ASTNovels Chapter 208
Chapter 208
Xia Houlei took a deep look at An Ranran and smiled self-deprecatingly, "An Ranran, what am I in your heart? Hit you...how did you say it?" He closed the door and left after speaking.
An Ranran was so frightened by the loud closing sound that she trembled. She hugged herself and panted slightly. Did she really take this wrong step?But she knew exactly what she wanted in her heart.
He took a deep breath, looked at the ceiling, and finally smiled with relief. Since Xia Houlei didn't believe in him, she decided to make a career out of it and surprise Xia Houlei.
Although she comforted herself in this way in her heart, when Xia Houlei disappeared from her side, she would still have a huge gap and loneliness, and even for a moment she couldn't figure out what Xia Houlei was thinking in his heart?Is marriage really that important to him?
It's just a piece of proof, wouldn't it be better for the two of them to be together happily?
"Oh..." An Ranran sighed, it has been a few days, and Xia Houlei has not come back, this man is really cruel!
"Ran Ran, give Xia Houlei some time! He just can't let go of his face for a while, and he will come back when he figures it out." Aunt Liu persuaded, An Ranran's body has just recovered, Aunt Liu is really worried about her What will be wrong with it.
An Ranran smiled palely, "Well, I know..." Now she doesn't even want to be perfunctory, her mind is blank, she has lost her way, and even begins to waver, whether her choice is right or wrong .
At this moment, An Ranran's cell phone rang, and she picked it up quickly, thinking it was Xia Houlei. When she saw a string of unfamiliar numbers displayed on the phone screen, she couldn't help feeling disappointed. After a while, she still chose Pick up, "Hi, hello."
"Ran Ran, it's me." An old voice unfolded in her ears.
An Ranran paused, "Grand... Grandpa?"
Bai Long laughed out loud on the phone, "You know everything? I actually... have something to say to you."
An Ranran frowned, her heart beat inexplicably faster, and she always felt as if something bad was coming towards her, "Say it."
"I can't tell for a while on the phone. Do you have time? Shall we meet?" Bai Long said a little cautiously.
An Ranran nodded quickly, "Of course! You said where to meet, I'll find you."
Bai Long opened his mouth, he really wanted to say go to her house, just to see his descendants, but he didn't say anything in the end, he scratched his head resentfully, "But it's convenient for you, is there a family near your house?" Tea restaurant? Is it okay for us to meet there?"
An Ranran didn't know why Bailong was so reserved, which made her inexplicably sad, and she tried to keep her tone as calm as possible, "Of course."
After the two met, Bailong looked An Ranran up and down, his eyes were full of concern, "Ran Ran, are you... okay?"
An Ranran looked at the old man's concerned eyes and nose, and her tears couldn't stop for a moment. She lowered her head and secretly tried to wipe away the tears and shook her head, "It's okay..."
"Then... where's the child? Is the child okay?" Bai Long sat up straight and asked with frowning.
An Ranran shook her head, "Mother and child are safe, the child is fine, by the way, the child's great-grandmother named the child Xiahou Zhilan. The little guy only eats and sleeps now, and occasionally looks around with his head propped up when he wakes up." , very new to this world." As soon as An Ranran mentioned Xiahou Zhilan, she couldn't hold back the chatterbox. After she finished speaking, she realized that she had talked too much, so she quickly closed her mouth, "I'm sorry... I can't stop talking about Xiao Zhilan..."
Bai Long smiled and shook his head, "It's all right! I like to listen to these parents' gossip. It's been a long time...I haven't felt the triviality and warmth of a family."
An Ranran tangled her fingers and sighed faintly, "Grandpa, what's the matter with you calling me here today?"
Bai Long nodded, his eyes fell on one spot for a moment before he took out a stack of photos from his pocket, it can be seen that this was his decision after a long time of thinking.
