Chapter 363: The Chatterbox Nature of the Younger Brother

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Yan Dongsheng had been maintaining silence, quietly sitting on the other side of the hospital bed, gripping his wife's pale, little hand tightly, not knowing since when he had become increasingly unfamiliar with his wife's face.

Now, as Qi Chunlan lay unconscious from her injuries, he finally had the opportunity to gaze intently at her features—realizing that time had spared no one; both he and his wife had grown old.

Dad had aged.

And the children had all grown up, each one shouldering their destined missions.

Some things, once done, wrong, cannot be changed or made right.

Putting himself in the other's shoes, Yan Dongsheng had a deep understanding of his son-in-law's inner conflict: regarding Qi Chunlan, his mother-in-law, he would feel the same reluctance to acknowledge her.

It's just that he and Xie Jingchen stood on different grounds.

To Xie Jingchen and Zhang Shanni, Qi Chunlan was merely a relative by blood who was a stranger to them.