105 Golden Silence (1/2)

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At Zhou Sheng's nod, she continued ruefully, ”Father knew the entire truth about everything that had happened, didn't he?”

”Yes.”

”For years on end, both of them must have planned and plotted the entire thing. If I remember the timeline correctly, it happened when we were all quite young. This meant that father had kept this secret for years.”

Zhou Sheng could faintly discern where this was going.

”I couldn't care about it when I was young but when I had matured enough to realise the importance, they should have both told me the truth.”

Before he could get a word edgewise, Su Li continued.

”Do you know why I knelt that day? Do you know why I kowtowed? You always thought that it was simply because I love that person but that is not the entire truth.”

”What? What other reason could be there?”

Su Li gave a wan smile when she heard the question.

”Father was ready to give me his entire wealth and responsibilities, everything that he had built with his own hands but he never told me this one truth.”

”You were a child back then. I am sure he didn't keep anything from you intentionally.”

”No. You see that is where you are wrong. Both of them - my father and the person I love with all my heart and soul kept such a big secret from me.”

Zhou Sheng gripped her in his arms, ”No. I am sure they simply didn't tell you because they were worried about you and didn't want to stress you. You were already in such a precarious situation. I am sure they didn't want you to worry about other things at such a time.”

A sigh escaped her lips and once again she shook her head in denial.

”No. That's not it. We had everything in hand. I am never one to blubber and I wouldn't have even disclosed such a thing on pain of death. It really makes me wonder why they never took me into confidence.”

He tried to shake her so that she would remove that far away look in her eyes. It was as if even though she was here physically, she would be gone without a moment's notice.

Su Li shrugged his hands off and turned to look at Zhou Sheng.

Really look at him and try to find traces of everything that had happened in the past.

After all, both of them were the only remnants of the first world and everything else had been blown away like fairy dust – leaving one to wonder if it had all been an overactive imagination or real, tangible world.