You Are My Omega - Chapter 47

What should have been a joyful New Year’s Eve dinner ended with an awkward atmosphere around the table. Grandpa Xu didn’t seem to mind, but what affected him more was perhaps Fantuan refusing to go near him and crying loudly instead.

Fantuan clung tightly to her Auntie Xu Shijiu, who had just finished bathing and was finally able to hold her. In one hand she held a red envelope, in the other another red envelope, and her clothes’ pockets were stuffed with even more. When her mami brought over some porridge, she obediently opened her mouth to eat it.

“Xiao Jiu, eat your food. Don’t worry about Fantuan. She’s always well-behaved when she’s in your arms,” said Xu Manyue with a smile as she placed a piece of meat in Xu Shijiu’s bowl. That little one adored her two aunts more than anything. Just moments ago, when she saw Grandpa Xu looking at her aunties with disgust, she had started yelling gibberish at him, her tiny face filled with anger.

“Okay.” Xu Shijiu nodded, gently stroking Fantuan’s soft cheek with one hand while carefully supporting her with the other. She picked up her chopsticks and began to eat.

Lin Xinyi occasionally added food to Xu Shijiu’s bowl, making sure it was never empty.

Seeing his great-granddaughter cling so closely to Xu Shijiu only darkened Grandpa Xu’s expression. He was already frustrated by Xu Manyue, and now even little Shuer was acting like this. What on earth had Xu Shijiu done to charm them all so thoroughly?

“I’m full,” Grandpa Xu said and stood up, leaving the table in anger.

Xu Manyue felt resentful—resentful that her grandfather rejected Shijiu, resentful about the way he spoke to her, and even more resentful about his attitude. But when she saw his once-proud posture now slightly hunched, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything.

If Grandpa could just behave himself, she wouldn’t have to react this way.

“Jiejie…” Xu Shijiu looked worried, afraid her sister would feel stuck in the middle.

“It’s alright. Let’s eat.” Xu Manyue smiled. “This is our reunion dinner. After today, we’ll celebrate it together every year.”

“Yes, I’d like that.” Liu Lingyan gently wiped the corner of Fantuan’s mouth with a tissue and smiled warmly.

Xu Shijiu nodded.

Watching the scene before her, Lin Xinyi felt her eyes sting slightly. Last year, she hadn’t really seen the Xu family as her home. But today, she truly felt it. She felt like she had become a part of the Xu family. This place… felt like home now. A place she could return to.

“I bought some new cat food for Heituan and Baituan. Make sure to give them extra later. It’s New Year’s after all,” said Xu Manyue. Even though she was afraid of cats, watching the once tiny kittens Heituan and Baituan grow up gave her a lot of feelings.

Xu Shijiu received a call from Grandpa Xu in the middle of the night, waking her from a deep sleep.

“Hello?” she whispered, and honestly, when she saw his name on the screen, she wondered if she was seeing things.

But thinking about what was going on between her sister and sister-in-law, she quickly guessed what this was about.

“Liu Lingyan’s father reached out to me. He wants to meet at a tea restaurant tomorrow to talk,” said Grandpa Xu. He hadn’t wanted to make this call to Xu Shijiu, but in this situation between Xu Manyue and Liu Lingyan, he was now an outsider and had no power to interfere.

“Why did he contact me?” Xu Shijiu wasn’t surprised. Her brows furrowed with worry and the last traces of sleep vanished from her mind. She had known the Liu family would eventually come looking. What did surprise her, though, was that Grandpa Xu had taken the initiative to call her.

Still, it made sense. Even if he disliked her, even if he couldn’t stand her, he probably didn’t know how to handle this situation himself.

“We can’t keep hiding this forever. If the Liu family takes the initiative to expose it, then…” Grandpa Xu sighed.

In that moment, he didn’t look like the cruel man from earlier that day. He just looked like a worried grandfather. It was almost as if all his cruelty toward her had never happened.

It was ridiculous.

Xu Shijiu let out a silent, cold laugh but still replied, “I understand. I’ll go.”

This involved her sister and sister-in-law. She had to go.

It was impossible for her to go out alone. She had tried several times to talk to her sister about it but had been refused every time. In the end, she made an agreement with Grandpa Xu: he would stay on a call with her the entire time, so her sister could hear everything that was said.

Grandpa Xu agreed without hesitation. That made Xu Shijiu feel uneasy. His attitude was a little too cooperative. Something about it felt strange, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it.

What really mattered now was the Liu family’s reaction.

Grandpa Xu calmly dismissed the informants Xu Manyue had placed around him. But even that didn’t guarantee complete privacy. Fortunately, the private room was booked under his name, and Liu’s father had agreed to come in disguise. They likely wouldn’t be discovered.

Once inside the room, Grandpa Xu placed his phone on the table, still on the call. Only then did he look at Liu’s father and reach out his hand.

