"Dad, what's going on?" Qu Qingyan vaguely felt that her father was hiding something from her.

Qu Honglin turned around and realized that he had forgotten to add more clothes for his daughter. He couldn't help but frowned in annoyance.

Immediately, he took off his outer robe and put it on his daughter.

He turned around and once again set his eyes on his beloved wife on the ice bed, and said in a gentle voice: "It's not that your father intentionally concealed it, but you were still young before, and your fate..."

He sighed softly, and then continued: "Today, your father will tell you everything."

Qu Qingyan swallowed nervously.

She had a premonition that what her father was about to say might have a lot to do with her.

"You already know my father's life story. The fate of the two of them changed drastically because of the substitution of the dragon for the phoenix. This was all due to Qu Wenshi's selfishness. Not only did she harm her daughter, but she also harmed my father."

"In order to protect the family business, Qu Wen abandoned her own daughter and raised a stranger's son in the Qu family. How could she be willing to accept this? Therefore, every time she missed her own daughter, it was the day when her father suffered..."

At the mildest, he would scold her, at the worst, he would beat her, just to make her feel better and alleviate the guilt he felt towards his own daughter.

As a child, Qu Honglin often went hungry and had little clothes to wear. He also had to endure his mother's frequent torture due to illness, so he was extremely thin and looked sickly.

He studied day after day, even in the cold winter and when he was seriously ill, and he could not miss any of them. This also made his body weaker and showed signs of dying young.

Until I met her...

Qu Honglin was immersed in memories, and his expression gradually melted from the initial coldness.

"My father has been weak since he was young, and he has been dragging his sick body to school. The children in the school often bully him. When they see that Qu Wenshi never cares about him, they bully him even more wantonly."

"That day, they threw my father's only inkstone into the lake. I was worried that Qu Wen would scold me when I returned, so I went into the water to retrieve it. However, my weak body was unable to do so. Not only did I fail to retrieve the inkstone, I almost lost my life. Just when I thought I was going to die, a slender hand pulled me up."

"That's my mother, right?" Qu Qingyan guessed it and was slightly excited.

Qu Honglin smiled and nodded, "Your mother is two years younger than me, but she is very strong. Her thin body saved me. At that time, I was frightened and didn't know how to react. I just stared at her blankly..."

The girl was small and cute, like a porcelain doll, and she rescued the boy from the water easily.

At the same time, she was still cursing, "These bastards almost killed my target. Let me show you how I'll deal with them when I have time."

The boy didn't understand what she said and just looked at her stupidly.

The girl was startled. She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of the boy's eyes. "Qu Honglin, you...what's wrong with you? Are you scared silly?"

When the boy didn't respond, she pinched his cheek.

The boy finally came to his senses, and when he saw the two of them being so close, he shyly stepped back and said, "Thank...thank you very much, young lady."

"Girl? You actually called me girl?" When the girl heard his name and looked at her own petite figure, she burst into laughter.

That was the first time that Qu Honglin saw a woman who disregarded her image and acted on impulse, not to mention that she was his savior.

The girl laughed enough, and as she carefully looked at the thin boy, sympathy appeared on her face, "That old hag Qu Wen was too cruel to you. She treated you like a human being because you were not her biological child. How old are you? You are so thin that you are unrecognizable. You can see how she abused you on a daily basis."

"I'm not my mother's biological child?" The boy keenly grasped the truth.

The fairy tale paused, then said nonchalantly: "You will know it sooner or later anyway, so it doesn't matter if I tell you now, even back then..."

She told Qu Honglin's life story in detail.

Hearing this, Qu Qingyan twitched his lips.

Her mother's personality is really...

"I also learned about my life from your mother. In fact, I also had a vague guess at that time. After all, as a mother, how many people can be as cruel as Qu Wenshi?"

At that time, Qu Honglin was sad for a moment, but then he accepted this fact.

"Don't worry, with me, Weng Xianghan, here, no one will bully you in the future!" The little girl patted her chest and made a vow.

The boy blinked in confusion, looking extremely cute.

"Cute, so cute. I never thought that the evil god who destroyed multiple dimensions looked like this when he was a child." Seeing this, the girl reached out and rubbed his head continuously.

The boy did not stop.

From then on, there was an exquisite and lovely girl by his side.

From then on, whenever any classmates bullied him, the girl would raise her little fists and beat them up.

The girl's family is well-known as the richest family in the area, and after being beaten, those people could only swallow their loss in silence.

After a few times of this, no one in the school dared to bully him anymore.

After the girl became his classmate, she often brought various kinds of food to share with him.

Gradually, his health improved.

"…I later found out that your mother put a lot of tonic herbs in the food, specifically to nourish your body. At that time, the time spent in the academy was the happiest day of the day for me, because your mother was there."

When Qu Honglin talked about the past, his eyes turned slightly red and he tried his best to suppress his inner emotions.

"Your mother and I have been childhood sweethearts, and we spent every day together when we were young. So when your mother reached the age of 15, your father had the intention of marrying her..."

At that time, when he took out the jade pendant that he had carved by himself and gave it to her.

But she refused with red eyes and ran away sadly.

He thought that she was not sincere enough, so he started to pursue his wife.

"Finally, when I won the first place in both civil and military examinations and declined the second princess's proposal to marry me, your mother told me about her concerns. After I gave her some assurances, we finally got married."

"At that time, I was so happy that I wanted to tell the world. But when I brought the news back to the Qu family..."

Qu Qingyan guessed what happened next, "At that time, Wen Suhua had fallen in love with Dad at first sight, and entered the Qu family as a maid. Seeing that you had won the first place in the imperial examination and had a bright future, they wanted to make you, their 'son', their 'son-in-law'. But they underestimated your feelings for me."

"As a father, I wanted to get Qu Wenshi's approval out of consideration for my relationship with her, but I didn't expect that my soft-heartedness would allow them to take advantage of the situation and cause trouble for your mother." Qu Honglin used to be a modest gentleman. He never blamed his adoptive mother for treating him harshly until they hurt the person most important to him.

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