Old General Fu looked at his daughter and after uttering those words, the weight that had been pressing on his heart for decades was finally lifted.
"It has nothing to do with you; it's all my fault." Old General Fu's expression returned to calm as he looked at his daughter.
"For so many years, I've always felt that you hated me, that you probably didn't want to see me."
"That's why I never told you that you have always been my proudest daughter. My reluctance to see you more often isn't because I don't want to, but because I feel that I am not a qualified father, with no dignity to face you."
Old General Fu and Fu Yunzhen, father and daughter, finally had their first heart-to-heart conversation in twenty-four years that afternoon.
That evening, Gu Shengyin arrived at Jiang Huan's residence.
"Join me for a drink!" Gu Shengyin said just that to him.