Chapter 348 — Who Exactly Is Your Brother?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"It won't come to that. I said two days, so two days it is. Today's only Thursday — there are still a few days left, aren't there... By the way, is it Saturday or Sunday?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Sunday. But not in this city — we'll have to set out early on Saturday. My grand-uncle's family lives in Donghai, the provincial capital," Kang Xiaobo said.
"Fine, then we'll leave Saturday afternoon." Wei Zhao nodded. "Oh, right — how are things on Xiaofen's end?"
"She can be discharged now, actually. It was only malnutrition — her body was simply too weak. I'm planning to go this afternoon and see to the discharge formalities!" Kang Xiaobo said. "On Saturday my parents are coming with me as well, and I still don't know how to tell them about Xiaofen, or whether they'll be able to accept her..."
"None of that strikes me as important. What matters is what's in your heart." Wei Zhao waved a hand. "Xiaobo, do you truly like Xiaofen?"
"The truth?" Kang Xiaobo hesitated a moment.
"Of course the truth. If not the truth, why would I bother asking?" Wei Zhao shot him an exasperated glare.
"The truth is, at the very beginning, after I saw her photograph, I was merely stirred. Seeing a pretty girl and feeling drawn to her, wanting to pursue her — that's only natural..." Kang Xiaobo scratched at his scalp, a little embarrassed. "Just as I once liked Tang Yun, liked Gu Mengyao, liked Shen Yushu... But I know those were nothing but fantasies. Not one of them could ever like me. If it weren't for you, Boss, I doubt Tang Yun would even know who I am!
As for my feelings for Xiaofen, at first there was quite a lot of pity in them, because that girl is simply too pitiful, too heartbreaking... And so I couldn't help wanting to give her a little more care, a little more tenderness. Only, as time went on, going to the hospital every day to sit with her, to talk with her, to eat with her, I gradually grew used to that feeling. If a day passed without seeing her, I would miss her. I think I can say for certain now: I have fallen for her!"
"Liking, or loving?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Is there a difference?" Kang Xiaobo shook his head, somewhat blankly.
"Perhaps there is..." Wei Zhao sighed. He, too, had once liked a girl — liked her a great deal. That girl was Xiao Ning.
People said that for love one could give up everything, could brave scalding water and roaring fire. So sometimes Wei Zhao thought that what he had felt for Xiao Ning could hardly count as love... And yet, if it was not love, why did she come back to his mind again and again?
Was it the rules of his trade that had bound him, the professional code he was duty-bound to uphold — or was it simply that he lacked the courage to take that step?
Perhaps both... Or perhaps it was that he could never have given Xiao Ning the life she wanted... At least, not back then.
But now? Wei Zhao shook his head. He knew well enough that running away was no way to solve a problem, but having chosen to run all these years, he was all the less able to take that step now.
"Boss, the way I see it, love and liking don't matter much either way. The crux of it is: how am I supposed to tell my parents?" Kang Xiaobo grew troubled. "They wouldn't have approved of me having a girlfriend at all right now... and with Xiaofen's situation the way it is, what am I supposed to do?"
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