Her eyes kept their gaze in the direction of the bed, as if she was worried that Van would hear what she had just said.
Van Yu stared at her deeply before finally turning and lifting his steps towards the door.
The two went into the study.
Instead of sitting, Fan Yu went to the window, propped one hand on the sill and looked up into the distance.
The upright body was dripping with detachment.
And the sense of loneliness that lingers around him ……
Qiao Yuan Fei’s heart inexplicably tightened, took a deep breath and walked to his side.
“Fanfan is not related to you by blood, nor to me, in fact …… he is my adopted child.”
“……”
Fan Yu turned back suddenly and looked at Qiao Yuan Fei in dismay.
For a moment, he suspected that he had misheard.
Until he saw the mobile phone Qiao Yuanfei handed to him.
“This is the adoption certificate I had my assistant just take and send to me.”
On the phone, there was indeed a certificate of adoption, only the adopter wasn’t Qiao Yuan Fei, but his grandfather.
Fan Yu’s eyes narrowed slightly, as if he couldn’t see what was going on.
Qiao Yuan Fei did not sell himself short, pursed his lips and began to explain.
“Do you still remember, the year you turned eighteen, Grandpa Fan once mentioned a marriage to you ……”
That year, he had just come of age.
Because of the older generation, the Qiao family still had a friendship with the Van family.
It was only because her parents had passed away and she had been falsified by Qiao Fangfeng and Xie Yun with DNA proof that she was not her mother and father’s child at all.
So the connection with the Fan family was almost severed.
She was sixteen years old that year and had just been sent abroad to study when Grandpa Fan found her.
He said he was taking her to meet someone who was very important to her.
She was still young and had no idea what the old man was selling in his gourd.
It was not until she saw the handsome Van Yu at the Van family’s villa abroad.
He was wearing a white shirt with a pair of slacks in the same colour.
Standing in front of the swing set in the courtyard, he was talking on the phone.
Grandpa Van was holding her hand and pointing at Van Yu in front of the swing set, smiling as he told her that this was the fiancé her mother and father had booked for her just before he died, and asked her if she liked it, when she turned red and could not say a word.
The handsome young man’s eyebrows were all tender.
A gentleman, gentle as jade.
This was her first impression of Fan Yu.
The first moment of love, only in that moment.
Only at that time, Qiao Yuan Fei did not understand it yet.
Dumbfounded and frozen in place, she watched as Grandpa Fan let go of her hand and walked over to Fan Yu, telling him the news that he was ready to get them engaged.
Then what she saw was his unforgiving rejection.
“Grandpa could have adopted her and let her live in the Van family if he had just taken pity on her, but this is modern society and arranged marriages should have ceased to exist a long time ago, and I already have a girl I like and could never like her.”
As Qiao Yuan Fei stepped forward, she only had time to see the teenager’s cold face and the way he left from in front of her.
He raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes cold to the core.
It was an aura that was very different from the gentle aura that he carried.
It wasn’t the first time she had seen him, they had supposedly met when they were children, but that time was the most impressive.
Later, Grandpa Fan tried every possible way to set them up, but Qiao Yuan Fei refused.
He didn’t like her, and she didn’t want to force him.
Then later, when she saw Fan Yu again, she was in the hospital ……
This incident, to say the least, was an accident.
