Fang Yu returned to the eighth-floor house, and Yang Lei also lived there with him. Before, although Yang Lei often spent the night there, most of the time, he still went back to his own house. Now, their relationship had changed. Yang Lei didn’t want to go back to that house at all, so he simply brought over all of the things he frequently used and lived with Fang Yu.
“Can you do this? Will your dad agree?”
“Who cares if he agrees or not!”
“Don’t be like this. After all, he’s your dad.”
“Fang Yu, you don’t know. I don’t regard him as my dad.”
Although Fang Yu and Yang Lei were together, Yang Lei hadn’t mentioned his family’s past, and Fang Yu hadn’t asked. He knew that this was a part of Yang Lei’s heart he wasn’t willing to have touched.
But that night, Yang Lei told Fang Yu everything about his family’s matters.
Yang Lei’s parents were a typical political marriage.
At that time, Yang Lei’s grandfather was the most senior local field military district commander, and Yang Dahai was his eldest son. Yang Lei’s mother was the daughter of another large military district elsewhere. The two commanders had a deep friendship. It was a marriage within the same social class, and they became relatives by marriage. This kind of political marriage between children of senior cadres was very common in the military system at that time.
Many political marriages didn’t have an emotional foundation. Thus, they also caused many of the children from senior cadres’ families to be unhappy. However, Yang Lei’s father Yang Dahai truly loved Yang Lei’s mother.
Therefore, in the early stages of their marriage, Yang Dahai was very considerate to his wife, and their lives were very happy. But before marrying Yang Dahai, Yang Lei’s mother Guo Yan, once had very deep feelings for a boyfriend. She had even defied her family’s opposition and eloped with him. Later, under her family’s strong resistance, they broke up, and she married Yang Dahai.
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In those years, the implications of elopement were enough to ruin the reputation of an innocent girl. That was something that was hard even for an ordinary man to accept, much less a prestigious family like the Yang family, not to mention a senior cadre’s son like Yang Dahai with extremely strong self-esteem and pride.
Guo Yan was a weak but brave woman. She had once eloped for love, and this marriage was not out of her free will. However, after marrying Dahai and being together day and night, she fell very deeply in love with him.
But after Yang Dahai found out about her past, he couldn’t accept it. This made it painful for both of them. This pain extended to Yang Lei – Yang Dahai started to suspect that Yang Lei was not his son.
No matter how Guo Yan defended and proved herself, this shadow could not be eliminated from Yang Dahai’s heart. The two people went from mutual love to mutual torment, suffering unbearably.
During Yang Lei’s entire childhood, he hadn’t felt paternal love. Other people’s fathers accompanied their children affectionately, but even his father’s frightened little Yang Lei. In his memories, there were only his parents’ quarrels and cold wars, his mother’s tear-covered face, and his father’s overnight absences. He didn’t even remember his father hugging him.
In order to uphold the so-called dignity of a senior cadre family, they didn’t divorce, but they had already lost the foundation for trusting and living together. Later, Yang Dahai had an affair. At this time, Yang Lei was already in elementary school. The couple finally divorced. Yang Dahai married the new wife. Guo Yan wanted to bring Yang Lei back to her own family. It was Yang Lei’s paternal grandfather who insisted on keeping Yang Lei by his side and wouldn’t let her take him away. Only then did Guo Yan bear the pain and leave Yang Lei behind, going away.
The despair of marriage also made Guo Yan’s feelings for Yang Lei very complicated. She both loved this child and hated him. It was he who brought her husband’s distrust towards her. So the familial love that Yang Lei experienced since he was young only came from his paternal grandfather and grandmother, as well as the nanny, driver, and gardener in that small building.
When Yang Lei entered middle school, Yang Dahai changed careers from the armed forces to a locality. Without a soldier’s restriction, he could leave the country. That time, he settled the emotional problem that he had for many years. He went abroad and did a paternity test, confirming that Yang Lei really was his biological son.
Actually, Yang Lei, who had started entering puberty and growth during that time, had a face and stature that looked more and more like Yang Dahai. Everyone could see it. The paternity test only made the fact irrefutable.
