“Who’s your father?” Li Qianxue looked at him frostily and asked with an unfriendly tone. Su Qinghui referred to Old Master Li as ‘father’, and that disgusted Li Qianxue. 

  What was he doing? Was he trying to reconnect with her family again? 

  Sensing Li Qianxue’s aggressive tone, Su Chenghui felt bitter in his heart. 

  “Qianxue, I’ve been calling him father for over twenty years. I honestly think of your father like my own. Do you have to be like this?” 

  “Haha.” Li Qianxue snorted coldly and said with a sarcastic look on her face, “you see my father as your father? Is that why you tortured my father’s daughter and switched his granddaughter with another girl? Su Chenghui, is that what you’d do to your father?” 

  Su Yuxin and Su Qingsang both stood behind Li Qianxue quietly. Old Master Li was sitting on the sofa, looking at the gift in front of him, as if he didn’t hear Li Qianxue’s words. The gift was presented to him by Su Chenghui. 

  No one talked for Su Chenghui. No one helped him. He just stood there, realizing that he truly seemed to have nothing to do with the family anymore. 

  He couldn’t think of a single word to respond to Li Qianxue. He had foreseen this difficult situation before he came, but he still had to come. 

  If he missed this opportunity, he wouldn’t be able to think of another excuse to come and see Li Qianxue. 

  “Get out, I don’t want to see you.” 

  Su Qinghui was aware that he should probably leave as soon as possible if he still had some sense of shame. However, looking at Li Qianxue’s face which was as beautiful as ever, he could not move his feet. 

  He just stood there, staring straight at Li Qianxue with gleaming eyes, full of passion. 

  That look in his eyes disgusted Li Qianxue. She sounded even colder than before. 

  “I said get out. Can you hear me?” 

  Li Qianxue honestly disliked that man. He made her sick, so much so that she even wanted to bite him to vent her anger once she thought about what he had done. 

  Su Qinghui stood motionless, fixing his eyes on Li Qianxue. 

  The way he looked at her gave Li Qianxue goosebumps. It wasn’t because she was touched, but because she felt disgusted by him. 

  Before she could call someone to throw Su Chenghui out of the house, Su Yuxin took a step forward, stood before Su Chenghui, and called him, “dad.” 

  Li Qianxue didn’t want to see Su Chenghui, but Su Yuxin had a different attitude towards him. 

  The boy had noticed the look on his father’s face when he walked in earlier. The man didn’t look good. 

  Su Chenghui had dressed up for Old Master Li’s birthday. If not, he would probably be looked even worse. 

  He was the boy’s father after all. Su Yuxin hated to see Su Chenghui like this. It made him feel bad. 

  “Dad, how have you been lately? You look like you didn’t rest well.” 

  The man’s eyes were red. He dressed neat and clean, but still, he looked tired. 

  Su Chenghui looked at Su Yuxin with gratitude. “I’ve been a little busy lately. I’ll have more time to rest when I have finished all the work.” 

  “You need to take care of yourself, dad.” 

  By saying that, Su Yuxin was trying to ease Su Chenghui’s situation. After saying that, he turned to Li Qianxue, and begged her with his eyes. 

  Li Qianxue turned her eyes away from Su Yuxin. She still looked angry. She wished that Su Chenghui would leave because she didn’t want to see him. 

  Su Yuxin turned to Su Qingsang helplessly. Receiving her little brother’s eye signal, Su Qingsang gave a long sigh in her head. 

  “Dad, have you had breakfast yet?” 

  Su Qingsang winked at Su Chenghui when she said that. 

  “Not yet.” Su Chenghui did not think that at that moment, the daughter who was never close to him would be willing to help him. 

  He looked at Su Qingsang and felt his eye sockets turning warm. 

  “I just saw some untouched leftovers from the breakfast in the kitchen. Dad, maybe you can have some if you want to.” 

  Su Qingsang looked at Su Chenghui, and continued with extra sincerity, “skipping breakfast isn’t good for your stomach. Dad, you should definitely have some food.” 

  Su Chenghui didn’t move but turned back to Li Qianxue. How could Li Qianxue not notice the look in her daughter’s eyes?

  She never thought that both Su Qingsang and Su Yuxin would choose to be on Su Chenghui’s side. She couldn’t describe the way she felt at the moment. Detecting the begging look in her daughter’s eyes, she turned her face away with her teeth gritted. 

