Chapter 14 Searching (2/2)

The dark nights at the borders was an eye-full of endless yellow sands. This was a remote, desolate place, not even a trace of green life, only the troops that were stationed here.

A man in his thirties wearing a black robe stood along the yellow sand, looking in the direction of the capital, with guilt and longing.

“Father, it’s late, why haven’t you rested yet?” A fifteen-year-old man wearing armor arrived at the middle-aged man’s side. “Is father worried about the war? The emperor has already decreed that Ming Wang will save the situation. With Ming Wang’s talents, he can surely turn defeat into victory.”

“Mo Xian, this father is thinking about Nian’er” Lan Jian Jun’s eyes were full of longing.

Hearing Father talking about little sister, Lan Mo Xian did not make a sound. Towards this father, he was respectful, but the only dissatisfaction with this father was that he did not care about his Nian’er meimei. This was the only estrangement between father and son.

“I just dreamed of your mother. She blamed me for why I didn’t love Nian’er. It is father who let your mother down.” Lan Jian Jun sighed.

“Is Nian’er meimei still well? Why did father send Nian’er meimei to the outside manor?” asked Lan Mo Xian frowning.

“While your father isn’t in the manor, it is difficult to prevent people from treating Nian’er badly. These years, although father is not close with Nian’er, she is still mine and Xiao Ran’s child, how could I now love? But this father cannot put aside Xiao Ran’s death, seeing Nian’er, I would think of Xiao Ran, so could only alienate Nian’er.” Lan Jian Jun recalled those years.Whenever Nian’er saw him, she used such lonely eyes to look at him, but he always turned a blind eye. It is not that he did not love. At night when his daughter was asleep, he used to secretly go see that well-behaved daughter. But while one part of his heart liked this child, another part resented this child. But now, he knew that he was wrong. He owed his daughter.

“Now Nian’er is much safer in the outside manor. The housekeeper sent me a message the day before saying Nian’er is very obedient. I really owe Nian’er” Lan Jian Jun’s eyes were a little moist. After the recent dream, he understood he was wrong. That was the child he has been waiting for, loving for so long, just what has he done for so many years?

Lan Mo Xian wanted to comfort his father, but he also felt that his father really ill-treated his little sister. When he thought of his poor little sister, Lan Mo Xian felt that his father had made a lot of mistakes. He didn’t know if after going back to Jing city, Father makes up to Nian’er meimei, will it make Nian’er meimei happy? After all, Nian’er meimei longed for fatherly love for so long.

How could Lan Jian Jun know, the daughter he wanted to make up to was already dead?She died with a deep unwillingness.