Xing Zhaoming arrived in Lanyuan the next morning. He couldn't buy a plane ticket, so he took the train. He hadn't slept all night and couldn't sleep.
When he arrived at the Gao family home, Gao Mingcheng was having breakfast with Gao Hongfei and Ying Rongrong.
When Gao Hongfei and Ying Rongrong saw Xing Zhaoming stride in, they immediately stood up and called out, "Uncle."
Gao Mingcheng ignored him completely and continued eating.
As soon as Xing Zhaoming entered the room, he looked around anxiously, searching for someone. When he couldn't find the familiar figure, he became impatient and looked at Gao Mingcheng, asking, "Where's Zhaozhao? Isn't she up yet?" After saying that, he went to look for her in the room.
Ying Rongrong quickly stopped her, saying, "No, Uncle, Grandma doesn't live here."
Xing Zhaoming frowned: "If she doesn't live here, where does she live?"
Gao Mingcheng finished his meal slowly, wiped his mouth, and said, "Of course, she'll stay at her own home."
Xing Zhaoming's face darkened as he looked at Gao Mingcheng: "Isn't this her home?"
“This isn’t the place yet; her home is in Xiaogaozhuang,” Gao Mingcheng said.
Xing Zhaoming subconsciously turned to leave for Xiaogaozhuang, but quickly realized something was wrong. Wasn't Xiaogaozhuang already submerged in the reservoir?
He strode up to Gao Mingcheng and grabbed his collar: "Are you kidding me?"
Gao Mingcheng pried his hands off: "Why would I play games with you? What's the point?"
Xing Zhaoming glared at Gao Mingcheng: "Why didn't you tell me about Zhaozhao's situation? Why did you keep it from me all this time? I'm her own brother."
Gao Mingcheng looked at Xing Zhaoming with a cool gaze: "Get this straight, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that Zhaoming doesn't want to tell you. Don't forget, you two met in the capital."
Xing Zhaoming recalled the young and vibrant girl he had met in the capital, who was always at odds with him. His heart tightened. No, that wasn't right. Was it because he never gave her a kind look that she was unwilling to acknowledge him? But he didn't do it on purpose, and he didn't know either.
Xing Zhaoming felt extremely wronged.
"How can we find her?" Xing Zhaoming asked Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng shook his head and said, "There's nothing we can do; we have to wait for her to come to us herself."
"Can we contact her if we don't have her contact information? Doesn't she usually take photos with her phone?" Xing Zhaoming asked.
Gao Mingcheng rolled his eyes at Xing Zhaoming: "She doesn't have a signal there."
Xing Zhaoming: "..."
Xing Zhaoming simply plopped down at the dining table: "Then I'll wait here. She'll come looking for you eventually." After saying that, he casually asked the nanny to bring him breakfast. He had barely eaten anything since yesterday afternoon.
Xing Zhaoming gulped down his soy milk, glared at Gao Mingcheng, and said irritably, "Zhaozhao threw a tantrum at me and refused to acknowledge me, and you just indulged her without even giving me a heads-up. You just watched me argue with her. When did you become so mean, Gao Mingcheng?"
"Zhao Zhao is throwing a tantrum?" Gao Mingcheng sneered. "In your eyes, is Zhao Zhao such a person who doesn't know what's important?"
Xing Zhaoming was stunned: "Isn't that right? Then why is she unwilling to acknowledge me as her family?"
"Go back and ask Chen Wei yourself," Gao Mingcheng said.
Xing Zhaoming frowned, puzzled: "Why are you bringing Weiwei into this? What does this have to do with Weiwei?"
Gao Mingcheng's face suddenly turned gloomy and extremely ugly.
Gao Hongfei and Ying Rongrong instantly fell silent, not daring to even breathe.
Xing Zhaoming sensed something was wrong, and his expression turned serious. He asked, "What exactly happened?"
"Chen Wei never told you, did she? Well, after doing something like this, how could she dare to tell you?" Gao Mingcheng said in a cool tone.
Xing Zhaoming had a bad feeling and subconsciously clenched his hands: "What's wrong?"
“After Xiao Hongling passed away, Zhao Zhao wrote a letter to the capital to ask Chen Wei for help,” Gao Mingcheng said.
Xing Zhaoming's pupils contracted, and he suddenly stood up, shaking his head, unwilling to believe it: "This is impossible. If Zhaozhao really wrote to Weiwei, Weiwei would not have stood idly by. You are lying."
Gao Mingcheng stared at him coldly, unblinkingly: "Zhao Zhao told me this herself. Do you think Zhao Zhao is lying to me?"
Xing Zhaoming opened his mouth to try to refute, but it felt as if a large hand was gripping his throat, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.
He knew Zhaozhao; Zhaozhao wouldn't lie about something like this.
But he still couldn't accept that the woman he had lived with for almost sixty years could be such a cold-hearted person, able to turn a blind eye to his only sister's plea for help.
“That’s impossible, I don’t believe it. You don’t know Weiwei. When she heard about Zhaozhao’s accident, she was even more upset than I was. She blamed herself for not caring more about Zhaozhao. She even fell seriously ill because of it.” Xing Zhaoming kept rambling on, as if trying to convince Gao Mingcheng, and even more so, trying to convince himself.
"If she really cared about Zhaozhao, would she have ignored her for five years? Also, was her serious illness really because she was heartbroken over Zhaozhao, or was it because things went beyond her expectations and she was afraid of being found out and blamed by you, so she got sick from the fright?" Gao Mingcheng asked.
Xing Zhaoming stood there, his face ashen, speechless, muttering to himself, "This is impossible, this is impossible, I don't believe it, I don't believe it..."
"Do you know why Zhaozhao didn't acknowledge you as her father?" Gao Mingcheng continued to ask.
Xing Zhaoming looked at Gao Mingcheng with a blank expression.
“Because she herself can’t accept Chen Wei as her sister-in-law. If she acknowledges you as her sister-in-law, you will definitely find out something is wrong. At that time, what Chen Wei did will not be able to be hidden, and you definitely won’t be able to tolerate it. She doesn’t want to destroy your family. She doesn’t want you to end up with a broken family in your old age because of her,” Gao Mingcheng said coldly.
Xing Zhaoming's vision went black and he almost fell over. Fortunately, he managed to grab a chair next to him and regain his balance, so he didn't look too disheveled.
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