Chapter 658
“I saw the news online. I also saw someone online leaking insider information, saying Xia Yanyan had been diagnosed with chronic granulocytic leukemia years ago. Xia’s family, in their bid to cure Xia Yanyan, participated in the mermaid transformation project and birthed another daughter, Xia Qiongqiong. However, the girl turned out to be an incredibly ugly mermaid, so the Xias didn’t announce her existence to the public.”
“Really? Where did you get this information? Where is Xia Qiongqiong now?”
A female coworker opened Weibo and showed them a post she’d been following: “Look, they say that Xia Qiongqiong was frail and sickly from a young age and died when she was little, hence why Xia’s family didn’t announce her existence. But Qiongqiong was truly noble, despite her weak and sickly state, she insisted on donating her marrow to her elder sister. There’s a video here about it. Let me play it for you.”
The coworker started a video on Weibo. It was clearly shot in the Xia’s swimming pool:
In the video, a little red mermaid and a little grey mermaid could be seen. The grey mermaid facing the camera, her eyes sincere, her young voice tender: “I want to save my sister. I’m not scared of the pain. Let me save my sister.”
Hearing her own voice from when she was just a child, Ye Xingguang’s blood rushed to her head. She took the coworker’s phone to watch the video, her fingers taut with anger. Who owned her childhood videos and who posted her childhood photos online?
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In the background, the coworkers were having a discussion:
“Ah, the grey mermaid is really ugly, but she’s so kind-hearted. She voluntarily offered to donate her marrow to her sister…” noveldrama
“Thankfully, the little mermaid donated her marrow to Xia Yanyan. Otherwise, if Yanyan had died from leukemia, it would have been a huge loss to our country. Let’s hit like for the little mermaid.”
“Back then, during the mermaid transformation project, many of the baby mermaids were the sacrificial lambs. So many couples participated in the project and gave birth to numerous mermaid babies, most of which died in infancy or early childhood. Xia Qiongqiong was one of them. Poor little mermaid. But at least her life wasn’t in vain, she managed to save Xia Yanyan, the true gem of our country.”
“Oh look, the media is live streaming. They’re going to interview the Xias about this incident…”
By now, many media outlets had swarmed into the Xia residence, to report on this matter.
Xia Yanyan was sitting in the living room, crying pitifully under the media’s cameras, gripping a teddy bear in her hand: “Yes, I did have a little sister. She was frail since birth. We were reluctant to have her donate marrow to me, but she loved me so much that she always insisted on doing so. If it wasn’t for my sister, I wouldn’t be alive today. This is the teddy bear my sister loved the most when she was little. All these years, whenever I missed her, I would hug this teddy bear to cope with my longing for her.”
Wang Zimei was crying even harder. The cameras captured her tear-streaked face. “My poor daughter has been gone for so many years now. Yet now, she’s being discussed and scrutinized. Please, respect our feelings as parents. Show some decency. My little daughter’s death is my greatest sorrow, please, I beg you don’t reopen my wound…”
Xia Wealth sat silently by their side. The grief of an old father plain on his face. His hands were folded over his face, he was too grieved to utter a word. The pain and sorrow felt by the family of three was touching.