Sweet like Wine: Love Your Dimples Even More-Chapter 63 - 39: Her Name Is Diwu Qiwen, She Left Home 19 Years Ago
"I thought I could talk freely in front of many people."
"I thought I wouldn’t be too nervous."
"I was wrong."
"I hope you don’t mind that I couldn’t adjust at the moment and hid again in the soundproof glass room I’ve secluded myself in for five years."
"Isolated from the world, and at ease with myself, it’s as if I’m merely talking to myself."
"Today, I will say a lot of things that have never been mentioned in my heart."
"Gordon Sterling said, the girl who jilted me fifty times now makes me famous."
"Gordon Sterling said he has twenty million followers, and I am only slightly inferior to him."
"I always thought Gordon Sterling was tricking me."
"I have never, face-to-face, met any of my fans."
"Seeing all of you here for the first time, with so many people, such loud cheers, so many support placards."
"I was wrong."
"I want to apologize to you, to everyone who watched the live broadcast, for my gaffe at the grand event’s concluding moment."
"Getting drunk at an event like that is a very unprofessional behavior."
"Please forgive your Jilted Brother for his little whims."
"I remember that the final cup at the event was blended from 90-year-old Mountai with new wine."
"A very special expression."
"Special enough to touch my memory."
"Making me think of my mother."
"I still remember, at seven years old, the year my dad and mom argued, it was their last argument in my memory."
"I also remember, that day, mom opened two bottles of Mountai from different periods and blended them together."
"Mom said it was a special expression, Dad said it was a brainless waste."
"That was 19 years ago when Mountai wasn’t as exorbitantly priced as it is now."
"Even so, the nearly hundred yuan price at the time was considered a luxury."
"They argued fiercely, and I, eating at the dining table, slowly became a bit at a loss."
"Maybe dad and mom eventually noticed the fear written on my face."
"They found a room far from the dining room, closed the door, and continued arguing."
"Our childhood home wasn’t large, even the furthest room couldn’t isolate the intense argument."
"I hated such arguments, hated that even covering my ears couldn’t block the sound."
"I picked up the wine glass mom left on the table and chose to take a sip."
"That year, I was seven. That year, I drank alcohol for the first time. That year, I lay in the hospital for two days."
"After being discharged, I never saw my mom again."
"Dad said mom left. She took my three-year-old sister; she didn’t want me."
"Dad said if I, like my mom, didn’t like him, didn’t like this home, I could leave too, go as far as I wanted."
"From then on, my dad never spoke to me properly again."
"I resented my mom, if she was going to leave, why didn’t she take me too?"
"But I’ve always been grateful to my mom; if she could only take one, my sister’s happiness is my happiness."
"The year I was seven, she had just turned three."
"She early learned to compliment, using all the beautiful words she’d heard on me."
"She would shout ’Hurrah’ to me, say I was the greatest brother in the world, would disassemble her most beloved toys for me."
"She was heaven’s most beautiful gift, the warmest light in the world."
"I thought, someday, I would see them again, my sister and my mom."
"But why haven’t I seen them again, along with the happiness they took away?"
"As a child, I couldn’t understand my mom."
"I didn’t know why she drank so much."
"I didn’t know why she mixed all kinds of alcohol."
"I didn’t know why she couldn’t get along with dad."
"I also never knew what use my taste and smell inherited from my mom would have."
"Until I went to college and encountered the guiding lights in my winemaking career."
"Now I know my mom wasn’t as lucky as I was; she grew up in a time and space where no one could lead her to a life of winemaking."
"Talent is a very peculiar existence."
"Some talents are evident to everyone, sought after, envied."
"Some talents, if not discovered, might go unnoticed forever."
"Even causing the talented person to feel troubled by their uniqueness."
"Now I know mom left feeling helpless and unaccepted, with struggles no one could understand."
"I once couldn’t understand my mom, but now I can."
"I truly miss my mom."
"So, if I’m really famous, if I’m really the influencer second only to Gordon Sterling with the most followers."
"Then, can I please ask you to help me find my mom?"
"My mom, her name is Quinn Fairmont. She left home 19 years ago."
"My mom has the same sharp taste and smell as me, and never gets drunk no matter how much she drinks."
"If my mom, like me, can be easily knocked out by a cup of 90 Mountai blended with new wine, maybe she can, like me, drink to forget her troubles."
"I still remember, the day mom left, the language teacher assigned the homework to memorize ’Little Tadpole Looking for Mommy.’"
"In a pond, a group of little tadpoles swam happily, big heads, dark gray bodies, tails swaying."
"I always thought as long as I never gave up searching, I’d be striving like the tadpoles, surely finding my mom."
"I was wrong."
"The little tadpoles asked the carp, asked the turtle, asked every possible contact to finally find their mom."
"But I never thought to ask you, ask everyone I know and those who know me."
"Have you ever seen my mom?"
"My mom’s surname is Quinn, she left home 19 years ago."
"I’ve grown from a tadpole to a frog, and I want to follow my mom, daily catching pests."
"Have you ever seen my mom?"
"My mom’s name is Quinn Fairmont, she left home 19 years ago."
