Such a formidable woman—I truly wanted to know how she spent her days with Ye Zhengchen.
I could have chosen not to answer, but I didn’t want to lose to her again, to be rendered speechless.
“Who I love doesn’t matter!”
Yu Yin’s face changed, growing paler until she softened her tone. “I came to find you with no other intention. I just wanted to know what you were thinking. Ye Zhengchen truly loves you and would do anything for you… You hurt him once, don’t hurt him again.”
“As long as he doesn’t hurt me, I’m satisfied.”
Yu Yin gave a bitter smile and walked towards the door. “You don’t understand him at all.”
I couldn’t deny that just two hours earlier, I didn’t even know Ye Zhengchen was a military man. How could I possibly understand him!
After seeing Yu Yin off, I felt like I had emerged from a war, utterly exhausted. Women’s wars have no winners, only mutual destruction.
Just as I was about to rest, the phone rang again, showing my mother’s number.
I answered the call and heard intermittent sobs.
“Mom?”
“Your father has arrhythmia and is in the emergency room…”
Everything went black before my eyes.
“Your father’s friends at the prosecutor’s office said that Zhong Tian might go to prison for six or seven years… Your father suddenly…” The rest of the call was just crying.
I couldn’t break down. Mustering my strength, I comforted her: “Mom, don’t cry. It’s okay, Zhong Tian will be fine, Dad will be fine. I’m coming back right away.”
By plane and then by car, I arrived at the hospital just after 11 pm.
Dad had just fallen asleep, and Mom was beside him. When she saw me, her eyes reddened again.
Dad opened his eyes, trembling slightly, reaching out his hand.
I understood and held his hand. “Dad, don’t listen to rumors. My friends in Beijing said… Zhong Tian is innocent, he’ll be out soon.”
“Is that true?” Mom asked anxiously.
“True, true.” I sat down and whispered: “My friend is a colonel in the military region; he knows people in the commission. The higher-ups said this case has nothing to do with Zhong Tian…”
