"Why?" Chen Nian'an finally asked, "Why?!"
"Why did you do this? Why did you hurt Grandpa? Why did you hurt Mom? Why, Dad?"
"No, I don't!"
Chen Yuanshan rushed forward excitedly, but was bounced back by the restraints. He struggled for a long time under Chen Nian'an's quiet gaze.
Finally, he sat back down in vain, his face dead silent, completely quiet.
In the interrogation room with only a small skylight, even the air felt suffocating.
The incandescent light bulb above his head reflected on the cold interrogation table. He stuffed his hands tightly into his hair, resting his elbows on the table, looking down at the small circle of light on the table as if he didn't dare to look up.
After an unknown amount of time, he said sadly, "Nian'an, it was Dad's fault..."
"I'm just possessed by a ghost. I think your mother and your grandfather look down on me, a noble son from a poor family, and despise me for having no power or influence."
"Ha." Chen Nian'an just thought it was so funny, so funny.
She made a short, sarcastic sound in her throat and looked down at this complete stranger.
This is the male figure who supported her childhood with his broad shoulders, her father.
"If I looked down on you, how could Mommy be so fearless and stay with you despite Grandpa's objections?"
"She doesn't care about family background, power, or anything."
Chen Nian'an used to always hear his grandfather sighing, and when he asked him why, his grandfather said that when his mother was young, she was willing to give up everything for that illusory love, even giving up him as her father and refusing to return home.
In the end, it was all in vain.
"Hehe, she doesn't care." Chen Yuanshan looked up suddenly, tears still condensed on his face, looking a little gloomy at the moment.
He said coldly: "She doesn't care. Why doesn't she want to take the Zhong family's shares so that I can reopen a company and join the Zhong family? My precious daughter, do you know what people outside say about your father?"
As if he had thought of something, the expression on Chen Yuanshan's face became colder and colder. The muscles in his mouth trembled as he imitated the ugly faces of the world:
"Hey, isn't this the pretty boy who married into the Zhong family? They say marrying a young lady means he'll rise to prominence quickly. This class leap means he saved us twenty years of struggle, hahahahahahahahahahaha..."
"Look, the Zhong family?" Chen Nian'an sneered heavily, looking at her bloodless face. His voice was like a ruthless knife, stabbing his own daughter's heart again and again.
"Everyone talks about the son-in-law of the Zhong family, but who remembers me, Chen Yuanshan?"
"Your last name is Chen, and everyone respects you as the eldest daughter of the Zhong family. You are the apple of the Zhong family's eye. Isn't that ridiculous..."
At that moment, he seemed to have gained a morbid pleasure, like the pain in his flesh and blood twisting wildly, and he couldn't tell whether he was torturing Chen Nian'an or scraping his own flesh.
Chen Nian'an closed her eyes, then opened them again and looked at him quietly. She asked softly, "Do you love your mother?"
Is there love mixed in with those sensitive, inferior and complex hatreds?
Looking at your mother lying in a pool of blood on the passenger seat with her eyes open, did you ever linger on her when you turned around and fled?
"..." Chen Yuanshan suddenly fell silent.
[Although at first, I just wanted to get a large sum of money to start a company as big as the Zhong family and prove myself, that's all...]
【but】
"It doesn't matter anymore." Chen Yuanshan leaned back in his chair exhausted, his throat so dry that he could almost smell blood.
"It doesn't matter anymore. I'm sorry for you and your mother."
"Go away and pretend your father is dead."
[In the car accident a year ago, with your mother.] Chen Yuanshan closed his eyes tightly.
【I’m sorry, An An.】
Chen Nian'an left.
In the city in autumn, the weather always changes suddenly. When I walked out of the city bureau, the sky was already foggy and rainy.
Shi Man's ashes were placed in the cemetery overnight. From then on, the empty tombstone had a soul.
"Mom, this is Nian'an, my love. I brought her to see you."
Under the rain, Gu Boyan held a black umbrella and half-crouched in front of the tombstone, gently touching the photo on the stone tombstone with his knuckles.
Chen Nian'an placed the white carnations in front of the tombstone and looked up at the photo of a gentle woman with similar eyebrows and eyes to Gu Boyan and a smile on her lips.
This is the first time I meet the parents.
Chen Nian'an was very nervous.
"mom."
Chen Nian'an suddenly held Gu Boyan's hand tightly and raised it up. The latter raised his eyebrows in confusion and looked at her sideways.
Amidst the puzzled gazes of those around him and the gentle gaze of the woman in the photo, Chen Nian'an stammered and said solemnly:
"I will definitely treat Gu Boyan well in the future. You... just leave him to me without worry."
Chen Nian'an pursed his lips, looking serious.
Half an hour later.
Gu Boyan looked at Chen Nian'an, then looked at Zhong Yuzhen's gentle and loving face on the tombstone.
He leaned close to Chen Nian'an's ear and whispered in annoyance: "You just said my lines, what did I say!"
Chen Nian'an was unconvinced and glared at him, "First come, first served, I said that first!"
She thought of it based on her own ability!
"Hehe, think about it yourself!"
“…”
Gu Boyan turned his head and looked at the photo of Zhong Yuzhen smiling, as if he saw himself and Nian An bickering.
Afraid that his mother-in-law would despise him for being childish, Gu Boyan anxiously recited a defense in his mind.
[Mom, I'm not usually like this. I'm very steady! I never argue with Nian'an and always give in to her.]
“…” Chen Nian’an turned his head in disbelief.
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