HSS Chapter 70
Translated by MadPanda
Chapter 70: You Don’t Need To Know What Sadness Is
People with autism are only willing to listen to things they want to hear or care about. If it’s something they don’t care about, then even if you repeat countless times in front of them, they can be automatically blocked. However, if it’s something they care about, even if you just say something carelessly in front of them, they will remember it by heart, and even bear a grudge.
Bai Zheng was only making a hypothesis, but every time this hypothesis passed through Bai Chuan’s mind, he will be irritable and wanted to smash things apart.
No, I have to control myself.
Bai Chuan opened the right drawer somewhat in panic, taking out the headphones inside and immediately putting it on himself. It’s only after all the noise around him disappeared, and only Mu Xiaoya’s singing remained in his world, did his emotions gradually eased down.
“What’s wrong with Second young master?” Outside the office, fatty slid from his chair and came beside Astro, “I haven’t seen Second young master wearing his headphones for a while.”
“I guess it’s because of his quarrel with the President.” After all, Second young master just returned from the president’s office.
“Uwaah, big news! Second young master beat the president!” Just when Astro’s words fell, someone suddenly shouted loudly.
“No way! How is it possible?” The crowd gathered and gossiped in excitement.
“It’s true! This matter had spread throughout the company group chat, I checked it already, the source of the news came from the first secretary of President’s Office.”
“Dang! You guys also go to the black gossip group next door? But this news shouldn’t be fake ah.”
“Our Second young master is so valiant ah, even dare to beat the big boss.”
“Is it only me who’s curious about what the president had done to our Second young master, who’s too lazy to even speak two words, to suddenly raised his hand and punched him?”
“I’m even more curious about how our bro-con president angered Second young master.”
The discussion in R&D department was in full swing, and while they were gossiping, they also rubbed through the window secretly to observe Bai Chuan’s expression. With Bai Chuan unable to hear anything outside right now, the gossip party became even more open and straightforward.
Astro listened for a while, then took out his phone and sent a message to Mu Xiaoya: ‘Second young master hit the president, and now he’s in a bad mood.’
The phone number was given to Astro by Mu Xiaoya on her own initiative so that someone in R&D department can contact her directly in case something happened to Bai Chuan in the company.
Mu Xiaoya was shocked when she received the news, how could Bai Chuan hit Bai Zheng? She immediately replied: ‘What’s going on?’
Astro: ‘I’m not clear about it too, anyway, the president must have been beaten, I heard that his eye is bruised. (From the latest addition of gossip news.)’
Mu Xiaoya frowned: ‘Then, how about Bai Chuan now? Is his mood still okay?’
Astro: ‘Second young master is wearing his headphones, his mood is stable.’
Mu Xiaoya: ‘Okay, thank you.’
How could Bai Chuan hit someone? And listening to Astro’s words, although Bai Chuan’s mood fluctuated, he at least didn’t have an episode.
Hitting people when he didn’t have an onset, besides being worried, Mu Xiaoya was even more curious about what happened that could make the good-tempered Bai Chuan to be so anxious to even hit people.
At six o’clock in the afternoon, Bai Chuan appeared on the studio’s door on time. He rushed in like a wind and hugged Mu Xiaoya tightly in his arms.
“What’s wrong?” Mu Xiaoya lifted her head with a stupefied look after being hugged suddenly, but then she found that Bai Chuan hugged her too tightly that she couldn’t even move.
“Xiaoya.” Bai Chuan lowered his head, burying his face in Mu Xiaoya’s neck. His voice was muffled, as if he had been endlessly wronged.
“What happened ah?” Mu Xiaoya asked again patiently, at the same time, she couldn’t help having some misgivings in her heart. The news she got was that her husband beat his older brother ah, how come it looked like her husband was the one who was wronged?
“Are you going to divorce me?” Bai Chuan asked, subconsciously brought her into his arms a little bit tighter, like he was afraid of his wife running away.
“Divorce?!” When was this mentioned? Mu Xiaoya’s face was confused, “Why am I divorcing you?”
“No divorce?”
"No divorce.”
“You promise.” Bai Chuan was still worried.
“I promise. If you’re still worried, then we’ll tear up our marriage certificate when we go back, that way, we can’t leave anymore.” Mu Xiaoya laughed, she had to declare her position quickly, else she would be hugged by Bai Chuan until she lost her breath.
“En, tear it off when we go back.” It turned out that there’s still this method, if he knew, he’d already had torn it off earlier.
Really want to tear it ah, Mu Xiaoya was speechless, “What’s wrong with you, why are you suddenly mentioning divorce?”
“It’s brother that’s not good.” Bai Chuan recalled again and thought that Bai Zheng was really abominable, “He’s divorced himself, so he thought that I’d be divorced too.”
“It’s unlikely ah.” Mu Xiaoya didn’t believe it, how could Bai Zheng be such a person.
