Outside the prison, Mo Yan was dragged to a small coffee shop opened by Mo Qiang by Wen Gui. The litter mer ordered two latte and then looked up at his wife. He didn't say anything but his gaze was enough to make Mo Yan squirm in her seat. She lowered her head and didn't know what to say.
"Was it worth it?" After staring at his squirming wife for more than two minutes, Wen Gui finally broke the uncomfortable silence. He blinked his eyes and placed his hands on top of the table and questioned, "Did it make you feel better, Ah Yan?"
Hearing his question, Mo Yan's eyes turned red. It seemed like her husband knew that she was lying to him but he still stayed silent because he wanted her to see it with her own eyes. Her mother was a selfish woman, who was selfish to her bones. Even if she was on the verge of death, she wanted to use her daughters as a means to take revenge on Wei Yunrou, who had abandoned her.
"I just—I just wanted her to apologise," Mo Yan confessed with red eyes. She raised her hand and wiped her eyes with her arm and continued, "was it too much to expect, Gui Gui?"
She had gone through so much suffering because of her mother. Even when she was starving and shivering in the cold, she had never asked her mother why she did all of those things to her. As a filial daughter, she had followed the wishes of her mother.
It was only now that she did realise that her mother wanted her to die on the battlefield such that Mo Lin would inherit every single thing that her mother possessed and when she became a general, those twisted thoughts of her turned even more greedy.
Wen Gui realised that his wife, despite being so old, was still a bit naive. He pursed his lips and then said to Mo Yan, "It's not that you are at fault; it's your mother who cannot see through things. She has been hoodwinked by that mer for so long that she has come to believe that what she did was right and that you and sister-in-law were just useless stepping stones for her daughter to climb up."
"Have you ever seen people with such strange trains of thought think that they are wrong?"
Wen Gui spoke clearly and without running around the bushes. He looked his wife in the eye and continued in a calm voice, "According to you, your mother did something wrong and she needs to apologise to you but Ah Yan, your mother doesn't think that she has done anything wrong. She believes that what she did was correct. So why will she apologise to you?"
Mo Yan raised her head and looked at Wen Gui, who stared back at her calmly. She wanted to say something but dared not to; in the end, she lowered her head with a helpless look in her eyes and scoffed, "I was a fool, wasn't I?"
Wen Gui neither agreed nor denied. He just stared at his wife and simply sighed, "You can cry if you want."
Unlike Mo Yan, who grew up with some expectations towards her family, Wen Gui was much more hard hearted. He didn't care about his family, as they were the ones who abandoned him first. Since that was the case, then they might as well never appear in front of him.
He simply considered himself a child who had no father or mother.
However, Mo Yan was different. She had a pair of unreasonable parents. And even though they were not good to her, it was only normal for her to hold some expectations towards them.
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