  If Su Yuxin was the only one who had spoken for Su Chenghui, she could have ignored it. However, she didn’t have the heart to turn down any of Su Qingsang’s requests. 

  “Dad, just go and have some food.” 

  Su Qingsang glanced at Su Yuxin while speaking. “Yuxin, I noticed that you didn’t eat much just now. Maybe you can have some more together with dad.” 

  “Alright.” Su Yuxin immediately got what Su Qingsang meant. He dragged Su Chenghui towards the dining room, even though the man was still standing there in a daze. 

  Su Chenghui hesitated slightly, but eventually, he followed his son into the dining room. 

  As Su Chenghui and Su Yuxin disappeared around the corner, Li Qianxue looked at Su Qingsang in a complicated way. 

  “Mom.” Su Qingsang knew that she was unhappy. She put an arm around her arm and said, “you see, we can afford to treat him with some breakfast, can’t we?” 

  Li Qianxue stayed silent. She was planning on kicking Su Chenghui out of the house once he finished his breakfast. 

  She was not a cruel or heartless person. She honestly just did not want to see Su Chenghui. Seeing the man always reminded her of what he had done. 

  Li Qianxue had a good plan about casting Su Chenghui out once he finished his breakfast. However, before he could finish eating, the guests had already started to arrive. 

  Old Master Li’s cousins, their children, and grandchildren were all coming in. Those people were relatives after all. Li Qianxue didn’t want to embarrass herself in front of them. 

  As a result, Su Chenghui stayed after finishing breakfast. 

  Li Qianxue wanted to ask him to leave, but she couldn’t do that in front of all the relatives present. She couldn’t throw Su Chenghui out of the house right under the watch of so many people, could she? 

  The family feast was considered warm and joyful. The older Old Master Li got, the more he liked being surrounded by his children and grandchildren. 

  It was a nice lunch. Apart from Su Qingsang and her little brother, Su Chenghui had also been standing by Old Master Li’s side the whole time. 

  He really did look like Old Master Li’s son-in-law again. Su Qingsang and Su Yuxin made eye-contact with from time to time. No matter how things between Li Qianxue and Su Chenghui were, the two of them both still saw Su Chenghui as a member of the family. 

  Some relatives who didn’t know about what had really happened yet thought Li Qianxue and Su Chenghui were still together. Earlier, their divorce had made big news, but now they still looked like a couple. They had been a couple for so many years, after all. 

  It looked like they had made peace and gotten back together. 

  One of Li Qianxue’s cousin-in-law even looked at the two in a very meaningful way, as if she definitely knew what was going on between them. 

  That made Li Qianxue so angry that she started to suffer a headache. If there weren’t guests, she would have ripped that ‘perky’ smile off Su Chenghui’s face. 

  Su Chenghui wasn’t perky at all, actually. He was keeping Old Master Li company, but he could tell that neither he or Li Qianxue wanted to see him. 

  They tolerated him only because there were guests at their place. They didn’t want to make things ugly in front of everyone. 

  Even after all the guests had left, Su Chenghui was still following Old Master Li around. 

  Su Qingsang and Su Yuxin could tolerate him and still treat him like a family member, but unlike them, Li Qianxue couldn’t even endure his presence. 

  She stepped up and him to ask him to leave. 

  However, just then, Old Master Li, who had stayed silent the whole day, finally started talking. 

  “Chenghui, come with me.” 

  Since Old Master Li had said that, Li Qianxue couldn’t ask the man to leave immediately, even though she wanted to so badly. All she could do was to clench her teeth and watch Su Chenghui go upstairs together with her father. 

  In the study room, Old Master Li set the chessboard, then looked at Su Chenghui and said with a bland voice, “I haven’t played chess with you in quite a while. Let’s play.” 

  Su Chenghui looked at Old Master Li. He didn’t think that Old Master Li still had the mood to play chess with him, but still, he sat down in front of him. 

  Old Master Li picked up a white piece and made his first move. Then, he looked at Su Chenghui and signaled for him to make his. 

  Both of them made every move very carefully. In the middle of the game, Old Master Li suddenly paused. 

  “You have a plan in your heart, and you have a strategy for the game. Chenghui, you are so much better at chess than you were before.” 

