IN LOVE WITH A SOLDIER - SEASON 9 EPISODE 19

At the Chu Villa in Hong Kong.

Violet shrank in the corner of the sofa with her hands clasping her legs tightly. She held the phone in her hand and buried her head on her laps. Her shoulders were twitching.

Cherry, who was watching TV, suddenly noticed that her daughter had already stopped talking beside her. ‘Wasn’t she talking with her brother just now?’ he wondered.

She turned around to look at her daughter. She immediately felt that there was something wrong with her. ‘Her shoulders were apparently twitching. Is she crying?’ Cherry asked herself again.
She immediately stood up and walked to the sofa. She sat beside her daughter and put an arm around her shoulders.

“Violet, what’s wrong?” Cherry asked softly. She thought, ‘Violet has finally began to feel better recently. Did something happen at their home again?’

Violet didn’t answer. Her head was still buried and she was still crying.

Cherry started to worry but she tried her best to stay calm.

She took her phone out and dialed her son’s number.

“Hello, Mom,” Lawrence answered the phone immediately.

“Lawrence, did anything happen to our family?” Cherry asked in a rush.

“Why? What’s wrong?” Lawrence asked back.

“Violet is crying and I don’t know why. What did you say to her?” Cherry asked again seriously.

Lawrence immediately understood what her mother meant. So he said to her patiently, “Mom, we are fine. I just told Violet something about Greg. Maybe that’s the reason why she is crying.”

Cherry now understood why. She looked at her daughter. Obviously, she was still in love with that man.

“Okay, I know now,” she said to Lawrence.

“Okay, Mom. Please take care of Violet,” Lawrence answered. He actually had a lot of things to say to Cherry but he just didn’t know how to begin. All he could do was bury his love for his younger sister deep inside his heart.

“Okay, I will,” Cherry said before she hung up.

She put her hands on her daughter’s shoulders again and she said kindly, “Violet, my child, don’t cry anymore. Please, don’t cry.”

When she heard the gentle voice of her mother, Violet’s heart melted. She rested her head on her mother’s shoulder and said, “Mom, I miss Greg. I miss him so much.”

Cherry looked in front and said, “How about we go back there? I will accompany you.”

Violet shook her head, “No. Dad needs you to be with him.”

“But I have to take care of my daughter, too. I can’t bear to see you sad,” Cherry said. She was torn between her daughter and her husband. However, she still wanted to show her love to her daughter a little more.

Violet kept shaking her head. She also looked straight ahead and firmly said, “Mom, I am fine. Although I miss Greg, I still don’t want to go back for now.”

Cherry knew her daughter well so she could understand her personality as well as her stubbornness. If she didn’t want to do something, no one could force her to do so.

“Violet?” Cherry called out her name. “Um?” she answered.

“What’s your next plan? I want to hear your thoughts,” Cherry inquired. She thought that she had to listen to her daughter’s thoughts if she wanted to help her. She always hoped that her children could live a happy life, a real happy life. In that case, she would be happy, too.

After contemplating for a long while, Violet said, “Mom, this is my plan.”

Cherry prepared to listen intently. Violet started to narrate her plans, “I want to continue learning and upgrade my educational background. I want to improve myself. I used to feel inferior to others and I was always afraid of competition because of my scars.

Although I have not been decadent, I have been living in mediocrity. I don’t want this kind of life anymore. I want to fight for excellence this time. I am the daughter of the Chu family, my father is a very powerful man and my mom is very kind. I also have a smart brother. So, I want to be a talented woman, too. I don’t want to have so much achievement but I just want an unrestrained life like Aunt Selina.”

Cherry kept silent because she knew that her daughter wasn’t done yet.

Violet continued, “I have experienced so much in our relationship when Greg returned and also with the arrival of Alice and Tim. I saw different excellent qualities on them. They are brilliant not because of their backgrounds but because of their own excellence. Let’s take Alice for example. She lives under the starlight not because of being the heiress of the JC Group nor being the daughter of the Lu family but because of her excellent skill in designing. We all know that she is really excellent when it comes to designing. I also want to be like her. I want to develop a strength that can be recognized by others, showing my own abilities. I want to become an outstanding person through those abilities.” Perhaps her previous life was too calm. As she wanted a calm life, her parents gave her a peaceful life.

Everything only went rough when she got together with Greg. She suddenly realized that she had been so ignorant in the past.