My Alleged Husband

Chapter 764: Chapter 734 Waning Day by Day_1

How could Grandfather Zhang not know what his grandson meant by his words? He was afraid too. He was afraid that things would eventually become as bad as he had imagined in his mind, he had already been fearful, even though he had already experienced too many ups and downs in life. Yet, there were some things he could never understand throughout his life.

”Yichen, you said that the doctors have told us to prepare for the worst, do you think your parents will really never wake up again? Grandpa is so worried. All these years, Grandpa has been indebted to them. Despite Grandpa’s many complaints out loud, deep down, he has always hoped they could stay by his side. They are Grandpa’s children after all!

In this world, there is no parent who doesn’t wish their children to stay with them, to accompany them until the day they die,

but they have never accompanied me. Because of this, I have a deep hatred for them. I hate that they are so disrespectful to me as their father, that deep down they never regard me as their father at all.

However, today when I saw the two of them lying inside, struggling to breathe, when I saw them motionless, their faces devoid of any color, how distressed I felt! I wish I could take on some of their pain, even if they weren’t so anguished, it would be a consolation for me!

Previously, I was too extreme in my actions. For my own benefit, I disregarded my son’s lifelong happiness, thinking that he should marry a wife of equal status. But I overlooked her true feelings, and because of that, he had no choice but to leave home, to protest against me in this way. But this protest has lasted for decades. For decades he has never returned home, only able to watch our family from afar, yet he could not return to his own home!

Child, do you find Grandpa terrifying? Why did Grandpa have to do such things? Now Grandpa regrets it, but what good does regret do? We can’t go back to how things were before. You would never have guessed, initially, Grandpa wanted your father to marry your aunt because I thought they were well-matched. At that time, my company was facing an economic crisis, a huge financial gap that I could not fill with my own fortune.

Latter, your father firmly opposed the arranged marriage. It was also because of that refusal that the funding gap in my company remained unchanged. In the end, it was your mother who chose to sacrifice all her wealth to help me through those difficult times. It was her who filled the financial gap, and that is the reason why I agreed to let her marry your father.

”Do you now think Grandpa is just a greedy villain, who never cares about his family’s feelings, only minding the interests involved? As long as I could gain the same benefit, what does it matter if my family members suffer? Do you despise Grandpa more and more now?”

Although Zhang Yichen knew from the start that his parents’ love and hatred was not that simple, he had never imagined that all that had happened to him was related to his grandfather. It turned out that his grandfather was involved in everything.

Regardless, as a father, he was not wrong. What she wanted was merely for her child to be happy and well-off, to marry a spouse of equal social status. This was not in itself selfish.

”Grandpa, the things you’ve done, when seen from different perspectives, will have different answers. Flexing power, from a father’s perspective, what you did wasn’t selfish; you just wanted your son to be happy and to have a good wife, to have a good marriage.

Although under that premise, you ignored what kind of girl your own son actually liked and have already neglected his most genuine feelings. You forced him to follow your pace step by step, and you ultimately drove her away from you, making him flee from all this reality. Because he was afraid that every time he saw you, he would remember how you repeatedly pressured him into making decisions, leaving him with no choice but to leave as a way to protest against you.

However, from a business perspective, in order to fill the funding gap in your company, you did not hesitate to destroy your son’s lifelong happiness, forcing him to spend his life with a woman he did not love. Indeed, it was somewhat too selfish, but it also does not mean what you did was wrong.

All parents in the world hope for their children to be happy and content. What you did was not wrong; it was the way you went about it that was mistaken. The method you used is one that no one can accept, which ultimately led to such a passive situation.

If, at the time of making these decisions, you had chosen to consult with your own family, the outcome would not have been this way. Your family needs to be cared for and looked after by you, not treated as tools for trade.

If you treat your family as tools for exchange, as a means to earn profits, then you truly will never have any chance of gaining your family’s understanding!”

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In the following days, neither Zhang Zhentian nor Xia Jing experienced any sudden incidents like the one before. Their vital signs showed no change, and their conditions had not worsened. It was as though the whole world had grown quiet; they had cut off all contact with the outside world.

Old Master Zhang’s body was becoming increasingly frail; she could no longer withstand all this. He had been waiting for his son to wake up, longing to apologize to him personally, to tell his son that as a father, he truly realized his mistake. From the very beginning, he should never have treated his son’s marriage as a joke.

Zhang Yichen watched his grandfather become more and more emaciated time and time again, and it was more than he could bear. Yet, he could not think of any way to comfort his grandfather. With his own heart already in such pain, how could he find the strength to comfort someone else?

I really can’t understand why my son still refuses to wake up. He has been asleep for a whole week already.

Could it really be that as a father, I went too far, and he doesn’t want to see me anymore, that he would rather sleep on the sickbed forever than wake up and face me?

Old Master Zhang truly could not understand. All he could do was wait in silence, waiting for a miracle to once again occur, for his child to awaken. If indeed that day ever came, he was willing to give up everything he now possessed. He was willing to trade even his own life, as long as his son and daughter-in-law could be safe; that would be the greatest reward for him...