There is no denying how significant the impact of Song Qirui's existence was on the entire Song family!
To others, the fact that Song Qirui was recognized by the Song family was like a windfall for him!
However, while everyone was congratulating him, no one asked whether Song Qirui himself was actually willing.
The head of the Song family and his wife quickly reached an agreement—to acknowledge Song Qirui's status in the Song family, but in return, Song Qirui had to marry the niece of the Song family's wife.
This is a compromise, an exchange, and the establishment of an alliance!
However, this was also the arrangement that Song Qirui found most unacceptable!
He had a sweetheart and had even decided to marry her! Moreover, his girlfriend was already pregnant at the time, and they had set a date to register their marriage on September 6th!
Therefore, Song Qirui's choice is not to return to the Song family!
He didn't care about the Song family's assets. Anyway, he had been living outside with his mother for so many years. He was already an adult and had suffered enough. Now, if someone came back and told him that his family cared about him and was waiting for him to come back, what a joke!
If all of his father's sons hadn't died, would he even want to know about him?!
However, things have come to this point, and it's no longer something that Song Qirui can simply resolve by saying he's unwilling!
Neither his father nor those scheming members of the Song family would let him go!
"So, my mother wasn't abandoned, but rather my father, having no other choice, arranged for her to be sent away first to protect her?!"
On the way to the agreed location, Yao Anna sat next to Song Mengmeng. Even now, she still couldn't quite believe the information provided in the materials she had just received.
At that time, both Yao Anna's mother and Song Qirui, who had just been discovered by the Song family, were too weak. Under the Song family's coercion, they had no chance of surviving.
Yao Anna felt genuinely saddened at the thought that things might actually turn out that way.
But more than anything, it was for her mother.
If her mother hadn't met her father back then, and hadn't experienced all those things that followed, how could she have been ruined her whole life?!
"No matter what, it's your final decision." Song Mengmeng looked at Yao Anna and whispered to comfort her, "You're not your father anymore. If you don't want to, no one can force you!"
They are very protective of their own. Once they have decided that Yao Anna is their friend, they will never allow anyone to hurt her as long as she is still their friend!
"Let's go see them first." Yao Anna was silent for a while before looking up at Song Mengmeng and telling her her plan: "There are some things that I think it's better to ask them face to face."
The place where Song Qirui arranged to meet Yao Anna was a very famous private restaurant in Xijing.
The food here is delicious. It is said that the head chef's ancestors were imperial chefs for generations! Because they only serve one table of guests a day, anyone who can host a banquet here must be a very wealthy and powerful person.
As soon as Yao Anna and Song Mengmeng got out of the car, someone greeted them warmly and respectfully, then led them through the garden pavilion towards a secluded private room.
Yao Anna didn't meet Song Qirui only after entering the private room. Perhaps the man was too impatient and had been waiting halfway there. The moment he saw Yao Anna, this man, who was said to be cold and aloof in the eyes of others, was so excited that he burst into tears.
He took two or three steps to greet her, initially raising his arm, but then seemed to realize that his current posture was inappropriate, so he abruptly lowered his arm and looked Yao Anna up and down: "I, you've arrived. Um, first, please come in and sit down!"
Song Qirui stared at Yao Anna with almost greedy eyes, and after a long while, he couldn't help but exclaim, "So alike, so incredibly alike!"
“My mother and I don’t actually look alike.” Yao Anna immediately understood what Song Qirui meant by “looking alike.” Although her opinion of this adoptive father had changed somewhat, it didn’t mean she didn’t harbor any resentment.
So now that she had the chance, Yao Anna spoke up almost without thinking, giving Song Qirui a mild but innocuous retort.
However, after saying that, she regretted it somewhat. She pursed her lips, lowered her head, and said nothing more. Song Qirui looked at her but didn't make things difficult for her. He called to Song Mengmeng, who was with Yao Anna, and then led the two girls towards the private room.
"How is your mother now?" Song Qirui asked the question almost impatiently as soon as he sat down in the private room.
Yao Anna glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then honestly replied, "Not very well. She has been controlled by the puppet for too long, and both her body and mind have been greatly damaged. If she is lucky, she may live for a few more years after proper treatment, but if she is unlucky, she will only live for a few more years."
Things had come to this point, and Yao Anna no longer wanted to hide the truth about her mother.
If everything was truly the work of those evil people in the Song family, then she had no reason to hide anything!
Her mother's life was almost entirely ruined because of this man! If it weren't for him, her mother could have found someone who truly loved her and lived a peaceful and happy life!
Instead of being maliciously targeted because of him, falling victim to a puppet curse, having his luck, health, and everything else stolen...
Thinking of this, Yao Anna felt an inexplicable increase in disgust and hatred towards the man in front of her.
Yes, he could say that everything back then was the work of those scheming people in his family, but so many years have passed since his mother was sent away, more than twenty years have gone by!
This man never showed his face once from beginning to end!
She didn't believe he really didn't know!
As far as she knew, the place where she and her mother used to live was the old house where her maternal grandparents lived! That is, it was less than a street away from where this man used to live!
If he really wanted to find her and her mother, she refused to believe that he would have been completely without any news all these years!
"So, Mr. Song, what do you want to do by appearing before me at this time?! Tell me, you're actually very sad, and the reason you haven't shown your face all these years is simply because you had no other choice?!" Yao Anna slightly raised her eyes, and the sarcasm in her eyes was too obvious when she looked at the man opposite her: "If you had no other choice all these years, then why are you showing up now?!"
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