The room fell silent for a moment.
Mr. Lin finally spoke, but his voice was very serious and cold.
He asked, "He is my most outstanding child. He is the most excellent heir of the Lin family. In the future, he will marry an outstanding girl, start his own family, and have his own lovely children. What right do you have to deprive him of these rights?"
The attitude he gave after learning that Yu Tang and Wei Mosheng were together was completely different.
Mr. Lin was truly angry at this moment.
In his eyes, three years ago, it was Jiang Qinfeng who forced Lin Mo.
That's why Lin Mo developed different feelings for this man.
Moreover, over the years, it seems that he and Lin's mother have loved Lin Fei and Lin Yutang the most.
But only they themselves knew that their expectations for Lin Mo were the greatest.
They wanted to get Lin Mo back on the right track...
"That's what you wanted!" Upon hearing this, Jiang Qinfeng, who was always respectful to the couple in front of him, became unusually angry.
He tried his best to control the volume, but he still couldn't help feeling sorry for Lin Mo.
"From childhood to adulthood, Lin Mo has been forced to become the 'good kid' you all wanted him to be!"
"He never told you this, did he?" Jiang Qinfeng recalled what Lin Mo had once told him when he was drunk.
When he was a child, no matter how well he did on tests or how excellent his grades were, you rarely praised him. You only asked him to be even better and to learn more!
Later, when the second young lady and the young master were born, the idea you instilled in him was to protect his younger siblings!
He's the eldest child, so he should shoulder this responsibility!
He was sensible, saying nothing and never competing with his younger siblings for affection. He forced himself to grow up, to take responsibility, and to love the second young lady and the young master! But have you ever thought about that? When the young master was born, Lin Mo was only nine years old!
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but think about it yourselves, how many times has Lin Mo ever cried to you?"
"When he's with you, he's always calm, sensible, and smiling, to the point that you've become so accustomed to treating him with excessive politeness!"
"The second young lady and the young master can act coquettishly and joke with you, but what have you done with him besides manipulating his marriage and putting him on the right track as you want?!"
"Have you ever really cared about him?!"
Do you really know what he wants?
As Jiang Qinfeng spoke, his throat became hoarse and he choked up a bit.
He rarely talks this much.
There were only two instances: one was when I confessed my feelings to Lin Mo last time, and the other was now.
He looked up, staring intently at the stunned couple in front of him, and said, "Lin Mo likes me."
"I like him too."
"It is this affection that gave me the courage to confront you two benefactors."
"I appreciate your help to the orphanage. But that cannot be a reason for me to give up on liking Lin Mo."
At this point, he knelt down, his head pressed against the ground, and bent his back as he spoke.
"So, I don't care how you will view this in the future. At the very least, I will do everything I can to stay with him."
"I will not leave until he loses feelings for me."
Chapter 37
The first time a villain has been resurrected (37)
Mr. and Mrs. Lin were completely shocked by his words, staring blankly at the man in front of them, somewhat at a loss.
Jiang Qinfeng also maintained this posture and did not move.
The suffocating silence was broken only when Lin Mo's voice, who should have been asleep, came from upstairs.
"Dad, Mom, I was the one who liked Brother Qin Feng first."
Lin Mo came downstairs and walked up to Jiang Qinfeng.
He didn't sleep well.
I woke up when I heard a commotion outside.
By now, they had overheard most of the conversation between the three.
He didn't expect Jiang Qinfeng to choose to confess now.
Although it was different from his planned activities, he was extremely happy at this moment.
It wasn't fear or worry, but rather a feeling of joy and relief.
This man had previously made numerous excuses and refused to reciprocate his feelings.
But now, once she's committed to him and the relationship is established, she'll do anything for him.
He couldn't help but love a man like that.
Moreover, those things I dared not say, the grievances and complaints I kept hidden in my heart.
Even the pain that resulted from this was truly expressed by this person.
It's like finally having someone to rely on.
The mask of being sensible and filial that Lin Mo usually wore on his face shattered at this moment, revealing the sensitive, fragile, and rebellious Lin Mo inside who desperately craved freedom and wanted to pursue everything he desired.
“It wasn’t the time three years ago, but much earlier.” He knelt down next to Jiang Qinfeng and said calmly, “You probably never paid much attention to me. So you don’t know that I’m actually very afraid of socializing.”
"When I was very young, I loved to draw. I liked to sit quietly in the fields and draw the blue sky, white clouds, green grass, trees, butterflies and birds that I liked."
