The place where Sheng Weide met Gan Tang was at the old house.

The garden trees in the courtyard were in bloom, adding much vitality to the old house, but making the man before her appear even older. The old wooden steps creaked as Gan Tang followed Sheng Weide into the study.

In a hidden compartment, Sheng Weide took out a wooden box and handed it to Gan Tang, saying, "This belongs to his biological mother. Give it to him."

Gan Tang held the heavy object in her hands. "Why don't you give it to him yourself?"

"How could he possibly still want to see me?"

Sheng Weide suppressed a sob and took a bank card from a drawer in his study, placing it on the wooden box. "This is my savings over the years. It's not much, only a little over 100,000 yuan. Take it and use it in an emergency. The decision on his case has been made; he's been dismissed from his public office."

"Why should I!" Gan Tang felt a chill run through her, and aggrieved, "Can't you help him?"

“He did fire a shot, so there was nothing wrong with how we treated him. We were upholding the dignity of the law, not personal gain or loss. That was also the outcome he wanted.”

Even the way they speak is so similar. Blood ties cannot be changed, but so many years of living together is an irreplaceable bond. This world has not only the inheritance of genes, but also the inheritance of education.

Gan Tang asked, "Do you still hate him?"

“How could I hate him? He’s just a child who knows nothing. It’s all my fault. His mother entrusted him to me, but I used him to deal with his biological father.” Sheng Weide frowned, lost in endless self-blame. “Fu Yuanshan is right. I am also a despicable and shameless person.”

“No,” Gan Tang shook her head. “Over the years, you didn’t let him live in hatred, but instead educated him into a loyal, kind, and righteous person. The effort and suppressed hatred required during that time are beyond what ordinary people could do. You saved him!”

"But I still took advantage of him!"

“You are a human being, not a god. Why do you demand that you be a flawless person?” Gan Tang felt a pang of sadness when she thought of Mo Huaixing. “He really doesn’t want to see you, not because he hates you, but because he hates himself.”

Bad people always blame others, while good people always blame themselves.

Sheng Weide unconsciously shed tears, "Child, Yi'er's name was not given by me, but by his biological mother."

"What did you say?" This time, Gan Tang was truly shocked.

Sheng Weide said, "When I found her back then, she didn't know that Fu Yuanshan was a drug dealer. I couldn't bear to tell her because she was heavily pregnant. When I saw her again, she was giving birth alone in an abandoned house, and I was the one who delivered her baby. The conditions were too bad, and she suffered a postpartum hemorrhage and couldn't be saved."

I don't know who told her, but she already knew the man she married was a drug dealer. She begged me to take the child away, saying she didn't want her child to be a bad person like his father, so she named him Ziyi.

Therefore, the meaning of his name is to play chess with his son and not follow in his father's footsteps.

Gan Tang never expected that Sheng Weide was even more upright and kind than she had imagined.

...

It had just rained, and it was a bit chilly. Gan Tang, wearing a trench coat, waited outside the prosecutor's building, her eyes slightly moist from the wind. Just as Mo Huaixing came out, the sun rose, its golden light shining upon him.

He was still wearing a white shirt, clean and bright.

"Why are you crying?" Mo Huaixing reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"It was the wind!" Gan Tang said, hooking her arm around his and pouting, "I'm hungry, let's go eat!"

“Okay!” Mo Huaixing took her cold hand and walked on the wet ground.

The phone rang; it was Mo Huaixing calling.

"Hello, is this Mr. Sheng Ziyi? This is Changjiu Law Firm. A Mr. Fu has left you a transfer agreement."

After having dinner, the two went to Changjiu Law Firm.

The lawyer produced a transfer agreement, saying, "Mr. Fu Cheng wishes to transfer a school under his name to you. It will take effect immediately upon your signature. The school is in a prime location in the new district, and its initial estimated value is one hundred million. Selling it would bring you a substantial income."

At this point, the lawyer paused, "But there are three or four hundred children inside, all of them orphans. I hope you will consider this carefully."

Mo Huaixing looked at Gan Tang, seeking her opinion. Gan Tang said, "I'll listen to you."

Mo Huaixing patted Gan Tang's head and signed his name on the transfer agreement.

Leaving the Changjiu Law Firm, Gan Tang asked in surprise, "Shouldn't the assets under my brother's name be seized?"

Mo Huaixing said, "Since it's a place that takes in children, the money you use, brother, should all be clean money."

It was still a bit early, so the two went to the staff quarters next to Jinhai University. For Fu Cheng and Lin Shuang's child, the only family left in this world were Lin Shuang's parents.

There was no one inside. Seeing that it was getting dark, the two waited at the door. Everyone in the school's staff quarters knew each other. An elderly woman came down from upstairs, and seeing that the two looked unfamiliar, asked, "Are you looking for Professor Lin?"

Gan Tang said, "We are Lin Shuang's friends, and we have something to discuss with Professor Lin."

The old lady asked in confusion, "Since you are Xiao Shuang's friends, don't you know that she has severed ties with her parents?"

Gan Tang said awkwardly, "I know they don't get along."

“This time it’s different. This time it was Xiao Shuang who brought it up herself.”

"Lin Shuang suggested it?" Gan Tang asked, puzzled. She had been so careful in trying to please her parents and go home, how could she possibly sever ties with them?

The old lady said, "It was about a month ago, right here. Xiao Shuang was originally very happy to invite her father to the Jinhua Awards ceremony, but then they started arguing for some reason."

Xiao Shuang seemed to say something like, "You just wanted to prove how terrible it would be if I didn't listen to you. Are you satisfied now?" She also said something like, "Don't worry, whether I live or die is none of your business."

Anyway, they had a pretty big argument; I've never seen Xiao Shuang so angry before.

At this point, the old lady sighed, "No wonder Xiao Shuang is angry. She's such a good child. I don't know what the old couple is dissatisfied with. At their age, they still want to have a child. I'm not talking to you anymore, I have to go pick up my grandson."

Seeing that Gan Tang looked unwell, Mo Huaixing pulled her downstairs and said, "Let's find a place to sit first, and we'll come back later."

As the two walked out of the community gate, they saw Professor Lin and his wife approaching. Professor Wu's belly was protruding, and it looked much larger than Gan Tang's.

"In two more months, we'll have a son." The two walked past Gan Tang happily. Gan Tang wanted to go forward, but Mo Huaixing pulled her back.

“There’s something I haven’t told you. After Lin Shuang passed away, we called Professor Lin and his wife to claim her body, but they denied that it was their daughter.”