bookcurios Chapter 163 Outsider
Chapter 163 Outsider
After drying his hair, Cheng Che lay back on the bed, holding Wen Song in his arms, casually playing with her long hair that fell on her chest.
"Ache, do you want to hear about my childhood?" Perhaps because he saw Xixi, Wen Song suddenly felt nostalgic today and thought of many things from his childhood.
"Of course." Cheng Che nodded immediately, "I really want to hear what your sister was like when she was a child."
"When I was a kid..." Wen Song thought for a moment and said, "I always had short hair and dressed in a rustic way. Before I was twelve years old, I really had no impression of Lawyer Wen. Not long after I was born, she went to Hong Kong. Although she returned to Hangzhou later, it was only for about a year, and then she went to Switzerland again. Before I went to Switzerland, I could only meet her once or twice a year, and each time was no more than two weeks."
Cheng Che became very sad after hearing this. He thought of what Wen Song once told him, that she was bullied at school because her parents were not around. He really didn't know how she, such a young child at that time, could overcome all this.
"Sister..." Cheng Che hugged her tightly, feeling distressed, "If only I had known you at that time."
"It doesn't matter, actually." Wen Song laughed twice. "It's all in the past. I've lived with my grandma since I was a child. My grandma was too lazy to comb my hair, so she always cut my hair short, saying that it would make me look more energetic. I didn't have long hair until I was ten years old.
So I really envy Xixi. When I was a child, only my godmother helped me braid my hair. But because my hair was too short, I couldn't do any nice hairstyles at all. I could only do those silly little braids. At that time, I envied Xuanyan and envied her long hair, which was very beautiful.
I still remember one year, I forgot whether I was six or seven years old, I went to Switzerland to see lawyer Wen, and the first thing she said when she saw me was, 'Ilia, your hair is so ugly, where did you get such an ugly haircut?' I was so angry at the time, I said it was all your fault, you left me alone in China, and my grandmother refused to let me grow my hair long. She told me that if you can't even decide your own hair, then you are really useless. "
Cheng Che looked at her beautiful hair draped over her shoulders and suddenly understood why she loved long hair. However, he really couldn't agree with Wen Yiheng's rational yet somewhat ruthless educational method.
He gently combed Wen Song's long hair and comforted her, "It's okay, Sister can grow her hair long now. When Sister and I met at the exhibition, she looked particularly good with that low bun."
Wen Song smiled and explained, "That was done by Xuanyan. I don't know how to do that kind of hairstyle. I can only do the simplest ponytail."
Cheng Che smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll braid your hair for you in the future. You can do whatever you like."
"Do you know?"
"If you don't know how, you can learn!" Cheng Che immediately said confidently, "It's not that difficult."
Wen Song continued, "Also, my grandma never lets me wear skirts because she thinks it's troublesome to wear skirts. My godmother bought me a lot of princess dresses, but my grandma never let me wear them. She said those dresses were expensive and I would get them dirty, so she made me wear sportswear every day. I can only wear pretty little skirts when I stay at my godmother's house."
After hearing her words, Cheng Che felt even more distressed. There is no little girl who doesn't love beauty, but Wen Song at that time was forced to have short hair that she didn't like and wear sportswear that she didn't like.
"What brand do you like, sister?" Cheng Che kissed her forehead and said, "I'll buy it for you and customize it for you."
"No, I have plenty."
Wen Song smiled. "In my first year in Switzerland, the school held a Christmas dance. Lawyer Wen asked her personal assistant to customize a dress for me. It was a nude pink tulle dress by Dior. It was very beautiful. She also arranged a stylist and makeup artist for me to help me with my makeup, hair, and jewelry. That was the first dress that Lawyer Wen bought for me that fit me. She said to me at that time, you are so tall."
Cheng Che smiled with relief after hearing this, and said to Wen Song: "Mom still loves you very much, she is just too busy with work and can't take care of many things."
"Yes, I know." Wen Song said with a smile, "She also bought me clothes when she returned to China before, but they were always too small and not my size at all. She said she told the clerk that it was a little girl of eight or nine years old, but she found that a little girl like me seemed a little tall."
"In the first two years after arriving in Switzerland, although I was a little uncomfortable, I was still very happy." Wen Song's expression suddenly became more fortunate, "Because I don't have to worry about the time it takes to grow my hair long, and I don't have to worry about the inconvenience of wearing skirts. I can have the hairstyle I like, dye it the color I like, and wear the skirt I like."
"During that time, I bought a lot of dresses out of revenge. Lawyer Wen and my godmother also gave me a lot of dresses. Most of them I tried on once and then hung in the closet as an exhibition."
When Cheng Che heard her words, he also thought of the cloakroom in her home. There were two wardrobes filled with all kinds of high-end dresses. Those seemingly idle dresses were actually the healing effect of Iseylia's childhood when she grew up.
"Is grandma good to you?" Cheng Che thought that she would mention grandma from time to time, so they should have a good relationship, but it seemed that they were not that good...
Wen Song thought for a moment and said, "Grandma does love me, but her way of doing things is something that my mother and I cannot accept."
She explained: "When I was in primary school, I had poor grades and was quite introverted. When I was bullied at school, my grandmother would just ask me to apologize. I was very angry, so I called my mother and godmother. Guess what Lawyer Wen said to me?"
"what did she say?"
