Tang Yuyan had not finished speaking when she was suddenly interrupted by Gu Qiangwei.
She was stunned as if struck by lightning.
"No, that’s not it..."
"You saw me a long time ago, why didn’t you recognize me!?" Her trembling heart could hardly contain the excitement, and tears uncontrollably fell, mixed with both joy and pain.
Joy that she was still alive, pain that she had left her for twelve years without ever searching for her.
Her shrieking voice plunged Tang Yuyan into endless sorrow, a pain that truly pierced the heart.
"I’m sorry, Weiwei... It wasn’t... It wasn’t intentional..."
"Twelve years, I searched for you for twelve years... but why when you saw me, didn’t you recognize me, why did you abandon me... why didn’t you come back to find me!?"
Her reproach tore Tang Yuyan’s heart apart, plunging her into endless self-blame.
"Weiwei... I’m sorry, I had a car accident... I forgot you... I didn’t come back for you, it’s my fault, I’m so sorry, truly sorry..."
Gu Qiangwei also cried, her slender figure shivering in the cold wind.
"You forgot... I searched for you for twelve years, yet you say you forgot... sob..."
"Qiangwei, your mother has amnesia, she truly doesn’t remember you existed. That’s why—" Watching the mother and daughter cry in agony, Nangong Mingchuan, who had been standing behind all along, also felt his eyes moisten, and couldn’t help but explain for his wife.
But such an explanation, even if reasonable, left Gu Qiangwei’s heart, which had endured so much torment, unsure how to accept it.
"You forgot... But you gave birth to a daughter, not someone else, a daughter! No matter how much you don’t remember, you should still know that you had a daughter! With one ’I don’t remember,’ you have deserted me for so many years... Do you know... I..." Thinking of all the suffering she endured in the Gu Family over the years, Gu Qiangwei felt more and more aggrieved.
Her heartbroken voice trembled faintly, almost unable to speak.
"At the Gu Family... I..." She wanted to talk about those years at the Gu Family, but her heartache made her tremble so much that her weak body slid down...
Seeing this, Qin Sijue quickly stretched his arm out, scooping her up and supporting her.
"Weiwei, I’m sorry, Mom is sorry, I lost my memory... I really don’t remember anything that happened twelve years ago, I’m sorry... I’m sorry," Tang Yuyan desperately apologized, hoping only that her daughter could forgive her.
"I don’t want your apologies!"
Gu Qiangwei cried out.
She didn’t know what was wrong with herself, finding her mother should have made her happy.
But thinking about how her mother was alive in this world, yet had never come back to look for her even once, she felt extremely wronged, as if she had been abandoned, with no one to cherish, no one to love her.
Her refusal caused Tang Yuyan, who had been about to move forward, to suddenly halt her step, afraid to move forward, scared to advance.
"Then what do you want? Just say it, Mom can make up for it..."
"How can you make up for it? Do you know, you were gone... I had no one to cherish me, no one to love me, and I was almost sold by Gu Zhendong... sob... I’ve been waiting for you to come back and take me, but you just left without a word... You clearly hadn’t died, but why didn’t you come back to find me..."
Hearing everything she said, Tang Yuyan felt as if she were being tortured, each word piercing through her heart.
"I didn’t know... I really didn’t know these things..."
"You didn’t know..." Gu Qiangwei kept sobbing, unsure of what she really wanted.
She just felt wronged, feeling that she had been abandoned by her mother for twelve years, but today she suddenly appeared, telling her that she had forgotten her... forgotten for twelve years.