Chapter 822 - Sangsang, I’m Leaving (1/2)

Yi Jingxi shook his head and said, “That’s what I thought at first. Earlier, my mother mentioned to your mother that your father never touched her. I don’t know whose child that was.”

Luosang was speechless. Chu Lei was really reckless in her personal life when she was young.

“I guess your father was very angry when he found out,” she said.

“Yes, very angry.” Yi Jingxi clenched his teeth and said, “He loved my mother so much. He gave her all the money he made and listened to every word she said. He never drank or smoke because that was what she asked. After knowing that, his heart was broken. He forced my mother to tell him how she got pregnant. She told him that your father raped her, and that your father threatened to not let her graduate unless she did what your father said.”

Luosang sneered, “And your father believed her.”

“Yes, he did. He went to question Xu Zhengxuan and my mother didn’t know. He stayed in a hotel near the school, but that night the hotel caught fire and he died.” Yi Jingxi’s tears gushed out as he finished talking.

Luosang was choked with sobs. “That’s why you hate my father. You thought if my father didn’t hurt your mother, your father would still be alive.”

Yi Jingxi nodded then raised his head and wiped his tears with the back of his hand. “Yes. My father loved me so much. He was a very good father yet he died such a miserable death. Ever since he died, I told myself that I’d make your father pay. That’s why I showed up in your life, made you fall in love with me. I just didn’t know that I’d fall for you too. I hesitated, struggled, but still I couldn’t forget about my father’s death. So, I had no choice but to sacrifice you.”

“I often thought that even though I framed your father, he is guilty indeed, that he did something bad but no one caught him. But now I learned that my mother lied to me. With a lie she pushed me into a hopeless state and ruined my life. Your father had good principles. When we were together, he was very nice to me. He let me work in Xu Group, but when I got familiar with the business, I stole your shares together with the other shareholders. I’m sorry, Sangsang. I owe your family too much. I’ll turn myself in.”

Hearing that, Luosang stayed silent for a long while. She felt that the whole thing was so ridiculous.

This was actually something very simple. Clearly, Chu Lei tried to seduce her father but failed. Meanwhile, she was with some other man and was afraid that her husband might find out about it. So she made up a lie. And that lie cost her husband’s life and made her son live in hatred.

She had countless chances to explain but she never did. Maybe she was too much of a coward to do that. How could a woman be so selfish and terrible? She was even worse than Jiang Qifei.

“Didn’t you do any background checks before you started carrying out your plan?” Luosang accused him. “You firmly believed in your mother’s lie.”

Yi Jingxi lowered his head guiltily and said, “I hired some people to ask around. They asked your neighbors and some other professors in your father’s school. Those people said that your father was indeed close with Chu Lei. I didn’t dig any deeper after that.”

Luosang didn’t know what to say.

“Sangsang, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. I’ve done you too much harm.” Yi Jingxi lowered his head in regret. His tears fell on his shoes. “And I made your father spend so many years in prison. I’ll go to prison to atone for my crime. You take care.”

After saying that, he gazed straight at her, seemed to imprint her face in his mind.

Luosang felt heartache as well. She really didn’t know what to say. She pitied him, but didn’t think that he was forgivable.

Luosang said honestly, “I hope you can reflect on yourself in prison. You’re still young after all. If you turn yourself in, the judge will give you a lesser punishment. Don’t be like before. Be a big-hearted man. Don’t always think that you need to ruin everyone else’s happiness because you have lost your own. Don’t think that you’d rather destroy the things that you can’t have. That was just extreme.”

He planned to turn himself in, meaning that he was not entirely bad.

“Can you forgive me then?” Yi Jingxi’s eyes showed a gleam of hope.