CHAPTER 384: CHAPTER 384: HUMANITY

Jiang Moxi and Fu Youhan arrived at Suchen’s house, where Suchen and Mr. Lai De personally came to the door to greet them.

"Xixi, your uncle heard you were coming over to deliver the invitations and was even more excited than I was!"

"I haven’t seen Xixi for such a long time. I didn’t expect you’ve grown up so much and are about to get married."

Amidst their laughter and endless emotions, they welcomed Jiang Moxi and Fu Youhan inside.

Fu Youhan was surprised to himself by the affection and closeness Suchen and Mr. Lai De showed towards Jiang Moxi.

Moreover, Fu Youhan faintly noticed that Jiang Moxi and Suchen bore some resemblance from certain angles.

If it weren’t for Jiang Moxi and the Jiang Family having done DNA paternity testing, Fu Youhan would have had some doubts about their relationship.

"Uncle and Auntie, you must come tomorrow."

Jiang Moxi took out the red invitation and respectfully handed it over with both hands to Suchen and Mr. Lai De.

Suchen and Mr. Lai De hurried to accept it, smiling as they said, "Definitely, definitely! We’ve always treated you like our daughter."

Then, Suchen said, "Mr. Lai De, you and Mr. Fu talk. Xixi, come to my room with me, I have a few words to say to you."

So, the men sat in the living room chatting.

Jiang Moxi was taken by Suchen to her room.

Suchen sat Jiang Moxi on her bed, overwhelmed with emotions.

"Xixi, tonight is the night before your wedding. By right, you should be at your mother’s house, and these words should be spoken to you by your mother. But with your birth mother’s character, I bet she certainly wouldn’t teach you these things. So here I am, thick-skinned taking on the role of your mother and saying these things to you."

"People say that after getting married, one must restrain and endure, but I think a marriage should not involve only the woman conceding. If your partner does something that makes you uncomfortable, you should speak up in time, and it’s best for both people to discuss whatever they do."

"Of course, if Mr. Fu continually makes you feel uncomfortable, making you feel aggrieved, then you must also be prepared to cut your losses in time. At no time should you disregard your own feelings because of the other person."

"If one day he lets you down, you can always come to me at any time, Mr. Lai De and I will be your strongest support, your most reliable haven."

Suchen wasn’t like other traditional women who considered marriage a lifelong commitment.

In her view, a woman has the right to cut her losses at any time.

Holding Jiang Moxi’s hand with tears welling in her eyes, she said, "I truly consider you as my own daughter. I don’t want you to suffer or be unhappy under any circumstances, so I won’t say like others do, that once you’re married you have to endure for a lifetime, just to maintain the marriage. Do you understand?"

Jiang Moxi clasped Suchen’s hand and her eyes too brimmed slightly with tears: "I understand, Auntie! In fact, I also regard you as a mother."

If it weren’t for the perils all around, she really wanted to invite Suchen and Mr. Lai De to attend the wedding as her maternal family.

But with the current dangerous situation, Jiang Moxi could only dismiss the thought.

In the end, Suchen also brought out a set of bridal jewelry from her dowry to give to Jiang Moxi.

"I will send other gifts directly to the wedding venue, but this I want to give you now. It was gifted to me by my mother when Mr. Lai De and I got married. I originally planned to give this set of jewelry to my daughter as a bridal gift when she marries."

Suchen opened the box, and inside lay a set of ruby jewelry, incredibly intricate. Despite the passage of time, it’s beauty still could not be concealed.

"No, this is too valuable," Jiang Moxi tried to refuse.

Besides the jewelry itself being expensive, it also had extraordinary significance.

But Suchen said, "Just accept it. Look at Mr. Lai De and me, we’re halfway into the grave already, and we still haven’t found our daughter, the chances of finding her are looking slim. Moreover, Mr. Lai De and I have always liked you a lot and wanted to keep you by our side."

"If we had kept you with us in the beginning, you wouldn’t have had to suffer so many grievances at the Jiang Family over the years."

