Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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In the hospital ward, when Andre came in, he saw Eden’s sad face, “Ann is gone?” Eden asked.
Andre nodded, “Enxi sent it to her. Since you love her so much, why didn’t you tell her?” Although Shen Qinglan may know it, it was always different whether you say it or not.
Eden smiled, “Andre, it’s my business that I love her. It doesn’t matter whether she knows it or not, accepts it or doesn’t accept it, this is not important. What I want is her happiness. The person who brings her happiness has my best wishes. Well, if it’s not me, I’d be grateful to that person too.”
Andre shook his head, he couldn’t agree with Eden’s point of view, if it was him and he loved someone, he must be the one who gave this person happiness, if it were someone else, he wouldn’t be at ease.
“Eden, you’re like this…” Andre wanted to persuade him, but he didn’t know how to persuade him. In fact, things like feelings were really a very extravagant thing for people of their status.
Eden smiled, with a gleam in his eyes, “Andre, Ann has never been a person who can be easily swayed by others, and she would not accept it even if I wanted to give her happiness.”
Andre was silent, knowing that what Eden said made sense, not to mention Eden, that Austin of the Duke of Kent’s family, wasn’t he the same.
He smiled, Ann was really ruthless, and she was not even willing to give the other party a chance if she didn’t like them. But maybe it was because of this that Eden and Austin loved her so much.
“Andre, have you seen that man?” Eden said hesitantly, “The man Ann is married too.”
Andre nodded and shook his head, “I saw him once, when I went to save you last time, I haven’t had close contact with him. But he is a very strong person.” A person who could subdue KING was definitely a strong person, and he admired such strong people the most.
Eden felt more at ease now, it was good to be a strong man, only a strong enough person could protect Ann.
“Eden, do you have something to hide from us?” Andre suddenly saw something wrong from Eden’s expression, and asked.
Eden wanted to shake his head, but after thinking about it, he said, “Maybe that person is still alive.”
Andre didn’t understand at first, but after he figured it out, his face changed drastically, and he looked at Eden in disbelief, “This is impossible, back then we saw him fall into the sea with serious injuries.” If that person was still alive, then…
Eden frowned, “I’m not sure now, all this is just my guess, maybe I’m thinking too much.”
“You must be thinking too much.” Andre gritted his teeth, if he could still live like that, was he still human?
Eden pursed his lips, and a look of worry flashed between his brows and eyes. I hope I’m really thinking too much.
After Shen Qinglan came back, she sent out the gifts she brought to everyone one by one, and then her life returned to the normal calmness. Fu Hengyi was still in the army and had not come back yet. Shen Qinglan would call him every two or three days, and it was still the same. The way they talked every day wasn’t any different from before.
Fu Hengyi never asked, and she didn’t bother to mention it. The two of them seemed to have tacitly forgotten what happened at the border some time ago.
This day, as soon as Shen Qinglan got up, she received a call from Yan Xi. This was the first time Yan Xi called her since they met at the art exhibition.
“Big sister.” Yan Xi’s voice came from the other end of the phone. Unlike before, there was no vitality in her voice, but sounded a little hoarse, as if she had cried.
Shen Qinglan paused, “What’s the matter?”
“Big sister, where are you now, I want to see you.” Yan Xi’s voice was choked with sobs, and Shen Qinglan reported her home address.
Half an hour later, Shen Qinglan saw Yan Xi at the door of her house. Her eyes were red. It was obvious that she had cried. Under her eyes were thick black and blue bruises.
Seeing Shen Qinglan, Yan Xi threw herself into her arms directly. She was shorter than Shen Qinglan, hugged Shen Qinglan’s waist, and buried herself in her arms.
Shen Qinglan’s body froze. Except for Fu Hengyi and Pei Hao from her cousin’s family, she had never been so intimate with anyone, and she was not used to it, but Yan Xi’s mood was obviously wrong. After thinking about it, she didn’t push her away, and let Yan Xi hug her.
Yan Xi hugged her for a while and then let go. She followed Shen Qinglan into the door. It was the first time she came to Shen Qinglan’s home. There was no curiosity on her face, which didn’t seem like her character at all.
Shen Qinglan couldn’t guess what had happened to her, so she sat down on the sofa and poured her a glass of water.
Yan Xi took a sip of warm water, seemed to have recovered a bit, put the water glass on the coffee table, then took out a photo from the backpack behind her, she handed the photo to Shen Qinglan, Shen Qinglan took it, glanced at it, and her eyes instantly changed, while she looked at the person in the photo steadily.
This photo was not complete, it was torn in half, and the remaining half was a man holding a little girl in his arms, who looked six or seven years old. When she looked carefully, the girl was a little bit like Yan Xi, it was similar, but Shen Qinglan won’t think that this was Yan Xi’s childhood photo, because that little girl looked exactly like Qin Mu when she was a child.
When she met Qin Mu, Qin Mu was eight years old. She looked older than the child in the photo, but her appearance hadn’t changed much.
“Where did you get this photo?” Shen Qinglan asked Yan Xi, listening carefully, she could still hear a slight tremor in her voice.
