Yu Fang, her face lined with years of sorrow and regret, gave a bitter smile as she slowly shook her head.
"Xu Sheng," she said softly, "you've done nothing wrong. The ones at fault were your Uncle and I. It was we who wronged them. We're the ones who don't deserve forgiveness." Her voice cracked slightly. "But now, it's you who suffers because of our mistakes."
After that final conversation, Yu Fang vanished from Su Bing's life entirely. From then on, it was the housekeeper and driver who took Xu Sheng to and from school.
At school, Xu Sheng no longer clung to Su Bing, and Su Bing, to his own relief, found peace in that distance. He no longer had to worry about the Xu family showing up uninvited, demanding that his parents hand him back.
