Chapter 295 Leniency for Confession
"Yes, in a blink of an eye, more than 20 years have passed." Mrs. Sheng looked quite emotional.
"Why did you think of coming here this time?" Shen Boyan asked again.
Madam Sheng glanced at Sheng Tianhao and replied slightly embarrassedly, "There's no special reason, I just suddenly missed this place."
"How long do you two plan to stay here?"
"Why are you asking so many questions?" Feeling that Shen Boyan asked too many questions, Gu Nanyan glared at him coquettishly.
Mrs. Sheng smiled in a friendly manner, "It's rare for you to come here, we may have to stay for a week."
"Then we can get together more often." Gu Nanyue immediately took over the conversation.
She liked Mrs. Sheng very much and always felt inexplicably comfortable being with her.
"Okay." Mrs. Sheng nodded with a smile.
Sheng Tianhao was taciturn and didn't say much.
After dinner, Shen Boyan went to work, and Gu Nanyan took Xiao Mumu to accompany the two of them for a walk in the yard.
The four of them walked and chatted in the early winter garden, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
In the study upstairs, Shen Boyan stood by the window, watching the scene in silence.
After a moment, the cell phone rang suddenly.
He glanced and saw a call from Gu Nancheng.
After hesitating for two seconds, press the answer button.
"Do you have time to meet?"
The winter wind was a bit harsh, and Gu Nancheng's voice sounded clear and cold, not as soft and warm as usual.
"good."
Shen Boyan went downstairs after a while.
He first went to the yard to meet a few people, and just told Gu Nanyue that he had to go out for a while because of work.
Xiao Mumu's grandmother called him to "go early and come back early".
The weather was getting colder, and Shen Boyan put on a woolen coat over his suit.
When we arrived at a quiet teahouse on the outskirts of the city, Gu Nancheng was already waiting.
Gu Nanyue was wearing casual clothes today, a soft sweater with a light-colored shirt underneath, with only the shirt collar showing. The coat she was wearing outside was taken off after entering the teahouse.
The air conditioner in the teahouse was on and it was hot. The first thing Shen Boyan did when he entered the door was to take off his coat and hold it in his hands.
"Why did you suddenly want to see me?"
Shen Boyan had a cold aura, and when he sat opposite Gu Nancheng with his tall and slender body, there was a sense of oppression.
Gu Nancheng glanced at him and smiled, "I am your brother-in-law after all. Do I need a reason to invite you for tea?"
"You know whether you need a reason or not."
Chen Boyan calmly picked up the freshly brewed tea and took a sip.
"Chen Boyan, actually I have always thought that you are very smart." Gu Nancheng pushed his glasses and looked at him with some appreciation.
Shen Boyan was not modest at all, “You feel right.”
This sentence choked Gu Nancheng so much that he didn't know what to say.
He didn't like beating around the bush and asked directly, "You called me last time and asked me that question. There couldn't have been no signs, right?"
Shen Boyan nodded, "Of course."
Gu Nancheng: "Can you tell me about it?"
Shen Boyan's hand holding the teacup paused slightly, and he simply put down the teacup, "The Sheng family couple came to Rongcheng for a tour and are now living in our house."
Sure enough, Gu Nancheng's face, which had just been pretending to be relaxed, froze in an instant.
Then he smiled bitterly.
Without saying a word, he picked up the teacup and took a sip in silence.
"I know that some things cannot be hidden forever. The truth will be exposed one day."
Gu Nancheng turned his head and looked out the window. The wind was cold and the leaves outside the teahouse were all withered and yellow, and they flew down as the cold wind blew.
"So, my guess is right?" Shen Boyan looked at Gu Nancheng's reaction, and his heart sank. "What's going on?"
All these things were just his guesses.
But when he really got confirmation from Gu Nancheng, he still found it incredible.
And I am very curious about what caused all this to happen.
"I know that you can find out the truth even if I don't tell you. Instead of that, why don't I tell you the truth? At least, confess and you will get more leniency?"
Gu Nancheng retracted his gaze toward the window and looked at Shen Boyan as calmly as possible. "When my mother was pregnant with my sister, she tested the gender early. She wanted a daughter very much. When she learned that she was in her belly, she was ecstatic. My aunt sent her a lot of supplements. She always wanted to eat more for the child. In fact, it was okay. But when she gave birth, the fetus was too big for a natural birth. But my mother thought that a natural birth was good for the child, so she insisted on a natural birth. In the end, because the natural birth took too long, the child was born with bruises all over his body and had suffocated to death."
At this point, Gu Nancheng paused, as if sighing, and then continued, "Of course my father knew how much my mother valued this child and how much hope she had placed on him. How could she accept this result? My father begged the doctor like crazy to find a solution. Later, the doctor asked my father to adopt a child and told my mother that it was my sister. My father naively thought that the child was really an abandoned baby, and even I thought that my sister was just an abandoned baby. But I found out not long ago that Nanyan was not an abandoned baby at all. In order to please my father, the doctor exchanged the child that others regarded as a treasure with my mother, and exchanged the child who suffocated to death with them."
At this point, Gu Nancheng closed his eyes in sorrow. "This action deeply hurt another family, but the mistake has already been made. Over twenty years have passed, and I have been thinking about how to make up for it all. But it is really irreversible. I still can't think of a good way. Whether it is for the other family, my mother, or Nan Yan, the truth will only bring them pain."
After hearing all this, Shen Boyan's expression became colder and colder.
Finally, he asked a question from the bottom of his heart, "Does your father really think that the child is an abandoned baby?"
Gu Nancheng's expression froze.
Does my father know all this?
No, no, my father couldn't be such a selfish person.
But my father... loves my mother too much.
"The truth will only bring pain to your family, but for the Sheng family, it is the joy of regaining what they lost." Shen Boyan also looked out the window, with a hint of sadness in his deep voice, "But for Nan Yan, it is a dilemma."
Either way, it would hurt her.
The Gu family raised her and gave her everything that a daughter of the Gu family deserved.
But the Sheng family grieved for many years because of her loss.
If she had grown up in the Sheng family, she would have been pampered by the Sheng family.
However, if she had grown up in the Sheng family, she didn't know whether he and she would still have the marriage they have now.
"Bo Yan, tell me, what should I do?" Gu Nancheng has been struggling and depressed for many days. He really wants to know what he should do.
Should we continue to keep all this secret, or should we make the truth known to the public?
"You said it yourself, some things can't be kept secret forever."
Shen Boyan picked up the teacup again and took a sip.
Gu Nancheng's body seemed to weaken a little, and he sat there in a daze.
"Will Nanyan hate us...? Will she hate our family?" This is the question that Gu Nancheng cares about most.
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