"Ran Ran... There is one thing I've been thinking about for a long time... I've been thinking about whether to tell you or not. I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it if I tell you, but I'd be too selfish if I didn't tell you. You have the right to know everything."
An Ranran straightened her body and stared at Bailong, "Grandpa, what's the matter?"
Bai Long pushed the photo in front of An Ranran, "Look for yourself!"
An Ranran frowned, and carefully opened the stack of photos. Inside was the woman she had been thinking about day and night, and also her hope of surviving before she met Xia Houlei.
"Xia Houlei told me that your daughter is my mother." An Ranran gently stroked the woman in the photo. She was so young and beautiful, and she smiled so sweetly. They all changed.
Bai Long nodded, and he also picked up a photo and looked at it carefully, "All these years I have lived by these photos..."
An Ranran's eyelids twitched, "What did you say?"
Bailong took a sip of tea, his eyes were a little erratic, he finally settled down and looked up at An Ranran, "Ran Ran, I want to tell you a story, this story may be very long, but I hope you can listen to it to the end .”
An Ranran nodded, and looked at the woman in the photo. She also wanted to know what happened to her mother. When she learned that the old cat was her father, she had doubts in her heart. Now that her father found him , why he refused to say a word about who his mother was.
"Tell me, I will finish listening to any long story." An Ranran said firmly.
Bailong rubbed his hands and looked into the distance, his thoughts went back to the past, "I clearly remember the beginning of everything. The old cat was a child I picked up. When I found him, his family had already been killed by his enemies. Jingguang, if I hadn’t discovered him, he might have died tragically under the knife of the enemy. He might have been stimulated if he didn’t say anything. I think his personality is a bit like a cat, and I don’t bother to think of any strange names for him. simply call him an old cat."
"Grandpa, does this have anything to do with my mother's story?" An Ranran asked puzzled.
Bai Long nodded and said with a smile, "You will know after listening to me."
An Ranran had no choice but to continue listening.
"If I knew that he would get entangled with my daughter in the future, I wouldn't pick him up, but kill him on the spot." Bai Long's voice became hoarse, and it sounded terrifying.
Goose bumps could not help but appear on An Ranran's arms.
Seeing that he scared her, Bai Long grinned, "Don't be afraid, child, it's just a story."
He continued, "After I picked him up, I was afraid of irritating him, so I let him live well in Yunlong Villa. I swear, I never thought of training him to be a killer, but he seems to have a killer in his bones." Blood, the obsession with guns is beyond the imagination of all of us. I began to assign him some simple tasks. It can be regarded as a test for him, but he did it very well. But in three years, he became one of the best killers in Yunlong Villa .My daughter Bai Xueting was born in March of the same year."
"You know that as a killer, the last thing you should be obsessed with is the warmth of your family. But I... broke the precept. In order to protect my daughter, I let the old cat accompany her all the time."
"It can be said that the old cat has spent more time with my daughter than I have with her. The relationship between the two is very good. In fact, since then, I should have separated the two, but I have always naively thought that Xue Ting is nothing more than admiration and dependence on her big brother, that's all. Who knows... because of my negligence and my paranoia, it caused a catastrophe."
"The old cat... fell in love with your daughter, right?" An Ranran asked.
Bailong closed his eyes in pain and nodded, "Yes, not only that, but my daughter is also deeply in love with him..."
He smiled wryly, his shoulders began to tremble slightly, and it became difficult to speak, which showed that he could not accept this memory.
"At that time, I just thought that Xue Ting was just ignorant in adolescence. When she went to college and stepped out of the society, she would know that there are many excellent men in the world. But she didn't... even made a private appointment with Lao Mao for life! Do you know? Killers don't deserve to have families, because you don't know when enemies will come to you, ordinary happiness never belongs to us, and you don't want my daughter to bear something that she shouldn't have to bear. a life of upheaval."
