On the day of her return to China, she was tied up and coaxed by the richest man to get her marriage

Yu Jinxian's eyes flickered slightly, and he knelt down with a straight and cool posture.

Yu Zongxian stood with his hands behind his back, "Are you very unhappy that I punished you?"

The ancestral hall was dimly lit, and Yu Jinxian lowered his head, half of his face bathed in warm light, looking flawless.

He didn't speak, but his silence clearly indicated his agreement.

Yu Zongxian pressed his hand to his chest and slowly said, "Actually, I knew about Chaochao changing her major two years ago..."

Yu Jinxian's hand, hanging by her side, tightened. She raised her fox-like eyes, identical to Yu Jinzhao's, her pupils contracting sharply, but her tone remained calm.

“Dad, you know perfectly well that Mom developed autism because of traditional Chinese medicine. In the years before she died in the car accident, she had become so cold-hearted that she was unwilling to communicate with us.”

How can you let Yu Jinzhao follow the same path as her mother? Wasn't Grandma's incident a lesson enough? You're ruining her."

Just like back then, when he discovered that Yu Jinzhao was learning traditional Chinese medicine from her mother, he softened his heart and indulged her, which ended up harming her.

"Then what can I do?" Yu Zongxian's gaze faltered slightly as he looked at his wife's memorial tablet, his eyes filled with deep longing and sorrow. He spoke in a suppressed voice.

"She is the only daughter your mother left me. Every time I see her, I think of your mother."

She dedicated her entire life to traditional Chinese medicine, but of all her family members, only Chaochao truly understood her.

After his wife passed away, he tossed and turned countless times, regretting that he had not been a husband who understood his wife.

Sometimes he wondered if his wife's transformation from being lively at the beginning to becoming depressed later was due to a lack of understanding from her closest relatives.

So when he learned that his daughter had changed her major, he acquiesced.

At that moment, he wanted to be a father who understood his daughter.

Yu Jinxian pursed her lips, the blue veins on the back of her hand were obvious, "Then do you know that the consequence of your understanding is that she has started to deceive me again?"

I asked the department she studied, and there was no one named Yu Jinzhao who graduated.

But she also lied to me that she got a doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She's gone completely mad now and is just spouting nonsense. If she goes out and treats people recklessly, she might cause someone's death..."

"I believe Chaochao won't act recklessly; she knows what she's doing!" Yu Zongxian interrupted him, emphasizing each word.

“If that day ever comes and it’s my fault, then let me, as her father, go to jail for her.”

Yu Jinxian's eyes were filled with absurdity. When she spoke, her usually gentle voice was hoarse and captivating, "Do you want to destroy our family?"

"Haven't you noticed that our family is already in grave danger?"

Yu Zongxian's voice trembled slightly, and his upright back bent slightly as he spoke. Although he still looked as youthful and vigorous as ever, he carried an air of vicissitude and helplessness, weathered by the elements.

"Ever since we sent Chaochao abroad three years ago, she has become very sensitive and delicate. She used to be a lively and cheerful girl, but now she has become increasingly quiet..."

"Isn't this exactly what we wanted to achieve?" Yu Jinxian remained unmoved, her voice cold and indifferent.

"At the time, she risked the lives of her family to study traditional Chinese medicine. Afterwards, she refused to admit her mistakes out of fear. If we hadn't sent her abroad, who knows what crazy things she might have done."

From the very beginning, his purpose in disciplining Yu Jinzhao was to make him understand the importance of family, to face the mistakes he had made, and not to be so selfish and callous.

Three years have passed, and she has not only not changed at all, but has become even more extreme.

"Yes."

Yu Zongxian lit an incense stick from the incense burner and placed it in front of his wife's memorial tablet. Looking at his wife's gentle and beautiful face on the tablet, his eyes reddened, and tears welled up in his eyes.

He closed his eyes briefly, his Adam's apple bobbing, his tone hoarse and forlorn.

“I thought three years would allow her to cherish her family and understand that family is more important than ideals, but it just took time to make her drift away and become more and more disappointed in us.”

Just like Yu Jinzhao in the past, she would get angry and give him the cold shoulder if he forgot to bring her a gift when he went on a business trip.

But now, she has lost all her spoiled and willful emotions, and she won't call him "Dad" anymore; she just coldly calls him "Father."

Even though Yu Jinxian was so cold to her, she didn't feel wronged or sad.

But Mingming, his Chaochao loves his dad and brother the most...

These changes in her are gradually overlapping with those of her former wife.

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Don't doubt it, Dad is my biological dad, brother is my biological brother, and Mom is my biological mom.

All the parts that raise questions are foreshadowing, and I'll explain them later.