Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu-Chapter 989: Making collage (2)

Alix started at the mountain of photo albums and tons of stuff all neatly stuffed in various cardboard boxes.

"Where do I start with?" Ren Cuifen eagerly asked.

Why do I feel like I slipped in some old generation with all these hard albums…?

Ren Cuifen took one album and joined her side with glitter in her eyes.

"This album has pictures of when you were born."

We are going that far back? Alix wondered.

She had no plans of creating a collage from her day one on the earth but seeing Ren Cuifen’s sparkly and expectant eyes, she felt she couldn’t intervene.

Ren Cuifen turned the pages and brushed her palm along the pictures.

"This one is when you were just learning to walk. Luoyang used to secretly watch your struggle to stand and cry," she chuckled.

Alix peeked at her past bubbly face and raised her brow.

Naturally, the cuteness in me flows from my baby days, she inwardly nodded.

"This is a picture we took at the park when you were a year old. You always liked staring at the butterflies and birds and running behind them. Oh, oh and this one when you were getting your shots. Haha, you should have seen the doctor’s face. He was so impressed because you hardly cried during the injections. Oh and here we celebrated your first birthday."

Alix started at the family picture of the three with a table in front of them that had the cake on it. Their old house had every sort of birthday decoration hanging on the walls. Ren Luoyang and Ren Cuifen held bright smiles that clearly reflected the joy and excitement of their daughter’s first birthday.

Ren Cuifen took out a small pink dress from the box with beautiful ribbons stitched on the side.

"This is your birthday dress. I made it with my own hands," she sheepishly in slight embarrassment.

"I see. Very pretty."

Even through those old, slightly blurry pictures of the past, Alix felt their immense love towards their child.

Hmm…what did my birthdays used to look like, I wonder? Her head slightly tilted, feeling as if those distant memories were already fading away.

Ren Cuifen continued to show more pictures from the time Alix was two and three years old. She showed a small clip of paper that had an indecipherable drawing.

"You drew this for us when we gave you your first color box. You drew a butterfly here, hoho."

"You understand this…art?" The drawing looked like anything but a butterfly.

"Mothers understand everything," she nodded sincerely.

"No, you don’t. Your eyes are the same as mine which cannot figure out what this strange blob of art actually means. You don’t have to be so emotional."

"..."

Ren Cuifen promptly took out another album and flipped its pages.

"Hehe, then this is the time Mui was born."

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Alix sneered. "Ah there she is, my archnemesis."

Ren Cuifen slightly pursed her lips. "M-Mui…wasn’t always bad."

Though she would stand tough in front of Mui today, she couldn’t help but feebly defend her daughter.

Alix shrugged. "Nobody is bad when they are a baby."

Alix flipped through the pictures, witnessing the journey of the Ren family from a family of two to a family of four. She saw and felt the sisterhood form between her and Mui. She saw how Mui always followed her giggling wherever she went. She saw how Alix took care of and protected her little sister which went on from childhood till high school.

"Oh I think it should be somewhere here…"

Ren Cuifen rose to rummage through some drawers in Alix’s cupboard.

"Ah there it is!"

She quickly brought it to Alix and smiled softly. "This is a pair of earrings Mui gifted you on your seventeenth birthday. She was saving up all her pocket money to buy it for you."

Alix took it in her hand and brushed her finger along the delicate teardrop shaped earrings.

"I remember how you scolded her for spending all her saved up money to buy such an expensive gift for you. You looked like you were about to cry, haha."

"Nice choice…" she muttered under her breath.

To think that a sister who used up all her money to give me this gift is fighting for the CEO’s seat now…she raised her brow.

Alix found one picture of her high school graduation ceremony with a grinning Mui standing beside her. She was wearing the same uniform as hers, who had just begun her first year.

"She actually looks like a decent person here," Alix commented.

"See? I told you, right? You and Alix were very close as sisters…" Ren Cuifen felt emotional seeing the two sisters together.

"Then what happened to make her a white lotus out of nowhere?"

"W-white lotus…" she choked.

"That’s how she acted at the company party."

Ren Cuifen pressed her lips somberly.

"I still cannot believe that Mui could plot something like that…She never hated you like this!"

"Then the hate was just born out of nowhere?"

She let out a troubled sigh. "It all began when Mui started to…well…have a crush on one of your college friends."

Alix had no clue what she was talking about. She barely remembered anything about her college days.

"You used to hang out with a small group at your university. Sometimes, they would come to our house to visit us too. Dai Qigang was one of them too."

"Don’t remember him. What was the problem if she had a crush on him?"

"Because you totally protested that crush. You never liked Dai Qigang at all."

"But you said we were in the same friends group," she blinked in confusion. "Why would I be friends with a person I I don’t like?"

She sighed. "Well, it’s kind of complicated. The group was formed because of two other people who used to hang out in their own separate groups. Those two knew each other so through a mutual relationship, the two groups kind of merged over time."

"Huh…" Alix touched her chin thoughtfully. "Why did I not like Dai Qigang?"

"Because he was irresponsible and fooled around a lot," she coldly said, remembering him. "He wasn’t really serious about anything in life and so you thought that it wasn’t right for Mui to like him because he would end up hurting her one day. But Mui…" she said, troubled, "Well, she didn’t pay much heed to your opinion because she thought Dai Qigang was a good man. I mean I would say her crush blinded her."

Alix gave a dry look. "That troublesome age."

"At first, it wasn’t so bad but overtime she began to think that you kept coming between them because you liked Dai Qigang. So you didn’t want her to like him and cause problems," she released another sigh. "Luoyang and I never thought it would go this far but eventually, Mui began hating you."

Alix sneered.

Guess that naivety and stupidity was always there.

"By the way, which group did Dai Qigang belong to originally? The two people who knew each other."

"Oh well, one was a girl named Lu Jingyi. The other was Kang Yuze. They used to go to the same high school."

Alix stared at her. "Seriously?"

"Yes. And Dai Qigang was in Kang Yuze’s group."