The Confession and the Reunion

“Huang Xiu, Huang Xiu…”

As the main force of this “Confession” operation, Yue Zhengyang had already thought up several sets of talking points yesterday.

Gentle ones, direct ones, open-door ones, one-shot ones… At this moment, he was just thinking about which set to use in this kind of situation.

Thoughts flashed like lightning, and finally he made a choice.

“Huang Xiu, she actually came back.” Yue Zhengyang looked at Zhuang Wenli seriously.

“Came back?” Zhuang Wenli was a bit confused at first.

But looking at the pretty girl on the sofa with her head down, looking at the slippers on her feet, recalling the first sentence, and that familiar face.

Suddenly a bold idea popped up.

“Masaka!” Zhuang Wenli’s eyes widened a little.

She wasn’t that kind of rigid adult. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be so keen on collecting Doraemon figurines.

Even Huang Xiu’s hobby of watching anime was brought out by her when he was a child.

She had even been exposed to some strange themes.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Wenli’s eyes turned, and she gave Huang Xiu a familiar roar.

“Xiao Xiu!”

“Ah!” Originally with her head down and very flustered, Huang Xiu heard this familiar call that her mother usually used when angry, and instinctively answered, then stood up with a “whoosh.”

Shua shua shua!

In an instant, five looks with different meanings came from front, back, left, and right.

Because the looks were too obvious, she could even sense them with her extraordinary senses.

Yuan Fei touched his face: “So embarrassing, as my student, you got tricked out with just one shout!”

Yun Ning had a faint smile: “Junior Huang… is a bit too honest!”

Yue Zhengyang: “I feel like I might be unnecessary…”

Li Qinyue: “Oh my, this kind of Junior Huang is a bit cute!”

Redness spread like ink from Huang Xiu’s fair neck to her cheeks.

“So embarrassing!” She wailed in her heart, but her standing body was like being hit by a binding spell, not daring to move.

Zhuang Wenli’s pupils dilated and contracted, her gaze scanning Huang Xiu’s face like a radar.

Now that she had a definite guess, the more she looked at this girl’s features, the more she thought they looked like her own brat.

This was simply Huang Xiu’s gender-swapped PLUS version.

“Xiao Xiu?” Zhuang Wenli called again in disbelief.

“Mm.” Huang Xiu closed her eyes and nodded frantically.

Let it be destroyed! Hurry up! Let it explode already! She couldn’t take this torment anymore!

At this moment, the girl was on the verge of a mental breakdown and chose the easiest solution: giving up.

“So this little girl is really my son?”

Having gotten a response, Zhuang Wenli was really panicking now.

She had raised a son for seventeen years, watching him grow up and about to enter university.

In another seven or eight years, he might even start a family and let her enjoy the joy of grandchildren.

But now, a good son turned into a daughter after a month.

All of that was gone!

Wait, does this count as her gaining… Zhuang Wenli inexplicably started thinking about this question.

She was born infertile. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gone to the welfare home to adopt a child with her husband.

Because adopted children need even more full love in some ways, she had long prepared to only adopt one and raise him as her own.

They say “bear and raise children”. Now she had experienced both with just one kid.

“Mom, I really am Xiao Xiu.” Huang Xiu saw her mother’s confused and somewhat surprised expression and got anxious. She quickly took off the jade pendant from her neck and handed it over, stuffing it into her mother’s hand.

“Look, this is the birthday gift you gave me.” Her voice carried a hint of a sob.

Zhuang Wenli glanced at it, recognized it as the jade pendant she had chosen, and then looked away. She stood up and gently pulled Huang Xiu into her arms.

The movement was without hesitation, just like countless times before when Huang Xiu was sad and upset.

“Of course I believe you are my Xiao Xiu.” She gently patted the girl’s back.

“From the moment you called me ‘Mom’ outside the door, I already had a feeling!”

“Woo.”

A simple sentence completely broke down Huang Xiu’s defenses.

Her eyes turned red instantly, tears blurred her vision, and finally slid down the corners of her eyes, falling on the girl’s lips and mouth.

It was salty, and also sweet.

It was excitement, and also joy.

Wuwuwu.

Huang Xiu buried her head deeply into her mother’s warm embrace, biting her cherry lips tightly, sobbing and choking.

It seemed to pour out all the confusion, sadness, grief, and longing of these past days.

They say men don’t easily shed tears, only because they have no one to confide in.

The tears were hot and burning, carrying sincere emotion. The clothes on Zhuang Wenli’s chest were soaked.

She cast an apologetic look at Yuan Fei, Yue Zhengyang, and the other two who were watching the show.

Then continued to comfort Huang Xiu.

“There, there.” Her expression carried a hint of heartache.

Huang Xiu had been like this since childhood, always pretending to be strong and indifferent.

But in fact, she was more sensitive and fragile than anyone.

When encountering any setback, she always endured it alone, only confiding when she really couldn’t hold on.

Suddenly turning from a boy to a girl, how panicked and fearful that must be!

Yet she could endure it, and not tell her family.

Comfort was effective, but the awkwardness was also real.

After just a short while, the tears had stopped, and the sobbing had ceased.

But Huang Xiu buried her head in Zhuang Wenli’s chest, not daring to lift it for a long time.

A sudden outburst of emotions, not caring about anything, crying out loud felt really good.

She felt much lighter.

But the awkwardness after the outburst now weighed heavily on Huang Xiu’s heart like a mountain.

In front of the teacher, senior, and senior sister, she cried like a little girl.

Her life should be completely over!

After all, she used to be a strong man!

So, does Tiandu University have a Mars campus? She needed to leave this place and start over!

“Don’t do this next time, okay?”

Zhuang Wenli knew that her child was probably shy and was now acting like an ostrich, not wanting to face the bleak reality.

But as a mother, how could she let her child keep running away?

“Really.”

Zhuang Wenli stepped back half a step, gently holding Huang Xiu’s face with both hands, making her look straight at her.

“In the future, no matter what major events happen, remember to tell me and your dad in time, okay!”

She wiped away the tears and the snot bubbles on Huang Xiu’s face.

“We are a family. Are you afraid we won’t recognize you?”

“But…” Huang Xiu still had a sob, looking up at her mother’s face, “Didn’t Dad choose me, a boy, because he wanted me to carry on the family name?”

“Now I… I’ve become a girl!”

Huang Xiu lowered her head again, hesitantly asking, “Will Dad still recognize me?”