  Su Chenghu stayed silent. He had no time for chess in the past two months at all. Old Master Li’s words sounded almost like sarcasm. 

  “What? Don’t you believe me?” Old Master Li sighed, put down the chess piece in his hand, and said, “Chenghui, you were good at chess before too, but you always hesitated.” 

  “I always knew that before, you had no idea what you really wanted and what was most important to you. But now, judging by the way you play chess, I assume you have already that figured out, am I right?” 

  Su Chenghui’s eye sockets turned slightly warm. He looked at Old Master Li and said, “father, I was wrong.” His voice was sounded very dry. 

  Old Master Li raised a hand to signal for Su Chenghui to stop talking. He didn’t want to hear that. “Chenghui, I don’t want to make any judgment about whether you were right or wrong. I don’t want to know if you regret it either. I just want to tell you that life is like a chess game. For every move you make, there’s no way back. You’ve done something, and you have to bear the consequences of it.” 

  “Father……” 

  “Maybe you regret it, and you might have realized that you were wrong. But it has nothing to do with Qianxue anymore.” 

  “Father?” Su Qinghui raised his head to look at Old Master Li. There was an indescribable pain in his eyes. “I really do regret it.” 

  “Chenghui, regretting can’t always earn you a second chance.” 

  Old Master Li said painfully and remorsefully, “I used to pay all my attention to Li Group. All I ever wanted was to turn Li Group into a large, powerful company. I did it, exactly how I wished. However, the person who was supposed to be sharing the success with me is gone.” 

  “I regret what I did all the time, and I often question myself. I’ve been wondering…… if I hadn’t dedicated myself whole-heartedly to my work when I was younger, and if I had spent more time with Qianxue’s mother, would she have lived a few years more?” 

  “There will never be an answer to that question. She is dead, she’s gone. No matter how strongly I regret it, she can’t come back to life.” 

  Su Chenghui stayed silent. He had his view of what was important overshadowed by the trivial. Without removing the trivial, how could he possibly discover what he really wanted? 

  “I’m glad that you still remember my birthday. Thank you. But as for the things between you and Qianxue, just leave them the way they are.” 

  Old Master Li didn’t make it very clear, but Su Chenghui understood what he was trying to say. The look on Su Chenghui’s face changed immediately. 

  “Father?”


  Chapter 516: Please Don’t Tell Me That You’re in Love with Me

  “Father, I……” 

  “That’s it,” Old Master Li said. He looked at Su Chenghui with a complicated glance. His eyes contained a slight trace of sadness. “Qianxue and I will not forbid you from seeing the kids. But you and Qianxue don’t need to see each other anymore.” 

  Su Chenghui’s face turned pale. He was in his forties and had been through a lot, but at that very moment, he had no idea what to do. He felt as helpless as a young man who had started to make decisions on his own just recently. 

  Old Master Li had been a part of Su Chenghui’s family for over twenty years. It hurt him to say those words to Su Chenghui, but in the last two months, he learned that his daughter did not love Su Chenghui anymore, not even a little bit. 

  He would give Su Chenghui another chance if his daughter still had even the slightest feeling towards him, to make it possible for him and Li Qianxue to get back together. 

  But Li Qianxue obviously hated Su Chenghui now. In that case, forcing them to get back together would be a pointless endeavor. 

  Old Master Li glanced at the chessboard and said, “You have won this round. We don’t need to finish it.” 

  Did he win? That wasn’t true. He had lost, he had lost everything. Su Chenghui stood up and went downstairs, looking like a ghost. 

  Downstairs, Li Qianxue was in the living room watching the house workers clean up. She was sitting on the sofa with Su Qingsang. The two of them were talking. 

  Su Qingsang stood up quickly when she saw Su Chenghui come downstairs. 

  This time, Su Chenghui ignored her and walked straight up to Li Qianxue. 

  “Can I talk to you?” 

  “No,” said Li Qianxue, sitting still. “I have nothing to say to you.” 

  “Qianxue,” called Su Chenghui. He clenched his teeth so hard that he felt like his gums would bleed. “I only need five minutes. Can’t you do that?” 

  “No,” said Li Qianxue, raising her head to look at him in the eyes coldly. “I don’t even want to give you one minute.” 

