My Alleged Husband

Chapter 1540: Chapter 1334: Betrayal

Integrity is more important than anything else. If you feel you don’t even have the most basic integrity, then what else is there to say?

Zhang Zhentian never expected his father had already investigated everything so thoroughly, just waiting for him to fall into the trap. Maybe his father truly didn’t want him to return home. Perhaps all of this was the result he had to bear from the start, and now, who else could he blame?

Even so, he was still unwilling. He couldn’t accept being driven out of the house by his father and never returning. Clearly, the mistake he made wasn’t that big, so why did one lie have to result in him being kicked out of the house, never allowed to return? The mistakes he made weren’t that severe. Did he really do wrong by hiding the truth to help his wife? Was every action in his father’s eyes truly that unbearable and forever wrong?

”Dad, why? Why? You’ve obviously investigated everything so clearly, so why do you still want me to investigate? What exactly is your purpose in doing this? Are you intentionally testing me, or is it to make sure I can never return home? You know I’ll choose to hide the truth for my wife’s sake. You know this, so why do you still do it? In your heart, do you even acknowledge me as your son? In your heart, is everything I do wrong? I really can’t understand why our relationship has become like this. I admit that abandoning you was my mistake. I shouldn’t have done that. I shouldn’t have left you behind in pursuit of my own interests. But I’ve been punished already. What more do you want from me? To die in front of you? You are my biological father. Why can’t you think about our father-son relationship when you do things? A relationship that will never change in this lifetime.”

”Do you still not understand? Especially regarding our father-son relationship, it’s your actions that make it hard for me to trust you. You’ve made so many mistakes. What do you really want from me? I’ve chosen to forgive you over and over again because you are my son. The way you’ve turned out is only my fault for not guiding you properly, for not raising you to succeed. But with the things you’ve done, how can I forgive or excuse you? Your mistakes are so grave. Yet I keep forgiving you. Is this how you repay me? To you, what do I even mean? I’m your father too. Does being a father mean I must be hurt by you time and again? Do you remember what you just said? Did you forget right after turning around? Do you think you’re the only one in this world who can investigate clearly, and no one else is capable? Is that how you see me, Zhang Mo? You underestimate me. Don’t forget, I built my company from nothing with my own hands. When I hoped you would accept my company, what did you decide? You chose to leave, to roam the world with your so-called wife. You didn’t want to help me. This is the son I have, this is your so-called filial piety, your so-called reasons for wanting my forgiveness. Reflect on your actions. Are they truly worthy of my repeated forgiveness? Consider if what you’ve done is truly a fair return for the years of painstaking cultivation I put into you. You’ve never thought of what you owe me, only of how to hurt me, how to achieve your own interests. Is this how you repay your father, the one who nurtured you for decades?”

”I said I haven’t thought that way about you. Why won’t you believe me? I just want to live happily with you. I just want the love a son should receive. I just want what a father should provide for his son. Is that me trying to take everything from you? Do you think I care about these things?”

”I know you don’t care. That’s why you continue to do things that hurt me. You did so much, but what can I say? I have no choice because you’re my son. I can only choose to forgive, to tolerate over and over again. In your heart, you will never be satisfied, because you think I owe you. That I deserve to be hurt by you time and again, to be abandoned by you time and again, don’t I?”

Zhang Yichen really couldn’t listen any further. He never thought his grandfather could be so heartbroken. He always assumed his grandfather was unaffected by such matters. It turned out his grandfather just didn’t know how to express himself. He decided to turn a blind eye to avoid worsening the situation. Yet he didn’t realize that it was this ignorance that allowed his father to grow bolder and bolder, even to lie, using his family as the basis of his lies.

”Dad, how can you speak to Grandpa like that? Do you know Grandpa has seen all your wrongdoings over the years? Yet he chose to say nothing, hoping you would repent and turn back. Every time you act, do you think about how you’re hurting those who love you the most? Do you know how much Grandpa has missed you all these years? He just wishes his son could be by his side, allowing him to enjoy family happiness. But what about you? What have you done all these years? You coldly abandoned him, never thinking you had a father, never thinking about having me as a son. You’ve done so much wrong. Now why do you come back seeking our forgiveness? If you think nothing matters to us, why do you come back and provoke me? In your view, must we forgive the hurt caused by your leaving and endure all the pain?”

We owe you nothing. We’ve chosen to trust you over and again because we see you as family. But ask yourself honestly, do you deserve to be our family?

Without owing, how could our lives be perfect? Pain is only transient. To become the strongest, one must endure pain.