Chapter 1680 — Leaving a Letter Behind
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"Heh, I thought that through long ago..." Yu Xiaoke shook her head with a trace of helplessness. "I know that with my present strength, saving him is next to impossible. But if I don't go, I'll never get past it for the rest of my life. If I die, then I die. I love him; to die for him is what I'm willing to do. Xiao Ken, you're still young—you don't understand what it means to love someone..."
"Who says I don't!" Xiao Ken flushed scarlet and cried out in alarm. "I love you, Sister Xiaoke, and I don't want you to go throw your life away!"
"That's not the same..." Yu Xiaoke smiled. "Xiao Ken, that kind of love is only admiration and attachment. When I'm gone, you'll be the backbone of the orphanage, and those children will admire and love you just the same. And now that things at the orphanage have settled down, I can go with a quiet heart."
"But..." Xiao Ken knew her character: she was stubborn and strong, and once she set her mind on something she would see it through and never turn back. Yet he truly did not want her to go to her death. If she went, she was fated never to return. So he said: "Sister Xiaoke, isn't your boyfriend Brother Wei Zhao? Have you given him up for someone else? Brother Wei Zhao is so good—why must you love a Male Thief who's nothing but a phantom?"
"Wei Zhao... heh, that was only a misunderstanding." Yu Xiaoke shook her head. "There's nothing between him and me. Wei Zhao is a good man, but he always looked down on me, and I feel nothing for him. The Male Thief is different. I love him!"
"I... you... Sister Xiaoke, have you told the old director?" Xiao Ken truly was at his wit's end, and could only invoke the old director's name, hoping she might talk Yu Xiaoke out of this foolishness.
"Don't tell the old director about this. I'll leave her a letter—you can pass it on to her for me..." Yu Xiaoke pondered a moment. She knew the old director doted on her as though she were her own daughter, and that if the old director learned of this, she would certainly insist on sharing the danger with her.
But Yu Xiaoke did not want that, so she meant to leave first and explain afterward. The orphanage could do without her now—Xiao Ken could take her place—but it could never do without the old director.
So Yu Xiaoke said to Xiao Ken with great solemnity: "Xiao Ken, you're the eldest of these children and the most sensible of them. You understand that if the old director learns of this, she will certainly come along with me. Since there's danger, can you let her go?"
"But..." Hearing her words, Xiao Ken knew she was telling the truth, and it left him torn. On one hand he did not want Yu Xiaoke to take the risk; on the other, he knew her character—what she had decided to do, she would do through a thousand hardships.