My Alleged Husband

Chapter 1410 - 1211: Never Gave Up (Part 5)

"Yichen, how can you speak about your mother and me like that? Even if we’ve made countless mistakes, wouldn’t acknowledging them and seeking change be the biggest transformation? In your eyes, as long as we’ve done wrong, does nothing we change count to you? Do you know? Your mother and I, we’ve sacrificed so much for your happy and blissful life, but you, do you just turn a blind eye to it all?" Zhang Zhentian said to Zhang Yichen.

Zhang Yichen found it extremely amusing; his father had always been so narcissistic, hadn’t he?

"You’re wrong. It’s not that I turn a blind eye to your efforts, but rather you ignore the feelings between me and him. You always think that as long as you make a decision, we have to comply with your opinions, but you never consider what I truly need. You don’t understand my happiness, how can you expect me to live a lifetime of bliss? I so wish you would think from my perspective as your son, that way I would be eternally grateful, thankful to heaven and earth, but not once have you done that. Is it true that any decision you make, I must only act according to your wishes..."

"Child, don’t be impulsive. Come here, we can talk things through slowly, alright? Maybe once we’ve talked it out, you’ll have a change of mind!" Zhang Zhentian still hoped to call his son back.

"Dad, I believe everything that needs to be said between us has been spoken. Today, I’ll tell you, I’ll die together with the woman I love. I don’t want to live alone in this world. It’s too cruel for me to watch the woman I love die in front of me, powerless to stop it. Do you know that helpless feeling? I don’t want to relive that heartache and helplessness, so I can only choose to be with her. Only then can you truly be at ease, no longer harming any innocent children because of my matters. You are my biological father. When you were with my mother, I believed you, despite my grandfather’s opposition, you experienced many helpless choices. I believe you can understand that feeling. Would you truly want me to experience the emotions you did? Do you know my feelings now are ten, a hundred, a thousand times more painful than yours were? You ultimately got to live together with my mother, but what about me? I don’t even have the opportunity to live with the one I love. Do you know how much it hurts inside me? Yet I say nothing because I am a man, a stand-up guy. I am a world economic leader. I cannot let everyone look down on me. I cannot let everyone despise me. I must continue, making everyone support my semblance while working, because I believe, one day, everyone will see the effort I put into my work and approve of me. But now I’m tired, and I just want to rest..."

After Zhang Yichen finished, he started backing toward the cliff’s edge. He was going to jump.

Zhang Zhentian panicked as he looked at the endless cliff behind him, fear took him.

"Don’t be impulsive..."

"Take care of Grandpa, don’t let him suffer any harm because of your relationship, I beg you..."

With that, Zhang Yichen jumped down.

"Yichen..."

Some wounds have taken root deeply; no one knows the despair deep inside me.

Now all I wish is that everything could start over, but how can a heart that’s been broken start anew?

Time flows slowly away into the distance. Zhang Yichen and Ran Zhihan’s child is learning to walk on the ground. This day came so fast, a bit overwhelming for everyone. Who’d have thought the child would grow up so fast? But as the child grows day by day, their parents age day by day, making everyone’s hearts a bit excited, yet also undeniably melancholic.

Old Master Zhang watched Zhang Ni starting to walk, and spoke to himself, "Time indeed flies quickly, who would’ve thought this tiny palm-sized child a few months ago could walk independently now? I guess I am getting old. I don’t know how much more time heaven will grant me to remain in this world. If on the day when I enter the coffin, I could fulfill all my inner wishes, how wonderful would that be? Yet why do all my wishes seem so small to me, but so challenging to everyone else? Why won’t anyone take the effort to help me fulfill those small wishes? Everything ends up this way because of me, but why can’t anyone put in some struggle for my sake? Is fighting for me really that difficult?"