Yang Dahai knew that he was wrong, wrong for many years, and very absurdly wrong. Yang Dahai was in agony and felt remorseful. He had never done a father’s duty for this son. But when he wanted to make up for it, it was already too late.
Yang Lei matured very early. All children who came from these families matured early. He was also very smart. He knew that his father’s attitude towards him had changed because he did a paternity test.
In the late 1980s, when most adults still didn’t know what paternity testing was, Yang Lei, a child of twelve or thirteen years, already knew.
So, Yang Lei was like this now. So, Yang Lei never mentioned his family. So right now, no matter what Yang Lei did, with Yang Dahai’s current status, position, and reputation, the Yang family members wouldn’t dare to say anything because they knew that this family owed Yang Lei too much.
Yang Dahai’s later wife was a good person. She was very nice to Yang Lei, and Yang Lei respected her, even calling her Mom. Yet not long after forming a family with someone else, Yang Lei’s biological mother Guo Yan got sick and passed away. At that time, Yang Dahai was a middle-aged man. He thought back to the past and knew that after the marriage, Guo Yan truly had never let him down. He regretted the past, but he also forever lost the opportunity to compensate.
Right now, Yang Dahai wanted to give all of the compensation to Yang Lei. But at this point, Yang Lei wouldn’t accept it anymore.
Yang Lei lay on the steel wire bed, saying these things. He had never spoken of these matters or these words to another person. He hadn’t even spoken them to his closest brothers. That day was his first time telling someone else, telling the person he loved the most.
When Yang Lei said these things, he felt very relaxed. Before, he didn’t speak because he always pretended that he didn’t care whether or not he could receive love. But now, he had received this emotion, and he didn’t need to be dissatisfied anymore.
Fang Yu kept listening to him speak and didn’t interrupt him. When Yang Lei stopped, Fang Yu reached out his hand and silently stroked Yang Lei’s hair, stretching out his arm to him.
Yang Lei turned his head and looked at him. He raised his head and laid it on Fang Yu’s arm.
Fang Yu pulled him into his arms, using the blanket to wrap the two of them. They didn’t do anything, only leaning close together, using their body temperature to warm the other, like two little animals warming themselves. They only had each other by their side, and they only needed each other.
“Fortunately, I also have an uncle. My uncle is pretty good, much better than my dad.”
When Yang Lei thought about his uncle, his mood became better.
Yang Lei’s second uncle Yang Datian was comparatively more like a real father. When Yang Lei was young, Yang Datian was not in Jianghai at that time because of historical reasons. He was in the lower countryside, and only came back to the city later. After Yang Datian returned, he loved Yang Lei very much. He brought him everywhere to play. Yang Datian only married and had children when he was close to forty. Right now, his daughter was only two or three years old. Yang Lei was nominally his nephew, but in actuality, he was not much different from his biological son. So since he was young, Yang Lei mingled with the Public Security Bureau, and so he was familiar with those policemen.
“My uncle is a good person. Next time, I’ll bring you to meet him,” Yang Lei said with a smile.
“Can I meet him? You don’t know what gangsters are afraid of the most?” Fang Yu joked in a quiet voice.
“It’s not the same! Right now, he’s also your uncle!” Yang Lei blurted out.
“…”
Fang Yu didn’t speak. He lowered his head and looked at Yang Lei.
Yang Lei also looked at him. The two of them looked at each other in silence. Fang Yu looked at him for a while, lowered his head, and kissed him slowly.
“Later, this is our home. Don’t leave,” Fang Yu said…
Yang Lei looked at Fang Yu’s eyes. He reached out his hand, hugged Fang Yu, and buried his face into Fang Yu’s chest…
So sweet :3
But, a las, family matters are always complicated…
Thanks for the chapter!! :3
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
whatever the wife did, how was that Yang Lei’s fault? and now he wants to force him to do as he says, ugh.
thanks for the chapter <3
Man that story was heart breaking
Thanks for the chapter
Thank you for the chapter 🌸
Whatever the parents’ problems, the child will always be the biggest victim. a child is born without sin, the ones who are sinful and guilty are the parents… not the child