Chapter 2371 Never Regret
When Gu Hanye heard his father's story to this point, he had already guessed the rest of the story.
"You stopped Xiao Chongyang from seeing my mother."
"Yes." My father looked at the old greenhouse downstairs with a deep and distant gaze, as if he had passed through the long river of time and returned to the past.
After a while, his father continued, "At that time, your mother and I were already legally married, but if she had met Xiao Chongyang, I'm not sure she would have stayed married to me. I offered Xiao Chongyang a sum of money so that he would disappear from your mother's and my world forever."
"He accepted it?"
My father shook his head. "No, he insisted on seeing your mother. He wouldn't give up until she rejected him in person. But I disagreed. I decided to keep him under control for the time being and have my men watch him. We'll discuss everything after the wedding..."
My father paused for a moment, clasping his fingers together.
Gu Hanye could see that this memory was very difficult for his father.
"If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. Just tell me what happened between you and your mother later."
"It doesn't matter. At least I need to let you know how Xiao Chongyang and I became enemies."
Gu Hanye did not interrupt his father again and let his father continue speaking.
"Perhaps Xiao Chongyang has already understood that I will never let him see your mother no matter what. So, with the intention of making him feel bad and me unhappy, he told me a lot of details about his time with your mother..."
His father frowned and looked at Gu Hanye: "I don't want to repeat those words to you, but you should be able to imagine it."
Gu Hanye was stunned for a moment and nodded. Men know best what words can hurt other men. He could probably guess the words that his father was unwilling to repeat.
If Jiuyao had an ex-boyfriend and she had sex with that man, and that man used this matter to provoke him, Gu Hanye would probably want to kill that guy.
Just imagining it made Gu Hanye jealous and unbearable.
My father said, "I had my men untie him. I gave him the chance to fight back, but he didn't. I vented my jealousy and anger and broke his leg. If your uncle Qi hadn't stopped me in time, I might have killed him. Later, I had him taken to the church bell tower. I said, 'You don't believe Wanqing married me voluntarily, so why not just stay here and watch carefully?'"
When his father said this, he looked at Gu Hanye with bitterness and trepidation: "Did you not expect me to be so despicable?"
Gu Hanye shook his head: "If the same thing happened to me, I can't guarantee that I would do better than you, so... I won't judge."
My father smiled, his eyes showing relief but also guilt.
"I've been thinking a lot lately. Maybe what I did to him back then is what made Xiao Chongyang what he is today. I also wonder if I hadn't been so selfish in standing in the way of him and your mother, if I hadn't broken his leg and locked him up in the attic to witness your mother and I's wedding, maybe his mind wouldn't be so twisted and dark, and I wouldn't have brought you this fatal disaster..."
Gu Hanye thought for a moment and said to his father, "This is just a hypothesis. Besides, if you had let him meet my mother, I wouldn't have been around, would I?"
His father looked at him with deep affection in his eyes. "Yes, that's why, even though I've lived with guilt all these years, I've never regretted it. If I were given the choice again, I would probably do the same thing. The years I lived with your mother and you were the happiest days of my life. Whenever I think of those days..."
His father looked at him more gently, "As long as I see my Ah Ye gradually grow up and become such an outstanding person, I feel that everything is worth it. Even if I have to live with guilt for the rest of my life, I am willing to do it..."
Gu Hanye had never heard his father praise him so directly.
His father was always strict and had high expectations of him.
No matter what grudges they had in the past, at this moment, hearing that his father was proud of him and did not regret giving birth to him at all, Gu Hanye's heart was suddenly filled with an unprecedented sense of happiness.
"What happened next?" Gu Hanye pondered for a moment and continued, "That child... I don't think I've ever seen him."
His father just mentioned to him that his mother was actually pregnant when she got married, but where was the child?
Gu Hanye had never seen it, nor had he heard his mother mention it.
The father sighed, "That child was born with a defect and miscarried at four months. Your mother blamed herself and felt it was all her fault. She was heartbroken for a long time. She said she had already thought of names for the boy: Hanye for the boy and Hanlu for the girl. I said it was okay, we could still give them those names when we have children in the future."
When my father said this, he smiled rather sadly: "It's a pity that your mother didn't accept me at that time and didn't pay attention to what I said."
Gu Hanye never thought that his name would come from this...
At the same time, he also thought of Xiao Hanlu. It seemed that when his mother and Xiao Chongyang were in love, she had been looking forward to life after having a child. Xiao Chongyang later named his adopted daughter Hanlu, probably because he had never been able to forget his mother...
"But my mother finally accepted you. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here, right?"
After Gu Hanye finished speaking, he realized that he was actually comforting his father. He had never thought that he would have a heart-to-heart chat with his father like a friend. He felt incredible and wanted to thank Jiuyao again. If she hadn't encouraged him to come, he wouldn't have been able to understand so much about his father...
My father said self-deprecatingly, "I haven't completely accepted it either. When your mother was pregnant with you, she was... kind of half-hearted."
“…”
The father cleared his throat, and the father and son were suddenly caught in an awkward atmosphere.
The father said, "Didn't you ask me why I wanted to do a paternity test? There were some misunderstandings behind it. Do you want to hear more?"
Gu Hanye also cleared his throat, "Well, go ahead."
When the father was talking about how he and the mother met and fell in love, he wanted to repeat every word to Gu Hanye, but when he told the story later, he was no longer so detailed and only talked about the key points.
Maybe there are some memories that are not suitable to be told to him, or maybe my father just wants to keep them in his heart forever.
After his parents got married, his father gave Xiao Chongyang some money and told him to leave Haicheng forever after his leg injury was healed.
At that time, Xiao Chongyang seemed to have become a different person. He gladly accepted the money and agreed to leave.
Fearing that he would go back on his word, his father sent someone to secretly watch him and discovered that while Xiao Chongyang was treating his leg injury, he met Shen Qingxi, the daughter of the Shen family, in the hospital.
After his leg injury healed, he went to Europe with Shen Qingxi, got married, and settled there.
He took over his father-in-law's two companies and his business grew bigger and bigger.
In this way, with the help of the Shen family's power, Xiao Chongyang transformed from a surgeon into a celebrity aristocrat.
They thought that this person would never appear in their lives again.
Unexpectedly, three years later, Xiao Chongyang returned to Haicheng again and began to take revenge on Gu Hanye's father.
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