After a moment of silence, Du Yumeng said, “I don’t know either. If Zhanyi Yang hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have known any of this.”
“I’ve met Grandma Zhan. When I was visiting the Zhan family with my master, I spent time with her. Grandma Zhan is a wonderful old lady. Getting along with her was pleasant and pressure-free. Just looking at her, you wouldn’t guess how formidable she is.”
“No wonder even the Su family respects her. Even my master was gentle with Grandma Zhan, never acting superior. My master said Grandma Zhan was incredibly impressive in her youth, and the Zhan family’s current standing owes much to her.”
“Just look at the eight grandsons she and the late Grandpa Zhan raised. That alone shows how remarkable she is.”
Mrs. Du interjected, “Doesn’t the Zhan family’s current generation have nine young masters?”
“The ninth young master, being the youngest, was mainly raised by his parents and older brothers. Grandma Zhan only guided him slightly, so he can’t be considered directly raised by her and Grandpa Zhan.”
The youngest was still in school, not yet an adult.
Even if people knew he’d likely become a dragon in the future, to outsiders, whether the Zhan family’s ninth young master would soar or falter remained uncertain.
“Mengmeng, since Zhanyi Yang still loves you, why didn’t you explain things clearly back then? You wouldn’t have had to go through that heartbreak.”
Mrs. Du spoke with heartache for her daughter.
To her, whether it was Hu Li or Du Yumeng, they were both her daughter, the same person.
If she had told Zhanyi Yang the truth, at least her daughter wouldn’t have been hurt.
“I wasn’t upset, just a bit embarrassed at the time. In our Haishi, I, Du Yumeng, am a proud daughter of heaven, a formidable woman, someone with high self-regard. Yet, I was outdone by my own alias.”
“Zhanyi Yang didn’t even know the real me under that alias—what my name was, what I looked like, or my family background. He knew nothing.”
“Losing to the real me made it a bit laughable, but I wasn’t heartbroken.”
Because she knew Zhanyi Yang truly loved her.
“Zhanyi Yang said he kept having the same dream, where he was entangled with me. The photo Grandma Zhan gave him was of the real me, but he said the photo didn’t match the me in his dreams. When he met the me under the alias, he couldn’t help but be drawn to it.”
“Such a bizarre thing actually happened. You two had never met before, yet he kept dreaming of you.”
Mrs. Du exclaimed in amazement, “Were you two husband and wife in a past life? Even if not, there must have been some emotional entanglement, unresolved, carrying over to this life to continue?”
Fate.
No wonder Zhanyi Yang was fixated on Hu Li. It turned out he and Hu Li had been entangled in his dreams for a long time.
First impressions mattered.
Du Yumeng said, “Mum, you’ve been watching too many dramas.”
Alright, such a thing was indeed astonishing.
She truly hadn’t met Zhanyi Yang before.
At that time, Zhanyi Yang hadn’t even received her photo from his grandmother. How could he have dreamed of being entangled with her?
Could there really be a past life?
Did she and Zhanyi Yang have an unresolved emotional entanglement in a past life, carrying over to this one?
“No matter what, that boy will fall into your hands in the end. That makes your dad feel much better. Good thing we didn’t let him freeze too long. If he got sick or crippled, it’d be my daughter who’d suffer.”
Mr. Du said with relief.
Du Yumeng laughed. Just moments ago, her father had said Zhanyi Yang hadn’t been left in the cold long enough. Now he was relieved he hadn’t frozen to death.
People change so quickly!
