"Have you found the person you were looking for?" Li Jinfeng looked up at Mr. Shen.
The mask that Mr. Shen had been maintaining was shattered in an instant, and there was a hint of pain on his face.
"Hasn't the person been found?" Li Jinfeng asked.
In fact, Ms. Shen didn't need to answer, she had already guessed the answer, which might be worse than not finding it at all.
The person...maybe is gone.
Mr. Shen: "I found her hometown, but someone told me that she is dead, and..."
Li Jinfeng: "The dead cannot be resurrected, so don't be too sad."
Elder Shen shook his head. "No, it's my fault. If I had gone to find him earlier, or... or told him the truth earlier, things wouldn't have turned out like this!"
The more Mr. Shen spoke, the more painful his voice became.
Li Jinfeng didn't know how to comfort him, so she could only take a handkerchief to wipe Mr. Shen's tears.
"Mr. Shen, I don't know how to comfort you, but from my perspective, I still hope you can relax. Or... tell me what happened, so I can know how to enlighten you!"
Elder Shen shook his head. "I made a mistake. As a father, I did the most foolish thing in the world. I...harmed my son and my granddaughter whom I have never met."
Mr. Shen began to tell Li Jinfeng about the guilt in his heart.
Mr. Shen's son was betrothed to another old friend when he was very young.
The relationship between the two families is so good that even though they know that child marriage is contrary to current thinking and may have hidden dangers, the elders of both families still stick to their own opinions.
Until Mr. Shen's son went to the Southern Province for some important business and met a girl with whom he fell in love.
After returning, he asked his family to cancel the so-called child marriage and asked to marry the girl he loved.
But at that time, Mr. Shen's old friend was terminally ill, and before his death, he insisted that Mr. Shen continue with the marriage.
In order to prevent his old friend from dying in vain, Mr. Shen insisted on having his own way, which eventually caused his son to become estranged from himself.
A lot of things happened in between, until a few years later, the girl suddenly sent a letter saying that she was married and had a child with someone else, which made Mr. Shen's son give up.
"I knew there might be something wrong with the letter, but I still gave it to him."
Li Jinfeng didn't expect that the thing that Mr. Shen felt guilty about was actually like this.
"Mr. Shen...did your son later marry the fiancée he was engaged to?" Li Jinfeng asked.
Old Shen shook his head: "No... She never married, but she never wanted to see me as her father again! It's been almost thirty years, and I almost forgot what it feels like to be called father by my son."
One wrong move and the whole game is lost.
If Mr. Shen were allowed to choose again, he would definitely not ruin his son's life for the so-called promise.
"What do you mean by granddaughter? Is that lesbian not married?"
Mr. Shen: "That person told me that the female comrade waited for my son for several years and even took my son's daughter with her. In the end... she starved to death!"
His eyes unconsciously turned red, and at the end of his speech, Old Man Shen began to choke up.
Li Jinfeng originally thought she could still say something, but after knowing the truth, she found that she was unable to speak at all.
Mr. Shen had indeed done something wrong. Because of that ridiculous promise, he prevented the lovers from becoming a couple and even harmed the child and the mother.
What does it mean to starve to death?
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