The father and son sat facing each other on the sofa, and the atmosphere was solemn.
"What... have you heard?" Shi Zhengyang asked tentatively.
Shi Heng looked directly into his father's eyes. "Jiuchen's curse before his death: 'Love must kill the one you love, and seeking will never bring you back', is that true?"
Shi Zhengyang's face turned pale in an instant, and his lips trembled slightly.
"Twenty years ago..." Shi Zhengyang's voice suddenly became hoarse, "When your mother was kidnapped..."
Shi Heng noticed that his father's hands were shaking.
This usually decisive man now looked ten years older.
Shi Zhengyang's voice became lower and lower, almost squeezed out from between his teeth.
"When I regained consciousness, I discovered... all the kidnappers... had died at my hands..."
His hands trembled uncontrollably, as if he were back in that bloody night.
"Hundreds of people, I... I didn't let any of them go..."
The air in the office seemed to freeze.
Shi Heng saw tears welling up in his father's usually resolute eyes.
"The most terrifying thing is..."
Shi Zhengyang closed his eyes in pain. "I don't remember how I did it at all. It's like... like my body is controlled by another person..."
"Afterwards, your grandfather locked me in the basement for three whole months."
Shi Zhengyang smiled bitterly, "If your mother hadn't been crying and begging for mercy outside every day, I might have..."
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Shi Heng's back.
He suddenly understood what his grandfather had intended.
That dark and damp basement was not used to punish my father at all.
But to protect him.
Protect him from hurting more people if he loses control.
Especially...his beloved wife.
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