  Su Chenghui felt as if an arrow had just pierced his heart. “Qianxue, you……” He wanted to beg her. 

  “Sister,” called Su Yuxin. He had just returned from walking the guests out. He had come into the house only a few minutes ago. 

  “I have a gift for you,” said Su Yuxin, looking at Su Qingsang. “I forgot to give it to you yesterday when you got home. Come upstairs and take it.” 

  Su Qingsang glanced at him. The boy didn’t need to say that. She was already planning to leave. 

  “Mom, I’m going upstairs to get the gift.” 

  Su Qingsang headed upstairs together with Su Yuxin. Before leaving, Su Yuxin glanced at Uncle Zhang. He did that to signal for him to tell the house workers in the living room to leave. 

  Uncle Zhang immediately got his meaning. As he waved a hand, all the house workers left. 

  Sitting on the sofa, Li Qianxue looked a little sulky. She looked at Su Chenghui and asked, “Su Chenghui, you must be feeling so happy now, aren’t you?” 

  He had been out of the family for such a long time. Yet, some people were still willing to stand on his side. 

  “Qianxue, I feel so bad now.” Su Chenghui stood before her. He wasn’t happy at all. “I really, really feel bad.” 

  “The money you got from our divorce should be enough for you to go to a nice hospital to check what’s wrong with you,” said Li Qianxue in a very unfriendly tone. “Did you spend it all in just two months?” 

  “It’s okay, I can still afford to pay your hospital bill. How much do you need? Just give me a number,” she said, looking at Su Chenghui as if he was a beggar. 

  Su Chenghui clenched his fists. His dry and deep voice was toned with bitterness when he asked, “Qianxue, you think I’m here to ask you for money?” 

  “What do you want then?” Li Qianxue turned to look at him impatiently. “Don’t tell me that you regret getting a divorce. Don’t tell me that after leaving me, you suddenly realized that you’re in love with me, so you now want to get back together with me.” 

  Su Chenghui really didn’t know how to continue that conversation. 

  What could he possibly say? Could he tell her that he did want to get back together with her? Could he tell her that she was exactly right? After losing her, he had indeed realized that he was in love with her, that he couldn’t live without her. He wanted to start fresh with her. 

  “Qianxue, don’t be like this. I do regret what I’ve done. Qianxue, I really love……” 

  “Chenghui.” Li Qianxue stood up, staring straight at his face. The look in her eyes was icy cold, mixed with contempt. “Can you be more shameless?” 

  “Qianxue?” 

  “You will really say anything to make yourself a part of the Li Family again.” 

  Li Qianxue didn’t believe him. In her eyes, that was only another trick that Su Chenghui was playing. 

  “Qianxue, I do want to come back, but not to the Li Family. I want to come back to you.” 

  Li Qianxue couldn’t bear listening to that. “You want to come back to me? I’m the Li Family now. Don’t you know that?” 

  Su Chenghui knew that she had deeply misunderstood him. 

  “Alright,” said Li Qianxue, as she stood up. “Su Chenghui, if you have even a little bit of dignity left, go as far away from me as you can. Do not show up in front of me again. As for what you just said to me, I’m sorry, I don’t even believe a word you said. So, you can stop talking.” 

  Li Qianxue turned to leave. Su Chenghui reached out to hold her hand without thinking and said, “Qianxue, I meant what I said.” 

  “I meant what I said as well,” Li Qianxue said, as she attempted to pull her hand out of his. Su Chenghui had it gripped tightly, however. 

  She knitted her brows with anger and said, “Su Chenghui, I’m warning you. Don’t push it too far. For the sake of our children, I don’t intend to make things difficult for you. Don’t make me do that.” 

  To be honest, she was disappointed at that moment, not with Su Chenghui, but with Su Peizhen. 

  If Su Chenghui showed up, it was clearly because he wanted something from the family. She refused to believe that he had come to wish Old Master Li a happy birthday sincerely. 

  She was really disappointed with Su Peizhen. 

  She had spent over twenty years raising that girl. She didn’t give birth to her, but all those years, both she and Old Master Li had loved the girl and cared for her truly. 

  But on Old Master Li’s birthday, Su Peizhen didn’t even make a call, let alone come to visit him. 

  Su Peizhen was really just like her father. She was as heartless and ungrateful as her father. No kindness could ever arouse her gratitude. 

