For someone like that, she had repeatedly argued with her own mother, even letting her mother leave this world with regrets. She felt extremely unfilial and deeply regretful.
That was also why she had ultimately chosen to leave this world for good: she had become completely disappointed in it.
Seeing her lost in thought and silent for so long, Chu Jingchen's heart ached terribly.
He quietly walked over, crouched beside her legs, and worked up the courage to take her hand. "It's all right now. It's all in the past. You have me from now on. I won't let you suffer again, and I won't let anyone bully you."
Su Qiao came back to herself and shook her head. "I'm fine. Those things happened a long time ago."
Although she said she was fine, Chu Jingchen didn't believe her.
The more she acted as though she was fine and tried to be strong, the more his heart ached for her.
"You don't need to be so strong. You're just an ordinary girl. It's perfectly fine to cry, throw a tantrum, or act spoiled."
Su Qiao burst out laughing. "If I really acted spoiled and threw tantrums all the time, you'd probably get sick of me."
She remembered how she used to sneak away from him and hide from him whenever she ran into the deep mountains and forests or headed for dangerous islands overseas. He had been as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, furious yet helpless.
She remembered how she had stayed in the Research Lab day and night, constantly forgetting to eat and sleep. All he could do was helplessly bring her meals at set times, sometimes even feeding her the food himself and moving a bed into the laboratory so he could keep an eye