It's important to understand that people of Warren's stature rarely have control over their personal relationships. For the sake of family interests, most heirs choose to form alliances through marriage, creating powerful alliances to consolidate the family's influence.
Especially considering the devastating blow the Warrens family suffered back then, they needed a strong woman to stabilize them, yet Li Yuan remains single to this day. It's not hard to imagine how much pressure he has faced regarding marriage over the years.
The woman he'd cherished for twenty years was now telling him that their meeting and love were all a conspiracy and a deception. Anyone would be devastated.
Qin Yu quickly took a sip of tea to calm his nerves: "There must be something going on here. If Luo Ling really didn't love her father-in-law, why would she keep Zhi Nan here?"
Gu Yibei fell silent for a long while before speaking: "Because at that time, Ferenc's people did not withdraw from China."
Back then, after Li Yuan left China, Ferenc's side still had people in China.
"That's not right." Qin Yu noticed a problem: "If the Luo family really joined forces with that Ferenc guy, why are they still being hunted down?"
They're all allies now.
“Because of Grandpa Ji.” Gu Yibei looked at him seriously: “Back then, my father-in-law trusted Grandpa Ji a lot and entrusted him with everything.”
Based on the limited clues available, we can make a bold guess: back then, Luo Ling received a mission from her family to come to China to stabilize Li Yuan. As expected, she captured Li Yuan. Subsequently, Ferenc's men came to assassinate her, but they managed to evade them.
Later, Li Yuan returned to Europe, while Luo Ling and the old man remained in China. They then received false information, believing that Li Yuan had died.
Ferenc's men probably thought the old man knew some secret about Li Yuan, and with the idea of "better to kill a hundred innocent people than let one guilty person go free," they continued to assassinate him, so the old man and Luo Ling had been hiding.
Because Luo Ling was already more than three months pregnant when she found out she was pregnant, especially in China at that time, the risk of abortion increased as the pregnancy progressed, so Luo Ling ultimately chose to give birth.
Since Li Yuan was "dead," her mission was complete. So she gave the infant Ji Zhinan to the old man and returned to the Luo family to become the glamorous deputy clan leader.
After making this assumption, both Qin Yu and Gu Yibei remained silent.
This is the most plausible explanation so far. If we don't think this way, it's impossible to explain why Luo Ling would abandon Ji Zhinan and leave for twenty years.
She knew perfectly well that Ji Zhinan was her only child with her "deceased beloved man," yet she still gave Ji Zhinan to an old man.
If their guess is correct, Luo Ling... is a heartless woman.
Qin Yu sighed and shook his head: "Your father-in-law is also a pitiful man."
I've been fooled for so long.
And then there's Zhi Nan; she probably never imagined that she would be someone who shouldn't exist in a mission.
"It's best not to let your father-in-law know about this," Qin Yu said seriously, looking at Gu Yibei.
Gu Yibei took a sip of tea before saying, "Under Ling Yin and Warrens's nose, what can you hide?"
He would never have lost control like that if he hadn't known everything and guessed the whole story.
The studio in Villa No. 1 was his favorite place to stay when he was feeling down, because it was full of images of Shiro. Whenever he felt lost and agitated, he would calm down there and paint portraits of Shiro.
Now, the entire studio has been burned down, which shows that he has collapsed.
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