Announced divorce, madly criticized Ling Shaochang for kneeling down

The dark yellow cardboard box was sealed with tape. The box was clean and intact, and it was obvious that the person who kept it was very careful.

Handing the cardboard box to the other party, Qiu Gui lowered his eyes and sighed, "Miss, these are some personal belongings and jewelry left by the madam. Are there any clothes I can give you?"

Qiao Ruyi held the cardboard box in both hands. The things in the box were not very heavy, but she felt it was heavy and very hot.

Before she opened the box, she seemed to see Yin Rufang's smiling face.

"No need, Uncle Gui." She looked at Qiu Gui, her eyes red. "Thank you for keeping my mother's things so well."

If it weren't for Qiu Gui, she would never be able to touch her mother's things again in her life.

Qiu Gui sighed deeply, "Miss, this matter..."

"I know, I won't tell Qiao He." Qiao Ruyi thanked him again and bowed deeply to Qiu Gui, "Uncle Gui, thank you so much."

Qiu Gui waved silently and drove away.

......

In the side room of the villa, there is a tablet for Yin Rufang.

That was what Qiao Ruyi asked Li Ling to send after she caused a big fuss at the Qiao Mansion. Since then, Yin Rufang's tablet has been placed in a side room of the Yujingwan Villa.

Aunt Zhang thoughtfully cleans every day, replaces the fruits, and even wipes the photos on the memorial tablet spotlessly clean.

In the quiet side room, there was the sound of a sharp blade cutting through tape.

The box on the table has not been fully opened yet, but the smell that hits you in the face has already made the person opening the box's eyes moist.

"Mom..." Qiao Ruyi pulled a chair and sat down, smiling gently at the black and white photo, "These are all yours, take a look."

She opened the carton tremblingly, and when she looked at the trivial items inside, her chest suddenly tightened and tears burst out instantly.

The items in the cardboard box were scattered around, filling up half of the box. Each item was sealed with a dust bag.

Qiao Ruyi is extremely familiar with every single thing.

"This purple diamond brooch is your favorite, right?"

Qiao Ruyi choked up as she looked at the photo. "Every time you accompanied Qiao He to a banquet, you always wore this brooch, no matter what outfit you wore. Later I found out that it was a gift from Qiao He when you got engaged."

"What about this?" Qiao Ruyi placed a mellow red sandalwood hairpin in her palm. "Your hair is very long and smooth, like silk. The way you put it up with this hairpin makes you look like the most beautiful mother in my heart."

"And these..." She fiddled with the pocket watch and records in the cardboard box, "These are your favorites..."

As she spoke, she choked for a moment and tears fell from her eyes.

"Mom...this isn't your belonging, it's the ten years you spent in my life..."

She rarely cried so hard in front of Yin Rufang's tablet.

If she hadn't seen these things, she thought she would have kept this emotion deep in her heart.

But when she saw these relics, the emotions in her heart burst out like a flood.

Thinking that he would never meet her again in this long life, Qiao Ruyi couldn't help sobbing while holding the thing in his hand.

The little white cat seemed to hear her crying, ran into the side room, and rubbed against her legs.

Qiao Ruyi raised her hand and touched it, then asked in a tearful voice, "Yuanyuan, do you think my mother has gone to a good place? That's why she never comes to see me."

The kitten just meowed and looked at her eagerly.

Qiao Ruyi fixed her eyes on the black and white photo. "I think you must be, so you've never appeared in my dreams. I just vaguely seem to hear you calling my name. You told me to keep going forward, keep going. You said there was light ahead and told me not to look back."

"I wanted to find you, but I couldn't see you. I wanted to catch you, but you walked away too fast. I was only ten years old, and you were already out of my sight and reach."

Her hand stroked the black and white photo. The person in the photo had picturesque eyebrows and a gentle smile.

She sniffed, "Mom, you know, losing your mom when I was young was the biggest blow to me. Everyone else still had a mom, but I was the only one who would never see mine again. You made me grow up overnight, but the loneliness after losing you has persisted for 15 years after you left."

Her eyes dimmed, as if she was recalling something from long ago.

"In the days after you left, I felt like I couldn't live anymore. I locked myself up in a confined space, hugging your clothes and pillow every day. But Dad said everything related to you had to be burned. He said it was unlucky to keep it."

She twitched her lips. "I don't understand why you left without even leaving me a piece of clothing that smelled like you. The pain of losing my mother at a young age has prevented me from leading a normal life or communicating with others, because I feel different from them. They had the best love in the world, and I don't."

"Did you know, the year after you left, Dad got married and brought back a woman named Li Ling and a daughter two years younger than me. He asked me to call her Aunt Li and said the little girl was my sister. My aunt and the others urged me to accept Li Ling and her daughter. They said it hadn't been easy for Dad, and that he was so heartbroken by your passing that he needed someone to accompany him through it."

"mom......"

Tears rolled down her cheeks as Qiao Ruyi sat there, looking like a child complaining to her mother.

"Did you know that Li Ling beat me? She hit me, pinched me, and wished I would disappear from the Qiao family, but her beatings and scoldings never left any marks on me."

"That year, it was snowing, and she threw me into the swimming pool in the backyard of the Qiao Mansion to teach me a lesson." She smiled softly through her tears, "I was lucky enough not to drown, but I almost froze to death."

"She pretended to be very nice to me in front of Dad. I cried and made a scene in front of Dad, but Dad just thought I was angry with him because I didn't like Li Ling and her daughter. After so many times, he just didn't bother to care anymore."

"Mom, do you know how desperate those days were?"

She looked at the smiling face in the photo, her smile sad. "I wanted to die. I thought I could be like you, just by cutting my wrists open so I could see you."

She laughed at herself again, "But I'm timid, I'm afraid of pain..."

She wiped away her tears and continued, "Later, I left the Qiao Mansion to study abroad. In a foreign country, I was alone, living alone in this world. The world is really big, and I can meet many different new faces every day, but I still feel lonely."

"That's when I finally realized that your departure took away the last bit of love I had in this world. Without you, there's no one left to love me. There's no one in this world who can love me wholeheartedly."

She sat up straight and smiled faintly, "Everyone has their own parting. It took me more than ten years to accept our separation, but I underestimated the longing."

"Mom, to be honest, I really miss you."

She took out the old cell phone that was sealed in a dust bag from the cardboard box.

"Maybe I will never be able to accept the fact that you suddenly disappeared from my life on that sunny afternoon fifteen years ago."

She clutched the phone tightly in her hand. "But I will still do my best to live on. Since you refuse to come to see me in my dreams and tell me why you left, I will solve this mystery myself."