"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Dongxu hadn't gone to bed yet. He usually reviewed his homework until ten o'clock in the evening. When he heard the mother crying next door, he immediately came over and knocked on the door.

Seeing him coming, Qin Shao had to get up and open the door. Facing his son's questioning eyes, he felt bitter: "I didn't ask her actively. I only said two sentences and she started crying."

"Mom, don't cry. We won't ask questions that we shouldn't ask. We will pretend that we know nothing."

The more he said this, the more upset Bai Xuemei felt. She should have known it a long time ago. Both father and son were very smart and they must have guessed something from the similarities between her and Ji Luo's appearance. However, they both tacitly did not ask any more questions.

The more considerate and understanding her husband and son were, the more guilty and upset she felt, and the more she felt she had let them down.

Qin Shao is gentle and reasonable, not a male chauvinist. He has been very good to her over the years of marriage and has never said a harsh word to her. He also helps her with housework and is a little romantic in her life. He can be considered a perfect husband.

They have been married for so many years, and their relationship has always been good. They respect and support each other and live a happy life. She is very afraid that her secret will be revealed and this happiness will shatter and disappear like bubbles.

Seeing her sobbing and shaking uncontrollably, Qin Shao stepped forward to comfort her: "Okay, okay, Xuemei, stop crying and calm down."

Qin Dongxu quickly went out to get a wet towel to wipe her, and also pulled her limbs to relieve her pain. "Mom, adjust your breathing quickly, don't think about anything else, calm down, and take it easy."

The father and son persuaded and comforted Bai Xuemei for nearly ten minutes before she recovered from the pain. She leaned against the head of the bed, gasping for breath, holding her aching chest.

Qin Dongxu poured her a glass of water, "Mom, drink some water and relax."

Bai Xuemei didn't take the cup of water. She looked at him with tears in her eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Dongxu, do you know?"

Qin Dongxu pursed his lips, his eyelashes trembling, and answered truthfully: "At the beginning of this year, you and grandpa and grandma were talking in the house, and I heard some..."

He didn't finish his words, looked at his father again, and continued: "Dad doesn't know, he just started to suspect it today."

"Qin Shao, I'm sorry."

Bai Xuemei didn't dare to face her husband. Tears began to fall again and she covered her face and dared not look at him.

Qin Shao already had a guess in his mind, and at this moment he felt complicated and uncomfortable, as if there was a ball of cotton stuck in his throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"dad."

Qin Dongxu understood his feelings, and seeing that he looked very unhappy, he quickly stood up and helped him.

Qin Shao waved at him, turned around and walked out, saying in a low voice: "I'll go sit outside."

"Qin Shao."

Bai Xuemei suddenly called out to him. When he looked over, a line of defense in her heart instantly broke, and she revealed all the secrets in her heart as if she had burned her boats: "Ji Luo is my daughter. I had a short marriage with her father."

After saying this, Bai Xuemei seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden from her shoulders in an instant. She cried in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I didn't tell you the truth before we got married, and I've been hiding this from you all these years."

The truth was just as Qin Shao had guessed. His heart felt as if stabbed by a sharp sword. The pain was so severe that he could hardly breathe. He collapsed on the chair beside him.

"Dad, are you okay?" Qin Dongxu hurried forward.

"No, it's okay."

Qin Shao waved his hand at him, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. After calming down a little, he opened his eyes and looked at Bai Xuemei, his tone full of sorrow: "Xuemei, why? You were obviously married before, why did you..."

Bai Xuemei stood up, holding her chest in pain, and staggered to his side. She collapsed on the ground, tears streaming down her face: "I didn't marry him willingly. I was forced to do it."

"What do you mean?" Qin Shao's expression changed.

"I had just graduated from college and followed the medical team to Nanxi County for free medical treatment. I was treated like a beast, a beast..."

Bai Xuemei couldn’t say what to say next.

This is the most painful thing in her heart, and it is also the taboo that she dare not touch in her life.

Saying it out loud today in front of my husband and son is like tearing open my scar, it's bleeding and painful and I can't breathe.

She didn't tell the whole story, but Qin Shao understood. A surge of anger surged into his heart, and he grabbed her and asked, "Is it Ji Luo's father? Did he do something worse than an animal to you?"

"No, no, not him."

Bai Xuemei was crying so hard that she was out of breath. Her voice was shaking as she spoke. "It wasn't Ji Sanlin. It was another beast. Ji Sanlin was actually implicated by me."

Qin Dongxu also heard his mother talk about this during the Spring Festival, but he didn't know the whole story. Now that she took the initiative to talk about it, he squatted beside her and said, "Mom, tell us in detail what happened back then. You have kept it in your heart for so many years, just say it out, you will feel better if you say it out."

The scars of the past have been revealed, and there is no point in hiding them any longer.

Bai Xuemei cried as she told them all the most painful experiences in her heart, including what they said to each other when Ji Luo arrived in the provincial capital, and her complicated, fearful and entangled feelings.

After listening to this, Qin Shao remained silent for a long time. He took a cigarette and a lighter from the cabinet next to him, lit a cigarette and started puffing away.

Qin Dongxu understood the pain in his mother's heart, so he hugged her and let her cry on his shoulder.

After she calmed down, Qin Dongxu asked, "Mom, did Grandpa and the others deal with that beast later?"

"At first, your grandpa and his family thought that Ji Sanlin had bullied me. After they took me away, they called someone to beat him up. I didn't tell them the truth until I got home. Later, your uncle went to Nanxi County and reported the beast. He also found a lot of evidence of his crimes and executed him that year."

This unspeakable matter had been buried in her heart for twenty years. No one else knew about it except her parents and eldest brother. The three of them also knew that it was her pain, but they never mentioned it to her.

It was not until Ji Luo followed the army to the provincial capital and the mother and daughter met again that this incident came to her mind again and again, causing her pain and discomfort.

After telling the whole matter in front of her husband and son today, she was actually feeling uneasy, but she also felt an indescribable sense of relief, as if the shackles that bound her were finally released.

Looking at her husband's obscure face, Bai Xuemei felt uneasy. She stepped forward and pulled his legs. The tears that had just stopped came out again. "Qin Shao, I'm sorry. When we got married, I concealed the fact that I was married and had a daughter. I deceived you. I'm sorry."

It was a fact that she had deceived him, and Qin Shao could understand the reason why she deceived him. He exhaled the last puff of smoke and sighed deeply, but he didn't know what to say.

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