We Are Destined - Let Me Pamper You

Even after drinking a few sips of water, Zeng Shihong's breathing was erratic. Watching him in this condition Xion got panicked, "Grandpa where is your inhaler?"

He went for pant pockets of Zeng Shihong to search for his emergency inhaler. "Dammit! It's not here… Grandpa…. ??"

Zeng Shihong was not in a condition to answer any of his questions. Breathing heavily he clutched his c.h.e.s.t as he pointed out with his finger towards the side table of bed. Xion noticed the direction of his finger and ran towards it to get the inhaler.

With trembling hands, he pulled the first drawer, in his anxiousness Xion used so much force that the drawer comes out causing its contents to fall down on the floor. With his sharp eyes, he saw the inhaler and ran back to his grandpa to give him medicine. Holding the inhaler he shook it a few times before bringing it to Zeng Shihong's mouth to let him have it.

With his left hand, Xion supported his grandpas' back while with his right hand he sprayed the medicine three times in Zeng Shihong's mouth.

Due to lack of oxygen Zeng Shihong's face has turned red, tears of the struggle for breath rolled down his cheeks, he was almost on the verge of collapsing when Xion sprayed the medicine in his mouth. "Inhale grandpa… inhale…. Right! Like this… Slowly…. It's Ok, calm down..."

Right after the first spray of medicine, Zeng Shihong took a deep breath, to fill his lungs with oxygen for which he was struggling just a moment ago.

After taking medicine he was still panting, but his struggle for breath stopped. He looked at Xion with drooping eyes, as he pushed the inhaler away from his mouth.

"No more?"

Zeng Shihong shook his head lightly, while still concentrating on his breath.

Xion looked at his grandpa worriedly but noticed that his face is no more as red as before. Taking a sigh of relief he wiped the beads of sweat with his sleeves as he sat down beside grandpa on to the couch.

"I'll call the doctor to examine you", he takes out his phone from his pocket, but before he could dial Zeng Shihong stopped him, "No… No need to call the doctor, I'm fine."

"But grandpa…"

"Xion… I said I'm fine…. Don't go against my wish…" Zeng Shihong looked straight into his eyes, "Not today, not anytime in the future…" He paused for a minute before saying further with a hoarse voice, "You are wise enough to understand what I'm talking about"

Xion pinched his glabella as he felt exhausted. After a minute of silence, he looked at Zeng Shihong to voice out his thoughts, "Of course I know what you are trying to say… But don't you think she has the right to know that you are her grandfather"

Zeng Shihong asked back firmly, "Right! She has the right to know that I'm her grandfather, but what next? What will you tell her when she will ask about her parents? Do you know where they are? Do you know who her father is? Do you think she will forgive me after knowing how terrible father I was… " As he asked these questions he did not remove his piercing gaze from Xion's face for even a minute.

Xion felt himself tongue-tied at Zeng Shihong's question, obviously, there are inevitable consequences if they dare to tell the truth to Xiu Mei. Unable to provide any proper explanation to his grandpa, he averted his eyes.

Grandpa scoffed, "No Xion… She will never forgive me after knowing how I treated her mother … Throughout her life, my daughter craved for my love, but I was such a dumb a.s.s that instead of reciprocating to my daughter's love, I never even bothered to take a second look at her face…. Her face reminded me of my beloved wife Yu Ying's death…. "

He banged his fist on to the couch in agony, "How can I be stupid enough to blame my own daughter for the crime she never did? Yu Ying died while giving birth to her, and I keep on cursing my own daughter every time I see her. Her existence kept on reminding me, that if she was not ever born, my wife would have been with me…"

"I gave my daughter everything that a person needs to live his life, but never provided her with the most important thing… love… Love of a father… Love of a family… I'm such a disappointment in the name of a father." Zeng Shihong covered his face with his hands, feeling helpless for the mistakes of his past, and called out for his daughter, "Zeng Ruo… I'm sorry for what I did to you… father is sorry, please return back to me."

Zeng Shihong removed his hand from his face as he looked at Xion and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Karma is a bitch… My karma is hitting back on me in the form of my granddaughter. Despite my daughter's several attempts to get my love and care that she always deserved, I never paid attention to her… Now I'm receiving the same treatment from her daughter…. As a punishment for my sins, my daughter's daughter is taking revenge for her mother unknowingly."

Suddenly there was silence in the room, both were lost in there own thoughts, when Zeng Shihong thought of something and held the hands of Xion desperately, crying in grief for his daughter and granddaughter, he pleaded him, "Godson… Please… Please, just find out where my daughter is! Bring her back to me… Maybe Little Mei might accept me after finding out about her mother."

This is the only ray of hope for Zeng Shihong to ask for forgiveness and get his lost family back. At the moment he is behaving like a desperate man who is willing to go to any extent to get the love of his dear ones.

"Mobilise all your resources and find out where is she…" He paused for a minute before continuing, "But most importantly we have to first find out the truth of that night 7 years back… Little Mei is the missing link of our answers... How did she ended up in that miserable condition, when we found her on the street… Why she keeps on saying that she is orphan when she is not… Just make her say something about her past...." grandpa clenched his fist tightly imagining that night 7 years back.

As he heard about the night 7 years back, Xion's eyes turned vicious, his whole aura changed into that of a deathly devil, "Don't worry grandpa…. Whoever dared to put our Little Mei in that condition, I'll myself give him a life that death will look more peaceful to him… ".