Chapter 151 We Could Have Had a Child
Yu Chengbai returned to the Yu family.
He planned to say goodbye to his father and daughter, let his father take care of Beibei, and then go to Continent M to find Ning Yan.
No matter what, he must see Ning Yan again.
As soon as I entered the house, the door closed behind me.
Yu Chengbai stopped, turned around, and saw the Yu family's housekeeper and servants blocking the door.
Soon, Mr. Yu's heavy voice appeared behind him: "Chengbai, now that you're back, don't go back to Continent M. I'm old, and I just hope that my children are well."
Yu Chengbai didn't say anything for a long time before turning around.
He looked at Mr. Yu sitting on the chair, without much surprise. He smiled and said softly, "Dad, is Ah Yan back?"
"No."
"Where's Beibei?" Yu Chengbai seemed not to have heard his answer. "Did Beibei go with him?"
"She's already asleep. She missed you so much while you were away. When you come back, stay home and spend some quality time with her, okay?"
Yu Chengbai lowered his head slightly, chuckled softly, and sighed bitterly: "He doesn't even want Beibei anymore..."
Mr. Yu could clearly see that something was wrong with him. He frowned and called out to him, "Cheng Bai?"
"I guessed he would run away. I even burned his passport, but he still found a way to leave." After a pause, he looked at Mr. Yu, who had a complicated expression on his face, and said with a smile, "Dad, Ah Yan looks a lot like mother, right? Did mother leave the capital like this back then?"
“…”
"Have you tried every possible way to keep her like I did?"
“…”
"Then you shouldn't stop me now."
Mr. Yu looked at his eldest son with complicated eyes. He had been obedient and sensible since childhood and had always been the most like him. Suddenly, he felt that he was extremely unfamiliar.
Strange, yet familiar.
Like his mother.
"Chengbai, you told me before that he was your mother's child. Is that true?" Even though the previous conversation had made it obvious, Mr. Yu couldn't help but confirm it again. "Is it possible that you were mistaken?"
"Yeah, maybe I really was wrong. I actually doubted it more than once."
Mr. Yu held his breath until he heard him laugh and say, "When he was 20, I took a strand of his hair to my mother for a paternity test. Then he did it again when he was 24, and again this year. Dad, guess what the result was?"
Mr. Yu looked at him silently without saying anything. He really couldn't think of anything else to say.
He would rather Yu Chengbai yell at him now, go crazy at him, and say that he just likes Ning Yan and wants to be with him, even if the whole world opposes him, he will be with him.
It's better than being like this now, looking incredibly normal on the surface, but the words spoken are really not normal.
This shows that he doesn't care about anyone else's opinion at all.
"Dad, it's okay." Yu Chengbai saw that he was worried and tried to comfort him, "We already have Beibei, so we don't plan to have any more children."
“…You can’t do that either.”
"He was originally pregnant," Yu Chengbai said longingly. "Even though it was fake, if I hadn't left that night, he would probably have found a way to get a child from somewhere and told me flatly that it was his."
“…”
"We could have had a child."
“…………”
Mr. Yu looked at him silently and complicatedly.
I used to always scold Yu Li for being out of line, but now I think that no matter how outrageous Yu Li is, he is just causing trouble everywhere.
If he had not left the Yu family, he would probably have greeted and discussed the matter with the man in a nice tone first, and only after he was sure that he really would not agree and strongly opposed it, would he flip the table and get angry and say that he liked him.
No matter how noisy or naughty he was, he knew that he had to discuss important life events with his father first, and he longed for his father's blessing.
And what about his eldest son who has always been sensible and reasonable?
He didn't even consider whether his old father could handle such a big thing. He did it secretly first, and only confessed when the matter became a mess and everyone came to complain to him.
Be honest, but don't admit your mistakes.
Calm and rational, but refuse to compromise.
"Chengbai, does your mother know?" Mr. Yu looked at him with a gloomy look in his eyes.
Not long after Yu Chengbai was born, his mother returned to Continent M and never came back.
Mr. Yu didn't know what his first wife did for a living. He only knew that she was not an ordinary person, and he was also sure that he could not keep her.
