The 3 B's- Beauty, Brains and Bravery

Chapter 310: "They had always been our Dad and they had always been our Mom."

"Are you sure ? I mean it is your family.", Xi Yuan pinched the space between his brows as he inhaled sharply. 

"Please ?", the girl requested in a whisper-like weak voice.

The man smiled at the girl and placed a soft kiss against her forehead , promising her his warmth and assurance , before he sat down beside the girl on the edge of her bed. He understood how scared she was. How uncertain , how unsettled her heart was. After all , she'd never imagined that she would have to confront her brothers like that someday. Her six tigers. 

"Bro Lu.", the girl spoke up after sometime ,"You.. knew about the crash , right ?"

Lu Wei approached the girl and stood silently beside her bed.  As he was finding it to difficult to even form words , the man just nodded.

When she looked at the man looking down at the floor with guilt , and then at the other five men with similar expressions , the girl held onto Xi Yuan's right hand tightly , her eyes shut ,"So... I am an orphan. All these years , I have been an orphan."

"Xinghe..."

"Why did you had to lie to me , Brother ?", the girl sobbed ,"How could you ? Everytime I asked about Mom and Dad , you used to comfort me , tell me that they'd be back. All of them were lies , weren't they ? All of them."

"Kiddo. Calm down.", Lu Wei sighed and pulled the girl in an affectionate hug , her fingers still intertwined with those of Xi Yuan's , as he noticed that her hands were starting to tremble again ,"We had no other option left , Kid. Just like today , your condition was pretty serious back then as well. I got to know about the crash few months after the train incident with the Rongs. You were still in a coma. I couldn't give you a shock like that when you were so frail. I thought..."

"Tr...train incident ?!", the girl cut it ,"More than ten years. I was kept in the dark for more than ten years. Don't tell me you never got a chance to tell me."

"I am sorry. I just thought that you wouldn't be able to move on from that.", Lu Wei hugged the girl even more tightly ,"I am so sorry , princess. I guess your brother wasn't as strong as you thought he was."

Rong Xinghe then pulled away from the man and looked at the other five men. 

"No. We didn't knew about it until now.", Zhi Bo understood the girl's expression and shook his head ,"But that doesn't mean we despise Brother Lu Wei for what he did."

Zhi Xi nodded his head in agreement ,"Exactly. In fact , we support him. We would've done the same if we would have been in his shoes back then."

"We are sorry Kiddo.", Mo Zhixuan added.

By that time , the girl was staring into the blank space. Not a single word came out of her mouth. Her mind was elsewhere. The silence in the room grew so much that the six men couldn't stand it for one second more. The quietness was eating them up. It was as if they were waiting for their death sentence.

"Yuan...", after roughly fifteen minutes , the girl murmured faintly , her eyes fixed upon her darling.

Xi Yuan , who had been sitting silently throughout the entire duration , turned his head around to observe his woman's expression , to hear her unsaid words. Next second , the man wrapped his strong arms around her shoulders as he pulled her into his embrace , her face buried into his chest. 

No other man could understand Rong Xinghe the way he did. One look at her and he could tell what she wanted. He never required to exchange words with her to interpret her feelings. He knew her like the back of his hands.

The man remained silent as his fingers caressed the girl's hair gently. He simply looked at the hospital monitor screen intensely , taking note of every little change in the girl's situation. He could feel her smelling him. He could tell she was melting into her own little world in his arms. That was her habit. Her way of calming herself down. So he didn't bothered interfering with the process and allowed the girl to do whatever she wished to do. 

Meanwhile , the six men were amazed by the scene unfolding in front of them. They were surprised to witness the understanding between the couple. Not only did their sister trusted this man with all her secrets , the man doted on her equally too. He understood her , treated her like his queen. It was great , the six thought. She had found the right man for her , they felt as a smile appeared upon their lips involuntarily.

"Yuan. Before I woke up , I had a dream.", said the girl , interrupting their train of thoughts.

"What was it ?", asked Xi Yuan in his deep magnetizing voice.

"It was a memory from the childhood. I and Xiao were in an amusement ride. And an accident had happened. But back then , there was a man who was trying to save his daughter , who was stuck in a cabin in the ferris wheel. He had climbed all the way up there by himself , just to protect her. 

"At that time , I and Xiao had wondered if that was how a dad was like. Protective. Selfless. Caring. We had no idea what it felt like to have parents , after all. 

"But just after the girl had gotten down the ride , there was a sudden petrifying jolt in the ferris wheel. And do you know how we were saved ?" 

"How ?", the man smiled.

"Bro Mo and Bro Bo had already informed Bro Lu about the incident. And by the time we reached down , more than ten rescue air cushions were covering the ground below the ride. There wasn't even a single scratch on our bodies then , you know ?

"How can I blame them , Yuan ? How can I ? They had always been our Dad and they had always been our Mom. They were the ones who brought me up , the ones who tought me to ride the bicycle , to walk. When I or Xiao used to have viral fevers , they were the ones who used to stay awake throughout the nights , checking our temperatures , wiping our hands with cold wet towels.

"I just can't. All along , these six have been the definition , the meaning of parents to me and Xiao. Now , I can't bear to punish these parents of mine , for the ones I never even met. "