My Alleged Husband

Chapter 1158 - 1018: Accompany?

Deep down, Zhang Yichen actually understood that his mother always needed companionship, and this companionship needed to come not from others, but from his own family. He once personally saw his mother tell his child that she hoped her child could accompany her, but her son deeply refused. It was at that moment he knew all of the truth; he wasn’t that cruel, nor that heartless. He simply chose a path he could never turn back from.

"Don’t leave. Do you think Grandma is lonely and bored being here alone? Stay here with me for a while, keep me company and chat a bit. Grandma won’t force you to do anything else. As long as you keep Grandma company for a little while here, I’ll let you leave, okay?"

Zhang Ni thought for a moment and said to Xia Jing, "I can’t. I have to go home right now. If I don’t go home soon, my parents will be worried. Grandma, it’s not that I don’t want to stay here and chat with you. Actually, chatting with you both makes me very happy. I know you’re a great person, but I can’t let my parents be worried because of me, right? If I let my parents worry about me, wouldn’t I be a bad person?"

Xia Jing still didn’t want Zhang Ni to go back home!

"Actually, you don’t need to hurry back home. If your parents knew you were out late because you were doing good deeds, keeping elderly people company, they’d probably be happy, right? How could they blame you?"

"But even if I’m going to keep you company, I should at least inform my parents first, right? I can’t let my parents not know where I am and make them worry. I have to be a good, obedient child who doesn’t do anything that would make my parents uneasy or worried. I want my parents to live happily with the life they desire, without anything that would disrupt their happiness and relationship!"

Xia Jing thought this child was sensible, but suddenly she wondered if being so sensible at such a young age was really good for him. Is understanding so much really the best for him? Sometimes she didn’t understand why adults today wanted children to grasp such complex morals and right and wrong.

"Grandma said, if your parents knew that you were out late helping the elderly, they’d definitely be happy and wouldn’t be sad, nor would they worry about you. Isn’t that clear enough? You should consider Grandma’s suggestion, shouldn’t you? Can you bear to leave her here all alone? Grandma knows you’re a very loving child, so you should stay here and keep Grandma company."

It’s not possible; I’m a person of principle. Even if doing this has no benefits, I definitely won’t do it because this would make my parents worry about me, and I can’t do anything that would make my parents worried. I’ve said this many times. I hope you won’t make me repeat this over and over, because that would make me resent you. Grandma, I believe you’re a good person, that’s why I say these heartfelt words to you. But if you continue to make me stay reluctantly, then I won’t come out even if I do in the future; and if I see you again, I won’t greet you!

Xia Jing reluctantly said, "Alright, since you don’t want to stay and keep me company, then I won’t say much more. But I hope one day you can come out and keep me company, continue to chat with me. I believe there will be many such opportunities. Don’t leave me alone here watching the gray sky. With you around, I believe it’s my happiest time!"

Zhang Ni felt helpless. What’s going on with this person? Her own grandson is missing, does she need to cling to him every day? It always feels as if there’s something wrong with this person, always saying these incoherent things that make him feel off. What’s really going on with her?

"Alright, I’ll consider whether I have time to come out and meet with you, but I still stand by my words. I definitely won’t do anything that makes my parents unhappy or worried. My priority is my parents and my great-grandfather. Nothing else is more important than my great-grandfather. I have to keep my parents and great-grandfather in the most important position in my heart. I believe someday my great-grandfather and my parents will understand my intentions. I hope one day my grandparents realize how wrong they were about our family. I want the whole world to see that the strongest person is me, and those who abandoned me and don’t want me made the biggest mistake of their lives. I want them to clearly understand that anything in the world can be given up, but my own family cannot be!"

"Since you’ve promised to come and chat and meet with me when you have time, then go home today. Don’t make your dad worried. Grandma has no ill intentions; I don’t want your parents to worry because of me. I also hope your parents can always be by your side. So, I wish your grandparents return to your side soon, but will you forgive your grandparents when that time comes?"

Old Master Zhang listened to his grandson, giving everything. He found it hard to believe his son and daughter-in-law would eventually fall to such a state. Maybe now they truly regret it, but is it too late?

"It doesn’t matter whether they are forgiven or not; it doesn’t matter. By the time they come back, I already have no feelings for them. From birth until now, I’ve never seen them, I don’t even know what my grandparents look like. So, their return doesn’t mean that much to me either. I just can’t balance my feelings internally. Someday when I figure it out, I’ll completely give up these thoughts. I’ll let myself understand how wrong my initial thoughts were."

When Zhang Ni finished speaking, he left. Xia Jing, watching the leaving figure, found her heart aching. Why did these words make her feel so uncomfortable inside? Is there some hidden reason or secret behind this?

Clearly, there’s a blood relationship between these two, yet neither knows the other is their relative. Standing right before them, they still don’t realize this is the family member they’ve always hoped to have back. How heartbreakingly painful must that feel? If one day they learned the truth, how would their hearts accept it?

"Mom, do you remember everything I said before? That’s what you said and did to my son that day. I really know each and everything you all did. But I never wanted to bring it up. I chose to forgive you because I believed you’re sincerely willing to stay in this family; even with the slightest hope, I didn’t want to let go."