"I'm sorry, I made you fight this battle alone for so long..."
He discovered it too late.
At first, he thought she just wanted to escape from him, so...
"I'm sorry, I wish I had found out sooner."
If he had noticed her inner unease sooner, she wouldn't have suffered so much in the An family.
"I'm sorry, I failed to protect you..."
Gu Yuheng solemnly apologized three times in a row, but Lin Chuxia hurriedly interrupted him: "No way! This is not your fault at all! Besides, I was the one who told you not to interfere in my affairs with the An family. You just listened to me..."
She thought she could handle everything, believing that time would reveal true character and that the An family would eventually accept her... However, while time did reveal true character, the outcome was completely opposite to what she had anticipated.
She overestimated herself.
However, even with Lin Chuxia saying that, Gu Yuheng still couldn't let it go.
"I was so stupid back then, I actually let you go to Anjia alone..."
Thinking of the treatment Lin Chuxia had received at the An family during this time, Gu Yuheng felt a sharp pain in his heart.
The girl he cherished so dearly suffered so much without his knowledge... and he was completely unaware!
That was his mistake!
No excuse can absolve him of the charge of "failing to protect her properly".
"But it's not your fault! You didn't expect the An family to treat me like that." She knew from the beginning that Xie Jinya and An Guosheng weren't as eager for her to return as Old Master An had said.
The day after Old Master An approached her and said she was a child of the An family, Gu Yuheng showed her all the information about the An family over the years.
When An Mingzhu was eight years old, the An family discovered that the child had been "swapped" at birth, but they never actually sent anyone out to look for her.
Only when Grandpa An tried to find Xie Jinya and An Guosheng through various connections did Xie Jinya and An Guosheng remain completely unmoved.
From the time she appeared in Jincheng until she moved into the An family home, only Old Master An came to visit her. Xie Jinya and An Guosheng never showed up, which shows that they did not expect her to return.
At that time, for various reasons, she accepted Old Master An's request and returned to the An family.
She originally thought that although Xie Jinya and An Guosheng didn't like her at first, she was still their biological daughter. Even if they didn't treat her like they treated An Mingzhu, they wouldn't treat her too badly.
Gu Yuheng must have thought the same thing at the time, which is why he agreed to let her move into the An family home so readily.
"And don't think I don't know. After An Mingzhu staged her fall down the stairs, you secretly sent someone to the An family home... It was that Aunt Li, right?"
At that time, Xie Jinya and An Guosheng thought that she had deliberately pushed An Mingzhu downstairs and injured her, so their attitude towards her became even worse after that.
However, right after that, her meals started to improve.
Aunt Li often gave her special meals, and her food was even better than Xie Jinya and An Mingzhu's.
Actually, during that period, apart from occasionally having to face Xie Jinya's sarcastic face, she was living a pretty comfortable life.
Spending all day locked in his room writing and drawing, with people bringing him all sorts of delicious food and drinks from time to time, he couldn't be more carefree!
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