It turned out that Father never knew Si Ye was Chen Xiangyu's son.
He wasn't Liao Xu's child, a fact they never shared with him.
He couldn't fathom why they hadn't told him — was it to preserve his mother's dignity?
"Afterward, Si Ye was born. But I felt nothing for him, no paternal love emerged, because my heart was mostly dead, detached from everything in this world.
I wronged your mother, ever since Ayu died, I utterly neglected her, and we became a couple in name only.
I told her that if she ever met someone she liked, she should go pursue happiness, and I would certainly let go. She didn't, she loved me deeply, so she never left."
At this point, Si Chengye paused, glancing at Si Xi with a significant look in his eye.
"One day, her brother and sister-in-law died in a car accident, leaving behind a newborn baby. She came back holding her nephew, crying to me to adopt him, to treat him as if he were her own child.
