Just as the two left, Jiang Minghe entered.

"Song Ting, I'm here?" Jiang Minghe said, eagerly anticipating Song Ting's reaction.

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Song Ting gave him a cold look.

"I knew you were here." Song Ting didn't give Jiang Minghe a friendly look either.

There were only the two of them in the kitchen.

Jiang Minghe watched as Jiang Jinyao and An Lude walked out the door.

He said, "I heard you're sick. Why don't you come back to Beijing with me for treatment?"

He came this time because he had received a letter from Song Ting a few days ago, explaining that she had a serious illness and that her daughter would need his care in the future. She also told his daughter, Jiang Jinyao, that she had a boyfriend and hoped that he would not interfere.

My first reaction upon hearing this news was one of extreme anger and guilt.

He was annoyed because his daughter didn't consult him about dating, and he felt guilty because Song Ting had raised his daughter alone all these years.

“She will die when she’s meant to, whether she gets treatment or not. I only have one request: please respect Yao Yao’s choice.” Song Ting remained unmoved by Jiang Minghe’s concern and continued making dumplings with her head down.

Jiang Minghe frowned and asked, "What's so good about this kid? Those people in the army don't get to spend much time with Yao Yao. If a war breaks out, they could easily be killed."

Song Ting stared at him with a very serious expression, and Jiang Minghe, who had prepared his words, couldn't utter the rest.

Song Ting didn't want to hear Jiang Minghe continue, so she warned him with a sharp look while making dumplings.

"Over the years, I have let you and Yao Yao down, but I am also her father, and I have been genuinely thinking about her." After a long silence, Jiang Minghe finally expressed his thoughts.

“These days, everyone is busy surviving. What’s wrong with Anlude? It’s a hundred times better than you.” Song Ting’s words struck Jiang Minghe’s heart.

"You..." Jiang Minghe wanted to retort, but when he remembered Song Ting's physical condition, he couldn't say anything.

After struggling with the decision for a long time, I skillfully washed my hands and then came over to help make dumplings.

Song Ting didn't say anything; if he wanted to do it, she'd let him.

The braised pork ribs in the pot were almost done. After finishing wrapping the dumplings, Song Ting washed her hands and put the pork ribs into a bowl.

Take the vegetables out of the water.

They each went about their work in silence.

Jiang Minghe glanced at Song Ting every now and then, and seeing that she didn't say anything, he felt suffocated.

After he finished making the dumplings, Song Ting ruthlessly kicked him out of the kitchen.

Jiang Jinyao and An Lude left the courtyard and went to the small shop in front to buy soda.

"Won't it be alright to leave your parents inside?" Anlude asked worriedly.

Jiang Jinyao said, "Don't worry, we definitely won't start arguing."

Jiang Jinyao deliberately let them be alone together. Although the divorce was a big deal back then, it was mainly because her father refused to divorce. Her grandmother was overjoyed when she saw that her mother wanted a divorce, and she got involved and forced her father, Jiang Minghe, to divorce her mother.

The reason for the divorce was also due to the imbalance of love the father showed to the children.

To be precise, it was the grandmother's care for her two granddaughters that was unbalanced. She kept telling her father that she should treat Jiang Jinyao better. Her father thought so too, believing that the grandmother would definitely treat her biological granddaughter better and not like the adopted one. But on the contrary, the grandmother treated the adopted Jiang Jinjing better.

So every time her father came back, he would buy Jiang Jing extra treats, thinking that since she wasn't his own granddaughter, her grandmother wouldn't take such good care of her.

On the contrary, Jiang Jinjing was well taken care of by Jiang Minghe's mother because her grandmother disliked Song Ting, her daughter-in-law, and also disliked the daughter Song Ting gave birth to.

During the Great Famine, everyone had very little food. Jiang Minghe's elderly mother would only feed Jiang Jinyao once a day. If Jiang Jinyao was at school, she would hardly be given any food, because she would have food at school.

This resulted in Jiang Jinyao, at a young age, going without food for a long time and nearly starving to death due to malnutrition.

It was only when he was rushed to the hospital that Jiang Minghe realized how badly his mother had treated his own daughter.

Busy with work, Song Ting rushed to the hospital after hearing the news, and the first thing she did was to divorce Jiang Minghe.

Later, they went through a divorce, and the two even became bitter enemies over the issue of child custody.

Over the years, as her father, he has sent money every month and nutritional supplements regularly, but for Jiang Jinyao, she no longer needs the belated fatherly love.

This was simply his guilt and self-blame acting up.

If he truly loved her, he wouldn't have gone seven years without seeing her once. If he loved her, he shouldn't have adopted Jiang Jinjing in the first place.

After An Lude accompanied Jiang Jinyao to buy drinks, they sat on a small stool under a big tree in the yard in front of their house.

Jiang Jinyao looked up at the sky.

Jiang Jinyao couldn't possibly not know that her mother was sick. Even if her mother could keep it from her, there were still medicine bottles in her room and her colleagues from work living in the same alley.

There will always be people talking about it.

You'll always find clues!

Her mother didn't want her to know, and Jiang Jinyao pretended not to know either.

She looked up at the sun and felt that everything had passed so quickly!

Tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Why are you crying?" An Lude was always attentive to Jiang Jinyao's emotions. Seeing that she was crying, he quickly took out a handkerchief and handed it to her.

She subconsciously wanted to wipe Jiang Jinyao's tears, but fearing criticism and damage to Jiang Jinyao's reputation, she hesitated, handing the handkerchief instead to Jiang Jinyao.

"I just haven't looked up at the sky in a long time, and this bright light irritated my eyes, making them water," Jiang Jinyao sniffed and smiled as she explained to An Lude.

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