Chapter 427 - Chapter 427: Chapter 427 Cant Dock Anymore (1/2)
Chapter 427: Chapter 427 Can’t Dock Anymore
At this question, Wu Lijuan was stunned and took a long time to sigh deeply,
“That child, truly had a tough fate!”
“What happened?”
Wu Lijuan hemmed and hawed for a while, then suddenly stood up and knelt in front of Lin Nansheng,
“Mr. Lin, I have wronged you! Song Xianjing entrusted her child to me, asking me to hand her over to you if I ever had the chance. But I failed… I couldn’t take care of her properly, and she perished in a fire. I am so sorry!”
Lin Nansheng was utterly shocked upon hearing this.
Although he had officially recognized Jiang Jiaying on the surface, he had some doubts deep down.
Now he had directly asked Wu Lijuan, it was clear he wanted to confirm it once more.
The answer he got was unexpected.
He stood up, helped Wu Lijuan to sit down on the couch,
“Aunt of the child, please get up, don’t kneel. You’re not young anymore; why kneel? You might hurt your waist.”
As soon as Wu Lijuan mentioned the name Song Yun, she couldn’t hold back and burst into loud sobbing.
She wept heartbrokenly.
“I raised that child with my own hands. She was very beautiful, looking a lot like Xianjing when she was younger. Pretty and smart too; she grasped things with just a hint. I didn’t have a daughter, so I doted on her as if she were my own. I never would have imagined such a tragedy happening.”
“What sort of accident was it?”
Lin Nansheng inquired.
Wu Lijuan then recounted the details of the Golden Bay fire incident thoroughly.
Lin Nansheng was once again shaken to the core; afterward, he sat down despondently, let out a mournful sigh, and then there was a long silence.
For a moment, even the flow of the room seemed to freeze, and all I could perceive was the ticking of the clock.
Wu Lijuan went to the study and took out a photograph, along with several photo albums.
That photo was of me with the two kids…
“This is what Ayun left behind, sigh. I never thought she would meet with such an accident. Had I known, I would have saved more of her pictures. After digging through the house, the only photograph I could find from after her marriage is this one. However, there are still some pictures in these albums from when she was in kindergarten and from her elementary and middle school days. Take a look!”
Lin Nansheng took the albums and slowly flipped through them…
In reality, those pictures were all too familiar to me; I had looked through them countless times before.
But I never expected that they would now be in the hands of Lin Nansheng, who carefully perused them, his fingers tenderly brushing across the photos.
After a long time, he was once again overshadowed by old tears and deep sighs.
“She really does look like her mother!”
“Yes, Ayun was very beautiful; many people pursued her. She was also very intelligent, she never caused me any worry with her studies.”
“It’s such a pity… I wonder if she ever harbored any resentment towards me, her father.”
“That…”
“Sigh, I’ve troubled you for too long here. I should take my leave now. Could I possibly take one of the albums to keep as a memento?”
“You can take them all if you’d like. As for the albums we have here, to prevent losing them, I had them all backed up on my computer a few days ago. If I ever need them, I can just have my son print them out.”
Lin Nansheng stood up and shook hands with Wu Lijuan.
“Thank you very much for raising Ayun, it wasn’t easy at all. Please accept my bow!”
Lin Nansheng gave Wu Lijuan a deep bow.
With tears brimming in her eyes and a choked voice Wu Lijuan said,
“Ah, I regret not being able to hand her over to you intact. I truly feel guilty.”
Lin Nansheng patted Wu Lijuan’s arm,
“Perhaps this is all fate, and you shouldn’t blame yourself too much.”