Chapter 196 - 197: Undercurrents Surging
Defrosting The Cold Young Master
Translator: 549690339
If Jiang Zhengwei hadnât saved his life back then, he wouldnât have arranged for his younger daughter to marry him as a way of repaying the life-debt.
If his younger daughter hadnât been married to Jiang Zhengwei, she wouldnât have died alongside him in Jiang City.
She got married early, married Jiang Zhengwei at nineteen, and died in her early twenties in Jiang City.
He was so distraught that he nearly suffered a heart attack, and it was only when he brought Xie Yunlin and his brother Xie Jinfei to his side that he felt somewhat better.
He failed his younger daughter.
So, he fought with the Jiang family without any regard to seize custody of Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei.
His intentions were good.
Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei were orphans, with nobody looking out for them. He feared that the brothers would be bullied.
Especially since he could see that Jiang Zhengxing was not an upright person. He feared that Jiang Zhengxing might kill his two grandsons in order to usurp their parentsâ wealth.
It was because of this fear that he brought Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei to Beijing to care for them.
What he didnât expect was that because of this, his granddaughter embarked on a life of hardship.
If he hadnât taken Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei to nurture in Beijing, the old man from the Jiang family wouldnât have feared him snatching custody and handed his granddaughter to Jiang Zhengxing.
That despicable creature, Jiang Zhengxing, would have had no chance to lose his granddaughter.
Xie Yunlin said that his granddaughter grew up in a small town.
Her foster parents died early.
After her foster parents died, she lived with her uncle and aunt.
Her uncle and aunt treated her like child labour, even forcibly arranging her to marry a bad-tempered, lame man at the age of fifteen.
If she wasnât intelligent and brave and ran away from the wedding in the middle of the night and escaped from that town, she probably would have already been married to the lame man, bearing him children, never knowing who her actual parents were.
Thinking of these matters made his heart ache, plumbed him into depths of despair.
The early death of his younger daughter, and the tragic twenty years of his granddaughterâs life had been caused by his own actions.
Now that he has finally found his granddaughter, he aims to double the compensation for her. But, Xie Motong just couldnât accept her, resorting to cold mockery and sarcastic ridicule.
He knew what Xie Motong was thinking.
He understood his own granddaughter more than anyone else.
At first, when he brought Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei back to the Xie Family, he didnât intend for them to change their surname.
Later, when he discovered that his sonâs daughter, Xie Motong, was selfish, cold-hearted and foolish, he realized that the Xie Family would decline if it fell into her hands. Thatâs when he considered letting Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei take the Xie family name and carry on its lineage.
Even later, the two boys discovered that their parentsâ death might be linked to Jiang Zhengxing. But too much time has passed and no solid evidence could be found.
Upon hearing their words, he despised the Jiang family and Jiang Zhengxing, and without hesitation, let Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei take the surname of Xie.
After that, his sonâs family, they regarded Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei as a thorn in their sides.
They were afraid of him and didnât dare to publicly express themselves, but they acted out in secrecy.
His son was disgraceful, a failure. However, no matter how bad he was, he was still his only son.
He loved all of his kin and couldnât bear to mistreat his son, so he turned a blind eye.
Regardless, Xie Yunlin and Xie Jinfei far outstripped his sonâs family in terms of ability and means, so he was not afraid that they would lose out..