My Lovely Wife is a Forensic Doctor - Chapter 98
Chapter 98 Explanation
“Twenty years ago, your grandmother and I were friends with Yu’s family. She was even named by your grandmother.”
“How was that possible?” Remembering what Mu Yu said she went through, Qin Jinhuan was in disbelief. “She was still staying deep in the mountains twenty years back!”
“The mountain was called the Snake Spirit Mountain as there were many snakes in that area. Rumor has it that a huge python cultivated itself into becoming immortal, which explains the name.” Qin Xiaozhi chuckled and then sighed. “There was a village at the side of the mountain known as the Mu village where Yu and her family had stayed. Twenty years ago, when your grandmother and I went there to travel, your grandmother’s life was at risk due to a poisonous snake bite. Fortunately, she was saved by Yu’s grandfather. They even welcomed us warmly. Slowly, we became best friends with their family. The environment there was nice and your grandmother really loved it there. We’d visit them and stay for a few months every year. When Mu Yu was born, your grandmother was still staying over at their house. It was unfortunate that a landslide occurred at the Snake Spirit Mountain when Yu was only two years old, burying the entire village. None of the other villagers survived the landslide apart from Yu and her family.”
“After the landslide, we tried looking for them. However, because your grandmother was still overseas for her expeditions and travels, we visited a month later. By the time we rushed there, her family’s location was unknown. I never interacted much with her parents and only stayed in contact with her grandparents. Unfortunately, both of them passed away during the landslide, so I lost all contact with her family.”
Was it possible that his grandfather was the rich relative that she had previously mentioned?!
Qin Jinhuan felt that it was unbelievable.
Suddenly, he remembered that Mu Yu told him that she almost became a mistress so he pressed on, “Have you guys ever wanted to take Mu Yu over to raise her up as your granddaughter-in-law?”
“That was your grandmother’s idea. She had always wanted a daughter but the only child she ever had was your father. Unfortunately, her family was reluctant to send Yu away because her mother was declared infertile after that. After losing contact with her family, your grandmother always felt bad regarding this. She even urged for me to find them and match the both of you before she passed away. Wait, how did you know about this?”
This was exactly what he thought.
Qin Jinhuan continued angrily, “So, many years back then, you accidentally met Yu’s family in An City which made you remember grandmother’s wishes. However, you knew that I wouldn’t have agreed to meet her. So, you joined hands with her family and put up an act in front of me. First, you acted as if you had brain atrophy and messed up the entire household. Then, you acted as if Mu Yu was your daughter that never existed. Furthermore, you also pretended as if your emotions could only be stabilized when she was around. And after you recovered, you purposely forced her family to leave An City. Your goal is clear, you want to gain my filiality as well as sympathy so that I’ll fall into your trap! Ha! You’re rather dedicated, I’d give you that! What a shame you guys didn’t become actors!”
Suddenly, Qin Jinhuan, who was always confident in solving his problems, felt pathetic that what happened to him was caused by the ones that he trusted the most.
Hearing his grandson’s taunts, Qin Xiaozhi shook his head and explained, “This whole thing was planned and executed by myself. Mu Yu’s parents only cooperated with me because they weren’t powerful enough to stop me. As for Yu, she is just as oblivious to this as you are.”
“Completely oblivious? That’s not possible.”
“She really is. After hanging around with her for quite a while, I’m sure that you know she is kind and naive. She is down to earth, and she isn’t someone who is good at scheming. If she knew about this earlier, she would have ruined my plans.” Seeing that Qin Jinhuan was smiling coldly, Qin Xiaozhi advised, “Huan, trust me. Yu is suitable for you. The both of you will be happy together.”
Qin Jinhuan was unsympathetic and snorted, “I’m guessing she’s the reason why you refused to acknowledge my relationship with Anjing ten years ago?”
