He was proud and seemed out of place in the countryside.

Until he met Ye Yun's mother.

She was a bright and dignified girl with long, black hair. She was tall and beautiful, and she was also educated. She made him feel as if he had found a kindred spirit in the dark mountain valley.

They quickly fell in love.

Meanwhile, his mother in Lin'an had been working hard to transfer him. In order to get him out of the mountains, his mother filed a lawsuit and successfully divorced his father, who had gone abroad. As a result, he no longer had to bear the responsibility for his father's family, and soon he received a transfer order to return.

He had planned to go back first, settle in, and then pick up his beloved girl.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to Lin'an, his mother, in order to quickly consolidate his position, arranged a marriage between him and someone of equal social standing, forcing him to marry someone he did not like.

He was depressed all day long, thinking that he was going to let down the girl he loved.

Until one day, his girl came looking for him.

He was shocked and overjoyed to see Ye Xia, who was heavily pregnant, appear in front of him!

He had hope again!

He happily took Ye Xia to meet his mother, resisted the arranged marriage, and even took Ye Xia to have the most advanced ultrasound technology.

Even if it means using the child in his womb, as long as it gets him to marry Ye Xia!

However, he ultimately underestimated his mother's obsession with marrying someone of equal social standing.

Even though they all thought Ye Xia was carrying a boy, his mother still disagreed with him marrying a girl from the mountains.

They even forced him to marry someone of equal social standing.

On the day of the wedding, he had no idea what was going on. They tricked him into going home, and he only found out after he finished eating that it was his wedding banquet. His mother even used some means to secretly get his marriage certificate.

He dared not tell Ye Xia the truth.

He secretly kept Ye Xia as a mistress, coaxing and deceiving her, thinking he would keep her like this for the rest of his life.

However, the truth still came out.

His nominal wife found their place, made a huge scene, and then grabbed the girl he deeply loved and beat her severely...

"It's my fault for letting your mother down..."

"She's a strong-willed and principled person, yet she was dragged by the hair and beaten while learning that she was the other woman in someone else's marriage. This was an immense humiliation for her... If I hadn't lied to her, she wouldn't have been so unable to accept it and driven herself crazy."

"I'm the one who wronged her..."

Mu Jingsheng's eyes were red and swollen, and he stared deeply at the woman beside him with a guilty look. A deep sense of remorse welled up in his eyes. It was his indelible sin and the forgiveness he could never obtain.

Not only could Ye Yun not forgive him, but he himself could not forgive himself either.

"Don't cry..." Ye Xia touched Mu Jingsheng's face tenderly when she saw his red eyes.

She didn't know why Mu Jingsheng was crying, but her heart ached for him. With reddened eyes, she gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, her gaze filled with worry and heartache.

Even though she was mentally impaired, she still remembered that the man in front of her was her deep love.

Mu Jingsheng held Ye Xia's hand with remorse, rubbing it against his face repeatedly, tears of regret streaming down his face.

Ye Xia became even more anxious.

She stood up nervously and hugged Mu Jingsheng tightly, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and patting his back repeatedly, coaxing him softly in a gentle voice.

"Then what?"

Ye Yun was picking out the fish bones when, without realizing it, Ye Xia's bowl was already piled high with fish meat.

Mu Jingsheng wiped away his tears and continued, "Then... at first, I didn't know that your mother's mental state had deteriorated because of this. After that woman came to cause trouble, your mother only had a miscarriage. Later, I discovered that your mother had developed a habit of talking to herself."

"I took her to see a doctor and learned that she had suffered a mental breakdown and was ill."

“After that, I assigned someone to take care of her. But Xiaoyun, your grandmother has been sending people to keep an eye on your mother and me, trying to break us up. I was too busy taking care of myself to do anything else. Finally, one day, I came home and found that your mother was gone…”

"When I found her again, her stomach was empty."

"I then sent people to search for the child's whereabouts. They all said that a crazy woman gave birth to the child outside, and the child's chances of survival were slim. I didn't give up and even sent people to Yejiagou."

"Unfortunately, I went to the wrong place."

“The ultrasound machine that was imported from abroad said you were a boy, and all these years, I’ve been looking for a boy.”

"Now I understand."

"Your mother went back to Yejiagou back then, and she gave birth to your child there all by herself, that was you..."