"But she gave birth to me, yet never loved me, just constantly feeling disgust and hatred towards me. Is this meaningful?" he said, his face buried deeper in her embrace.
"Perhaps she... just couldn't cope with the death of that fiancé, feeling guilty towards him and her own self-reproach, which turned her into this? Of course, it's just my guess." Mabel Quinn said.
"Do you think if that fiancé hadn't died, everything would have been different?" His voice carried a sort of vagueness, gently dissipating in the air.
She thought for a moment and said, "Probably, if your mother's grudge with your father was all because of the fiancé's death, then... if the fiancé's illness had been cured at that time, whether your mother stayed with him or with your father, she shouldn't have died."
He remained silent for a long time before saying, "Do you think people really have another life?"
