After the door was closed, Bai Lu leaned against the bed and stared blankly at the thick plaster cast on her feet. Her mind kept replaying what she had seen and heard in the back of the mountain.
The question mark grew bigger and bigger.
Li Tanglin. Why did she go to see her father? Was she acquainted with Father before? Oh, right. Mother...
Bai Lu suddenly came back to her senses and quickly took out her phone from the drawer of the bedside table. This time, the call went through. When Chin Jin-hee picked up the call, her voice was normal. Bai Lu told her that she had gone back, but Chin Jin-hee's phone was turned off. She told her that her phone had run out of battery and she happened to go out to buy groceries, so she didn't run into it.
"... But the hospital said that you're on leave. Mother, are you feeling unwell?"
"No." Chin Jin-hee's voice was very calm. "I'm fine. I haven't rested for a while because the hospital was too busy. Now that I'm old, my body can't take it anymore, so I want to rest for a day."
Bai Lu didn't suspect anything. "Mother, you'll be retiring in the second half of the year. Why don't you come live with me in A City..."
"Silly girl, aren't you married?" Chin Jin-hee chuckled and politely declined. "Since you're married, you should stay with your husband. It's good for me to live here. Isn't it close to your father? If I leave him here alone, he'll be lonely. "
At the mention of Li Tanglin, Bai Lu thought of her. This question had been bothering her for too long. She couldn't help but ask, but she couldn't ask directly. What was she worried about? After thinking about it, she finally asked carefully. "... Mother, I've been wanting to ask you about something..."
"Hmm?"
"Did Father... have any special friends in the past? I don't think... I've ever seen anyone visit him. Although you told me that his family passed away a long time ago, doesn't he have any other friends? "
"Why are you suddenly asking this?"
Bai Lu couldn't see Chin Jin-hee's expression. She could only hear her calm voice through the phone. "Didn't I tell you before? Your father used to be a loner, so he didn't have any special friends. "
Bai Lu still couldn't get anything out of her. She said, "Oh." She didn't want her mother to be suspicious and alert her, so she added, "... I went to the back of the mountain to see Father. I thought that he's been alone for so many years, so I couldn't help but ask you......"
Bai Lu rarely lied to her mother, so naturally, Chin Jin-hee didn't suspect her. However, this topic was quickly changed. Bai Lu didn't want her mother to worry, so she didn't tell her about her leg injury. She only told her that she would be going to the Civil Affairs Bureau with Liang Feifan to register their marriage. She took the household registration booklet with her. Chin Jin-hee gave her a few more reminders before hanging up.
Bai Lu put her phone away and lay on the bed. Her leg was in a thick cast, so she couldn't toss and turn. However, the question and the figure she saw in the back of the mountain kept replaying in her mind...
On the other end, Liang Wu-ming brought his grandson into the hospital's reception room.
In the spacious reception room, the grandfather and grandson sat on the sofa facing each other.
Liang Feifan didn't take the initiative to say anything. He just smoked in silence. Liang Wu-ming saw him squinting his eyes as he smoked, so he didn't take the initiative to say anything. He hit the floor with his walking stick. "Are you planning to keep this a secret from me forever?"
Liang Feifan obviously knew what he was talking about. He exhaled a puff of smoke. "Grandpa, I can't keep this a secret from you forever. In fact, you already know about it, right?"
He held the cigarette between his fingers. The diamond ring on his well-defined ring finger sparkled under the incandescent light. It was particularly eye-catching.
His tone couldn't help but become sharper. "If your father hadn't told me, I would still be in the dark. Aren't you going to explain it to me now? Fan, I've watched you grow up. You've always done things appropriately. What's going on now? You met Bai Lu. Are you out of your mind? By doing such a thing, are you forcing me to do it myself? "
"Don't touch her."
Liang Feifan put out the cigarette in his hand with his fingers. His expression was cold. "She's my wife now. She's pregnant with my child. Grandpa, I've always respected you, so this is the only time I'll say something like this to you. Don't touch my woman. Otherwise, I'll really do what you call 'out of my mind'. "
Liang Wu-ming had never heard such threatening words. No one would say such things to him. But now, it was his grandson who said it to him.
