Xiao Yu closed his eyes to make a calculation, then opened them a few seconds later, pity showing on his face.
"Unfortunately, you already know the answer. It's exactly what you think."
"There may be many coincidences in this world, but none of them happened to you."
"That woman always knew where you lived, always knew how you were getting by, and never wanted to be dragged down by you."
Qiu Xiao's expression turned conflicted!
So that really was how it was?
Sigh!
"But she's my birth mother, after all... I'm really torn right now. Every day, she tells me her troubles and apologizes, acting so remorseful and guilty, as though she had no other choice..."
Even though Xiao Yu had already exposed his mother's shameless behavior.
His birth mother's relentless pleading was what troubled Qiu Xiao most now, and it was why he wanted help.
However shameless that woman was, she was still his mother!
"Master Xiao, I don't know what to do now. Could she have abandoned my father and me back then because my father did something to wrong her? Or could there have been some other possibility..."
Qiu Xiao wasn't deceiving himself. He wanted to find an excuse he could accept.
Deep down, he couldn't forgive his mother for abandoning them, yet he also longed for a complete family. He hoped she really had been forced to abandon them, so he could find a reason to forgive her.
Xiao Yu easily read his thoughts. Humans were emotional creatures, and those emotions made them complicated.
He really wanted to help Qiu Xiao fulfill his true wish.
But family affection couldn't be one-sided either.
In a sense, it was even harder to deal with than romantic love.
Because, ultimately, romantic love only required two people to meet each