The sudden change of topic took Qin Xiaozhi off guard. He retorted, “The reason why I refused to accept you and Yi Anjing being together wasn’t because of Yu’s existence but because Yi Anjing did not deserve you.”
Qin Jinhuan was enraged. “Who are you to tell me that Anjing did not deserve me? Is Mu Yu worthy of me? What does she have that Anjing didn’t?”
Qin Xiaozhi stared at him grimly for awhile before questioning lightly, “It’s been ten years, can’t you just let go of her?”
“Forget ten years, I will never let go of her until the day I die!”
“Are you holding your grudge toward her death or toward me?”
“What do you think?” Qin Jinhuan took a step forward to his grandfather and loomed over him. He said resentfully, “If it weren’t for your dirty tricks, she wouldn’t have been humiliated by Yi Yunzhe and I would have married her back then! Then, she wouldn’t have killed herself because of what happened with Yi Yunzhe! You were the one who caused her death!”
Qin Xiaozhi was pissed off too. “Stop putting the blame on others. If she hadn’t gone to the bar and gotten drunk, would Yi Yunzhe even have the chance to humiliate her? I can’t believe you’re still hooked on such a woman!”
“Of all the women that I’ve met in my life, none of them has dignity except for Mu Yu, right?”
Seeing the flash of coldness in his grandson’s gaze, Qin Xiaozhi suppressed his ‘yes’ in fear that his emotions would cause him to be mad at Mu Yu too. He slowly took a deep breath before speaking again, “Huan, it doesn’t matter who was right or wrong, let bygones be bygones and appreciate the people in front of you now. By the way, weren’t you confused about the video from West Bay? Well, today, let me completely… Huan! Huan!”
His anxious calls did not manage to stop Qin Jinhuan from leaving. Seeing that he left the room, Qin Xiaozhi pouted and sat down.
Sensing that something went wrong, the twin guarding the entrance came in and questioned, “Old Master, about the young master…”
“Leave me alone,” Qin Xiaozhi said while resting his eyes.
“Alright.” The twins did not question further and went back to their original position by his side.
Sigh…
Qin Xiaozhi sighed inwardly.
He had initially thought that tonight was the best time to lay all his cards on the table. However, it seemed like he was too impatient.
Previously, Qin Jinhuan hated him for ten years because of Lin Sijun’s death. After that, he hated him for another ten years because of Yi Anjing’s death.
Facing his beloved grandson, all he had was sadness and heartaches.
Back then, because of his over-doting as well as lack of parenting, Qin Xiaozhi caused his son to become a spoiled, selfish child. Initially, he did not regard this as a serious matter. Until one day, his playboy of a son brought a pregnant Dong Yueyun back. Later on, his son ignored his advice and went as far as treating his wife and son terribly. It was then that he felt like his son had become a total stranger.
Before Lin Sijun passed away, she had entrusted Qin Jinhuan to him. After learning a lesson with his own son, he swore to be more strict with his grandson as he did not want him to follow in his father’s footsteps. However, he did not expect his grandson to blame both him and his son for his mother’s suffering. Qin Jinhuan had hated him along with his father and always went against his decisions since young. If Qin Xiaozhi asked for Qin Jinhuan to head East, he would head West; if he asked the latter to go to school, he would skip his classes.
At the start, he would be annoyed by his grandson’s antics. However, he then came to realize a child’s rebellious phase and its principles. So, he tried using reverse psychology on him and to his surprise, it worked. As time went by, his grandson slowly grew up and gained knowledge. Little by little, his grandson had finally lost interest in rebelling against him although he was still cold and distant around him. The both of them stayed together but lived as if they were strangers.
Then, the incident with Yi Anjing happened. His grandson hated him for interfering between his relationship with Yi Anjing. On the other hand, he hated his grandson for not thinking about the consequences by taking his revenge on Yi Yunzhe. Although they did not argue about it, it was obvious that their relationship became even tense. However, they were still family with the same bloodline after all. Thus, when he reunited with the Mu Family, he took a risk and acted sick in order to get his grandson together with Mu Yu that he actually liked.
