Chapter 2373 No Winner
"Is Xiao Chongyang willing to let go?" Gu Hanye asked.
My father shook his head, tapped off the ash from his cigarette, and continued, "Of course he doesn't accept it. He always believed that I forced your mother to stay with me, that she stayed with me only because she was pregnant with you. Even now, he probably still believes that."
When my father said this, his face looked bitter.
"Actually, that's what I thought at the time. I thought your mother had found out that Xiao Chongyang was married and she had my child, so she had no choice but to accept reality and be with me."
"Of course not!" Gu Hanye said anxiously.
The father was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You were still young at that time and didn't know anything. How could you be so sure?"
Gu Hanye told his father that when he was a child, he had asked his mother the innocent question that every child would ask - how did he come into being.
His mother answered him that if two people who love each other deeply sleep in the same bed over time, a baby will grow in their belly, which is a very natural thing.
After hearing this, my father's face showed happiness, but also more sadness.
"So your mother loves me..."
"Of course. My mother was waiting for you before she died."
My father's eyes turned red.
After calming down for a while, his father continued, "I later learned that when your mother found out that Xiao Chongyang was married, she gave up on him. She knew very well that Xiao Chongyang was an ambitious man and would never divorce Shen Qingxi unless he achieved his own goals."
My father paused and said, "If I had understood her feelings earlier, maybe I wouldn't have given others the opportunity to destroy our relationship."
Gu Hanye pondered for a moment and asked, "When you say someone else, are you referring to Chen Xiaofeng?"
"Yes."
My father closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were dark.
Then he sighed deeply and told Gu Hanye the rest of the story.
After his mother rejected Xiao Chongyang, his parents spent three happy and peaceful years. His father said that was the happiest time in his life, and he also thought that such happiness would last a lifetime.
But before the New Year that year, Xiao Chongyang returned to China and came to Haicheng to attend an exhibition. Gu Hanye's parents happened to be there as well, and his mother reunited with Xiao Chongyang at the exhibition.
The two exchanged greetings and seemed to have nothing suspicious, but that night, the mother went to the hotel to have a "secret meeting" with Xiao Chongyang. Someone took a photo of the mother entering Xiao Chongyang's room and sent it to the father.
The father was very jealous, but he did not confront his mother immediately. He thought there might be a misunderstanding.
When my mother came back, my father asked where she had been, but she lied and said she had gone to see her good sisters.
The father couldn't help but imagine the worst.
Even so, his father did not want to expose the truth. He believed that his mother still loved Xiao Chongyang. Once it was revealed that his mother was "secretly meeting" Xiao Chongyang, it might push her completely to Xiao Chongyang's side.
My father was depressed and went out to get drunk.
At that time, Chen Xiaofeng took advantage of the situation, accompanied her father to drink and talk, and forged photos and videos of the two having sex after being drunk, and sent them to her mother.
When my father came home, he found my mother packing her bags and asked her where she was going.
His mother doesn't want him to care.
Her father thought she was going to find Xiao Chongyang. At that moment, the dissatisfaction and jealousy that had been pent up in his heart burst out instantly.
They had a big fight.
During this quarrel, the mother mistakenly thought that her father had cheated on her with Chen Xiaofeng. In a fit of rage, she not only admitted to having an ambiguous relationship with Xiao Chongyang, but also said that she had never loved her father. She even said that Gu Hanye was Xiao Chongyang's child, and that she was conceived after meeting Xiao Chongyang before boarding the ship.
What my mother said was all false, but my father believed it.
Chen Xiaofeng also thought it was true.
This is why Chen Xiaofeng told Gu Hanye before his death that his biological father was not Gu Changhai, but Xiao Chongyang.
After that, the parents started a cold war and separated. Later, Chen Xiaofeng became pregnant and said that the child was her father's. This made the relationship between the two, which had finally eased, drop to freezing point again.
It's not that my father and mother have no chance to reconcile. In fact, my father has decided to forgive my mother, and my mother also plans to accept my father's illegitimate son with another woman, Gu Tianqi.
Unfortunately, both of them were waiting for the other to come to them first.
At that time, if Chen Xiaofeng wanted to marry into the Gu family, she would have to get rid of her mother. She gave her mother a drug that worsened her depression, turning her into a severe depressive disorder, and she eventually passed away in despair.
After the mother passed away, the misunderstanding between the two was not resolved. Later, the father went to test the parentage and found out that the mother had lied to him.
But at that time, my father still thought that my mother loved Xiao Chongyang, and she had an affair with Xiao Chongyang after marriage, but the child just happened not to be Xiao Chongyang's.
This misunderstanding lasted for many years, so much so that after my mother passed away, my father was unwilling to visit her grave.
Until recently, before Chen Xiaofeng went to prison, he confessed everything that happened to his father.
Gu Hanye’s aunt, who is also Gu Hanye’s mother’s younger sister, also told her father about her sister’s inner pain during her lifetime.
The father then realized that there had always been a misunderstanding between the two.
He misunderstood his wife and his wife misunderstood him.
They had never betrayed their marriage, and their father had never had sex with Chen Xiaofeng. The so-called illegitimate child was just the child of Chen Xiaofeng and someone else. When their mother went to the hotel to see Xiao Chongyang, she just hoped that Xiao Chongyang would stop targeting Gu Changhai.
But Chen Xiaofeng took advantage of his father's jealousy and made him mistakenly believe that Gu Hanye's mother and Xiao Chongyang were having an affair. At the same time, Chen Xiaofeng also made his mother believe that his father was cheating.
So after Chen Xiaofeng was imprisoned, her father never visited her even when she was dying.
He would never forgive this woman until his death.
On the contrary, his father did not have much hatred towards Xiao Chongyang, because no matter how insidious and cruel Xiao Chongyang was, he had never done anything to hurt Gu Hanye's mother.
My father said that in the story of the three of them, my mother was pitiful, Xiao Chongyang was unfortunate, and only he himself was hateful and pathetic.
If Chen Xiaofeng destroyed his life's happiness, he would never forgive her until his death, and similarly, he would not forgive himself.
If I hadn't held on to that useless self-esteem and taken the initiative to reconcile with my mother, perhaps the story would have had a different ending.
Sadly, he is gone, and there are no other possibilities for my father's life...
This is the story of Gu Hanye’s father and mother, full of regret and helplessness.
…
That day, before Gu Hanye left the old house, his father told him something.
Chen Xiaofeng was killed by Xiao Chongyang. Xiao Chongyang knew that this woman had destroyed Han Ye's mother's happiness and was the one who killed Han Ye's mother.
Xiao Chongyang doesn't like to go through legal procedures. He has his own system of justice, which is his way of avenging Han Ye's mother.
His father also reminded Gu Hanye to be careful of Xiao Chongyang. According to reliable information he had received, Xiao Chongyang was very ill and might not live long. When he was dying, he would definitely seek revenge at all costs.
Because Xiao Chongyang always believed that he and his son were the indirect murderers of Wanqing.
Then his next target must be the father and son.
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