Chapter 317 I Deserve to Die
The old man bought almost all of Mrs. Chen's works, but he didn't want any of Shang Wanwan's.
"This picture is enough."
The old man stared at the picture of mother and daughter.
Shang Wanwan understood his longing for Mrs. Chen, perhaps he wanted to keep a memory of her.
"Oh, there's another girl. I think you want to meet her too."
Li Luo was still outside and had no idea about the relationship between his grandfather and his mother.
"No. I'm tired."
The old man asked people to load all the paintings into the car, and then he drove away leaning on his crutches.
Li Luo stayed outside for a while and then came in to find Shang Wanwan.
"Where are the paintings?"
She found that the space reserved for Mrs. Chen was empty.
“Sold.”
"Sold?"
Li Luo was surprised: "So fast? Where's the picture of mother and daughter?"
It is difficult to describe the shock she felt when she first saw the painting.
“It’s also sold.”
Li Luo was even more shocked: "Why? Aren't you going to keep it?"
She didn't believe that Shang Wanwan would sell all the paintings that Mrs. Chen painted for her and her daughter.
"You were not here just now. An old man came and told me a story."
she said.
There was sadness in his eyes.
Li Luo frowned.
"What's the story? You sold that painting too?"
Shang Wanwan pulled Li Luo aside and told him exactly what the old man had said.
Li Luo stood up immediately after listening halfway.
"Wanwan, hurry up and get the painting back."
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Shang Wanwan didn't understand what Li Luo meant.
"Don't you think he's your grandpa?"
The old man didn't say explicitly that if he didn't tell him this story, Shang Wanwan would not sell the painting to him.
The most important thing was that he took out a family photo, which indeed showed Mrs. Chen when she was young.
"He's my grandfather, but he won't really keep those paintings."
Li Luo's palms were full of sweat.
"What do you mean?"
At this point Shang Wanwan still hadn't reacted.
"You don't understand."
Li Luo was extremely anxious.
She chased after him, and Shang Wanwan followed behind. When they both got downstairs, there was no trace of the old man.
"Sister, can you tell me now?"
When Shang Wanwan saw her expression, she felt as if she was about to lose something precious.
"He had severed ties with Mom a long time ago. He was the one who drove Mom and Dad out of the house. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so destitute as to throw us into an orphanage."
Li Luo finally told Shang Wanwan the truth.
"I know. He said it was because his mother didn't listen to him, so he did it."
Shang Wanwan doesn’t understand.
The old man just explained it.
"He only told half of the story. He wanted to marry my mother to a man he didn't like and forced her to marry. My mother refused and eloped with my father. My father used to be a very hard-working man. He ran a small supermarket and was not poor.
It was he who forced my father into bankruptcy and drove my pregnant mother out of the house, ultimately forcing them both to nowhere and making our family live such a miserable life. He showed up at this time and bought all of my mother’s paintings.”
Li Luo felt scared just thinking about it.
Shang Wanwan was stunned for a moment.
"You mean, he wants to do those paintings?"
Both of them guessed the outcome. Shang Wanwan's face turned pale and she almost couldn't stand.
"He did it on purpose. He didn't buy the paintings back to keep them. He wanted to destroy them."
Li Luo burst into tears.
Chen Xin just happened to follow them out and didn't know what had happened.
"Why are you all out?"
The two sisters were trembling all over, and Shang Wanwan could no longer speak.
"My mother's paintings were bought by that old man."
Li Luo knows everything.
After Mr. and Mrs. Chen told her that she was their daughter, she asked Jin Rui to check their background thoroughly.
She also knows that many things are not her parents' fault, but she just can't accept them.
If she had to say who she hated, it would probably be this grandfather whom she had never met.
Therefore, Li Luo can't leave those people in the upper class, but at the same time he hates what they do. They can sacrifice anything for the sake of profit. How can there be any emotion?
If it weren't for these reasons, Li Luo would probably never be able to forgive the Chen couple in her lifetime.
"What?"
Chen Xin was also dumbfounded.
He had only met his grandfather once in his life, and by then Mr. Chen was already a successful businessman.
Under the pressure from the old man, he still managed to fight back and finally broke out. The old man could no longer deal with them.
However, because Mrs. Chen refused to compromise, the old man lost a project worth tens of millions of dollars, and the old man has always resented the young couple.
Even after Mrs. Chen died, the old man never forgave them.
It also deepened the hatred between the father and daughter and the father-in-law and son-in-law.
"How long have you been gone?"
Chen Xindun felt something was wrong.
He had seen his grandfather quarrel with his parents, and they even fought.
The old man hit his father's back hard with his cane, but his father didn't even make a sound.
Not only his father, but also his mother and grandfather were beaten.
My father always protected my mother and almost beat Mr. Chen to death.
"What to do? Go after him."
Shang Wanwan's tears fell.
Chen Xin asked them to get in the car with her.
"I know where his house is, but I don't know if I can make it in time."
The three of them had solemn expressions. Wu Zhengyang was so happy about the sale of the painting that he had no idea that something serious had happened.
"I wonder how he found this place."
Chen Xin said while driving.
"I don't know. The people Wu Zhengyang brought were all his friends. I'm not a celebrity, so it's impossible for me to spread the word by word of mouth."
Shang Wanwan's analysis, why did the old man find it so accurately.
And I even knew that my mother's paintings would be there.
"Humph, the old man was once one of the most powerful figures in the circle. If he was targeting Mom and Dad, it wouldn't be surprising that he came here."
Li Luo was hard on the outside but soft on the inside. She had previously refused to acknowledge Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen, but when something really happened, she became extremely anxious.
"I must get my mother's painting back."
Shang Wanwan's tears kept falling, and her heart was full of regret.
If I had known this would happen, why would I have held the exhibition?
It would be fine to hold an art exhibition, but how could my mother's paintings be taken away if I didn't put them on display?
"Sister, don't blame yourself. This is not your fault."
Chen Xindao looked calm. There was no panic or complaint on his face that one would expect at this age. Instead, he looked surprisingly calm.
"Even without you, he would find a way to get his mother's painting."
The old man had come to make trouble before, but Mr. Chen had never let him succeed.
Maybe he gave it to Shang Wanwan with the intention of letting her keep it.
Behind Shang Wanwan is Huo Dongming, and no one in East Market dares to touch Huo Dongming.
The old man is old and will not live for many more days, so he is even more heartbroken.
Chen Xin thought he must have gone crazy, and he would not even let his own daughter and son-in-law go until their death.
"No, my dad must have thought it would be safer with me when he gave it to me. In fact, it was fine with him for decades, but it was lost in my hands in one day. Damn it."