COLD CEO AND ARROGANT WIFE, VOLUME 4 - Season 7 Episode 77

“Before you say anything,” started Raelle. “Let me make it clear. I’m an adult. It’s not your job to protect me. In fact, now, it’s my job to protect you instead. So, don’t tell me you feel like you failed to do your job. You’ve done a splendid job at raising a genius like me.”

Hyson laughed out loud once she was done.

“Were you praising Opa or yourself?” asked Hyson.

“Does it matter?” asked Raelle. “I’m his granddaughter. You praise me or him, it’s the same thing!”

“You know this is the reason why the people who meet you for the first time have this feeling of wanting to beat you up!”

“Did you feel like beating me when you first met me?” asked Raelle in return.

“What? How is that possible? If that was the case, why would I do so much just to reach you?”

Seeing them talking so casually, Grandfather Xiang rubbed Raelle’s head as he said, “You don’t have to be so strong.”

“But it’s a fact that I’m strong,” answered Raelle. “Don’t you already know that?”

Grandfather Xiang could only nod in response. Indeed, he already knew how strong she was. “But you don’t have to be strong all the time. Your Opa is still alive. I can still take care of you.”

“Opa, are you sad?” asked Raelle startling Grandfather Xiang with her question. He didn’t think she’d ask such a question to him.

“I just lost the chance to see my great-grandchild,” said Grandfather Xiang. “Do you think I won’t be sad?”

“Then it must be Heaven’s way of telling you to live longer,” told Raelle. “You can’t leave me so soon. You have to wait for your great-grandchild.” She took a pause and added, “Don’t you always believe in Heaven’s will? You should believe in this as well.”

Grandfather Xiang didn’t know if he should laugh or cry at her words. Just to see him live a long life, she’d be saying whatever. Which bastard said his granddaughter was emotionless? She had the purest and most intense emotions within her. Even he was scared of leaving this world, knowing she’d be really hurt once he’s gone.

His nose stung and tears were brimming in his eyes. However, he stubbornly held back his tears. He knew she didn’t want to see tears right now. Especially when Mu Chenyan already warned him over the phone call to not cry in front of her.

“Are you alright, Yenay?” he asked seriously.

Raelle took a pause before she shook her head, “No. I don’t think I’m alright.” She held his gaze as she continued, “But you have to have faith in me. Even if I fall, I always stand back up. And I’m definitely not alone.”

Grandfather Xiang nodded his head in understanding. Indeed, it wasn’t the first setback in her life. Even if she was a genius, it wasn’t like she hadn’t faced failures in her life. But she had the stubbornness in her blood. The more you’ll try to push her down, the stronger she’ll stand back up. It had always been like that. And he had no doubt, it’d be like this in the future.

“Yue, no matter how pretty you look when you cry, you should stop it already,” said Raelle. “If you shed so many precious pearls from your eyes, my Hyson will go bankrupt.”

Hyson rubbed his nose before he looked at his mother, “People have all sorts of hobbies. Mum, why is your hobby so peculiar? Who cries over everything?”

Yue Yue threw a mean glance at her son who shrank back in his seat and didn’t dare say another word to her.

Instead, he looked at Xiang Weimin and Xiang Wai, before he waved at them, “Yo, Lieutenant! You seem to be in a good shape.” Then he looked at Xiang Wai and raised his brows at her. “Oh, so you’re the Major!”

“You met her?” asked Raelle. From his tone, she could tell that Hyson’s reaction wasn’t like he was seeing Xiang Wai for the first time. But it was the first time, he knew she was Raelle’s sister.

Hyson nodded his head and told her, “She’s the valiant cake lady!”

No one could understand that explanation except for Raelle who glanced at Xiang Wai once again. Of course, she knew why he called her the valiant cake lady. And if anyone thought that Hyson wouldn’t mention such an insignificant encounter of bumping into Xiang Wai to Raelle, then they’d be mistaken.

Xiang Wai’s eyes were also narrowed from the time she heard Hyson’s voice. Yes, back then she didn’t see his face but that didn’t mean she couldn’t recognize his voice either. She was very sensitive to such things and considering how Hyson’s voice had a unique tone to it, it wasn’t even that difficult to recognize him.

But she was clearly surprised to know that he was the same ‘Hyson’ whom even her brother was a little envious of. After all, even she could tell this boy had a very special place in their sister’s life.

“Little Fai, something is wrong with your naming sense,” said Shui Xian.

Hyson puffed up his cheeks, “I’m not talking to you anymore, Xian Ge!” Saying that he went to a corner and pulled out his phone once again to play. Well, it seemed like he was playing but the reality was something else.

On his phone’s screen, was the scene of an ice cellar. Currently, a girl with a thin layer of clothes covering her body was kneeling on the ice. Her body wasn’t even trembling at this point as the ice had slowly covered her body. Someone threw a bucket of water on her body once again and she shuddered. She couldn’t feel even a single finger of hers at this point.

Seeing this state of hers, Hyson’s eyes got deeper and deeper. If he could, he’d have already gone over and tore that woman apart! But he wasn’t an impatient person at all. He knew his priorities very well. Whether his revenge on Ruan Meilin was more important or his best friend, he knew it all too well.