Chapter 2299 The Truth

There was half a volume of her father's diary, and Aying and the young master spent an afternoon reading almost the entire thing.

When I closed the diary, it was almost dusk.

The setting sun shone into the house, casting a warm orange-yellow hue. Aying sat on the chair in front of her father's desk, imagining the scene when her father wrote these diaries, and tears welled up in her eyes again.

The young master stood behind her, in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at her with pity, and came over to wipe away her tears.

Aying put her arms around the young master's waist. They didn't say anything at this moment, but at this moment, they understood each other better than ever before.

After reading my father's diary, almost all the doubts in my mind were answered.

Those regrets that could not be let go can finally be put aside.

Ah Ying got to know her parents again, and understood every choice they made. Of course, she also got to know the young master's parents...

Aying's father Mu Guanglin, mother Shu Qing, the young master's father Chu Mochuan, and the young master's mother Qiao An, the four of them were once close friends, even friends for life and death.

Because Qiao An was the youngest, they affectionately called her Qiao Mei.

Although her father did not write in detail in the diary, Aying could tell from those words that their fathers were close friends for life and death, and that the young master's father had almost died in the wild in order to save her father.

The young master had always felt guilty about his parents' betrayal of their friends, but there was another reason for this.

Back then, the young master's father borrowed a huge sum of money through Aying's father to invest in a project. Later, the project ran into problems and he suddenly disappeared.

The huge loan fell on Aying's father because he was the guarantor.

To outsiders, the young master's father hid with his family in order to escape huge debts and responsibilities.

But after reading the diary, Aying and the young master understood.

Back then, what the young master and his family were hiding from was actually the frame-up and hunting by his uncles.

While evading pursuit, his father's good friends and shareholders who supported his father were actively investigating the illegal and criminal activities of the other two brothers.

The young master and his family only need to hold on for another half a month and avoid being found, and things will turn around.

But at this time, the young master's father took the initiative to contact the bank staff.

According to his diary, he wanted to withdraw all the funds in his foreign bank account to repay Aying's father.

Unfortunately, just as the check was sent to Aying's father, the young master's family was discovered by the other two brothers of the Chu family.

Afterwards, the young master's uncle mercilessly attacked his own brother.

The young master's family was destroyed, his parents were tragically killed at home, and he and his sister were hidden under the bed and luckily survived.

Later they were found by the housekeeper and secretly sent to Mu Ying's parents.

As for the check, Aying's father did not withdraw it in the end. He left the money to the young master, who could withdraw the money when he came of age.

As for the fact that Aying's father embezzled depositors' money to repay bank loans, it is true.

My father lived his life with integrity, but this incident was the only thing he could never let go of.

Although he later sold his assets to make up for the embezzled funds, this incident became the biggest stain in his life. Even after several years, he would feel ashamed whenever he thought about it.

Later, Aying's father and mother moved to Ningcheng, but they always secretly helped the young master and his sister.

The brother and sister followed the housekeeper and went abroad to avoid the limelight, which was achieved with the help of Mu Ying's parents and another good friend.

Then Aying was born, and Aying's family gradually returned to a peaceful life. Perhaps because her father was busy with work, his diary became short, sometimes just one or two lines.

During this period, Aying became the protagonist of her father's diary, which recorded all her interesting childhood stories.

She called dad for the first time, she ate candy for the first time, she could draw, she could write, she could sing to mom and dad...

Then she was five years old, but she still acted like a little third party and insisted on sleeping between her parents.

Mu Ying realized that her father, who she had always thought was strict and cold, actually cared so much about her.

She could have grown up happily in that warm little home.

The young master and Xiaoying could have grown up peacefully, but when Mu Ying was six years old, the young master's whereabouts were discovered. The young master's uncle was afraid that he would avenge his parents in the future, so he decided to cut the weeds completely.

The uncle burned down their house, which completely changed the life trajectory of the brother and sister.

As to how his younger sister survived, his father did not write in detail in his diary. All he knew was that after the young master passed out due to excessive shock, Aying's father's men took advantage of the chaos to rescue his younger sister Lingying and the housekeeper, and later forged the bodies at the fire scene.

Because the small village did not have a sound public security system and no one really cared about these three foreigners, no one investigated the cause of the fire, and no forensic autopsy was performed. Instead, it was directly determined to be an accidental fire and the bodies were buried.

Unfortunately, the butler was seriously injured and did not survive, and Ling Ying was also hit on the head by a heavy object during the fire and fell into a coma.

After this, Aying's father also wanted to find the young master and take him away.

Unfortunately, the young master had already left with Xiao Chongyang at that time, and Aying's father only knew that someone had adopted him.

After much inquiry, Aying's father finally found clues about the young master and learned that he was kidnapped by a man named Xiao Chongyang.

Aying's father did not rush to find the young master, but first carefully investigated Xiao Chongyang.

From a person who used to be Xiao Chongyang's personal assistant, it was learned that Xiao Chongyang had set his eyes on the Chu family's pie and had laid out a big game. He deliberately gave the clues about the young master and Ling Ying to the young master's uncles.

Xiao Chongyang's plan was to kill the housekeeper and sister by borrowing a knife, then rescue the young master, adopt him, and raise him like a puppet. Then, seven years later, let the young master help him take over the Chu Group.

Aying's father knew that the young master was safe for the time being, so he decided to take a long-term view of the matter.

During this period, Xiaoying was sent to the Ling family, woke up, and was adopted by the Ling family.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye.

Mu Ying is nine years old and Xiao Ying is thirteen years old.

When I read this, there were only a few pages left in my father's diary.

She read every word nervously, even wishing she could read more slowly, hoping that the diary could continue to read forever, which would mean that her father was always there.

But she also knew that when she was nine years old, it was the darkest year of her life. Her parents left her forever in that year.

In addition to feeling sad, she also wanted to know more urgently what happened before her parents died.

Her father's diary indeed answered all her questions.