Chapter 889 – Finally Freed After Twelve years (1/2)

Finally Freed After Twelve years

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Jiang Chen’s words exploded in their ears like a ballistic missile. He purposely raised his voice using the Great Soul Derivation technique. Doing so, every word entered their ears and into their hearts like sharp blades, especially for Gu Xuantian.

All the elders present were senior experts. Gu Lan was a junior, a child to them. They were the people who saw her grew up. It was impossible to say there were no attachment between them and Gu Lan.

The one who was shaken up the most was Gu Xuantian. He was totally petrified. In the twelve years that Gu Lan had been imprisoned, there wasn’t a single day that he thought of reconsidering the mistake that his sister had made. He just followed the rules of the family and sentenced her biological sister to imprisonment.

‘Gu Xuantian, did you ever feel guilty about what you did to your sister, Gu Lan, all these years?’

This sentence of Jiang Chen lingered beside his ears. Did he really have no guilt? No, it was just like what Jiang Chen had said. Every time he saw Gu Lan’s haggard face, his heart would ache. So, he reduced the frequency of his visit.

Not only did he feel guilty for imprisoning her, but he also attempted to release her sister many times, but he needed her to admit her mistakes. If Gu Lan said ‘I was wrong’, these three words, he would grant her freedom, she was his sister after all. However, her sister did not admit anything over these past twelve years.

All along, he didn’t understand why was it so hard to say those words. It was just now that he finally understood the reason why Gu Lan refused to say those words. It was because she didn’t do anything wrong. The fault lied within himself and the rules of the Gu Family.

Why is it that humans are called humans? This is because humans have emotions and feelings. Gu Lan was a person who would never forget people’s kindness. She even pledged herself to marry Wu Tianyang, her true lover. Gu Xuantian, the patriarch, on the other hand had separated the both of them and imprisoned Gu Lan, which didn’t make any sense at all.

“Mother…”

Wu Ningzhu couldn’t stand it anymore. She fell to the ground with a puff and cried loudly. Over the past twelve years, she had never forgotten her mother’s face, she would remember it for the rest of her life. At that time, she was merely a ten-year-old kid but she could still remember her mother’s features.

Every word of Jiang Chen was like a blade, landing on her body. She couldn’t imagine how her mother survived through all these years.

Jiang Chen knelt down to embrace Wu Ningzhu’s shoulders. His heart ached, seeing her becoming like this. She was a very persistent woman, he had never seen her drop a single tear. She was many times stronger than other men, but only Jiang Chen knew how much bitterness she endured in her life. Jiang Chen was the one who expressed all the bitterness that had been suffocating her for the past twelve years, like a large opened pipe that flowed until the tank was empty.

“Ning Er.”

Wu Ningzhu cried bitterly. It had broken down the emotional barrier in Gu Xuantian’s heart, causing tears to well up in his eyes. No matter how tenacious or how dignified a person is, he or she would play many roles in life. Gu Xuantian was the highly respected patriarch of the Gu Family, but he was also a brother and an uncle. Regardless of how high he stood in the hierarchy, they were his family. Only he could understand what the term family meant to him. He had lost his son, so he understood very well the importance of family.

“Could it be that I was wrong?”

Gu Xuantian shook his head. He looked like a man who just aged for another forty years. It was undeniable that Jiang Chen’s words were very disrespectful but he didn’t hate Jiang Chen for that. Instead, he was grateful that Jiang Chen said this to him. Because of these words, he was awoken. Suddenly, he felt that despite all the experiences that he had in his life, his wisdom was worse than a young man.