When Bai Long said this, he took another sip of water and calmed down a bit, "In order to separate the two of them, I sent the old cat a mission that it was impossible to come back alive, and told him that if he came back alive Just marry my daughter to him, but I know he can't come back. It's been three years since he left. During the three years, my daughter blamed me every day, blaming me for breaking them up, alas...she I don't understand how I feel, being with a killer is fruitless..."
An Ranran bit her lip and tears rolled down her cheeks. Her nose was uncontrollably heaving. In this story, no one was wrong... It's just... She also fell into endless entanglements in her heart.
"I didn't expect the old cat to come back three years later. The first thing he did after he came back was to ask me for a daughter. He asked me to fulfill my promise, but how could it be possible that I would marry my daughter to a killer?! So I broke my promise I locked up the old cat and told Xue Ting that he was dead. I would rather she hate me for the rest of her life, and I don’t want her to have a hard life for the rest of her life! I just want her to live in an ordinary and happy life. I am a father, Is it wrong for me to have such an idea...?" He even cried out as he spoke, "But I forgot that my daughter's personality is exactly the same as mine, especially her unyielding temperament, she is almost the same. ..run away from home... This walk has been 20 years, and never came back. If I knew that she was pregnant when she left, I would never...never be stupid! In her Every day since I left home, I've been sucked into endless self-blame, and she made me punish myself every day for the rest of my life."
"After that, you saw me?" An Ranran asked.
Bailong covered his face and cried bitterly, "I really... I regret it every day... Back then... I shouldn't have been so absolute... But... But..." He said helplessly Shaking his head helplessly, "I really have no other choice... I thought I could find Xue Ting if I found you, who knew! You grew up in an orphanage... Xue Ting gave birth to you What happened to send you to the orphanage? I dare not think about it... I... I really... I was wrong! If I could have given Xueting more love, would she have Wouldn't you break with me? Could it be that things won't develop like this? " He stretched out his hand to grab An Ranran, but An Ranran withdrew his hand directly.
"The old cat... is my father. After knowing my mother ran away from home, didn't he look for her?" An Ranran asked, holding back her sadness.
Bailong wiped his face indiscriminately, "I did. I sent people to search the whole country, but I didn't find any news about Xue Ting... Later, everyone told me that Xue Ting had... ..It's gone, maybe it was killed by my enemy... But I didn't give up, I have been looking for her for so many years, I only hope to see her before I die..."
An Ranran sneered and turned her head, "If my mother dies, she will be forced to death by you..."
Bai Long cried helplessly, "I know I know...I really know I was wrong..."
An Ranran bit her lip and raised her head stubbornly, "So what if I know I was wrong, do you know what kind of life I have lived since I was a child? I was squeezed out and bullied by others in the orphanage every day, and I had to pretend to be very Do you know how happy you look? If you can’t eat, you can only be hungry, and sometimes even the food is bad, you know? Because you have no money and can’t afford to go to school, you can only watch others wearing school uniforms , carrying a schoolbag and walking into school. Do you know that feeling? Do you know that kind of despair? Because of the need for money, I signed a contract to be Xia Houlei's fiancée, and I was bullied, tortured, and stared at by countless people. Do you know how desperate I was at that time? Where were you when I was crying in bed countless times? Countless times, where were you when I was pointed at and scolded by many people and laughed at?! Now I have grown up Ladies and gentlemen, everything is alright and you have appeared, what can you do if you know you are wrong, what can you recover? What can you change?"
"Ran Ran...Ran Ran, don't be like this...Grandpa really...really knew it was wrong...I shouldn't have done that..." Bai Long cried bitterly, trembling all over, he hid himself in the In the arms, the whole person looks thin and weak.
An Ranran vented her sadness for so many years, she looked down at her mother in the photo, "It's been so many years, whenever I'm in a bad mood, I'll look at my mother and talk to her...it's still the same now ...home...is too far away for me...'
"Everything will be fine in the future, and I won't make the same mistake again! I'll take good care of you and Zhilan, give me a chance... okay?" Bai Long almost begged.