Chapter 358 Since you don’t love Lan Zhenrong, why do you commit yourself to him?
The candlelight in the dungeon flickered, illuminating Lan Shenye's painful expression. He looked at Lan Xiyue, who was chained, with complicated eyes, and his voice was low and full of apology: "Yueyue, it's all my fault, otherwise you wouldn't..." Before he finished speaking, endless guilt was already evident in his words.
Lan Xiyue frowned upon hearing this. She looked at Lan Shenye, "Brother, they actually hit you? What did Lan Zhenrong want to do? I can understand if he hated me and wanted to kill me, but why was he so cruel to you?"
Lan Shenye sighed softly, a flash of pain in his eyes, "Yueyue, we are not Lan Zhenrong's biological children."
When these words were spoken, Lan Xiyue's eyes widened in shock.
She almost lost her voice and asked, "Brother, what did you say? Mom cheated on me?"
Lan Shenye shook his head with a complicated expression: "No, I don't know either. Lan Zhenrong said it himself. After he and mother got married, mother never let him touch her."
Lan Xiyue was even more puzzled when she heard this: "Then who is our biological father?"
Lan Shenye was silent for a moment, recalling that moment in the study. He slowly spoke, "Lan Zhenrong said he didn't know either."
In the Lan family's study, Lan Zhenrong enthusiastically handed him a cup of tea.
He drank it without any precautions. When he suggested going to visit his seriously ill grandmother, Lan Zhenrong's face instantly turned icy, and his sneer was like ice piercing his bones: "Ye'er, I have always treated you as my own son, but what about you? Just like that evil girl, you disobeyed me and even severed ties with the Marquis' Mansion. I really raised you in vain."
Thinking back to that scene, Lan Shenye's heart still ached.
Lan Shenye faced his "father" - Lan Zhenrong, with a look of shock.
"Father, what do you mean? If you didn't want to hurt Yueyue, how could Yueyue and I be like this?"
A fierce look flashed across Lan Zhenrong's face. He stared at Lan Shenye as if he was looking at a stranger: "I really have raised two ungrateful wolves. They are not my biological children. No matter how hard I try, I can never tame them." Every word pierced Lan Shenye's heart like an icy blade.
Lan Shenye's body swayed and he almost couldn't stand: "What do you mean?" His voice was weak and trembling, as if he didn't want to believe what he heard.
Lan Zhenrong snorted coldly, his laughter filled with resentment and madness. "What do you mean? If Yun Shanshan hadn't said that if I married her, she would have the Duke of the Protectorate help me rise to prominence in the court, and yet she flaunted her affection for me in public, yet treated me with extreme coldness behind others. After the wedding, she even refused to let me touch her. You two, brother and sister, are bastards! I love her so much, yet she never even looks at me. Why?"
Lan Shenye felt dizzy. He stumbled a few steps and slumped down in a chair. "No, my mother must have her reasons..." Lan Shenye felt weak all over. His eyes fell on the cup of tea on the table. "In the tea..."
Lan Zhenrong's eyes flashed with a hint of pride and madness: "Don't worry, I won't kill you for now. I want to keep you and your sister alive and torture them. Who made that bitch Bai Shanshan ignore me so much? I'm devoted to her, but she treats me with disdain? I want her to see that her two children have been abused because of her!"
Lan Shenye's eyes gradually regained focus. He looked at Lan Zhenrong calmly, "Since you are not Yueyue's and my father, then who is our biological father?"
Lan Zhenrong's face was distorted and ferocious at this moment, with a fierce light flashing in his eyes.
"Who is it? Yes, it is who it is. I have raised children for others for so long, but I haven't even found out the shadow of that wild man!" His voice was hoarse and angry, as if he wanted to pour out the anger in his chest.
Lan Zhenrong's eyes were particularly sinister. He recalled his meticulous care for Bai Shanshan over the years, thinking that his sincerity could win her back, but what he got in return was endless indifference and betrayal.
"I thought that if I treated you sincerely and as my own son, she would see my good side. Who knew she would still be so cold." He turned to the side, his eyes like knives piercing Lan Shenye, the child he once regarded as his own.
Lan Shenye's face was pale, his eyes full of shock and disbelief.
"Two years later, she became pregnant again. At that time, I wanted to kill the bastard in her belly all the time." Lan Zhenrong's tone was filled with deep hatred. He recalled how he had sent people to drug the unborn child countless times in an attempt to get rid of the unborn child, but Bai Shanshan had cleverly resolved the issue every time.
A hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes, "How do you think your mother died? Did she die by giving birth to that evil girl Lan Xiyue? Humph, that was Yun Qing's masterpiece."
Lan Shenye's body trembled slightly, and Lan Zhenrong continued to speak viciously: "Yun Qing, she has always loved me, but she was jealous that I liked her sister. I deliberately asked her to take care of your mother when she gave birth. I know how strong a woman's jealousy is. Yun Qing really did not let me down. She tampered with your mother during the birth, causing her to bleed profusely and die.
But my original intention was to kill the evil child she was carrying. I already had you, and I was already patient enough. I could never tolerate her giving birth to that evil daughter. But I didn't expect that bitch Yun Qing to kill Bai Shanshan as well, and Lan Xiyue, the evil daughter, is still alive.
A flash of sadness and anger flashed in Lan Shenye's eyes. He looked at the strange and terrifying father in front of him, his heart filled with complicated emotions.
"Ye'er, I have been so sincere to you over the years and treated you like my own son. Why do you treat me like that?" There was a hint of confusion and anger in Lan Zhenrong's tone.
Lan Shenye lowered his head, and his eyes that once sparkled with bright light were now dim. His heart was filled with turbulent waves, and an unbelievable fact pressed on his chest like a huge rock - Lan Zhenrong, the father he had always regarded as his closest relative, was not his biological son.
He murmured softly, his voice filled with endless confusion and sorrow: "Mother, who is the father of Yueyue and me? If you don't love Lan Zhenrong, why did you commit yourself to him? What secret is hidden behind this?"
"Someone, take him away!" Lan Zhenrong's voice was as cold as the wind.
At this critical moment, Yun Lei rushed into the room like a flash of lightning. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and he immediately locked onto Lan Shenye's powerless figure. "Young Master!" Yun Lei called out anxiously, his tone full of concern and worry.
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Lan Zhenrong's eyes, and he ordered coldly: "Come here, kill him." Before he finished speaking, a group of men in black rushed in like ghosts and surrounded the room.
Lan Shenye's heart was in his throat. He struggled to get up, but he was powerless. He looked at Yun Lei anxiously, his voice trembling, "Yun Lei, go away quickly. Leave me alone."
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