profound intentions back then.

"Bai Xuan," Xu Chaomu said with a choked voice, "at that time, my mother must have been pregnant, right? So when you found her she remained silent. In fact, two women, you could only choose one. And she, she wasn’t your rightful match."

"She didn’t show up for the appointment, I was very disappointed, and moreover, when she left, she took a large amount of jewelry from the villa. During that period, my impression of her was thoroughly ruined. She left me a letter, she said she hated me, she told me to never look for her again, she wanted freedom, she would never spend a lifetime being a mistress."

"Did you look for her?" Xu Chaomu asked.

"I was very angry, I didn’t look. Later, when I went to look for her, there was a rumor that she had already married a country man."