My Alleged Husband

Chapter 1384 - 1206: Happiness Is Only Like This

Not all happiness can be rewarded.

Everything everyone pays for will eventually come at a heavy price. The people you have hurt will leave you completely one day.

Back then, the two of them argued repeatedly over many issues. All those arguments, what did they mean in their eyes? When they realized that it was all just a wishful thought, he discovered that those were not truly the outcomes they wanted between each other, nor were they the results they should have obtained. He felt that eventually he became this way. Was everything really worth it when looking back?

The father and son argued loudly again at home because of these issues. Actually, no one was wrong in this matter; the only mistake was his overwhelming selfishness, which led his family to be hurt time after time due to his self-centered desires.

"Others’ mistakes can be forgiven by their families. Why can’t I? I admit I’ve made mistakes, and I know they hurt your hearts and left you unable to forgive or find peace. But can’t you forgive me just once?"

"Once? You’ve made mistakes not just once. If we forgive you, is it really just this once? Ask yourself: how many heartless things have you done? How many wrongs have you committed, causing grief to your family and your son? Yet ultimately we chose to forgive you because we regard you as family and hold you in such importance. But what about you? What feelings do you give us? You abandoned your most important family members for your so-called desires. Do you really feel at ease in your heart? Do you truly feel no pain? Sometimes, as a father, I don’t understand. People say the heart is flesh and feels pain, and feelings aren’t one-way. So do your decisions truly acknowledge the pain of human hearts? Will feelings grow cold? Every decision you make never considers the feelings of your family at home. You’re always so selfish. Don’t you know that selfishness never yields good results? So why do you persist in choosing such outcomes?"

"Dad, since the day I was born, you should have known that my destiny is not something I can choose. I didn’t fulfill your expectations by staying and inheriting the family business. I didn’t meet your expectations by becoming the most useful person in the world. But my son did. He’s better than me, even surpassing the old with the new. He’s so much stronger than you, and he succeeded. He’s the strongest person in this world, the most capable man, and he married the kindest and gentlest wife in the world."

"Do you feel proud inside because your son has achieved this? But you never realize how much your son has endured, how much he’s suffered to reach where he is today. You’ve never seen it, never experienced it. Every step he took was just to prove himself, show his parents he’s the most useful, to make his parents regret abandoning him. On the day of his greatest achievement, you returned. But what you gave him wasn’t a warm embrace, an apology, or a greeting. It was repeated sorrowful harm. Everything you do never considers others’ feelings; you believe as long as you’re happy, it’s enough. Whether others are happy doesn’t concern you. But you never understand how much your family hopes for your happiness. As long as you are happy, even if your family suffers and tires, it doesn’t matter. To your family, as long as those they care about are safe and joyful in this life, it’s enough. In your son’s heart, he doesn’t ask his parents to love him deeply or do much for him, just hopes they can live happily for their whole life. Even if they never recognize him as their son, that’s okay. But how do you treat him? You use his love for you as capital to hurt him time after time. Haven’t you hurt him enough?"

"Dad, I’m sorry. I really know I’m wrong. I realize every decision I’ve made is so selfish, never considering the feelings of those I care about or those who love me. I’m always thinking it’s enough for me to be happy. Why should unrelated people care? They can’t even manage their own affairs; how would they have time to care about mine? But what I didn’t realize is that my dad still loves me, and my son still cares about his biological father so much, even my daughter-in-law is the same. Yet I’ve done so many things to hurt them. How can I face them with any dignity? Every decision, every choice I made caused them so much sadness and suffering just because of my desired benefits, just because of my countless demands, sacrificing what I should have protected most."

"You’re supporting your arbitrary behavior in everything you do, aren’t you? Do you know, when you do things, you feel arrogant, but you don’t realize how many eyes are watching you, waiting to see you fall hard from a high place. But you never realize how much your family cares about you. Every step they take, they could work steadily, be grounded, not burrow themselves in the fluff of the clouds above the nine heavens, which would only make them tired... You’ll never return to this home for the rest of your life because you won’t have the opportunity. Recently, your wife caused trouble again. I don’t know if it was intentional, but I hope you can investigate thoroughly. If she’s truly intentional, neither your son nor I, as his father, will forgive her again. What she’s done is truly unforgivable, and this time again she’s hurt me and even more the relationship between your son and daughter-in-law!"

Zhang Zhentian heard his dad say that his wife started causing trouble again recently. He knew his wife really returned here. He felt a bit happy and a bit sad. Happy because he finally found his wife; sad because perhaps because of this incident, he really would never have the possibility to be with his wife again.

"Alright, I’ll let this selfish person go and thoroughly investigate this matter. Once I have cleared it up, I’ll tell you first. Rest assured, don’t look at me with those eyes. I won’t conceal anything from you. I won’t do things like before that you’ll never forgive. Just be assured!"

"Used everything I had, became what I am now. When I repeatedly let everything become the ending I least wanted to accept in reality, yet ultimately I had no way to make it the appearance I least wanted to see.

Perhaps what they said was true, that’s just the kind of selfish person I am, seeking only profit, insensitive, willing to abandon all for a little gain!"

What does abandoning everything mean to you? Have you ever thought about how lost we felt inside...