24 It's not impossible

Since the supermarket was just nearby the place they were staying, Mu Xijiu and Li Bingbing walked toward it.

Upon arriving at the twenty-four hours supermarket, Li Bingbing followed her mother as she pushed the cart while Mu Xijiu was the one who picked the ingredients.

"Hey, sweetie, I'm free tomorrow, do you want to go out with me?" Mu Xijiu asked as she placed a tomato sauce inside the cart.

Li Bingbing rolled her eyes with the way Mu Xijiu talked to her, she was talking as if Li Bingbing was a five years old girl. "Sadly, I am not. I have a date with Sisi, I'm planning to visit him in his place."

Mu Xijiu pouted as she turned to Li Bingbing. "You're choosing your boyfriend over your mother?"

"I have already scheduled it tomorrow, you should have told this to me in advance."

"I am always busy, honey. I don't know when will the next time I'll be free, can't you at least make an exemption for tomorrow?" She clung to Li Bingbing's arm.

"Stop acting so childish, mom. You're not cute." Li Bingbing huffed before she continued on pushing the cart.

"You're such a rude daughter." Mu Xijiu puffed out her cheeks as she let go of her arm.

"Well, that's how genetics work." Li Bingbing chuckled.

Mu Xijiu sighed before she continued to get every ingredient they needed.

"If I changed my plans for tomorrow, where will we take me?" Li Bingbing asked curiously.

Mu Xijiu's eyes lit up, "I've always wanted to visit the planetarium again, do you want to accompany me?"

Mu Xijiu loved staring at the heavenly bodies and Li Bingbing knew this.

Back then, when Li Bingbing was still young, they would visit one as a family twice a month and if Li Bingbing was, to be honest about it, it was one of the best memories she had during her childhood days.

"Fine, I'll go with you." Li Bingbing sighed in defeat.

"Great!"

After paying the stuff they bought in the cashier, Li Bingbing was the one who carried most of the plastic bags as they head home.

Soon after their dinner was prepared, the two started eating.

Mu Xijiu was trying to think of a way to bring up Li Hua to Li Bingbing without her walking out of the room.

"Bingbing dear, your graduation is coming up, where do you want to study?" Mu Xijiu asked as she paused from eating.

"Same as Sisi, I want to study at Imperial University." Li Bingbing grinned happily. "I'm planning to move to his apartment, it's nearby the school."

Imperial University was one of the best school in their country and it wasn't easy to get in it but if it was Li Bingbing, Mu Xijiu was confident enough that Li Bingbing would easily top the entrance exam.

"What course do you plan on taking?"

Li Bingbing smiled at her, "I plan on taking computer science."

"Like your father?"

The smile one Li Bingbing's face disappeared at the mention of Li Hua.

Mu Xijiu noticed this that was why she decided to continue, "Dreamstar company is the biggest internet company. Even though it was just created three years ago, the company has reached a great height already. It has the best technologies, good management and a good platform for aspiring programmer like yourself, you can have your internship the-"

"Why are you suddenly saying this? Did Li Hua tell you something?" Li Bingbing asked with narrowed eyes, she was sharp enough to notice that her mother was up to something.

"I met him earlier. Don't get me wrong, it's not because I love him, okay? I just wanted to hear what he has in mind." Mu Xijiu said as she carefully looked at the expression on Li Bingbing's face.

Li Bingbing's face was void of emotions and Mu Xijiu couldn't help but get worried since she didn't know what kind of thoughts were in Li Bingbing's mind.

Since Li Bingbing was almost done in eating, she was about to stand up that's why Mu Xijiu hurriedly said, "Please hear me out first."

Li Bingbing looked at her mother with a helpless expression on her face. Even if she hated Li Hua, whenever it came to her mother, Li Bingbing was willing to sit down and listen. "Okay, just make it fast."

Mu Xijiu sighed in relief, "Bingbing, no matter what happened between us and your father, that is now in the past. Li Hua wanted to start anew and be a proper father to you."

Li Bingbing narrowed her eyes when she heard her mother's words, "You're letting him in our lives just like that? Have you forgotten what he did to us? You're being too soft to him, mom!"

"Soft or not, I think this is for the better. Of course, I won't be accepting him as my husband. I'm already tired of making him choose me." Mu Xijiu smiled half-heartedly. "But that doesn't mean that he cannot be a father to you. You're his daughter and every parent would want their child to have an easy and happy life. He is not asking you to move to his place but he wanted you to give him a chance to be a father to you again."

Li Bingbing scoffed, "That's a very hard thing to do, mom."

"But it's not impossible." Mu Xijiu smiled a bit, "To be honest, I'm also a bit hesitant in this but we won't know what will happen until we decide to take a step forward, right?"