Chapter 49: The confession (1)
"He panicked when Mrs. Dai was stirring back to consciousness. He had expected her to be dead just like Miss. Ma. The plan would fail if he would be forced to save her. So before she could ask for his help, he clamped her mouth shut this time. She was already in a fragile condition because of the previous attack. It was only a matter of time that her body wouldn't be able to take it."
Ma Yanyu asked in disbelief, "But what about the time he attacked Mom at the park? Why would he do that if he had a hand in killing her too?"
Dai Fengge collapsed on his knees, his shoulders repressing his regretful sobs. His palms grew moist as he covered his face, breaking down into the remorse that was burrowing a deep hole in his heart. "I am sorry...I am sorry, Mom..."
Dai Meihui was still unable to fathom Dai Fengge's involvement in his mother's death. The imagination itself was so bizarre that she couldn't wrap her head around it. "But you always loved your mother so much. You always listened to her and happily did everything that she asked for so-"
"I wasn't happy..." Dai Fengge said with a crushed voice, embracing defeat. "I wasn't happy, Meihui. She loved me so much that it was difficult to live with it! It was frustrating. It was annoying. I felt chained. She wanted to always stay beside me, make all my decisions for me, do things her way and everything just became too suffocating for me! I never felt free. Even when..."
He bit his lip, trying to hold his choke back, "Even when I fell in love with a woman and wanted to marry her...Mom didn't like her for me and was totally against our marriage."
She swayed lightly on her foot as this unexpected news hit her.
Fengge had somebody he loved...?
Dai Meihui might have been hit by this unforeseen news, but Jia wasn't. When she had zoned in on one of the culprits being Dai Fengge, it had come as a shocker to her too. But when she began to dig for a motive, she found that there was a brief period of his relationship with a woman named Chun years ago, which fell apart because of Dai Yaling. She then slowly began to piece that Dai Fengge's love towards his mother might not be so genuine after all.