Chapter 365 - Shocking News (1/2)

*Present*

As He Lijuan was once again brought in, she told about her meeting with Han Zongying where she had confessed everything under Yunru's pressure

And now, she was extremely pale as she sensed the alarming auras, especially coming from Han Huizhong and Han Tian. She broke into a cold sweat.

I-I am so scared... What will they do now? It's been years now already! Come on! She is already dead.

Zhiyuan quietly signaled Yunru to send her back. She was to be dealt with, no doubt about it. But now wasn't the time for it. Yunru slightly nodded and said, ”Leave.”

He Lijuan was shocked.

J-Just like that?

But she didn't care about it. She rushed out of the room, wanting to get away from them as soon as possible.

I will leave this city tonight itself!

Which was useless because Yunru had already taken care of the arrangements to prevent her from running away. He knew how her mind would work.

Han Huizhong collapsed back, defeated. He was trembling all over and tears fell from his eyes. The past that had shaped him to get revenge against An Guoting turned out to be his biggest nightmare.

To realize that his own daughter was behind everything crushed his heart. Everything that he did until now was meaningless. The whole revenge and justice for Han Zongying was nothing but a joke.

Where did I go wrong in raising her? What did I...

An Guoting said, ”I...was too soft,” he chuckled in a self-deprecating voice, ”Yueqin never used to like that about me - that I was too gentle. She used to scold me a lot that I need to toughen up.”

Caihong silently sniffled and tightly held her father's hand, who looked guilty and ashamed.

”I hid her truth only because I felt that no parent should come to know about this side of his daughter. It was too painful to bear. Your health had already weakened as soon as you came to know that she was assaulted. If you knew that she had forced me by the threat of her suicide, you would be devastated. I didn't want to destroy a family.

She had already ruined my life. I didn't want you all to become disappointed in her too. And honestly, I didn't care about the accusation. She played with my emotions for Yueqin, and by that point when I learned that she was never alive, I simply had no energy to confront you with the truth.”

His trembling hands covered his face as broke down. ”But...I had no idea that you were plotting for revenge all this time. Zongying killed herself, and I thought you would wage a war against me once again, thinking that she did so because of me. But you never confronted me. I was taken aback, but then I forgot about it because you did. But you actually never did. Then suddenly years later, I came to know that Caihong was…” he shuddered and gasped.

”For a moment, I really wondered if you were behind that incident. But it had been more than twenty years by then, and I thought that would you really bear that grudge and wait for so long until my daughter was old enough to have your revenge? It seemed impossible. It seemed stupid. Our families had stayed away. Our businesses never crossed paths. So I thought everything related to Han Zongying was over. But Caihong and Zhiyuan were dating. Maybe that triggered you thinking about the past, and you suddenly desired to have revenge.”