COLD CEO AND ARROGANT WIFE, VOLUME 4 - Season 7 Episode 49

Mu Chenyan didn’t know much about the love life of Xiang Wai and Xiang Weimin. Even if she had been keeping an eye on their situations, it mostly involved things related to their health and their career. She wasn’t overbearing enough to try to control everything. Yes, she was overbearing at some level but she wasn’t a complete wacko. Not just yet!

And that’s why she didn’t know that Xiang Wai had been in a relationship with someone for ten years and it seems she hurt herself. As for why she said she hurt herself instead of saying that she got hurt. The answer was obvious. Xiang Wai had the expectations set high from that relationship that didn’t even begin from love.

If that wasn’t asking for a heartbreak what was?

Mu Chenyan wouldn’t call herself a genius but she believed that the pain we have to suffer is mostly brought upon us by ourselves. The people just become the means. But at the end of the day, it’s our own expectations that hurt us the most. Not people!

Who asked us to have wrong expectations from people?

Even we end up failing ourselves, what gives us the courage to have faith in others that they won’t fail us one day? That’s just absurd!

“Aunt, it seems you have a strong influence on Raelle,” commented Xiang Wai.

Mu Chenyan laughed out loud, “No. It’s the other way around. I was a brat before she came into my life. I only learned to be a human after I met Raelle. Trust me, I have no influence on her. I was a complete psychopath in my younger years. My ideas bordered around insanity. It was only when Raelle became a part of my life that I started learning what responsibility was and from the moment she started talking, I knew I was sent my nemesis to suffer.”

“What?” Xiang Wai asked in surprise.

Mu Chenyan wouldn’t usually talk this openly but currently, she was tipsy and she was talking to her trusted niece and nephew. So, she let herself go and spoke her mind.

“I truly thought myself to be all high and mighty when I was young. I was arrogant to the extreme, I was rude, I was careless and I was a nutjob! You ask anyone, they won’t have anything good to say about my personality,” told Mu Chenyan. “But it changed once I lost people who made me feel like I could rule the world. Whether it was your grandmother or your father, they always protected me. But in one day, I lost both of them. It felt like someone dropped me from the sky and I fell hard to the ground. And it hurt. It hurt badly!”

She sniffled as she continued, “I believed myself to be the smartest one but I wasn’t. When Raelle started talking, I felt like my real race of life began from there. She was sharp, keen, and intelligent. She brought chaos into my life when she made me realize that I wasn’t even as smart as a baby. You can never understand how it feels when a three-year-old makes you question your sanity as an adult. But she did it repeatedly to the point that she became a challenge I had to win! So, I did everything I could to make sure I’m always a step ahead of her.”

“Were you able to?” asked Xiang Weimin.

“Sadly, no,” Mu Chenyan sighed. “How can you win against someone like her? However, as she grew up, she stopped trying to win. She purposely lost in front of me so that I can stop trying so hard to be the definition of perfection in her life. And when I confront her about that, she said, ‘Yanyan, you’re not perfect.’ I felt like I was being insulted but then she continued, ‘But neither am I. Why are you tiring yourself running after something like perfection that doesn’t exist? Even the experiments I perform in the lab only come out with 99.99% accuracy. That’s not a perfect score. So, let’s not tire ourselves.'”

Mu Chenyan smiled when she thought about that time and said, “I felt so bloody touched by her words but the very next second, she smacked me with, ‘Also, you’re getting wrinkles. That means you’re getting old. So, have mercy on yourself and take some rest.'”

Xiang Wai and Xiang Weimin laughed out when they heard it and Mu Chenyan could only shake her head.

“Anyway, as I was saying, I have little influence on Raelle. She has more influence on me,” added Mu Chenyan. “She is a very caring person. Although her words didn’t sound like it, she was truly worried about me. And I knew that as well.”

“You understand her well,” commented Xiang Weimin.

“She isn’t a riddle you have to solve,” said Mu Chenyan. “She had always been an open book even if she doesn’t seem like it. And trust me, it’s a hundred or even a thousand times more difficult to understand the meaning behind care, love, hate, like, dislike, pain, or any other emotion for her. She never had difficulties in her study. But she spent the better part of her life trying to understand the definition of normal.”

“She is anything but normal,” commented Xiang Wai.

Mu Chenyan nodded proudly, “Of course, how can my Elle be normal? She is special! There isn’t a second one like her!”

Perhaps, Mu Chenyan didn’t even realize it herself that she was the reason why Raelle never thought there was anything wrong with her being ‘not normal’ in this world. She didn’t even realize what influence she really had in making Raelle who she was. Yes, Raelle had a lot of influence on Mu Chenyan but the latter had equal or more influence on the former as well.

Because to Raelle, Mu Chenyan was the definition of family, love, care, and warmth. Something that was considered very precious to her. Because she knew no matter how weird she was, her Yanyan would still stand with her.