Chapter 1229: Everything Can't Go Back to the Way It Was

In fact, it’s not that I don’t know what to say, but that I have a thousand words to say, but all of a sudden I can’t say anything.

We haven't seen each other for so many years, and now when we meet again, we don't know what the other is thinking.

Therefore, they hide more emotions deep in their hearts, for fear that once they are released, they will get hurt and scare the other person away.

Rose watched Gao Xiang peel an apple and then handed it to her.

Rose pursed her lips and said, "I can't finish it."

Gao Xiang remembered that when he ate apples in the past, Rose couldn’t finish the whole apple.

Every time Gao Xiang would cut half for her and eat the other half himself.

Is it the same this time?

His heart trembled, and he took a fruit knife and cut the apple in half.

Then he scooped out the core of half of the apple and gave the apple to Rose.

Rose took it, smiled gently, and said, "Thank you."

Then I actually ate it.

Gao Xiang looked at her still eating the apple as gently as before, as if time had gone back to more than 20 years ago.

His eyes couldn't help but start to feel hot and his nose felt sore.

He quickly looked away and forced back the tears.

"Where have you been all these years? Are you doing well?"

Finally, Gao Xiang asked the question that he had wanted to ask countless times in his midnight dreams.

Rose curled her lips and smiled.

After finishing the apple in his mouth, he took out the toilet paper on the table next to him, tore off a piece of it to wipe his hands, and replied gently: "I'm abroad."

Gao Xiang was stunned.

Rose was silent for a moment, then gave a brief account of what had happened over the years.

It started from the time she was knocked off a cliff and was rescued.

She once called home to look for Gao Xiang, but the person who answered the phone was Gao Pengju's mother, Gao Xiang's sister-in-law.

When she heard her voice, she didn't dare say anything and hung up the phone.

Rose was hurt at that time.

It's lucky she didn't die after falling from such a high place.

She broke a leg and was recuperating at a farmer's home at the foot of the mountain.

It was not easy for her to get an opportunity to go to the town commune and call the Gao family.

But this was only her chance, and since she couldn't find Gao Xiang, she had no choice but to come back.

More than a month later, when her leg healed and she came back quietly, she learned that Gao Xiang had left.

It is said that his daughter-in-law and children fell off the cliff and died.

Gao Xiang himself also joined the army.

Rose said lightly: "At that time, I was thinking, my child was killed by the fall, how can I take revenge?"

"I should have killed them first."

"But how can a weak woman like me have the ability to kill them?"

“It was difficult for me to even survive under the circumstances.”

She looked up at Gao Xiang with a bright smile, but said with sarcasm in her eyes:

"Do you know what Gao Yuanshan and his wife said when they pushed me off the cliff?"

Gao Xiang’s face turned pale.

Without waiting for his answer, Rose continued to speak:

"He said to me with a smug look on his face: 'You are a person of low class background and without the support of your natal family. How can you be qualified to marry into our Gao family? You and your daughter are both bastards and deserve to die.'"

"He also said: 'The director of the Revolutionary Committee's youngest daughter has taken a fancy to Gao Xiang. As long as you and your bastard die, the director's youngest daughter can marry Gao Xiang.'"

"'Then the director of the Revolutionary Committee will protect our family, and we will not be afraid of being reported or investigated. At that time, our Gao family will soar together with the director's family.'"

"'So if you live, you will be a stumbling block to our Gao family's success. It would be better for you to die soon.'"

Rose said it lightly, without even a hint of anger in her tone.

It was like he was telling someone else's story, with even a faint smile on the corners of his lips.

But Gao Xiang knew that Rose was really angry.

At this moment, she was probably furious.

Gao Xiang was also very angry. He never knew so many things had happened.

Gao Xiang said anxiously: "No, it's not like that."

"I don't even know the daughter of the Revolutionary Committee Director. I won't pay any attention to her even if she is nice."

"After you had the accident, my brother and sister-in-law came back and told me that the child was dead at birth and was thrown off the cliff."

"You felt sorry for your child, so you dragged your weak body towards the cliff, wanting to take another look at it."

"I stepped on a rock and rolled down the cliff together."

"But I don't believe it, but they swear to it."

"Since both husband and wife said so, I can only suppress my suspicion and investigate secretly."

"After I came back from military service, I learned from some people in the village that you were pushed off a cliff and died."

"The person who pushed you down must be Gao Yuanshan's wife."

"I went to them in anger to settle the score and wanted to beat Gao Yuanshan and his wife to death."

"At this time, my father said: The woman is pregnant with Gao's child."

"Since I lost you in this life, I don't want to marry again, and I can't have a son. So the baby in her belly is the only child of the Gao family."

"My father knelt down and begged me to wait until the woman gave birth to a child before executing her."

Rose looked at him indifferently, raised her eyebrows and asked coldly: "So you are soft-hearted?"

This sentence asks about facts.

Gao Xiang pursed his lips and nodded and replied: "I am soft-hearted."

"I still hate the couple to my core, but the child is innocent."

"So I told her to give birth to the baby first."

"After the child was born, my father was afraid that I would really kill the couple, so he hid them."

"I have been looking for them for more than 10 years and have never been able to find them."

"Later, I was promoted gradually in the army and got my current position."

"Perhaps there are too many things going on in the army, which has diluted some of the hatred from the past."

"Although I still hate them to the core, I still don't have the willpower to kill them like I did back then."

"But I have been looking for the truth of what happened back then."

"Because there are no remains of you and your child."

"Someone in the village heard that you fell and went down to look for you, but they didn't find your bodies."

"I just held on to a glimmer of hope that you might still be alive."

Gao Xiang said this and lowered his head guiltily.

It was indeed his fault that he did not insist on avenging his wife and children.

But no one knew the torment he had gone through during those years.

At night, when he faced the silence in the room, he wanted to kill the couple.

But every time he rushed to find Gao Yuanshan and his wife, he couldn't bring himself to do it when he saw the innocent look in the child's eyes.

This torment tortured him in his heart countless times and almost made him collapse.

In fact, no one else knows that Gao Xiang suffers from depression.