The current situation proved that he won. Although his grandson was cold and distant toward him, he still cared about him deeply.
When his mind flashed back to his grandson’s leaving silhouette, he realized that he still had a long way to go before winning this bet. Now, all he could do was bet on his grandson’s feelings toward Mu Yu.
Just from what Huan had told him about Mu Yu today, he felt that he would not be disappointed.
Using that to comfort himself, he slowly opened his eyes. Qi Hao, who was by the side, immediately handed a reheated cup of tea over to him and asked, “Old Master, can we destroy the video now?”
“Destroy it.”
“Alright.” Qi Hao went to resolve it right away.
On the other hand, Qi Han passed a file to Qin Xiaozhi. “Old Master, the money and mansion that you previously gave us have been transferred back to you.”
“The both of you have worked really hard this time around.”
“It’s our pleasure,” Qi Hao continued, “We are indebted to your kindness. What we have done for you is nothing compared to what you have given us.”
Qin Xiaozhi smiled gratifyingly.
Everyone knew that the Qi brothers were hired by him as bodyguards, but no one knew that the brothers were on the brink of death and were rescued by him. Not only did he save them, he also helped their entire family. This was why the brothers remained fiercely loyal to him.
Although he had passed on his authority in the company over to Qin Jinhuan and pretended to be sick, he would always closely follow Qin Jinhuan’s movements, especially his involvement in the Phoenix Gully project. Previously, he strongly protested against the overconfident Qin Jinhuan who suggested bringing forward the Phoenix Gully’s project exploits. However, after some inspections, he finally decided to take the risk. Alas, he did not expect to receive the news that they found a Japanese biochemical weapon lab at Phoenix Gully two days before they would sign the contract, which caused quite a panic. When things couldn’t get worse, his relationship with Qin Jinhuan became very tense due to Mu Yu. Then, a moment of chance happened when Qin Wentao, who secretly joined hands with Yi Yunzhe, had tried to bribe the Qi brothers with a large amount of money. So, he played along and let the Qi brothers pretend to accept the bribe to gain trust of both Qin Wentao as well as Yi Yunzhe.
The incident with the video was done by Qi Hao under his orders. This included spiking Mu Yu’s beverage, distracting Cheng Xiang, faking Yi Yunzhe to contact Mu Yu, distracting all the guests that stayed around room 3022 (this was why no one besides them knew what happened although they caused quite a commotion), and a series of other events.
In reality, Yi Yunzhe only had the first part of the video and also had his suspicions regarding the incident. However, after winning over the Phoenix Gully’s project with the video, it made Yi Yunzhe, who believed that Qin Xiaozhi was bedriddened, become overconfident. Moreover, Qin Wentao had told him that Qi Hao left out the second part of the video because they were afraid of him not keeping his side of the agreement. At the same time, he was also busy trying to get new fundings as well as thinking of new ways to trigger and teach Qin Jinhuan a lesson, thus he never thought about it anymore. Hence, this further strengthened Qin Xiaozhi’s plan.
It was just that Huan…
He softly sighed and said, “Let’s go back.” Qin Xiaozhi slowly got up. Qi Hao immediately went to support him while Qi Han swiftly packed their stuff.
“Good day, Old Master,” greeted Bian Zijun and Weng Yun who were guarding the room next door.
Qin Xiaozhi frowned. “Huan didn’t return to his room?”
“No,” Bian Zijun answered uneasily. “The young master did not look happy when he left your room. He did not even spare anyone a glance.”
“I wanted to follow him but was shouted at instead,” Weng Yun added on.
“Contact him. I want to know where he is.”
“Alright.” Bian Zijun immediately made the call. However, he quickly lowered his phone. “His phone is turned off.”
Qin Xiaozhi’s facial expressions changed.
Is this bastard planning to dump Mu Yu?!