Chapter 769 Mrs. Du Released from Prison Asking for Help (2)_1
Chen Shanshan thought resentfully, her gaze firmly fixed on the tightly embracing couple, wishing she could poke thousands of holes into their bodies.
The irony wasn’t lost on her. If it hadn’t been for Chen Shanshan’s petulance, her inability to endure days of tiring journeying, insisting on disembarking at Bin City, a thousand miles away from the capital, she would not have been discovered by Xiao Ruiyuan’s Hidden Guard. In the end, she and her family were captured in a civilian’s house.
The very day they were brought back, they were thrown into the Ministry of Justice’s Prison to await their deaths.
Chen Shanshan harbored hatred for her biological father, Chen Ji, for his heinous betrayal and dragging her into his mess. She also felt that Mrs. Du was a harbinger of doom, born to overshadow her, trampling Chen Ji’s love for her underfoot, not touching her heart in the slightest, utterly cold and unfeeling.
Indeed, Chen Ji deserved death. Before his end, he came to realize the true nature of the daughter he had raised for more than a decade, a fitting retribution for his misdeeds. However, as an ordinary father, raising such a heartless and ungrateful daughter, there was nothing more tragic than this.
Once Mrs. Du’s sobs had ceased and she had calmed down, Chen Ji gathered his strength and took her hand, saying with effort, "Lanlan, I cannot escape death this time, but I hope that you can live on well..."
Mrs. Du cried torrents once more, shaking her head vigorously: "No, Brother Jie, if we were not fated to live together, or grow old together, wouldn’t dying together also be a kind of happiness? To die with Brother Jie is Lanlan’s blessing. I only hope that in the next life, I can meet Brother Jie again, to be an ordinary couple working the fields and weaving cloth, living peacefully to the end of our days."