Grandfather’s Phone Call
Perhaps the passage of time had unconsciously changed them, yet the inexpressible bond these men had with each other had persisted. At least for now.
Meanwhile, after Jing Wushuang and Su Ran left the clubhouse, they received a call from Grandfather Xia Jingshan. Jing Wushuang was asked to return home for dinner during the weekend without excuses.
Jing Wushuang had rented a small apartment since she started working. Not long ago, she saved enough for the down payment and purchased the place. When she was busy with work, she would not return home for nearly a month.
It was not because the Xia family did not treat her well. In fact, apart from her aunt and cousin, everyone else treated her very well especially this grandfather of hers. After all, it could be said that he had raised her. She would never go against Grandfather's words.
Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother brought her back to live with the Xia family. Her mother, however, wandered all over the world and would just disappear all year round. At the time, she often thought that it would be better to go live with her father. Yet, her mother insisted that it was not good to have a man raise a little girl. She was only seven years old then and could not completely care for herself.
No matter how well her grandfather and family treated her, she always felt that she was relying on someone else's charity. After all, her last name was Jing.
Although she did not know why her seemingly loving parents suddenly separated, it was her mother that initiated it. Her father's only condition to the divorce was that she did not change her last name.
Whenever little Jing Wushuang said she wanted to go on a plane when she was younger, her father would let her ride on his shoulders. He often said, "Wushuang, my little Wushuang, no matter what happens in the future,
After the divorce, the father never remarried. He lived in the old family house with her grandfather. The father-and-son pair lived simple lives. She would visit them often.
In her heart, the Jing family was her real family. However, she had to live with her mother. She resented her mother when she was a little. Why could she not give her a complete family?
However, she slowly understood her mother's suffering as she grew older, and she understood that they probably loved each other but just could not be together.
There was only a single line to the three generations of the Jing family. In the three generations, there was only her grandfather, her father and herself.
For unknown reasons, her grandfather had never asked her father to remarry. She was the only daughter in this generation.
'Grandfather must've known in his heart that her father had always been thinking about her mother,' she thought to herself.
"Shuangshuang, what has gotten you so entranced? I've called you several times. It's as though that phone call stole your soul or something."
Su Ran's voice caused Wushuang to snap back to the present.
"It's nothing. Grandfather asked me to return home this weekend, no matter what."
"Go home then. What's the problem?"
"Ranran, others may be unaware, but should you? She's back. I got a call from her this morning." If there was anyone else in the world Wushuang did not want to share the same roof, it was none other than this cousin of hers.
Su Ran knew that Wushuang did not like that family very much and knew of the relationship between Wushuang and her father, but it did not cross her mind at that moment and blurted out, "Who? Who's back?"
Right after the words left her mouth, she suddenly quivered and exclaimed furiously, "You mean that sl*t Xia Ziwei is back?"
"Ranran…"
Although she did not get along with her cousin, she was still uncomfortable when she heard others cursing her cousin.