Wen Song smiled helplessly and said, "She said you should fight back. If someone hits you once, you should hit them twice. The other party bullied you first, so your behavior is legitimate defense, which is permitted by law. Even if the defense was excessive, you are under the age of fourteen and do not need to bear criminal responsibility. It is a very wrong way of education, but I listened to it."
Cheng Che also laughed and said to Wen Song, "Although it's not good, it's better than your grandma asking you to swallow your anger. Is that why your sister went to learn Sanda?"
Wen Song nodded and said, "Yes, I learned karate at first, and then I changed to Sanda after I went to Switzerland. After that, no one dared to bully me."
No one likes violence, but in that situation, if she doesn't fight back with violence, she really has no other way to protect herself.
Her mother was out of reach in Switzerland, so Ye Qing'an could only put pressure on the teachers. She couldn't do anything about the children who bullied her, and her grandmother kept asking her to swallow her anger. She had no choice but to make herself strong so that she could protect herself.
"Did your sister have a good time in Switzerland? Did she get along well with her classmates?" Cheng Che suddenly became a little worried. What if she was bullied in Switzerland?
"Sure." Wen Song smiled happily. "I go to an all-girls school and my classmates are all very nice. When I was in China, it was the boys in my class who bullied me. It was also for this reason that when my mom asked me whether I wanted to go to a co-ed school or an all-girls school, I immediately said I wanted to go to an all-girls school."
"That's good." Cheng Che was relieved, hugged Wen Song and said, "No one will bully me from now on. I can protect myself, and I will protect you too."
Wen Song glanced at him and said jokingly, "You may not be able to beat me."
"Then you protect me." Cheng Che lowered his head and buried his head in her shoulder, "Sister, you will protect me, right?"
"Yes." Wen Song saw him acting like a spoiled child and rubbed his head, "Do you want to hear anything else?"
"Of course." Cheng Che sighed softly, "If I had known that my sister was so unhappy in China, I wouldn't have said such stupid things as "I hope you can accompany me back to China."
"It's okay, it's not all bad."
Wen Song thought for a moment and said, "When I was in primary school, my grades were very poor. Except for math, English and art, other subjects were a mess, especially Chinese. I couldn't write essays, and I couldn't read classical Chinese. Every essay I wrote was used as a negative example by the teacher.
And I went to the same elementary school that my mother went to when she was a child, so many older teachers had taught her. They would ask me, "Are you really Wen Yiheng's daughter? Why is your mother so good at studying, but you are so bad at studying?"
After hearing this, Cheng Che asked, "When my sister and I first met, she didn't want me and my dad to know that you were Lawyer Wen's daughter. Is that the reason?"
"Yes." Wen Song nodded, "I hope you see me, Iseylia herself, and not the daughter of lawyer Wen Yiheng."
"Sister is excellent in her own right." Cheng Che said immediately, "I like you because sister is an excellent person in her own right. It has nothing to do with whose daughter you are."
"I know, Ache, so I love you." Wen Song leaned over and kissed his cheek gently, then said,
"My grandmother is someone who values academic performance very much. She said that my mother was always in the top three when she was young, so she wouldn't allow me to have bad grades. I obviously like painting, but she thought that painting would affect my studies, so she wouldn't allow me to learn it. She insisted that I take extra classes and learn to write essays. She was also worried at the time that I would not be able to get into university in the future."
Cheng Che smiled lightly and said to Wen Song, "Grandma, don't worry now. Our Songsong not only got into university, but also a prestigious university and ranked first in her major. She will soon be a doctorate student at Oxford."
"And now my grandmother is worried that I won't be able to get married because of my high education." Wen Song smiled mockingly, "Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Cheng Che immediately said, "Now I can stop my grandmother from worrying. I don't care about my sister's education. I will feel very proud if my sister has a high education."
"I'm not studying for the purpose of getting married, and my academic qualifications are not for the purpose of helping me find a good marriage partner." Wen Song felt a little uncomfortable after hearing his words, and said in a deep voice with a cold face.
"I know." Cheng Che quickly apologized, "I was just joking, don't mind it, I was wrong, sister, please don't be angry, okay?"
"I'm not angry." Wen Song smiled faintly and stopped arguing with him.
"If grandma makes my sister unhappy, why doesn't she live with Mr. Qiu and the others?" Cheng Che was a little puzzled.
"They have their own families too." Wen Song sighed somewhat dejectedly, "I live in my godmother's house. No matter how nice they are to me, I still feel like an outsider. When I was a child, I even asked my godmother why Sister Xuanyan has a father but I don't."
"Songsong..." Cheng Che felt very distressed after hearing her words. His eyes instantly turned red. He hugged her and said, "It's all in the past. We will have our own family in the future. Sister, we are a family."
He had the same idea as Wen Song. Every time he was at home, he always felt that his younger brother and his parents were a family, and he felt a little out of place.
Fortunately, now they have met each other and will no longer be the outsider.
"Ache, thank you." Wen Song raised his head and kissed him passionately.
If life after immigrating to Switzerland broke all the constraints she had before, allowing her to live the life she wanted and wear beautiful clothes that she had never worn before.
Cheng Che's appearance, after more than a decade, healed Wen Song, who was somewhat withdrawn and insecure in her childhood. She was no longer alone, and no longer needed to envy others for having a happy family. Cheng Che could give her all of these, and they could have them together.