My Alleged Husband

Chapter 677 - 647: Don’t Take It for Granted_1

Zhang Zhentian heard the words his own son said to him, and he didn’t want to say anything. He only knew that he was standing there silently, listening as his child criticized him.

He had become more astute with time, aware of when to speak and when to argue his case. In the face of someone else’s anger, one could only choose silence, because only then would the other person find nowhere to vent their fury. And since that person across from him was his own flesh and blood, the wounds he caused were the result of his own choices. What right did he have to resent his son? What harm was there in letting him let off some steam?

"You really don’t need to be silent. You know what you’ve done better than anyone else. A few apologies won’t make it easy for others to forgive you. If they do forgive you after your apology, it just shows that they still regard you as family. We really don’t need to settle old scores one by one. You once abandoned us; the repeated abandonment and harm have made us deeply despair. We really don’t know what further consequences it will bring!"

We are truly not saints. We can’t accept a relative who continues to hurt us over and over again while we remain indifferent. Do you know? On the day I was abandoned by you, I was clueless. I was only a month old, still at the age of breastfeeding, yet you heartlessly abandoned me, a child in nurturing. Did you ever consider what I was going through then? Maybe at that time, I didn’t know anything. But as time passed and I grew up, how could I not understand everything? When others mocked me again and again for being a child without parents, when they jeered that I had been abandoned by my own parents, when they verbally attacked me time and again, where were you then? What did you give me when I needed you most, if not repeated harm?

But I waited for 10 long years and finally found the woman I love. What about you? As soon as you appeared, you brought me such a blow, almost causing me to lose the woman I love most in my life. Have you ever considered why I waited for her for 10 years? Is it just because she’s a commoner’s daughter? In fact, what I care about is her kindness and her beauty, and her beauty is not of the face but of the soul. I can disregard everything, but I can’t disregard those who care for and love me. If you could have been a little kinder to me, understood me a little, shared some of your true feelings with me, given me just a little more love, then things wouldn’t have turned out this way. You always feel your actions are faultless, but do you know that it’s precisely your presumptuous thoughts that have harmed so many, making these people think it’s only right to do wrong? Do you always feel your actions are for others to bear, as if they owe you?"

"Child, mom and dad never wanted to completely abandon you, all the decisions we made back then were only because we had no choice, we were powerless, we longed for freedom and we were too young at that time. But now, after more than twenty years, we know what kind of life we want and who we want to spend our days with. Do you understand? Mom and dad really regret it. Give us a chance to return to your side and accompany you in your later years. Wouldn’t that be nice?"

"Don’t you understand? Your son is right; Yichen has made it very clear. No one owes anyone in this world. You must take responsibility for the consequences of your own actions, and not try to shift the blame onto others for you to pay your dues. No one owes you anything; there is no such thing in the world. There is no question of whether you’re willing or knowing; it is enough to consider whether you will regret your actions!" Old Master Zhang said, "Everyone’s life is different. If you want to live someone else’s life, walk the path they have walked, then what’s the meaning of your own life? Everyone’s life is unique, and living your own life well is the greatest joy in a lifetime. If you expect others to follow your lead, will you be happy in your life? You will always live under someone else’s pace, in their shadow, always living beneath someone else’s figure. That is not the real you, just a copy of someone else. Do you want to be a copy of someone else for life, never to make a name for yourself?"

Zhang Zhentian and Xia Jing, having heard what Old Master Zhang and their own son said, knew that some things truly cannot be forgotten just because one says to forget. Some things, once they happen, really happen and cannot be turned back. As long as what they did was right, what harm was there? But why did they keep doing so many terrible things time and again? Why did they keep hurting their own son, their own father, who had struggled through these years without their company? Why did they repeatedly commit such unreasonable acts?

Had they really become numb, lost all sense of right and wrong? In pursuit of their freedom, could they completely forsake their own family? Why couldn’t anyone understand their actions, and why did their behavior harm so many? Why did the path they chose cause so much spiritual pain to so many?

No matter what, Zhang Zhentian refused to believe that his actions had caused such serious harm to his own child and his own father. All he had wanted was his freedom, so why did it result in such an outcome? Was this all truly fated, unchangeable destiny? Was it just because he chose the wrong path that his family had to suffer and be hurt too? If that were the case, he would never have chosen this dead end, for it cost not only his loved ones but also the freedom he prized most in his life.