Gu Jingxing walked in carrying a bowl of congee and a few steamed buns, followed closely by Li Zixiao with a solemn expression.

The two brothers knew perfectly well about Li Qingling's visit to Nie Yu's family, only to be falsely accused. As soon as she entered, Gu Jingxing quickly urged Li Qingling to eat something.

"Ling'er, you saved Nie Yu, and not only is he ungrateful, he even sides with your enemy in front of so many people. It's not worth it for you to go hungry for him! Right, brother?"

Gu Jingxing gestured to Li Zixiao, who, who usually disliked expressing his opinions on anything, surprisingly spoke up, "He's not a good person."

These few words alone have already revealed Li Zixiao's attitude.

“Exactly! I initially felt sorry for him after learning about his background, but the fact that he treated our sister like this shows that the rumors might not be false!” Gu Jingxing continued to talk eloquently, completely unaware of Li Zixiao’s constant reminders.

Li Qingling seized on the key point of that sentence and pressed further, "Brother, have you investigated anything about Nie Yu?"

Gu Jingxing was dumbfounded. After pausing for three seconds, he shook his head vigorously, "No, no, we didn't find anything! Right, bro?"

Li Zixiao looked disgusted, but had no choice but to cooperate with his useless younger brother and nodded earnestly.

But clearly, Li Qingling didn't believe their nonsense.

That night, while Li Zixiao and Gu Jingxing were both out of the room, Li Qingling sneaked in and rummaged through everything. Finally, she found a document in a yellow paper bag under her pillow.

“Brother Jingxing still has the same old habit, he likes to put all the important things under his pillow.” Li Qingling curled her lips smugly, then immediately ran back to her bedroom with the documents, locked the door, and began to read through them one by one.

But the more she read, the more her heart felt like it was being choked by a stone that seemed to grow bigger. The feeling of being unable to breathe and the throbbing pain became increasingly intense. When she finished reading everything, she realized that she was already in tears.

She never imagined that Nie Yu, who was only about the same age as her, had experienced so many shocking things that no one else could possibly know.

Rumors circulated that Nie Zhenyuan and Nie Yu's mother were deeply in love, but Nie Yu's mother died during childbirth, so Nie Zhenyuan was never able to accept Nie Yu as his son.

But that's not the case at all.

Nie Zhenyuan and Nie Yu were never in love on both sides.

In order to obtain Nie Yu's mother, Nie Zhenyuan used every means at his disposal, and even almost caused the destruction of his mother's family.

Later, Nie Yu's mother was forced to remarry, became pregnant and gave birth to Nie Yu. When Nie Yu was born, Nie Zhenyuan was fifty-two years old, which can be considered as having a child late in life.

The woman he had spent so much effort and resources to marry had even given him a lovely son. This would have been a cause for celebration for anyone, but not for Nie Zhenyuan.

Because when he married Nie Yu's mother, he never intended to stay with her forever.

Because of the grudges of the previous generation, Nie Zhenyuan has always harbored an indelible hatred for Nie Yu's mother's family. In order to take revenge, or rather, to satisfy the perverted thoughts in his dark heart, he constantly tortured Nie Yu's mother, who was still in confinement after giving birth. To prevent her from escaping, he even announced to the outside world that she had died and canceled all her documents.

From then on, Nie Yu's mother became Nie Zhenyuan's pet, who would coax her when he was happy and beat her when he was unhappy.

Nie Yu grew up in this environment.

When Nie Yu was five years old, he angered Nie Zhenyuan during a conflict.

Nie Zhenyuan casually picked up the sword hanging on the wall and slashed at Nie Yu.

To protect her son, Nie Yu's mother rushed over and took the blow for him.

Five-year-old Nie Yu watched her mother die right in front of her.

Li Qingling threw the documents aside, unable to bear reading any longer. She kept pounding her chest with her small fists, but it felt like a heavy stone was pressing down on her chest, making it hard for her to breathe.

She felt terrible, so terrible that she wanted to cry out loud.

Without even putting on slippers, she ran barefoot to her mother's room, crawled into bed, and pressed herself tightly against Gu Momo's body.

"What's wrong, baby? Can't you sleep?" Gu Momo asked softly.

But the next second, her arms were wet with tears, and the little one buried his head in her chest and started sobbing.

Gu Momo had heard about Nie Yu's situation and knew that Ling'er had been wronged, so she didn't ask any more questions. She simply reached out and gently patted her daughter's back, wanting her to cry her heart out.

"Cry, it'll make you feel better."

Li Qingling's small hands kept clutching Gu Momo's clothes, and her initial suppressed sobs turned into loud crying.

"Mommy, why...why is Nie Yu so pitiful? He lost his mommy when he was very young, and his daddy was so, so mean to him." Li Qingling cried until she was exhausted, and asked between sobs.

Gu Momo gently wiped away her daughter's tears and comforted her, "Ling'er, everyone has their own destiny, whether it's good or bad, these are things we can't control."

"So there really can't be any change at all?" Li Qingling asked softly, tears clinging to her long eyelashes.

This question stumped Gu Momo.

If a person's fate is truly unchangeable, then why do so many people still make great efforts even knowing they might fail?

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