68 Suspicions

'What has my Xiao Xie crying so heartbreakingly?'

As Li Hua thought about this, she thought of something that could cause her daughter to fall apart like this. Guilt bloomed in Li Hua's heart at the thought.

'I should have told her sooner.'

"Chang, honey. Talk to me." Li Hua nervously held a hand over her daughter's head. Now that Chang knew she had no idea where to start. She had practiced a million times how to say what she needed to say, but had still been unable to initiate the topic, especially knowing this was what would be waiting at the end of the conversation. It pained her badly to see her daughter in this miserable state.

"Mom I just don't know what's real anymore.. I dont think it's possible with Jian and me.."

Li Hua's hand froze, 'Jian?' She hadn't even considered it to be Jian who was troubling her daughter.

"What's going on? Jian hasn't been here for a few days. Are you just missing him?"

Chang was unable to explain all that she felt, so she sat up pulled the pictures from her belt, handing them to her mother.

Li Hua slowly examined the photos looking at each one thoroughly. She set them on her lap and looked Chang in the eye seriously.

"Who gave you these?"

"What does that matter?"

"Would you trust the source where these came from?"

"It doesn't matter if I trust them, it can still be true."

"Wrong." Li Hua held up a hand stopping her daughter in her train of thoughts. '"People say believe half of what you see, Son and none to what you hear'"

"Did you just quote a song to me as life wisdom?"

"No, I did not."

"I'm pretty sure that's a Marvin Gaye song you just referenced, Mom." Chang couldn't help chuckling a little.

Chang blushed hearing her mother use the term one night stand. "We never had a one night stand or anything of the like. Men have their needs I know.. Chang started to mumble not really wanting to explain too much further.

Li Hua was shocked hearing that, she hadn't thought too far about it, as it was her child, but she knew her daughter was a woman, and married at that. "You two never..performed marital relations.?

Chang slapped her hands to her face trying to cover her burning shame. "Oh god mom! No we haven't!"

Li Hua was truly rocked. "You definitely need to trust in him, with all that he's done, hes shown his devotion to you. He would gain nothing to leave now, logically, but who would gain if you two were to split?"

Chang mulled over her mother's word, they seemed to hold some truth to them. "I guess only Jian's dad I guess, I'm pretty sure those pictures came from him too."