Chapter 100 - Sisters

After saying goodbye to Yi Duanfang, Chen Kexin got into Chen Keren’s car and left.

Yi Duanfang stood on the busy street, watching the people coming and going. When he looked back, Chen Keren’s red Volvo had disappeared.

Standing there for a long time, there was a flash of light in his eyes. Finally, he picked up his cell phone and dialed Tong Siqi’s number.

…

He couldn’t bear to be so selfish after all.

After Chen Kexin entered Chen Keren’s car, she pretended to be tired and closed her eyes quietly. Chen Keren let her be and took a piece of clothing from the backseat and draped it over Chen Keren.

Chen Kexin turned her head and looked at Chen Keren. Moonlight came in through the window like flowing water. She smiled gently and stuck out her tongue at Chen Keren. She wittily said, “I am still the most loved one.”

Chen Keren’s hand paused and looked at Chen Kexin. She smiled helplessly for a long time and said, “All right, don’t be so talkative. Go to sleep. I’ll wake you when we arrive.”

Chen Kexin nodded, and then safely closed her eyes.

Chen Keren silently started the car.

The car ran softly on the quiet road. Chen Keren deliberately drove slowly for fear that a turn or brake would wake Chen Kexin beside her. She knew that Chen Kexin was not really asleep – her long eyelashes were covered with a thin layer of tears.

She was trying her best to restrain herself, and Chen Keren did not want to disturb her.

When they got home, it was already eleven o’clock. It should have been a 20-minute journey, but Chen Keren drove for almost an hour today. Chen Kexin had finally fallen asleep, and her tears had slipped down her cheeks.

“Elder sister, wake up, we are here.” Chen Keren spoke carefully.

Chen Kexin frowned. She hadn’t slept well, so she was easily woken up this time. Looking at the person in front of her with wide eyes, she didn’t know why she saw Wang Weixi smiling at her. She yawned and asked as usual, “Dear, have we arrived?” But after saying this, she realized that she was sitting in Chen Keren’s car.

The two people froze at the same time. Chen Kexin awkwardly said, “I was dreaming. Let’s go down. I haven’t seen your villa yet.” Then she took off her seat belt and got off from the car like she was escaping.

Chen Keren reluctantly shook her head, alighted from the car and handed the key to the housekeeper. Only then did she find Chen Kexin, who was gawking and looking intently at the place where she lived.

“This is your home? I haven’t even been here. But it looks good. Hee-hee. I envy you so much. How excellent.” Chen Kexin couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

Chen Keren walked up to her and stood still. She said flatly, “It’s just that I’m used to being alone. If you want, I will buy you such a villa.”

With a shake of her head, Chen Kexin said, “I am most afraid of being alone.”

“But when I was away, you were always alone, weren’t you?” All of a sudden, Chen Keren had to ask.

Chen Kexin paused for a moment and said with some embarrassment, “At that time… I had pictures of our mother, and I also wrote in my diaries, and occasionally I received letters from you. I felt very satisfied…”

Chen Keren reluctantly smiled and said, “Really? It’s getting cold, let’s go in.”

Chen Kexin nodded and entered the house with Chen Keren.

Chen Keren’s room was huge, with a big bed in the middle. The lavender mattress looked very warm.

“Go take a bath.” Chen Keren took out the pajamas from her bag and handed them to Chen Kexin.

Chen Kexin nodded and went to the bathroom.

Chen Keren looked at the tightly closed bathroom door and listened to the sound of running water inside. She sat wearily on the single-person sofa not far from the bed, took out a cigarette from her bag, lit it up casually, and began to smoke.

The curtain was half open, and the moonlight streamed in through the window, merging with the lamplight and falling on Chen Keren, who looked lonely and sad.

She remembered every detail of meeting Yi Duanfang that afternoon and the things that Yi Duanfang had tried to explain. She couldn’t help but frown. What was it that she didn’t know? If Wang Weixi really didn’t like Tong Siqi at all, as Yi Duanfang had said, why did he do this to her sister? Leaving his wife in the hospital to have dinner with that woman? This was definitely not Wang Weixi’s style.

With the cigarette in her hand burning slowly, Chen Keren seemed very calm.

Thinking about what had happened recently, the strangest thing was that Yi Duanfang would come with that woman, and it was not hard to see that he had not done it voluntarily. So, what exactly made him do this?

Lighting another cigarette, Chen Keren continued to ponder.

At last, she decided to go to Tong Siqi herself, because she held all the answers.

…

By the time Chen Kexin dried her hair and came out of the bathroom, Chen Keren had already finished smoking four cigarettes without realizing it.

Looking at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, Chen Kexin frowned and said angrily, “Keren, why do you still smoke? And you smoke so much? Ahem… Ahem…”

Chen Keren stubbed out her fifth cigarette, got up, and said, “Go to bed while I take a shower.”

