Chapter 423
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"What about you? Don't you have something to tell me too? " Lin Jiage asked as he stirred the coffee in front of him. Since it was Soft Bun who was speaking first, he might as well let her speak first. Thus, he said, "Why don't you tell me what you want to say first?"
"Alright then …" Shi Yao didn't stand on ceremony with Lin Jiage. After agreeing to his request, she looked at Lin Jiage through the candlelight and said, "I've found out about one thing, and that is that Grandpa Lin has been feigning illness all this while. So, I think I can bring up the matter regarding the annulment of our engagement with your family …"
Grandpa? Feigning illness? Annulment of our engagement? Bring it up with my family …
As these words drifted into Lin Jiage's ears one after another, he suddenly felt as if someone had smashed his head with a wooden club several times, causing him to freeze on the spot.
There were still remnants of the doting and indulgent look on his face when he had allowed Shi Yao to speak first earlier. He stared at Shi Yao for a long while before blinking his eyes lightly. Then, with a hint of uncertainty in his voice, he asked, "What … did you say?"
Did I not express myself clearly earlier? Or perhaps, he was doubting my claim that Grandpa Lin was feigning illness?
Shi Yao pondered for two seconds before speaking once more. Just like before, her voice was still as gentle as before, "I received a video a few days ago. In the video, Grandpa Lin and Auntie Sun were having a hot pot together in the hospital ward. In the video, Grandpa Lin seemed to be in high spirits, and he didn't seem to be sick at all …"
"… Because I don't really like the person who posted the video, I didn't believe her at the time. But on the second day of the summer holidays, I went to visit Grandpa Lin. When I arrived, Grandpa Lin's condition was indeed very bad. He was coughing non-stop and his face was swollen. At that time, I thought that the person who posted the video was definitely slandering Grandpa Lin. But I didn't stay for long before Grandpa Lin asked me to go home. I didn't think too much about it and left the ward. But when I reached the entrance of the hospital, I realized that I had left my subway card in Grandpa Lin's ward. When I went back to get it, I saw Grandpa Lin playing chess with the people in the ward next door. He was even eating ice cream. That was how I knew that the person who posted the video wasn't lying to me.
As Shi Yao spoke, she took out her phone and tapped into her photo gallery. She found a few photos and pushed them over to Lin Jiage, "… Look, these are the photos I took that day. You'll know that I'm not lying to you after seeing them."
Shi Yao spoke for a very, very long time, but Lin Jiage felt as if he was listening to a heavenly book. With a dazed expression, he leaned against the back of his chair, maintaining his previous posture for a long while before he slowly turned his gaze to Shi Yao's phone screen.
Just as she had said earlier, it was really a scene of Grandpa Lin playing chess and eating ice cream with another person.
Completely oblivious to Lin Jiage's thoughts, Shi Yao waited for him to stare at the photo for a moment before speaking up once more, "I was thinking of calling you yesterday to tell you about this matter, but after some thought, I realized that I'm going to the summer camp with you today, so I decided to tell you today."
Due to the long period of neglect, Lin Jiage's phone screen had already turned black, but he was still staring at Shi Yao's phone.
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