Chapter 498 — We Sell the Deluxe Edition Too
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"What I mean is, Xiaoxiao, you're not a child anymore. Don't you think it's about time you found yourself a boyfriend?" Feng Tianlong cleared his throat. He too felt this was hardly the most fitting topic for a father to raise with his daughter just now, but it had to be said.
It was Feng Xiaoxiao's peculiar condition that forced the thought upon him. Other parents dreaded the idea of their children dating young, let alone having a child out of wedlock—but Feng Tianlong actually wished his daughter would hurry up and give him a grandchild.
Deep down, Feng Tianlong knew the truth: his daughter's illness was all but incurable. He could scour the world, and hope would remain pitifully slim. Even if some miracle doctor appeared, a few extra years of life would be the most they could manage; a full recovery was pure fantasy.
That was why Feng Tianlong was so urgent about his daughter finding a boyfriend. He wanted to see her life continue—and in that moment, he cast aside all reserve and broached the matter with her directly.
"Um... I don't think that's necessary, is it?" Feng Xiaoxiao flushed even deeper. "Me... me, get a boyfriend?"
"I won't say any more about it. You just handle it your own way!" Feng Tianlong smiled, started the car, and drove off.
He dropped Feng Xiaoxiao at the hotel, gave her a few parting instructions, then quickly drove away. People on the other end were waiting for him; he had no choice but to go on ahead.
Alone in the hotel room, Feng Xiaoxiao found herself turning her father's words over in her mind. What exactly did he mean by that? That he supported her getting a boyfriend? She found it a little strange—she wasn't even of marriageable age yet...
Ah! Feng Xiaoxiao suddenly recalled her own peculiar circumstances. When her mother had given birth to her, hadn't she been around the same age? This hereditary disease of hers was a strange one—passed from mother to daughter, never to sons. A boy would be perfectly fine; only a daughter would be afflicted. She vaguely remembered her father once speaking of her mother's youth—it seemed her maternal grandfather had been every bit as anxious, pushing her mother into her father's arms. The two of them hadn't even registered their marriage before she was conceived.
Her father, though, was a man of deep devotion. All these years, he had never remarried. Now his thoughts were probably the same as her grandfather's had been back then. Feng Xiaoxiao shook her head. But times had changed; she was still a high schooler. Being told to find a boyfriend and have a baby—wasn't that a bit odd?
She had never once considered such a question before, because in her eyes, her brief life held no room for friendship, let alone love.
Feng Xiaoxiao didn't want to become entangled with anyone, didn't need anyone's pity, and wanted even less the grief of parting by life and death. So in eighteen years she had made no bosom friends—only a crew of fair-weather underlings. She had never let her heart stir for any boy, because she couldn't bear to face that kind of wrenching pain.
Yet Feng Tianlong's words had, for the first time, plunged her into deep thought. Her, find a boyfriend? Was that possible? Could she allow herself to like someone?
Hah—Feng Xiaoxiao shook her head with a bitter smile. Who would ever like her? To take a girlfriend like her, one foot in the grave already, would be the worst luck of eight lifetimes. Before anything could even come of it, she'd be gone...
Huh? Feng Xiaoxiao suddenly thought of Wei Zhao. If it came to that—if she made Wei Zhao fall in love with her, then even if she didn't dump him, he'd surely suffer terribly, wouldn't he? At that thought, the resolve in her heart only hardened...
"Second Uncle, Lai Changshan and his group have left..." The young man who had earlier bid against Fatty Lai for the sheepskin map whispered into his earpiece.