"since you said so here it goes. Jianyu why don't you answer your father's surname and why does your mother have so a great hatred for actresses? Bai Zhenzhen said.
Her words left him speechless, he was trying to figure out how to answer that question. It was a very dark moment in his life.
"Jianyu, You don't have to answer me, I will understand it if you don't wish to talk about it" Bai Zhenzhen said softly as she noticed the pained expression in Zhou Jianyu's face.
"It's alright Zhenzhen, I will tell all even after all these years I still can't get over it all" He said lost in thoughts.
"Zhenzhen do you still remember what I told you about the lake house" he said.
"about spending every summer at the lake house until you were ten years old yes I do" She said remembering their walk on the beach some months back.
"My father and mother basically. grew up together, the Ouyang Family and the Zhou family were very close friends so my grandparents like most parents decided to arrange a marriage between my father and mother.
My mother has always loved my father and was so happy with the union. My father however like most young master's was against the marriage from the start.
I guess he still wanted to have a little more fun but my grandparents wouldn't have any of that when he was twenty four and my mother twenty they both got married.
A year later they had me. My grandparents believed that after having a child and spending sometime together my father and mother would grow to love euch other but sadly that never happened.
eight years later my grandfather passed away and my father took over the company that's when all the problems began.
Two years later my parents relationship further deteriorated. My father had always had affairs all through the marriage and my mother had always forgiven him because unlike him she really loved him.
He was her world but this time it was worse because this time his mistress for four years an actress Gu Mingyu had given birth to a child.
With my grandfather gone with no one to bring him to order my father began to maltreat my mother and two years later he brought his mistress to an event and completely disgraced my mother accusing her of having an affair ten years before and passing her lover's child for his.
He kicked my mother and myself out of the house and abandoned us hoping to install his mistress as his wife.
My grandmother however refused luckily Gu Mingyu gave birth to a daughter so she didn't have any bargaining chip again.
Her main aim was to marry into the family but grandmother would never let her. Because of my father's accusations I never answered the Ouyang name again.
My father was together with Gu Mingyu for Fourteen years before he finally broke it off with her when he discovered that she and his cousin had been playing him all along.
After so investigation he had discovered that my mother had always been faithful even in the Fourteen years they had been separated. After some pleading and apologizing on his part they got back together.
My mother has always loved him so it was no surprise that she forgave him so easily" He said.
"And you, Have you truly forgiven him? she asked.
"No I haven't, I don't think that I ever will forget what he put us through. In order to force my mother to sign the divorce papers he had delibrately made things extremely difficult for us.
My mother was an only child so there was no one to protect us from him. Not that anyone would have ever done anything to protect us.
The Ouyang Family is one of the great families of C nation so most people avoided us out of fear.
It was only the Tang and Zhang family that stood by us. the Su family were new money and couldn't be of much help.
My father always tried to suppress us in business for many years. That was until I took over the company that we started getting a certain degree of comfort" He replied.
"I'm Sorry, it must have been so hard" She said.
"It was but we made it. I guess I have my father to thank for my success today. After going through all that pain I had to grow up fast" he said.
"And Gu Mingyu whatever happened to her" She said.
"She left C nation and never came back not even for her child's marriage. She had remarried you see to my dear uncle" he said. "And her daughter" She asked.
"After a paternity test was done and she was raised by my grandmother and parents. She's married now with a child.
You're very familiar with her, she was one of the first batch of actresses and actors signed under Phoenix entertainment when I took over the company" he said with a smile.
"Sister Suyin" She said and from his smile she could already guess that she had guessed right.
"I still can't believe that the reigning queen of the theater twenty years ago Gu Mingyu was this bad. I keep forgetting that things are never as they seamed in the Entertainment industry no wonder Suyin never revealed her history" She said.
"That was most definitely done to protect mother from anymore pain. No one liked their pain to be revealed to the world least of all my mother.
My mother had always been nice to her, it had really broken her heart when Suyin joined the industry that for the longest time she had refused to acknowledge that Suyin as an actress until five years ago.
So Zhenzhen you shouldn't take my mother's words to heart she is just being stubborn" he said taking her hands on his.
"Don't worry I never will. After Li Cheng I understand how it feels to be betrayed by a man" She said