After leaving from the banquet yesterday, Suchen had someone investigate how Jiang Moxi’s years at the Jiang Family were spent.

The report was quickly presented to Suchen.

When she saw that the girl she and Mr. Lai De cherished was not even acknowledged by the Jiang Family, had her fiancé stolen by the Jiang Family’s adopted daughter, and ended up having to work part-time to afford her tuition...

At that moment, Suchen was overwhelmed with guilt.

"Aunt, you can’t blame yourself for this; you and uncle have already been so kind to me."

Jiang Moxi repeatedly consoled Suchen.

But Suchen said, "If you don’t blame me, then please accept this set of jewelry. If my daughter is ever found in the future, you can just prepare another dowry for her as sisters."

Jiang Moxi couldn’t resist Suchen’s earnest requests and finally accepted the jewelry.

On the way back to Tianqin Bay, Jiang Moxi couldn’t help asking Fu Youhan, "What were you and Uncle Lai De talking about just now?"

Fu Youhan said, "We discussed some topics that men talk about."

Jiang Moxi pressed, "But what topics exactly?"

Jiang Moxi always felt that the atmosphere between Fu Youhan and Lai De was rather serious when she and Suchen came out of the bedroom, which made her so curious.

"Mr. Lai De told me not to bully you just because your maternal family, the Jiang Family, is a bunch of good-for-nothings. He said that THE ONE Group will be your most solid support."

"And, if we ever end up in an irreconcilable conflict after getting married, he warned me not to mistreat you, as he would take you home."

Listening to all these words from Fu Youhan, Jiang Moxi felt nothing but moved.

Actually, she and Suchen and Lai De had only met by chance.

Yet, they treated her like their own daughter...

Perhaps this was heaven’s way of compensating her.

But as Fu Youhan spoke these words, he asked Jiang Moxi, "How about you and Suchen take a kinship test?"

The more Fu Youhan interacted with Suchen and Lai De, the more he felt that there were many similarities between Jiang Moxi and them.

Thus, Fu Youhan could not help but harbor certain suspicions.

But Jiang Moxi replied, "I have doubted my relationship with the Jiang Family before and have re-checked it, but the result is always so disappointing!"

Probably the memory of that incident was really upsetting for Jiang Moxi, so rubbing her temples, she said, "I don’t want to go through that vexing experience again."

Fu Youhan initially wanted to persuade Jiang Moxi, but seeing how weary she looked, he eventually decided to drop the idea.

What he didn’t know was that shortly after they left Suchen’s house, Suchen said to Lai De, "I have sought another organization to do the kinship test today."

Lai De wasn’t too surprised by this revelation. In recent years, Suchen would sometimes complain about the inadequacy of the testing organizations they had used, which is why she had never found her daughter.

As a result, they had switched through countless organizations and even invested in building a few.

Lai De only asked Suchen, "Whose samples are used for the test this time? Xixi’s?"

Suchen nodded.

Lai De frowned, "But weren’t you most afraid to find out that Xixi bore no relation to us?"

Yes, Suchen had tested many girls for parentage, but she dared not to test Jiang Moxi, because she was truly afraid of being proven unrelated to Jiang Moxi.

However, now that she knew Jiang Moxi wasn’t doing well in the Jiang Family, she seemed to have gained some confidence.

"I now feel that even if Xixi is not related to us by blood, we will still treat her much better than the Jiang Family. In the end, she won’t abandon us just because of blood ties."

Lai De nodded.

In fact, Lai De had always felt that he could see the shadow of Suchen’s youth in Jiang Moxi and had wanted to conduct a kinship test with Jiang Moxi.

It was Suchen who had always been afraid to face it, and he didn’t want to upset her, so he refrained from taking action.

But now that Suchen was finally willing to face it, he too inexplicably looked forward to the outcome of this kinship test.

Then, Lai De, with his arm around Suchen’s shoulders, said, "No matter the result this time, we’ll find an opportunity to persuade Xixi to become our daughter."

"Okay!" Suchen leaned on Lai De’s shoulder.