While she was silently crying, a tiny hand was clasped on her wrist causing her to blink the tears from her eyes as she looked at the tiny figure that was standing next to her. " Mai——"

  Yu Mai smiled foolishly but he didn't say anything he just stayed next to her before handing her, his favourite candy that he didn't even share with his sister and nephew.

  Lang Ru took the candy from his hand and burst out crying before eating the candy and giving Yu Mai a watery smile. "It's sweet."

  He looked back at her but didn't wipe her tears, instead, he simply looked away from Lang Ru's teary face and mumbled silently so that no one else will be able to hear other than the two of them. " Sister says that you don't have to smile if you don't want to—-it looks too fake,"

  Lang Ru paused before more and more tears started to trickle down her face as she tightly clutched Yu Mai's hand and looked at her parents who were crying in each other's embrace…well, at least she wasn't crying alone like always.

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  Lang Hui came around the evening, his consciousness returned when Zhu Qian was sitting next to him wiping his sickly, thin face. At first, he thought that he was in heaven and it was an angel who was taking care of him but then as his daddy touched his face and a familiar warmth spread all over his face, Lang Hui knew that it was really his daddy and he wasn't dead! He blinked his eyes which were filled with silent tears as he turned to look at his daddy, " Daddy?"

  Zhu Qian who was wiping Lang Hui's forehead shivered, as he hurriedly pulled the cloth with which he was wiping Lang Hui's face and immediately his eyes filled with tears. Oh, how he has missed his son's sweet voice that was as sweet as honey … he was worried that he was going to never hear this voice —— but now that he heard his son call him daddy in his sweet voice, he couldn't stop the tears from flowing as he hugged his son who groaned in pain.

  " Sorry…Sorry……it was daddy's fault." Zhu Qian instantly apologised, he was just too greedy to touch and hold his son and didn't remember about his injuries for a few minutes. But as he stared at his son's painful expression he couldn't help but blame himself even more… would you look at it? He was such a careless daddy… not only did he leave his son in the lair of those wolves…he even hurt his son with his own hands.

  As tears started to fall from his eyes, Lang Hui sensibly raised his hand and wiped his daddy's tears. " I am fine, daddy. I am happy as long as I can see you and your mother. Apart from this, I want nothing else."

  To Lang Hui, the days in the Zhu family were like hell… he was worried that maybe he would die without seeing his parents and sister's face……now that he could see his daddy and his family—— he was happy with that alone. Now, even if death comes to greet him, at least he will be able to die without regrets.

  Listening to his son's words, Zhu Qian cried even more. His son was so wilful and naughty before… only God knows what he went through that he became so sensible.

  Lang was just returning after grinding the medicinal paste with her daughter when she heard her husband's crying and she immediately rushed in and sure enough her son was awake and looking around.

  She placed the bowl of the medicinal paste down and hurried to her son's side as she greedily stared at her son's face. " Hui Hui, how are you feeling? Is everything all right? Does anything hurt?"

  Lang Hui shook his head, actually, his entire body was hurting but he knew the trouble of his parents and knew that the two of them were working in the brothel to secure a decent sum of money for him. After treating his injuries, it should have wiped them clean… how could he add more to their troubles?

  Lang Ru climbed up on the bed and looked at her brother who was looking so small even though he was seven years old and soon was going to be eight years old. She blinked her eyes and sourly said, " You little, if you were being bullied—— why didn't you tell us? Look at you…… now you are hurt like this!"

  No-one stopped Lang Ru, they knew that she was saying harsh words because she was hurt and worried because of her brother's injuries.

  Lang Hui smiled even though he was being scolded, he was still happy. Back then, he thought his sister was really bad—— always scolding him. But now he understood that his sister was better than others who always spoke sweet words to him but stabbed him in the back, at least his sister would never hurt him as they did.

  Lang sat next to her son and breezed her hand over his forehead smoothly as she asked, " Hui Hui, how did this happen to you? Did grandma and grandpa bully you?"

  As soon as Lang said those words, Lang Hui's expression turned ugly as he blinked his eyes at his mother and said, " If I tell mother… will mother take revenge for Hui Hui?"

  It wasn't that Lang Hui was an evil kid who was filled with a vengeance but the things that he has gone through were too much, if he couldn't even fight back then there was no point in telling his mother about what happened to him.

  Lang exchanged a glance with Zhu Qian who looked even more worried as he clasped his hand on his mouth and muffled his sobs, before looking down at her son who was earnestly looking at him. " Mother will avenge you,"

  This was a promise from a mother to her son.