Chapter 1086: Nostalgi

Editor: Atlas Studios

“Stop talking!” Zhang Qi couldn’t help but interrupt. She glared at him. “You’re not worthy of mentioning my mother. Your Zhang family chased us away, and now you’re pretending to miss us in front of me. What exactly do you want?”

She was only ten years old then! That day was like a nightmare that had accompanied her for so many years. Her mother and her left the Zhang family’s villa with their luggages and the two of them lived a miserable life outside.

Zhang Lei shook his head. “Zhang Qi, I just…” He was just nostalgic. He had indeed done something wrong back then. He also regretted it. Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret.

Zhang Qi gritted her teeth and said coldly, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first. I don’t want to hear you pretend to miss my mother again.” This disgusted her!

“Zhang Qi, you don’t know what happened back then. Actually, I planned your mother and your departure. I just wanted the both of you to go out and hide for a while and return after the family stabilizes,” Zhang Lei explained.

Zhang Qi said angrily, “But you married your current wife right after my mother left. This is what you did.” She would never forgive him on behalf of her mother.

Zhang Lei slowly lowered his head as clear tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. “I didn’t expect what happened after that…” He had been drugged and had no choice but to marry his current wife. However, he had no feelings for his current wife.

Zhang Qi clenched her fists. “If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first.” She didn’t want to listen to these meaningless words. Her mother couldn’t hear these apologies anyway.

Zhang Lei wiped his tears and sighed. “Zhang Qi, I called you over today because I wanted to tell you something.” He paused for a moment. “I didn’t want to say this at first, but last night, your mother came to me in a dream. She wanted me to explain everything to you clearly, so I came today.”

Zhang Qi did not say anything. She wanted to see what Zhang Lei was up to.

Zhang Lei continued, his eyes filled with nostalgia. “Actually, you’re not your mother’s and my biological child. We picked you up.”

“What?” Zhang Qi’s body stiffened as she looked at Zhang Lei in disbelief. She wasn’t her parents’ biological daughter? How was this possible!

Zhang Lei nodded, his eyes filled with memories. “Your mother had a uterine fibroid and had her uterus removed before she got married. I didn’t care about this. The two of us planned to get married and live happily ever after.”

Zhang Qi felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She did not want to believe it. In fact, when she was young, her grandmother had always pointed at her and said that she was a b*stard. However, Zhang Qi had never taken it to heart. After all, no one in her family liked her. So this was the truth?

Zhang Lei continued, “In the second year of our marriage, we went out to camp and happened to pick you up in the mountains. In the end, you’ve grown up in the blink of an eye.” Back then, he and his wife had planned to adopt a child. They didn’t expect the heavens to send Zhang Qi to their side, that was how they had such a happy family.

Zhang Qi was stunned on the spot. She was in a daze and could not accept this fact.

Zhang Lei said, “We originally wanted to wait until you were 18 years old to decide if you wanted to find your biological parents. Who knew that so many things had happened.” This was also fate!

Zhang Qi’s eyes were filled with tears as she held them back.

Zhang Lei handed a bag to Zhang Qi. Zhang Qi opened the bag and found a piece of fabric inside.

Zhang Lei lifted her sleeve and pointed at the birthmark on her arm. “The crescent-shaped birthmark on your arm and this dress are important clues to your search for your family. Don’t forget it.”

Zhang Qi spread out the clothes. The word “Zhu” was embroidered on it.

Zhang Lei took a deep breath. “Zhang Qi, no matter what the truth is, you will always be my daughter. You will always be in the Zhang family’s genealogy. I went for a vasectomy after I got married, so… Zhang Mian is not my biological daughter.” He had never looked his second wife in the eye, nor did he know how she got pregnant.

Zhang Lei did not care about this. His greatest wish in life was to be buried with Zhang Qi’s mother.

Zhang Qi gripped her clothes tightly, her eyes filled with tears. So she shouldn’t have hated her father? However, she and her mother had indeed suffered a lot.

“Then why didn’t you visit us after you divorced my mother?” Zhang Qi asked.

Zhang Lei shook his head. “I went, but she didn’t want to see me. It turns out that she was already sick at that time.” That was why Zhang Qi’s mother left so suddenly. The two of them always missed each other.

Zhang Qi gritted her teeth. Her mind was in a mess and she did not know what to say.