Ji Zhinan looked at the old man and asked, "Don't you know that too? But you are still alive?"

"I'm the only one who survived, and it was your mother who did everything she could to push me out of that pit."

Thinking back to what happened more than 20 years ago, everything seemed like a movie.

Everything that happened at that time repeatedly refreshed his middle-aged understanding of the world, letting him, who had never experienced the big world, know that there was such a dark side to this world...

"Nannan, that's a deep pit. Grandpa can't watch you jump in... Be good, forget all the bad memories after today. You are the old man's granddaughter, the true second daughter of the Ji family. As long as you want it, the company and the inheritance are all yours..."

Tears streamed down Old Master Ji's face, and his voice dropped two notches: "They originally belonged to you..."

The company and the inheritance are all hers...

Ji Zhinan grinned.

This was never what she wanted.

"You said you were the only one who survived in that deep pit. What about them..." Ji Zhinan added with trembling lips: "My...father and mother."

She tilted her head back to prevent her tears from falling.

Taking a deep breath, she continued, "Are they dead too?"

“…” Old Master Ji was silent.

Perhaps, silence was his most direct answer to Ji Zhinan.

Ji Zhinan grinned and wanted to laugh, but as he grinned, he found that he couldn't laugh at all.

Her eyes were frighteningly red, but she was still stubborn and refused to let herself shed a single tear.

The emotions seemed to have accumulated to the extreme, and at that moment... they exploded.

Ji Zhinan walked around the lounge twice in annoyance, grabbed the cosmetics on the dressing table and threw them to the ground.

She growled, "Why do you think I can't do it? You haven't even let me try! If you can climb out of that hole, I can do it too!"

She giggled again, with a hint of eerieness in her voice.

"Why would you let me forget about it? Why would you let me be like a fool and ignore it for the next few decades? I'll be a fool until I die!"

Two lifetimes... Her life experience has haunted her for two lifetimes!

She will never let it go. She is betting on this life that God has given her. Even if there is an abyss ahead, she has to jump in to find out whether the pit is a fire pit or a water pit!

“That’s because I’ve been there!”

The old man's scolding instantly calmed the irritable Ji Zhinan.

“…”

"I've lived through a year of living a life worse than death. I was in constant fear, wandering from place to place. The road ahead was dark and endless..."

The old man still couldn't bear to think about how he managed to get through those tormenting days. If it weren't for Nan Nan's mother protecting him, he would have died more than 20 years ago. How could he have been blessed with such a good life for so many years...

Looking at the quiet Ji Zhinan, the old man took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "If you still regard me as your grandfather, then forget everything. As I said before, I promised your mother that I would take you away from the darkness and never step into it... Even if you hate me for the rest of your life, I will never utter a word to you again."

The old man closed his eyes in pain and refused to say another word.

………………

Hilton Hotel exterior door——

Everything that happened in the venue was blocked by the door and had not yet been heard outside. A black Rolls-Royce stopped at the hotel entrance, and the male waiter at the door bowed 90 degrees to greet them.

[I don't care, I wrote until the male protagonist appeared, and I didn't break my promise! ]