Chapter 1027: Inevitable (2)

Ah Yong wanted to stop them, but Gu Qiwu held him back with a cold stare.

Mu Lingshi felt a sharp pain on her chest right after she took a turn around the corner. She almost fell down, but Ah Quan held her in time.

"Ms. Shi, are you alright?" Ah Quan asked in concern.

Mu Lingshi took a deep breath and shook her head. "I'm fine. Let's go."

Actually, when she found out that Gu Qiwu was her father, she had imagined how they would meet, but no matter how much she envisioned it, she never thought that they would meet like this.

She spent all her strength just to force herself to keep calm because she was afraid that she could not control herself and would beat Gu Qiwu up right there and then while questioning him how he could have abandoned them all these years.

However, she knew that she could not do so, and she did not want to. She began to regret her decision to find out the truth as it only brought her excruciating pain.

"Lingshi!" Gu Qiwu's voice came from behind as he could not stop himself from chasing after her.

Tearing up slightly, she noticed the figure catching up to her, so she took several deep breaths.

"I don't want to see you, and never will I ever want to see you again. I hope you'll never appear before me. If you still care about Lingtian and my mother, or if you feel the least bit of guilt, I'm sure it's not difficult for you to do so, is it?" Mu Lingshi said quietly.

Gu Qiwu's calm expression broke and his eyes seemed troubled. "Lingshi, it's not as simple as you think."

"The most ludicrous excuse in the world when someone makes a mistake is that they always have their own reasons, but they will never understand how much pain their reasons have inflicted upon others. Both of you...shouldn't have given birth to me..."

Tears streamed down Mu Lingshi's face. She thought she could manage to not cry, but she could not control herself in the end. She was afraid to blink as her cold tears might fall uncontrollably again once she closed her eyelids. Entering the car, she started to cry quietly after she heard Ah Quan close the door.

"Start the car."

Ah Quan quickly ignited the engine and ignored Gu Qiwu.

"Ah Shi!"

Tear stains filled Mu Lingshi's face as Gu Qiwu called out to her. She removed her sunglasses and realized that she was a mess. She continued to gulp deep breaths. Raising her head and trying to force the tears back, there was nothing she could do to stop them as she had gone out of control a long time ago.

This was the first time in Mu Lingshi's life that she was sobbing so uncontrollably.

No matter how much pain she had been in before, even when her brother passed away or when her face was disfigured, she had never cried like this before. She was not sure why she was feeling this way right now. She just wanted to cry to her heart's content in order to release the pain inside her.

What did she do wrong? Why did she have to go through such pain?

Ah Quan observed everything but kept quiet and continued to drive carefully. He felt like she needed some space right now.

Mu Lingshi just let her tears run wild as she stared at the pen in her hand.

Like how the pen still returned to her in the end, she still had to face the truth even if she did not want to. There was no way to escape from this. Her feelings could not stop what was about to come, and she could not avoid it.

Mu Lingshi cried all the way back. The dim evening lights from the streetlamps tinted the horizon with a layer of sorrow as she managed to stop sobbing and look out of the car window. Her shirt was already soaked with her tears.

Outside Imperial Sky Entertainment City, Gu Qiwu stood under the evening breeze for a long time, unmoving even after Mu Lingshi's car went away.

Ah Yong called out to him several times, but there was no reply from him.

"Boss, let's go back. Ms. Mu..." Ah Yong tried to convince him.

"You knew about it already, didn't you?" Gu Qiwu asked quietly. His complicated expression was one that Ah Yong had never seen before.

Ah Yong was startled for a moment, and he quickly lowered his head in fear. "Boss, I don't know anything!"

Gu Qiwu averted his gaze and saw Ah Yong cowering in fear, so he smiled. "There's no need to be nervous. I can't help it if you already know. I can't hide it for long anyway."

"Boss..." Ah Yong raised his head slowly and noticed the loneliness on Gu Qiwu's face.

"Boss, is Ms. Mu really your...?" he asked hesitantly as his whole body shuddered when he asked the question due to the innate fear in him.

Gu Qiwu always despised people prying into his private matters, and he had never mentioned anything personal in front of others. With a deep breath, he walked forward.

His voice reached Ah Yong with the wind as he revealed, "She's my other daughter. She also has a brother called Mu Lingtian who's my son. He's slightly older than Lingsha, and their mother is Mu Zixi, who was once an extremely popular artiste.

"Mu Zi, all of this happened because..."