If she hadn't avoided it back then and pretended as if nothing happened.
If she had given proper guidance and encouragement during their most confused years, perhaps there wouldn't have been these three years of separation.
Nor would it have caused the current situation.
She was well aware of Xia Ye's state over the past three years.
He's always locked himself away, living in the past, unable to break free; Xia Yangyang had experienced such pain in her youth.
The reason she initially didn't approve of the two of them being together was out of fear they would face too much, yet they've reached another extreme.
But now, these two children, what kind of situation are they actually in, and how will they develop in the future? Even as their mother, she knows nothing about it.
Gu Qichen gently held Xia Yangyang's hand beside her.
His voice was reserved and deep: "Since you're back, sit down and have dinner with us."