“Then, why did he suddenly let us get divorced?”
Mu Xiaoya blanked, thinking that she’s about to solve the case.
“So, you hit him?”
“En.” Bai Chuan paused a bit, then raised his head and asked, “How do you know? Did he complain to you?”
Bai Zheng complaining to me, how is that possible? Mu Xiaoya almost laughed because of Bai Chuan, “It was Astro who told me, he told me that you hit brother.”
“En, hit him! I hate him!” Bai Chuan still felt resentful now.
The reason for the fight was finally clearer, but how can Bai Zheng divorce them apart without reason? Mu Xiaoya thought about it and asked, “Brother isn’t such a person, did you have a misunderstanding? Did he say anything before?”
“I gave him a gift, he received it.” Bai Chuan felt a little wronged, if he knew it’s gonna be like this, he wouldn’t have given him a present. “Then, he suddenly asked me, what would I do if you leave me?”
So it’s like that…
Mu Xiaoya understood, she pulled Bai Chuan’s arm and motioned him to sit down beside her, and then moved a cup of coffee to Bai Chuan before she advised, “Brother said 'if', 'if' is a hypothesis, he didn’t really want us to get divorced.”
“I don’t like this hypothesis.” Bai Chuan frowned, “I despise it.”
“I know you hate it, but…” Looking at Bai Chuan who was extremely resistant, Mu Xiaoya suddenly realized a problem: Bai Chuan’s expression and understanding of feelings are already much more improved than before. So, when it’s time for her to leave a few years later, can he really accept her leaving logically like she wished for? A little bit sad, but not too hurt?
Bai Zheng obviously cared about this point, that’s why he tested Bai Chuan only after she told him that she might be sick. But Bai Chuan’s response clearly exceeded his and her predictions.
“Xiao Chuan, I won’t get divorced with you.” Mu Xiaoya sternly brought this up.
“En.” Bai Chuan nodded with happiness, this promise, no matter how much he heard it, it won’t ever get him bored.
“But, if I’m sick…”
“Are you sick? Let’s go to the hospital.” Bai Chuan immediately stood up from the sofa and pulled Mu Xiaoya.
“No, you sit down, I mean, just if…” Mu Xiaoya had no alternative but to calm Bai Chuan down.
“Why do you both have to say ‘if’, I hate ‘if’.” Bai Chuan hated these assumptions, because there were some bad things behind those ‘ifs’, both brother and Xiaoya.
“Because cousin…” Mu Xiaoya asked, “Cousin suddenly left this world, brother-in-law (Zhao Qi) was really hurt, and I’m also really hurt, how about you?”
“I… I’m not hurt.” Bai Chuan answered his inner feelings honestly, “I… I don’t quite understand that emotion, I’m sorry.”
Bai Chuan can’t understand sadness and grievance, but his reasoning told him that this situation was wrong, because it was a very bad thing when someone departed from this world.
“No need to apologize, you’re already good like this.” Mu Xiaoya was relieved hearing Bai Chuan’s answer, it’s good if Bai Chuan doesn’t understand about sadness ah, “You don’t need to understand, it’s really good to never understand it.”
Bai Chuan said an ‘en’ to show that he understood, he always let himself grow up in the direction that Mu Xiaoya wanted, if Mu Xiaoya wanted him to understand, then he would study hard, if not, he would try hard to maintain his status quo. His demands weren’t much, it’s okay as long as Mu Xiaoya doesn’t leave him.
In a blink of an eye, it was the weekend again. Shen Qingyi, who hadn’t let them go over to eat with them for the past several weeks, suddenly called Mu Xiaoya one day in advance to go at the weekend. The two didn’t dare to neglect it and went to the Mu house early Saturday morning.
“I let you guys come over for dinner, why are you here so early?” Shen Qingyi rolled her eyes to her daughter, “Your dad and I still have to go to school for a while.”
“The final exam isn’t ready yet?” Mu Xiaoya asked.
“How could it be that easy? We only just completed the exam papers, later we still have to arrange the exam, correct the test papers and a lot of other things.” Shen Qingyi said.
“It’s okay, you guys just be busy, I’ll go next door with Bai Chuan to read some books, then we’ll buy some meat and vegetables at afternoon and cook it for dinner. You guys just remember to come and eat.” Mu Xiaoya arranged everything.
“You’re getting more and more virtuous after getting married ah.” Shen Qingyi laughed, “Okay, you cook, later just let your dad do the dishes.”
“I’ll do the dishes.” Bai Chuan immediately interrupted, how could his father-in-law take away his work?
“Good son-in-law, your father-in-law won’t disturb you ah.” Mu Ruozhou was relieved when he saw Bai Chuan like that.
Bai Chuan happily said an ‘en’, he didn’t know what he did, but he knew that father-in-law praised him.
