CHAPTER 515: CHAPTER 517 YEAR AFTER YEAR

"You are Yang Xuehua’s parents?" Xia Xiao looked at Mr. and Mrs. Yang and didn’t quite know what to say for a moment. So many years had passed since they returned to find their daughter; their hearts must have been yearning for her. But had they ever thought about what Yang Xuehua’s life would be like in the storm they left behind?

But if they hadn’t left, they would have surely faced disaster.

"Yes," Mr. and Mrs. Yang said excitedly.

"Do you know that she doesn’t live here anymore, and that she married and had children a long time ago?"

As soon as Xia Xiao finished speaking, Mr. and Mrs. Yang were startled. They were both in their sixties, and their daughter was over forty, certainly married with children by now.

"Comrade Xia, where does Xuehua live?" Mr. and Mrs. Yang had inquired about Yang Xuehua and knew she lived at this address, but the rest was still unclear to them.

"Please come in and sit down first," Xia Xiao welcomed them inside.

After Mr. and Mrs. Yang entered Xia Xiao’s home, Xia Xiao made a call to Yang Xuehua. With a clatter, the sound of the phone shaking and falling could be heard. Xia Xiao fell silent, but soon after Yang Xuehua quickly picked up the receiver and told Xia Xiao, "I’ll be right there."

"Mom and Dad!" Upon seeing her parents, Yang Xuehua was visibly moved, her eyes reddened, and she could hardly hold back her tears. All the resentment and animosity she had felt before faded in that moment.

Mrs. Yang covered her face and cried, apologizing profusely as she embraced Yang Xuehua. Mr. Yang didn’t say much, but his eyes were red too.

Xia Xiao, standing nearby, felt her own eyes moisten.

After eating at Xia Xiao’s place, Yang Xuehua left with her parents. Zheng Xianghong remarked, "This is also a family reunion after all."

However, Mr. and Mrs. Yang didn’t stay for long. After attending the study and exchange meeting, they left with the visiting delegation.

Yang Xuehua brought her children to Xia Xiao’s home, where Xia Xiao asked, "Your parents aren’t planning to return?"

"They’ll stay over there for now; but their hearts are here, they wish to come back," Yang Xuehua voiced her parents’ sentiments.

Mr. and Mrs. Yang were doing well abroad, and Xia Xiao couldn’t say for sure that returning to China would be entirely positive for them. No matter how far away they are, their hearts belong to their homeland. It’s natural for everyone to wish to return to their roots eventually.

Unfortunately, Xia Xiao couldn’t find the energy stone she wanted here. She had known that energy stones were hard to come by, but the search proved extremely challenging.

Shitou said, "It’s also about fate and luck."

Xia Xiao knew it depended on fate and luck, but she had to keep searching – for now, within the country, but later possibly around the whole world. She felt this was still feasible.

Xiao Mei ended up dating Fang Yuejin’s older nephew, introduced through Wang Aihua. He was a computer science student, quite a decent young man. They got married this year, and Xia Xiao prepared a generous dowry for Xiao Mei.

After graduating, Fang Yuejin and Wang Aihua joined an agricultural bureau’s breeding team. The couple was quite busy, and they even chose Guangming Production Team as their breeding base.

Luo Mingzhe became an editor at a newspaper, and Liu Yue became a reporter. This couple stuck together through thick and thin and temporarily drifted apart from Xia Xiao and Yang Xuehua.

Feiyi was very excited, but at only twelve and still in practice, he was not yet eligible to compete.

"Mom, I’m sure I’ll win a championship one day," Feiyi said, clenching his fist.

Since joining the badminton team, Feiyi had sprouted up quickly; now at 165 cm, he was as tall as Xia Xiao.

Xia Xiao patted Feiyi’s head, "Don’t think too much. Just focus on playing the game well."

After watching the badminton match with her family, Xia Xiao left with the other researchers. Two months later, she returned just in time to receive a call from Xia Chunrong, "Big sister, I’m going to sell off all my stocks."

"Oh, go ahead and sell mine too," Xia Xiao replied, she simply followed Xia Chunrong’s lead. After finishing the call, she contacted Yang Xuehua, her sisters, and even made calls to Ning Hui and Wang Aihua.

They hadn’t invested as much money as Xia Xiao, and they were all too busy to study the stock market. Hearing that Xia Xiao was selling, and since they had made some profit, they decided to sell too.

After the sell-off, the stock prices soared the next day, and Xia Xiao felt a twinge of regret. But on the third day, the prices plummeted, and she felt relieved to have sold at the right time.

Weilin had already graduated from university and was very supportive of the situation; she wasn’t opposed to it at all. Feeling lonely all alone, Weilin also hoped her father would have someone by his side.

Weilin’s thoughtfulness made Zheng Xianghong very happy. She had long been urging Gao Jiazhi to remarry, and now, at last, her wish was fulfilled.

Weilin, Feiyang and Feiyue, along with Ge Liang, graduated from university that year. They all continued with their graduate studies, although Weilin also started interning in the hosting industry while studying.

The twin siblings, Feiteng and Feiling, were still singing and acting, popular thanks to their similar and attractive appearance as a pair of dragon and phoenix twins.

Xia Xiao cried deeply, not having experienced familial warmth in her last life. In this life, she was surrounded by the warmth of family. Facing the death of loved ones, despite knowing that everyone faces their end eventually, her heart was filled with grief.