Bai iyue ran right towards the corner where the teddy bear was lying. She snatched it from the floor with trembling fingers, and when the tips of her fingers rubbed against the once soft fabric, she could sense that it had turned coarse and hard.
But when her eyes darted to the specks of blood and flesh that were sticking to the soft fabric, Bai iyue knew that it wasn't due to the long period of negligence that had turned the fabric so prickly.
"No…no…" Bai iyue refused to believe that the blood and the small pieces of flesh belonged to her son. There was no way her little Cai was gone. Her son was so obedient and loving; he loved his mother so much—how could he bear to leave her?
This blood didn't belong to her son. No, it couldn't belong to her son; however, just as she was filled with a strong sense of denial, her fingers rubbed against sothing hard. Startled, Bai iyue turned the teddy bear around to see what had nudged against her fingers.
Clatter.
The teddy bear fell onto the ground with a soft thud. Bai iyue staggered back before her legs buckled and her knees hit the ground with a harsh bang.
"No…No… my —Cai… no," the light in her eyes disappeared and her lips started to quiver as she continued to stare at the small rotting finger sticking to the back of the teddy bear. "No… NO…MY SON… MY SON….ARGH, GIVE BACK MY SON! GIVE BACK MY LITTLE CAI CAI! ARGHHHHH!"
Bai iyue was caught up in her nightmare when ng Guo knocked on the door. But when he didn't hear a response, he pushed the door open and peered inside the room. "Auntie Yue, are you inside?"
ng Guo looked at Bai iyue who was lying on the bed with scrunched-up brows and frowned. He picked up the bowl of rice and walked over to where Bai iyue was lying and shook her lightly. He said to her, "Aunt Yue, are you scared?"
When Bai iyue heard the voice of a child, she opened her eyes and looked at the little boy who stood next to her.
Scared…?
Mom, I am scared.
Bai iyue sat up suddenly. She looked at the boy and in a trance, the past beca the present. She reached out and hugged ng Guo in her arms as she sobbed lightly.
"Don't be scared; don't be scared. Mom is here.. Don't be scared. I am sorry. I shouldn't have left you in the hands of those beasts. I am sorry. Mom will take care of you now. Don't worry."
It was all her fault. Her son tried to tell her that Bai Qingshi and his family were not good things, but she didn't listen to a single thing that he was telling her. She thought her son was being too anxious because of her absence. If she hadn't left him alone in the hands of those bastards, her son would still be alive.
It was her fault!
And she could never make up for it.
ng Guo, who was hugged, suddenly was startled. He couldn't help but cry when he saw Bai iyue cry.
He was just three years old; he couldn't understand why this aunt was suddenly crying. She was even hugging and apologising to him. ng Guo cried when Bai iyue cried and soon the cries of the big and the small attracted the attention of people outside the house.
The first ones to rush inside were the Bai brothers and Lei Qian.
"What's wrong?"
"Yueyue, why are you crying?"
"What's going on?" Lei Qian crouched next to Bai iyue and tried to take ng Guo from her arms but when she didn't let go, he frowned and let go. "Don't cry."
However, when Bai iyue didn't calm down, Lei Qian had no choice but to hold her by her shoulders and yell at her, "Bai iyue! Look at ."
"Don't yell at her." Bai Jixuan was annoyed when he saw that Lei Qian was shouting at his sister but when he saw that Bai iyue had stopped crying and fussing, he didn't say anything.
Bai iyue, who was yelled at, looked at Lei Qian in a daze. She then lowered her head and saw ng Guo in her arms. This—where was her son? Where did her son go? Bai Cai was right here, in her arms.
Seeing that she had cald down, Lei Qian took ng Guo from her arms and handed him to Jiang Haidai, who was just as confused as the rest. What happened? Everything was alright just a few minutes ago, so why did Bai iyue start crying all of a sudden?
Bai iyue looked at her empty arms and started sobbing. Tears fell down her cheeks like broken pearls.
"What's going on?" Bai Jixuan was simply bamboozled by the sight in front of him. What happened to his sister? Why did she start crying out of nowhere?
Bai Zhan on the other hand sat down next to Bai iyue. He said to her in a comforting voice, "Yueyue, are you alright? Can you hear ?"
When Bai iyue didn't reply to Bai Zhan, Lei Qian frowned. He cupped her cheeks and then turned her face towards him such that Bai iyue was looking at him.
"Yueyue, Yueyue? Wake up, sweetheart. You were having a nightmare; it's not real," Lei Qian anxiously tried to calm Bai iyue down. "Take a deep breath; look at . Don't look at anyone else; just look at , okay?"
Bai iyue continued to stare at the face, which was more or less similar to her son and followed what Lei Qian told her. As Bai iyue cald down, her mind started to clear up, and soon she rembered that she was reborn and she was no longer living the sa life as before.
Her son was yet to be born and he was still inside her womb.
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