Lawrence's heart ached when he saw Jessie's desperate face. He was about to comfort her, but Ken
stopped him.
He shook his head to indicate Lawrence to leave.
The door was closed. Seeing that Lawrence was about to speak, Ken immediately said, "I know what
you want to say. Maybe it's a big blow to her now, but the reality is like this. She has to face it."
It was better to have short sharp pains than long dull pains. It was better to cut her thought off than to
keep her in torment all the time.
Lawrence didn't say a word. Looking sideways at the closed door, his heart ached.
Although Ken had told him to let Jessie calm herself down, and it needed time for her to accept what
had happened, Lawrence couldn't turn a blind eye to her.
He went downstairs, heat up the bird's nest congee, and took it upstairs.
"Jessie, I just got the porridge heated up. Please eat some. Otherwise, your body really can't stand it."
Lawrence kept persuading Jessie, as if he was begging her. But Jessie didn't say anything, just curling
up at the end of the bed, with a dull look on her face.
He put down the porridge and sat beside her quietly.
"You know what? I met you for the first time when I was ten years old. In that year, my family, the Xiao
family, was destructed completely overnight. I survived because I went to the summer camp. At that
time, when I came back, I saw the entire Xiao family was burnt into ruins, and all the members of the
family didn't even have their bones left. Do you know what I was thinking at that time? I was wondering
why I went out and why I should survive. All my families have left me. What's the meaning of living
alone? However, when Grandpa found me, told me your story, which made my life more and more
meaningful."
He knew that in addition to his parents, family members, there was also someone he needed to protect
in this world.
That was Jasmine.
"Look at this. It's a photo of your parents. You are as pretty as aunt, especially your watery eyes."
Lawrence put the photo in front of Jessie. Jessie slightly raised her eyes and saw the two people in that
yellowed photo.
In the photo, a man and a woman were handsome and gentle. They hugged each other and smiled
happily.
Jessie looked at them in the photo calmly. Lawrence continued, "Your parents loved each other very
much and were filial to your grandfather. Ken thought that they would be happier with you, the new
family member, but he didn't expect that two important family members were dead overnight. If you
were him, you would have hatred too, wouldn't you? Jessie, I know it's hard for you to accept that. But
please put yourself in grandfather's standpoint. He sent you away because he had to. That doesn't
mean that he doesn't love you. On the contrary, he loves you too much. He was afraid that you won't
get the happiness you deserve."
"Love me too much?" Hearing that, Jessie raised her eyes abruptly and glared at Lawrence with
hatred. "If he loved me, he wouldn't have chosen to tell me the truth now. Since he had hidden it for
twenty-one years, why didn't he continue to hide it? I once doubted that I wasn't my mother's child.
Why did others' parents love them so much while my parents treated me so badly! If you said you love
me, why didn't you come to me? Why didn't you take me away? Haven't you ever come to see me?
Don't you know how my life was?"
Since she was a little girl, she had been living gingerly and kept an eye on the expression on the faces
of Darren and Ivy every day.
Even so, she was still optimistic and worked hard to live.
For the sake of her mother and younger brother, no matter how tired she was, she had been working
hard to live.
But why did he tell her now that everything she did was not what she should suffer? Why did he tell her
that she deserved a better life?
Although it was true, how could she accept it?
Just as Ken said, it was all the fault of the Lan family. If it wasn't the Lan family, her birth parents
wouldn't have died, and she wouldn't have been given by Ken to the Xiao family because she suddenly
became an orphan.
Then, all of this would not happen.
Lawrence held Jessie's hand and said sadly, "That's not the case. We went to see you when you were
five years old, and grandpa asked you if you wanted to go with him, but you said that your parents
loved you very much, and you were very happy, so we didn't take you away."
"I was happy? When did you ask me? Can you take a child's words seriously?"
Why did they come to ask if she was happy?! They actually asked a child who didn't even understand
what happy was!
It was so ridiculous.
Jessie sighed deeply and said, "Forget it. That's all in the past. It's meaningless to care about it
anymore. No matter whose daughter I am and how much hatred there is between them, I don't want to
care about it anymore. Now I just want to say that I want to leave this place. If you really love me and
care about me, please let me go. I won't stop grandpa from doing anything to the Lan family. It's his
choice. But, whatever I want to do is none of your business."
"Jessie, why don't you understand what I mean?" Lawrence stood up suddenly and said anxiously,
"Even if you die here, grandpa won't let you go. Don't you understand? The Lan family killed his son
and daughter-in-law. If it weren't them, your grandfather wouldn't have sent you away. He was sad too.
Have you ever thought how regretful and angry he was when he found out that you had a totally bad
life in the past twenty years? If it weren't the Lan family, he should be enjoying the happiness of his
family right now, and how could he be planning to revenge at such an old age!"
Every night, Ken would sit alone on the cane chair at the balcony, with the only photo he had taken at
his son's wedding in his hand. He looked at it quietly.
With grey hair, his sharp eyes lost their original sheen, and his wrinkled face was filled with grief.
It was not difficult to see that he really loved his son and daughter-in-law.
Although Lawrence didn't agree with Ken to impose all the faults on Mark, he felt heartbroken when he
saw Ken like this.
"Right. The Lan family ruined his happy life. He could go to the one who did it. Why would he take the
blame on Mark?" Jessie asked loudly. Maybe the Lan family owed the Qin family, but it was just one of
the Lan family, not the whole family.
Did it mean that he doesn't care killing innocent people at will just for revenge?
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