Huo Qiran originally wanted to discuss with Jing Li about arranging an apartment hotel for them to stay temporarily. He had even selected a few places with good locations and environments. When he was about to ask Jing Li, he suddenly realized something.

Instead of presenting her options, she let Jing Li choose on her own.

As expected, Jing Li chose a very ordinary small apartment, the environment didn't even look that good, and it was a bit old.

Huo Qiran knew what she wanted, so he didn't ask anything, just gently held her hand to express his support.

Not long after that, Huo Qiran disappeared of his own accord and was no longer by Jing Li's side.

Jing Li helped Jing Yanting pack her things alone, checked out of the small hotel room, took a taxi, and headed to her new residence.

Jing Yanting was silent along the way, and Jing Li didn't intend to talk to him in front of outsiders, so she didn't say anything or ask anything.

Jing Yanting's body was tense all the way to the place where he lived. It was not until he entered the door and saw the indoor environment that he seemed to relax a little, but only a little.

This is a small two-bedroom apartment. It is indeed quite old. The wallpaper is a little yellowed, some seams are ragged, and the furniture is a bit old. Fortunately, the bedding is still clean.

Jing Li looked at the two rooms and carried Jing Yanting's luggage to the room with the larger window facing the sun.

"Dad, you live in this room and I live in the room next to it." Jing Li said, "You take a bath first and rest for a while. Do you want to go out for lunch or order takeout?"

Jing Yanting glanced at her but didn't answer.

Jing Li quickly gave herself the answer, "Let's order takeout. There is a pretty good restaurant nearby, but there are so many people and there's always a queue, so it's more convenient to order takeout."

As she spoke, she walked into the bathroom to prepare everything for Jing Yanting.

Jing Yanting was still stiff and silent, not even looking at Jing Li.

Even at this moment, he could not help but admit that he still nervously valued this daughter, but his subconscious reaction was always to stay away from her, and further away.

Jing Li probably guessed what he was thinking, so she didn't talk too much and didn't show any special closeness to him.

The father and daughter reunited after a long separation, but always retained a strange sense of strangeness and distance.

When Jing Yanting finished taking a shower and changed into clean clothes, he came out, but his face and hands were still as dark as before, his messy beard still covered half of his face, and the gaps between his long fingernails were still full of black old age.

dirt.

"Dad, I went downstairs to buy some daily necessities. I have a razor. Do you want to shave?" Jing Li asked him with a smile while sorting out the things at hand, "With such a long beard,

Is it convenient to eat?”

Jing Yanting raised his hand and touched his beard. The next moment, he shook his head and refused the suggestion of shaving.

Jing Li didn't force it, and said, "Your nails are a little too long. I have a nail clipper here. Can you trim them?"

Jing Yanting lowered his head and stared at his fingernails for a while, then finally nodded slowly.

Jing Li seemed to be happy immediately and said: "Dad, let me cut it for you. I remember you cut my nails when I was a child. Now it's my turn to cut them for you!"

Jing Yanting looked at her smile with crooked eyebrows and did not refuse.

Soon Jing Li sat next to him, holding his fingers in one hand and a nail clipper in the other, carefully cutting his nails bit by bit.

Jing Yanting sat quietly, and when he lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on the top of her head.

She lowered her head and cut it very carefully, as if she was even more cautious than when he cut her nails when he was a child, for fear of accidentally hurting him.

This was the daughter he should have put in the palm of his hand and loved with all his life, but in the end, she had to take care of him with all her heart...

Jing Yanting's throat couldn't help but feel sore. He just watched Jing Li's movements for a long time, and finally said in a low voice: "You don't ask me where I have been these years, do you?"

Jing Li's movements on her hands paused for a moment, then she raised her head and looked at him gently and calmly, "I'll tell you when dad wants to tell me. Now as long as I can live with dad again, for me,

That’s enough.”

After Jing Yanting heard this, he fell silent again.

Neither of them mentioned the other members of the Jing family, whether it was about the past or the present, because no matter how they mentioned it, it was a pain.

But some pain has to be faced eventually.

After being silent for a long time, Jing Yanting finally spoke slowly: "After the company had an accident that year, I boarded a cruise ship..."

Jing Li continued cutting her nails slowly, and when she heard him talking about the past, she just responded softly.

"I originally thought I could find someone on the cruise ship who could save the company and our family, but... I didn't find anyone," Jing Yanting said.

The words "not found" probably can't express the hardships at that time, but it is no longer important.

Jing Yanting paused again and then said: "I drank a lot that day. In the middle of the night, when the boat was sailing to the high seas, I slipped and fell -"

Jing Li suddenly raised her head and looked at her closest relatives in front of her.

And he calmly seemed to be telling someone else's story: "Later, I was rescued, but I had already lived in country T. Maybe I had been soaked in the water for too long. During the few years there, I was confused.

I don’t know who I am, I don’t know where I come from, and I don’t know if I have any relatives..."

"I was like a fool, or more like a madman. I lived there for several years and then suddenly woke up one day."

Jing Li's hand holding his tightened slightly uncontrollably, and she stared at him, her heart beating wildly uncontrollably.

"I thought about many ways, and finally returned to China, to Tongcheng, only to find that... your mother and brother were gone, and you had also left Tongcheng..."

"Dad!" Jing Li's heart shook uncontrollably.

So he had already come back at that time, when she left Tongcheng and went to New York!

"The pain that has been caused cannot be undone, but you left this place, which makes me feel very happy." Jing Yanting said, "Your dream since childhood was to go to Columbia University. You left here and went to the place of your dreams.

, you will definitely live a good life..."

Jing Li shook her head uncontrollably and looked at him with red eyes, "Dad, since you can know that I went abroad, you should have a way to contact me. Even if you can't contact me, you can still contact my uncle and the others...

…Why didn’t you find me? Why didn’t you tell me you were back?”

"What can I do if I find you and tell you?" Jing Yanting looked at her, "What can I give you? It was I who destroyed our family with my own hands. I was the one who killed your mother and brother. I was the one who let you go."

You have suffered so much and have to endure so much at such a young age...Does a person like me still have the qualifications to be a father?"

"You have!" Jing Li said, and finally couldn't help crying, "From the time you gave birth to me, you taught me to speak, taught me to walk, taught me to read, draw, practice piano and write, and made me sit

You have a big horse on your shoulders, allowing me to grow up without any worries... You are my dad, no matter what happens, you will always be my dad..."

She cried uncontrollably, and Jing Yanting couldn't control the tears. He stretched out his calloused hands and gently stroked the tears on her face.

"Even if my father... can't give you anything?" Jing Yanting asked.

Jing Li shook her head vigorously, "You have given me enough since I was a child. I don't need you to give me anything more. I just want you to come back and let you stay with me..."

"Xiao Li..." Jing Yanting called her in a low voice, "Dad, I'm sorry for you..."
Chapter completed!