Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 103 - Humans were truly adaptable with strong survival skills

XG 103 - Humans were truly adaptable with strong survival skills

"Infertility isn't an issue as long as adoption is allowed. There would be a lot of children needing guardians," Wong Xue Guo said. There should be a lot of parents that sacrificed their lives for their children, but how would their children survive after their parents died?

"My baby is a good person," Suzie Yap praised. Oh, no. Her baby was still trying to plead with her to let her sign up!

"Not at all. Most people want children just to have someone take care of them when they grow old. I would want that too."

Suzie Yap lost her words at how rational her daughter could be. She took a deep breath to settle her turbulent emotions. "Baby, when I gave birth to you, there's no plan of having you take care of me when I'm old."

Her daughter's expressive expression of 'you don't?' had Suzie Yap mercilessly squeeze her daughter's adorable cheeks between her palms. "There's still your father and caretaker that I could have hired."

While her face was still sandwiched, Wong Xue Guo murmured, "Caretaker would be more neglectful than a biological child."

"It is, but I would never let my daughter serve me like that." Suzie Yap finally released her daughter's face, and tenderly rubbed her smooth cheek. If her daughter Awaken her gene, she would have lost her cute cheeks. "Baby, I would have given you more siblings if I could, so that you would never get lonely. Years ago, I got into a terrible accident and had to remove my womb. In this life, you are the one and only child I could ever have."

Wong Xue Guo was obviously shocked hearing that and could not find proper words to reply to that. "Mother..."

Suzie Yap licked her lips and found that saying it now surprisingly does not hurt as it does years ago. "Baby, mummy is bad and selfish. It's because I'm afraid of the pain of losing you that I heartlessly pushed you away. Mummy is sorry, my baby daughter. I love you, truly so much. I want to kiss you, hug you, protect you from everything, yet I'm afraid of the pain if I failed to defy the fate that others had tried and failed. Mummy is useless..."

"No!" Wong Xue Guo shook her head fiercely, her eyes watery, and grabbed her mother's cold hands. "I... I... I love you too! Even if you and Father don't pay attention to me, I still love both of you. I'm so happy, relieved... that you love me."

The pain from childhood till now, of thinking that she was a burden to her parents, quickly unravelled its tangled knot. It would be a lie to claim that she was alright with being the least prioritized person in the family, that it does not hurt her when she constantly reminded herself to be satisfied with what she had to dilute the pain of being ignored.

There would still be some hard feelings, but her heart was much lighter now after knowing her mother's reason for treating her that way.

The unexplained stare that was frequently directed at me when my mother thinks I did not notice...

The fancy dresses my mother always picked out for me whenever she went shopping...

The meals were always eaten in the dining room with my silent mother ...

Those actions that had puzzled her in the past was now were now clear in her eyes, that it was actually her mother's own timid way to show her love. She had always thought her mother did it as an act of responsibility as a mother.

The mother-con promised to herself that one day, the negative feelings for her mother would be gone. Wong Xue Guo loved her mother too much to have the heart to blame her for a long time.