Words I was Afraid to Hear

"When will you forgive me for losing my memory?!" He looked desperate. This is something he was trying his best to resolve little by little. He thought that he was making progress before, but it seemed all his efforts were in vain. "What should I do to make you accept me again?"

"You chose to believe in the goodness in people you don't really know, not only once! You might have forgotten about it, but because you chose to believe just what people say, you hurt me time and time again! Now you expect me to forgive you every time!?" Her tears were flowing.

He looked at her, with his eyes full of regret.

Sensing the distress, Dmitri started crying too.

"Shhh...Baby, I'm so sorry...stop crying..." she consoled, swaying him gently.

Dmitri continued to wail.

Verdan Zhou reached out to get him. "Let me..." he told Midori. "Give him to me."

She hesitated, but gave in to the request.

Dmitri's cries became sobs as his eyes widened towards the man who took him and began singing while embracing him.

"Anata wa doko ni iru ndarou..." his deep voice was soothing.

Tears continued to fall as Midori realized that he was singing 'First Love'.

Dmitri reached out to touch his face. Short stubble on his chin gave his son something to be interested in. He fondly patted the baby's head in a gentle manner. He could feel the still soft fontanel part of his head. In no time, Dmitri was chuckling in his arms, grabbing onto the suit and successfully crumpling its collar.

Midori wiped the tears from her face. She spoke while sniffling. "Verdan Zhou, I guess...I...I really need to forgive you, don't I?"

"I will do everything so you won't have to do so ever again..." His sincerity showed on his face.

Midori had a wry smile.

"Let me take you home." Verdan Zhou volunteered.

"Hmmn." Midori nodded and strode towards the parking space of Luxe Entertainment.

Midori instructed him of which road to take.

He still remember going about the city proper since he had been driving around it for years. When they reached the limit, he furrowed his brows. "The Xiu estate is located in a village within the city, right?" Or so he heard. Then why are they going into the outskirts?

Midori snickered, but stopped as to not disturb her son who is sleeping in her arms.

"Just drive, Mr. Zhou." She had a mischievous smile.

"Aye, aye, Mrs. Zhou!" He flashed her a full smile as he stepped onto the acclerator and his panamera traversed the long straight asphalt road.

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"What did you do to my son?!" A blue and white china piece came crashing on the floor.

Papers of medical records and ultrasonography are scattered across the living room. The lamp which was previously sitting on the corner table has been smashed to the point of beyond salvation. Some drops of blood from the wounded hand which broke the pieces of furniture trailed across the room, splattered in different sizes, some smudged by the slippers which has stepped om them.

"Fu Bai, I had no choice! My mom..."

"You had a choice!" His seething breath went with his words.

"She would have gotten us all killed!"

"I could have protected you!" The man's expression became solemn. His eyes watered as he looked at her with his eyes blaming her. "Yet you chose to kill our child!"

And just like that, he left, slamming the door behind him.

Ming Rushi knelt on the carpeted floor as she cried until she fell asleep.