Grandpa Qin took a deep breath, tilted his head back and closed his eyes, his voice sounding faint and weak. "Sometimes I feel like everything happened just yesterday, so clearly. Your mother is still here, your grandmother is still here, everyone is here, our family is happily joking and going out for fun."
"But when I woke up, I realized it was all just my imagination, all just my memories. The dream was over, and the people were gone; I couldn't hold onto them..."
Unbeknownst to Ji Muhan, his hands were already clenched into fists, his fingers pale, as if he were suppressing some emotion.
The old man suddenly opened his eyes, slowly turned around, his eyes filled with sorrow, and softly asked him, "Mu Han, over the years, have you ever resented your grandfather?"
Ji Muhan had heard this sentence at least ten times. It was the same person who asked him three times in a row when his mother died!
Even now, he can still remember the deathly pale face that appeared on his face after he yelled at him, as if he had been sentenced to death and cast into an endless hell, his eyes filled with despair and regret.
And Ji Li... asked him countless times, but he never seemed to answer...
Perhaps it should be said that he... dared not answer. When his mother had the accident, he was only ten years old and did not know how to manage his emotions. When that person asked him if he resented it, he shouted a sentence almost without thinking!
If I could, I would want you to be lying in there! Why should it be the mother who dies? You are the culprit, you are the one who deserves to die!
A few days later, he really did have an accident, and even now he still feels that perhaps his accident was related to him, that he was the original sin of it all…
Seeing Ji Muhan remain silent, Old Master Qin knew that he would not answer his question. His heart ached, and a bitter, mocking smile appeared on his lips.
“Your mother didn’t want to marry your father at first. It was only because your grandmother, who was your father’s mother, came to propose marriage that the marriage was arranged.”
He seemed lost in memories of the past, his eyes deep and his expression dazed.
Even now, he can still vaguely remember that after Ji Muhan's father came to propose marriage, he asked his daughter, but she remained silent for a full three minutes before saying that she would leave it to her family to decide!
He should have understood long ago that what she meant was that she didn't want to! It was such a simple truth, yet she only realized it after her death…
"In the first few years, your father did keep his promise to your mother and was devoted to her. Although he was not successful in his career, your father was a very smart man. With just a little guidance, he could understand and apply what he learned to other situations."
"At that time, everything was on the right track. Your father gradually took over your grandfather's company and took good care of your mother. However, an accident happened in the middle, and your father and mother had a rift. I don't know the specifics."
"All I know is that your mother brought you back once and you stayed for two days. Later, when your father came to pick her up, some servants heard them arguing in the yard. They vaguely heard that your father did something to betray your mother, as if he had someone else outside."
Ji Muhan's eyes flickered slightly, her voice as cold and indifferent as ever, cutting him off without any emotion, "I know."
Some even knew more than him; back then, he... not only had someone else, but he might have even had an illegitimate child...
If it weren't for that, my mother wouldn't have been so angry that she vomited blood and damaged her health as a result.
"When did you find out?" Old Master Qin looked at him in surprise. "Could it be that...your grandfather told you?"
Back then, he and Ji Li could be considered friends who felt like they had met too late, but now... he doesn't even want to call him by his name anymore!
If Ah Zi hadn't had that accident, perhaps their relationship wouldn't have deteriorated to the point of never speaking to each other again, and her husband wouldn't have suffered from declining health after the accident and passed away within a year.
"About two weeks before my mother's accident, when my mother was having a cold war with him, I happened to be outside the door when he came over to apologize to my mother."
The implication is that they overheard it by accident.
Upon hearing this, Old Master Qin's heart skipped a beat. He abruptly raised his eyes to look at the young man in front of him, whose features still seemed to be covered by the coldness of Arctic ice and snow.
Even at this moment, his expression remained cold and indifferent, but the more the old man knew, the more heartbroken he became. For so many years, he had thought he had kept it a secret well, but he never expected…
How much pain must a child be in when he learned that his father had betrayed the family and his mother?
However, he stubbornly gritted his teeth, swallowing his anger and blood without saying a word.
He staggered back a large step, then fell unsteadily onto the bedside table behind him. He instinctively reached out his right hand to brace himself on the table, but his arm was trembling violently, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.
The old man looked as if he had aged three years in an instant, and he was so unsteady on his feet that he seemed about to fall over in the wind.
I don't know when it started, but his face became increasingly pale, as white as a sheet of paper. His body looked healthy, but in reality, his internal condition had deteriorated to the extreme.
He suddenly started laughing and crying at the same time, his voice filled with a sense of sorrow. Then he sighed softly, "I never thought of this all these years..."
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