"...would be even more frightening in that situation."
"Her son was bolder."
"Naturally, she was more worried about her daughter."
"She had a point."
Gu Youxuan lowered her eyes and smiled.
If she really had just been a bystander this time, and had never met Xu He before...
She would have believed it.
"I almost believed her."
Gu Youxuan shook her head.
"I was still a little doubtful about what Xu He had said earlier."
After all, children often exaggerated or let their imaginations run away with them, mixing it up with the truth...
But after actually meeting Xu He's mother this time...
"I understand Xu He now."
"When things got dangerous, his mother didn't think of herself..."
"All she could think about was the other child."
"That forgotten child must have been so heartbroken."
Gu Youxuan pressed her lips together.
"What kind of mother does that?"
"They're both her children..."
"Why does she favor one so much over the other?"
A little favoritism, scolding, and even hitting them in everyday life was one thing.
But had it really come to the point where she could be indifferent to her own child's life?
She couldn't understand it.
"If she didn't love them, why have them?"
Xu He was the second child.
If she didn't want another child, she could have stopped at one.
Normally, when people saw a family with an older sister and younger brother, they assumed the family had had another child because they wanted a son.
If that wasn't the case...
Why have another child?
It was hard on the parents.
And it was hard on the children, too.
One daughter would have been enough.
Seeing Gu Youxuan's indignant expression, Xiao Xiao's lips curved slightly. "The firefighter uncle just told