Lin Hao held his father, urgently comforting him: "Dad, calm down first. Your health can’t handle the stress right now."
He signaled to Fang Miao, "Mom, hurry and bring a chair over, let Dad sit while he talks."
Fang Miao, as if waking from a dream, moved a chair over.
Lin Jianping was helped by his son to sit down.
"Fang Miao, I’m giving you a chance now, tell the whole story as it is."
Because his wife and son were both in the adjacent suite, Lin Jianping still got up to see Yu Mengyu off out of courtesy.
After his eyesight deteriorated, his hearing started to become sharper as compensation.
Just as he reached the door, Lin Jianping heard a sentence coming from the suite.
"Actually, your dad has a sister."
In an instant, Lin Jianping’s heart turned tumultuous, all kinds of emotions surged in at once.
He forced himself to listen for a while, finally unable to bear it, he pushed the door open heavily.
He wanted to confront Fang Miao directly, asking why she had hidden it from him, and why she was bringing his sister back at this time.
In a matter of moments, Fang Miao had calmed down, and came up with something to say in her mind.
She sighed in an affected manner.
"Alright, since you want to ask, I’ll tell you. Back then, when things just settled here, you had me go to Daye Village to bring Chunju over. I went as you told me."
"But when I got to Daye Village, Chunju didn’t want to see me, nor did she want to come back with me. She was still angry that we didn’t take her with us back then, she harbors resentment towards you."
Lin Jianping couldn’t help but wipe his eyes, murmuring, "She has every right to hate me, I should have taken her away back then."
Fang Miao couldn’t help but interject: "Back then, it was her who insisted on marrying whoever she could find, we tried to dissuade her."
Lin Jianping frowned, "Don’t bring that up, continue on. Why did you lie to me?"
"It was Lin Chunju who wanted to sever ties with us completely, she didn’t want anything to do with me, and even had the man she married beat me out with a big stick. After I came back, I was afraid you’d be heartbroken, and a bit frustrated myself, I just said she was already dead. I feared you’d ask more, so I said she wanted to come find you a year ago and her plane crashed, that way you’d feel a bit better, thinking she was thinking of you."
Upon hearing her explanation, Lin Jianping was doubtful.
"Then why are you trying to bring her back now?"
Fang Miao’s lies became more consistent, "It’s because your days are numbered now. No matter how angry or resentful I am, I can’t let you carry this regret. I’ve thought it through, if she still resents and blames, I’ll just kneel down and beg her to come before you, to let you see her once."
With Fang Miao’s account, Lin Jianping’s anger gradually subsided.
But he still felt that his sister wasn’t like that.
"There must be some misunderstanding, Chunju and I grew up together, she can’t be that stubborn."
Fang Miao said offhandedly: "Who knows, maybe it’s her husband instigating. The Yue Family, being so down and out, finally got to marry a wife, of course they wouldn’t let Lin Chunju leave."
Lin Jianping thought about it, and it did seem possible.
He sighed eventually.
"You’re right, if there’s one regret in my life, it’s that I haven’t seen my sister again. If I could really see her once more, I could die with no regrets."
Lin Hao listened on the side, feeling something was off.
His mother’s words seemed reasonable, but just now they were discussing an exchange of lives.
But seeing his father’s hopeful eyes, Lin Hao ultimately didn’t say a word.
People cling to life and fear death.
Even if Lin Hao was willing to give his life for his father, now with a glimmer of hope in front of him, he hesitated after all.
In any case, find that person first.