“Hello. It’s been a long time.”

Back when he had arranged to silence everything, he had personally been involved, so they had met before.

“Hello,” Liu’s father replied stiffly. He didn’t reach out to shake hands. He glared at Grandpa Xu with clenched fists. After several moments of restraint, he managed to keep himself from punching the old man.

Just seeing Grandpa Xu brought it all back—the time he had been threatened into silence using his only daughter, the one who had survived the accident.

He had endured it all for Liu Lingyan’s sake. He had thought that would be the end of it, that their paths would never cross again. But now, unbelievably, Liu Lingyan had ended up marrying and having a child with someone from the Xu family.

It was absurd.

There was no way their two families could ever peacefully coexist.

“I’m here today to talk about my daughter and your granddaughter.” Liu’s father got straight to the point.

Grandpa Xu responded calmly, “That accident was a matter of the previous generation. Let’s not involve the younger generation in it.”

Liu’s father’s expression turned cold and grim as he heard how casually Grandpa Xu said those words. “What exactly do you mean?”

Previous generation? This generation? Was this a joke? The car accident was completely caused by the Xu family. The Liu family was dragged into it for no reason, and now he wanted to sweep it under the rug with a few simple words?

“They’re happy now. Their daughter’s full name is Xu Liu Shuer. Her nickname is Fantuan. One is the head of the Xu family, the other a top actress. Their careers are going well, and their family is full of love. Do you really want to disrupt that?” Grandpa Xu was taking a gamble. He was betting that the same man who once chose to keep quiet for the sake of his daughter would still stay silent now, for the sake of her happiness.

Despite no longer being able to keep up with the times, despite losing the Xu Corporation to bankruptcy under his leadership, Grandpa Xu had once been a titan of the business world. When it came to reading people and striking the right chord, he had not lost his edge.

Every word hit Liu’s father where it hurt. This was a man who could sign deals worth millions without hesitation. But now, he hesitated. He stayed silent.

He knew his daughter was happy.

When Liu Lingyan was little, he was always flying between countries. He rarely came home, barely spent time with his daughter or his wife. He had thought that money alone would be enough to give them a good life. He believed that giving them financial security meant he had fulfilled his duties as a husband and father.

But when his wife became pregnant again and was struggling with morning sickness, she broke down and finally voiced all her pent-up frustrations and questions.

That was when he realized how badly he had failed them. He wasn’t a good husband. He wasn’t a good father.

After his son was born, he tried to adjust his schedule to spend more time at home. But by then, his daughter had already grown distant. She acted stiff and formal around him, like a stranger.

After the accident, he agreed to stay silent for his daughter’s sake. But the suffocating feeling of staying in this city made him leave and settle abroad. Her resistance had made him feel like she never truly needed him.

He had never once seen his daughter act playfully in front of him. But on the few occasions he secretly visited her at the hospital, he saw her teasing the head of the Xu family. One moment she was asking to eat this, the next she wanted that, deliberately making things difficult for her partner. And Xu Manyue simply indulged her, never once refusing.

His daughter was happy.

The smile on her face made that impossible to deny. After everything she had gone through, she finally had her own Alpha, finally had a family, finally had joy. Could he really be so heartless as to tear all of that apart?

That car accident had destroyed the Liu family. The truth behind it was like a ticking time bomb. If revealed, it would be devastating not only for him but for both Liu Lingyan and Xu Manyue.

“Shuer is healthy and always smiling. Her two mothers are busy with work, so most of the time she’s cared for by a nanny. But whenever they come home, she lights up. Do you really want your granddaughter to experience her parents breaking up at such a young age?”

Grandpa Xu could clearly see that Liu’s father was hesitating. He pressed on.

“If everything stays quiet like it always has, nothing will happen. Silence is all it takes.”

“If it weren’t for the Xu family, our family wouldn’t have ended up like this.” What Liu’s father hated most was the calm expression on Grandpa Xu’s face. When he first found out that someone from the Xu family had also died in the accident, he had briefly thought that perhaps Grandpa Xu shared his pain.

But the first time they met face-to-face, and he saw how lively and unbothered Grandpa Xu was, he realized the man didn’t care at all. How could someone so cold speak of his pain as if it meant nothing?

Watching Liu’s father force himself to hold back, Grandpa Xu knew he had made the same decision as before. He nodded in satisfaction, stood up, and left without lingering.

The call ended at that moment.

Sitting in the car, Grandpa Xu looked at his phone with a faint smirk. He had played his move. The impact wasn’t huge, but he was confident that he had an eighty percent chance of achieving what he wanted.

On the other end of the call, Xu Shijiu’s heart felt heavy.

She had always believed that silence was the best choice. But was it really?

People say secrets can’t stay buried forever. Was there really no trace left of what happened back then?

Could she be sure that her sister and her sister-in-law would never find out?

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