Chapter 402: Past Life (Part 2) — I Won’t Let You Be Alone_2
Xu Meimei, unaware of the true circumstances, simply assumed that Shen Chi, due to his old age, fell seriously ill because they had been overly frivolous. From then on, although she still longed for intimacy, she never dared to initiate it.
Occasionally, when she saw her in the prime of life devoted wholeheartedly to him, an old man, the normally sane Shen Chi, no matter how tough-hearted, would feel a twinge of pity. But when he thought of Wanwan, that pity quickly dissolved.
How could he, in such a state, have any right to feel sympathy for her?
Since then, Shen Chi had never mentioned Lin Xiaoguai again. His temperament had become even more silent and stern, tending only to a few old people around him, appearing as stoic as a statue that neither cried nor smiled, formidable to those who saw.
Only Chen Han understood the turbulent storm brewing in his heart.
Even later, when he recognized Han Shouxin, facing his biologically cautious elder brother, Shen Chi’s emotions showed no fluctuations.
However, his treatment of Xu Meimei became increasingly better, indulging her to the point of dependency which, to the observer Chen Han, felt horrifying.
Amid Shen Chi’s day-by-day cold isolation, the powers surrounding Liu Yuzhi and Dong Fei toppled one by one. Before the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could react, they were accused of mental instability, diagnosed with mental illnesses by psychiatrists, and confined in a psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, Han Shouyi, the director of the Military Department’s research institute, was denounced for stealing someone else’s research accomplishments, and overnight his reputation was destroyed, becoming an outcast that everyone detested. The only male grandson of the Han Family, Colonel Han Shaoze, was also killed by stray bullets during a mission, and his wife and children died in a chain of car accidents on their way to the hospital.