"Thank you." Tian Xingyun thought for a moment and decided to thank him.
Huo Shaohua didn’t say anything else, taking Tian Xingyun to a place a distance from Huatan Village.
He let her get off the car to walk back herself; he didn’t want anyone to know about their relationship.
"Drive safely." Tian Xingyun got off and told him she would walk back herself.
When Huo Shaohua returned to the Huo Family, the living room was empty, and Housekeeper Liu told him his grandma was in the ancestral shrine.
When he arrived at the shrine, he saw his grandma offering incense to the ancestors.
After offering incense, she bowed before the ancestors, then said, "Forefathers and foremothers, the ninth generation daughter-in-law of the Huo Family has come to apologize."
Huo Shaohua felt very upset seeing his grandma .
He knew she was angry about the child’s matter.
He knelt beside his grandma and bowed three times to the ancestors.
"Grandma, please get up." He reached out to help her up.
"You didn’t want to live in this house, so why did you come back?" his grandma said with sadness and anger.
How she had raised him, and he had the audacity to say he didn’t want to be part of the Huo Family.
What a waste of her efforts, to him the Huo Family was less important than Song Yi.
"Grandma, I’m sorry, I was too impulsive before." Huo Shaohua apologized with guilt; he had said some hurtful things to his grandma.
His grandma had suffered so much for him over the years, yet he uttered those words.
"From today on, do whatever you want; I won’t stop you."
"Xingyun’s baby must be born, that is the bloodline of the Huo Family."
"Grandma, I can have her give birth to the child." Huo Shaohua conceded, though it meant betraying Song Yi.
But he could not avoid this responsibility, nor did he want to see his grandma sad and distressed.
"You don’t need to worry. I will take care of this child myself. My body is still strong, I can hold on for a few more years. Once the child is born, whether boy or girl, they will be the heir of the Huo Family. I will personally find someone to raise them." Grandma spoke seriously, without any emotion.
Since Shaohua was unwilling to take responsibility for Tian Xingyun, she wouldn’t force him anymore.
"Grandma, what are you doing!" Huo Shaohua felt panicked, worried about his grandma’s sudden resolve.
"Shaohua, just go and do what you want." Grandma turned her head and smiled at Huo Shaohua.
After speaking, she stood up and looked at the ancestral tablets of the Huo Family generations before her.
Her responsibility wasn’t complete yet; she needed to raise an outstanding heir for the Huo Family.
"Grandma, stop saying that, I agree to everything you say." Huo Shaohua’s voice was low and filled with agony. He felt like an unfilial descendant.
Why should he avoid it, letting his grandma think about everything for him in her old age.
"You don’t need to agree reluctantly; grandma is already prepared for what comes next."
"Grandma, I’ll agree to whatever you ask!"
"Will you marry Xingyun? The descendants of the Huo Family cannot be illegitimate children." Grandma knew forcing him wasn’t right, but it was the only way he would compromise.
"I will marry her." Huo Shaohua’s voice was cold and detached; he would marry Tian Xingyun.
"Swear in front of the ancestors of the Huo Family that you will marry Tian Xingyun as your wife."
"As the eldest grandson of the Huo Family’s eleventh generation, Huo Shaohua, I swear here that I will marry Tian Xingyun as my wife." Huo Shaohua knelt and earnestly made a vow before the ancestors of the Huo Family.
He couldn’t escape or shirk this responsibility; he could only face it.
As for Song Yi, he would explain to her. He believed she would understand him.
After staying in the shrine for a long time, Grandma and Huo Shaohua finally came out.
Back in his room, Huo Shaohua opened a bottle of liquor to drink, feeling suppressed and in great pain.
But he had no one to talk to, could only keep it all inside.
Between the Huo Family and Song Yi, he ultimately chose the Huo Family.
He had betrayed the vows he made with Song Yi.