Bai Chuan’s reaction was so funny that they couldn’t help but laughed for a while. Afterwards, the Mu family’s couple went to work to school. After a while, Mu Xiaoya and Bai Chuan went to the yard next door to read some books, reading them until around afternoon. When they realized that it’s lunch time, they cooked simple bowls of noodles. After that, the two went out to buy things to fill the refrigerator in the kitchen.
Because Bai Chuan particularly likes to eat at home, in the past six months, Mu Xiaoya had made great progress in cooking, so she prepared a sumptuous meal for dinner; four people, six dishes and one soup. The soup was stewed for one afternoon to make a delicious and thick chicken soup, it made the Mu family’s parents, who was still at the doorstep, could smell the fragrance from afar.
“Still stewing soup?” Mu Ruozhou strode into the kitchen, “Yo, it’s chicken soup, I haven’t had a sip for a long time already.”
“Then you should drink more in a while.” Mu Xiaoya smiled.
“Alright, I’ll go and change my clothes.” Mu Ruozhou ‘hehe’ laughed, turned back to the bedroom to change clothes. Shen Qingyi glanced at the table and found that the food was almost ready, so she also went back to the room to change her clothes too.
Mu Xiaoya and Bai Chuan served the chicken soup together, after putting all of the meals on the dining table, Mu family’s parents also walked out after changing their clothes.
Four people sat down on the dining table to eat, the food was very delicious, they talked and laughed together and the atmosphere was very warm and harmonious. After the meal was almost finished, Mu Ruozhou and his wife looked at each other and put down the chopsticks in their hands.
Mu Xiaoya immediately guessed that there’s something that her parents wanted to talk about.
“Xiaoya, your mother and I called you over today because we have something to say to you and Bai Chuan.” Mu Ruozhou opened the conversation.
“Okay.” Mu Xiaoya put down her chopsticks and listened. Bai Chuan saw her, and then also stopped his movements, learning from his wife’s appearance, he also sat upright.
“Recently, some bad things happened, your cousin… suddenly gone away.” Mentioning Lin Han, Mu Ruozhou couldn’t help but sighed again, “A human’s life ah, it’s so fickle.”
“Dad, just tell me what you want to say.” Mu Xiaoya found out that teachers liked to speak in circles and turns, and her dad was no exception. In fact, as soon as her dad spoke, she already guessed what her parents wanted to say.
“Let me speak.” Shen Qingyi knew that her husband was uncomfortable, so she took the initiative to take the lead. “It’s your cousin’s disease, it’s a hereditary disease that we’ve only learned about it later. It’s said that as long as anyone has blood ties with Lin Han, they may have this disease in their genes.”
Hereditary disease?!
Bai Chuan, who had been listening quietly for a while, suddenly stood up. He looked at his father-in-law with a terrified face, and then asked with a trembling voice, “What hereditary disease?”
When Lin Han was found to have a genetic disease, Bai Chuan wasn’t in the hospital, and Mu Xiaoya deliberately mentioned it with Bai Chuan after returning home, so Bai Chuan didn’t know about the genetic disease until now.
“Xiao Chuan didn’t know?” Shen Qingyi looked with doubts at her daughter.
“I didn’t say it.” Mu Xiaoya shook her head, then she coaxed Bai Chuan to sit down again.
“What hereditary disease? Xiaoya and cousin are also related by blood, then will Xiaoya also get the same disease as cousin?” For a moment, Bai Chuan’s logical thinking reminded him of all the possible consequences, the more he thought, the more scared he was, and the more scared, the more uneasy he would be. The sense of helplessness that he hadn’t had in a long time was constantly expanding in his mind.
“Don’t be nervous, listen to me first.” Shen Qingyi knew that Bai Chuan was worried about Xiaoya, so she hurriedly explained, “Xiaoya is okay, I have inquired about it during this time, the majority of our family’s women, after they’re grown up, they would all have dizziness, I have, and Lin Han also had it, but Xiaoya doesn’t, so Xiaoya should be safe.”
Mu Xiaoya glanced at her mother, blinked, but didn’t say anything.
“Then, what about mom? Will mom get the onset?” Hearing that Mu Xiaoya was safe, the helplessness and restlessness inside him subsided in half, the rest were concerns about his mother-in-law.
“This is… exactly what we want to say to both of you today.” Shen Qingyi said.
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Author's NOTE:
The beaten Bai Zheng returned home.
Mother Bai was terrified and distressed : "Who hit you?"
Father Bai who just got off work: "It was Xiao Chuan, he actually let Xiao Chuan and Xiaoya to divorce."
Mother Bai slapped: "Do you want to die?!"
Bai Zheng: "..."
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TL NOTE:
It's the calm before the storm. Novi will do a mass release after this post, prepare your tissues as we're nearing the end of this wonderful novel! (≧∀≦)