"It's not about that woman. I know you're mesmerized by her now. How can you listen to me?" Xu Shaoqing said in a sharp voice. "What I want to tell you has something to do with your father."
Ji Shiting frowned slightly.
"Shiting, you've always thought I betrayed your father, but you don't know that Xie Rui and I got together thanks to your father! He's fallen for someone else a long time ago, and he introduced Xie Rui to me because he was afraid I would be upset. He did it because…"
"Stop it, Shaoqing!" He interrupted her.
It was Grandpa Ji. He walked out of the study and stood at the stairs.
"I have to say it today!" Xu Shaoqing's face was beet red, seemingly having been holding it in for a long time. "Shiting, you always thought your father died from an illness, didn't you? Actually, that's not the case at all. He was pretending to be sick. He was prepared to leave the Ji family and elope with another woman!"
Ji Shiting's pupils contracted.
