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Adeline didn’t speak until Marcella finished speaking and looked at her with expectant eyes.
“I will not forgive you for what happened in the past, but I will also not hold a grudge. I have my own life to live and I don’t want to waste any more time on this.”
After listening to her words, Marcella remained silent for a long time. Finally, she sighed deeply and then took out a diary from her bag.
Adeline recognized this diary at a glance.
This was the first gift she gave him with the money she earned from working, when she and Hugo had just started dating.
At that time, Hugo was particularly excited. He said he would definitely use this diary well and write down every bit of their lives, so that their
children could see it in the future.
Let their children know how loving their parents were.
“After you left, Hugo went a little crazy. He writes in this diary every day, but I don’t know what exactly. When he came to find you that day, he said he would show you the diary once he brought you back. Now that he… So I took the liberty of bringing you this diary.”
“If you can, just take a look.”
After speaking, Marcella got up and walked into Hugo’s hospital room.
Only Adeline remained sitting in the chair, looking at the diary in her
arms.
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After some time had passed, she finally raised her hand and slowly opened the yellowed diary.
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“On May 1st, 2020, this was the first day that Aline and I officially started our relationship. This diary was also the first gift she gave me. I was very happy and excited. I will cherish this diary and love her wholeheartedly. I will never let her down.”
For the next three years, Hugo lived up to his words.
For the next three years, the diary was filled with his deep love for her.
From a single rose to fireworks filling the sky.
And this love came to an abrupt end on the day they eloped.
“On September 11, 2023, I knew that my parents were extremely against our relationship, but I never expected them to oppose it to the point of threatening suicide. Perhaps knowing my predicament, Aline took the initiative to break up with me, but I was unwilling and unable to let go of these three years of feelings. If she really leaves, I will go crazy.”
So, that day he eloped with her, but in the end, it failed.
Afterwards, the diary was blank for a few more pages.
Then there was no time to record, there was pain, there was struggle, there was unwillingness, and there was anger.
Adeline knew that during this time, Hugo’s parents were pressuring him and Steffie to have a baby.
Adeline flipped through a few more pages and a line of large text spanned across two whole pages.
“Aline, I’m sorry.”
She knew that on that day, he had bowed to his parents and compromised.
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From then on, her nightmare began.
For a year and a half, the diary was filled with blank pages.
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It wasn’t until the day Hugo came to the small mountain village to find her that his handwriting finally appeared again in the diary, in response to her farewell letter.
“Aline, I’m sorry. I know you have suffered a lot over the years, and I always thought of asking you to endure a little longer. At first, I just wanted to take care of her quickly, get her into bed, and have her give birth to the child so we could be free. But after the child was born, my heart started to change. After all, that was my first child. The thought of her never seeing me as a father in the future made me soft, so I agreed to spend more time with this child. Then my parents thought the daughter was not enough, and wanted me to have another son with her. She pretended to want to help me, and as soon as she finished her confinement, she pulled me into bed. My heart softened again. A woman who doesn’t care about status, who sacrifices her body for me to this extent, made me feel guilty, so I wanted to treat her better these days. But in the end, all my softness turned into blades stabbing at you, which is why you left so decisively. I often wonder, if that day I didn’t compromise, would we have a different outcome now? We would be married, have children, grandchildren, go anywhere you wanted, instead of the way things are now. However, I know it’s all too late. All I can do now is try my best to make it up to you. What if one day you soften your heart too?”
The hour hand of the wall clock ticked around, and Adeline finally closed the diary in her hands.
Just then, Marcella and a group of people came out pushing Hugo’s mobile bed.
Marcella came this time to bring him back to New York for treatment, after all, the conditions there are better and there is a greater chance of him waking up.
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And perhaps today was their final meeting with Hugo.
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Adeline handed the diary back to Marcella. “Aunt, if one day he wakes up.”
“Could you please help me pass on a message to him? Let’s turn the page on everything that happened in the past, and from now on, let’s be like two parallel lines that will never intersect, never to meet again.”
After saying that, she no longer looked at Marcella, nor did she look at Hugo lying unconscious on the mobile bed.
With determined steps, they walked in the opposite direction.
I have experienced my own brand new life.
Hugo, we parted ways here and never saw each other again.
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