Ye Xinning asked this question.
Ji Jianshen didn't say anything, but looked into the distance and said, "These things, we have to face them eventually."
...
When Gu Shilin arrived at the hospital, Ye Xinning and Ji Jianshen were waiting for him in a coffee shop diagonally opposite the hospital.
Gu Shilin didn't stop along the way. After getting off the car, he almost ran over. When he saw Ye Xinning and Ji Jianshen sitting there, Gu Shilin strode over and sat down in front of them.
Ye Xinning looked up at Gu Shilin. Although she and Shen Lin had come to this point, Gu Shilin was still good to her.
"You're here. What would you like to drink?" Ye Xinning asked proactively.
Gu Shilin simply looked at Ji Jianshen and asked Ye Xinning, "Is that so?"
Yeah?
Gu Shilin didn't say it directly, but Ye Xinning knew what he wanted to ask.
Ye Xinning turned her gaze to Ji Jianshen.
Gu Shilin insisted on hearing Ye Xinning's words, "Second sister-in-law, so what Qin Xiang said is all true? The person sitting next to you is my eldest brother, Gu Hanyu, and I am not a member of the Gu family?"
Under Gu Shilin's intense gaze, Ye Xinning finally spoke, "Yes, what Qin Xiang said is true. Ji Jianshen is indeed... your older brother."
After Ye Xinning finished speaking, Gu Shilin remained silent for a long time. He looked at Ji Jianshen and sized up the man in front of him, never expecting that they were actually brothers.
But if they are brothers, why, why would Ji Jianshen do this?
"You've always known your home is in France, but you've never come back. Can you tell me why? You come back and do this? Ha! So what if you're my older brother? Everything you've done disgusts me."
Ye Xinning frowned, not expecting Gu Shilin to say such harsh words right off the bat.
"Shi Lin, what Ji Jianshen is going through is not as simple as you think, he is..."
"Then tell me, Second Sister-in-law, what has he endured? Over the years, my mother has gone from crying every day for him to spending her days in front of the Buddha and ignoring everything else. But he, on the other hand, does these things as soon as he comes back. Is this how a son should act?"
"Gu Shilin, your mother isn't what you think..."
"Xin Ning." Before Ye Xin Ning could finish speaking, Ji Jian Shen interrupted her.
Ye Xinning turned her head in confusion. Ji Jianshen's smile was faint as he stared at Gu Shilin, his half-brother.
Do you think that all the changes she's undergone over the years are because of me?
Isn't that so?
"Hehe, look how well she disguises herself. Almost everyone thinks she is a good mother, a mother who misses her child and grieves for years. But the truth is so ironic. Gu Shilin, listen carefully. I didn't get lost on my own back then. The reason I left the Gu family was a long-planned scheme. She designed me to leave. In her plan, perhaps I should have died out there."
With each word Ji Jianshen uttered, Gu Shilin's face grew paler. He kept shaking his head, "No, no, Mom isn't that kind of person, it can't be."
For Gu Shilin, this was a fact that was hard to accept.
Now that Ji Jianshen has opened this door, he has no intention of stopping.
Perhaps it was the contrast between Gu Shilin's happiness over the years and his own tragic experiences that caused the hatred in his heart to take root again and become uncontrollable.
"Qin Xiang is right. You are not a child of the Gu family. My father, Gu Qingyuan, only has me as his son. You are the child she had with her former lover. Back then, in order to hide your background, she first killed my father and then deliberately lost me. She did all of this."
Gu Shilin looked at Ji Jianshen with a pale face, his body trembling. It took him a long time to find his voice.
Who is my father?
"Qin Yongwang, the second young master of the Qin family back then, and Qin Xiang's uncle."
...
The story of Ji Jianshen, Gu Shilin, Mu Mingwei, and others is too long and too complicated, enough to drive Gu Shilin to the brink of collapse. The three of them sat in the coffee shop from the moment Leng Chen appeared until dawn.
In just one night, Gu Shilin's spiritedness vanished, replaced by despondency and disappointment.
Ye Xinning stayed with them all night. During that night, Ji Jianshen answered Gu Shilin's questions without reservation. He answered every single one of the questions Gu Shilin asked.
Gu Shilin, even though he knew that each of those questions would slowly torture his heart, still asked them one after another.
Ye Xinning, who was sitting on the side, witnessed the whole process. She looked at Ji Jianshen and then at Gu Shilin, and suddenly understood why Ji Jianshen hadn't told Shen Lin before.
...
When Shen Lin sobered up, Tang Song immediately told him what had happened the night before.
Even though the hangover headache was making Shen Lin feel terrible, when he heard from Tang Song that Gu Shilin had gone to see Ye Xinning last night, Shen Lin could no longer care about anything else. He was worried about Gu Shilin and Ye Xinning, so he immediately asked Tang Song to drive there.
When Shen Lin arrived, Gu Shilin had already come out of the coffee shop in a daze, with Ye Xinning following behind him.
Shen Lin stopped and looked at Gu Shilin who came out from inside.
As Gu Shilin's cousin, Shen Lin had always thought of Gu Shilin as a little sun, and had never been so overwhelmed by grief as he was now.
Shen Lin's gaze was deep and unfathomable.
Ye Xinning followed Gu Shilin out because she was worried about him, and ran into Shen Lin.
She was taken aback, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Of the three, Gu Shilin was the first to speak. He looked at Shen Lin and smiled, but it looked more like he was crying.
"Isn't Second Brother drunk? What are you doing here so early? Go home and rest."
After Gu Shilin finished speaking, he was about to walk past Shen Lin and leave.
Shen Lin grabbed him, "Stop."
"What are you doing stopping?" Gu Shilin said mockingly. "Second brother, do you know? I am a joke, a complete joke. I am not my father's child. The mother I thought was gentle and dignified was actually a cold-blooded and ruthless person hiding behind the scenes. What have I been living all these years? I didn't even realize it. I didn't even realize it."
Gu Shilin's voice was hoarse, and he choked up at the end, as if he was about to cry.
"These are not things you could have chosen, so you don't need to blame yourself so much."
“How can I not blame myself, second brother? Do you know who my biological father is? Qin Yongwang, Qin Xiang’s uncle, and... the reason my mother treated my sister-in-law that way was because of my biological father, because my mother thought that Uncle Song killed my biological father.”
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