novelkee Chapter 92 The Vanished Child
Chapter 92 The Vanished Child
Shen Qi's few memories of his daughter were of the doctor pushing the newborn baby and telling him that the baby was a little weak at birth.
He didn't even dare to think about whether the child was still in this world.
Shen Lu knelt on the cold ground, looking at her father's indifferent eyes, which he had never shown before, and felt a pang of bitterness in her heart.
"Dad...I...want to see Mom."
Shen Ke had not received an answer from her father regarding her mother, and she was extremely anxious.
"Dad, we won't bother her, we'll just go and see her."
Shen Qi refused, "Ali is resting now and doesn't want to see anyone, so you shouldn't go over there."
He couldn't tolerate the younger generation's stupidity being displayed in front of his wife.
His gaze swept over the kneeling girl, his eyes revealing only a silent indifference, and his words were devoid of any emotion.
“Shen Lu, if you feel uncomfortable with the Shen family, you can move out of the Shen family at any time. I will not interfere with you.”
Shen Lu looked at Shen Qi with despair. She suddenly collapsed onto her feet, a wave of sorrow washing over her. She couldn't understand why her father had changed so much after she simply ran away from home.
Shen Lu's swollen eyes were still brimming with tears as she hurriedly and haltingly offered an explanation, speaking very quickly.
"Dad, it's not like that. Please don't abandon me. I promise I'll be obedient from now on. If you tell me to go east, I'll never go west. I didn't want to run away from home. It was Yuan Le who cheated on me first. I originally wanted to go and talk to you about it, but then I heard about my background, and I panicked and didn't know what to do."
"Dad, ... I really know I was wrong."
Shen Lu repeated it over and over again.
Shen Qi calmly noticed a few tears on the leather shoes and subtly turned away.
Shen Ke hadn't expected to see this scene tonight. He had just finished dealing with the company's recent planning issues and rushed back from the site, only to be suddenly jolted awake by this unexpected turn of events.
His gaze was unfathomable. From his current perspective, he didn't understand why his father wanted to send his sister away. Shen Lu had lived in the Shen family for over twenty years and they were already an inseparable family.
Shen Ke spoke with difficulty, looking at her father.
"dad……"
Shen Qi suddenly swept a cold, sharp look over him, stopping him from saying anything more.
He squeezed his wrist and spoke.
"The Yuan family is insignificant; their ambition to climb up to an elephant is written all over their faces."
Shen Lu looked up with teary eyes, "Thank you... Dad."
Shen Qi wearily pinched the bridge of his nose. He had achieved his goal for the day, and he didn't want to stay any longer.
"Shen Lu, the wedding is canceled. This farce ends here."
The man said those words, then got up and left cleanly and decisively.
Shen Lu slumped to the ground, her expression dazed. She looked up at her brother, who was still in a daze, and quickly tugged at Shen Ke's clothes, speaking softly.
"elder brother……"
Shen Ke snapped out of her reverie, looked at her younger sister on the ground, and still couldn't bear it. She helped her up and offered her half-hearted words of comfort.
"It's okay, little sister. Dad has always been all bark and no bite. Today he just wanted to teach you a lesson so you'd behave in the future."
He helped Shen Lu up and sat her on the sofa, saying gently, "Take a shower first, then have Aunt Liu make something to eat. I'll go check on Dad's situation."
Shen Lu watched her brother's anxious departing figure with unease.
Her heart sank. Her father was so cold today. He had never spoken harshly to her before, but this time he was telling her to leave.
She really made a mistake and hurt her father's feelings.
……
upstairs,
As her father went upstairs, Shen Ke felt increasingly uneasy about what he had said, as if he was hiding something.
After instructing the housekeeper to take care of Shen Lu, he strode up to the study on the southeast side of the second floor.
——knock knock knock
"Enter."
Shen Ke opened the study and saw her father, who had just put on his glasses, seemingly fiddling with his phone.
He stepped forward and spoke directly.
"Dad, I want to know what illness Mom has? Why are people not allowed to visit her?"
Shen Qi put down his phone, which he had just turned on, and said in a calm, low, and suppressed voice, "A heart problem."
Shen Ke couldn't reconcile these two words with her mother, who had always been elegant, dignified, and always smiling since childhood.
Unwilling to give up, he continued to ask, "What kind of mental illness is it?"
Shen Qi glanced at his phone with his dark eyes, then casually turned back to look at his son's pained expression and spoke.
“You have a biological younger sister who suddenly disappeared in the hospital right after she was born.”
Shen Ke's breath caught in his throat at those few words, his head felt numb and swollen, and he asked stiffly,
Why...did she disappear?
Shen Qi's eyes darkened. He also wanted to know why the child had suddenly disappeared without a single clue.
"The hospital's surveillance footage doesn't show anything, and no one has been in the nursery; it's as if they've vanished into thin air."
Everything was so bizarre and incomprehensible, but coincidentally, the surveillance cameras in the nursery suddenly malfunctioned and could not be restored, so no one knew what was happening inside.
Shen Ke felt a thousand pounds in his heart, and his voice was hoarse.
Why haven't you mentioned this before?
Shen Qi's voice was cold, "Is it something good? Why do you keep talking about it?"
"Furthermore, your mother already suffered a mental breakdown because of this matter. Bringing it up again is just like rubbing salt into her wounds."
Shen Ke roughly wiped her wet eyes, which were terribly red, and she looked extremely haggard.
Have you looked for it?
Shen Qi looked at him with disgust. What kind of pig brain is this? Doesn't he know how to find his own daughter?
However, there has been no news at all over the years.
"Mom... was she very desperate at that time?"
Just thinking about it for a moment made Shen Ke feel a trembling pain throughout his body and heart. He couldn't even imagine how desperate a woman who had just given birth would feel if she found out that her child was lost.
Shen Qi recalled his wife's hysteria after he repeatedly tried to cover it up and realized something was wrong. It was the first time he had seen his wife in such an unusual state, and he could only blame himself. Whenever she couldn't sleep at night, he could only whisper words of comfort to her.
However, he could not alleviate his wife's emotional pain.
“This is a matter of the previous generation, and you shouldn’t be responsible for it. We are still looking for people. However, Shen Ke, you should learn to look at people from different perspectives.”
Shen Ke didn't understand the implied meaning in those words.
In the end, Shen Qi simply kicked his mentally challenged son out.
Then the video was played immediately.
The woman's thin, pale wrist was revealed, and her voice was soft and gentle.
Is there anything important today?
Shen Qi immediately replied, "Shen Lu is back."