He tried and failed.
There was no emotional breakdown, no conflicts or quarrels, not even a single argument.
It was just an ordinary day. His pregnant wife was sitting in the yard. Suddenly she turned to him and said, "I don't think this is the life I want."
Then, it disappeared without a trace.
If the baby had not been older at the time, Mr. Yu suspected that she might have aborted the baby before leaving.
Although Yu Chengbai never said it, Mr. Yu knew that he must have seen his mother in Continent M over the years.
Maybe you have seen it when you were very young, and more than once.
He felt that Yu Chengbai didn't listen to him, but he should always listen to his mother. After all, Ning Yan was also his mother's child.
As Ning Yan's mother, she has the right to ask Yu Chengbai to stop his cruel behavior.
Mr. Yu looked at him in silence and asked again: "Does your mother know about you and Ning Yan?"
"She's very busy and doesn't have time to care about my little things. I don't think she would mind."
Yu Chengbai didn't show any fear or panic on his face. He smiled and said, "She's very open-minded in this regard. Dad, I think you should learn from her."
“…”
Mr. Yu fell silent.
If it was Yu Li who said these words today, he would have forced him to kneel in the ancestral hall and told him not to get up until he could figure it out.
But facing Yu Chengbai, he didn't want to do that.
It's not biased, it's useless.
Yu Li refused to admit defeat and would not beg for mercy even if he knelt down, but he actually knew in his heart that he was wrong and would always correct himself after being punished and beaten.
Yu Chengbai appears gentle on the surface and never argues with others about right or wrong. He seems to be accommodating to everyone without any bottom line. However, it is often the case that such people become paranoid and make people really helpless.
It's useless to beat him to death.
"Cheng Bai."
After a long while, Mr. Yu finally let out a long sigh, which almost used up all his strength.
He looked up at his son and asked him with a worried look on his face, "If you like men, I won't stop you. I'm not an unreasonable father. Even if the Yu family really has no descendants in the future, I can still adopt a child from one of my uncles. I won't force you to get married and have children."
He paused, frowned, and said, "But why him?"
Yu Chengbai didn't say anything.
"You have many outstanding men around you. Is there not one that suits your taste?"
Yu Chengbai still didn't say anything.
"I'm not saying you have to find someone with a great family background, outstanding looks and knowledge, or someone who is your equal in status and talent. Besides Ning Yan, A Li, Huai Yang, and Ya Ya, I have no objection to anyone else you want to find, but why Ning Yan?"
Yu Chengbai lowered his eyes, still unmoved.
After a moment of silence, Mr. Yu looked at him and suddenly said, "Do you know what Ning Yan said to me when he left?"
Yu Chengbai's hands, hanging at his sides, clenched uncontrollably. His eyelashes trembled several times before he spoke: "What?"
"He knelt in front of me, crying, saying that you bullied him, beat him and scolded him, saying that you were strong..." He paused and said in a deep voice, "and forced him to do many things he didn't want to do. Is that true?"
“…He cried?”
"Yes, he was crying so hard he was out of breath. He used to be a very lively and outgoing kid when he went home with Ali. What on earth did you... do to him?"
Yu Chengbai clenched his hands, then loosened them. He finally chose to smile and accept all the blame Ning Yan put on him: "I did everything he said."
Mr. Yu looked at him in disbelief: “I thought he was exaggerating, did you really do it?”
"Yes, I did all of that."
“…”
Yu Chengbai had been in and out of the ancestral hall quite often over the years, almost always to deliver medicine and food to Yu Li who had made a mistake, or when his father felt soft-hearted but couldn't save face, he would come and 'secretly' let Yu Li go, telling him to wait until his father's anger subsided before coming back.
This was the first time he knelt in the ancestral hall.
There was a fire lit in the small basin, and next to it were several thick stacks of copied scriptures.
Warm light blows on my face, half bright and half dark, and rows of tablets are illuminated.
He knelt and calmly burned the pages one by one.
He burned until the last page. Outside, the heavy snow broke the plum branches, and he also burned the last of his sanity.
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Go crazy, go crazy!
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