"Child, you’ve misunderstood!"
Jiang Hongfa sighed deeply and said, "Back then, when I took your father abroad without your great-grandmother, it wasn’t my intention to abandon her. It was because she didn’t want to leave her holand, she said her brothers and sisters were all in the country, even if they were already resting underground. As their elder sister, she couldn’t just leave them behind. I tried to persuade her, but your great-grandmother was adamant. I had no choice but to take your father with ."
"Where were your son, his children, and the woman who bore them when he left with you? Did he only care about his own safety, ignoring the life or death of his woman and children?"
Without any visible emotional fluctuation, Kang Li looked at the silver-haired elderly man in front of her, her grandfather by blood.
"Your father didn’t want to leave. He was forcibly taken abroad... Back then, families like ours were bound for trouble, and your father, inexperienced, was seduced by a maid from the estate, and coaxed into eloping with her. I only had this one son and couldn’t just watch him get mixed up with a maid, so I arranged for many people to search for him.
By the ti they found your father, several months had passed since his elopent with the maid. My people encountered him in a small town in the Northwest, followed my orders, and brought him directly back to North City. A few days later, I forcibly took him abroad... Your father quarreled with , saying the maid was carrying his child, that it would be born in a month, but I was furious at the ti and didn’t want to hear it.
You’re a smart child, so I’ll be honest with you. Though I care about family backgrounds, I’m not an inflexible old man. That maid harbored ill intentions, knowing the estate’s rules,
yet still plotted to set her sights on the master. A woman like that, I completely disregarded. If not for her family serving here faithfully over the years, her father’s loyalty to ,
to put it harshly, I would have wanted to kill her. But I didn’t do that, I just didn’t interfere with her fate. If she was lucky enough to know what path to take, naturally she would survive and live well. Otherwise, it was all her own doing!"
Kang Li could see this grandfather by blood was a straightforward elder, speaking truthfully without fabrication.
Silent, ti trickled away. Kang Li raised her downcast eyes, again looking at him: "Then, after living abroad for over twenty years, what suddenly prompted you to find ?"
"Child... All these years abroad, your father constantly thought of returning ho, but I couldn’t ignore his safety, so I repeatedly stopped him, sent people to stay close to him, preventing his return.
He thought of your great-grandmother and grandmother, thought of you and that woman. Though over the years, he’s greatly succeeded in business, making , this old man, proud,
every mont he had free, he went drinking at bars, always getting drunk as a form of revenge against , hating , resenting for stopping him from returning to find you all...
A few years ago, he ca back and suddenly told he t a young girl from the holand on the street, said the girl was nad Kang Li, said she was his daughter because she looked identical to her mother. I didn’t believe him, and we had a huge argunt. He secretly prepared to return... but of course, he didn’t succeed.
And just this spring, he readied himself again, planning to return to find you all, and arranged for lawyers to fly ahead and inquire about you while he followed. Who knew... on the way to the airport, a contrived accident left your father in a coma...
In that car accident, two bodyguards died, and another who grew up with your father was severely injured protecting him, after being unconscious for days, woke up but his leg was permanently disabled, now undergoing rehabilitation in the hospital.
Recently, your father’s vital signs showed issues, though rescued by doctors, it’s only temporary. Doctors say if he doesn’t wake up, once organ failure happens,
it ans he’s close to brain death. To awaken your father is crucial. As his father, I talk to him a lot almost every day, but perhaps because of our bad relationship, he shows no response.
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