The day after returning home, Shen Qinglan received an invitation from Shen Xitong to attend her piano performance.
Shen Qinglan remembered that Chu Yunrong had said that she was eager to hold a piano concert for Shen Xitong, and she had been preparing for it, but it turned out the date was this Friday.
She didn"t plan to go, but Chu Yunrong called in person and said Shen Qian would come back to partic.i.p.ate, so Shen Qinglan had to promise her.
If she"s going to go, naturally; Fu Hengyi would accompany her.
Shen Qian came back on Thursday causing Fu Hengyi and Shen Qinglan to be called back to the Shen house for dinner.
“Dad. ” Shen Qinglan called out with her clear voice.
“Dad. ” Fu Hengyi followed in greeting, polite and gentle. Although he had not said this word for more than 20 years, but saying it wasn"t too difficult.
Shen Qian nodded with a smile. He wanted to raise his hand to touch his daughter"s head but remembered that his daughter didn"t like to have physical contact with people. So, he placed his hand on Fu Hengyi"s shoulder.
“I heard that you were injured this time, have you healed up?”
“Thank you for your concern, Dad. It"s much better now.”
“That"s good.” Shen Qian had a gratified smile as he looked at Fu Hengyi"s eyes. No matter what, his daughter wanted to marry Fu Hengyi, and his father agreed to the marriage. Shen Qian didn"t show his att.i.tude towards the marriage from the beginning to the end. He didn"t oppose or agree with it.
“Lan Lan, it"s still early. Would you accompany Dad to the garden?” Shen Qian asked Shen Qinglan.
Shen Qinglan nodded, “Okay.”
“Why don"t you go home and see your grandpa first?” She said to Fu Hengyi.
“You don"t have to worry about me.” Fu Hengyi answered mildly.
Shen Qinglan did not care about him anymore and followed Shen Qian out.
“Lan Lan, how are you doing after your marriage?” Shen Qian was the first to speak.
Shen Qinglan thought that Shen Qian wasn"t really asking about her marriage life. Her eyes flashed, “Very well, he is very kind to me.”
Shen Qian looked at his daughter in front of him and seemed to sigh with emotion. “Dad once thought that you would marry a businessman, a teacher, a doctor or even an artist, but I never thought of a soldier.”
Shen Qinglan looked at Shen Qian with curiosity.
“Because you don"t like the army that much.” Shen Qian said this naturally, but Shen Qinglan was very surprised in her heart. She believed that she had covered up well and had never revealed any emotion. She didn"t understand where Shen Qian was coming from.
“You have been hiding it well. But Lan Lan, I am your biological father. Although I haven"t spent much time with you, I can guess how your mind is. I don"t know what happened to you in the past 11 years, which had made you develop such a cold character. Maybe you know, maybe you don"t know; but in fact, when you first came back, your grandfather and I both sent someone to check you.”
Shen Qinglan was silent. She knew about it.
“The result is just like what you said. There is no difference. But Lan Lan, Dad knows that that isn"t your real past, and Dad will not ask about your experience in those years. Since you have thought of covering it up, you must not want to let anyone know."
“What do you want to say?” She asked straightforwardly. She couldn"t guess Shen Qian"s purpose of saying all this.
Shen Qian looks at the slight alienation between Shen Qinglan"s eyebrows and feels a sense of helplessness in his heart. “Lan Lan, Dad doesn"t mean anything by saying all of this to you today. Dad just wanted to tell you that no matter what the purpose of your return is, Dad and Mom love you. especially your Grandmother, who loved you the most in her life."
“I will not harm the family. ” Shen Qinlan interrupts.
Shen Qian rubbed his forehead and had a headache. For the first time, he felt it was such a tiring thing to communicate with people. “Lan Lan, you misunderstand what Dad means. Dad knows you have no ill will towards this family. Dad just …”
“You just know that Shen Xitong and I don"t get along, and the person she likes is Fu Hengyi, but Fu Hengyi and I are married. Do you think that the purpose of my marriage with Fu Hengyi is to get revenge on Shen Xitong? Revenge at her for taking everything that belonged to me?”
Shen Qinglan"s eyes were cold and distant. “You know I don"t like the army, and thought I would marry anyone with any status but not a soldier. As a result, the reality is out of your expectation. I just married a soldier, and this person is Shen Xitong"s sweetheart. You want a harmonious family. You want me to get along well with Shen Xitong. After all, she has also called you Dad for more than ten years. But I, in your opinion, am a person who hides the past and has an alternate purpose to return to the Shen family, right?”
Shen Qinglan stared straight at Shen Qian with sharp eyes.
Shen Qian was shocked. He opened his mouth and wanted to say no, but he couldn"t say anything after all. Shen Qin Lan"s sharp eyes seemed to penetrate people"s hearts.
Shen Qinglan looked away, and her sight fell in the distance. Her eyes looked deep. “You can rest a.s.sured that I have no purpose for the Shen family. I returned to the Shen family only because I know I am a member of the Shen family. That"s all. I didn"t do anything harmful to the Shen family in the past, not now, nor will I in the future." If it wasn"t for that person, maybe she wouldn"t come back at all.
“Lan Lan, Dad doesn"t mean that. Dad never doubted you.”
“There is no doubt? Have you ever doubted keen insight, nimble skill and a past that was too clean? If I were you, I would doubt it.”
Shen Qian was speechless. He admitted that in his heart of hearts, he had always doubted Shen Qinglan"s ident.i.ty. It wasn"t only her purpose in returning to the Shen home. “Lan Lan, I have always known that you are my daughter, my own daughter.”
It has always been known that the girl in front of him is his own daughter who has been lost for 11 years, he owes her a lifetime.
Shen Qinlan said, “should I be glad that I am your own daughter? Is that why I could stay in this Shen house for so many years?”
Shen Qinglan"s cold brow was slightly tired. Was it a mistake to return to the Shen family?
Shen Qian, a big man, felt for the first time what it was like to be at a loss. He was always calm and collected. Now he was also worried, “Lan Lan, listen to Dad. Dad admits that I had doubts, but I really love you.”
Shen Qinglan sighed faintly, “I was wrong. I was too extreme just now. If anything is wrong, please forgive me. I married Fu Hengyi just for Grandma. I want her to see that I have a person who loves me and would care for me all my life. As for Shen Xitong, she is not qualified to make me take revenge while sacrificing my happiness.”
Shen Qinglan left. Shen Qian stood there, feeling deeply powerless. What sounded in his mind was what Grandma Shen said when she called him to the ward alone before she died.