The old man was silent for a while, then he sighed, as if he had expected this day to come.
"If you have anything to ask, just ask!"
"Ji family, besides Ji Yan, were there any other children back then?"
The old man's heart tightened, and he suddenly held Tang Jingyuan's hand tightly: "You know? She is still alive, right? Is the child still alive?"
Lin Tao quickly stepped forward to hold the old man and comfort him.
"I don't know about the child you mentioned. But I found someone who is related to Ji Yan. Ji Yan has brothers and sisters, right?"
After a while, the old man came to his senses and nodded with red eyes.
"This is all the fault of my past sins! If I hadn't been possessed by a demon, I wouldn't have... harmed the Second Young Lady."
Tang Jingyuan and Lin Tao looked at each other. The Ji family was so famous in Kyoto back then, and everyone thought that they only had one daughter, Ji Yan. Unexpectedly, the Ji family actually had a second daughter.
"The Ji family has another second young lady?"
Tang Jingyuan was a little surprised, and vaguely guessed something in his heart.
There are many illegitimate children in wealthy families who are not allowed to see the light of day. I am afraid that the second daughter of the Ji family is one of them.
"The second young lady is the child of the master and his first love, and is only a few days younger than the eldest young lady. Unfortunately, the second young lady had a bad fate and lost her mother at birth, so the master had no choice but to bring her back to the Ji family. She grew up with the eldest young lady, is smart and sensible, and the master loves her very much."
But often such lovable children are also easily envied.
Comparing the two children, the seeds of jealousy quietly took root in her heart. After all, they were not her own children. Mrs. Ji looked at this daughter more like an enemy.
It was fine when they were young, but the older these two children get, the bigger the gap becomes.
The Second Miss was intelligent and a quick learner, quickly pulling away from Ji Yan. She was already far ahead of Ji Yan in terms of academics alone, and all of this eventually turned into a sharp blade that pierced the Second Miss.
"On the day of the eldest daughter's coming-of-age ceremony, they learned that the Ji family and the Gu family were engaged. However, the master doted on the second daughter and wanted to marry the more outstanding second daughter to the Gu family. This aroused the eldest daughter's jealousy, and her eyes were filled with hatred when she looked at the second daughter."
Ji Yan was only eighteen years old that year, but she already had a ruthlessness that was not suitable for her age.
Just before the two families were about to meet, Ji Yan tricked her sister into getting on the human traffickers' car, and with her own eyes pushed her sister into a pit of fire from which there was no escape.
After making sure that the person had left, she returned to the Ji family and staged a self-torture trick to make the Ji family believe that her sister had been kidnapped.
Seeing that the time for the agreed meeting with the Gu family was approaching, Gu Zhiwei had no choice but to let Ji Yan accompany them and ordered his men to go find the person. However, the person had already gotten into the traffickers' car, so there was no way to find him.
"All this happened right under my nose. I wanted to tell you, sir, but it was the eldest daughter who knelt before me and begged me, weeping and begging. I softened my heart and accepted her money again. There was no news of the second daughter again. Because she was an illegitimate daughter, sir, in the end, didn't dare to speak out, and the matter was left unresolved."
A few years later, the Ji family encountered a crisis, and Ji Yan's parents died in a car accident. In the end, only Ji Yan was left alive.
"I once thought, is this all retribution? Just like me, I did something against my conscience back then, so now my son treats me like this."
At this point, the old man was already in tears.
He remembered something and looked at Tang Jingyuan: "You just said that you found the second young lady's child, is that true?"
Tang Jingyuan nodded: "It shouldn't be wrong. But..."
Lu Yunxi's current character...
Tang Jingyuan talked a lot with the old man, and only then did he learn that the reason why Ji Yan allowed another woman to give birth to a child for her husband and raise the child by her side was not because she was generous, but because Ji Yan was born infertile.
Congenital absence of the uterus, although rare, does exist.
With this kind of body, except for the inability to bear children, everything else is the same as that of an ordinary person. However, as the mistress of the Gu family, if she cannot have children, it is a fatal problem.
Ultimately, it's all because of selfishness.
When Tang Jingyuan came out, it was already completely dark. Looking at the lonely old man leaning on the bed, he felt a little uncomfortable.
When leaving, Tang Jingyuan looked at the dilapidated nursing home through the car window and still wanted to do something.
"Lin Tao, I remember JK has a charity fund under his name, and he can provide a self-service nursing home."
Lin Tao immediately understood what Tang Jingyuan meant: "Don't worry, Third Master, I'll take care of it when I get back."
He responded, leaning back in the back seat as exhaustion overwhelmed him.
When I think of the scene where the old man was abused by his own son, I feel a lot of emotion.
When he returned to Bixiwan, he saw from afar a glimpse of light emanating from the luxurious house, and the gloom in his heart instantly dissipated. At the entrance, the occasional pink glow from the house transformed into wisps of warmth, flowing into Tang Jingyuan's body from all directions, instantly boosting his spirits.
Lu An Ning put down the tablet, walked towards him with a smile, and the two hugged each other in the living room.
"Is it cold?"
Tang Jingyuan shook his head and shifted his gaze to Lu Anning's tablet: "Why are you looking at this wasteland?"
Lu Anning pulled Tang Jingyuan to sit down and said, "This place is the property of the Gu family that was burned down that year. No one has taken care of it until now."
When their eyes met, a hint of surprise flashed across Tang Jingyuan's eyes, as if he had guessed something.
Lu Anning hugged Tang Jingyuan, his eyes showing determination: "I've thought about it, I'll go there and take a look tomorrow."
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