Imperfect Desires

731 Hearts Get Tired

Xin Xiaoli had actually come to the hospital before this incident. But it just so happened that he decided to finally pay Qiu Meihui a visit. So, instead of going to Xiu's floor, he got off on the floor Qiu Meihui was.

Right outside her hospital room, he didn't find anyone but soon he learned why that was the case. Because as he stepped closer, he could hear Meihui shouting from inside the room, "What are you both doing here? Get out of my room! I don't want to see you!"

"Meihui," he heard Qiu Jiayi's soft coaxing voice.

"Don't even come close to me!" Meihui shouted at him as well. "Don't try to act like you both love me. You both don't care about me at all! But that's also good, I've long stopped caring about you both as well!" She was acting deranged as she continued, "If I didn't want you to willingly give your business to me, do you really think I'd have come to meet you both again? What have you both ever done for me? Nothing! You're the worst parents! Worst! Get lost now!"

Then he heard something breaking and Xin Xiaoli opened the door of the room. He saw how both Zhao Wei and Qiu Jiayi looked broken and had pained expressions.

"Before asking them what they did for you, why don't you question yourself?" his voice broke Meihui's deranged act and she looked straight at him. "What exactly have you done for them?"

Like she had lost her mind, Qiu Meihui ran over to Xin Xiaoli and held the lapels of his jacket as she demanded, "Why didn't you take my side? Didn't you always tell me that you'd always be there for me? Why did you step back? Why did you go back on your words like everyone else? Why?! Why did you do it?!"

Xin Xiaoli looked at her parents who took the hint and left them alone. Now, that they were alone in the room, he held her wrists and pushed her away before dusting off his jacket.

"You really wanna play this game? Then let's play this game," he started. "I stepped back? No, I just gave you the same treatment you offered me." Qiu Meihui stilled as he continued in a stern voice. "Back then, I had also questioned you... When you say you love me, how could you run off to marry another man? How could do back on your words? Do you remember what you said?" Qiu Meihui looked into his cold eyes and felt fear as he went on, "You said, time changes, feelings also change with it. And words are as cheap as feelings. How could I really fall for your words?"

He took a step closer to her and she cowered back, "So, later I asked myself... If your words were all a lie, how can your feelings be sincere?"

Finding back her courage, she said, "How can you say that? My feelings were real. I said all that because I was in anger. Even that marriage was just my impulsiveness. You know I never had any feelings for him."

"Oh..." was his dry response. "So, impulsiveness is the real devil... But does that wash your sins clean?"

He bent at his waist and looked into her eyes coldly, "Why don't you repeat that now?"

"I... I..." Her steps faltered. She couldn't say it. In her heart, she knew what she did. She knew it very well. But she always thought he didn't know. After all, he had been treating her the same way as before. So, she really let herself forget what she had done. "At that time, we had already broken up." She managed to say.

Xin Xiaoli clutched her arms in a tight grip and hissed, "Just because we broke up does that give you the right to murder an innocent?"

Qiu Meihui groaned in pain and squirmed trying to escape his grasp but he didn't let go. His hold was vice-like, he didn't plan on letting her escape at all!

"You could give birth to the child of a man you didn't even love but for me? You claimed repeatedly that you loved me and yet, right after we broke up, you went for an abortion!"

Qiu Meihui's whole body shook like a paper would in strong wind. Her face was already bruised but now, it looked even more unsightly.

"Why is it so easy for you to discard anything? Whether it's someone's sincere feelings or a life, you wouldn't hesitate to throw it away and to trample on it whenever you see fit!"

"We were young. You wouldn't want a child at that time!"

"We were not as young as Nora and Ah-Si. They weren't even dating and yet, she tried her best to save their child. We were engaged and yet, you murdered our child without any hesitation."

It pained him every time he thought about it. The worst part was that he didn't even know for years that something like this even happened. If it wasn't for her ex-husband disclosing it to Ying, he'd never have known any of it.

This woman whom he loved with all his heart, even when he had to go against everyone, he did love her, but she didn't even hesitate to throw him away or that innocent life that hadn't even been born!

Tears were running down her face, as she tried to hold him and said, "You said, our love could overcome anything. You can't just throw me away because of that one thing. Was your love only worth this much?"

He laughed at her sarcastically, "My mom once said, don't ever make someone run after you for so long that before their feet, their hearts get tired. But you did exactly that to me. I loved you foolishly for years and you left me aside like a spare tire. I am also a human, eventually, my heart did grow tired of loving you. Yes, I couldn't get rid of this love for you but I couldn't bring myself to love you either."