Chapter 673 Past Events
"She is the person I like, not something that is not presentable. Old man, this is the only person I like. Do you really have to take your grandson's life?" Lu Tingchuan's eyes were red, which made people tremble with fear.
Mr. Li didn't care: "Isn't it just a lost child? You are a normal man, you can have as many as you want in the future."
"That's your great-granddaughter!"
"I don't recognize such a great-granddaughter." Old Master Li said coldly, "You are enough as an illegitimate child. There is no need for another one."
The words that Mr. Li said casually were like a few blows to Lu Tingchuan on the spot.
For so many years, he has been by Grandpa Li's side. You could say he was being insincere, but he was really good to Grandpa Li. He fulfilled all his filial duties on the surface. Even though he did this, in Grandpa Li's eyes, he still couldn't change the title of "illegitimate son".
Old Master Li looked at Lu Tingchuan's stiff face with amusement: "That woman named Shen Qing is no different from your mother. Do you want the child she gave birth to to be another you? Besides... you said I killed her, but did you see me use the knife?"
"If you're talking about the murderer who killed the child, weren't you the one? If you had the ability to protect her and the responsibility to believe in her, I wouldn't be able to kill her even if I reached out with my knife. Without that ability, what's the point of talking about love? I heard that you even made a specimen of that child and put it on a display stand in the hospital for people to see?"
When it comes to cruelty, Lu Tingchuan is definitely the worst. Even though the child was not his own, it was the child of the woman he loved so much. How could he have thrown the child into the specimen machine filled with formalin without panic or blinking?
Lu Tingchuan knew that he had no right to question Mr. Li. Mr. Li was just adding fuel to the fire, the doctors in the hospital were just handing over the knife, and the real executioner was him, Lu Tingchuan.
Just like what Mr. Li said, if he trusted Shen Qing, how could he let her suffer so much? It's ridiculous for him to say "love" now.
Love is loyalty, responsibility, respect, pampering, preference, and uniqueness. But what did he give Shen Qing? Endless pain and torture, fear all night long, and eyes blinded by tears.
"There's no point in discussing the marriage with the Li family. I won't marry Li Yun." After saying that, Lu Tingchuan turned around without hesitation.
"You don't want anything including the Li family's?" Old Master Li asked in a deep voice.
"No." Lu Tingchuan didn't look back, and didn't even stop walking. "Whoever wants it can take it. I don't owe the Li family anything."
When walking out of the Li family's old house, it started to drizzle. Lu Tingchuan looked up and a drop of rain fell into his eyes. It rolled out from the corner of his eyes and was still hot.
He raised his hand and wiped it with his fingertips. It turned out that it was not rain, but his uncontrollable tears. Lu Tingchuan turned around and glanced at the Li family's old house behind him.
He came here when he was five years old and has lived here for twenty-five years.
Over the years, he had been tired, cried, been abused, scolded, hungry, and in pain... He had endured them all, just to take away everything here.
Now that you give up, do you feel unwilling or regretful?
The answer is yes, but he has never felt more relaxed.
Actually, it is not necessary.
After Lu Tingchuan left, Mr. Li picked up a dumpling with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. After chewing it twice, he spit it out. It was cold and not tasty anymore.
"Lao He, did I do something wrong?"
The old butler replied, "What you just said to the Second Young Master is correct."
What he said was correct, but what he did was wrong. It’s just that no one dared to point it out and just let it happen, and innocent people suffered.
The old butler stood quietly behind Mr. Li, watching him lower his eyes and sigh, and there seemed to be more white hair on his temples.
The old housekeeper hesitated for a moment, then asked what was stuck in his heart: "Old Master, are you really planning to give up on the Second Young Master?"
"Give up?" Old Master Li closed his eyes, and figures flashed through his mind, finally focusing on Li Jingshen and Lu Tingchuan.
After a long while, Mr. Li Li said meaningfully, "Li Jingshen is beyond saving, but Lu Tingchuan can still be saved."
"How do you say that?"
"After Li Jingshen lost Shen Zhichu, he still had his own Li family. But think about what Lu Tingchuan still has? He has been working for the old Li family for many years. If he wants to give up inheriting the Li family, he will be left with nothing."
Old Master Li closed his eyes. "Even the smallest ants have dignity, let alone humans. They're so full of hatred, can they make it to the end? I told them not to get emotional, but they all ignored me. Who gets hurt in the end? They're hurting others and themselves."
The old butler fell into deep thought. Is it really a bad thing to be affectionate?
He couldn't help but think of Mr. Li's wife, the old lady.
Even for a family like the Li family, even if they don't have enemies, they will still be jealous of others. The old lady died in a kidnapping case. The other party demanded money in exchange for the person. When Mr. Li raised the money, what he saw was his wife who was raped and tortured to death.
He was only 35 years old when he died. After the old lady died, Mr. Li became a completely different person.
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