  Li Qianxue didn’t want to think of the daughter that she had raised as that kind of person. She hated to admit that. However, she couldn’t help but think that way. 

  “Qianxue.” Su Chenghui never knew that he could be hurt by some mere words that Li Qianxue had said. 

  The two of them had switched places. He seemed to finally be able to feel how she had felt all those years ago. 

  Was that how she had felt when he cold-shouldered her over and over again? 

  “Don’t say my name,” Li Qianxue said. She didn’t want to say another word to the man. It was meaningless. “I feel disgusted hearing you say my name.” 

  Su Chenghui felt intense pain in his heart. He could barely stand. 

  He shambled a step backward. 

  “Qianxue……” 

  “Please don’t tell me that you’re really in love with me. If you are, I can only tell you that your love makes me sick.” 

  Li Qianxue believed that he was pretending. She didn’t want to waste even one more minute on him, so she turned and left. 

  Su Chenghui was left standing there, watching Li Qianxue disappear around the corner of the stairs. Because of what Li Qianxue had said, he felt as if his heart was being punctured by a countless number of arrows. 

  He sat down, rested his head on his palms, and felt his eyes swelling. Tears almost gushed out of those eyes, but he didn’t let that happen. 

  “Qianxue, why do you hate me so much?” he thought. 

  He knew that he deserved it, that he was the one who had caused all the bad consequences. But still, he felt attacked. 

  Su Qingsang came downstairs after a long while, holding a small box. 

  She wasn’t surprised to see Su Chenghui sitting there alone. She walked to him and sat down next to him. 

  Su Chenghui thought that it was Li Qianxue who had come back. He raised his head expectantly, but as he saw Su Qingsang’s face, the gleam in his eyes dimmed. 

  That was so obvious. The look in his eyes allowed Su Qingsang to confirm that she was right about what Su Chenghui really wanted. 

  He was really in love with her mother. Perhaps, after the two of them got a divorce, he fell in love with her instead of growing hatred towards her. 

  “Dad,” called Su Qingsang. She handed him the small box. “I got you a gift from Rong City. I was gonna give it to you in a few days.” 

  Looking at the box and feeling the sincerity in Su Qingsang’s eyes, Su Chenghui felt as if something was gnawing at his heart. 

  He felt a muffled, dull pain. 

  He remembered Su Qingsang bringing every family member a gift every time she came home. Those gifts were not expensive, but they exhibited her kindness. 

  However, her gifts for Li Qianxue and him were always thrown into a corner by the two of them. 

  “Qingsang……” 

  Su Chenghui remembered how he had ignored Su Qingsang all those years. But currently, Su Qingsang was the one helping him. She even got him a gift. 

  “Dad.” 

  Li Qianxue was too angry to notice how Su Chenghui looked at her passionately. The hatred she had toward him made her ignore the affectionate look in his eyes. 

  “Qingsang, I’m sorry. I was……” 

  “Dad.” Su Qingsang wasn’t looking forward to hearing Su Chenghui apologize. Besides, he had apologized to her already. 

  “Can I ask you a question? Are you really in love with mom?” 

  Su Chenghui stopped short. He looked at Su Qingsang, and asked bitterly, “Don’t you believe me?” 

  He was aware that he had made mistakes. He had done a lot of wrong things. As a consequence, no one believed what he said today and no one chose to stand by his side. Realizing that, Su Chenghui felt frustrated, remorseful, and bitter. 

  “I believe you,” said Su Qingsang, as she had guessed his love for Li Qianxue long ago. 

  If Su Chenghui didn’t love Li Qianxue, he would have divorced her soon after Xiang Caiping showed up. If he cared for Xiang Caiping as much as he used to claim, he would have gotten together with her long ago. 

  Also, if he really had loved Xiang Caiping so much, why did he marry Li Qianxue in the end? She did threaten him, but it wasn’t like he had no choice at all. 

  “Qingsang?” 

  “I believe you.” Su Qingsang remembered the look Li Qianxue had on her face earlier. She put a hand on Su Chenghui’s arm. “Dad, I believe that you truly love mom.” 

  Su Chenghui grew a little emotional. He never thought that the only one who would be willing to believe him at the moment would be the daughter that he never cared about. 

  “Dad, do you have any plans for the future?”