"I don't know who they were, three years ago, I was studying abroad when your father suddenly found me and asked me to give this box to you. But just as your father was handing the box over to me, we were suddenly attacked by gunmen. In the chaos, your father was shot multiple times while trying to save me. We managed to escape in the end, but your father..."
When Ding Zhi reached this point, he couldn't go on anymore. He didn't have to finish for Ye Wudao and Ding Ruolin to understand what he meant.
"These past few years, I've been hiding abroad, fearing those people would get to me. I thought that after a few years they would have given up, so I came back to Jiangnan. But I never expected that these people would linger like persistent ghosts; wherever I went, they found me..."
"Sister, I'm sorry, I… It was my fault that your biological father was killed, and I almost got you killed too. It's all because I was useless," Ding Zhi said.
