Stars In His Eyes
Chapter 1064: Seeking the Truth 9

Chapter 1064: Chapter 1064: Seeking the Truth 9

"Dad!" He Da only spoke up when he saw his father getting anxious. He glanced at the people from the Gu Family and the Lan Family and snorted, "So Zhilan is the Gu Zhilan you’ve been looking for, what of it? She doesn’t want to acknowledge you. She told me in her freshman year that she found her biological parents, but she also told me what you did to her! Don’t you have an adopted daughter? You say Zhilan is your only daughter, but what did you do? How could you just sit back and let your adopted daughter bully her? Your adopted daughter tried to kill her, nearly making her a ghost passing the Ghost Gate. And what did you do? You threatened her to drop the charges instead!"

As He Da brought up these matters of He Zhilan, his stomach was full of fire, "Imagine that, you’re supposed to be He Zhilan’s parents! Even if you couldn’t recognize her, didn’t know she was your daughter, are you still human? Your adopted daughter almost had her killed, and with the power in your hands, you pressured her to endure the abuse. And you even used my elder brother’s military career as leverage to force her to drop the case and forgive your vicious adopted daughter who is worse than a beast!"

"I..."

Faced with He Da’s accusations, the Gu Family and Lan Family people were left speechless.

Wrong was wrong, done was done.

He Teng was slightly panicked. He stood up and looked at He Da, "What you just mentioned about the Ghost Gate, who tried to kill whom? What exactly happened?"

"Dad, all these years, Zhilan had a hard time in the capital. She didn’t want you to worry, didn’t want us to worry at home, so she kept everything to herself and didn’t tell you. She brought up these events when she first found me, that was when I learned, actually, Zhilan was trafficked to our family by human traffickers. Dad, Zhilan didn’t want you to overthink or blame yourself, so she never let us tell you," explained He Da.

He Teng’s body swayed slightly, "You knew all along? What about your elder brother? Did he know too? Does Dongxue know as well? You all kept it from Dad alone?"

"Dad, Zhilan was afraid you would worry," He Da nodded.

"If she was afraid I’d worry, then all the more reason not to hide everything from me! You all have become so self-sufficient, not wanting dad to fret, but not even telling dad about such a big ordeal? Not even telling dad about life-threatening issues?" He Teng said with a hint of heartache, knowing full well that He Teng and He Zhilan only delivered good news and withheld the bad in the capital. After all, whose life ever goes completely smoothly? However, he had not expected that He Zhilan had come so close to death over these years.

"So, it’s true, He Zhilan is really Gu Zhilan." It took a while for Grandmother Gu to finally speak up, her face suddenly seeming much older in that instant.

The daughter of the Gu Family, they searched for her so long, and eventually gave up. Yet, when their child went all the way to the capital, not only did they fail to recognize her, but they also continued to do things that hurt her.

"I don’t know what else you’ve done to her, do you realize? When she first spoke of you, do you know how desperate, how heartbroken she sounded when telling me?" He Da couldn’t help being deeply pained by the memory of He Zhilan, his fate-laden sister, "He Zhilan told me with one sentence, she said, she had gone through great lengths, spent immense effort, and used any means necessary to find those she believed missed her. She left battered by the harsh wind and snow and returned covered in wounds."

This sentence was truly an invisible sharp blade that pierced straight into everyone’s hearts.