Chapter 257: You’re Very Selfish Too

“Look!” Qiao Jiuyin tightly pursed her lips, her tone self-deprecating.

She tightly grabbed her hospital gown’s pants with her hands and said to Qiao Sen, “Even you were frightened by me. Then I must look very scary now.”

Qiao Sen went against his conscience and said, “No, it’s not scary…”

Qiao Jiuyin softly snorted. She did not believe him.

Qiao Jiuyin did not ask what Qiao Sen was doing here. The police would take her away the next day. Other than saying goodbye and catching up, Qiao Sen would not come here at this time.

Sure enough, Qiao Sen said, “Ah Yin, you’re going… in… tomorrow. Do you have any wishes?”

When Qiao Jiuyin heard this, she finally reacted.

Wishes?

She did have.

“I want to… hug the child.” She had not hugged that child since he was born. When she had to leave Binjiang City, Fang Shan was still in the Intensive Pediatrics Department. Later on, she had requested to visit Fang Shan, but Fang Mu had rejected her.

She was a mother, but she had never hugged her child before. Qiao Jiuyin felt regretful.

Qiao Sen nodded and said to her, “I’ll call Fang Mu and tell him. As for the outcome…”

“Just call him and inform him of my request.” Afraid that Fang Mu would reject her again, Qiao Jiuyin added, “Just say that I want to see the child before I go in.” If that person still had a little conscience, he would probably bring the child to see her.

Qiao Sen agreed.

“Do you have any other wishes?”

Qiao Jiuyin thought about it and said, “About Grandfather…”

“Grandpa doesn’t know about you guys, and I won’t tell him.” How would Qiao Sen dare to tell Qiao Yunfan about this? He was afraid that the Old Master would die the next second after hearing about it.

Qiao Jiuyin heaved a sigh of relief.

“It’s good that you wouldn’t tell him.” Qiao Jiuyin felt terrible at the thought that she might not be able to see her grandfather for the last time if she went in.

She lowered her head. There were many things in her heart, including regret and sadness.

At this moment, she could not help but ask herself,

How did I get to where I am today?

“Ah Yin, w-why did you do that to Xiao Sheng?” Qiao Sen still could not understand why his two sisters would want to kill each other.

Just for a man?

Then he was really charismatic. Qiao Sen could not help but look at Fang Mu in a different light.

Qiao Jiuyin was silent for a long time. Perhaps, she understood that she had reached the end of the road. She suddenly had the desire to vent all the grievances she had suffered over the years.

Even though she could not see anything, Qiao Jiuyin still raised her head and said self-deprecatingly in Qiao Sen’s direction, “Why? Because I’ve been giving in to her since I was young! Fang Mu is the only person I can’t give up!

“I love him more than Xiao Sheng!

“Big Brother, ever since we were young, you’ve always made me give in to Xiao Sheng. Have you thought about how I felt all these years?” Qiao Jiuyin pointed at her chest and roared. “I’m human too. I have feelings too. I get sad too. Ever since then, all of you wanted me to give Xiao Sheng what she wanted first. When Xiao Sheng was unhappy, you made me cancel my birthday banquet with just one sentence. Xiao Sheng, Xiao Sheng, no matter when, whenever it involved Xiao Sheng, you always thought of her first!

“What about me?”

Qiao Jiuyin wanted to cry, but she could not. “Am I not your sister? Why are you so good to Xiao Sheng and so perfunctory to me even though we are both your sisters?” After Qiao Jiusheng roared, Qiao Sen saw tears squeezing out of her sunken eyes.

He stared blankly. He did not expect Qiao Jiuyin to have such a deep prejudice against him.

His lips moved. After a long while, he asked in a hoarse voice, “Do you blame me?”

Qiao Jiuyin’s throat choked. She wiped her tears but did not deny it.

Yes, she blamed him.

All these years, she had been pretending to be obedient, sensible, and considerate. However, only she knew how much she blamed Qiao Sen and her parents.

Hearing this, Qiao Sen became dispirited.

He sat down on the stool and took out a lighter to keep stoking the flame. He looked at the flame and felt exhausted. “Ah Yin.” His voice was very low. Qiao Jiuyin heard him, but she did not say anything. Qiao Sen took a deep breath and suddenly said, “It’s not what you think.”

Qiao Jiuyin did not believe him at all and thought that Qiao Sen was finding an excuse for his favoritism.

She was indifferent, her face filled with sarcasm.

The flames danced in Qiao Sen’s eyes, flickering and making him look a little lonely. He suddenly asked Qiao Jiuyin, “Do you still remember the two years when both of you were 13 and 15 years old?”

Qiao Jiuyin was stunned for a moment, then hummed in agreement.

“Then do you remember that Xiao Sheng was always easily agitated at that time? She often screamed and cried in the middle of the night.”

Qiao Jiuyin thought for a while, then nodded and said, “I remember.”

“Do you know why she did that?”

Qiao Jiuyin was speechless.

She thought about it and softly asked, “Didn’t the doctor say that she was too stressed and mentally unstable? That she would be fine after more rest?”

“She was so carefree and easygoing. What pressure could she feel?”

“That is…?”

Could there be something else?

Qiao Sen looked up and stared at the silent Qiao Jiuyin. He finally revealed the secret that he had hidden for ten years. “Our parents didn’t die on the plane.”

Qiao Jiuyin did not understand what Qiao Sen meant for a while.

What does he mean by ‘our parents did not die on the plane?’

She clearly remembered that the news agencies had reported the deaths of her mother and father. How could it be fake?

“Then they—”

Before Qiao Jiuyin could finish her sentence, Qiao Sen finally revealed the truth that he had hidden from her all those years ago. “That time, you had attended the piano competition. I had just graduated and was busy with work. Our parents brought only Xiao Sheng to Meng Hai. In the end, they happened to encounter a domestic coup in that country. To show their might, the leader of the rebel army kidnapped our parents and…

“Father was killed by a rebel with a gun, and mother’s head was… cut off…”

Even though many years had passed since that incident, Qiao Sen still remembered the shock and sorrow he had felt on seeing his mother’s sutured body. His beautiful mother had died so tragically.

Qiao Jiuyin’s expression drastically changed.

“W-What did you say?” Her lips moved slightly as if she were shocked but also afraid. “N-No way!” Qiao Jiuyin could not believe that the truth was so tragic. She tried to deny this fact. She said, “What happened to the news broadcasts? The news broadcasts will not broadcast fake news…”

“Because of Xiao Sheng.” Seeing Qiao Jiuyin’s confused expression, Qiao Sen explained, “When our parents were killed, Xiao Sheng had been watching from the side. She saw Father being killed and Mother’s head being cut off…” Qiao Sen covered his face with his hand, his eyes shockingly red.

“Xiao Sheng always woke up in the middle of the night during those two years. She would cry and shout without any warning. It was not because she was mentally unsound due to stress, but because she was stimulated by witnessing the truth of our parents’ deaths.”

Qiao Jiuyin was dumbfounded. She could not believe that this was the truth.

No wonder!

No wonder Elder Brother, who was originally like me and was dissatisfied with our parents’ love for Xiao Sheng, became different after Xiao Sheng returned from Meng Hai.

It turns out that there was such a truth behind his indulgence and love for Xiao Sheng.

Qiao Jiuyin was stunned for a long time. When she regained her senses, she asked him slowly, “Why didn’t you tell me back then?”

Qiao Sen asked, “Could it be that in your heart, I only treat Xiao Sheng as a sister and don’t have you in my heart?”

Qiao Jiuyin was stunned.

Qiao Sen looked very tired. He said, “Xiao Sheng is my