Mr. Li, The Heart Bandit [COMPLETE]

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Chapter 41: I Want Her, Even If It Means Giving Up on Everything Else

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Old Madam Li did not ask at once about what happened, but started a recollection instead.

“Oh, Shaoling. How long was it since you came to our family?”

“Twenty years, Grandmother.”

“Twenty years…” There was a distant look in Old Madam Li’s eyes. “So, it has been that long.”

Her thoughts unknown, she sighed. “Get up.”

Li Shaoling slowly got to his feet and sat beside her, waiting for her next words.

“Shaoling, you have been destined to be special since the day I brought you in the family.” She said meaningfully and earnestly, holding his hand. “I know you’ve shouldered much since a young age, but that is your fate even if I wished it wasn’t so. No one is born with absolute luck, and everything from your addition to our family to taking the reins is CBS is all your own effort. When you were a child, you’ve already known what you need or wanted, and I didn’t have to tell you…”

Li Shaoling merely lifted an eyebrow. “Tell me what you want, Grandmother.”

There was no need to draw it out.

“I’m telling you this day that Jianing is a good girl, and you’ll be missing out if you don’t marry her! That child likes you and would definitely be a good wife—what are you being unhappy about?”

That again, and just as he expected.

Before meeting Ji Weixi, Li Shaoling never would have hesitated to marry Ji Jianing and start a family with her, pleasing Old Madam Li.

Now, however, he had found both Ji Weixi and Ji Jiayu. It was therefore impossible for him to give up on them and marry some other woman.

That was lowest of the low.

Ever resolved and determined, Li Shaoling never expected a moment that he would be indecisive.

“Grandmother, I am thankful that you paved the way so that I could become who I am today,” he said quietly and calmly. “Nevertheless, you also understand that it has never been what I wanted. I never knew what happiness was until today—when I found it right beside me. Please give me your blessing.”

Old Madam Li straightened at once, feeling a creeping sense of foreboding. “Are… Are you serious about Ji Weixi?”

Li Shaoling did not answer directly. “Weren’t you asking for a great-grandchild, grandmother? I’ll bring him to visit you someday.”

“She actually had a child with you?!” Old Madam Li exclaimed, the delight in her eyes irrepressible. “Where’s the child? Bring him to me, quick!”

‘She actually had a child with you…’

Was that not a little too obvious?

Li Shaoling’s eyes darkened then. “If you know about Ji Weixi, grandmother, why did you hide her from me?”

***

After Li Shaoling had recovered from his accident four years ago, he had the thought of looking for a woman, but he neither knew her name or what she looked like.

Old Madam Li had also told him that that the accident was a setup, but never once mentioned ‘that woman’.

But now, she was not even surprised that he was a father, and even knew that the mother was Ji Weixi.