Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Chapter 116 The CEO’s Cousin in a Workplace Story (29)

It took Ye Huai some time to look through the photos. He didn't like taking photos when he was a child, so he could only look through several thick photo albums. After much difficulty, he found a few photos and took them back to the room. Before he could see the situation in the room clearly, he was hugged by someone.

"What's wrong?" Feeling the strength of the person in his arms hugging him tightly, he couldn't help but feel a little confused and asked.

But Lin Xi did not answer him, but buried her head in his chest. After a moment, Ye Huai suddenly felt a warm and wet feeling coming from his chest. Is Lin Xi crying?

Realizing this, Ye Huai panicked and threw away the photo in his hand. He held Lin Xi's shoulders with one hand and her chin with the other, and lifted Lin Xi's head up, "Why are you crying?"

Lin Xi cried very sadly, her nose tip was red, and her pair of black and white eyes were also red and swollen. Bean-sized tears slid down her cheeks silently and fell into Ye Huai's palm, burning his heart so much that it seemed to ache with Lin Xi's sobs.

He gently wiped away the tears on her face with his fingertips, and said in an especially gentle voice, "Xixi, what's wrong?"

Lin Xi cried so hard that her whole body was shaking slightly. Seeing him caring about her in such a soft voice, she burst into tears even more. She held his waist even tighter and almost sank her whole body into his arms, as if she wanted to pass her body temperature to him through this action, to warm the child who had once struggled in the darkness.

Seeing that she refused to speak, Ye Huai could only sigh softly, hug her silently, pat her back gently as if he was coaxing a child, and wait for her to calm down.

After a long while, Lin Xi finally seemed to calm down from her sadness. She sniffed lightly, raised her head from Ye Huai's arms, and looked embarrassedly at the large wet stain on his chest that was wet by her tears.

"Are you feeling better?" Seeing that she had finally stopped crying, Ye Huai pulled her to sit on the bed, and wiped her face with a tissue. Then he spoke again with concern, "Tell me, what happened?"

Lin Xi sniffed, raised her head and stared at him quietly, then slowly spoke, but apologized first, "Ah Huai, I'm sorry, I just read your diary."

"Diary?" Ye Huai didn't react for a moment.

"It's the one with a blue cover in your drawer." Lin Xi explained.

Ye Huai frowned and thought for a moment, then he finally remembered. He pursed his lips subconsciously, but soon came to his senses. His heart moved slightly, and then he looked at Lin Xi with red eyes with a complicated expression, "So, you cried so sadly because you read my diary?"

Lin Xi lowered her head in shame and hummed softly, "I didn't intend to open it, so I just entered a random password, but I didn't expect..."

Ye Huai looked at her like a child who had done something wrong, feeling both amused and helpless. He reached out and lifted up her drooping head. "Are you so curious? Or do you really want to find out if I have hidden any love letters from other girls?"

"I didn't." Lin Xi denied it subconsciously. Her face was held in Ye Huai's two big hands, and her lips were pouted like an angry puffer fish. But she soon realized that she was wrong. She lowered her eyelids and mumbled "I'm sorry" incoherently.

"Silly girl, didn't I tell you what you want to see? Just tell me directly." Ye Huai did not get angry as Lin Xi had expected because his shameful past was revealed. Instead, he let go of her face, hugged her again, and spoke softly.

"I didn't expect that you actually..." Lin Xi said muffledly in his arms, as if she was reluctant to continue.

"At that time, I had just been taken back by my grandfather... But now it's all over... It's all over." As if he was recalling those gloomy and dark days again, Ye Huai's voice was unusually dry.

He was only six or seven years old at that time. After experiencing the disaster that almost starved to death, he developed serious psychological problems. He blamed himself for the misfortune of his parents' marriage. He isolated himself for a time and was unwilling to communicate with others. After sending away the puppy, his psychological problems became even more serious.

He would just act a little more taciturn in front of others, but when it was late at night and darkness gradually enveloped him, he would feel endless panic, fearing that as soon as he closed his eyes, he would return to the days that made him so desperate. He also often couldn't help but wonder, if it weren't for him, would his parents not have such a heart-wrenching quarrel, and his mother wouldn't have been sent to a mental hospital? If he died, would everything return to normal?

With such negative thoughts, he had committed self-harming behaviors many times. Fortunately, he was discovered in time every time. Later, Mr. Ye hired a more authoritative psychologist for him and arranged for someone to take care of him 24 hours a day, and gradually pulled him out of the endless darkness.

All these painful memories were written down word by word in his diary. Although he was still young at the time and his words and sentences were not fluent, even after so many years, the moment Lin Xi opened the notebook, he was still overwhelmed by the despair that came from those childish words and burst into tears instantly.

"It's a really nice day today, but I'm not happy at all."

"My grandpa brought me to see the doctor again today. I wrote a lot of prescriptions. I don't like the way she looks at me. It's the same way my dad's aunt looks at me."

"Today I asked my grandpa where my mom and mom went, and he said mom and dad went out to play, but I knew he was talking nonsense. Mom and dad only quarreled and never went out to play together."

"The puppy is so cute, his fur is so soft."

……

“I don’t like puppies anymore.”

"I don't like the night. It's dark and I want to cry."

"If I'm a little more obedient, will mom and dad stop arguing?"

"I asked Uncle Ye how to die without pain, and he seemed scared by me."

"Life is so painful, death should be good, dad always wants mom to die, heaven should be a good place.

……

Every word he said was straightforward, as if he was just a naive child recording his daily life in a dull manner. However, Lin Xi's heart suddenly felt as if it was grasped by an invisible hand, and it ached violently. Although he now said in a dull tone that it was okay, Lin Xi knew that if he had not come into this world and had not been firmly chosen, the negative emotions hidden deep in his heart and temporarily suppressed by him would eventually envelop him again, dragging him into the abyss and leading him to self-destruction.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but hug Ye Huai even tighter, as if she could warm him with her body temperature and make him forget those heart-wrenching painful memories.

Ye Huai felt her strength, and the gloom in his heart due to the painful memories of the past suddenly dissipated completely. His heart was so soft that it was about to drip with water. He gently kissed her forehead and comforted her: "It's all in the past. What's more, now that I have you, I will no longer have those negative thoughts."

"Well, we'll all be fine." Lin Xi's nasal reply came from Ye Huai's chest.