After a while, Lin Qingyan looked up and said to him, "Come with me to Jinshi Prison to see Lin Heping."
"Okay." A fleeting glint flashed in the man's eyes; he knew his wife wasn't so easily fooled.
He returned to his father's study, picked up a copy of today's morning paper from the table, and saw that the front page headline was about the awards ceremony that took place yesterday at the Great Hall of the People in the capital. His wife was the only woman among the ten award recipients, and she stood out among the other recipients.
Lin Qingyan didn't want to disrupt the harmonious atmosphere of her family over this matter, so they continued making dumplings. In the afternoon, Lin Qingyan finally asked Lu Zhengting to accompany her to Jinshi Prison.
When they met Lin Heping in the meeting room, Lin Heping had a shaved head and looked very old. He seemed to have aged more than ten years in just one year, as if he were a completely different person.
Lin Qingyan sneered at him, "You're not sentenced to life imprisonment, is it really necessary for you to become like this?"
Lin Heping's face was devoid of any expression.
"Qingyan, you can't have come to see me for anything good, can you?"
"I think you're quite clever and self-aware. You've never been kind to me for a single day. Why would I come to you with good news? I came here specifically to tell you something: your younger brother Lin Hejiang is back. But as soon as he came back, he said I was his biological daughter. Now I understand why you were so indifferent to me and allowed a stepmother and two stepchildren to bully me. It turns out you're not my biological father at all; Lin Hejiang is."
Upon hearing his words, Lin Heping immediately became agitated, "Nonsense! You're talking nonsense, and so is he. You are my biological daughter, my child, what does it have to do with him?"
“No, he said you were infertile. To save face and to keep my mother with you, you schemed against her and made her consummate the marriage with him. He left here because of a job transfer, and you were afraid he would come back and acknowledge me, so you kept him away.”
"Nonsense, utterly absurd!" Lin Heping said, "That beast was a good-for-nothing who always caused me trouble. I broke off all ties with him a long time ago. He did something shameless, almost raping the neighbor's girl, which is why he went to jail. What job transfer? He didn't have a job at all. Besides, he was already in jail before I married your mother. Don't listen to his nonsense."
Lin Qingyan grabbed his wrist and immediately discovered that he was not infertile at all.
I believe what you say.
It's much easier for her to come here and ask Lin Heping questions than for them to investigate Lin Hejiang themselves.
She looked at Lin Heping and sneered, "So you've severed ties with your own brother too. Looks like you're destined to have no family."
Lin Heping shook his head. "No, Qingyan, when it comes to family, no one is closer than my daughter and me."
Since he went to prison, he has been reflecting on all the things he did in the past.
When he married Lin Qingyan's mother, he always knew he was not good enough for that woman because she had amnesia and couldn't remember who she was, which made her easily manipulated by him.
After marriage, she was very capable at work. They worked in the same factory, where she was a very important drug researcher, while he was just an ordinary employee. They were the least favored couple by others because of the inequality in their jobs, and he was often ridiculed as a gigolo.
Because of the other person's assertiveness at work, he felt inferior to the other person at home.
Later, that woman died, and he married Fang Huilan.
Although Fang Huilan was a divorcee with two children, she was gentle, considerate, and obedient to him, allowing him to regain his dignity as a man.
When he saw the daughter left behind by his ex-wife, he was reminded of his ex-wife.
He didn't want to live in that woman's shadow, nor did he want his daughter to become as outstanding as her mother.
In addition, he really liked Fang Huilan. From the beginning, Fang Huilan was very obedient to him, and later, he was able to go along with Fang Huilan in every way.
After Fang Huilan entered the family, he never cared how she tortured and abused Lin Qingyan.
Gradually, he also discovered that his daughter was becoming less and less intelligent, and keeping an unintelligent daughter was even more useless.
But who would have thought that this simple-minded daughter would actually ruin their whole family?
After he went to prison, Fang Huilan divorced him, Lin Sisi severed her father-daughter relationship with him, and Lin Guanghui never came to see him.
He raised other people's children, and no matter how good he was to those two children, he was ultimately unreliable.
He regretted ignoring Lin Qingyan in the past, and now that he sees Lin Qingyan doing well, he regrets it even more.
If he had focused on protecting his daughter back then, allowing her to grow up under his warm wings, they wouldn't be in this situation today, and he wouldn't be left without any relatives by his side.
"Qingyan, Dad knows he was wrong a long time ago. Dad shouldn't have treated you that way. I know it's too late now, and it's too late for anything I say. But we are, after all, blood-related father and daughter. Qingyan, Dad doesn't ask for anything else, I just ask that you come to see Dad occasionally in the future, okay?"
Lin Qingyan shook her head: "It's too late. I'll treat you the same way you treated me back then. That's fair."
She turned to look at Lu Zhengting, "Zhengting, we should go."
"Qingyan, can you really bear to abandon your father completely?"
"Lin Heping, listen carefully, I have never had a father."
She left the meeting room without looking back after she finished speaking.
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