Only After I Was Reborn Did I Realize That I Had Childhood Sweethearts

After subduing the middle-aged man with glasses, uncle JC’s team dispatched another car to escort him back to the police station for further investigation. Mei Fang and Xia Yuan did not have the opportunity to delve deeper into the case and were instead safely escorted to Xia Yuan’s grandmother’s house.

The two of them sat in the car for nearly an hour before finally leaving the city and arriving at their destination.

This place was in the outskirts of Jiangcheng. Apart from the taller buildings, it was not much different from the rural areas elsewhere. There was a wide cement path, with lush green fields on the left and neatly arranged residential buildings with courtyards on the right.

Having received the news early, Xia Yuan’s grandmother had been waiting at the entrance of her small courtyard to welcome her granddaughter.

Xia Yuan’s grandmother had white hair and appeared to be in her sixties or seventies, but she looked quite well. As soon as they met, she opened her arms to embrace Xia Yuan.

“Grandma…”

Xia Yuan had always been closest to her grandmother since she was young. She would come here every summer vacation. She had many things she wanted to say, but as soon as she saw her grandmother, she involuntarily twitched her mouth and acted spoiled, throwing herself into her grandmother’s arms.

“Oh… Yuan Yuan, don’t be afraid, don’t worry, everything’s fine… You really worried your grandma.”

“I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to make Grandma worry…”

“Grandma knows about what happened. It’s not your fault… Wait until your dad comes, I’ll see how I deal with him.”

After comforting Xia Yuan, her grandmother stood up and thanked JC. She even warmly suggested that they stay for a meal, but of course, they declined and left after a few instructions.

At this moment, Xia Yuan’s grandmother finally had the time to focus her attention on Mei Fang.

“You must be Mei Fang, right?”

“Hello, Grandma.”

Mei Fang nodded. Xia Yuan’s grandmother had been walking back and forth with her hands behind her back, looking him up and down, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

He was about to say something in greeting when Xia Yuan’s grandmother suddenly turned behind Mei Fang and unexpectedly patted his shoulder with force.

“Hahaha! You’re really an amazing young man!”

“Thank you for protecting our Yuan Yuan and bringing her here!”

Mei Fang endured the pain in his shoulder and politely smiled with his hands behind his back.

“Xia Yuan and I are good friends. It’s what I should do.”

“Just good friends? Only good friends?”

Xia Yuan’s grandmother patted Mei Fang’s shoulder again, furrowing her brows as if in deep thought. “I remember our Yuan Yuan used to always talk about wanting to have ‘mao mao’ with a boy named Mei Fang. That’s you, right?”

Xia Yuan blushed and jumped up and down in embarrassment.

“Grandma! Why do you always bring up things from when I was little!”

“Hahaha! That’s just how our Yuan Yuan is! Get used to it!”

Xia Yuan’s grandmother continued to pat Mei Fang.

Mei Fang felt like his immature shoulders were about to be patted to pieces by this elderly lady.

The two of them ate some snacks at Grandma’s house to fill their stomachs. Xia Yuan and Grandma talked about their experiences of running away from home. Grandma not only didn’t blame Xia Yuan for running away on her own, but also expressed her approval of her bravery.

In addition, Grandma kept patting Mei Fang.

The reason was that Mei Fang’s clever performance along the way greatly satisfied Grandma and earned her praise.

By the time it was dusk, Xia Yuan’s parents finally arrived at Grandma’s house by car.

Xia Yuan held Grandma’s hand and went out to meet her parents.

Although Xia Yuan had prepared a lot to say with Mei Fang’s help.

But when she saw her parents, she suddenly couldn’t say anything.

She had never seen her parents in such a miserable state.

Her mother’s hair was messy and her father’s face was dirty.

Xia Yuan’s father walked up aggressively, looking very angry.

Xia Yuan tightly closed her eyes and quietly waited for her father’s scolding.

Smack!

A loud and fierce slap.

But it didn’t hit Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan opened her eyes and saw her father half-kneeling on the ground, repeatedly slapping his own cheeks.

“Dad… please… please stop!”

Xia Yuan cried and pulled her father, after a few slaps, Xia’s father tightly hugged his daughter.

“Yuan Yuan, Dad has been looking for you everywhere today. When I couldn’t find you, I thought about a lot of things.”

“These years, I’ve been too focused on my career and didn’t have time to accompany you and your mother. If I had spent more time with you and your mother, you wouldn’t have run away from home.”

“Just the thought of possibly losing you forever, just the thought of you being hurt by bad people outside, Dad feels like his heart is breaking, do you know?”

“If that really happened, Dad would never be able to forgive himself.”

“Don’t be like this… Dad… I also made a mistake.”

Xia Yuan rubbed her eyes, “I shouldn’t have made you and Mom worry like this… I won’t do it again, I promise.”

“Okay… then Dad promises you too, I won’t mortgage our house anymore, I will sell the loss-making restaurant business. From now on, I will definitely spend more time with you!”

“Okay!”

“Xia Xun, you rascal!” Xia Yuan’s Grandma started patting her son-in-law’s shoulder forcefully, “A man’s words should be backed up with actions, don’t fool my precious granddaughter. I will definitely keep an eye on you!”

“U-understood…”

Xia Yuan’s father was already in a grimacing state while speaking, it seems that he had also suffered greatly.

In any case… fortunately, the development of the situation did not become the worst-case scenario that Mei Fang had imagined.

Xia Yuan’s father still loves his daughter very much.

Perhaps it is because of this love that he is unwilling to let his daughter suffer alone in this world.

However, no matter what, this reason is still not enough to cover up the fact that he was unworthy of being a parent in his past life.

This matter is not yet considered resolved, and the current promise needs to be executed in order to be recognized.

Only then can Mei Fang consider what he knew in his past life as a parallel timeline.

In addition, during this runaway plan, Mei Fang still has a very puzzling question in his heart.

I have been missing for so long, why haven’t my parents even made a phone call?

Could it be that I lack the love of family?

Considering that they still have to go to school the next day and the poor Mei Fang has not seen his parents yet, the group decided to drive back to Baimei County overnight.

Xia Yuan’s uncle was also in the car, so they could take turns driving and not worry about fatigue driving.

Xia Yuan leaned against her mother’s arms and said a lot of things, then fell asleep for a while and suddenly woke up.

She nudged Mei Fang, who was dozing off next to her.

“What’s wrong?”

Xia Yuan whispered in Mei Fang’s ear.

“Mei Fang, let me tell you, I had a really scary nightmare just now.”

“What kind of nightmare?”

“I dreamt that I was having dinner with my mom and dad, and the dinner was especially abundant.”

“My mom also poured me a lot of juice.”

“Then, I fell asleep in a daze.”

“After that, my mom held me and cried, and she cried for a long, long time.”

“I have never seen my mom cry so miserably, so I cried too.”

“Afterwards, my dad and mom also drank the juice and fell asleep with me.”

“We slept very soundly, as if we would never wake up again.”

Mei Fang raised an eyebrow slightly and then asked gently:

“Weren’t you asleep? How did you see all that?”

“Well… let me think…”

“Umm…”

Xia Yuan lay on Mei Fang’s chest and fell asleep again.

While no one was paying attention, Mei Fang gently pinched Xia Yuan’s fair cheek, enjoying the beauty of life.

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