coobybook Chapter 209 This home can never go back to what it used to be.
Chapter 209 This home can never go back to what it used to be.
Pei Jiyue was taken aback.
Looking at An Ling's expression, she had a bad feeling.
But An Ling's hand remained raised, so she could only take the phone and continue reading.
An Ling dragged the video back a few minutes, and Pei Ji finally saw that Xuan Rui had actually returned to that room.
She eventually gave in and agreed to Pei Jinhao's request, even agreeing to give him the key to Pei Mingyu's room.
Pei Jiyue's face gradually turned pale, her fingers gripping the phone tightly until her knuckles turned white.
Her breathing became rapid, her chest heaved violently, and her eyes were filled with disbelief and pain.
Her mother actually agreed to Pei Jinhao's request, and was even willing to sacrifice her brother to cover up past mistakes.
“How could this happen…” Pei Jiyue’s voice trembled.
Disappointment and pain washed over her like an icy tide, immersing her completely and making it hard to breathe.
Mom just left! Why is she coming back?
Even though she was the one being protected compared to her brother, her mother still chose to become Pei Jinhao's accomplice!
Seeing Pei Jiyue's pained expression, An Ling knew that any further comfort would be futile.
She gently hugged Pei Jiyue. "Cousin, I'll send you this video now. Aunt should be downstairs preparing. You should explain things to your cousin and the others first, and then go and stop Aunt."
Xuanrui has already put the medicine in the milk; she should give it to her cousin to drink in a little while.
[This sleeping potion is incredibly potent; drinking it might even harm your health. I need to tell my cousin everything before Xuanrui comes up.]
Pei Jiyue was shocked again. A sleeping potion?
That wasn't even a sleeping pill?
Xuan Rui even believed Pei Jinhao's one-sided story that it was sleeping pills. In other words, even if Pei Jinhao had given her poison today, she would have been deceived into feeding it to her child herself.
"Okay, Xiaoling, send me the video. I'll handle it for my brother."
Xuan Rui forced herself to calm down.
“But I don’t plan to stop my mother. There’s still some time. Maybe she won’t take the final step.”
An Ling nodded without objecting; she knew Pei Jiyue wanted to give Xuan Rui one last chance.
That's her mother after all, so it's normal that she can't accept it.
“But you must make sure you explain this clearly to your cousin,” Anling emphasized anxiously. “There can’t be any mistakes in this matter.”
"Well, don't worry."
Pei Jiyue was well aware of the seriousness of the matter.
To put An Ling at ease, she sent the video to Pei Mingyu in front of An Ling, and then directly called her brother to tell Pei Mingyu everything and her decision, emphasizing that no matter what Xuan Rui gave him later, he should not eat it.
After hanging up the phone, Pei Jiyue forced a smile and said:
"Xiaoling, thank you."
“You just got home today, and you still have to worry about us. You must be very tired. Go back and rest first. I can handle the rest.”
"Cousin, I'll wait with you." An Ling was still worried. She needed to make sure that Pei Jiyue and Pei Mingyu were both safe before she could leave.
Pei Jiyue did not refuse. Having An Ling by her side at this moment would indeed make her feel less tormented, because she could know Xuan Rui's current situation directly through An Ling's thoughts.
Xuanrui had poured the milk twenty minutes ago, but she was still sitting in the kitchen, staring motionless at the medicine in the glass bottle...
She picked it up! She opened the capsule and poured the powder into the milk!
Xuan Rui took a deep breath, suppressing the last bit of inner turmoil, and tried her best to make her expression look no different from usual.
She picked up the milk, walked up the stairs, and step by step reached Pei Mingyu's room, where she knocked on his door.
"Mom? What's wrong?"
Pei Mingyu knew perfectly well what Xuan Rui had come for, but she still opened the door.
"Mingyu, it's nothing."
"Mom just suddenly remembered when you and Jiyue were little, I would always make you a cup of milk before bed. I don't know when that habit stopped."
“It stopped when I started high school.”
Upon closer listening, Pei Mingyu's voice was actually trembling slightly, but Xuan Rui was oblivious to this at the moment; she had already done her best to control her trembling hands.
"Oh, I see... Mom forgot."
"Mom just suddenly remembered this and wanted to make you another cup of milk." Xuan Rui tightly gripped the hem of her clothes with one hand and handed the cup to Pei Mingyu with the other.
Pei Mingyu did not accept it immediately, but silently looked at her mother.
"What, what's wrong, Mingyu? Why are you looking at Mom like that?" Xuanrui felt flustered by Pei Mingyu's gaze, almost thinking that he had seen through her actions.
Pei Mingyu really wanted to ask the person in front of him what he really thought of him.
Why could someone decide, in just a few minutes, to sacrifice their reputation and lifelong happiness to bury their own mistakes?
Xuan Rui, however, could hold the thing that was about to send him into the fire in one hand, while talking to him about the past.
Yes, he used to think that his mother loved him very much because they had so many warm memories together.
But now these memories have turned into sharp thorns, which Xuan Rui has personally pierced into his heart. The more beautiful those memories are, the sharper the pain he feels now.
Pei Mingyu couldn't say anything at the moment, and could only let all her emotions surge in her heart.
He eventually accepted the glass of milk. "Thank you, Mom. I ate a bit too much for dinner, so I can't drink it right now. I'll drink it before I go to bed."
"Okay, then you should go to sleep early." Xuan Rui was actually a little relieved that she didn't have to watch Pei Mingyu drink it. She threw down these words and fled.
After closing the door, Pei Mingyu could no longer bear it.
His right hand was still holding the "poison" that his mother had handed him, so he could only cover his eyes with his left hand and slump weakly to the ground, leaning against the door.
Tears gradually soaked his palms, and Pei Mingyu sobbed as he curled up into a ball, as if he had returned to his childhood when he would cry whenever he was wronged.
This time, however, it was his mother, who used to hold and comfort him, who became the culprit that made him cry in pain.
She handed the drugged milk to her cousin...
Hearing An Ling's heartfelt words, Pei Jiyue finally broke the string that had been taut in her heart.
“Mom…really did it…” Her voice was so low it was almost inaudible, as if even saying those words had exhausted her strength.
She knew that from this moment on, this family could never go back to what it used to be.