"Aunt?"
Shangguan Wan was a little surprised, "Auntie, what do you mean by this?"
Yan Ru Meng smiled, first taking out a photo from her handbag and pa.s.sing it to Shangguan Wan, "Take a look at this first."
Qin Hai was sitting right next to Shangguan Wan, so when Shangguan Wan got the photo, he could see everything clearly.
The photo was somewhat yellowish, and it was also in black and white. It looked like it had been there for a long time.
The photo was of two children around the age of five or six, a boy and a girl. The girl was wearing a white dress with a braid that reached the sky. She looked very cute.
After seeing this photo, Shangguan Wan suddenly sat up in surprise. She stared at the photo for a long time, then raised her head in disbelief at Yan Ru Meng and asked, "Auntie, how did you get a picture of my dad?"
"Because I am this little girl!" Yan Ru Meng said as she pointed at the little girl in the photo.
Shangguan Wan was dumbfounded. "Auntie, you and dad are —"
"Your father is my half-brother, so you should actually call me aunt." Then she turned to Qin Hai and explained, "Our Shangguan family has a tradition: girls can"t use the surname Shangguan, they can only use their mother"s surname. Although I"m also from the Shangguan family, I can only use my mother"s surname."
Yan Ru Meng then took out a few photos from her handbag. They basically covered her from childhood to adulthood. There were photos of her together with Shangguan Wan"s father, as well as a large family.
Seeing these photos, Shangguan Wan couldn"t get over it for a long time. She stared at these precious photos until her hands started to tremble with excitement.
While Shangguan Wan and Qin Hai were looking at these photos, Yan Ru began to reminisce her childhood memories, telling of all the experiences she had with Shangguan Wan"s father.
"... Because your father and I are the only ones who are close in age, your father and I are the closest in the family. In the blink of an eye, his children and I have both grown up, but he — "
At this point, Yan Ru Meng suddenly sighed, she stared at the boy and girl in the photo and was stunned.
Shangguan Wan"s eyes were already red. She raised her head to look at Yan Ru Meng and choked with sobs: "Aunt!"
Yan Ru Meng revealed a smile and held Shangguan Wan"s hand, "Good child, aunty should have come to see you a long time ago, you"ve suffered so much over these years!"
Shangguan Wan"s tears fell like rain, as she cried while leaning on Yan Ru Meng. Yan Ru was also very excited, and after hugging Shangguan Wan, she too began to cry.
After a while, the two of them finally calmed down. Yan Ru lightly wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes and said, "When your father ran away from home, we lost any news about him and didn"t know where he was or how he was doing until the time we met you two … To tell the truth, I suspected you were Brother Health"s child, but I couldn"t be sure. It was only after many inquiries that I was able to confirm that you were Brother Jian"s child, my niece. "
Shangguan Wan wiped away her tears and asked, "Aunt, what"s going on? Why did my father run away from home?"
Yan Ru Meng sighed, "At that time, your grandpa arranged a marriage for your father, but he didn"t agree. He had a big argument with your grandpa and then ran away from home. "Who knew that after he left, he never came back, and afterwards —"
Perhaps it was because she remembered that Shangguan Wan"s father had died in a foreign land, tears welled up in the corners of Yan Ru"s eyes once again.
They hugged and cried for a while. Yan Ru Meng helped Shangguan Wan wipe away her tears and after looking at it carefully for a while, she said in a gratified tone, "It"s alright, although your father is no longer here, but he left behind such an outstanding daughter. "Wan-Er, how have you been all these years?"
Shangguan Wan also gradually calmed down, then told Yan Ru of her experiences in the past few years. At the same time, the waiters brought in all kinds of delicious food one after another. They chatted as they ate, and two hours quickly pa.s.sed.
Although the dishes ordered by Yan Ru Meng were very sumptuous and there was no lack of seafood, the two of them had eaten very little. Instead, they kept crying non-stop.
In the end, Yan Ru Meng raised her gla.s.s and said to Qin Hai, "Mr. Qin, thank you for taking care of Wan"er. I thank you on behalf of her father!"
Qin Hai had been looking on coldly from the side and did not say much. Hearing that, he raised his wine cup and clinked it with Yan Ru Meng"s, and after drinking, he lightly said, "If you say that, then it"s a foreign matter. Wan"er is not an outsider to me, I will definitely help if I can. "Also, I have a question for you. Since you and Wan"er have already acknowledged each other, are you going to let her go back to the Shangguan family to reclaim her ancestors?"
"It is certain that we will recognize our ancestors as our ancestors. Wan-Er has the blood of our Shangguan family, this is confirmed without a doubt, and no one can change it." Yan Ru Meng said with a serious expression.
"Is there someone who doesn"t want Wan-Er to go back?" Qin Hai raised his eyebrows and continued to ask.
Yan Ru Meng frowned slightly, looked at Shangguan Wan, and suddenly sighed lightly, "Wan"er, our Shangguan family has been around for hundreds of years, and we are a very big family. There are some things that are different from normal families. Aunt would also like to take you home immediately, but now is not the time. Do you understand? "
Shangguan Wan was a little startled, but she was kind-hearted and didn"t like forcing others, so she could only nod after hearing this. "It"s alright, I"m already very happy to be able to meet aunt."
Qin Hai raised his eyebrows again, but he didn"t say anything.
After a while, Shangguan Wan left the room and went to the washroom. Qin Hai lit up a cigarette and looked at Yan Rumeng, "Lady Yan, can you tell me the real reason why Wan"er"s father ran away from home? [Don"t ask me why I said that. I am not Wan"er. I am not as easily lied to as she is!]
Yan Ru Meng didn"t feel offended. She smiled bitterly and said, "I knew I couldn"t hide it from you. In fact, Brother Jian was forced to leave. He wasn"t happy all those years in the Shangguan family. I can tell you the real reason, but I hope you won"t tell Wan-Er for now. Brother Jian is no longer here.
"Wan-Er has the right to know the truth. She is not as weak as you think!" Qin Hai replied coldly.
Yan Rumeng was startled, then slowly nodded, "You"re right, Wan"er is indeed a very strong child. As for the truth of your question, it"s actually very simple, because her father is just an illegitimate child … "
It turned out that Shangguan Wan"s father, who was also the fourth child of Shangguan Xiong, the current head of the Shangguan Family, was actually born to him by Shangguan Xiong"s health care physician. The poor woman became pregnant after being raped by the drunk Shangguan Xiong, and then gave birth to Shangguan Jian. However, she did not rely on her son. Not only did she not become Shangguan Xiong"s third concubine, but she also unexpectedly pa.s.sed away shortly after giving birth to Shangguan Jian.
It could be said that Shangguan Wan"s father, Shangguan Jian, had grown up under a cloud. Although from childhood to adolescence, he had always lived in the Shangguan family, he had never enjoyed the warmth of a family. Even though he was extremely intelligent and had outstanding talent in cultivation amongst his peers, he had never won Shangguan Xiong"s favor for him.
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