Liang Wu-ming's old cheeks trembled. His face was full of anger, and his voice was even deeper. "Look at yourself now. What do you think you're doing? Do you know who you're talking to? I think you're really out of your mind! "
"I didn't marry her on a whim." Liang Feifan tried to explain. "Grandpa, I've brought her and her mother to see you. Do you think I don't respect you at all? No, I've thought of using normal means to make her part of our Family Liang. But you didn't acknowledge her. Not only that, but you also insulted her as a beautiful palace maid. While you're asking me to show you respect, shouldn't you also show some respect to me, the person who was at that time? So don't think that I'm being willful. Just like you said, I've always done things appropriately. This time, I didn't act recklessly either. "
Liang Wu-ming's lips trembled. For a long time, he didn't say a word.
Liang Feifan's words were both advancing and retreating. But every word was very reasonable, so he couldn't refute it. But now, he couldn't agree to let Bai Lu enter the Family Liang's door. It wasn't just because of the child in her belly and those messy reports that he was worried about —
It was because of Family Liang. Now that it had become like this, how could he, as the head of the family, turn a blind eye?
He frowned and finally sighed. "… Ah-Fan, Grandpa isn't an unreasonable person. That girl … I liked her at first, but then something like that happened. You should know that Grandpa can ignore her family background, but he can't ignore her chastity. Alright, since you're so protective of me, then I'll give her a choice. But in the end, she couldn't make a choice … "
"Grandpa, you're thinking too much. I've said it many times. It's impossible for me to become a father. The child in her belly is definitely mine. She's my woman and has never been with anyone else. So, she doesn't need to make such a choice at all. Even if she did, I wouldn't agree!"
Looking at his grandson's resolute expression, Liang Wu-ming knew that it was pointless for him to say anything more.
He kept sighing and shaking his head. In the end, he said in a calm and helpless voice, "… I'm old and can't control you young people. You want to marry her? If you insist on marrying her, then as her grandfather, I have nothing to say. But have you thought about it? Our Family Liang, our family, do you still want it? "
"I've never cared about your company's matters, and I don't care about the little money in your father's hands. But all these years, Family Liang has established a reputation in City A. I know not only my name, Liang Wu-ming, but also your father's Liang Clan. He has so many cousins under him, and all these years, they've been fighting among themselves, but they haven't really done anything. I think you know why that's so. Now that it's in your hands, if you really make everyone bleed, you should know that our Family Liang … will fall apart … That's the last thing I want to see. And about your sister … Ah Fan, Grandpa is really old. I don't have many years of peace left. My only wish now is for our family to live in harmony. If something like your sister happens again, I might just kick my legs and leave in anger. So, I'm only going to say one thing to you. I can't stop you if you want to get married, but if Bailu's existence will turn our family into a mess, I won't let her have an easy time! "
After Liang Wu-ming finished speaking, he got up and called for his old sidekick, who was guarding outside. Soon, someone came in and nodded slightly at Liang Feifan, then helped Liang Wu-ming out of the reception room.
After the door closed, the whole conference room fell into silence. Liang Feifan only felt that his tongue was a little dry. These days, his addiction to smoking seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. Sometimes, when he smoked too hard, even his throat would become dry.
But when he was upset, only the taste of nicotine could calm him down for a moment.
He leaned back on the sofa, took out another cigarette, put it in the corner of his mouth, took out a lighter, lit it, and took a big puff.
The white fog lingered in front of him, and he narrowed his eyes slightly. The world in front of him seemed to be shrouded in a white fog. His slender fingernails gently brushed against his eyebrows, and that handsome face of his had a gloomy and cold aura that was faintly discernible …
Bai Lu slept. When she woke up, she found a familiar figure sitting by her bed.
She reached out to press her aching temples and struggled to sit up on the bed. Liang Feifan quickly reached out to help her with the pillow. "What were you thinking about when you were sleeping? You've been frowning the whole time, and you're even mumbling in your sleep. "
Bai Lu's heart skipped a beat. "… Did I talk in my sleep?"
"Oh, you did."
"… What did you say?"
Liang Feifan smoothed her hair and smiled faintly. "I didn't hear what you said clearly."
Bai Lu tried to recall carefully, but she really couldn't remember what she had just dreamed. Perhaps she had been thinking about something before she went to sleep, so she had some strange dreams. Now, she couldn't remember a single one. Liang Feifan said that he didn't hear her clearly, so she thought that she probably just mumbled a few words.
She didn't take it to heart and asked him, "When did you come back?"
"A while ago." Liang Feifan's deep eyes swept across the thick cast on her leg. "Does your leg still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore."
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