Yan Xi lowered her eyes and looked at her toes, “I found it from my father’s study. The man above is my father.”
As Yan Xi said this, tears fell from her eyes. She didn’t expect that her father who was a good man in her eyes unexpectedly had an illegitimate daughter who was a few months older than her brother.
“The child in it is my father’s illegitimate daughter.” Yan Xi’s voice was very low.
Shen Qinglan looked at Yan Xi, even though she knew she was sad now, she still asked, “What’s the name of the child above?”
“Qin Mu.”
With a “boom”, Shen Qinglan felt her brain explode in an instant. It was Qin Mu, it was really Qin Mu, it was really the Qin Mu she was looking for.
She grabbed Yan Xi’s shoulder and looked at her closely, “Is her name really Qin Mu? Where is she now?”
Yan Xi was startled by Shen Qinglan’s appearance, she frowned, “Big sister, you are hurting me.”
Shen Qinglan let go of her, “I’m sorry.”
Yan Xi didn’t care about her own sadness at the moment, she looked at Shen Qinglan, a little worried, “Big sister, are you okay?”
Shen Qinglan shook her head, “I also know a person named Qin Mu, I just want to know if they are the same person, do you know where the person in the photo is now?”
Hearing this, Yan Xi shook her head, “I don’t know, I only know that she is my father’s illegitimate daughter, and it is said that she was lost when she was very young.”
Shen Qinglan’s heart suddenly sank to the bottom, she did not expect that Qin Mu would turn out to be from the Yan family, since she was from the Yan family, then how could she enter the devil’s base?
Thinking of the identity of Qin Mu being the illegitimate daughter of the Yan family, Shen Qinglan’s eyes turned cold, and she thought of a guess.
Yan Xi didn’t notice the change in Shen Qinglan’s eyes. She couldn’t stop crying when she thought of the quarrel between her parents caused by this photo.
Since she was asked about the photo by Shen Qinglan at the art exhibition, Yan Xi searched in her father’s study many times when she got home, but she never found the photo.
“Why not? I remember it was here? Where did Dad put it?” Yan Xi searched in the study, but she couldn’t find the photo after searching the study.
“Xiao Xi, what are you doing in your father’s study?” Mother Yan passed the study, saw that the study door was not closed tightly, opened the door and came in, and saw that her daughter seemed to be looking for something.
At that time, Yan Xi was stepping on a small stool to reach a book on the bookshelf. She remembered that her father seemed to have put the photo in a book. Because of Mother Yan’s sudden sound, she was startled. Her body tilted and she lost her balance.
She screamed, she was about to fall, but it was Mother Yan who caught her daughter with quick eyesight and quick hands.
“Mom, why did you come in all of a sudden? I was shocked.” Yan Xi patted her small chest with a face full of shock.
Mother Yan was also startled by her daughter, “You just startled me. Why are you climbing up so high? Is it fun if you fall off? You are a girl. If you hurt your face, what should I do.”
“I… I took the book, and I was required to write a post-reading review during the winter vacation homework ceremony. Isn’t it almost time for the start school? I haven’t written it yet, so I want to find a book to read.” Yan Xi explained, “Besides, I would not have almost fallen if you hadn’t come in suddenly.”
Mother Yan glared at her, don’t think she didn’t hear her whisper.
“This is your father’s study room. It’s full of military books. It’s not like you ever read them. Why do you want to read them now?” Mother Yan was suspicious.
“I want to see it now. And my father is a soldier. I have liked soldiers since I was a child. Soldiers are the greatest people.” Yan Xi’s neck was stiff and her mouth was stiff.
Mother Yan didn’t argue with her, she knew Yan Xi to well, “Which one do you want, mother can help you.”
Yan Xi raised her hand and pointed, “That one.”
Mother Yan took the book down and gave it to her, “Whatever you want, ask others to take it down in the future, don’t climb up by yourself, it’s dangerous, you know?”
Yan Xi nodded, “Got it, mom, you’re getting more and more verbose.”
Mother Yan shook her head and walked out of the study.
Seeing that Mother Yan had left, Yan Xi quickly opened the book, from beginning to end, but couldn’t find the photo she was looking for.
“Did I remember it wrong?” Yan Xi looked around in the study, and suddenly fixed her gaze on the desk.
She put the book on the shelf, walked to the desk, opened the desk drawer, and found a small box at the bottom of the drawer.
She looked around, and then stretched out her hand towards the box. Her heartbeat involuntarily accelerated, and she took out the box. The box was not big, and the material was very ordinary.
Yan Xi opened it, and what she saw was a thick stack of letters. One by one, the envelopes were neatly placed in the box. There were not many, and there were only a dozen letters by visual inspection. The addressee on the envelope was her father.
She took out one and wanted to open it, but her tutor had told her not to open other people’s letters without permission. After hesitating for a while, she still didn’t open it in the end. She took out all the letters, and suddenly a photo slipped out of a letter and fell to the ground.
Dj22031: For people who don’t remember, QM is the girl who helped SQ when she was a child and then died in front of her.
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