After Ji Lingfeng finished speaking, he couldn't calm down for a long time.
He resented Nie Qingru for killing the woman he loved most, but he could not blame her for her madness in this matter.
Nie Qingru endured for twenty years for love, but found out that the person she had tried so hard to protect had already died. When she found the body, only white bones were left.
The pain was enough to drive a person crazy.
"She hates your grandfather and everyone in the Ji family... She also hates your mother, so... she did that."
Ji Lingfeng was silent for a moment: "After I knew about your existence, I also thought about asking you to come back, but I found that time did not erase her hatred for your grandfather, but it became stronger and stronger. I was afraid that she would continue to attack you, so I pretended not to accept you. I hope that she will not involve you in the grudges of the older generation for your innocence. Qiao Nian, I am too naive."
Qiao Nian leaned back slightly, his back resting on the chair, his slender neck showing through the collar of his sweatshirt, his skin so white it was dazzling.
She pinched her nose with one hand, then looked at the man lying on the hospital bed with her sharp and rational eyes.
"So you feel sorry for her?"
"I… "
"No matter how pitiful she is, she shouldn't let others pay for her pain!" Qiao Nian's eyes were cold, but a fire suddenly ignited in her heart, as if any spark could set the prairie on fire: "The people who owed her were Ji Wuxuan, the hidden family, and her Nie family who forced her to marry. Of these three people, one she didn't have time to retaliate against, one she didn't dare to retaliate against, and the remaining one she couldn't retaliate against... So she put all her resentment towards life on her own daughter. Don't you think it's ridiculous? Was it Ji Qing who caused her life tragedy? Or did Ji Qing kill that man? Or did Ji Qing make her compromise and marry?"
"Besides being born in a bad way, what did Ji Qing do wrong besides being born in her belly?"
"She just said she hated that person and then she took it for granted that she stood on the moral high ground and sentenced the innocent person to pay with his life. This is the biggest joke I have ever heard!"
Qiao Nian rarely spoke so much. Every word she said pierced Ji Lingfeng's heart, tearing his heart to pieces, tearing open the surface of compromise to reveal the cowardly self inside who was unable to face himself.
"you're right."
He could seek revenge for Ji Qing, but he didn't dare to investigate what happened in the first place.
He doesn't even have the qualifications to miss that person.
“Sizzle—”
Qiao Nian pulled out the chair and stood up, looking down at him: "I know everything you want to tell me. Since you don't know who surrounded and killed her back then, I will find it out myself."
Ji Lingfeng watched the girl about to push the door and walk out, and called out, "Qiao Nian."
The girl who opened the door with one hand did not look back or leave immediately. Instead, she stayed there with her back to him, waiting for him to speak.
Ji Lingfeng looked gloomy: "Do you know what it means for you to investigate this matter?"
"I know." The girl's nonchalant voice came from the door: "I found her things hidden in the old house of the Ji family. There is a folder inside with a sentence written on it. It is her last words."
Ji Lingfeng's eyebrows jumped, and he raised his eyes suddenly, his heart beating faster: "W-what?"
"—Wherever the truth is, I will go even if there are thousands of people against me, and I will not regret it even if I die nine times!"
Her voice was blown away by the wind, yet it was as firm as ever.
"I want to find out what it is that she would rather die than defend."
(End of this chapter)