"But when I showed my drawings to my father, he told me that painting is not something I can make a career out of.
As the eldest son of the Lin family, I have more important things to learn.
"So you hired a lot of private tutors to educate me in advance, compressing all the time, just to cultivate me into the qualified successor in your mind."
"And I was forced to learn social skills, to strive to become a qualified businessman and entrepreneur, to learn how to be shrewd and resourceful."
"Later, I gradually adapted to this kind of life."
“Every day, besides work, I have to meet a lot of people, talk a lot, and do a lot of business. I also have to find time to exercise and stay fit, just so I don’t get exhausted, so you don’t worry, and so I don’t put pressure on Feifei and Tangbao.”
"I love Feifei and Tangbao very much, but when I drink so much that I vomit on the toilet, or when my business partners try to trip me up, I have a headache and can't sleep, and I keep hitting my head."
Even when I contemplate dying, I can't help but think, "How wonderful it would be if I could be like them."
"Someone cares for me, someone looks after me, someone thinks of me, someone I can confide in, someone I can be affectionate with..."
"But when I actually turned on my phone, all I could think about was reporting good news and not bad news."
I can't let you worry, I can't let you down, and I can't let my negative emotions affect the people I love..."
“Until Qin Feng came along,” Lin Mo said. “He remembers everything about me, and no matter what happens, he always protects me first…”
At first, I thought I only saw him as an older brother, someone I could rely on.
"But as time went by, I realized I couldn't leave him. To be more precise..."
He gazed quietly at Lin's mother and said, "I can't live without him."
"Lin Mo, you!" Lin's father's face turned ashen, and he couldn't help but want to scold him, but Lin Mo interrupted him.
"Dad, Mom, I won't apologize to you about Qin Feng. Because I don't think I did anything wrong."
“I can compromise on anything, except giving up my love for him. I can never compromise on that.”
After speaking, Lin Mo lowered his head and made the same gesture as Jiang Qinfeng.
As if by unspoken agreement, the two met eyes on the ground.
Lin Mo smiled from the bottom of her heart and even winked playfully at the man, her expression more relaxed than ever before.
Jiang Qinfeng was stunned, and then he chuckled softly.
Although the two did not speak, at this moment, it was as if they had unloaded all their burdens and chosen to go all out.
"Mo Mo..." Lin's mother's voice was already tinged with sobs. She stopped Lin's father, her heart aching so much that she could hardly breathe, and tears streamed down her face.
A child is flesh of the mother's flesh.
It was the baby she carried for ten months and gave birth to.
So, at this moment, mother and child are of one mind, and she truly realized what she had done to this child who had always been obedient and sensible.
This has led to the child's current painful situation.
“We were wrong…” She bent down to help Lin Mo and Jiang Qinfeng up, her right hand stroking Lin Mo’s face, and said, “Actually, we realized we were wrong a long time ago, but over the years, we haven’t been able to find an opportunity to communicate with you. You always perform so well outside, and we were afraid that our concern for you would make you think we were presumptuous… afraid that our actions would annoy you…”
"Just now, your parents listened to Qin Feng's words and assumed that he had forced you, which made you mistakenly believe that you had fallen in love with him."
And we did have some selfish motives. We thought that finding a gentle and kind girl would be better able to take care of you, and we also thought that you would really want a lovely child of your own.
But now it seems that was our arrogance, the pressure we imposed on you…
Mr. Lin also squatted down, and the anger that had risen in his heart gradually turned into helplessness and self-blame.
As parents, they have been putting pressure on Lin Mo without even realizing it.
It was precisely because of this pressure that Lin Mo gradually distanced himself from them. The more sensible he appeared on the surface, the more repressed he felt inside.
In this respect, Jiang Qinfeng, who has been inseparable from Lin Mo for ten years, is indeed the one who understands Lin Mo the most.
Moreover, since they had already accepted Tangbao's love with Wei Mosheng, why were they so harsh on their eldest son, who was always filial and so sensible that it broke their hearts?
“Son…” Mr. Lin said, “You really don’t need to apologize.”
“We are the ones who need to apologize. We shouldn’t have put you in such a burden in the name of your parents.”
"You have the right to pursue what you want and be with the people you love. Don't worry about gender or the need to have children. Live for yourself, let go of your inhibitions, and be truly happy."
"And remember this very important point."
Mr. Lin held his wife's hand, then took Lin Mo's hand, and clasped the three hands together, saying, "No matter what path you choose in the future, your father and I will always love you."
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