Facing Chen Keren’s disregard for her preaching, Chen Kexin was quite depressed, but there was no way out. Plus today, she was really tired, so after Chen Keren went to the bathroom, Chen Kexin didn’t say anything and just lay on the bed.

The soft bed was very comfortable. Chen Kexin turned over and lay back on the bed, looking at the delicate chandelier on the ceiling. Her eyes gradually became blurred. “I always feel very tired… Where was the innocent and happy feeling before? Is he too willful, or are we both having problems? Weixi, should I trust you?”

Once a woman had such doubts about a man, it showed that her trust in that man was falling apart little by little.

When Chen Keren came out of the bathroom, Chen Kexin had curled up and fallen asleep on the bed.

Chen Keren went to close the window, covered Chen Kexin with a quilt, and then left the desk lamp at the head of the bed on before going to bed.

Lying sideways, she was suddenly grabbed at the waist. Chen Kexin leaned her head against Chen Keren’s back. Chen Keren asked softly, “What’s the matter? Still can’t change your habit of sleeping with others?”

Chen Kexin laughed, but tears slid from the corners of her eyes.

“If you want to cry, cry. Stop trying to hold it in.” Finally, Chen Keren could not help but speak.

Chen Kexin suddenly fell silent. After some time, she began to sob in a low voice until she finally began wailing loudly.

She didn’t know how long she had cried for, but when she became tired, she turned silent.

“Elder sister, why did you forgive Chen Derong?” Chen Keren asked in a rarely-heard gentle and cautious manner.

Chen Kexin was silent for a long time before she said lightly. “Because I already have no mother… I can’t have no father…”

“But… he made you lose your mother.”

“So… I can’t lose him as well, because of my mother.”

A brief silence followed.

Chen Keren understood what Chen Kexin meant, but she felt more distressed for her. However, she did not know how to express it.

“Oh, Keren, you said your brother-in-law and I would separate up one day, right?” Suddenly, Chen Kexin hugged Chen Keren and asked softly.

Chen Keren lay there for a long time. She gently turned around and looked at Chen Kexin. Her eyes were full of apologies.

Chen Kexin smiled playfully at her and said, “Maybe you were right.”

Chen Keren flatly said, “Don’t entertain foolish ideas anymore. At that time, I just didn’t like my brother-in-law.”

Chen Kexin sipped her mouth and laughed, calmly saying, “Is that right? But I gradually feel that what you had said at the beginning was true. I don’t know how to deal with these things. What is Weixi thinking? I don’t know. I can’t guess. That woman must be very important in his heart because he clearly knew that I would be very sad, but he still indulged that woman and also went to accompany her… ”

Chen Keren softly comforted her. “Don’t be paranoid, brother-in-law must have his own reasons.”

Although her heart was very reluctant, in order not to make Chen Kexin sadder, Chen Keren still chose to comfort her. After thinking a lot tonight, she felt that Wang Weixi was not acting normally. There had to be some special reason. To say something against him now would not be good for Chen Kexin and Wang Weixi.

After hearing this, Chen Kexin still said calmly, “Maybe. But…” But if it had been in the past, he would not have done such a thing. No matter the reason, he saw her as the most important. But now it was not the same… Thinking of this, a sense of loss burst in her mind.

“Don’t worry, you will be very happy. Brother-in-law is not that kind of person.” Chen Keren gently touched her head to console her.

Chen Kexin nodded and looked at Chen Keren, thinking that ever since she got married, she had always brought trouble to Keren, as if she appeared every time when she needed someone to accompany her most. This kind of warmth was the snuggling that she hadn’t seen for more than ten years.

“Keren, were you scared when you left home?” Chen Kexin thought, and she asked what she had wanted to ask for many years.

Chen Keren said almost without hesitation, “I was not afraid.”

Chen Kexin frowned and said, “But, at that time, you must have been very lonely…”

“It was because I was lonely that I was not afraid. Because I was ready to face everything alone before I left.” Chen Keren lightly said.

Chen Kexin looked at her in surprise. A while later, she held Chen Keren, buried her head in her chest, and tears began to fall.

“What’s the matter?” Chen Keren asked softly.

Chen Kexin shook her head and sobbed, “It’s okay. I just feel that for so many years… I haven’t been like a sister. I haven’t been with you. I haven’t stood by you when you needed me. I even always cause you to worry about me… Sister Duanfang is right. I don’t deserve to be your sister.”

Chen Keren smiled softly and said, “No, you have done very well.”

“But…”

“No, as long as you have a good life, for me, it is a good thing.”

Chen Kexin stopped talking because she didn’t know what else she could say. No words could express her feelings at this time.