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Chapter 332 Why Didn't You Come to Pick Up Me and Mother?

Xiao Mu stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze never leaving the pear tree: "This place looks a lot like your mother's old house."

Xiao Ran nodded and looked at the pear tree: "Yes, my mother and I spent the happiest years there."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Mu felt a pang of sadness. If he hadn't joined the army, perhaps he, Zhi Nian, and their daughter could have lived a peaceful and uneventful life.

But he couldn't. Zhi Nian had suffered so much with him; he couldn't let her go from a pampered young lady to a country bumpkin. He vowed to give them both a better life.

But things don't always go as planned, and things don't always go as desired.

Now, nothing can be said. He has become a mighty general of the country, but his beloved is already separated from him by death...

"father."

Xiao Ran turned around, smiled, and asked, "Do you love my mother?"

"Of course I love you..." Xiao Mu wanted to prove it, but he couldn't bring himself to say it, as if he had swallowed a bitter pill.

Xiao Ran did not ask any further questions.

“My mother was lucid once before she died,” she said.

When Yun Zhinian heard that Xiao Mu had become a general, she was very happy and even cooked better meals for him for the next few days. However, when the neighbors came back with the news, they said that Xiao Mu had already married.

Yun Zhinian listened calmly without making a fuss. She simply told her that her father would come to pick them up and that she should not argue with the new wife.

But after waiting for a day, two days... several months, there was still no news.

Xiao Ran had been ridiculed enough by her friends in the village, but Yun Zhinian still insisted that her father would come to pick them up.

From that time on, she noticed that her mother's mental state was somewhat abnormal.

Later, Yun Zhinian grew thinner and thinner, and one winter day, she finally couldn't hold on any longer.

The little girl sat by the bedside, tears streaming down her face, until a hand brushed across her cheek.

Yun Zhinian regained her senses for a moment, and her face was no longer expressionless. It was the first time Xiao Ran had ever seen hatred on her mother's face.

"Ran'er, your father broke his promise." Tears streamed down Yun Zhinian's face.

"I don't want my father, I hate him!" Xiao Ran said as a child.

The aunt next door said that her mother's health deteriorated because she harbored too much hatred. She wanted her mother to say a few more words and scold her father, hoping that her mother would get better.

But Yun Zhinian said, "Ran'er, don't hate him. You must live well and not end up like your mother..."

As a child, Xiao Ran didn't understand much. She only had her mother, with whom she depended on for survival, and she cried out, "I don't want to leave my mother! I don't want to!"

"My dear, Ran'er... Your father will come to pick you up soon." Yun Zhinian had become extremely thin, and her smile was no longer as gentle as before.

"I don't want my father..." Xiao Ran cried so hard she couldn't even speak.

"You're the one I worry about most in this world. You must be good, don't hate, and don't be like your mother..."

Yun Zhinian stopped mid-sentence and stared out the window without moving.

It was snowing heavily outside. Normally, Xiao Ran would happily make two small snowmen, one big and one small, and put them on the table to cheer her mother up.

But now, she just can't bring herself to like it anymore.

She hates snowy days.

That's still true today.

All the misfortunes happened on snowy days; she and her mother both died on snowy days.

She didn't know what her mother saw outside the window that day, but in her past life, she had kept the hatred in her heart forever.

She didn't listen to her mother and let go of her hatred. That's why in her past life she hated her father, He Wan, and Madam He.

Xiao Ran lowered her eyes and chuckled softly, then turned around and asked the question that had no answer in her previous life:

"Father, why didn't you come to pick up Mother and me?"