I Won't Tell Her

"Why on earth are you asking me about your wife's mother?"

But there was no use denying it. Qing Chen caught his father off-guard and now he was grasping at the very strings he never thought he would need to hold on to. "I know you know something," it was a bluff but he had been dealing with his father all these years. He knew it all.

"Everything I know, Lizhao already knows, alright? Tell your wife to ask her father about her mother."

"She already did that, but there's nothing. He doesn't know anything other than the marketed story that you probably made up." Qing Chen caught him already. "What was it that the survivors told you at first that would be so cruel that you can't tell your best friend about it?"

"There is nothing," his father denied. "I don't know anything.."

"Oh please," Qing Chen said. "Please," finally meaning it. "Don't make me take it out of you."

Qing Zihao gave his son a pained look.

Alright, he was getting somewhere.