Chapter 1776: No Acting Cute?
Chapter 1776: Chapter 1776: No Acting Cute?
“You’re right,” Xue Bai nodded. He, too, was distressed and hung his head low. “If the child in Wu Lingxi’s belly is truly not mine, I definitely won’t make the same foolish mistake again. Learn from the pitfall to gain wisdom, and by then, I should be able to recognize just how foolish I can be at times. I never really understood why my parents never opposed anything the family said. People say that even though my parents were agreeable in their youth, they sometimes had their own opinions. They must have suffered because of this and gradually changed. My grandfather was the same, I heard that once he made up his mind, he wouldn’t change it, being so stubborn that the family suffered a lot. It was only later that he slowly realized his mistakes and corrected them. I had only heard about these things, they hadn’t happened to me personally, so I didn’t feel it deeply, but now that it has happened to me… Wenwan,” he suddenly looked up, his eyes unusually firm and resolute, “rest assured, if that is truly not my child, I know what to do. I realize that some of my actions have hurt you, and I am truly sorry. I never intended to hurt you, I’m sorry.”
He apologized once more.
Yang Wenwan, however, with reddening eyes, smiled: “You don’t have to feel sorry for me, I know you didn’t mean to. As long as you truly learn from this lesson and change, that’s better than anything.”
“Ah,” Xue Bai smiled too.
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Locust Village.
...Jiang Yue, Xue Yan, Xue Dafu, Liu Guixia, Emperor Hao Xuanyuan, Shao Youyue, and others were chatting in the courtyard, while little Xue Yan practiced the horse stance alone.
Since the day after Jiang Yue and Xue Yan had talked to their baby about starting martial arts training, their baby had started with the basics, and practicing the horse stance was a fundamental part of it.
Little Xue Yan initially took the stance very seriously, but as she continued, even though she had grown accustomed to it, having practiced it for several days, her little legs still felt sore. She continued with the stance while whining in a childish tone, “It’s so tiring.”
This remark delighted Xue Dafu and the others.
“Come here, Yan Yan, take a rest for a while,” Liu Guixia and the others hurriedly invited little Xue Yan to come and rest, finding their little Yan Yan incredibly adorable.
But little Xue Yan dared not; she wasn’t afraid of her father, but she was afraid of her mother.
Father Xue Yan simply smiled without a word.
Mother Jiang Yue just hooked her lips and said, “No whining.”
“Mhm!” little Xue Yan cheerfully responded, but continued her stance.
Only then did Xue Yan laugh with Liu Guixia and the others: “Mother, don’t bother with her, she can take it. She has much more talent in martial arts than I did at her age.”
“That’s true, when you started learning martial arts, you were older than she is now, but you weren’t as good as her,” Liu Guixia and the others sat down laughing again.
Yu Hongyan laughed and said, “Both Xue Yan and Yue Bao are so impressive, little Yan Yan, as their child, is naturally even more so.”
It was only when it was time for little Xue Yan to rest from her horse stance that they let her rest.
Li Hehua embraced her, letting her sit on her lap with a little table next to them, topped with tea and cakes.
Little Xue Yan first cleaned her little hands before drinking some water, then grabbed a piece of cake with each hand and snuggled contently into Li Hehua, her eldest aunt, to eat.
Li Hehua was exceedingly fond of her.
Watching Li Hehua like that, Jiang Yue couldn’t help but recall her own childhood when her elder sister-in-law had doted on her just the same. Although she had grown up, Li Hehua’s affection for her remained extremely strong and now, it was her baby’s turn. Her lips curled into a smile.