Mrs Fox Heinous Revenge: Can You Love A Villainess like Me?
Chapter 70: Peace Offering

Chapter 70: Peace Offering

Gritting her teeth, Mrs Ruo pointed her finger toward them, "YOU will remember this! I’ll remember this! Just wait and see Hua Valentine!"

"Off she goes," commented Samuel as he leaned back on his chair. AiLin saw her younger brother scoffing before drawing a smile on his lips wide with delight that today he could watch his aunt running away and them having the last say as they would always bow down to Mrs Ruo whose behavior is not that far different from a child’s tantrum.

Li ZiChen then turned toward her, her attention caught by him as his gaze was so magnetic it was pulling her away from looking at her younger brother. He leaned closer, his voice in a whisper, "Are you upset at me?"

She didn’t respond but she also refused to look to his face.

"What have I done?" He asked her again, Li ZiChen seemed puzzled as he couldn’t understand what seemed to be wrong to AiLin’s eyes. That itself made her more annoyed.

"If you don’t know what wrong you have done, then maybe you haven’t done anything wrong at all, Mister Li," she then glared at him, "I want to talk privately to my family. You don’t mind leaving do you?"

Li ZiChen had now frowned. He was as upset as her as he had been shooed off but she wasn’t being petty. She knew he was some sort of a tactician who always planned things ahead and watch everything falling in place with a smile. But that didn’t mean he could do as his wish and turn her birth family as a part of his pawns in his chessboard. It would be fun if she was the pawn used by him but it was different now that he had used her other family members who she was just trying to learn about.

"Please," she asked, but AiLin didn’t hide the sourness of her tone.

Li ZiChen silently stood up. She didn’t see his face but could feel the anger radiating from him as he left. She wondered if she had done wrong as she disliked angry men. They would always come to her with the aggressive nature, either yelling or hitting. Though maybe not all men, just some men and those some men made quite a lot in numbers.

Samuel and Vicky looked at Li ZiChen who had removed himself from the room. He was silent and they wondered what made him leave when he seemed to be so proud to stay with the family earlier. They exchanged glances before turning to AiLin.

She felt the gazes and began to question instead, "I wanted to know about the reason for you to send me off to the Jiang Family."

Mrs Hua could see her husband’s face that was twisting with guilt so she was the one who answered her question, "I had no choice. My mother, your grandmother, wanted you to be killed as soon as you were born. She had paid the doctor to declare you as dead. Your father managed to save you at the time but we were too powerless as we knew that this wouldn’t be the only time when Elder Hua would try to kill you."

"But why the Jiang Family? You robbed someone else’s daughter of their future," said AiLin with a frown. Though their thoughts were well for her, it wasn’t too well enough if she considered Jiang NianNian’s situation. It wasn’t that she was thinking for Jiang NianNian, that’s far from the truth, she only wanted to know her real family’s characteristic, to know if they are no different than the Jiang Family who sees people as disposable, something she always disliked as in the end she was the first to be casted aside when they seen her used up her entire potential.

Mrs Hua responded with a hard clench on her own hands, "The Jiang Family was on verge of going to bankrupt. They were about to give up their daughter as well after she was born."

AiLin frowned. She never heard about this, "They were going to do that?"

"Yes, so I have decided to switch their baby with you and used a help from a friend to offer them financial help," Mrs Hua sighed softly as she seemed to be leaning to her husband who had gently patted her back, "I knew I didn’t do things the right way. I failed as a mother and I didn’t want to show up here to tell you or demand that you come to our family and for you to recognize me as your mother. When I found out how badly things had happened to you, you were already in prison and there were nothing I could do to help you out as Elder Hua would make sure that you would be kept behind bars for a long time."

AiLin raised her eyebrows upon hearing this, "She knew I was alive?"

"She doesn’t," Mr Hua didn’t want his wife to be so let down by telling everything that was so painful by her own mouth, "But she knew that somehow you were related to our family. She simply didn’t want your mother to have a smooth sailing life and when she sees an opportunity to crush your mother’s hope, she would do just that."

"She would always meddle when things were going right for mother," Vicky noted from the sides, "That’s why despite mother’s flourishing company, something just always had to go wrong."

"Even despite that," Mrs Hua cut off, "I was a failure. I was the one who had let you down. I know I don’t deserve to be called as mother by you and so I... my only wish is only to help you out from now on. Whatever it is that you wish to do, I want to be there to push your back. My apologies can’t heal your wounds but I hope it can fade your scars, I’m sorry AiLin for never being on your side when you need it."

It was a word that AiLin never thought she would ever hear from someone else’s mouth. Her face was colored in surprise and she found herself unable to respond as something was biting her heart. She couldn’t tell them that her heart and soul was so worn out and numb that even though she doesn’t blame them, this heart couldn’t feel happy that she was receiving love.

When you have lived together with doubt as your friend, every time you see a single silver of kindness, you doubt it to be real. You begin to expect in every happiness that everything was going to crash down and burn.

AiLin didn’t manage to respond anything but the Hua Family didn’t force her and at that, AiLin was truly grateful.

After the brief tea time, AiLin had walked out of the sitting room with Vicky who had gently wrapped her hand around her right hands, "Are you sure you wouldn’t stay back for dinner?"

AiLin smiled to Vicky. She had a lot of things that she feels she need to ready her heart before she could move on, "I’m sorry, I’ll come back for a dinner next time."

The family members were uplifted upon hearing this and cheered amongst themselves.

From the corner of her eyes, AiLin caught Li ZiChen who was leaning on the wall. If looks could kill, someone would have been dead by the frosty mien that was holding up on Li ZiChen’s face, thought AiLin.